Posts by Long John Baldrick

Please see what Cuomo dir with COVID and senior ctizins

Just because Trump my be a {insert favorite words here} he is NOT the only {insert favorite words here} politician in the USA. And he is a Democrat.

Expecting lots of flame And down votes.

Re: In the light of Brexit...

I know that you hate the man, but please put Trumps comments in the context of the speeach.

First a quick background:

From USA Today: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/05/17/ms-13-donald-trump-gang-violence-animals-immigrants-media-column/621537002/

“Street gang MS-13, infamous for vicious machete killings, is first to be declared an international criminal group.” That’s a headline from the Daily Mail in 2012.

“The gratuitous acts of violence these now-convicted gang members committed were intended to spread fear.” That’s a description from acting U.S. Attorney John Horn about a 2015 murder conviction in Georgia.

“Video of the mutilated bodies was sent to a girlfriend of one of the victims.” “She was walking home one evening with Nisa, a basketball teammate one day shy of her 16th birthday, when MS-13 members spotted them and attacked with a machete and baseball bats.” “A large butcher knife, a bloodstained baseball hat and three 9mm handguns were also found in the car.”

Those are all different incidents. All MS-13.

Trumps Comments: From https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-california-sanctuary-state-roundtable/

SHERIFF MIMS: Thank you. There could be an MS-13 member I know about — if they don’t reach a certain threshold, I cannot tell ICE about it.

THE PRESIDENT: We have people coming into the country, or trying to come in — and we’re stopping a lot of them — but we’re taking people out of the country. You wouldn’t believe how bad these people are. These aren’t people. These are animals. And we’re taking them out of the country at a level and at a rate that’s never happened before. And because of the weak laws, they come in fast, we get them, we release them, we get them again, we bring them out. It’s crazy.

MS13 is not what I want in my neighborhood. For that matter neither is Trump- security would be hellish. The problem precedes President and will exist long after he in no longer president. But that doesn't mean that they should be unopposed by the legal community.

Permanent

Other than executions, nothing a government does is permanent. Not even the US Constitution - it has been amended 27 times. Laws are much easier to amend or revoke or rewrite. Congress could, if it so chooses, change the way debt is scored by the CBO, or simply pass a bill stating that the same tax cuts just issued will be passed again every year to keep those tax cuts "permanent". For another 10 years. Likewise Congress and President can(and will) change tax laws for corporations.

Re: Did they also say that...

I missed the obvious comment. They won't SELL the list but they WILL charge to have analytical programs run on their servers. That way they can look GOOD but be EVIL.

Re: Elections - but no free speech

Bad: Hillary vs Trump

Worse: Cruz vs Bernie

Evil: Bob vs Ted vs Alice vs Hashim vs Schlomo vs Ito Vs ..........

Majority of what? All voters, just the ones who voted, jst the ones who did not have their voting rights not denied, all voters who voted and were legally entitled to vote? Just those who voted on paper ballots, or online, or or or. Election reform should start with all votes in a Presidental Election being cast on the same type of system, with a fully auditable record, with randomn audits of entire precincts, full audits of precincts that have outlier characteristics. And much much more.

Elections without truly free speech are a sham. Should an individual care about a single issue enough to spend a great deal or small deal of money on trying to raise public awareness of it they should be allowed to.

By the way, it is a REPRESENTATIVE democracy. It even says it on the tin.

Re: Sounds great - A project managers document

This project kickoff document outlines who does what on the macro-governmental scale. Each department will produce documents of what each systems vulnerabilites are and how they are going to be remediated. Given that President Trump does have expertise in dealing with the interlocking dependencies of the construction of large buildings, he is identifying issues and tasking individuals and departments with producing project plans that will guide the way forward.

Enforced conscription - perhaps triremes?

Brings back some of the old navy practices. Of course, they will have to be longer to accomadate...

Re: So ...

Winter Is Icumen In...

Re: Pot, meet kettle

@DougS

Do not forget that Michigan's vote recount rules only allow recounts when the number of ballots in the ballot box equals the number of votes tallied by the voting machine. Approx. one-third of the districts in Wayne County (Detroit) could not be recounted.

As neither a staunch Republican or Democrat ( Independent in the sense that I switch parties in the primaries to try to influence the results for a candidate I like or against a candidate I don't) Wayne County is predominantly Democratic. And local politicians do control the voting districts, de facto not de juro.

I do believe that all voting machines need to haver a paper record. And even more importantly, the results of the elections should be audited in each precinct in each state. Thie audit cannnot be done in time to affect the Electoral College ( it is hard enough to get a simple recount done in that time period) so that the entire voting system can be improved.

It is important to fix the voting process, starting with having standardised voting machines that have been audited by many different parties to ensure that votes will be counted consistently across the USA. There are many other parts of the voting process that need to be addresses but this would be a good start.

Re: Wait...

They didn't even do real world testing. From abstract: To do so, we developed a model of SEV's security capabilities based on the available documentation as actual silicon implementations are not yet on the market.

Re: Vote Fraud? Are you CRAAAZY?

If you looked to the source documents you would have found this:

Want to Know if the Election was Hacked? Look at the Ballots

You may have read at NYMag that I’ve been in discussions with the Clinton campaign about whether it might wish to seek recounts in critical states. That article, which includes somebody else’s description of my views, incorrectly describes the reasons manually checking ballots is an essential security safeguard (and includes some incorrect numbers, to boot). Let me set the record straight about what I and other leading election security experts have actually been saying to the campaign and everyone else who’s willing to listen.

So you might want to reconsider your statement.

Re: 2B) or not.

I was trying to rent an apt/flat years ago and the landlord call a dear friend of mine who had agreed to be a reference. He caught her in the middle of an experiment she was doing(using a fair amount radioactive iodine) and said "Well, he's not a serial killer". I still got the apt/flat.

Re: It's really quite impressive.

"Maybe he could be kept around for amusement after the election - make him foreign secretary or something."

Or ambassador to Great Britain. Be careful what you wish for, as they say.

If he becomes President he might make Michael Savage Ambassador to Great Britain.

Authors Bios

Hover over authors name. When info box appears click on authors name. Logical, no?

Re: a confession

Don't you mean the clotted edge of technology?

Re: We're all second guessing...

Just for your information, the block was rebuilt at tremendous taxpayer expense, the builders did a KICKBACK-aided job, and the Fire Department was being shot at by MOVE members so could not get close enough to be effective.

Re: He is the 506th person to die in a police shooting this year in the Land of the FreeTM

Ten officers shot at Dallas protest against police shootings

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/protesters-nationwide-hit-the-streets-against-police-shootings/

MD Rackham, from your comments I would assume that you would be ecstatic about this

Well if Herr Trump takes over there won't be a discovery phase at Gitmo for all Democrats and then the Muslims.

FTFY