Putin has already lost power to the murderous thugs currently running Russia. The current occupation of Ukraine is nothing but a deliberate attempt of the Russian upper military class to reassert its relevance to the level which it enjoyed during the Soviet Union and which it has long lost in the current climate of peace.

It is most definitely about burdening Russian companies. If the police raids their Russian offices they don't have the excuse "our data is stored abroad" anymore. Such an admission in itself would become and admission of guilt.

While the question is interesting, it's off topic. You may as well ask the same question about any development task. Clearly the person asking the question already decided that the advantages of Python outweigh the advantages of C,ERLANG and COBOL. He is now asking whether the advantages of R outweigh the advantages of Python. Which is an entirely different topic.

So as to fix it himself? Fear is how you negotiate down your life.

Nah, that one will be much easier to fight. NYC, for example, made segways illegal despite being the best market for it and having a lot of bike lanes which can be used by segway users. It's easy to outlaw a technology which can be visually identified (police can ticket its users). It's much harder to enforce a ban of technology based purely on information.

Interesting. So are you pro or against the AGW hypothesis? Because when I argue that AGW hypothesis is a thinly-disguised neo-Communist agenda, it seems to have a whiff of paranoia. Would you care to affirm that you a primary example of such a confluence?

If a plant managed to find a process to capture all chemicals and have 0 pollutants other than CO2, this would give them a way to also be free of CO2 regulations.

would be nice if a lawyer could comment if a branch of canadian government has standing in dictating policy of foreign corporations. does google.jp, for example, really have to comply with canadian court orders?

This time they may have stepped into it. Whoever created the myth that the emails were destroyed will probably go to jail. The very claim that the electronic records could not be produced because they were destroyed (while they clearly haven't been) is tantamount to attempting to destroy those records. There is no question that this lie gets them on abstraction of justice and lying to Congress. But attempting to destroy electronic records of a crime brings in a whole new set of charges (think wire fraud and such). They can't back peddle this anymore. Expect them to double down and dig in.

I am still confused how the fourth amendment applies to the boss-employee relationship. These computers are owned by the federal government. The Congress, as the entity holding the purse, pays for these computers. The Congress has the power to audit everything on these computers. These are not her private records. These are records created in the process of conducting official government business.

what's to stop nsa from "losing" metadata? As long as the ultimate check on the President's power is off the table (as it is with this President), the executive branch is unaccountable. Short of a veto-proof majority, the Congress has as much power (or even less) than the UN. It's a debate society.

Are you joking? The complexity of data handled by the IRS is probably rivaled by NASA. These are the guys who could detect fraudulent patterns of receipts 30 years ago. Exchange? You are talking about them as if they were some 2-bit bureaucracy. The IRS is the all-feared standard for record keeping and processing. Their detection of record inconsistency is near absolute. Loss of records? Exchange server? Are you seriously making this argument? The fact that they mentioned "computer crashes" as the reason should tell you everything there is to know. It's an excuse made by someone without enough technical understanding of how things work. Never mind that is has nothing to do with reality. It has nothing to do with technology. Nor does the person who came up with this myth.

I think those emails were personally erased by Bush tax cuts coming life as a Cheney-strain Faux Neus virus.

It's the IIII RRRRR SSSSS. You know.... the people who get electronic records of all executed buy/sell orders of all the public exchanges... among other electronic documents that they manage of infinitely higher complexity than an email server. Yeah, crashing computers is NOT the reason they don't have those emails. This isn't kindergarten. IRS losing a Summer's worth of emails of a supervisor-level employee doesn't even work as a science fiction scenario.

Were those her emails to herself? Otherwise, they went through servers. This isn't a school board email server.... it's the IRS. Does anyone seriously think they don't have copious records of all the documents? My dog ate my homework? If you are gonna post any kind of credible reply to this, don't be an AC. Any AC reply to this will be assume to be coming from the legal staff of the Criminal Democratic Party.