Posts by Ian Michael Gumby

Re: Sleep is a Good Thing(TM)

How else do you explain why the extremely high levels of CO2 identified tens of thousands of years ago, far higher than today's concentrations, did not result in an irreversible climate catastrophe?

I blame it on the Dinosaurs and their smoking. Oh wait. That was millions of years ago.

Then I blame it on the massive number of wild buffaloes on the great plains of the US and their massive amount of methane release.

@veti Re: @ Geoffery Sleep is a Good Thing(TM)

Yes, and did you not recognize that many tried to predict the average temperature with models that were just as flawed? Hence the point that both have the same track record.

And in Rapture, even the dead shall rise from their graves. Or something like that.

Again I'm no expert on religion...

@devTrail ... Re: Sooo...

If you have to ask...

Obama blundered in Syria, massively letting Russia and then Iran back a dictator who kills his own people using WMDs.

The whole Ukraine thing?

Yeah... There's a difference.

@Voyna ... Re: Also...

Wow... you really don't know your history.

North Africa?

Casablanca Conference ring a bell?

(Ok unless you're a history buff / nerd, probably not.)

@nematoad ... Re: Also...

I really don't think you want to talk about the world history from the 1930's on...

The US was in a bit of an isolationist mood because they got sucked in to the first world war (great war) and then the ensuing depression.

Yet there were US citizens already in the thick of things long before 1941.

Can you say Flying Tigers?

Or in Spain? (All though... those fighters were considered Communists at the time... )

Re: Freedom Gas...

How many here remember watching this in the movie theater?

That's a little before my time. But I do remember renting the VHS tape of it.

@ Geoffery Re: Sleep is a Good Thing(TM)

No there isn't. Rapture predictors have a 100% failure rate.

How do you know? So far it hasn't happened yet.

And to your point... those who have predicted rapture to have occurred have the same track record as to those predicting the climate changes.

But to blow your mind... (hence the fire ball)

How do you know that it didn't happen already and this is really hell?

At Bombastic ... Re: Sleep is a Good Thing(TM)

The funny thing is that without trying and pulling out of the Paris Accord, the US dropped their CO2 emissions more than many of the countries who signed and still support the Accord.

The reason is that because the Natural Gas is much cheaper than Coal and burns cleaner so the coal fired plants replaced coal w natural gas.

And to answer your question... to mother nature... CO2 isn't an issue. To puny humans who live here... too much is not a good thing.

As to the climate... its cyclical in nature and we're in a warming period.

@Chris G not quite.

The WSJ had a very in depth report on Huewei.

Not at all flattering.

Just ask Motorola.

@jgarbo

Oh yeah, China is so much better. Russia? North Korea? UAE? Saudi Arabia? Syria?

So many more countries and I didn't go to Central and South America, not to mention Cuba.

Of course there is Canada where they have a special torture ... the comfy chair. That's a Monty Python reference.

@Aberglas Re: The rape charges were always bogus

They were not bogus.

They were serious enough that he absconded and created this mess with the help of his then Swedish attorney who admitted so while under cross in the UK. (Timestamp text messages don't lie).

The reason why you didn't see Sweden going to 'interview' Assange in the UK is that the 'interview' was the step required by Swedish law in order to officially charge him with a crime and arrest him. They can't do that on foreign soil. This too came out in the very first of Assange's appeals of the EAW. He lost btw.

Oh and its not just STD but also AIDs. (Yes, I know but there's a distinction in that they are separate tests and examinations.)

Even in the US, in today's climate, sex with an unconscious girl is rape. No way for her to consent. And in Sweden, one of the cases revolves around a girl who consented to sex when he was wearing a condom and she was awake, but was woken by him having sex without a condom which she said no to... (Had he been wearing a condom I guess she would have been fine with it. At least that is what the stories indicated at the time.)

Assange was/is a prat.

What I don't get is why Manning is not willing to testify in front of a Grand Jury. During Manning's article 32 hearing (military equivalent of a Grand Jury) evidence came out that Assange helped Manning with the theft. This evidence never came to trial because Manning plead guilty to those charges so there was no reason to raise this issue. Now Manning dodges the GJ. Why? no double jeopardy could be applied so there's no reason not to testify. Manning is protecting Assange which is what I find interesting.

And also Assange doesn't face the death penalty in any event. He's a co-conspirator and will face less time than Manning was given. He could even end up in a cushy Club Fed and spend his time writing a book.

@AC Re: He didn't expose anything new.

The issue isn't publishing. He could claim to be a journalist and the Ellsberg SCOTUS decision (really New York Times v. United States) gave him some cover to publish this information regardless of content. It gets down to the right of public to know is more important than the secrets.

But the issue in the US is that Assange allegedly took part in the theft.

BTW, not all of the material was public knowledge. Most was banal but there was some operational data that did cost American Servicemen their lives.

@DougS

Perverted DOJ leadership?

Really?

I think you're sorely mistaken.

Look, Trump is Trump. Good, Bad, or Indifferent ... he's done a good job as POTUS. The economy is an example.

In terms of criminal activity while POTUS, the Obama WH has a history of scandals from weaponizing Government Departments. The IRS scandal? Where Lois Lerner plead the 5th and had her deposition sealed? (Lynch declined to pursue charges) Fast and Furious (Eric Holder) and now what we're learning... a cover up of the Clinton email investigation that got tanked, the ensuing coverup and what is now looking like an illegal spying operation on Trump's campaign.

Barr is actually doing his job. He's in the process of restoring the people's trust in the FBI and DOJ.

There's more information about to come out from IG Horowitz who is an Obama appointee.

To make this relevant... Assange knows who gave him the DNC emails. He said it wasn't the Russians. Some have claimed it was Seth Rich who was gunned down in an apparent botched robbery. That's Assange's bargaining chip. It could be his get out of jail free card if he can prove who his source was. (And it could also stop his future at Wikileaks depending on who and how he exposes him/her. )

So lets see what happens, but to be clear, Trump hasn't perverted or corrupted anything. That was done during the previous administration. History will not be kind to Obama and his administration.

Re: Right to stay in the UK?

He goes to Sweden if they present the UK with an EAW.

I seriously doubt the courts would grant him a new round of appeals.

And it will happen probably before he finishes his 50 weeks of jail time in the UK.

He could be brought over, charged, then returned to the UK to finish his prison sentence then back the Sweden to go on trial... something like that.

Then he could go to the US.

Remember he faces the allegations that were brought up during Manning's Article 32 hearing. It never came up in Manning's court martial, so the evidence hasn't been argued at trial.

Its not the publication, but the theft.

@John Brown Re: Ummmm

Ah... no

Under Obama, there was a GJ and supposedly a sealed indictment was written.

And its interesting that the US did it now and not when Assange was back in Australia.

Re: Ummmm

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Re: Ummmm

I don't believe in torture or the death penalty.

Oh I assure you, both are real. So is rape.

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Both are real and rape is real.

Assange will not face tortutre or the death penalty in the US.

That's something that many people forget.

@AC

Want to wager?

If he gets extradited, he'll get less than 15, more likely less than 10 and only serve 5.

But the real kicker is how well he survives prison life, depending on which Federal Pen he gets sent to.

@Len Re: After 50 weeks

Ok, this had been going on for a long time so if my aging memory still works...

I thought he would face the EAW if the Swedes still want him.

There's only one count that they could charge him on... and then its a question of if its worth it. Since many moons have passed, memories have faded and people have moved on with their lives. Do they want to dredge up all of this? I don't know and I'm not going to second guess that.

But my point is that if Sweden wants him, they take him. At the end... they return him back to the UK and then the US could nab him.

And the US could grab him in the UK, Sweden or Australia. When all said and done, he's still an Aussie citizen traveling on an Aussie passport, so he will eventually end up there.

(Remember... he wanted to return to Australia to visit his ol mum... (Read some of the articles in the CBS [Aussie news])

And since the Death Penalty is off the table and we know its going to be just straight prison time... there's not really much he can fight.

That said... how he behaves in prison is going to determine how well he survives.

@DevTrain ... Re: It makes no sense

Uh no, it makes perfect sense.

Look, MBAs and Cloud slingers tell you to do a TCO for 3years or less.

But when you do a TCO for 5 years... the results flip.

I'm actually sitting on a client site that has something like this in place. (I won't say the company or the vendor due to NDAs and such)

For them in some applications it makes sense.

The other thing to consider is bare metal w K8 and Docker. While this is still immature... its the future.

BTW think of it this way... you can choose to own a home, or rent. If you move around and don't have the capital to invest, renting makes sense. (Until it doesn't) If you have the capital and can afford the mortgage and are not planning to move around ... owning makes sense.

You just need to look at it from a different perspective.

@Boiled ...

Huh?

Sorry, but yes. Private clouds do exist. Can't say where due to NDAs and other legal handcuffs.

The US Government could cut some of their expenditures in half if they did this rather than fight to go to the cloud like AWS.

But that will take some smart people while the only people going in to politics look to line their pockets and you have to wonder who's funding their campaigns.

@JohnFen not Retro at all... Re: HPE deja vu

Ah yes, I remember TimeNet and 110 / 300 baud modems. Long before most here were even a twinkle in their mom and pops eyes.

The reason you saw this was that computers were big, and expensive. Back in the 90's I was at a client's where they just retired some drum drives. (Yes, I am not kidding. The things were huge and had less storage than your phone has today.) But I digress. Many companies could not afford mainframes or even minis. So they leased time on machines because that was all that they could afford.

AWS got started because they needed more Horsepower during peak season and then they wanted to make use of that excess capacity.

I agree that the concept used by AWS isn't new, but its not retro.

But like the cost of computing dropping to the point where people can take their stuff in house... that too is also coming. Its still a few years out, but Google's new release of on Prem Cloud software offering may help.

@James Smith ... not even close.

Look, Trump is Trump. I get that... but put his personality aside.

In 2013, Obama's WH w the CIA and FBI loosened the restrictions on who can unmask identities and conversations. Add to this the ability to look at any foreign individual's communications w US Citizens.

(Easy to get through FISC request since it is on a foreigner and not a US citizen.)

US Citizen is caught up in the net. Now you request a FISA warrant to detail said citizen based on communication with foreign individual. Now you can listen in to said individual and any conversation.

Seems far fetched, the US Government using the FISC to back door surveillance of a US Citizen, am I right? Only it did happen. Not just to Trump but to a reporter from Fox News a few years before Trump.

Just think about it for a second. Spying on the opposing party's presidential candidate is far worse than Watergate. Much worse. There's more but you first need to understand what happened and wrap your minds around it.

@AC Re: Let’s get this straight

Sorry mate, but you seem to be the one drinking the cool aide.

Too bad you just can't see it.

@AC Re: The Mueller report was one big nothingburger

Bingo.

All the Dems have done is 'resist'. While they 'resisted' Trump has improved the economy, addressed illegal immigration, trade, and even prison reform.

Now think about what he could have accomplished with the Dems actually doing their job?

DACA would have been fixed. So much more.

The sad thing... most of Trump's successes was removing most of Obama's follies that have hurt the US.

I didn't vote for Trump, (or Clinton) but as an independent, he's done a lot of good for the country that many with TDS have ignored.

@AC Re: The Mueller report was one big nothingburger

You do realize that Hillary Clinton's emails are a matter of national security and the fact that the Russians, Chinese and other governments are most likely in possession of them.

In fact the ICIG reported to Strzok (FBI) that they found evidence of a Chinese hack on her server.

(It was ignored by Strzok).

Had this not been Clinton, it would have meant 20 years for a violation of the Espionage Act under Gross Negligence. (And before any commentard tries to say there's a lack of intent, read the statute as well as tell me how you can intend to be grossly negligent. )

There's more, but I'll let you wrap your head around that for a bit.

DavCravRe: The Mueller report was one big nothingburger

Son put down that crack pipe.

You have no clue about American politics. Bernie is as far left as you can get without being a Communist.

The only thing you can say about Bernie is that he actually believes in what he's saying.

@Hawkeye ... Re: The Mueller report was one big nothingburger

You must not be a yank. Nor have been following the news on this.

The lawyers (14 lawyers plus staff) were working on the case.

All had given to the Democratic party. Several attended Clinton's 'victory party' the night of the election which she lost. One was in fact a lawyer for Clinton.

It was the most biased witch hunt against Trump. This is a fact that no one can deny. One lawyer should have been disbarred for his work on Enron. I kid you not.

Which means when the Mueller report says not one single shred of evidence tying Trump to Russia in terms of collusion, you can believe it.

In terms of obstruction... You can blame Trump for Mueller adding the now famous line that the report doesn't exonerate him.