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Captainant

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  1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-lawyer-ty-cobb-is-exiting-and-will-be-replaced-by-clinton-impeachment-attorney-emmet-flood/2018/05/02/96da63b8-4e26-11e8-84a0-458a1aa9ac0a_story.html?utm_term=.501b7bef1c09

    "White House lawyer Ty Cobb, who served as the administration’s point person in dealing with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, is stepping down and will be replaced by veteran white-collar defense attorney Emmet Flood, according to senior administration officials.

    Flood, a partner at Williams & Connolly, was interviewed by President Trump in March. He served as special counsel in the George W. Bush administration and represented President Bill Clinton during House proceedings to impeach him."

    Well tweet didn't age well, went stale after just five mooches

    I wonder if he'll complain about his lawyer working for the clintons before lmao

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  2. Dumped a shitload of time into battletech over the weekend while my fiance is doing finals study - this game scratches the itch of playing a long-running tabletop campaign and the aspects of managing a merc company in between missions (mech repair and refitting, pilot training and health, system travel to contracts) are really deep and interesting. There are definitely some performance issues for the game as it's built in unity but I hope it'll get more stable/faster with time.

    I'm playing it mostly as just a campaign game right now, but I'd imagine it's a fantastic way to play battletech online. They did an excellent job adapting the rules to a computer game and tweaking things where it doesn't quite make sense to carry over the old TT rules. If you're in to the tabletop game, you will absolutely be into this game and I'd strongly recommend it.

  3. 24 minutes ago, SmokeyBear1861 said:

    He's that bad eh? Never heard of Mensch or PalmerReport.

    Theres so many leftie propaganda outlets it's tough to know, my all time fav is center for American progress though. Soros lil baby.

    What, not enough sexual assault and dogwhistle for your flavor of """news""" organization?

  4. 2 minutes ago, Fozzz said:

    Well, just doing away with popular elections altogether would be one way of addressing the Trump issue.  I won't argue that point.

    You should probably make a thread for this topic and stop derailing this one. There's significant trump news happening that you're drowning out, my dude

  5. It's an interesting decision to invoke the 5th in a civil case since that CAN be used in the decision making process by the jury. I get that he won't be held in contempt since a statement in the civil case could be used against him in the criminal case (McCarthy v. Arndstein), but it really fucks up this civil case which will lead to even more shit tumbling out down the line. Man, he's a shitty lawyer lmao

  6. 14 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    So was Comey.  His actions WRT the handling of the Clinton investigation were directly influenced by a Russian intelligence operation.

    Yeah handing the election to trump was the result of Russian meddling right?? Keep on carrying that water and debasing yourself friendo

  7. I'm curious to see if the rockets tighten up their game on Wednesday. They were playing super lazy defense switching on every screen and giving up mismatches left and right. Absolutely correctable issues, but they'll get ripped apart by a competent offense for doing that shit.

  8. 45 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

    this is a national security issue.  if/when we engage in a war with russia, china, nork, iran, our way of life will change overnight.  you can bet your ass those governments already have trojans in all of the major infrastructure systems to shut shit down at the click of a button.  what will all the insecure moms do without facebook?  what the fuck am i going to do without google maps traffic notifications and porn?????????

     

    wont something think of the humanity?????

    It'll be much worse than that lol. Critical backbone infrastructure like power, gas, and water will likely be compromised in the event of a large scale cyberattack - BUT - private IT operations (like FB and twitter for example ) will likely be running for a while afterwards if they've done good DR and security work

  9. 2 minutes ago, zork said:

    I worked and managed in the Data Center world for about 10 years.  My impression on contractors was not that they didn't give a rat's ass.  That type of attitude would get you fired or at minimum not extended.  Of course there were some who had a perceived negative attitude but generally those guys/gals got their shit done when it mattered.   Some had a lack of acumen or limited upside is maybe a better way of saying it.  If you were smart you found a way to make those people fit because the retraining/turnover loop sucks.(unless they are just complete negative bringing everyone else down daily)

    This is a key statement and applies to the contractor employer relationship as well.  If you aren't being clear what is expected then you aren't going to get what you need out of your contractor.

    Not sure why you negged me, you must never have worked in an office where the managers cared more about their bonus than putting out good tech - IE - the vast majority of dinosaur tech companies like old retailers and the Giants from the 90s. Running a DC is significantly different from writing and maintaining the software that runs in that DC. Your DC could be fucking fort Knox, but if your guys are writing shit code then it's not gonna matter how physically secure your boxes are. 

    Plus, in my experience if a contractor was bad, management just rotates them through TCS to get another person and the cycle of shit continues. Write and run shitty code, get shitty security. Simple as that. 

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  10. 3 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

    If they moved money fro the Trump campaign to Trump's company to pay off Stormy Daniels, why did Cohen take out the HELOC on his house for $130K?  I thought that's where the money came from.

    Maybe it was an attempt to launder the money from the trump campaign? We won't know until all this dust settles but it doesn't seem like totally baseless conjecture, especially with the new reporting that he's being investigated for bank fraud and campaign finance violations

  11. 2 minutes ago, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

    Probably get good support for saying he’s acting beyond his mandate by referring matters unrelated to 2016 campaign.  

    Except Mueller didn't investigate it or do the judicial work to get warrants or anything - he simply passed along what he found to another law enforcement agency. I'd think that makes him pretty free and clear of a legitimate complaint right?

  12. Just now, Anastasis said:

    Even if the crimes are federal campaign finance crimes?

    We don't know the nature of the specific crimes being investigated, but the state of new york ALSO has campaign finance laws you know :P

    And that doesn't rule out other violations of NY law that they may uncover during their investigation.

  13. 1 minute ago, Anastasis said:

    5) Lawdogs, since this was referred to USDA in NY, this is still in realm of federal crimes, correct?  Meaning that pardon power in play. Popcorn. 

    If the crimes were committed in the state of New York and were against the laws of the state of New York, then the fed agency can refer the issue to the state level law enforcement at which point pardon power means bupkis

  14. 26 minutes ago, Vince_McCoy_Williams said:

    Lol, did he get a loan of a billion dollars? 

    Bottom line is, the dude has an empire worth far more than he started with, that is indisputable. 

    We don't know because trump failed to extricate himself from his foreign and domestic emoluments. And he's failed to release his tax returns. So given that we know that deutsche bank loaned him 640m that he went tits up on and no domestic banks would give him a loan, and he's been doing a shitload of business abroad before and during his presidency, then his capital has to be coming from somewhere, and it certainly isn't self-funded.

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