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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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State Department computers were using XP while this was going on and supposedly barely ran it. They were in a desperate rush to upgrade when Microsoft stopped supporting XP last year. [1]
Some non-classified machines apparently still run it to this day.
I hope so.
edited 5th Jul '16 4:24:37 PM by Memers
@Tobias: Considering how many people already hate his guts and the quasi-assassination attempts, I'd say that the class action lawsuit is just icing on top of the cake for Trump.
Hopefully he doesn't actually get assassinated, speaking of which. Nothing would legitimize his agenda more than that.
edited 5th Jul '16 4:21:06 PM by CaptainCapsase
@Memers: Actually, you cannot fault the State Department for being on XP for that long or for still having some XP Machines to this day... Many businesses were using XP machines back then, and there are some programs that run on XP which won't run on 7. What you've described is actually perfectly reasonable for the typical business with their computing systems.
edited 5th Jul '16 4:35:01 PM by GameGuruGG
Wizard Needs Food BadlyNow, if the law is good or bad, is a different question. I get what you mean and I don't think Clinton should be prosecuted. Just that the logic of "everyone is doing it" isn't sound. The defence here, should be that of practicality. The why everyone else was doing it, not the tu quoque that others were doing it.
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Yeah but that is the problem, it's the freaken highest levels of the government and they are stuck using outdated and slow technology. To the point where the phone in your pocket does everything it does but better and faster, they got a country to run and should have at least something current or optimized for speed.
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That is my point.
edited 5th Jul '16 4:38:58 PM by Memers
Anyone important or just the same idiots who keep insisting that Sander's should run third party even though he himself has said he's voting for Clinton?
For when it is a serious crime. My black jaywalker white jaywalker analogy kinda falls apart here so I'm going to have to re tool it.
We have the jaywalker who slowly walked across a busy highway/motorway and seriously endangered traffic, we also have the jaywalker who when no cars were around nipped across the single lane road instead of going all the way to the crossing. Both technically commited the crime of jaywalking, but generally only the ones who did the super stupid and dangerous version is going to get prosecuted for it.
We keep the law so we can do people for dangerous jaywalking, but we haven't prosecuted people for single lane safe jaywalking because it would make nos else to do so, so why should we start now?
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranEveryone who jaywalked like Clinton sure, and they'd have a solid argument for it. But folks who jaywalked differently wouldn't be able to sue that argument.
I figured you understood already, but I like to spell things out for the lurkers.
edited 5th Jul '16 4:55:46 PM by Silasw
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran![]()
Of course it's not. Their just doing anything they can to cover their asses after retweeting an explicit racist. Again. And "they're trying to make me look bad!" is the only excuse his supporters need anyways.
It's all very telling when the Republican leaders want to him to clean up his act, but otherwise have absolutely no problem supporting him. Because looking like a racist is obviously the problem here.
edited 5th Jul '16 6:46:51 PM by Eschaton
The Trump story
Trump praises for Saddam Hussein's efficient killing of 'terrorists,' calls today's Iraq 'Harvard for terrorism'
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/05/politics/donald-trump-saddam-hussein-iraq-terrorism/
It's shit like this that almost makes one think Trump could be a plant.
The Republicans in Congress and their party elites generally want to "Starve the beast" and privatize as much of the government as possible by showing it can't work as a public entity. :^)
edited 5th Jul '16 8:16:17 PM by PotatoesRock

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Bah. Nobody who wasn't already on the fence is going to have their minds changed by this. We might see a one or two percent uptick in the "Bernie or Bust" polling, but it'll drop back within a month.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"