Deny that most of the artists and writers learned the liberal arts at college. I dare you. That's why we need to defund education, there is no reasoning with these people.
Yes, Conservatives and Republicans are *much* more reasonable, compassionate and inclusive./rolls-eyes
Fusion GPS was originally funded by the conservative website The Washington Free Beacon who was funded by a major Republican donor, New York hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer, and the research was abandoned once it became clear that Trump was going to win the Republican nomination. (The House Intelligence Committee knows this, but doesn't mention it.) From Conservative Website First Funded Anti-Trump Research by Firm That Later Produced Dossier:
The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative website funded by a major Republican donor, first hired the research firm that months later produced for Democrats the salacious dossier describing ties between Donald J. Trump and the Russian government, the website said on Friday.
The Free Beacon, funded in large part by the New York hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer, hired the firm, Fusion GPS, in 2015 to unearth damaging information about several Republican presidential candidates, including Mr. Trump. But The Free Beacon told the firm to stop doing research on Mr. Trump in May 2016, as Mr. Trump was clinching the Republican nomination.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee had begun paying Fusion GPS in April for research that eventually became the basis for the dossier.
The Free Beacon informed the House Intelligence Committee on Friday that it had retained the firm.
This is all political theater by Republican Congressman Nunes, who once worked for the Trump campaign (you know, the people being investigated), to distract people from, and discredit, the Trump/Russia investigation.
According to who? Republicans pursued Hillary Clinton with everything and anything they could think of to prevent her from becoming the next President. (and, for whatever reason, *still* wasn't convicted of *anything*) The remainder of your commentary confirms that their attempts achieved their intended results none-the-less. *That* is what Fascism looks like.
Congratulations on being part of the problem.
Enjoy your "freedom" - while it lasts, until they convince you of the next thing they want...
Carter Page was under investigation before even the GOP contracted GPS Fusion.
In addition, the investigation was working with George Papadopoulos, who is cooperating with Mueller as part of a plea deal, *before* the Steele dossier came into play -- as noted in The Nunes memo is out. It’s a joke and a sham.,
[Nunes Memo] The Papadopoulos information triggered the opening of an FBI counterintelligence investigation in late July 2016 by FBI agent Pete Strzok. Strzok was reassigned by the Special Counsel’s office for improper text messages with his mistress, FBI Attorney Lisa Page where they both demonstrated a clear bias against Trump.
This is apparently supposed to show that the investigation was opened by a biased FBI agent. But it actually shows that the FBI investigation predated the supposed misuse of the Steele dossier, and it shows that the cause of the investigation was information provided by Papadopoulos, which is what the New York Times reported. Remember, this Times report was widely mocked by Trump allies. Yet the memo actually lends that story more credence and, in the process, undercuts the whole alt-narrative that the genesis of the probe was illegitimate.
So it seems the FBI/DOJ under Obama used smear information bought from Russian intelligence sources by the Clinton Campaign to justify secretly wiretapping and investigating their political rivals during a presidential election. Did someone say Russian Collusion?
You mean the information originally paid for by the conservative website, The Washington Free Beacon, funded by a major Republican donor, New York hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer, and abandoned once Trump won the Republican nomination? And that the House Intelligence Committee knows this, but doesn't mention it? That one?
The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative website funded by a major Republican donor, first hired the research firm that months later produced for Democrats the salacious dossier describing ties between Donald J. Trump and the Russian government, the website said on Friday.
The Free Beacon, funded in large part by the New York hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer, hired the firm, Fusion GPS, in 2015 to unearth damaging information about several Republican presidential candidates, including Mr. Trump. But The Free Beacon told the firm to stop doing research on Mr. Trump in May 2016, as Mr. Trump was clinching the Republican nomination.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee had begun paying Fusion GPS in April for research that eventually became the basis for the dossier.
The Free Beacon informed the House Intelligence Committee on Friday that it had retained the firm.
And you're also implying information cannot be legitimate and useful if obtained by the opposition and/or potentially biased actors, and/or this fact isn't disclosed during review? Others, apparently, disagree:
“Neither the initial application in October 2016, nor any of the renewals, disclose or reference the role of the D.N.C., Clinton campaign, or any party/campaign in funding Steele’s efforts, even though the political origins of the Steele dossier were then known to senior D.O.J. and F.B.I. officials,” said the memo, which was written by committee staffers.
That assertion is “potentially problematic,” said David Kris, a FISA expert and former head of the Justice Department’s National Security Division in the first term of the Obama administration.
If the warrant applications did disclose that Mr. Steele’s research was funded by people who were opposed to Mr. Trump’s campaign, even if it did not name the D.N.C. or the Clinton campaign, then the applications “would be fine,” he said, and the author of the memo and those who backed its release are trying to mislead the American people.
This is all political theater by Republican Congressman Nunes, who once worked for the Trump campaign (you know, the people being investigated), to distract people from, and discredit, the Trump/Russia investigation.
Of course not. This is a 4-page (opinion) memo containing information cherry-picked from 400 pages if information, by a Congressman who use to work for the Trump campaign. Furthermore, the original source information is classified, so we cannot see it to gain any context -- except the context Nunes wants us to have. In addition, this memo apparently, as noted by the FBI, DOJ and DNC, have said the memo contains incomplete and/or misleading information. Their reasoning may also be biased, but the Democrats have a competing memo, but -- shocker -- the Republican-lead Intelligence committee won't release it. I wonder why.
Now that there's pretty solid evidence that the DNC...
You got ALL that from a 4-page memo containing information cherry-picked from 400 pages of information. You, sir, are really good at reading between the lines! Good thing this wasn't written by a high-level partisan toady, who worked for the Trump campaign, complaining about alleged partisan politics involving people investigating potentially illegal activities by his former boss and his campaign people (of which, again, he was one).
Remember, principles should be sacrificed as long as the end result is reinforcing the narrative that OMG TRUMP RUSSIA is true no matter what.
Or sacrificing principles, with one Mulligan after another, so you can still support someone no matter what he, and the people around him, has done - or how much they lie (every single day) about, seriously, everything. Keep a firm hold onto *your* "ends justify the means" beliefs. Your Political God will be proud of you, but the other One not so much.
Not saying the DNC doesn't have their own problems, but anything involving Nunes at this point should be very suspect.
I thought Tinder was just for meeting people for sex. I only use Grindr, so I have no idea.
They're both for helping people make fire. Gather some Tinder, apply friction with Grindr and -- poof -- fire. The real action is at the next step using Blazer, though it's a bit overrun with stoners, for some reason. Swipers beware.
The issue isn't that the ATMs are running Windows, but rather that they're running old and unmaintained software. Running an old unsupported version of Linux is going to be just as vulnerable. Linux users bashing Windows is a lot like Donald Trump's obsession with Hillary Clinton.
Are you implying that Hillary Clinton is old and unmaintained?:-)
Wireless #G networks are used extensively to access Internet and this would be a way for the Government to easily shut that down and/or restrict access to it. Several times Trump has called for an Internet "kill switch" or other measures. From Snopes (and other places):
On 7 December 2015, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addressed a crowd of supporters at the U.S.S. Yorktown in South Carolina. During that appearance, Trump invoked a vague approach to campaign issues as he proposed restricting access for some individuals to the internet:
"We have to go see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what’s happening. We have to talk to them about, maybe in certain areas, closing that Internet up in some way Somebody will say, ‘Oh, freedom of speech, freedom of speech.’ These are foolish people." -- Trump
Secundus: Narrow border? Hard to click on? What are you, some kind of spastic?
No, but... I do often find the left, right, and bottom window borders on some systems (like, Ubuntu Mate) overly narrow and difficult to select and wish they would be a little thicker. I'm also not a fan of super skinny scroll-bars or auto-hiding the scroll-bar, as some applications seem to have trouble with that -- for example, Synaptic fights with the horizontal scroll-bar when the user tries to select the last row in the packages window.
2) If Consumers DEMANDED replaceable batteries over other features like Water Proof/Resistant devices, then they would be BUYING them. Since it is makes devices MORE expensive to have WaterProof and Replaceable batteries than one or the other, and people are choosing lesser expensive single option devices (Waterproof, no replaceable battery vs replaceable battery and don't drop in the pool) the the market has spoken.
On the other hand... My Kyocera Hydro VIBE (from 2014) which I bought, on sale, from Ting for about $150.00 in 2016 has an easily removable back, easily replaceable battery, a headphone jack -- *and* is:
Certified dust resistant and waterproof for IP57 - protection against dust and water immersion for up to 30 minutes in up to 3.28 feet (1 meter) of water.
Sure, the Hydro VIBE is not as thin (though it's close), fancy or capable as a modern iPhone, but it shows that you can get an easily replaceable battery, headphone jack and water/dust proofing without spending too much money -- which is reason Apple doesn't offer this. They want you spending money on newer phones and/or at the "Genius Bar" rather than maintaining your phone yourself.
My life goal is go down in the record books as the first human to die on Mars. Too bad they won't take me because I'm not in perfect health.
Although, it sounds like your health status is conducive to achieving your goals on Mars. I'd lead with that in the astronaut candidate interviews - NASA is very goal oriented.
I just listen word of mouth of friends that have seen a movie and liked it.
I'm sure there's plenty of value in that. On the other hand...
People like blood sausage, too. People are morons.
-- Phil Connors, Groundhog Day
I think reviews can be helpful if they're clear about what they're reviewing -- the plot, characters, production value, etc... Sometimes it seems a reviewer just doesn't like an actor, or premise, etc... and that seems to drive the review rather than what, objectively, was presented. I've seen plenty of movies on Amazon Prime with objectively low production values that were rather good because of the story or actors, etc... On the other hand, there are also expensively-made movies that aren't worth watching -- even on Amazon. A helpful review is compartmentalized, to some extent, with commentary based on some earned/acquired knowledge of film and film production.
Paint it gold and rename it "Trump Station" - he'll either fund it forever or refuse to pay the workers and declare bankruptcy.:-) It's really a coin toss at this point.
A Trump administration committee is advancing the interests of industry over the public. Who would ever have guessed?
Everyone at Veridian Dynamics:
"Money before people," that's the company motto. Engraved on the lobby floor. It just looks more heroic in Latin."
-- Veronica Palmer (Better Off Ted, Season 1 Episode 4: "Racial Sensitivity")
... the point was, they made it soooo good it's a completely transparent tool now - no learning curve, it knows what you want and does it, or um "it just works",...
The same can be said about a toothbrush, but there's even a learning curve for that -- to use it effectively, anyway.
... a child with an iPad doesn't even know what the word "computer" means.
Because that kid is dumb or uneducated. Even if we accept Apple's premise, History would still exist and that kid would certainly know that word from there and how her iPad came to be and it is actually a type of computer.
I hate marketing people -- probably more than lawyers and politicians.
he doesn't explain how Google is no longer being innovative for people who buy or display ads
To be fair, that's all NDA stuff. Still, I expect there hasn't been much innovation on the "creepy stalking of your personal information" front either. Once they know everything about you, what's left to innovate?
Well, they don't know what my prostate feels like. (Can't wait for them to innovate that.)
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Deny that most of the artists and writers learned the liberal arts at college. I dare you. That's why we need to defund education, there is no reasoning with these people.
Yes, Conservatives and Republicans are *much* more reasonable, compassionate and inclusive. /rolls-eyes
Not just unverifiable rumors, but planted rumors.
The DNC fed Fusion GPS, who fed Steele.
Fusion GPS was originally funded by the conservative website The Washington Free Beacon who was funded by a major Republican donor, New York hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer, and the research was abandoned once it became clear that Trump was going to win the Republican nomination. (The House Intelligence Committee knows this, but doesn't mention it.) From Conservative Website First Funded Anti-Trump Research by Firm That Later Produced Dossier:
The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative website funded by a major Republican donor, first hired the research firm that months later produced for Democrats the salacious dossier describing ties between Donald J. Trump and the Russian government, the website said on Friday.
The Free Beacon, funded in large part by the New York hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer, hired the firm, Fusion GPS, in 2015 to unearth damaging information about several Republican presidential candidates, including Mr. Trump. But The Free Beacon told the firm to stop doing research on Mr. Trump in May 2016, as Mr. Trump was clinching the Republican nomination.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee had begun paying Fusion GPS in April for research that eventually became the basis for the dossier.
The Free Beacon informed the House Intelligence Committee on Friday that it had retained the firm.
This is all political theater by Republican Congressman Nunes, who once worked for the Trump campaign (you know, the people being investigated), to distract people from, and discredit, the Trump/Russia investigation.
Hillary committed felonies ...
According to who? Republicans pursued Hillary Clinton with everything and anything they could think of to prevent her from becoming the next President. (and, for whatever reason, *still* wasn't convicted of *anything*) The remainder of your commentary confirms that their attempts achieved their intended results none-the-less. *That* is what Fascism looks like.
Congratulations on being part of the problem.
Enjoy your "freedom" - while it lasts, until they convince you of the next thing they want...
Carter Page was under investigation before even the GOP contracted GPS Fusion.
In addition, the investigation was working with George Papadopoulos, who is cooperating with Mueller as part of a plea deal, *before* the Steele dossier came into play -- as noted in The Nunes memo is out. It’s a joke and a sham.,
[Nunes Memo] The Papadopoulos information triggered the opening of an FBI counterintelligence investigation in late July 2016 by FBI agent Pete Strzok. Strzok was reassigned by the Special Counsel’s office for improper text messages with his mistress, FBI Attorney Lisa Page where they both demonstrated a clear bias against Trump.
This is apparently supposed to show that the investigation was opened by a biased FBI agent. But it actually shows that the FBI investigation predated the supposed misuse of the Steele dossier, and it shows that the cause of the investigation was information provided by Papadopoulos, which is what the New York Times reported. Remember, this Times report was widely mocked by Trump allies. Yet the memo actually lends that story more credence and, in the process, undercuts the whole alt-narrative that the genesis of the probe was illegitimate.
So it seems the FBI/DOJ under Obama used smear information bought from Russian intelligence sources by the Clinton Campaign to justify secretly wiretapping and investigating their political rivals during a presidential election. Did someone say Russian Collusion?
You mean the information originally paid for by the conservative website, The Washington Free Beacon, funded by a major Republican donor, New York hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer, and abandoned once Trump won the Republican nomination? And that the House Intelligence Committee knows this, but doesn't mention it? That one?
The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative website funded by a major Republican donor, first hired the research firm that months later produced for Democrats the salacious dossier describing ties between Donald J. Trump and the Russian government, the website said on Friday.
The Free Beacon, funded in large part by the New York hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer, hired the firm, Fusion GPS, in 2015 to unearth damaging information about several Republican presidential candidates, including Mr. Trump. But The Free Beacon told the firm to stop doing research on Mr. Trump in May 2016, as Mr. Trump was clinching the Republican nomination.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee had begun paying Fusion GPS in April for research that eventually became the basis for the dossier.
The Free Beacon informed the House Intelligence Committee on Friday that it had retained the firm.
And you're also implying information cannot be legitimate and useful if obtained by the opposition and/or potentially biased actors, and/or this fact isn't disclosed during review? Others, apparently, disagree:
“Neither the initial application in October 2016, nor any of the renewals, disclose or reference the role of the D.N.C., Clinton campaign, or any party/campaign in funding Steele’s efforts, even though the political origins of the Steele dossier were then known to senior D.O.J. and F.B.I. officials,” said the memo, which was written by committee staffers.
That assertion is “potentially problematic,” said David Kris, a FISA expert and former head of the Justice Department’s National Security Division in the first term of the Obama administration.
If the warrant applications did disclose that Mr. Steele’s research was funded by people who were opposed to Mr. Trump’s campaign, even if it did not name the D.N.C. or the Clinton campaign, then the applications “would be fine,” he said, and the author of the memo and those who backed its release are trying to mislead the American people.
This is all political theater by Republican Congressman Nunes, who once worked for the Trump campaign (you know, the people being investigated), to distract people from, and discredit, the Trump/Russia investigation.
Is LiDAR really a revolutionary technology at this point?
No, but using it for the purposes of Archeology is pretty new.
Together, they open up new academic and career opportunities for sharks.
But it doesn't say what other reasons were cited.
Of course not. This is a 4-page (opinion) memo containing information cherry-picked from 400 pages if information, by a Congressman who use to work for the Trump campaign. Furthermore, the original source information is classified, so we cannot see it to gain any context -- except the context Nunes wants us to have. In addition, this memo apparently, as noted by the FBI, DOJ and DNC, have said the memo contains incomplete and/or misleading information. Their reasoning may also be biased, but the Democrats have a competing memo, but -- shocker -- the Republican-lead Intelligence committee won't release it. I wonder why.
Now that there's pretty solid evidence that the DNC ...
You got ALL that from a 4-page memo containing information cherry-picked from 400 pages of information. You, sir, are really good at reading between the lines! Good thing this wasn't written by a high-level partisan toady, who worked for the Trump campaign, complaining about alleged partisan politics involving people investigating potentially illegal activities by his former boss and his campaign people (of which, again, he was one).
Remember, principles should be sacrificed as long as the end result is reinforcing the narrative that OMG TRUMP RUSSIA is true no matter what.
Or sacrificing principles, with one Mulligan after another, so you can still support someone no matter what he, and the people around him, has done - or how much they lie (every single day) about, seriously, everything. Keep a firm hold onto *your* "ends justify the means" beliefs. Your Political God will be proud of you, but the other One not so much.
Not saying the DNC doesn't have their own problems, but anything involving Nunes at this point should be very suspect.
I thought Tinder was just for meeting people for sex. I only use Grindr, so I have no idea.
They're both for helping people make fire. Gather some Tinder, apply friction with Grindr and -- poof -- fire. The real action is at the next step using Blazer, though it's a bit overrun with stoners, for some reason. Swipers beware.
The issue isn't that the ATMs are running Windows, but rather that they're running old and unmaintained software. Running an old unsupported version of Linux is going to be just as vulnerable. Linux users bashing Windows is a lot like Donald Trump's obsession with Hillary Clinton.
Are you implying that Hillary Clinton is old and unmaintained? :-)
Alcohol. LOTS of alcohol.
For the parents or kids? (asking for a friend)
Wireless #G networks are used extensively to access Internet and this would be a way for the Government to easily shut that down and/or restrict access to it. Several times Trump has called for an Internet "kill switch" or other measures. From Snopes (and other places):
On 7 December 2015, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addressed a crowd of supporters at the U.S.S. Yorktown in South Carolina. During that appearance, Trump invoked a vague approach to campaign issues as he proposed restricting access for some individuals to the internet:
"We have to go see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what’s happening. We have to talk to them about, maybe in certain areas, closing that Internet up in some way Somebody will say, ‘Oh, freedom of speech, freedom of speech.’ These are foolish people." -- Trump
Trump calls for internet to be cut off for terrorists
The Law That Could Allow Trump To Shut Down The US Internet
etc...
Secundus: Narrow border? Hard to click on? What are you, some kind of spastic?
No, but... I do often find the left, right, and bottom window borders on some systems (like, Ubuntu Mate) overly narrow and difficult to select and wish they would be a little thicker. I'm also not a fan of super skinny scroll-bars or auto-hiding the scroll-bar, as some applications seem to have trouble with that -- for example, Synaptic fights with the horizontal scroll-bar when the user tries to select the last row in the packages window.
Now I have to cover my car in tin foil too.
2) If Consumers DEMANDED replaceable batteries over other features like Water Proof/Resistant devices, then they would be BUYING them. Since it is makes devices MORE expensive to have WaterProof and Replaceable batteries than one or the other, and people are choosing lesser expensive single option devices (Waterproof, no replaceable battery vs replaceable battery and don't drop in the pool) the the market has spoken.
On the other hand... My Kyocera Hydro VIBE (from 2014) which I bought, on sale, from Ting for about $150.00 in 2016 has an easily removable back, easily replaceable battery, a headphone jack -- *and* is:
Certified dust resistant and waterproof for IP57 - protection against dust and water immersion for up to 30 minutes in up to 3.28 feet (1 meter) of water.
Sure, the Hydro VIBE is not as thin (though it's close), fancy or capable as a modern iPhone, but it shows that you can get an easily replaceable battery, headphone jack and water/dust proofing without spending too much money -- which is reason Apple doesn't offer this. They want you spending money on newer phones and/or at the "Genius Bar" rather than maintaining your phone yourself.
My life goal is go down in the record books as the first human to die on Mars. Too bad they won't take me because I'm not in perfect health.
Although, it sounds like your health status is conducive to achieving your goals on Mars. I'd lead with that in the astronaut candidate interviews - NASA is very goal oriented.
I just listen word of mouth of friends that have seen a movie and liked it.
I'm sure there's plenty of value in that. On the other hand ...
People like blood sausage, too. People are morons.
-- Phil Connors, Groundhog Day
I think reviews can be helpful if they're clear about what they're reviewing -- the plot, characters, production value, etc... Sometimes it seems a reviewer just doesn't like an actor, or premise, etc... and that seems to drive the review rather than what, objectively, was presented. I've seen plenty of movies on Amazon Prime with objectively low production values that were rather good because of the story or actors, etc... On the other hand, there are also expensively-made movies that aren't worth watching -- even on Amazon. A helpful review is compartmentalized, to some extent, with commentary based on some earned/acquired knowledge of film and film production.
Better Off Ted was great. (MUCH better than the new show "Corporate" on CC.)
Paint it gold and rename it "Trump Station" - he'll either fund it forever or refuse to pay the workers and declare bankruptcy. :-) It's really a coin toss at this point.
A Trump administration committee is advancing the interests of industry over the public. Who would ever have guessed?
Everyone at Veridian Dynamics:
"Money before people," that's the company motto. Engraved on the lobby floor. It just looks more heroic in Latin."
-- Veronica Palmer (Better Off Ted, Season 1 Episode 4: "Racial Sensitivity")
... the point was, they made it soooo good it's a completely transparent tool now - no learning curve, it knows what you want and does it, or um "it just works", ...
The same can be said about a toothbrush, but there's even a learning curve for that -- to use it effectively, anyway.
... a child with an iPad doesn't even know what the word "computer" means.
Because that kid is dumb or uneducated. Even if we accept Apple's premise, History would still exist and that kid would certainly know that word from there and how her iPad came to be and it is actually a type of computer.
I hate marketing people -- probably more than lawyers and politicians.
Maybe because in Europe ... the standard has become to not leave contact info but a mocking note instead.
They were originally going to use that in The Hunger Games, but decided a Mockingjay would be more effective.
Well, they know your age, and likely know what doctors you've recently visited ...
Haven't been to a doctor in 15+ years.
he doesn't explain how Google is no longer being innovative for people who buy or display ads
To be fair, that's all NDA stuff. Still, I expect there hasn't been much innovation on the "creepy stalking of your personal information" front either. Once they know everything about you, what's left to innovate?
Well, they don't know what my prostate feels like. (Can't wait for them to innovate that.)