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Old Man

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  1. I didn't even get a percentage, just "tremendously innocent". Which is odd considering some of the answers I gave.
  2. I actually don't think Hillary's politics are necessarily that close to Bill's at all, especially if you look at her voting record as New York's senator. Regardless, even if health care, wars, and the gender gap "go backwards" during her presidency, they sure as hell won't go as far backwards as they would under Trump.
  3. And what does she do with her opportunities? Health care for kids. Narrowing the gender gap. Maybe raise the minimum wage and fix Obamacare. Even if she is Machiavellian, her ends are hard to argue with. What does the other candidate do with his opportunities? Check out his tax returns.
  4. Obviously Hillary had her killed to keep her from exposing the Conspiracy.
  5. Of course it would. From my time in government contracting, people mishandling classified information happens--not all the time, but often enough. Laptops get left in cars and stolen. Sensitive information gets inadvertently pasted into an email on NIPR. The wrong folder goes into a regular wastebasket. The usual penalty for any of this is shame and ridicule, perhaps a reprimand in especially egregious cases. But if everyone who made a mistake with classified information was fired or in jail, the government would be really, really shorthanded. If you read Politico's overall account of what happened with that server, it's a pretty textbook case of a totally nontechnical executive not understanding what is happening in her IT department. It's actually kind of boring since I've experienced almost exactly this multiple times in my career.
  6. What sort of Guy would forget that?
  7. Incidentally, FBI director Comey has now admitted that the fishing expedition found nothing relevant on Weiner's laptop, and once again says there is no evidence of wrongdoing by Clinton or her aides. Note that no one ever just asked Abedin whether they could look at her email or not, as that would have ended the theatrics before they began.
  8. @Simon: The email is a big deal because people want it to be a big deal. Specifically people who have already decided that Crooked HilLIARy is crooked, and/or people desperately trying to justify their support of Trump to themselves. They can tell their friends "See, Hillary is bad too," as though sloppy IT is comparable to sexual assault, fraud, naked racism, foreign entanglements, and possibly even forcible child rape. The reality is that Hillary is the most qualified and vetted presidential candidate in fifty years, but that makes no difference to people whose worldview isn't even remotely objective. Don't even get me started on the media coverage.
  9. Weapons aside, handing out Republican sample ballots counts as electioneering here, which is flatly illegal within 100 yards of a polling place.
  10. Well, it is a European crater.
  11. Sequence of betrothed (or quasi-amicable) numbers: 48, 75, 140, 195, 1050, 1575, 1648, 1925, 2024, 2295, 5775, 6128, 8892, 9504, 16587, 20735, 62744, 75495, 186615, 196664, 199760, 206504, 219975, 266000, 309135, 312620, 507759, 526575, 544784, 549219, 573560, 587460, 817479, 1000824, 1057595, 1081184
  12. Starbucks leaks design for this year's holiday cup (NSFW):
  13. From an IT perspective, I'm hoping that all the Putin shenanigans from this election will get .gov and .biz people off their butts to really do something about cybersecurity. THE RUSSIANS ARE LITERALLY IN YOUR BASE, PEOPLE. Not optimistic though. Meanwhile,
  14. link: http://www.visualcapitalist.com/theres-big-money-made-asteroid-mining/
  15. I'm not being more specific because the GRE isn't more specific. It covers all of undergraduate physics. That's part of the reason I didn't do so hot. Figures. But to be honest the universe was seriously hinting that astronomy was not for me. I struggled through my entire physics major, due to a combination of adding it to a CompSci major late, crummy professors, and physics being damn hard. A summer internship at Goddard was cancelled at the last minute. I couldn't find anyone to sponsor a Space Grant project. Correspondence with Chris McKay actually got lost in the mail (it showed up a year later). The planetary sciences program was in an entirely different division so I couldn't take classes there. IFA literally refuses to accept undergrads from its own school. So after taking the GRE twice and maxing out at like 70% I put my astronomy career on pause. It hasn't been unpaused since.
  16. I have taken exams for Physics. There was one called the "GRE" that ended my career in astronomy before it began.
  17. Because Barracuda ESS is dropping half our incoming email.
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