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rbord
Boulder climber
atlanta
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I think we can all safely say that if you're not doing it my way, you're doing it wrong.
It kind of goes for the how and why you and I believe things too. If you're not believing things in the ways and for the reasons that I believe things (regardless of whether you believe the same thing as me) then you're doing this believing thing wrong.
I believe it's easy for me to tell that about you, whoever you may be :-)
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Norton
climber
The Wastelands
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This pretty much wraps up the differences between Dem and Repub supporters and voters
*A new WSJ/NBC poll shows: "More than three-quarters of Democrats, but less than one-third of Republicans, said they felt comfortable with societal changes that have made the U.S. more diverse."
*The same poll showed a radical shift in Democratic views about immigration over the past decade: In 2005, just 45% of Democrats said the country was strengthened by immigration. Now the share is 81%
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Brandon-
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The Granite State.
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Well, there was another survey/poll out of Dartmouth that says both republicans and independents are more willing to room with someone who has differing political views than democrats on campus.
Lots of division right now, and blaming the other side isn't going to help one iota.
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Norton
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The Wastelands
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College kids? that is understandable then Brandon, thanks for pointing that out
by the way, is posting polling survey results really dividing people? didn't thing so...
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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The fact that so many people can't see tRump for what he really is still baffles me.
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jgill
Boulder climber
The high prairie of southern Colorado
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Snowflake in peril alert!
American Horror Story:Cult
On FX.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Menendez, a Democrat and New Jersey's senior senator, is charged with doing official favors for his friend and co-defendant, Florida eye doctor Salomon Melgen, in exchange for expensive hotel stays, private jet flights and hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions.
Sounds like Trump and Nixon and me!
-Fat Leonard
Their convictions will all be overturned by the courts and if not I'll pardon them.
-Geraldo Ford
Many people who voted for me are asssholes!
-Donald QueegTrumpu
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Vlad Pricker
Mountain climber
The cliffs of insanity, inconceivable
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I still say, for my dollar, uh, euro, I get more entertainment out of the Taco Stand that anywhere else. That said, the only TV I get are in DVDs, I get no reception because, it costs. Hah hah.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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DACA has been before the court and left in tact which implies that Mr.Obama did not overstep his legal authority.
He definitely did not overstep his moral authority!
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the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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However calling all those who voted for President Trump 'as#@&%es' is as decisive as it gets.
I guess the issue is settled then. ;-)
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jgill
Boulder climber
The high prairie of southern Colorado
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FWIW: Betsy DeVos reverses policy . . .
The rules — set forth [by Obama] in a memo now known as the "Dear Colleague Letter" — told schools [higher ed] they must investigate and resolve all complaints of sexual assault, even if there is a separate criminal case. They also established what has become a polarizing standard of evidence used to judge cases.
Unlike in criminal courts, where guilt must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt, colleges were told to judge students based on whether it's "more likely than not" they committed the offense. (AP)
I watched this process unfold locally, with the young man suing the university in federal court and receiving a cash settlement. The young lady said the sex was by mutual consent, but one of her friends said she thought it might not have been. The "Director of Inclusion" adjudicated the case on campus.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Not Thorp, Trump.
Senate approves Trump's debt deal with Democrats
Shades of Bannon. Are the Demon_crats learning how to manipulate El Trumpo!
Probably not. They are verrrry slow learners.
Well they'll have more chances
Trump Reaches Out to Make More Deals With Congressional Democrats
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Norton
climber
The Wastelands
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They are verrrry slow learners.
unlike Trump voters
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lostinshanghai
Social climber
someplace
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He doesn't look too happy.
Now to get rid of the rest of the John Birchers running our government.
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lostinshanghai
Social climber
someplace
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You are [A] one of us or not for us or against us
Look at the colour of the above shirt [Trump], Been years but have been called a "Pinko" a number of times. But not his kind.
Note: for some reason some letters cut out and in bold not my doing.
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 7, 2017 - 05:43pm PT
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Here's a national policy issue that (hopefully) doesn't have anything to do with Trump yet, but he is in a position that should be doing something about it:
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/09/07/549296359/hackers-accessed-the-personal-data-of-143-million-people-equifax-says
The basic problem is that technology has evolved more rapidly than our antiquated systems of providing security to the masses. We still rely on ink signatures and social security numbers to represent us in many different systems. The three main credit reporting agencies are fundamental to the fluidity of cash and transfer of assets and granting of trust related to work and employment in our society. These institutions are vulnerable and now publicly admitted to being insecure, so no information provided by these agencies can really be trusted.
Fundamentally, we need a cryptographically secure mechanism to identify individuals, and a mechanism to assert their signature on documents, transactions, and communications. Putting initials at the bottom of each page on written contracts is so cheese-ball compared to having a math formula that "hashes" or blends all the data together along with a cryptographic signature so that all parties can mathematically verify that no contents have been changed after a person has signed it. This technology has existed for decades, but we still rely on old-fashioned stuff and a "secret" identity value in the form of our social security numbers that are re-used across multiple domains (a big security no-no) and there is no routine of changing it periodically.
One example of a proper security system would employ a private signing key and a public validation key, and a mechanism for individuals to acquire new public/private key pairs through a central certificate authority. This is called a "Public Key Infrastructure" or PKI. This is basically the same technology of "web certificates" when you go to a website with an address that begins with https://
These certificate authorities used for personal identification should be guarded as if they contain nuclear launch codes, because all financial transactions and medical records and business contracts and everything we value in this world should be anchored by this infrastructure. It is silly that a few pubic companies have consolidated the power of reputation and trust to safeguard our personal identity and all things of material value in this world tied to our identities. Where we now have FICO scores and such tied to a flaky compromisable social security number, we should have all such data (and all financial transactions) tied to public/private personal keys.
Even this model is not really state of the art any more. Centralized certificate authorities are ultimate prizes that attract attention, from individual hackers to state-sponsored efforts to compromise them. Better models are evolving that require multiple certificate authorities and related parties to collaborate before issuing a certificate signature. For example:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03370
These models would be a big step up in security, but ultimately could still be vulnerable to state-sponsored and/or well-funded espionage attacking multiple targets to orchestrate a security compromise.
In any case, this stuff strikes at the heart of the financial well-being for each of us, unless we keep our assets in cash under a bed or gold or other barter-worthy commodities.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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As to Lil' Trump
Trump Jr. said he was not aware of what role, if any, his father might have played in drafting an early explanation of the meeting that was widely criticized as misleading.
This is an outright lie which will come back (with many others) to haunt him.
Oh, pardon me, not haunt, make him "uncomfortable" for a while.
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rbord
Boulder climber
atlanta
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No-one ever accused Bannon of being a damn partisan.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Oh f*#k that, they're all my enemies :-)
Viva the living! Or die ...
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zBrown
Ice climber
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President Trump tweeted out that his hurricane crew is already in Florida, bracing for Irma. But he’s also aware that some of his own properties could be at risk of being slammed by the storm.
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