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The original article: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/donald-trump-is-really-unpopular-with-general-election-voters/ It should be noted that Rubio and Carson are very close to even/positive, well within the margin for error. (The Bern is, likewise, within the margin for being slightly negative.)...

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3) None of us know the State Department policies on use of off-site hardware But anyone who clicked my prior links can learn the DoD's policies on setting up any hardware to be used with classified material. The policies are open and publicly available. Orly? "Above" Top Secret? So what i...

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http://www.dateiliste.com/en/descent-3.html has a lot of info on getting D3 running.

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http://www.nationalreview.com/article/4 ... inevitable

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"Sarah Palin's speech endorsing Donald J. Trump made no sense, because making sense isn’t really Palin’s style. But it’s also because there is no coherent defense of Donald Trump’s candidacy."

https://reason.com/blog/2016/01/20/sara ... speech-was

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My wife, who is a cyber-security professional working on DoD supercomputers, referred to Hillary running her own e-mail server as "astonishingly stupid" and "the cyber-security equivalent of the president dismissing the secret service and carrying around a shotgun for protection"...

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The rules surrounding the use of classified documents are very strict, and the punishments are very harsh. But that's the thing, I haven't seen anyone make the claim that the documents (the emails themselves or information within the emails) were classified at the time. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/...

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tunnelcat wrote:Why would a bunch of government hating xenophobes want an authoritarian government?

They just want their kind of authoritarian.

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there's just no way it'll be Trump. As I keep saying: once the serious candidates stop splitting support between them, one will emerge and take 70%+ and then Trump will be a loser. It might not be Cruz. Rubio is looking strongest of the other candidates right now. Don't know how you arrive at this....

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From all I've seen, her use of personal email was legal The rules surrounding the use of classified documents are very strict, and the punishments are very harsh. If she was an ordinary contractor who had mishandled classified documents the way she did, I have no doubt she'd be in jail, and disqual...

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tunnelcat wrote:What will you do if he does win the nomination?

Find a third party candidate who isn't terrible. Since I also can't vote for either Hillary or Bernie...

Also: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/ ... ian-213533

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there's just no way it'll be Trump.

As I keep saying: once the serious candidates stop splitting support between them, one will emerge and take 70%+ and then Trump will be a loser. It might not be Cruz. Rubio is looking strongest of the other candidates right now.

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seems legit: http://cheezburger.com/194056/disregard ... pularvotes

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You remove one thing, another takes its place Is it necessary? Do we have to trade one crime for another? Do we have to have ten or a hundred rapes for every murder prevented? Or could we prevent murder without increasing rape? Don't leave women and the elderly more vulnerable to sexual assaults? I...

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the lack of traction among 'serious' candidates on the GOP side. I think that MAY be a reflection of how much anger and hate has built up(and, to some extent been encouraged) within the party Probably. But it also points to the field currently being broad. I'd consider Cruz, Rubio, Bush, Kasich, Ch...

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before the words you selected, his first words to that woman were to assure her that nothing he'd proposed interfered with her ability to legally obtain a weapon Right -- I read the entire exchange. But Obama's method does not come across as actually reassuring. It comes across as lip service. The ...

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yeah, there are a lot of serious candidates who haven't gotten much traction. But the point is, if any of them did, they would crush Trump. Basically any semi-competent politician (governor, senator, representative) who isn't way out on the far wing of one party or the other would roflstomp Trump he...

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but it's a useless response. not useless. it's a marker used to show that the thread can no longer be productive. As the rest of the thread demonstrates, when a few people decide to make it productive, they can make it productive, in spite of useless responses. But it's easier if you don't post use...

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Trump's worst nightmare isn't Bernie. It's any serious candidate from either party -- Hillary, Jeb, Kasich, even O'Malley or Chafee. Bernie might be the only one who Trump has a chance against.

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you claim 'I don't get it', when I get your argument, I simply find it ludicrous If you're having an argument with an intelligent, honest, and well-intentioned person and you have to resort to calling their position "ludicrous", that's a sign you don't get it. Getting defensive about it d...

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do you see anything the least sinister within Obama's orders of the other day? This is a PERFECT example of why I'm concerned. Because you just... don't... get it. And this is the pattern I see from almost everyone who calls for "sensible" gun regulations. It doesn't matter if Obama inten...

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equation to Hitler or taking guns is simply dishonest rhetoric On the other hand, those supporting large-scale gun bans and restrictions have consistently failed to explain (1) that they understand the concern about disarming the populace, of which Hitler is a notable but not the only example, and ...

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Both sides are looking worse and worse.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/postever ... -standoff/

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I disagree with the armed militia response to those sentences, by people who don't even live in the area. It's lunacy. Specifically, religious fanaticism: https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/01/05/oregon-standoff-has-roots-mormon-fanaticism/QLgIkrNZipFjtbn4AyUZFJ/story.html It's almost like I ...

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More background, from the Oregon representative who wrote some of the laws the BLM has been using to screw with ranchers:

But apparently I "vastly overestimate the impact on the locals"...

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As an aside: Encryption is necessary for protecting your privacy, but unfortunately it is also insufficient, and using it I think can lull one into a false sense of security, as it only protects your data, not your metadata As a followup to this aside, if you haven't seen http://kieranhealy.org/blo...

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http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc ... ource=SFFB

Read the whole thing.

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Seems like everyone is trying to figure out who the "good guys" are in this crazy situation in the Oregon wildlife refuge. Here's where I've ended up: nobody is right, and nobody deserves your support . On the one hand, you have a group of wackjob Mormon fundamentalists who want to trigger...

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callmeslick wrote:oh, no, that isn't a group of Muslim thugs

Nope -- it's the other religious-wackjob group that killed a bunch of civilians on September 11.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Meadows_massacre

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right -- generally speaking, the people you expect to "ruin" thanksgiving dinner are those who don't have a filter on what they say, and will therefore start a fight over something stupid. That description fits Trump perfectly. Whereas Clinton, for all her numerous and deep faults, is at l...

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it’s not enough for Trump to merely avoid fading. Right now, he has 25 to 30 percent of the vote in polls among the roughly 25 percent of Americans who identify as Republican. (That’s something like 6 to 8 percent of the electorate overall, or about the same share of people who think the Apollo moo...

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while it's true that every generation seems to think the next generation sucks at things like "hard work" and "socializing" (because every generation has a new take on how those things look), this is an entirely different type of observation. The claim that people are seeing it &...

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Even if you're the sort of person whose faulty BS detector allowed you to believe the Catholic senator and the openly gay mayor were KKK members , it seems like the BS detector should go off when you're talking about every Republican and 88 Democrats openly voting to enable racial discrimination. Th...

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the Constitution protects the INDIVIDUAL'S right to practice his/her religion, but does NOT allow anyone's religious belief to be forcibly inpinging upon others. Hobby Lobby?.... They are free to follow their beliefs. The ownership isn't free to impose their view on those in their employ. General p...

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http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstt ... than-haidt

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whether or not this specific story is true, here's an important point: These aren't people going through the refugee process . They might be using "I'm a refugee" as a cover story, but they're basically following the illegal immigration approach -- go to somewhere in Latin America and then...

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apparently the HUD/cockpit is planned to be a major storyline element having to do with drones and piloted ships.

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but there's no possible way any ordinary people might have already had a passport, and decided to stuff it into the one bag they had time to pack, right? Refugees would never want to have a document proving where they had fled from, right?

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sometimes refugees carry passports. If it happens to be one of the things you stuffed in the one suitcase you fled with...

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I may or may not be there. Warmaster is in town and I haven't seen him since Chifest '99. If we connect I'll be playing D1 all evening; if not I'll jump into D3.

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