Seriously -- have there been any proven instances where fingerprints have been used, maliciously, to frame an innocent person for a crime? I've seen it on television episodes. I've heard of corrupt forensic investigators framing people for murder and subjecting them to the death penalty (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Gilchrist), but this has been through falsification of lab reports -- purported evidence that, had it been checked by others, would have been found lacking: IOW, instances where people abused trust, authority, and reputations to pin the crime on the wrong person.
Yet despite being around since Mark Twain first wrote about using fingerprints for crime solving, I haven't heard of a single instance where fingerprint evidence was used to *frame* an innocent person. The closest I've heard is about exonerating fingerprint evidence being intentionally withheld. (Gilchrist sent Curtis McCarthy to death row for 20 years; there was a bloody footprint on the victim's body and a full set of fingerprints on the victim's broken & entered window that matched the actual perp and would have exonerated McCarthy.)
Of course there are obvious and glaring problems with the Yale kid's idea. Yes I heard what happened in the UK, and was not at all surprised by it. But knee jerk OMG GATTACA!!! rejections tend to overlook the non-malicious and possibly beneficial uses of such technology and preclude possible approaches that might reconcile both kinds of concerns. Yes it would present considerable and very troubling privacy risks. Yes of course it would be a valuable target for misappropriation. However the usefulness of such a collection would truly be quite useful for crime investigations -- specifically in instances where unmatched DNA evidence is available. There are a number of unsolved murders and rapes that are currently at exactly that place. The best we can do at this point is hope that these people kill or rape again, but manage to get caught the next time.
The cons might outweigh the pros here, but they do not neutralize them.
The settlement also calls for Classmates.com to pay attorneys for the plaintiff up to $1.3 million in fees, with the court determining the actual amount. The lead plaintiffs in the case, Anthony Michaels and David Catapano, would each receive $2,500 as part of that provision.
It's a settlement; these aren't damages and Classmates.com is admitting no wrong doing.
What has happened here is that the two guys who bothered to bring suit against Classmates.com have been paid $2500 (and their attorney fees have been covered). Considering that it was a ~$10 fraud, that seems like relatively steep punitive damages in their case. Everybody else who was similarly deceived --but who didn't bother doing anything about it-- will get a whopping $3.
I'm not saying these terms are fair, just that the lead plaintiff aspect in class action lawsuits is supposed to encourage people to complain.
The point is that this country was founded on religious freedoms.
Here's the problem: that is NOT true. The Treaty of Tripoli from 1797 (from the halls of Montezuma to the shores of, etc) which was ratified by a Congress made up of many of the actual founding fathers, and signed by president John Adams, says this:
The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion
Video game design is an art. So look for a nonprofit lawyers for the arts organization in your state.
They will almost certainly be able to give you more informed legal advice than you will find on/., and some of them might be able to set you up with a pro bono attorney. Here's a list (from NY's Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts) of state arts law organizations:
(Btw, based on the handful of such organizations I've contacted, it seems that calling is often necessary to get through. I think their email tends to gets buried.)
It's not their fault in the sense that they didn't package the fake parts, but it certainly is their responsibility.
Newegg profits off of the relationships with their distributors, and they accepted payment from customers in exchange for their promise to ship real parts by a certain time. They were unable to honor their promise. Looking for reimbursement for the time wasted by a late shipment is not an entitlement mindset. Paying customers' time and effort was *actually* wasted, and that can translate directly to money lost.
Giving these customers something additional to recognize their inconveniences would simply be good business -- it would cost them a minute fraction of the value of good will and reputation that doing so would buy.
It's possible that you're just more comfortable with what you already know well. These things are all easily accomplished in gmail.
Next to the "search mail" button on the top of the screen is the "show search options" link. There you will find fields for searching by sender and attachments. Just click the "has attachment" button and hit search: attachments. I *just* tried a partial search --also for a part of a phone number-- and got precise results, including every message with the entire phone number. No idea why your partial string search failed.
I find this approach both easier and more precise than the slow, apparently unindexed and certainly not boolean search toolbar in Outlook.
Why was parent modded troll? My post could have practically been a paraphrase Newegg customer service response tweeta. Which, btw, were as follows:
"Newegg is aware of a shipping error that occurred with certain recent orders of the Intel Core i7-920 CPU. After investigating the issue internally it appears one of our long term partners mistakenly shipped a small number of demo boxes instead of functional units. Our customer service team has already begun proactively reaching out to the affected customers. In line with our commitment to ensure total customer satisfaction... We are doing everything in our power to resolve the issue as soon as possible and with the least amount of inconvenience to our customers. We are aware of the issue, have investigated it and will resolve it to the full satisfaction of all customers."
Newegg, you're one of the online businesses that I've actually come to respect. I've had excellent customer service from you in the past. This is a problem.
Radio silence does not cut it here. This is what I need to hear from you:
"Dear customers: We have been deeply concerned to hear reports that a few of our customers have received bogus goods after making purchases on Newegg. We have determined that the complaints are legitimate. We rigorously attempt to maintain the highest quality. Despite our best efforts to maintain the highest level of quality control, some customers have in fact received fake goods. This is absolutely unacceptable. We will taking every step to reimburse the affected customers promptly. We will also identify what went wrong here, and will ensure that this will not happen again. Your trust is important to us. We sincerely hope that you find our responses acceptable, and encourage you to contact us with any suggestions, concerns, or tips. Also, we're having a 30% off sale on i7 920 processors, effective immediately."
I think that the new color scheme looks much better than any previous default. The brown schemes have always been so glaring; they were practically orange.
I use keyboard shortcuts as much as possible, and never use any windows buttons enough to develop a preference.
I disagree; I think that celebrity-obsession is part of human nature. There are plenty of examples.
We've been obsessed with royalty for millenia. This spreads over many cultures. Prominent religious figures (saints), military figures, government officials and even the occasional author/artist/inventor are further examples. Even artistic celebrity isn't all THAT new: examples readily date back to the renaissance.
Myths, religion, and history have, in the past, served the kind of water-cooler talk points of shared culture that we now find in discussing episodes of or characters from popular programs.
This would reduces print material to about 25th the size --which would be about 210 sheets per gigabyte, a mere ~21,000 pages per TB!-- and doesn't run into the same degradation problems of paper.
Ultrafiche and microforms are pretty old technology. I imagine in the subsequent decades optical reduction technology has progressed further. A single order of magnitude advance in optical reduction in the past three decades would pull this out of the realm of the silly. ~2000 pages of plastic sheets (not susceptible to humidity, magnetic charge, or parasites) per TB could be quite a useful storage media in a number of scenarios.
Two important differences come into play here. First, where the rights overlap (such as freedom of expression) the German Basic Law (constitution) affirmatively establishes rights. The US Constitution only restricts the government from passing laws to abridge constitutional rights.
Second, the German Basic Law is founded on a concept entirely absent from the US Constitution: the right to dignity. It's the first article in the German constitution, and has been described by the German Constitutional Court as the right from which all other constitutional rights emanate.
Article 1 [Human Dignity] (1) Human dignity is inviolable. To respect and protect it is the duty of all state authority. (2) The German People therefore acknowledge inviolable and inalienable human rights as the basis of every human community, of peace, and of justice in the world. (3) The following basic rights are binding on legislature, executive, and judiciary as directly valid law.
I could understand that it the equipment was peripheral. It certainly could be a case of the story exaggerating the importance of the programs running on this hardware in the interest of a good story. That would fit your assessment.
But I find it very difficult to imagine that something central to the USSS's mission would be so thoughtlessly neglected and unreliable.
It makes more sense that this is intentional misinformation. It would explain away a considerable budget request while simultaneously --if believed for a moment-- would lull groups opposed to the SS a false sense of security. If the capabilities of the SS is underestimated, their job will be easier.
To think that the previous administration didn't sink as much money as could possibly cram into the SS in the interests of their own security is absurd. While it doesn't have the same bunker/man-sized-safe reputation for paranoid security, the same goes for the current one. Both the current and the previous administrations were faced with a very large number of openly hostile people who were not shy about voicing threats.
In his view, all music — and, really, any creative pursuit — is largely based on previously created works. Call it standing on the shoulders of giants; call it plagiarism. Everything we create is just a product of recombination.
Indeed. Particularly so with music based on any the twelve-tone scale: given any set of N notes or chords, the twelve-tone scale allows for a finite number of permutations. A very small subset of these permutations will seem "musical", at least in the way we tend to think of music.
There are of course infinite variables at play, such as timbre and loudness, but in the samples, these aspects were under the control of the human who performed Emmy's compositions. There are human performers who can make mundane noises and progressions seem musical; and there are humans who can make masterpieces of composition sound like anything but music.
This is exactly why comments on proposed regulations are important. The IIPA's comments have been submitted, and now *must* be considered (though of course it can be dismissed) by the regulatory body. The Section 301 review actions were exactly what that period of comment was for.
If you didn't get a comment in on the deadline, you missed your chance to present an opposing voice that also *must* be considered.
COBRA *is* always cheaper than an individual plan.
Big surprise: an AC makes a unsupportable blanket assertion. Nothing you said even addresses comparative price.
Go try to find private health insurance coverage that is cheaper than the very specific figures that I've provided. You won't be able to, because you can't.
I'd gladly pay what Canadians are paying, BECAUSE IT IS MUCH, MUCH CHEAPER.
In the past ten years I've twice been eligible for coverage through COBRA, which is always cheaper than an individual plan. The first time, at a relatively low paying job (~$13/hour), COBRA would have cost 47% of my net income... if I'd had any income. (COBRA allows you to to continue coverage under a former employer's plan.) IOW, at this relatively low paying job, one close to the national average income, the tax rate could have increased by 226%, and it would still cost less than the cheapest form of private health insurance coverage.
The second time, while making $72k --higher than the average salary of a law school grad these days-- COBRA would have cost 21% of my former net income. (This after legislation to reduce COBRA payments.) The second, cheaper time around, my taxes could have increased by 60%, and it would be cheaper than the cheapest form of private health insurance coverage.
Here are the figures, see for yourself.
2002 earned wage: ~$13/hour, Gross Income: $27,040, Taxable income: $19,490 (tax bracket 15%, taxes of $2923) Net income (taxable - tax): $16,567/year COBRA payments: $650/month, $7800/year, or 28.8% of taxable income COBRA = 47% of net income
2008 earned wage: ~$35/hour; gross income ~$72,000 Taxable income: $46,987 (tax bracket 25%, taxes of $11,746) Net income (taxable - tax): $35,241/year COBRA payments: $616.05/mo.; $7392/year. COBRA = 20.9% of net income
Does something look wrong with these figures? It should. Even after the "reduced" COBRA rates, private health insurance at its cheapest costs about as much as rent on a 1BR apartment.
Comparing the relative qualities of NYT -v- WSJ will tell us more about the comparer's own bias than anything, and can obscure the discussion. The NYT is recognized as a truly national/international content provider, despite your implication to the contrary.
I agree that the WSJ economic coverage is excellent. But characterizing the NYT as a regional, liberal, middle/upper class NY paper is inaccurate. The NYT has a social, humanities element to its coverage that the WSJ has consistently lacked, and this appeals to a broader demographic than the one you've described.
I hope that I'm not the only one uncomfortable with the WSJ's ownership. Rev. Moon, leader of the WSJ's owner, the Unification Church, has declared himself the center of the spirit world. He has compared himself to Jesus, and apparently believes he is in fact a reincarnation of Jesus. His followers treat him and worship him as a god. The recent family dispute between two of his sons who were vying for position took place in and about the WSJ, and is a great example as to why one would treat such a news source as a dubious one. The NYT owners have their own problems of course, but the NYT's institutional bias seems much more apparent on the surface than the WSJ.
You're trying to apply a kind of artificial keyword indexing approach to describing tweets. This approach might be overly complex for actual use, at least in the context of the WH Press Sec'y. The problems you point out, while real, seem more applicable to accessing enough aggregate tweets to overcome what an individual can realistically read.
The press secretary's material is necessarily timely, and there are longer transcripts of his more explicit events (with indexing), and corresponding dates.
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Seriously -- have there been any proven instances where fingerprints have been used, maliciously, to frame an innocent person for a crime? I've seen it on television episodes. I've heard of corrupt forensic investigators framing people for murder and subjecting them to the death penalty (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Gilchrist), but this has been through falsification of lab reports -- purported evidence that, had it been checked by others, would have been found lacking: IOW, instances where people abused trust, authority, and reputations to pin the crime on the wrong person.
Yet despite being around since Mark Twain first wrote about using fingerprints for crime solving, I haven't heard of a single instance where fingerprint evidence was used to *frame* an innocent person. The closest I've heard is about exonerating fingerprint evidence being intentionally withheld. (Gilchrist sent Curtis McCarthy to death row for 20 years; there was a bloody footprint on the victim's body and a full set of fingerprints on the victim's broken & entered window that matched the actual perp and would have exonerated McCarthy.)
Of course there are obvious and glaring problems with the Yale kid's idea. Yes I heard what happened in the UK, and was not at all surprised by it. But knee jerk OMG GATTACA!!! rejections tend to overlook the non-malicious and possibly beneficial uses of such technology and preclude possible approaches that might reconcile both kinds of concerns. Yes it would present considerable and very troubling privacy risks. Yes of course it would be a valuable target for misappropriation. However the usefulness of such a collection would truly be quite useful for crime investigations -- specifically in instances where unmatched DNA evidence is available. There are a number of unsolved murders and rapes that are currently at exactly that place. The best we can do at this point is hope that these people kill or rape again, but manage to get caught the next time.
The cons might outweigh the pros here, but they do not neutralize them.
The settlement also calls for Classmates.com to pay attorneys for the plaintiff up to $1.3 million in fees, with the court determining the actual amount. The lead plaintiffs in the case, Anthony Michaels and David Catapano, would each receive $2,500 as part of that provision.
It's a settlement; these aren't damages and Classmates.com is admitting no wrong doing.
What has happened here is that the two guys who bothered to bring suit against Classmates.com have been paid $2500 (and their attorney fees have been covered). Considering that it was a ~$10 fraud, that seems like relatively steep punitive damages in their case. Everybody else who was similarly deceived --but who didn't bother doing anything about it-- will get a whopping $3.
I'm not saying these terms are fair, just that the lead plaintiff aspect in class action lawsuits is supposed to encourage people to complain.
Congress ratified the *English* version, jackass. Regardless of how it translated to or from Arabic, the words Congress ratified read as follows:
The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
The point is that this country was founded on religious freedoms.
Here's the problem: that is NOT true. The Treaty of Tripoli from 1797 (from the halls of Montezuma to the shores of, etc) which was ratified by a Congress made up of many of the actual founding fathers, and signed by president John Adams, says this:
The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tripoli
I'm guessing that that probably won't make it into Texas schoolbooks.
Video game design is an art. So look for a nonprofit lawyers for the arts organization in your state.
They will almost certainly be able to give you more informed legal advice than you will find on /., and some of them might be able to set you up with a pro bono attorney. Here's a list (from NY's Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts) of state arts law organizations:
http://www.vlany.org/resources/vladirectory.php
(Btw, based on the handful of such organizations I've contacted, it seems that calling is often necessary to get through. I think their email tends to gets buried.)
It's not their fault in the sense that they didn't package the fake parts, but it certainly is their responsibility.
Newegg profits off of the relationships with their distributors, and they accepted payment from customers in exchange for their promise to ship real parts by a certain time. They were unable to honor their promise. Looking for reimbursement for the time wasted by a late shipment is not an entitlement mindset. Paying customers' time and effort was *actually* wasted, and that can translate directly to money lost.
Giving these customers something additional to recognize their inconveniences would simply be good business -- it would cost them a minute fraction of the value of good will and reputation that doing so would buy.
It's possible that you're just more comfortable with what you already know well. These things are all easily accomplished in gmail.
Next to the "search mail" button on the top of the screen is the "show search options" link. There you will find fields for searching by sender and attachments. Just click the "has attachment" button and hit search: attachments. I *just* tried a partial search --also for a part of a phone number-- and got precise results, including every message with the entire phone number. No idea why your partial string search failed.
I find this approach both easier and more precise than the slow, apparently unindexed and certainly not boolean search toolbar in Outlook.
Please metamod the troll mods on parent.
Why was parent modded troll? My post could have practically been a paraphrase Newegg customer service response tweeta. Which, btw, were as follows:
"Newegg is aware of a shipping error that occurred with certain recent orders of the Intel Core i7-920 CPU. After investigating the issue internally it appears one of our long term partners mistakenly shipped a small number of demo boxes instead of functional units. Our customer service team has already begun proactively reaching out to the affected customers. In line with our commitment to ensure total customer satisfaction... We are doing everything in our power to resolve the issue as soon as possible and with the least amount of inconvenience to our customers. We are aware of the issue, have investigated it and will resolve it to the full satisfaction of all customers."
Newegg, you're one of the online businesses that I've actually come to respect. I've had excellent customer service from you in the past. This is a problem.
Radio silence does not cut it here. This is what I need to hear from you:
"Dear customers: We have been deeply concerned to hear reports that a few of our customers have received bogus goods after making purchases on Newegg. We have determined that the complaints are legitimate. We rigorously attempt to maintain the highest quality. Despite our best efforts to maintain the highest level of quality control, some customers have in fact received fake goods. This is absolutely unacceptable. We will taking every step to reimburse the affected customers promptly. We will also identify what went wrong here, and will ensure that this will not happen again. Your trust is important to us. We sincerely hope that you find our responses acceptable, and encourage you to contact us with any suggestions, concerns, or tips. Also, we're having a 30% off sale on i7 920 processors, effective immediately."
He's got nothing on Shampoo.
I think that the new color scheme looks much better than any previous default. The brown schemes have always been so glaring; they were practically orange.
I use keyboard shortcuts as much as possible, and never use any windows buttons enough to develop a preference.
I disagree; I think that celebrity-obsession is part of human nature. There are plenty of examples.
We've been obsessed with royalty for millenia. This spreads over many cultures. Prominent religious figures (saints), military figures, government officials and even the occasional author/artist/inventor are further examples. Even artistic celebrity isn't all THAT new: examples readily date back to the renaissance.
Myths, religion, and history have, in the past, served the kind of water-cooler talk points of shared culture that we now find in discussing episodes of or characters from popular programs.
You could then convert optar printouts to ultrafiche. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microform
This would reduces print material to about 25th the size --which would be about 210 sheets per gigabyte, a mere ~21,000 pages per TB!-- and doesn't run into the same degradation problems of paper.
Ultrafiche and microforms are pretty old technology. I imagine in the subsequent decades optical reduction technology has progressed further. A single order of magnitude advance in optical reduction in the past three decades would pull this out of the realm of the silly. ~2000 pages of plastic sheets (not susceptible to humidity, magnetic charge, or parasites) per TB could be quite a useful storage media in a number of scenarios.
Two important differences come into play here. First, where the rights overlap (such as freedom of expression) the German Basic Law (constitution) affirmatively establishes rights. The US Constitution only restricts the government from passing laws to abridge constitutional rights.
Second, the German Basic Law is founded on a concept entirely absent from the US Constitution: the right to dignity. It's the first article in the German constitution, and has been described by the German Constitutional Court as the right from which all other constitutional rights emanate.
Article 1 [Human Dignity]
(1) Human dignity is inviolable. To respect and protect it is the duty of all state authority. (2) The German People therefore acknowledge inviolable and inalienable human rights as the basis of every human community, of peace, and of justice in the world. (3) The following basic rights are binding on legislature, executive, and judiciary as directly valid law.
I could understand that it the equipment was peripheral. It certainly could be a case of the story exaggerating the importance of the programs running on this hardware in the interest of a good story. That would fit your assessment.
But I find it very difficult to imagine that something central to the USSS's mission would be so thoughtlessly neglected and unreliable.
Why was this modded troll? Honestly, I don't get what's the least bit trollish about it.
Have there really been medical studies to support the "brain glitch" theory of deja vu?
I've never seen anything to indicate that this explanation is anything more than conjecture.
It makes more sense that this is intentional misinformation. It would explain away a considerable budget request while simultaneously --if believed for a moment-- would lull groups opposed to the SS a false sense of security. If the capabilities of the SS is underestimated, their job will be easier.
To think that the previous administration didn't sink as much money as could possibly cram into the SS in the interests of their own security is absurd. While it doesn't have the same bunker/man-sized-safe reputation for paranoid security, the same goes for the current one. Both the current and the previous administrations were faced with a very large number of openly hostile people who were not shy about voicing threats.
Htf do you propose to abolish thinking, even if it is of the magical sort?
Oh, you want to abolish religion? Great! Well just jot that down as a new law in every country, and I'm sure everyone will obey.
In his view, all music — and, really, any creative pursuit — is largely based on previously created works. Call it standing on the shoulders of giants; call it plagiarism. Everything we create is just a product of recombination.
Indeed. Particularly so with music based on any the twelve-tone scale: given any set of N notes or chords, the twelve-tone scale allows for a finite number of permutations. A very small subset of these permutations will seem "musical", at least in the way we tend to think of music.
There are of course infinite variables at play, such as timbre and loudness, but in the samples, these aspects were under the control of the human who performed Emmy's compositions. There are human performers who can make mundane noises and progressions seem musical; and there are humans who can make masterpieces of composition sound like anything but music.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/2242230/Submit-Your-Comments-About-ACTA
This is exactly why comments on proposed regulations are important. The IIPA's comments have been submitted, and now *must* be considered (though of course it can be dismissed) by the regulatory body. The Section 301 review actions were exactly what that period of comment was for.
If you didn't get a comment in on the deadline, you missed your chance to present an opposing voice that also *must* be considered.
COBRA *is* always cheaper than an individual plan.
Big surprise: an AC makes a unsupportable blanket assertion. Nothing you said even addresses comparative price.
Go try to find private health insurance coverage that is cheaper than the very specific figures that I've provided. You won't be able to, because you can't.
I'd gladly pay what Canadians are paying, BECAUSE IT IS MUCH, MUCH CHEAPER.
In the past ten years I've twice been eligible for coverage through COBRA, which is always cheaper than an individual plan. The first time, at a relatively low paying job (~$13/hour), COBRA would have cost 47% of my net income... if I'd had any income. (COBRA allows you to to continue coverage under a former employer's plan.) IOW, at this relatively low paying job, one close to the national average income, the tax rate could have increased by 226%, and it would still cost less than the cheapest form of private health insurance coverage.
The second time, while making $72k --higher than the average salary of a law school grad these days-- COBRA would have cost 21% of my former net income. (This after legislation to reduce COBRA payments.) The second, cheaper time around, my taxes could have increased by 60%, and it would be cheaper than the cheapest form of private health insurance coverage.
Here are the figures, see for yourself.
2002
earned wage: ~$13/hour, Gross Income: $27,040,
Taxable income: $19,490 (tax bracket 15%, taxes of $2923)
Net income (taxable - tax): $16,567/year
COBRA payments: $650/month, $7800/year, or 28.8% of taxable income
COBRA = 47% of net income
2008
earned wage: ~$35/hour; gross income ~$72,000
Taxable income: $46,987 (tax bracket 25%, taxes of $11,746)
Net income (taxable - tax): $35,241/year
COBRA payments: $616.05/mo.; $7392/year.
COBRA = 20.9% of net income
Does something look wrong with these figures? It should. Even after the "reduced" COBRA rates, private health insurance at its cheapest costs about as much as rent on a 1BR apartment.
Comparing the relative qualities of NYT -v- WSJ will tell us more about the comparer's own bias than anything, and can obscure the discussion. The NYT is recognized as a truly national/international content provider, despite your implication to the contrary.
I agree that the WSJ economic coverage is excellent. But characterizing the NYT as a regional, liberal, middle/upper class NY paper is inaccurate. The NYT has a social, humanities element to its coverage that the WSJ has consistently lacked, and this appeals to a broader demographic than the one you've described.
I hope that I'm not the only one uncomfortable with the WSJ's ownership. Rev. Moon, leader of the WSJ's owner, the Unification Church, has declared himself the center of the spirit world. He has compared himself to Jesus, and apparently believes he is in fact a reincarnation of Jesus. His followers treat him and worship him as a god. The recent family dispute between two of his sons who were vying for position took place in and about the WSJ, and is a great example as to why one would treat such a news source as a dubious one. The NYT owners have their own problems of course, but the NYT's institutional bias seems much more apparent on the surface than the WSJ.
You're trying to apply a kind of artificial keyword indexing approach to describing tweets. This approach might be overly complex for actual use, at least in the context of the WH Press Sec'y. The problems you point out, while real, seem more applicable to accessing enough aggregate tweets to overcome what an individual can realistically read.
The press secretary's material is necessarily timely, and there are longer transcripts of his more explicit events (with indexing), and corresponding dates.