So Hillary used her own server - which only she and her staff had control over.
Colin Powell used an AOL account. Who knows how many AOL admins and support staff in how many countries had access. Is that supposed to be better? A public server is more secure than a private one?
Yes, Clinton was no different than the previous two Republican Secretaries of State and many other prominent Republicans using their own email servers. The Bush II White House on the other hand wasn't allowed to use private email servers.
AC's "we just deleted all those emails yesterday and wiped the hard drives" claim is pure Republican mythology. Pointing this out isn't being partisan. It's being honest.
To be clear: It wasn't just some Anonymous Coward making the claim - you had President Trump and other Republican White House officials chanting "lock her up" over it.
You never saw any equivalent over Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice's private servers. Or Bush II, Cheney, Rove and the rest at the White House. Or 2016 Republican candidates Jeb!, Scott Walker, Marco Rubio, Chris Christie, Rick Perry and Bobby Jindal each with their own email scandals. Nor Mitt Romney.
The FCC is directed by five commissioners appointed by the President, so it's the politicians who get the blame. But that still that means that the FCC staff must implement and defend the policies of those political appointees, however corrupt.
The FCC is like a beanbag chair. It's shaped by the ass of the last person who sat on it. Now Trump sits on it, leaving an Ajit Pei shaped impression.
If anything this situation is *disproof* of your claim.
No registration or verification was involved. There was no government or bank ID to fake. There was no polling station oversight by opposing parties. You know, all the things standard in any election to ensure that any fraud is detected.
And even then, without all that, the fraud was trivially easy to detect and document.
Chess or Poker, Baseball or Basketball, the Justice system or the Economy... Without rules (a.k.a. "regulations") and effective enforcement, what you're left with just doesn't work.
(Hell -- eventually we figured out that even full out War is worse for everyone, without some regulation. )
But I'm sure you actually believe what you wrote. And I'm sure this post will be flagged as abusive for saying so.
Neither did the last federal election, but that doesn't mean it's not important.
Sure, the FCC should rely on common sense, expert advice and experience. But they're not doing that. Faked popularity is about the only thing between them and demands that they be thrown in jail on corruption charges.
It matters because *every* criminal dishonestly tries to justify their actions. In this case they try to dishonestly justify it with "it's what the public wants."
Let them get away with it, and it'll keep happening.
The FCC has eleven Staff Offices. The FCC's Offices provide support services to the Bureaus.
The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) recommends policies to prevent fraud in agency operations. The Inspector General recommends corrective action where appropriate, referring criminal matters to the United States Department of Justice for potential prosecution.
Have they done so? Or did Pai have their door bricked shut and wallpapered over with everyone in it?
Yup. A bicycle-powered generator is only suitable in an emergency that no-one prepared for, even in a third-world country. From a conversation on the subject on one of the sci.space Usenet groups a long time ago:
I had a US Navy diver on an ergometer putting out over 800 Watts for 20 minutes, but real humans can generate about 200 W for extended periods. That's a KWHr every 5 hours, for a retail value of 12 cents. It's just plain silly to consider the economic reality of human power.
...the major ISPs with their monopoly pricing, low bandwidth and usage caps are protecting the earth from the massive energy waste - and privacy loss - of giving everyone unfettered access to those server farms!
Net Neutrality would have led to a vast number of content providers needing server farms, rather than a select few. Ajit Pai is a superhero for defeating this evil.
That claim doesn't line up with reality very well.
It's based on the 2002 New Jersey Childproof Handgun Bill, requiring that all guns sold in New Jersey have a mechanism to prevent unauthorized users from firing it, taking effect three years after such a smart gun is approved by the state. All efforts to introduce a smart gun anywhere in the US are met with protests, the NRA arguing that allowing them anywhere would trigger the law.
Except that the NRA's opposition to smart guns predates that law by several years. The NRA and its membership boycotted Smith & Wesson in 1999 because the company was developing a smart gun.
And they've gone to war against smart gun sales in other states, even though the Attorney General of New Jersey determined that sales elsewhere wouldn't trigger the New Jersey mandate.
Still, it's better than one would expect. When you consider NRA opposition to smart handguns, you'd expect them to launch a jihad against any smart handgun safe that didn't act like a guns and ammo piƱata.
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So Hillary used her own server - which only she and her staff had control over.
Colin Powell used an AOL account. Who knows how many AOL admins and support staff in how many countries had access. Is that supposed to be better? A public server is more secure than a private one?
Rice got classified information in her private account too. The argument for her is that she didn't do it as much.
They were using private (AOL) servers. LESS secure than private servers under their own control. Bush/Cheney/Rove/Jeb!/etc. used private servers too.
It wasn't a fuss because IOKIYAR. "It's OK If You're A Republican."
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Spare us YOUR partisan attitude.
Yes, Clinton was no different than the previous two Republican Secretaries of State and many other prominent Republicans using their own email servers. The Bush II White House on the other hand wasn't allowed to use private email servers.
AC's "we just deleted all those emails yesterday and wiped the hard drives" claim is pure Republican mythology. Pointing this out isn't being partisan. It's being honest.
To be clear: It wasn't just some Anonymous Coward making the claim - you had President Trump and other Republican White House officials chanting "lock her up" over it.
You never saw any equivalent over Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice's private servers. Or Bush II, Cheney, Rove and the rest at the White House. Or 2016 Republican candidates Jeb!, Scott Walker, Marco Rubio, Chris Christie, Rick Perry and Bobby Jindal each with their own email scandals. Nor Mitt Romney.
Heck, even after all the Trump team "lock her up" chanting, they immediately started using private email servers for government business too.
YOU are being partisan, with your false equivalencies.
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The FCC is directed by five commissioners appointed by the President, so it's the politicians who get the blame. But that still that means that the FCC staff must implement and defend the policies of those political appointees, however corrupt.
The FCC is like a beanbag chair. It's shaped by the ass of the last person who sat on it. Now Trump sits on it, leaving an Ajit Pei shaped impression.
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Re: Someone asked..
No registration or verification was involved. There was no government or bank ID to fake. There was no polling station oversight by opposing parties. You know, all the things standard in any election to ensure that any fraud is detected.
And even then, without all that, the fraud was trivially easy to detect and document.
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Re: Good Job
As BernardoVerda wrote in another topic:
But I'm sure you actually believe what you wrote. And I'm sure this post will be flagged as abusive for saying so.
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Neither did the last federal election, but that doesn't mean it's not important.
Sure, the FCC should rely on common sense, expert advice and experience. But they're not doing that. Faked popularity is about the only thing between them and demands that they be thrown in jail on corruption charges.
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Let them get away with it, and it'll keep happening.
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Wikipedia: FCC: Offices
Have they done so? Or did Pai have their door bricked shut and wallpapered over with everyone in it?
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Yup. A bicycle-powered generator is only suitable in an emergency that no-one prepared for, even in a third-world country. From a conversation on the subject on one of the sci.space Usenet groups a long time ago:
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But... but... that means...
Net Neutrality would have led to a vast number of content providers needing server farms, rather than a select few. Ajit Pai is a superhero for defeating this evil.
Good to know.
/s?
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I shall complain to Congress!
Oh. Wait....
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It's based on the 2002 New Jersey Childproof Handgun Bill, requiring that all guns sold in New Jersey have a mechanism to prevent unauthorized users from firing it, taking effect three years after such a smart gun is approved by the state. All efforts to introduce a smart gun anywhere in the US are met with protests, the NRA arguing that allowing them anywhere would trigger the law.
Except that the NRA's opposition to smart guns predates that law by several years. The NRA and its membership boycotted Smith & Wesson in 1999 because the company was developing a smart gun.
And they've gone to war against smart gun sales in other states, even though the Attorney General of New Jersey determined that sales elsewhere wouldn't trigger the New Jersey mandate.
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Aw, c'mon...
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As I wrote, that may not have been important before, but it will be now.
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