Off-topic as hell, but I'll respond since you're the first post in the OT branch that's actually coherent, albeit not correct. The argument made by the prosecution was, essentially, that Cohen paying off a whore on behalf of a client counts as an in-kind contribution to the Trump campaign because the campaign benefited from that act. Under the actual text of the law, this is not the case, but Cohen agreed to plead guilty to this charge as part of an overall plea deal. Essentially, the prosecutor said, "You'll probably be able to get off on charge A, but we're sure we can convict you on charges B through M. However, if you plead guilty to A-D, we'll drop E-M."
The key tenet of Campaign Finance Law is that you have to keep campaign expenses separate from personal expenses, and campaign funds separate from personal funds. If I'm running for office, buying a nice suit and a haircut is going to help my campaign, but those are personal expenses - I'd need clothes and a haircut whether I were running for office or not - so I can't use campaign funds for them. Now, it's probably safe to assume that, throughout his well-established history of whoring around, Trump has probably paid off a lot of whores to keep their mouths shut. It's something he would be doing whether he'd been running for office or not. Therefore, even though it helped his campaign, it's not a campaign expense.
So how does this factor in to having a 3rd-party pay off said whores? That's when we get in to the issue of in-kind contributions to campaigns. Again, suppose I'm running for office. Also suppose I have a good friend that owns a printing shop. He agrees to print up a batch of campaign flyers and donate them to my campaign. This is an in-kind contribution, and the value of those flyers would be subject to the same contribution limits as monetary donations. If he had maxed out his cash donation, then also donated the flyers, he's then violated the law. As an aside, this only applies to actually working with my campaign. If he had maxed out his cash donation, then printed up a bunch of flyers and went door-to-door on his own passing them out, he's fine. This is why all campaign materials have to list whether they were paid for by the campaign, or a separate organization.
In order to claim the whore payoffs as an in-kind contribution, you'd have to argue that paying off those women was a legitimate campaign expense and - not only would it have been legal for Trump to use campaign funds for the payoffs, but that he was required to do so. Claiming any spending by any person that helps a campaign is an in-kind contribution doesn't match the law, and would be unworkable to boot. Remember all the media coverage that Trump got during the primaries? Does all the money the media spent on that coverage count as an in-kind contribution? Do all the anti-Trump jokes on late-night talk shows during the campaign count as in-kind contributions to Hillary?
I totally agree that Michael Cohen is a crap lawyer. However, the fact that he agreed to plead guilty on this issue doesn't mean he broke this law, it just means that the overall deal he was offered was worth taking, in his calculation.
... Wait until the first politician is offed with a Liberator.
If that happens, it'll be because said politician tried to shoot one, blew off his own hand, and bled out. Firing a plastic-barreled gun is natural selection at work.
A help-desk guy gets drafted into the Army. His first day at the rifle range, he and the other recruits all fire at their targets, then the drill sergeant walks past and inspects them. He gets to the tech's target and it doesn't have a mark on it. Furious, he stomps up to the tech and, at the top of his lungs, bellows, "EXPLAIN YOURSELF, PRIVATE! HOW ON EARTH DID YOU MANAGE TO NOT HIT THAT TARGET A SINGLE TIME?"
The help-desk guy is unfazed, as he's got a lot of experience with people yelling at him. He calmly examines his rifle, then places his finger over the muzzle, pulls the trigger, and blows off his fingertip.
"It's working fine here - the problem must be on the other end."
That's fascinating. Now perhaps you could explain to us all how the common usage of the term "hacker" is incorrect, and that the proper term is "cracker"?
My point is that it's not "frankly ridiculous" to claim that men are denied opportunities. According to the memo, and I've seen nobody disputing the claim, Google has training and mentoring programs that are restricted to women only. Therefore, men are denied the opportunity to participate in those programs.
I'm not arguing that women are denied opportunities - the exact opposite, in fact. I'm pointing out that they're given opportunities that are denied to men.
It's possible we're arguing past each other and both missing the point the other is making, so for the sake of clarity, WTF is your point?
The memo specifically referred to training and mentoring options at Google that are restricted to women or minorities.
This is frankly ridiculous. If you are saying any programmer can't find a job, or get a better job, merely because he is male, I would counter with the evidence that men occupy jobs at all levels in almost every company.
By the same logic, women also occupy jobs at all levels in almost every company, therefore women are not denied opportunities.
The Palm Pre had this in 2012. Innovation, or Apple licensing HP technology?
The Palm Pre came out in 2009, and had wireless charging as an option from the beginning. (Required buying the charger and a replacement back with the charging coil.) The Pre Plus was about 6 months later, and included the charging back.
Not exclusively - they're also announcing a partnership with Elon Musk's Powerwall system, or you can charge your iDevice by laying it on one of those stupid-ass solar roads from that video that every idiot was posting to Facebook a couple years ago.
Physicists and Marketing experts are giving 5:4 odds that the level of hype in the product announcement will collapse in upon itself, forming a black hole of hype, with all press coverage unable to escape the event horizon.
2013? The Palm Pre had wireless charging back in 2009. It was shit. Completely unreliable and prone to breaking.
Really? My experience was the exact opposite. Unlike the Qi standard used today, the Pre's system had magnets to snap the phone into the correct alignment, eliminating the biggest complaint about wireless charging on Android.
I graduated high school in '96. For Calc 1 my senior year, I had a school-provided TI-81 (I think), but with that exception, I used a Casio scientific calculator from 8th grade Pre-Algebra through Calc 3 in College. I started going back to school a couple of years ago working toward an Engineering degree. I dug the old Casio out of my desk drawer, put in a fresh battery, and used it for all the math and engineering classes.
I took a bit of satisfaction from knowing that my calculator was older than most of my classmates.
I don't have a Playstation, but this may be the push I need to take over the PSN account someone named Jared set up using my gmail address. (Apparently Sony's account setup process doesn't have a "Click the link we emailed you to verify you actually typed the address correctly," step.)
More disturbingly, neither does Match.com. (Disturbing due to how your inbox looks 4 hours after a 62-year-old woman signs up for a dating service using your email account.)
White orange, orange, white green, blue, white blue, green, white brown, brown.
Yes I know this is different in the USA.
Not at every job I've ever worked. I did work at one place where a few of the wall jacks were punched for the other standard - (white green, green, white orange, blue, white blue, orange, white brown, brown) and some idiot had made a bunch of adapters instead of just re-punching the jacks.
The other trick to remember is that using one standard at each end gives you a crossover cable.
Police also found a Nest thermostat, a Honeywell alarm system, wireless weather monitoring in the backyard and WeMo devices for lighting at the smart home crime scene. Officers have also seized an iPhone 6S, a Macbook Pro, a PlayStation 4 and three tablets in the investigation.
All those gadgets, but this guy didn't have a security camera?
Yep. KeePass is open source and stores your password database locally (or remotely via something like WebDAV). Another alternative is to use a password hasher that regenerates all of your passwords based on a master password so that there is no stored database to be potentially compromised at all.
There is no reason to trust LastPass or any other proprietary, third party solution with your most valuable data. Also, didn't LastPass recently get hacked?
And if you want to sync passwords across devices, just keep the KeePass database in a cloud storage account. In the event that your cloud account is breached, the database is still encrypted
Aside from your points, the wording of the 2nd Amendment is clear. Those in favor of gun control point to the beginning where it refers to a "well regulated militia". A lot of 2nd Amendment supporters will say things like, "What part of 'shall not be infringed' do you not understand?" But look at the middle: "...the right of the people to keep and bear arms..."
Maybe the USA should tax guns, better yet, a license fee, like for dogs. How about $100 dollars per year for each gun-related death that year? No, what the heck, let's make it $1. That would be, let me see, about $800 per year.
So you're saying poor people shouldn't be able to own guns?
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That's how the venezuelan petro is supposed to work. No idea if it does
One could probably make an educated guess based on how well everything else in the Venezuelan economy works.
I'm pretty sure Marvel has plans to bring him back. There's a good chance the reboot will be an asian woman, though.
SJWs cannot abide mockery because it is a threat to their own self anointed moral authority.
Q: How many SJWs does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: THAT'S NOT FUNNY!
Does the lightbulb consent to the change? HOW DO YOU KNOW IT IDENTIFIES AS A LIGHTBULB??!
Off-topic as hell, but I'll respond since you're the first post in the OT branch that's actually coherent, albeit not correct. The argument made by the prosecution was, essentially, that Cohen paying off a whore on behalf of a client counts as an in-kind contribution to the Trump campaign because the campaign benefited from that act. Under the actual text of the law, this is not the case, but Cohen agreed to plead guilty to this charge as part of an overall plea deal. Essentially, the prosecutor said, "You'll probably be able to get off on charge A, but we're sure we can convict you on charges B through M. However, if you plead guilty to A-D, we'll drop E-M."
The key tenet of Campaign Finance Law is that you have to keep campaign expenses separate from personal expenses, and campaign funds separate from personal funds. If I'm running for office, buying a nice suit and a haircut is going to help my campaign, but those are personal expenses - I'd need clothes and a haircut whether I were running for office or not - so I can't use campaign funds for them. Now, it's probably safe to assume that, throughout his well-established history of whoring around, Trump has probably paid off a lot of whores to keep their mouths shut. It's something he would be doing whether he'd been running for office or not. Therefore, even though it helped his campaign, it's not a campaign expense.
So how does this factor in to having a 3rd-party pay off said whores? That's when we get in to the issue of in-kind contributions to campaigns. Again, suppose I'm running for office. Also suppose I have a good friend that owns a printing shop. He agrees to print up a batch of campaign flyers and donate them to my campaign. This is an in-kind contribution, and the value of those flyers would be subject to the same contribution limits as monetary donations. If he had maxed out his cash donation, then also donated the flyers, he's then violated the law. As an aside, this only applies to actually working with my campaign. If he had maxed out his cash donation, then printed up a bunch of flyers and went door-to-door on his own passing them out, he's fine. This is why all campaign materials have to list whether they were paid for by the campaign, or a separate organization.
In order to claim the whore payoffs as an in-kind contribution, you'd have to argue that paying off those women was a legitimate campaign expense and - not only would it have been legal for Trump to use campaign funds for the payoffs, but that he was required to do so. Claiming any spending by any person that helps a campaign is an in-kind contribution doesn't match the law, and would be unworkable to boot. Remember all the media coverage that Trump got during the primaries? Does all the money the media spent on that coverage count as an in-kind contribution? Do all the anti-Trump jokes on late-night talk shows during the campaign count as in-kind contributions to Hillary?
I totally agree that Michael Cohen is a crap lawyer. However, the fact that he agreed to plead guilty on this issue doesn't mean he broke this law, it just means that the overall deal he was offered was worth taking, in his calculation.
... Wait until the first politician is offed with a Liberator.
If that happens, it'll be because said politician tried to shoot one, blew off his own hand, and bled out. Firing a plastic-barreled gun is natural selection at work.
If I buy Windows 10 *Professional*, much less Enterprise, that "Consumer Experience" crap should be off by default.
A help-desk guy gets drafted into the Army. His first day at the rifle range, he and the other recruits all fire at their targets, then the drill sergeant walks past and inspects them. He gets to the tech's target and it doesn't have a mark on it. Furious, he stomps up to the tech and, at the top of his lungs, bellows, "EXPLAIN YOURSELF, PRIVATE! HOW ON EARTH DID YOU MANAGE TO NOT HIT THAT TARGET A SINGLE TIME?"
The help-desk guy is unfazed, as he's got a lot of experience with people yelling at him. He calmly examines his rifle, then places his finger over the muzzle, pulls the trigger, and blows off his fingertip.
"It's working fine here - the problem must be on the other end."
That's fascinating. Now perhaps you could explain to us all how the common usage of the term "hacker" is incorrect, and that the proper term is "cracker"?
Please?
Pretty Please?
My point is that it's not "frankly ridiculous" to claim that men are denied opportunities. According to the memo, and I've seen nobody disputing the claim, Google has training and mentoring programs that are restricted to women only. Therefore, men are denied the opportunity to participate in those programs.
I'm not arguing that women are denied opportunities - the exact opposite, in fact. I'm pointing out that they're given opportunities that are denied to men.
It's possible we're arguing past each other and both missing the point the other is making, so for the sake of clarity, WTF is your point?
The memo specifically referred to training and mentoring options at Google that are restricted to women or minorities.
This is frankly ridiculous. If you are saying any programmer can't find a job, or get a better job, merely because he is male, I would counter with the evidence that men occupy jobs at all levels in almost every company.
By the same logic, women also occupy jobs at all levels in almost every company, therefore women are not denied opportunities.
Here you go: https://brave.com/
The Palm Pre had this in 2012. Innovation, or Apple licensing HP technology?
The Palm Pre came out in 2009, and had wireless charging as an option from the beginning. (Required buying the charger and a replacement back with the charging coil.) The Pre Plus was about 6 months later, and included the charging back.
Not exclusively - they're also announcing a partnership with Elon Musk's Powerwall system, or you can charge your iDevice by laying it on one of those stupid-ass solar roads from that video that every idiot was posting to Facebook a couple years ago.
Physicists and Marketing experts are giving 5:4 odds that the level of hype in the product announcement will collapse in upon itself, forming a black hole of hype, with all press coverage unable to escape the event horizon.
2013? The Palm Pre had wireless charging back in 2009. It was shit. Completely unreliable and prone to breaking.
Really? My experience was the exact opposite. Unlike the Qi standard used today, the Pre's system had magnets to snap the phone into the correct alignment, eliminating the biggest complaint about wireless charging on Android.
I graduated high school in '96. For Calc 1 my senior year, I had a school-provided TI-81 (I think), but with that exception, I used a Casio scientific calculator from 8th grade Pre-Algebra through Calc 3 in College. I started going back to school a couple of years ago working toward an Engineering degree. I dug the old Casio out of my desk drawer, put in a fresh battery, and used it for all the math and engineering classes.
I took a bit of satisfaction from knowing that my calculator was older than most of my classmates.
I don't have a Playstation, but this may be the push I need to take over the PSN account someone named Jared set up using my gmail address. (Apparently Sony's account setup process doesn't have a "Click the link we emailed you to verify you actually typed the address correctly," step.)
More disturbingly, neither does Match.com. (Disturbing due to how your inbox looks 4 hours after a 62-year-old woman signs up for a dating service using your email account.)
In theory, that which works in theory also works in practice.
In practice, this is not the case.
Or the modern equivalent:
White orange, orange, white green, blue, white blue, green, white brown, brown.
Yes I know this is different in the USA.
Not at every job I've ever worked. I did work at one place where a few of the wall jacks were punched for the other standard - (white green, green, white orange, blue, white blue, orange, white brown, brown) and some idiot had made a bunch of adapters instead of just re-punching the jacks.
The other trick to remember is that using one standard at each end gives you a crossover cable.
Nobody knows about Win-E ? It's been around since at least Windows 2000.
From the summary:
Police also found a Nest thermostat, a Honeywell alarm system, wireless weather monitoring in the backyard and WeMo devices for lighting at the smart home crime scene. Officers have also seized an iPhone 6S, a Macbook Pro, a PlayStation 4 and three tablets in the investigation.
All those gadgets, but this guy didn't have a security camera?
Yep. KeePass is open source and stores your password database locally (or remotely via something like WebDAV). Another alternative is to use a password hasher that regenerates all of your passwords based on a master password so that there is no stored database to be potentially compromised at all.
There is no reason to trust LastPass or any other proprietary, third party solution with your most valuable data. Also, didn't LastPass recently get hacked?
And if you want to sync passwords across devices, just keep the KeePass database in a cloud storage account. In the event that your cloud account is breached, the database is still encrypted
He did mention Thinkpads, which, unless I'm remembering incorrectly, never shipped with SuperFish or OneKey.
Aside from your points, the wording of the 2nd Amendment is clear. Those in favor of gun control point to the beginning where it refers to a "well regulated militia". A lot of 2nd Amendment supporters will say things like, "What part of 'shall not be infringed' do you not understand?" But look at the middle: "...the right of the people to keep and bear arms..."
Not the militia, not the police - the people.
Maybe the USA should tax guns, better yet, a license fee, like for dogs. How about $100 dollars per year for each gun-related death that year?
No, what the heck, let's make it $1. That would be, let me see, about $800 per year.
So you're saying poor people shouldn't be able to own guns?
With the right plug-ins, Calibre can also convert DRM'd books.