> "It will take generations to repair the damage being caused by the Trump presidency."
Personally, I cannot imagine what Trump is thinking about. But he never could have made it into his new job without Hillary. The 2016 election was America's "Just say no to Hillary" moment. (Didn't need no Russians for that. They were an irrelevancy.)
Back in 2016 when MSM announced that "Russians" had "hacked the DNC," I could already smell baloney. "Russian hacking," intoned ad infinitum, was the meme du jour.
"Russian meddling" is just a big joke now. MSM got so enamored of the phrase, they wore it right out. And we're still hearing it! Tell us, how much ineffectual meddling/interference does it take to "tilt" an election?
goalpost is one word humankind is one word no hyphen in nonpartisan no hyphen in nonpolitical no hyphen in worthwhile no reign in "reining them in" oftentimes is one word
Don't look now but CIA is the new government. Surprise! The cockroaches behind the curtain are pulling the strings.
References in comments I'm seeing these days as to "How's the weather in St. Petersburg" are sounding pretty silly. Hillary didn't lose because of Russia. U.S. election corruption is of the home-grown variety & probably favored Hillary. What little "Russian meddling" there may have been was laughably ineffectual. That's why the lamestream media doesn't harp on it so much any more.
doublespeak is one word no hyphen in nonexisting (nonexistent, nonexistence) no hyphen in midterm, midterms schoolyard is one word
Russian meddling (a.k.a. interference). Russian meddling. Said it again just in case you missed it the first time. It has been repeated like a mantra at least 24 times a day on NPR over the past year. It is the meddling meme® & it needs desperately to be retired. But CIA has no way to get rid of it. Without it, they can't sustain their little propaganda war on Putin. So we're stuck with it in perpetuum. The meddling meme® is just a part of our (Orwellian) vocabulary now. Thanks, MSM.
& how is the investigation into that massively botched Vegas operation coming along? Did that silly old man, Padlock, really fire all those big guns in one go? Wait, there's a news blackout, ye say? Impossible. That can't happen here.
Thanks for that one. I intend to requisition it. If you don’t mind, Anon. It will be number 11. One behaves differently when one knows one might be monitored. Hat tip to Orwell.
There is also a number 12: watching real-life, real-time porn. The spooks get to do that when they stumble onto it. But I’m leaving that one off the list (for now).
Thank you, Mr. Cushing, for resisting the temptation to stick a hyphen in the word "runup." It is a legitimate compound noun. But so is applecart (@ end of article).
First commenter nailed it. Tapping into the backbone is a cancer & a very bad habit that the IC has been cultivating for years. Now it looks (to me) like CIA has leaked certain Jeff Sessions conversations intercepted from the fatpipe. Mr. Sessions is an ass who wants to revive the drug war & needs to be got rid of. But when will the leaks from the fatpipe end? Never. & 702 will be irrevocably installed (a "clean reauthorization" LOL. It's a dirty reauthorization‑‑-make no mistake).
No hyphen in reimplement; reimplemented; reimplementing.
Then "trying to rollback the NSA's rollback." The first should be two words, roll back, which is a prepositional phrase. Second rollback is a compound noun & is correct.
Adding onto commenter #24 here. Was this an interrogation-room audiotape that was transcribed? Or was a viddycam mounted on a little tripod on the table, pointed at the defendant? Was the real-time clock down in the bottom-right corner of the video camera's screen ticking away as they spoke? That would be the damning-est evidence that counsel fiddled with the transcript. Anyone reviewing it can confirm that the electronic record does not agree with the prosecutor's version.
Attempting to revise a transcript that has been filed with a court after the fact is a big no-no & counsel damn well knew it. Disbarment can be the only remedy in this scenario.
Oops, there was a headline fail: longtime as a modifier (adjective) is one word.
The time to de-fund the NSA was September of 2013 when our esteemed Congress came back from vacation. We'd had all summer to digest the Snowden revelations. But what happened on that day? Nothing. Deafening silence happened.
Since then, thousands of photon splitters have been purchased by our esteemed government & Bluffdale is chugging away.
The only upside is that the spooks' "collect it all" mentality has neutered their whole system. They have too much data & no way to make sense of it. They didn't listen to their pal Binney & instead made his life miserable for a time for being a "whistle-blower."
Here's another grammar gotcha from a comment above: "You can not fix stupid." Cannot is (usually) one word.
> I would like to cross-examine that $10,000 in currency!
Point of order: Counsel will do a direct examination first, as per usual. Bailiff shall place the pile of bills in the witness box & point the microphone at it. When it refuses to answer questions, hold it in contempt & make it sit in a jail cell until it complies.
"Thomason acquired a copy of a transcript only to find the repeated use of the slur by court deputies had been removed. He asked for the audio recording of the hearing and was rejected."
& boom, there it is. Assuming there was an audio recording of the hearing extant, that's the last thing the stenographer wants to have released--a proper record of what really happened & which could be compared to her shitty transcript. It would reveal how real-time stenographers sit there making hundreds of errors (& omissions) an hour. Her transcript would be thrown out in favor of one transcribed from the recording, which is how these things should be handled in the first place. The technology has existed for decades & stenographers were debunked decades ago.
If a proper recording ever existed, I bet it doesn't any more. An archiving "glitch" deleted it.
no hyphen in uneducated no hyphen in coincidence no hyphen in predetermined countermeasures is one (compound) word no hyphen in likewise widespread is (almost always) one word
thickheaded is a compound word?! Thanks for that. Didn't know that one.
MS suing Corel is like the schoolyard bully intimidating the skinny geek during recess. "Why don't you go pick on somebody your own size."
If one was savvy enough to avoid the dreadful early Windows releases of WordPerfect, it's always been superior to Word. Well under the radar, it's alive & thriving with Version 17–-albeit with a relatively "microscopic" user base. Perhaps the bonehead lawsuit can bring some well deserved attention to it.
Evidently WP has been a sore spot for MS lo these many years. Just goes to show how "even a little dog can piss on a big building."
"The administration was never truly interested in reigning in the NSA's activities."
This "reigning in" thing is becoming quite intolerable. Queen Elizabeth is reigning in the UK. But there is no g in "reining in the NSA." To "rein in" is a prepositional phrase & the metaphor is properly to reining in horses (or reindeer).
I beg of you to stop confusing reigning & reining. They are two different animals.
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> "It will take generations to repair the damage being caused by the Trump presidency."
Personally, I cannot imagine what Trump is thinking about. But he never could have made it into his new job without Hillary. The 2016 election was America's "Just say no to Hillary" moment. (Didn't need no Russians for that. They were an irrelevancy.)
Back in 2016 when MSM announced that "Russians" had "hacked the DNC," I could already smell baloney. "Russian hacking," intoned ad infinitum, was the meme du jour.
"Russian meddling" is just a big joke now. MSM got so enamored of the phrase, they wore it right out. And we're still hearing it! Tell us, how much ineffectual meddling/interference does it take to "tilt" an election?
goalpost is one word
humankind is one word
no hyphen in nonpartisan
no hyphen in nonpolitical
no hyphen in worthwhile
no reign in "reining them in"
oftentimes is one word
"Our happy Republic" is toast
Don't look now but CIA is the new government. Surprise! The cockroaches behind the curtain are pulling the strings.
References in comments I'm seeing these days as to "How's the weather in St. Petersburg" are sounding pretty silly. Hillary didn't lose because of Russia. U.S. election corruption is of the home-grown variety & probably favored Hillary. What little "Russian meddling" there may have been was laughably ineffectual. That's why the lamestream media doesn't harp on it so much any more.
doublespeak is one word
no hyphen in nonexisting (nonexistent, nonexistence)
no hyphen in midterm, midterms
schoolyard is one word
Russian meddling (a.k.a. interference). Russian meddling. Said it again just in case you missed it the first time. It has been repeated like a mantra at least 24 times a day on NPR over the past year. It is the meddling meme® & it needs desperately to be retired. But CIA has no way to get rid of it. Without it, they can't sustain their little propaganda war on Putin. So we're stuck with it in perpetuum. The meddling meme® is just a part of our (Orwellian) vocabulary now. Thanks, MSM.
& how is the investigation into that massively botched Vegas operation coming along? Did that silly old man, Padlock, really fire all those big guns in one go? Wait, there's a news blackout, ye say? Impossible. That can't happen here.
Addition to list
Thanks for that one. I intend to requisition it. If you don’t mind, Anon. It will be number 11. One behaves differently when one knows one might be monitored. Hat tip to Orwell.
There is also a number 12: watching real-life, real-time porn. The spooks get to do that when they stumble onto it. But I’m leaving that one off the list (for now).
:‑D
Q. How are backdoor searches carried out?
A. Via upstream surveillance.
Q. What is upstream surveillance?
A. It is the use of fiber optic stream splitters to record everything–– every bit & byte, 24/7. "Collect it all."
Q. What is the purpose of upstream surveillance?
A. The reason always trotted out is to fight terrorism.
Q. Why use upstream surveillance on the citizenry?
A. There is no good reason. & it is blatantly unconstitutional.
Q. What is the real purpose of domestic upstream surveillance?
A. There are several:
Blackmail & coercion
Insider trading & market manipulation
Compromise of trade secrets
Ownership of legislative bodies
Ownership of the judiciary
Exposure of political enemies
Parallel construction
Violation of attorney-client privilege
As a time-machine to memorialize & discover past infractions/indiscretions
Bottle up dissidents & contrarians
Thank you, Mr. Cushing, for resisting the temptation to stick a hyphen in the word "runup." It is a legitimate compound noun. But so is applecart (@ end of article).
First commenter nailed it. Tapping into the backbone is a cancer & a very bad habit that the IC has been cultivating for years. Now it looks (to me) like CIA has leaked certain Jeff Sessions conversations intercepted from the fatpipe. Mr. Sessions is an ass who wants to revive the drug war & needs to be got rid of. But when will the leaks from the fatpipe end? Never. & 702 will be irrevocably installed (a "clean reauthorization" LOL. It's a dirty reauthorization‑‑-make no mistake).
No hyphen in reimplement; reimplemented; reimplementing.
Then "trying to rollback the NSA's rollback." The first should be two words, roll back, which is a prepositional phrase. Second rollback is a compound noun & is correct.
Don't you just love nattering Nazi nitpickers?
Slip across the border to my little corner of Kansas & we've got 100 up & 100 down.
You can have up to a gig if you want to pay for it.
optic-communications.com
Adding onto commenter #24 here. Was this an interrogation-room audiotape that was transcribed? Or was a viddycam mounted on a little tripod on the table, pointed at the defendant? Was the real-time clock down in the bottom-right corner of the video camera's screen ticking away as they spoke? That would be the damning-est evidence that counsel fiddled with the transcript. Anyone reviewing it can confirm that the electronic record does not agree with the prosecutor's version.
Attempting to revise a transcript that has been filed with a court after the fact is a big no-no & counsel damn well knew it. Disbarment can be the only remedy in this scenario.
Oops, there was a headline fail: longtime as a modifier (adjective) is one word.
The time to de-fund the NSA was September of 2013 when our esteemed Congress came back from vacation. We'd had all summer to digest the Snowden revelations. But what happened on that day? Nothing. Deafening silence happened.
Since then, thousands of photon splitters have been purchased by our esteemed government & Bluffdale is chugging away.
The only upside is that the spooks' "collect it all" mentality has neutered their whole system. They have too much data & no way to make sense of it. They didn't listen to their pal Binney & instead made his life miserable for a time for being a "whistle-blower."
Here's another grammar gotcha from a comment above: "You can not fix stupid." Cannot is (usually) one word.
Invoking an über-obscure acronym like "cwf-rtb" is not clever in a comments section.
CWF = connect with fans. I used to know that one years ago but quickly forgot it.
RTB. "Acronym search returned 57 meanings." Ring the bell. Row the boat. Return to base. Ready to bake.
Looking those up (& not finding the second one) used up 10 minutes of my life I'll never get back. GFY.
& shortsighted is one word.
> I would like to cross-examine that $10,000 in currency!
Point of order: Counsel will do a direct examination first, as per usual. Bailiff shall place the pile of bills in the witness box & point the microphone at it. When it refuses to answer questions, hold it in contempt & make it sit in a jail cell until it complies.
Celebrate the absurdity. [tongue-face]
"Thomason acquired a copy of a transcript only to find the repeated use of the slur by court deputies had been removed. He asked for the audio recording of the hearing and was rejected."
& boom, there it is. Assuming there was an audio recording of the hearing extant, that's the last thing the stenographer wants to have released--a proper record of what really happened & which could be compared to her shitty transcript. It would reveal how real-time stenographers sit there making hundreds of errors (& omissions) an hour. Her transcript would be thrown out in favor of one transcribed from the recording, which is how these things should be handled in the first place. The technology has existed for decades & stenographers were debunked decades ago.
If a proper recording ever existed, I bet it doesn't any more. An archiving "glitch" deleted it.
Hillary makes me illary.
no hyphen in uneducated
no hyphen in coincidence
no hyphen in predetermined
countermeasures is one (compound) word
no hyphen in likewise
widespread is (almost always) one word
thickheaded is a compound word?! Thanks for that. Didn't know that one.
Burning barn
Turns out barnburner is a standard-issue compound word---since the 1840s.
Is the ribbon interface something to be proud of?
MS suing Corel is like the schoolyard bully intimidating the skinny geek during recess. "Why don't you go pick on somebody your own size."
If one was savvy enough to avoid the dreadful early Windows releases of WordPerfect, it's always been superior to Word. Well under the radar, it's alive & thriving with Version 17–-albeit with a relatively "microscopic" user base. Perhaps the bonehead lawsuit can bring some well deserved attention to it.
Evidently WP has been a sore spot for MS lo these many years. Just goes to show how "even a little dog can piss on a big building."
Rain, reign, rein
"The administration was never truly interested in reigning in the NSA's activities."
This "reigning in" thing is becoming quite intolerable. Queen Elizabeth is reigning in the UK. But there is no g in "reining in the NSA." To "rein in" is a prepositional phrase & the metaphor is properly to reining in horses (or reindeer).
I beg of you to stop confusing reigning & reining. They are two different animals.
AC says the wackiest things
Twin tenants? How did apartment leases enter into the discussion? (The word is tenets.)
Loathe is a verb. Please drop the e for "courts seem loath to accept."
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