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ZDNet: Company shuts down because of ransomware, leaves 300 without jobs just before holidays
by jim bell 04 Jan '20

04 Jan '20

ZDNet: Company shuts down because of ransomware, leaves 300 without jobs just before holidays. https://www.zdnet.com/article/company-shuts-down-because-of-ransomware-leav… Jim Bell's comments: Why not have an AP-like system set up to target ransomware pirates? Traditional law-enforcement systems haven't demonstrated much ability to solve that problem. Enforcing laws against such actions, especially across national borders, is difficult. There are probably thousands of people with the computer skills to attempt this, but they may not have the motivation. Or, they hesitate to stand up and take credit for their accomplishment.

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Mega Triggers of the 2010s - [PEACE]
by Zigga da Trigga N.gga 04 Jan '20

04 Jan '20

Trigger warning: "trigger warnings" may be mentioned in this email, and all trigger warnings, let alone triggers, have been declared, in and of themselves, triggers: https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/06/trigger-warning-everday-feminism/ The rest of the inglorious list: The Most Absurd PC Moments Of The 2010s https://www.zerohedge.com/political/most-absurd-pc-moments-2010s https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/12/most-absurd-politically-correct-mome…

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Repeat of the XYZ Affair?
by Ryan Carboni 04 Jan '20

04 Jan '20

Something reminded me of the XYZ Affair, something I read from the chapters of my history textbook that my middle school class skipped. No one is going to condemn our government for behaving like the old corrupt monarchies that the American spirit inherently despises. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_inquiry_against_Donald_Trump Sondland, Volker, and Perry, who called themselves the "three amigos" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XYZ_Affair An American diplomatic commission was sent to France in July 1797 to negotiate a solution to problems that were threatening to break out into war. The diplomats, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, John Marshall, and Elbridge Gerry, were approached through informal channels by agents of the French foreign minister, Talleyrand, who demanded bribes and a loan before formal negotiations could begin. Although such demands were not uncommon in mainland European diplomacy of the time, the Americans were offended by them, and eventually left France without ever engaging in formal negotiations.

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AP
by \0xDynamite 04 Jan '20

04 Jan '20

I also just realized that we're using a word that triggers the Echelon system. DUMBASSES!!! \0xd

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America is a nation of immigrants
by Ryan Carboni 04 Jan '20

04 Jan '20

America is a nation of immigrants, there are two common reasons for people to immigrate to America. The first reason is when people who have the unfortunate problem of speaking their mind had to leave for one reason or another. The second reason are those who believe America is the land of opportunity (which is only valid if you were born in a medieval dirt hovel and think anything is better than that). There is only government for people like that, and it certainly doesn't involve a rotating clique of genitalia evaluated to be exquisite. The past fifty years revealed what options are available, and they are all terrible. The current leaders don't care that events escalated to any point, they don't care about any desired aims, and they don't care about anything but protecting their positions, even if the chance that they would be removed will remain at zero.

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The Aryan stock is bound to triumph!
by Punk-Stasi 2.0 03 Jan '20

03 Jan '20

https://winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour/finest-hour-159/wsc-a… https://crimesofbritain.com/2016/09/13/the-trial-of-winston-churchill

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OFFTOPIC: cops parody
by \0xDynamite 03 Jan '20

03 Jan '20

https://youtu.be/KDuU3bzMZhY

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I don't need an editor
by Ryan Carboni 03 Jan '20

03 Jan '20

I don't need an editor, particularly one who thinks two things are equivalent only in a smirking sense. I doubt this is a situation one should implicitly trust the law at its word. There have been supreme court cases on who can make final decisions on publication, but those don't apply because they are inconvenient and don't deal with exactly the same matter.

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Re: Clean Coal?
by Ryan Carboni 03 Jan '20

03 Jan '20

Given that most if not all conspiracy theories come from the US government to make other groups look bad or confuse the situation, it becomes very easy to eschew responsibility in everything. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair Canham-Clyne argued that for the "national security state", the law was an obstacle to be surmounted rather than something to uphold and that the Iran–Contra affair was just "business as usual", something he asserted that the media missed by focusing on the NSC having "gone operational."

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Clean Coal?
by Ryan Carboni 03 Jan '20

03 Jan '20

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquatic_Species_Program What is the energy return on investment when extreme weather events double, wells become brackish, the Great Plains becomes the American Sahara, etc.... But there are think tanks thinking about what to do afterward, nothing about prevention. Well it doesn't matter, for some reason Iran released their hostages when Reagan inaugurated, and then the US sold Iran anti air missiles which weigh half a tonne each. Whatever is going on is never going to make sense, beyond a massive case of procrastination.

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