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Comment Re:State doing the CYA thing (Score 1) 261

Over and over and over again, we see she was receiving documents on her personal email. How is that breaking the law?

Once you receive classified information on an unclassified system, you have minimal amount of time to respond. Your response is to immediately contact the facility security officer. Failure to do so is a crime punishable by large fines and prison -- just as if you sent the e-mail to an unclassified server.

With security, as soon as you know something is amiss, if you immediately reported it to your facility security officer, there are minimal repercussions. Just like Watergate, the real issue is the cover up.

Comment Re:State doing the CYA thing (Score 1) 261

Truly, any other person would be out of a job and looking for an easy-going thing to confess to, months or years ago.

Except, maybe, Colin Powell, but, well, you know... that's different

If Powell had classified information on his private e-mail server, he too should be prosecuted.

Were you hoping for if they break they law, I get to break the law?

Comment Re:State doing the CYA thing (Score 4, Insightful) 261

Unless the State Department gives you explicit permission to do as she did. Which they did. Until they didn't.

I'm sorry. You're either being a partisan shell or you don't understand the issue. No one can give you permission to hold classified information on an unclassified server.

Frankly, I think the problem runs deeper. How does an unsecured server end up on the same network as classified information?

Submission + - State Dept releases 5500 Hillary Clinton emails, "classified" count up to 1,274 (cbsnews.com)

An anonymous reader writes: The State Department on Thursday released 5,500 more pages of Hillary Clinton's emails, but fell short of meeting a court-ordered target of making 82 percent of the former secretary of state's messages public by the end of 2015.

The email dump is the latest release from the private server Clinton used during her time as America's top diplomat. The State Department said it failed to meet the court's goal because of "the large number of documents involved and the holiday schedule."

Portions of 275 documents in the batch were upgraded to classified, though they were not classified at the time they were sent to Clinton's personal email, according to the State Department. In total, 1,274 of her emails were retroactively classified by the government before their release.

Submission + - Replacement for Mozilla Thunderbird? 3

maxcelcat writes: I've used Thunderbird for about a decade, and Netscape Mail before that (I have an email from 1998 from Marc Andreessen, welcoming me to Netscape Email, telling me different fonts can add impact to my emails).

Thunderbird has served me well, but it's getting long in the tooth.

Given the lack of development and the possibility that it's going End of Life, what should I use instead? I have multiple email accounts and an archive of sixteen years of email. I could get a copy of Outlook, but I don't like it.

Things I like about Thunderbird:
  • Supports multiple email accounts
  • Simple interface
  • Storage structure is not one monolithic file
  • Plain Text email editor
  • Filtering

Things I don't like:

  • HTML email editor
  • Folders are hard to change and re-arrange

Comment Slamming an obscure person after they're dead ... (Score 1) 92

Well, frankly, no matter how repugnant the person was, publicly slamming an obscure person after they're dead and have no chance of defending themselves seems reasonably petty. Given how vehement Robotech_Master is on the subject, one has to wonder how she personally offended him (note: this is rhetorical, no one but RM cares).

Comment Who's going to implement the racist policies (Score 0) 146

where once again, the white man is going to come in and tell the black man what to do with his land.

Yes. Yes, I know. It will be for his own good. He's too [stupid|short-sighted|ignorant|uneducated] to live his life correctly. The wise white man has to tell him what to do.

Even when you dress it up in left-wing causes, racism is pretty ugly.

Comment Re:sage (Score 1) 352

Aren't you the pot calling the kettle black.

You racist prick!

More to the point: you can't read.

Since I was at work and could not see the person who he was responding to -- and he didn't quote what he was responding to -- then no. I didn't read it.

I only saw someone say how fucking brilliant they were and that the public school was falling all over itself to treat him like the second coming of Christ.

Comment Re:sage (Score 1) 352

I realize that you're absolutely brilliant and have god-like powers (do you mind if I put on my shades, your brightness is blinding), but I could only respond to what you wrote and, as a mere mortal, am unable to read your mind. You only stated that the public schools were phenomenal.

Now, I realize that you're able to read minds (since you expected me to read yours), but I think you got the guy in the cube next to mine. I have re-read my post and I never found where I said anything about charter schools. Maybe I missed it and you, in your infinite brilliance, were able to spot it in some form of Da Vinci code. If so, it was completely unintentional on my part.

So I'm having a really hard time understanding the relevance of the search that you, in your god-like wisdom, suggested. So forgive this mere mortal thinker in asking what relevance the search has to what I stated -- except, perhaps, peripherally because I pointed out that some schools are not as awesomely brilliant as the ones that you originally described.

And obviously, based on your being marked up to high, one data point does prove everything statistically this week; silly me didn't realize.

Comment Re:sage (Score 1) 352

Good teachers are much more than subject matter experts

What's with this dogma that teachers are subject matter experts? Yes, I have had some teachers that knew their subject and were enthusiastic about teaching it. But that wasn't the rule. I attended two different high schools, and my children attended a third. It varies. Some teachers are outstanding, some should be fired with prejudice -- and the quality of the teacher has no impact on the compensation that the teacher receives.

Comment Re:sage (Score 1, Informative) 352

The people who put down public schools and experienced union teachers are "visionaries" but they don't have facts to back them up. If you want the facts, do a Google search for "Diane Ravitch."

Ah yes, a single data point proves everything. Sorry. No.

I have had exceptional public school teachers that cared about the students, knew their material, and provided a rich, learning environment. I have had hideous public school teachers that made it obvious that they hated the students, wished they were elsewhere, and only because thy had been on the job so long and were tenured that it was too late to change careers at that point. I have had public school teachers at almost every point in between.

I'm extremely glad that you had only exceptional experiences with public school teachers. But please, don't start pretending that you're representative of all public school students' experience or that your teachers were representative of all public school teachers.

Comment Re:lol, Rand sucking up to the dorks (Score 2) 206

We do have a justice system, but only if you can afford it. If you can't, then you get caught up in the legal system....

I respectfully disagree. The person that I know who got off with the misdemeanor, time served, and parole destroyed two lives in the process of committing his crime. I would be really hard pressed to say that justice was served with the light sentence that he received.

One of the victims (I have the joy of knowing both perp and victims) is constantly, angrily pointing out that the life of the person who attacked her is now completely back to normal while hers and the other victim are still dealing with the aftermath of the crime.

Perhaps justice is a myth.

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