Executive powers still give a President a lot of ways of fucking things up even with an obstructionist Congress. And I'm not all that certain that the GOP would feel it in their political interests to block Trump. After all, a significant portion of their base think he's the Second Coming.
Latest projections give republicans fifty seats, which mean the Dems will take the Senate, and if they tossmthe filibuster rules for confirmations, McCain's obstruction threat won't mean much.
Blah blah blah. You know your candidate is fucked, and this is the best you can come up with, that she gave a speech to Goldman Sachs? What's next, insinuations that she's in bed with Usurious Jews?
Ah yes, grandiose claims of "I've read all the emails..."
Doubtless you and all the other "I've read all the email" types will be quote mining them for years to come. Podesta's emails are the Birther conspiracy theorists for the post-2016 world.
Of course it would come back to haunt the Democrats, but the Republicans would share the responsibility. If the Republicans were to back away from their claims that they'd do everything in their power to obstruct the confirmation of Clinton nominees, maybe the Democrats wouldn't use the nuclear option.
Which, if I understand it, is a plan under review if the Senate ends up deadlocked or with a slim Democratic lead. Projections seem to be pointing to 50 Republicans and 50 Democrats+independents, so I think it's likely they'll eliminate filibusters for confirmations.
And the answer is YES, considering they already knew what the hell to look for. Face it, you and I both know damned well this was a trivial technical problem that could isolate out the non-duplicated messages, which were a small enough number that they could have been vetted by human beings.
I don't think anyone can actually understand what he's saying. His supporters pick out the good bits of his word salads and declare him a genius, his opponents pick out the bad bits (not exactly a hard job), and declare him a dangerous idiot. There never really was a serious effort to put out a message or a coherent set of policies. It was just sound bites wrapped up in some sort of bizarre alpha male charisma schtick. Trump was the product of a whole lot of peoples' imaginations. Honestly, up until the last week or so, he hasn't even acted like someone who had the vaguest hope that he'd ever be president, and to wait until the last week of an election before you decide you're going to behave with some self control and dignity indicates to me that you're either a complete idiot or you never seriously wanted the job to begin with.
Trump has wasted a vast number of the GOP's resources, probably harmed a number of downticket races, enough that it's likely the Senate will either be deadlocked or at least marginally in the Democrats' hands, not to mention the damage done to the GOP's efforts in states like Florida and Arizona to reach out to minority voters. And for what? To be a hit with a demographic that the GOP has recognized for eight years now will fade in importance?
Any Republican angry at what will transpire tomorrow shouldn't blame Clinton, they should look at the fools in their own party that put one of the most unsuitable presidential candidates in modern US history in the place he's in right now.
I doubt Comey has much of a future. Obama won't touch him prior to tomorrow, but come Wednesday, kicking his ass out the door and cleaning up the FBI will need to be a top priority. Congress could help by inserting some prison time into the Hatch Act, so the next time an FBI director decides to play fast and loose with a presidential candidate, he'll think twice.
Not really. I thought Occupy was an absurd waste of time, and I thought the whole "1%er" nonsense was simply contrived. Not that I don't want to see the wealthy made more accountable, and large corporations brought more firmly under the rule of law, but to imagine a guy like Trump, whose business history has been one of screwing over investors, using every trick in the book to evade taxes, and who is, by definition, one of the Elite, was going to bring the "1%ers" to bear was so ludicrous and laughable that I just have to imagine that most of his supporters are either complete morons or were more likely hoping he'd be so fucking awful that he'd bring the system down (which is absurd, the Founding Fathers built the system to deal with even the most terrible Presidents).
Well, considering that the Trump crowd, including a few posters here who should have the ability to actually write the code to de-dupe a bunch of fucking text files, claiming this was some impossible task that could not be completed in a few days, I think it was useful to have story reminding those poor suffering Trump-support/.ers who seemed to have a major brain fart about some pretty trivial algorithms.
Doesn't MS-Exchange, as an example, do that automatically so that emails sent to multiple recipients on a server only have multiple pointers to one email in the message store?
The problem is that if de-duping is easy, that means that it could be quickly ascertained if the new mail dump had anything significant in it, which means there was only a brief period of time in which some fantastical new load of Clinton-destroying emails would be found, and if that were the case, then the Trump camp was literally hanging on to a false hope.
So now we have some of the most tech savvy people on the Internet pretending they're simpering halfwits with know technical know-how at all, just so they can keep a faint hope alive. I guess they can keep imagining Clinton impeachment, though they won't have the votes in the Senate, and it may turn out they don't even have the votes in the Senate to do much else but filibuster Clinton nominees.
But a database isn't critical to email. I was using unindexed mbox format mail systems into the mid-1990s, and because of those rules on header structure laid out in RFCs from early on, it isn't that hard to write a fairly fast in memory indexer for an mbox file.
The case is pretty simple. The RFCs that created the Arpanet email infrastructure that modern Internet email is built in were developed years before this fraud.
Reminds me of that bitter joke Rod Stewart said a few years ago. "Instead of getting married again, I'll find I woman I don't like and by her a house."
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Executive powers still give a President a lot of ways of fucking things up even with an obstructionist Congress. And I'm not all that certain that the GOP would feel it in their political interests to block Trump. After all, a significant portion of their base think he's the Second Coming.
Latest projections give republicans fifty seats, which mean the Dems will take the Senate, and if they tossmthe filibuster rules for confirmations, McCain's obstruction threat won't mean much.
Blah blah blah. You know your candidate is fucked, and this is the best you can come up with, that she gave a speech to Goldman Sachs? What's next, insinuations that she's in bed with Usurious Jews?
Ah yes, grandiose claims of "I've read all the emails..."
Doubtless you and all the other "I've read all the email" types will be quote mining them for years to come. Podesta's emails are the Birther conspiracy theorists for the post-2016 world.
Of course it would come back to haunt the Democrats, but the Republicans would share the responsibility. If the Republicans were to back away from their claims that they'd do everything in their power to obstruct the confirmation of Clinton nominees, maybe the Democrats wouldn't use the nuclear option.
Which, if I understand it, is a plan under review if the Senate ends up deadlocked or with a slim Democratic lead. Projections seem to be pointing to 50 Republicans and 50 Democrats+independents, so I think it's likely they'll eliminate filibusters for confirmations.
And the answer is YES, considering they already knew what the hell to look for. Face it, you and I both know damned well this was a trivial technical problem that could isolate out the non-duplicated messages, which were a small enough number that they could have been vetted by human beings.
And time to start trotting out the logical fallacies.
I don't think anyone can actually understand what he's saying. His supporters pick out the good bits of his word salads and declare him a genius, his opponents pick out the bad bits (not exactly a hard job), and declare him a dangerous idiot. There never really was a serious effort to put out a message or a coherent set of policies. It was just sound bites wrapped up in some sort of bizarre alpha male charisma schtick. Trump was the product of a whole lot of peoples' imaginations. Honestly, up until the last week or so, he hasn't even acted like someone who had the vaguest hope that he'd ever be president, and to wait until the last week of an election before you decide you're going to behave with some self control and dignity indicates to me that you're either a complete idiot or you never seriously wanted the job to begin with.
Trump has wasted a vast number of the GOP's resources, probably harmed a number of downticket races, enough that it's likely the Senate will either be deadlocked or at least marginally in the Democrats' hands, not to mention the damage done to the GOP's efforts in states like Florida and Arizona to reach out to minority voters. And for what? To be a hit with a demographic that the GOP has recognized for eight years now will fade in importance?
Any Republican angry at what will transpire tomorrow shouldn't blame Clinton, they should look at the fools in their own party that put one of the most unsuitable presidential candidates in modern US history in the place he's in right now.
I doubt Comey has much of a future. Obama won't touch him prior to tomorrow, but come Wednesday, kicking his ass out the door and cleaning up the FBI will need to be a top priority. Congress could help by inserting some prison time into the Hatch Act, so the next time an FBI director decides to play fast and loose with a presidential candidate, he'll think twice.
Not really. I thought Occupy was an absurd waste of time, and I thought the whole "1%er" nonsense was simply contrived. Not that I don't want to see the wealthy made more accountable, and large corporations brought more firmly under the rule of law, but to imagine a guy like Trump, whose business history has been one of screwing over investors, using every trick in the book to evade taxes, and who is, by definition, one of the Elite, was going to bring the "1%ers" to bear was so ludicrous and laughable that I just have to imagine that most of his supporters are either complete morons or were more likely hoping he'd be so fucking awful that he'd bring the system down (which is absurd, the Founding Fathers built the system to deal with even the most terrible Presidents).
Well, considering that the Trump crowd, including a few posters here who should have the ability to actually write the code to de-dupe a bunch of fucking text files, claiming this was some impossible task that could not be completed in a few days, I think it was useful to have story reminding those poor suffering Trump-support /.ers who seemed to have a major brain fart about some pretty trivial algorithms.
Doesn't MS-Exchange, as an example, do that automatically so that emails sent to multiple recipients on a server only have multiple pointers to one email in the message store?
The problem is that if de-duping is easy, that means that it could be quickly ascertained if the new mail dump had anything significant in it, which means there was only a brief period of time in which some fantastical new load of Clinton-destroying emails would be found, and if that were the case, then the Trump camp was literally hanging on to a false hope.
So now we have some of the most tech savvy people on the Internet pretending they're simpering halfwits with know technical know-how at all, just so they can keep a faint hope alive. I guess they can keep imagining Clinton impeachment, though they won't have the votes in the Senate, and it may turn out they don't even have the votes in the Senate to do much else but filibuster Clinton nominees.
Less than that, I expect. This is hardly earth-shattering work, and the tools to de-dup text files has been around for decades.
I am so going to enjoy rubbing it into Trump supporter's faces on Wednesday.
Sooner later Russia is going to have to be put into its place. The longer the West keeps stalling the harder it will be.
Translation: I can't provide any actual evidence.
But a database isn't critical to email. I was using unindexed mbox format mail systems into the mid-1990s, and because of those rules on header structure laid out in RFCs from early on, it isn't that hard to write a fairly fast in memory indexer for an mbox file.
The case is pretty simple. The RFCs that created the Arpanet email infrastructure that modern Internet email is built in were developed years before this fraud.
Suddenly? It has known of the threat of synthetic diamonds for over thirty years.
Reminds me of that bitter joke Rod Stewart said a few years ago. "Instead of getting married again, I'll find I woman I don't like and by her a house."
Or you could just admit voter fraud is rare.
I don't know, what if Elvis is still alive and there's an alien living on the dark side of the moon?
Voter fraud has been studied. It simply isn't a significant factor in US elections.
He said lots of contradictory things and you just picked the pieces you agree with.