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WhatTheBuck

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  1. Corporations aren't people, my friends. Fuck Mitt Romney. He's a shitty Reagan wannabe with even more love for the rich and an even more batshit crazy religion behind him. And, unlike Reagan, he might be an actual believer. 

    Why can't Kasich get any traction? I've seen a lot of posters in this community saying they voted for Kasich in the primaries. Were they no more genuine than all the professed Gary Johnson voters?

     

  2. 4 minutes ago, lemonlime said:

    Oh they can explain it.  He just can't understand it.  Other than what money lines his pocket, what women he can get in bed with him, or how much praise they're giving him.  All he understands is his id.

    Uh, semantics. That's my definition of 'they can't explain it.' 

  3. ·

    Edited by WhatTheBuck

    Apparently it's not an adaptation of the book Vice: Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American Presidency by Lou Dubose. There have been numerous books written about Cheney. I imagine several of them were used as reference material for this film. I originally assumed it was an adaptation of the book that bears the same title. 

    I never read that book but I've read at least one other on Dick and some other books on the Bush/Cheney presidency. I meant to go see Vice the day it was released but I decided to loaf instead. I need to go see it before next week. 

  4. 6 hours ago, TornACL said:

    I just realized something. 

    I don't think in all the pee tape / dossier stuff it ever confirmed that the Russian prostitutes were female.... 

    NTTAWWT of course. But the alternative would be great for the lulz

    Well, his bodyguard did testify that Trump was offered five women during a visit to Moscow in 2013 for a meeting about the Miss Universe pageant. But come on, Trump's history as a womanizer is well known. And it's not like we've ever seen him grope Don Jr. 

    Trump-Ivanka-Weird-Awkward-Ogle.jpg

  5. 12 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    I think you’re overestimating the difficulty to get into cloud accounts of people who have terrible security practices. I’m not arguing that it’s what happened, I’m saying that it’s really fucking easy and it would be difficult to track since it would appear to be normal behavior. Are there logs tracking virtually everything? Yes. Is it easy to parse through those to find aberrant behavior? Fuck no. It would have to be something you were actively looking for, especially if they’re able to utilize some basic track covering steps, like signing into the service through a proxy connection or VPN to appear that you’re coming from their IP or proximity physically. 

    Just don’t dismiss it out of hand as super difficult - it’s not. Digital security is a joke in most enterprises, never mind personal security. Especially considering how much we know about how inept that entire campaign was at security best practices. And how much those sort of attacks are Russia’s bread and butter. 

    It's even easier to lie. Absent any evidence to the contrary, Occam's razor suggests that's the most likely explanation. 

    If the Russians planted Amedin's emails on Weiner's machine without either of them knowing about it, do you think they could've done it in a way the FBI couldn't detect?

  6. 6 minutes ago, Jameslaw121 said:

    I have this conversation with my wife about once a month.

    Her : I had lunch with my parents. I brought some leftovers home. Do you want them?

    ME : Are they still vegetarian? 

    Her -: yes

    Me - then no

    What if it's Indian food?

  7. 16 hours ago, Captainant said:

    Not totally disagreeing with you, but most email clients support exporting/importing individual emails as .eml files. If they got password access to their office365 (Microsoft's managed cloud office, including email), it would simple to add emails to an inbox through importing the .eml files. And if they had a local client running on their laptop syncing their local inbox with their cloud inbox (which is pretty typical), it would automatically end up on the laptop completely inoccuously and in a low impact manner. 

    Fucking ITsec best practices man. They'll really open you up to a deep dicking if an antagonist knows what they're doing. 

    2,800 emails according to the Newsweek article. Abedin didn't dispute that they were her emails, she just said she didn't know how they wound up on her husband's laptop. 

    I don't want to delve into a big long post about this because there's no evidence to support the notion that the Russians hacked either Abedin or Weiner. I'm not saying it's not possible to plant data on someone's computer, I'm saying we have no evidence that it happened with Weiner nor anyone else hacked by the Russians. 

    They'd have to get access to Abedin's mailbox to get her emails. If they're planting them on Weiner's, they'd have to hack him too. If they're not actually emailing them from her to him, they'd have to spoof all the header info to make it look like she sent them to him. The FBI could subpoena the logs of any server the emails supposedly passed through between hers and his to see if there were corresponding matches.

    I don't know how long it took to forward 2,800 emails, but presumably it took place over days, maybe weeks. Would they be imported in a batch all at once or over the course of days or weeks? Wouldn't that be logged? Might Weiner see them? What if he told his wife he received them and she said she never sent them? Then the jig is up. If they're getting on Weiner's laptop by syncing with a cloud account then they had to hack into the cloud account and plant them there. 

    It's a pretty complex proposition. One that, if it happened, I don't think would escape the notice of the FBI. I'd think we'd have heard something about it by now. If it did happen, we'll hear about it eventually. 

    There's also the very real possibility that Abedin is simply lying. That happens sometimes in politics. 

  8. 5 minutes ago, horn4life said:

    After hearing Trump explain how amazing he is, I can only imagine how fucking mind numbing it would be to play a round of golf with him.  I never thought about it that way until just now. You hop into a golf cart, and there you would be captive.  Just listening to him drone on and on about his personal greatness for an entire fucking round of golf.  At least I can rest easy knowing the members of Augusta were also aware of this long ago.

    And there is zero chance that he doesn't cheat at golf. None. 

  9. 4 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    He will be on Twitter until his dying breath, speaking to the true believers via Twitter.  A modern day Charles Coughlin.

    If only Twitter had the fucking balls to just ban his ass.  Oh, he would find another outlet, but wailing and whining would be so worth it.

     

     

    This. He'll lead his followers as a shadow president on Twitter, claiming the election was rigged, lashing out at everything his successor does. 

    Hillary could be doing that to him. It might actually be kind of funny if she did. It would drive him nuts. But there aren't any Democrats with so little sense of decorum. Still you know that's exactly what Trump is going to do. Hell, he may continue to travel the country holding political rallies. 

  10. 11 hours ago, pepper brooks said:

    Did robouchon Vegas and it was probably my most disappointing dining experience given it cost me $800 for just me. So many of the fishes were bland and the steak fish was shoe leather tough. The wine pairing was incredibly mediocre too. 

     

    Contrast that with addison at the grand Del Mar in La Jolla at the same cost. It was the most amazing dining experience I’ve ever had. The food and wine pairings were simply perfect. 

    What kind of fish?

  11. 6 hours ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

     

    I agree.  But that quote is one that you file away and use on recruits. I mean, that's pretty high praise coming from a pretty good SEC coach.  Texas just whipped 'em, physically, and he admitted it. 

    How would that recruiting pitch go?

    "You should come to Texas. Look at what Kirby Smart from the SEC said about us. You know the SEC, they're really great. So that compliment from the head coach at Georgia should carry some weight."

  12. 9 hours ago, JimmyJames said:

    So does Falwell give sermons that talk about the time he wouldn’t give a bum on the street a quarter because he’s just a fucking bum? With the lesson being to the flock don’t give quarters to fucking bums?

    I would pay money to see that dudes meeting with Jesus after he croaks. 

    He's not a minister. 

  13. On December 31, 2018 at 9:45 AM, triplehorn said:

    Can you insert information or files onto an unsuspecting individual's laptop, or induce someone to download code onto their laptop that executes some function?  Yes, I believe that to be the case.

    Do you know how different it is to steal emails from a hacked device than it is to plant them there? Without the FBI being able to tell? They're not individual files and there's more info on each than the text you see when you read them. 

    If the Russians planted emails on Weiner's laptop, that would far exceed the hacking they've been accused of so far. That's a lot more sophisticated than just stealing someone's password through a successful phishing expedition so you can read their email. If the Russians did that, the FBI knows and we'll hear about it. We should've already heard about it. 

  14. 48 minutes ago, Modessit said:

    Wife went grocery shopping and came home with some stuffed pasta dish with butternut squash in it. Nobody in my family likes squash - including her. I ask her why she got it and she said she wanted to get something different. I pointed out that nobody here likes squash and that I'm not eating it. She tells me that she'll save it for a night I'm working late and it's just her and the kids.

    Fast forward a few nights and I come home to find a large amount of butternut squash pasta in a container in the fridge. Wife tells me the kids wouldn't eat it and she didn't like it.

    Me: "So why did you put it in the fridge instead of the garbage disposal?"

    Her: "I thought you might want it."

    It's still in the fridge.

    Now it's your fault that food was wasted. 

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