Trump Seeks To Curb Foreign Cyber Meddling on Last Day in Office (reuters.com) 76
Outgoing President Donald Trump has signed an executive order aimed at thwarting foreign use of cloud computing products for malicious cyber operations against the United States, the White House said on Tuesday, Trump's last full day in office. From a report: The order, first reported by Reuters, gives the Commerce Department authority to write rules to bar transactions with foreigners in cloud computing products or services, if a foreigner uses them for cyber attacks. "What we have seen in this space is that...an individual will rent thousands of pieces of this infrastructure inside the United States and resell them to actors who then abuse them," a senior administration official told Reuters. "This provides the Secretary of Commerce the ability to say...' There is no reason for you to continue to have access to the nation's products,'" the person added, noting the restrictions could apply to jurisdictions as well as people and companies. The order also requires the agency to write rules in six months for U.S. providers of Infrastructure as a Service, a type of cloud computing, to verify the identity of foreigners with whom they do business and keep certain records.
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Actually, Homosexuals are allowed to to pray and be full and active members of many mainstream churches. Even the Churches that will not perform Gay Marriages, while they may not recognize the marriages, they welcome the people into their community.
For churches that area against Gay Marriages, it is often considered the same level of offense as Having Sex Before Marriage, Getting Married to a non-christian, in the other church, even in some churches using birth control.
Being that Sex is a taboo in our cul
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God may forgive you, but people won't.
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That is false. I'm not a Christian but am aware that the belief structure condemns homosexuality as a sin while also having a doctrine from the Christ figure to invite sinners into the church rather than excluding them. That is the crux of the Mary Magdalene story. My step-father was a minister so I saw this in practice. The church works towards the goal of bringing people to Christ not excluding everyone who isn't there.
Everyone seems to equate Christians with a handful of nutball fundamentalists in Texas
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A handful of nutball fundamentalists only in Texas? How many millions of fundamentalists do you think voted for the con artist in November despite him being an adulterer, according to the Bible, or bearing false witness against others?
When you can get those millions under control to live what they claim to believe, then we can talk about not lumping all Christians in one group.
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I don't think your millions exist.
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Anglicans aren't mainstream? WTF are you smoking? Since when in the British state religion no longer mainstream?
Do you know even the first thing about the world's religions?
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It's not the British State religion. Only England and Wales (and Ireland but they are not part of Britain and Roman Catholicism maintained a strong presence there).
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Why? For better or worse the bible is a pretty big influence on Western culture. I doubt all of the ancients who went to the temple of Aphrodite were there to pray.
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They are a lot of Religious people, including Religious Liberals. Who tend to not be in your face religious.
Re: It's so funny (Score:1)
The bible is a collection of 5500 year old moral teachings and pre-sciencd explanations for nature, that sadly got cargo culted down about 183 steps of Chinese telephone game, and not updated with any new knowlede.
As a healthy person free from schizoid illnesses, I can calmly see it as a good idea at the time, but severely outdated, and not even followed correctly. (Turn the other cheek anyone? No clothes made of two threads anyone?)
If one doesn't have the mental skills or strength to learn, understand, acc
Re: It's so funny (Score:1)
Uh ok. Atheist here. Your very one sided view of the Bible is "interesting". Yes there are a ton of both disturbing and hilarious stories in the Bible but I'm pretty sure NO ONE is concerned today about 2 threads or the other crazy stuff in it.
Otoh, people are just animals until taught better. I'm a big fan of teaching the basics like, oh, say, don't murder people, don't steal, don't treat old people like shit, don't rape your neighbors. Since we don't teach morals in school and I don't think governmen
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We could do a whole lot worse.
but we could a lot better, there are a lot of philosophy books for example. It would be a lot better to teach kids from those in school and let them think about it for themselves(instead of filling their heads with dogma)
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Uh ok. Atheist here. Your very one sided view of the Bible is "interesting". Yes there are a ton of both disturbing and hilarious stories in the Bible but I'm pretty sure NO ONE is concerned today about 2 threads or the other crazy stuff in it.
Yes, but somehow the Bible stories are more funny when you illustrate them with Lego dioramas: http://thebricktestament.com/t... [thebricktestament.com]
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Part of the problem I find with most religions, is the fact that most of the Masses are for the Mass group of people. So they are often overly simplified to help reach a larger audience. The Bible taken with a historical context, with newer evidence of historical truths, as well connecting new interpretations and new philosophies is often part of the Priests/Ministers studies. In which they often have a much broader explanation and breath on such teaching far more than Just the Bible, including other r
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He probably knows the bible better than most Christians.
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You should put "Christians" in quotes. Evangelicals have cherry-picked the Bible and follow the rule-centric Old Testament more than the New Testament, the one that actually features Christ, the person who Christianity is named after. Evangelicals should call themselves "Pre-Christians". They want to turn back the clock on civilization AND the Bible.
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There was an evangelical conference that Trump was going to speak at. The speaker before him talked about how the important message in the Bible was love above all else. When Trump rose to speak next, he said he was sorry but disagreed and then proceeded to claim that Pelosi obviously never prays for him and is merely lying, etc, etc, etc. Trump can't even pretend to be a Christian when he tries. He doesn't even understand the 2rd grade Sunday school version.
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Many of his supporters acknowledge he says really whacky crap; but their reply is often: "As long as gets his agenda done, I don't care much what comes out his mouth." (Unfortunately that agenda is often is xenophobic or only benefits the rich, but that's the standard staple of the GOP.)
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I had a gay friend in grad school who used to be a priest. At one point he challenged someone who was reciting Bible verses at him that he has read the New Testament in the original Aramaic and if this critic would like to hold a debate using this Aramaic version he was willing to do so.
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Really? Because the oldest versions we have of most of the New Testament are in Greek and most scholars believe that was the language it was originally written in.
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Whoops, Old Testament. It's used primarily in 4 books olf the Old Testament. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
*Ostensibly* (Score:3)
Even on the last fucking day, news organisations persist with this good faith lens.
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Just remember: Foreigners bad. Mmmmkay?
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Re: *Ostensibly* (Score:2)
It's a contraction from "last full day".
Everyone but you understood that.
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I see what you did here. I made a point about the naïveté of good faith lenses on bad faith actions, and you chose to provide an illustrated example. Clever
As Trump leaves Washington in disgrace (Score:1, Interesting)
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I'm pretty sure Obama delegated that task.
Bye Felicia (Score:3)
You're Fired!
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Because a mob of morons attempted a coup a couple of weeks ago, and vowed more attempts. Coups are no laughing matter.
Example?
It will totally change everyting. (Score:2)
Totally. I swear. --.--
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I was born in the 60’s. Trump is literally the worst leader I have seen in any Western country in my lifetime.
He benefited mostly from Obama’s economics. Trump is responsible for 400,000 American deaths on his watch. He has deliberately lied endlessly, stirred up fear and violence, given comfort to foreign dictators. He has used the N@zi playbook to undermine faith in the press and institutions of what was once viewed as the worlds shining example of democracy.
By all means, keep up the hand wavi
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Trump is responsible for 400,000 American deaths on his watch. .
[blah blah blah]... The rest of your diatribe isn't worth responding to .
I'll just leave it like this, together with your username.
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The ridiculous editorialized headlines we've seen the past four years prove you right.
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"Trump is responsible for 400,000 American deaths on his watch."
To be fair, ~100k of those would have died with the best pandemic management. That means he only has 300k dead's blood on his hands.
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"Trump is responsible for 400,000 American deaths on his watch."
To be fair, ~100k of those would have died with the best pandemic management. That means he only has 300k dead's blood on his hands.
give him time; give him time. Remember it will take weeks for Biden to begin to have an effect and months till we can truly Judge. Remember also that the Republican Governors are primed to make trouble. Trump can still get another few hundred thousand needless deaths, even if you ignore the economic ones he's also responsible for.
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Australia 900 deaths in 24 million. The US 400,000 in 330 million. Let’s say the population of the US is roughly 14X Australia. 12,600 deaths at the same rate.
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Ah, but to some people they see good things, somehow. Ok 3 conservative judges, and so some honestly are expecting Roe v Wade to be overturned any minute now. He instituted tariffs hurting our own economy, but some are honestly thinking "boy, we really put the heat on China and Europe!" He rolled back government, intentionally placing inept heads of deaprtments in place, and some people honestly think that an inept government is the best government, no plan for covid is better than a government plan, and
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The 400,000 dead would like a word with you about ending lockdowns.
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Because it was a legitimate election. There was fraud but only sporadic and inconsequential like every election, and Trump lost fair and square. The security is only there because of the crazy Trump fans who stormed the capitol to cause violence, and because of clear and palpable ongoing threats that Trump was egging on.
Just because one side loses an election does not mean democracy has failed. The fact that there is competition for political office means that democracy has actually won.
And who gives a cr
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Hmm, that seems a stretch given that there are no socialists with significant power in the country. We have some social democrats of course, but even they are a bit sidelined. Or are you going by the alternative definition of socialist which is "anyone who did not vote for Trump"?
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To say the US starts wars is a gross misrepresentation of the role of the US military in the world. The US didn't start the wars in the Middle East. This was entirely the making of Saddam Hussein when he invaded Kuwait. What followed was terrorism by Islamic extremists, which the world is still fighting off. Trump did go after a top Iranian Military General in Baghdad in case you forgot. So the fight is still ongoing, but to say the US started the wars is just nuts.
Trump was the unhappiest president I have
Trump econ myth (Score:3)
BS! The trendlines on the economy's main indicators have been the same since 2011. You can't even tell T existed looking at the charts, despite a debt-inducing stimulus (before Covid). We should have been paying down debt during the boom to prepare for rainy days. Keynesian is common sense: "save up for a rainy day". T did the opposite.
His econ plan was Xmas for the rich: trickle up.
But got Iran making nukes again.
Actually he DID start a new war: in the US. We mu
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He started no new wars
Seriously - how effed up is a country when this is the prime demonstration of leadership quality?
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I assume this extremely pro-Trump person thinks this fact is so important that he's moving to New Zealand.
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Sad people are modding down the "He started no new wars" fact. Obama started seven.
Trying to punish Amazon (Score:1)
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Amazon isn't a foreign actor. But a computer hacker in Toronto possibly renting a large volume of instances from an American provider to then cache all of Parler would probably considered a foreign actor.
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Trump has been on a jihad against Amazon from before he was president. He hates Bezos with a passion. Well, a lot of us dislike him but really don't take it to a personal vendetta level. Trump holds grudges, and anyone who doesn't see that hasn't been paying attention.
Let's make America great again! (Score:1)
The best thing that Trump could do for his legacy and begin the process of making America great again would be a full pardon for Snowden & Assange.
As long as whistle-blowing patriots are wanted fugitives, exiled from their homeland, America will not be great.
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Does this impact Parler? (Score:2, Interesting)
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Trump...last day in office (Score:1)
"Trump...last day in office"
That's a beautiful phrase!
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Yes, comrade.
What's the small print? (Score:2)
trumps actions (Score:2)
ironic.
given this morons comprehension of even the most basic understanding of the mechanics of elementary processes.