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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (66336)	4/12/2018 1:20:06 PM
From: Bill	1 Recommendation Recommended By i-node Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361775

And those poor cell phones and iPads... not a single one survived the hammer beating they received after the emails had been subpoenaed.

To: i-node who wrote (66336)	4/12/2018 1:27:13 PM
From: bentway	1 Recommendation Recommended By Bill Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 361775

GOP Has Lost All Credibility on Fiscal Responsibility Political Wire by Taegan Goddard John Harwood: “The business model of the modern Republican Party does not produce real-world budget discipline. So today, GOP lawmakers turn to make-believe.” “Within the last four months, the Republican president and party leaders in Congress took two actions that dramatically expand federal deficits. On a party-line vote, they cut taxes by $150 billion a year, then increased spending by $150 billion a year in cooperation with Democrats.” “Now, as the Congressional Budget Office projects the return of $1 trillion annual deficits, congressional Republicans plan a gesture for constituents alarmed by rising debt. The House will vote on Thursday on a constitutional amendment requiring lawmakers to balance the federal budget.”

To: i-node who wrote (66336)	4/12/2018 3:44:19 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361775

I just can't really envision a Sec/State getting involved by saying, "I want my email to come to a server in a broom closet at a facility I control Surely no one ever had a goal of putting a server in a broom closet. But the goal of email expeditiously delivered 24/7 on a convenient device or set of devices in a convenient format is understandable. And if her in-house folks couldn't offer that, I can see her thinking that she'd just find someone who could meet her requirements and that's what the someone came up with. There's no way she'd have the expertise to specify functional or technical requirements beyond her own interface with the system. She'd be like those senators trying to envision regulations for Facebook, just out of her element. Not saying that's what happened, only that I could easily see it happening that way. [The facility where I live recently had a site developed for in-house use. They also got an outfit to set up campus-wide wi-fi. You can tell by the product that they just didn't know what to ask for or how to evaluate what they got or how to write a contract for it or what to look for in a contractor. If you don't know, you don't know.] [My condo had a 22 ft ceiling in the living room. The living room and loft presented a heat distribution problem. I had seen ceiling fans used to distribute heat so I hired an electrician and told him what outcome I expected, iow, functional requirements. I knew how to do functional requirements. I expected him to know his business and either come up with a design to meet them or tell me it was unfeasible. This was back before everybody had ceiling fans and you could buy all sorts of styles at Home Depot. So, the ugly industrial fan went in and the first thing I noticed was that it spun like a dervish and blew cold air. So he grumbled at my complaint and added a rheostat. But the ceiling was just too high to make a difference in the temperature and the fan was so juiced up that my electric meter spun like the dervish as did my head when I saw the electric bill. IOW, the design wasn't feasible. I lived there forty years and only used the fan a few times, for cooling. When it comes to technology, if you don't know, you don't know. ]