I was a supporter when they were releasing information in a non-partisan and unbiased way. Now that they're basically a tool of the Russian government, and possibly of even worse actors, I think the time has come to write them off.
Oh do please tell us, all you Wikileaks supporters, just how wonderful an organization it is, as it begins the process of trying to fuck over hundreds of thousands of people whose only crime was verifying their account.
Well, I think Assange's motives are a bit darker than that. It's pretty obvious he blames the Obama Administration for the state of affairs, as he and his supporters have claimed since the allegations of him committing sexual offences in Sweden that it was all an evil plot by the United States to get their hands on him. Frankly, I'm not even sure I buy into that theory, which sounds a lot like some guy who has naughty images on his computer proclaiming "It's all a conspiracy man, those aren't mine!" I doubt it took much urging to get Assange to leak the emails, and really his behavior during the presidential campaign, which at times took on the appearance of Assange as the host of some Pythonesque gameshow do not suggest some fearless warrior for the truth, but rather someone out on the campaign trail for Trump.
Well, in strict terms, the State Department sent that money to an Israeli group called OneGroup, which ostensibly was given the money to promote the Two-state solution. Now I'll agree it's likely the intent was that OneGroup use the money to attack Netanyahu, though you're not likely to find anyone on either side saying "That's what the plan was", but even that rather mild conspiracy is still out in the open. It's not like it was sent covertly, or that the Administration covertly passed on emails and documents hacked from Likud servers to OneGroup.
So no, in fact, it's not at all like Russia using Wikileaks as a conduit to pass on information hacked from DNC servers.
We will see. While Trump certainly sucks at Putin's tit, there's a considerable amount of bipartisan support in Congress for a general dim view of Russia. Trump is still in a position to see the US defer far too much to Russia, but Congress still holds a helluva lot of power. And honestly, at this point, I'm not even sure how much Trump will be president. I'm beginning to see a four year period of what amounts to a post-stroke Woodrow Wilson administration, a sort of real-life version of Star Trek's Patterns Of Force where there's a person sitting in the Oval Office who does a lot of "My fellow Americans" statements, but has little in the way of real involvement in the decisions. If you want to know where the power will lie, it will lie with Pence, Ivanka and Jared Kushner. You know, much how Trump's businesses work. He plays the entertaining and outrageous CEO type, while the actual businesspeople run the businesses.
I'm not saying Clinton didn't lose fair and square. But the GP made the claim the American people favored Trump, which is, in fact false. No one disputes that the Electors have the ultimate constitutional authority to choose the POTUS, and that constitutionally Trump is the rightful winner of the election. But whatever that may represent, what it does not represent is that Trump is the popular pick.
Not all "progessives" are conspiracy nuts, and I think the general consensus from the Powell UN WMD presentation was that a lot of people had very little confidence in what the Bush Administration was making them do.
As to the $20,000 reward, of course it was a publicity stunt. There was no bloody hit, and the poor bastard took an hour to die. It was a robbery gone wrong, which a lot of Sanders and Trump supporters tried to spin as some sort of Clinton Crime Family hit. The fact that Assange went any distance down that rabbit hole demonstrates where he's coming from. And really how is he in any position to know the source of the. It's not like the guy handing Wikileaks the files is going to announce "Hello, I am Yuri from FSB."
Assange is the leader of a cult. Whatever Wikileaks was four or five years ago it is no longer. He decided to become a political player, and thus he's tainted himself and the organization. Wikileaks should dump him.
No, Assange has simply claimed it wasn't Russia (why anyone would believe Assange is beyond me, even if he was in a position to know that all the intermedaries weren't Russians). People like you keep trying to make Rich into some sort of victim of the Clinton Crime FAmily. It's a deep irony that you'll reject multiple US security services' claims that Russia was the source, but buy into a completely unevidenced and really quite idiotic conspiracy theory that Hillary Clinton had a DNC staffer murdered. And for what? So that voting for Trump doesn't make you a fucking moron? Well, too bad, you're a fucking moron.
Ah yes, the nice sociopathic Libertarian "you have the freedom to starve" line. I love how greedy sociopaths try to philosophically justify what amounts to a big "fuck you" to the rest of society.
So far as I understand it, when people get to any kind of stage 4 cancer, the causes of death are either due to metastasis (the invasion of the cancer into other tissues) or through the tumor severely impacting organs. The whole "chemo is the killer" is simply a meme invented by the alternative medicine quacks to sell you on poppy seed oil or whatever crackpottery they're trying to foist on morons today.
Yes, cancer kills you. Lung cancer, even if it doesn't spread will literally see you slowly asphyxiated as the lungs' ability to absorb oxygen degrades. The fact is that techniques like chemo (which have come a very long way in the last 25 years), radiation and surgey can prolong your life, if not outright save it, whereas 50 or 60 years ago, many cancers were simply a death sentence.
Not to worry, then. The Republicans will put survivability down where it belongs. After all, in a Libertarian paradise, the poor should rightly and properly die from cancer.
Until the underlying XML files go for a shit, and then you're left with a flaky start menu. The Win10 start menu issues are greater than simply having to learn some new things. It is unstable.
Classic Shell is nice in theory, but our experience with a limited testbed roll out was that it was horribly unstable, with frequent lockups that either required restarting the shell or outright logging out and logging back in again. It's probably good enough for home users, but in an enterprise environment I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole.
Except it's still vulnerable to the underlying XML files going for a shit. When the Start menu was simply a filesystem-based construct it was far less prone to the kinds of failures that the Win10 start menu is. Why they went the complex route is beyond me.
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Well, at least we can dispense with the notion that Assange is some sort of champion of truth. He's basically an online mobster and gun for hire.
I was a supporter when they were releasing information in a non-partisan and unbiased way. Now that they're basically a tool of the Russian government, and possibly of even worse actors, I think the time has come to write them off.
They're still important enough that Russian chose to use them.
Oh do please tell us, all you Wikileaks supporters, just how wonderful an organization it is, as it begins the process of trying to fuck over hundreds of thousands of people whose only crime was verifying their account.
Well, I think Assange's motives are a bit darker than that. It's pretty obvious he blames the Obama Administration for the state of affairs, as he and his supporters have claimed since the allegations of him committing sexual offences in Sweden that it was all an evil plot by the United States to get their hands on him. Frankly, I'm not even sure I buy into that theory, which sounds a lot like some guy who has naughty images on his computer proclaiming "It's all a conspiracy man, those aren't mine!" I doubt it took much urging to get Assange to leak the emails, and really his behavior during the presidential campaign, which at times took on the appearance of Assange as the host of some Pythonesque gameshow do not suggest some fearless warrior for the truth, but rather someone out on the campaign trail for Trump.
Well, in strict terms, the State Department sent that money to an Israeli group called OneGroup, which ostensibly was given the money to promote the Two-state solution. Now I'll agree it's likely the intent was that OneGroup use the money to attack Netanyahu, though you're not likely to find anyone on either side saying "That's what the plan was", but even that rather mild conspiracy is still out in the open. It's not like it was sent covertly, or that the Administration covertly passed on emails and documents hacked from Likud servers to OneGroup.
So no, in fact, it's not at all like Russia using Wikileaks as a conduit to pass on information hacked from DNC servers.
We will see. While Trump certainly sucks at Putin's tit, there's a considerable amount of bipartisan support in Congress for a general dim view of Russia. Trump is still in a position to see the US defer far too much to Russia, but Congress still holds a helluva lot of power. And honestly, at this point, I'm not even sure how much Trump will be president. I'm beginning to see a four year period of what amounts to a post-stroke Woodrow Wilson administration, a sort of real-life version of Star Trek's Patterns Of Force where there's a person sitting in the Oval Office who does a lot of "My fellow Americans" statements, but has little in the way of real involvement in the decisions. If you want to know where the power will lie, it will lie with Pence, Ivanka and Jared Kushner. You know, much how Trump's businesses work. He plays the entertaining and outrageous CEO type, while the actual businesspeople run the businesses.
And then the Sanders and Alt-right fucknuts come out of the wood work.
Lying sack of garbage.
I'm not saying Clinton didn't lose fair and square. But the GP made the claim the American people favored Trump, which is, in fact false. No one disputes that the Electors have the ultimate constitutional authority to choose the POTUS, and that constitutionally Trump is the rightful winner of the election. But whatever that may represent, what it does not represent is that Trump is the popular pick.
Which has very little to do with the central allegations. I don't think many people seriously believed voting itself was hacked.
Indeed. There's NATO and health care to destroy
Not all "progessives" are conspiracy nuts, and I think the general consensus from the Powell UN WMD presentation was that a lot of people had very little confidence in what the Bush Administration was making them do.
As to the $20,000 reward, of course it was a publicity stunt. There was no bloody hit, and the poor bastard took an hour to die. It was a robbery gone wrong, which a lot of Sanders and Trump supporters tried to spin as some sort of Clinton Crime Family hit. The fact that Assange went any distance down that rabbit hole demonstrates where he's coming from. And really how is he in any position to know the source of the. It's not like the guy handing Wikileaks the files is going to announce "Hello, I am Yuri from FSB."
Assange is the leader of a cult. Whatever Wikileaks was four or five years ago it is no longer. He decided to become a political player, and thus he's tainted himself and the organization. Wikileaks should dump him.
Iraq was a long fucking time ago. Get over it
How is this trolling?
No, Assange has simply claimed it wasn't Russia (why anyone would believe Assange is beyond me, even if he was in a position to know that all the intermedaries weren't Russians). People like you keep trying to make Rich into some sort of victim of the Clinton Crime FAmily. It's a deep irony that you'll reject multiple US security services' claims that Russia was the source, but buy into a completely unevidenced and really quite idiotic conspiracy theory that Hillary Clinton had a DNC staffer murdered. And for what? So that voting for Trump doesn't make you a fucking moron? Well, too bad, you're a fucking moron.
You mean the US electoral college and Putin, because in popular vote terms, the US people preferred Clinton.
Yes, there'd be a witch doctor on every corner!
By "troll" you mean call you, Heartland shill, out everytime I spot you lying.
And your qualifications for assessing these statistics are what exactly?
Ah yes, the nice sociopathic Libertarian "you have the freedom to starve" line. I love how greedy sociopaths try to philosophically justify what amounts to a big "fuck you" to the rest of society.
So far as I understand it, when people get to any kind of stage 4 cancer, the causes of death are either due to metastasis (the invasion of the cancer into other tissues) or through the tumor severely impacting organs. The whole "chemo is the killer" is simply a meme invented by the alternative medicine quacks to sell you on poppy seed oil or whatever crackpottery they're trying to foist on morons today.
Yes, cancer kills you. Lung cancer, even if it doesn't spread will literally see you slowly asphyxiated as the lungs' ability to absorb oxygen degrades. The fact is that techniques like chemo (which have come a very long way in the last 25 years), radiation and surgey can prolong your life, if not outright save it, whereas 50 or 60 years ago, many cancers were simply a death sentence.
Not to worry, then. The Republicans will put survivability down where it belongs. After all, in a Libertarian paradise, the poor should rightly and properly die from cancer.
Until the underlying XML files go for a shit, and then you're left with a flaky start menu. The Win10 start menu issues are greater than simply having to learn some new things. It is unstable.
Classic Shell is nice in theory, but our experience with a limited testbed roll out was that it was horribly unstable, with frequent lockups that either required restarting the shell or outright logging out and logging back in again. It's probably good enough for home users, but in an enterprise environment I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole.
Except it's still vulnerable to the underlying XML files going for a shit. When the Start menu was simply a filesystem-based construct it was far less prone to the kinds of failures that the Win10 start menu is. Why they went the complex route is beyond me.