Good night.

@#58 ... It was a response to your #49. ...

Still, not explaining what the "it" referred to.

... I'm about done for tonight. ...

Have a good night.

... Thank you for engaging in a discussion absent of trolling, straw mans and personal attacks.

It was a pleasant change from what I've grown accustomed to. ...

You'll find that on these message boards you reap what you sow.

:)

Good night.

@#165 ... I was quoting you in #163 and you then responded to your own comment as if I made it. Hilarious. ...

Yeah, I blew it in misreading the quotation in that reply. Thanks for pointing it out.

So, what has your current alias to say about the question(s) I ask in #164?

Or is it too busy doing a happy dance to read further?

:)

@#53 ... I never saw it even remotely acknowledged when these unprecedented mandates were rolled out. ...

For starters, what is the "it" your current alias refers to?

Once that [intentional?] ambiguity is resolved, the discussion can continue.

@#47 ... created all sorts of public health harms. ...

Without weighing the benefits?

OK, I admit, a major change of discussion here, but related to the collection of personal data...

@#43 ... Thankfully, there are people who are doing it not because they have an axe to grind and a desire to say "I told you so," but are actually interested in the effects and improving future responses. ...

Worth a repeat, in bold...

Thankfully, there are people who are doing it not because they have an axe to grind and a desire to say "I told you so," but are actually interested in the effects and improving future responses.

@#163 ... Quite frankly, I've little concern about how these various trials affect fmr Pres Trump from a voter perspective. ...

Yet, the articles your current alias seems post to substantiate its opinion have that "public opinion" slant to them.

... The lines between legal and public opinion are being blurred. It's an election year. ...

I do not disagree.

But Law and Order has to be the rule in this case.

Otherwise, what is the result?

An occupant of the Oval Office who says that he can direct the head of the DoJ to prosecute anyone he wants to prosecute?

@#5 ... The USA has no teeth when it comes to the religious nation of israel ...

I'm not yet convinced of that.

But I do note the "religious nation" aspect of your comment, and how so many here in this Country seem to want to turn it into a Religious Nation.

There is google's OTP (highly recommended by sites).

But when I look at the data it colelcts, I see:

"This app may collect these data types: Personal info. Photos and video and 4 others."

Wait, what? Personal info??? For starters, how personal?

So, then I looked at Microsoft's OTP app (another major player).

And I saw...

"This app may collect these data types: location.

OK, that's better, but still...

Then I look at FreeOTP Authenticator from Red Hat, and I see...

No data shared with third parties.

No data collected.

So... which OTP app do you think I will use?

@#158 ... He was talking about that issue from a voter perspective standpoint. ...

So... as I noticed from that first paragraph.

Appealing to the court of public opinion instead of the Court of Justice.

Quite frankly, I've little concern about how these various trials affect fmr Pres Trump from a voter perspective.

My concern here is, and has been, that someone who runs afoul of the law needs to be held accountable. Not by voters, but by the Justice system.

Back in the summer of 2016 I stated my view of then candidate Trump. It was not a good view. But did the Republicans listen?

No.

And now, look at what the Republican party is dealing with. Having to suck up to a person who seems to be less than honorable (I'm being kind).

/

@#156 ... Please give me your honest assessment ...

Well, for starters, the very first paragraph of that OpEd says...

... I argued that the gag order Trump violated multiple times is unwarranted because there are reasons of law and self-interest that should induce the de facto 2024 Republican presidential nominee to rein it in. In making that point, I stressed: "Trump's diatribes remind the majority of voters in the country who oppose him why they oppose him." ...

If that is a correct assertion, then it should have been appealed at this point.

But, it was not.

More from that OpEd...

... I said "the majority of voters" oppose Trump because it is true. It's not credibly contestable. It has been true for almost a decade that a majority ...

At that point, the paywall kicked in and I could not read further.

But, I would say that my concern is the statement at the start of the OpEd...

... I argued that the gag order Trump violated multiple times is unwarranted because there are reasons of law and self-interest that should induce the de facto 2024 Republican presidential nominee to rein it in. In making that point, I stressed: "Trump's diatribes remind the majority of voters in the country who oppose him why they oppose him." ...

My honest assessment, based upon what I could read of the OpEd: ...

The author of that OpEd seems to want to try fmr Pres Trump in the court of public opinion instead of the Court of Justice.

Children.

@#1 ... The industry has been saying ...

Oh, that ain't good.

That's just an another apparent way of saying... you are screwed.

More from the article...

... Why it matters: Crowded orbits and collisions between satellites raise the risk of creating dangerous space debris and making parts of the planet's orbit unusable.

- - - "The industry has been saying space is becoming more congested for years, but now reality is setting in and the pressure is on to address the increasing risk in orbit," Melissa Quinn, general manager at Slingshot Aerospace said in a press release. Slingshot published its first State of Satellite Deployments & Orbital Operations report on Tuesday. ...

@#150 ... could easily do so regarding this case. The problem is, the immediate reaction when I supply any link is to reflexively slaughter the source ...

Then maybe, just maybe, provide better links?

For me, it is not the provided link, but what the provided link asserts.

If the link is just an echo of the usual garbage your current alias posts, well, what do you expect the reaction to be?

That aside, do try to continue posting links to substantiate what your current alias asserts here on this most august site.

Those links help me to understand your views.

@#149

Nice to see your current alias alias kicking up a lot of dust.

But, I have to ask, ... why have not fmr Pres Trump's lawyers raised those issues, if they are as valid as your current seems to assert they are?

Or is your current alias just venting methane out of its analpore?

Or, maybe ...

Your current alias should take the job of being the lawyer representing fmr Pres Trump?

More from the article...

... The US Department of Agriculture this week posted an unpublished version of its genetic analysis into the spillover and spread of bird flu into US dairy cattle, offering the most complete look yet at the data state and federal investigators have amassed in the unexpected and worrisome outbreak -- and what it might mean.

The preprint analysis provides several significant insights into the outbreak -- from when it may have actually started, just how much transmission we're missing, stunning unknowns about the only human infection linked to the outbreak, and how much the virus continues to evolve in cows. The information is critical as flu experts fear the outbreak is heightening the ever-present risk that this wily flu virus will evolve to spread among humans and spark a pandemic. ...

But another big finding from the preprint is how many gaps still exist in our current understanding of the outbreak. To date, the USDA has identified 36 herds in nine states that have been infected with H5N1. The good news from the genetic analysis is that the USDA can draw lines connecting most of them. USDA researchers reported that "direct movement of cattle based upon production practices" seems to explain how H5N1 hopped from the Texas panhandle region"where the initial spillover is thought to have occurred -- to nine other states, some as far-flung as North Carolina, Michigan, and Idaho. ...

Putative transmission pathways of HPAI H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b genotype B3.13 supported by epidemiological links, animal movements, and genomic analysis.

The bad news is that those lines connecting the herds aren't solid. There are gaps in which the genetic data suggests unidentified transmission occurred, maybe in unsampled cows, maybe in other animals entirely. The genetic data is clear that once this strain of bird flu"H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4 genotype B3.13 -- hopped into cattle, it could readily spread to other mammals. The genetic data links viruses from cattle moving many times into other animals: There were five cattle-to-poultry jumps, one cattle-to-raccoon transmission, two events where the virus moved from cattle to domestic cats, and three times when the virus from cattle spilled back into wild birds.

"We cannot exclude the possibility that this genotype is circulating in unsampled locations and hosts as the existing analysis suggests that data are missing and undersurveillance may obscure transmission inferred using phylogenetic methods," the USDA researchers wrote in their preprint. ...

@#147 ... This is how Vox summarized the indictment at the time it was made public: ...

... and now that under-oath evidence has been presented, how has that changed.

Let me also say, back when I first saw this indictment (circa, a month ago when that Vox article was published), I thought the case was weak, and I have said so here on this most august site.

But, my view has changed as I have seen and read the under-oath testimony.

Do I still think the case is weak? Not as much as I had thought. But I'm still 50-50 on the jury's decision.

But, as an aside, thanks for the link. Your current alias should provide links more often.

:)

Another view...

@#40 ... then picked up Fortran77 in college for Meteorology as that was the language running all the forecast modeling software. ...

Yeah, there is so much Fortran (and Cobol) software "out there" that needs to be mintained, and precious few who can maintain it.

For example...

@#41 ... And Lamplighter...why do you still have a calculator? ...

Simple.

My mental arithmetic is not what it used to be.

When I went to a gas station to fill up the tank.

I used to look at the total cost and the gallons, and do the mental arithmetic to calculate the price per gallon, and then compare it with that the price per gallon on the pump displayed.

Sadly, I can no longer do that level of mental arithmetic.

But to answer your question, I don't use a calculator a lot, but once or twice, maybe, a month.

#@22 ... I had to learn how to use a slide ruler. ...

One thing about the slide rule that I liked, when you used it to come to an answer, you could look at it and see how you set up the problem you wanted it to solve. And then take a step back and evaluate how you set up the problem.

Calculators don't do that.

@#19 ... NERDS!!!!!!!!!!! ...

Yup.

And proud of it.

So... what's yer point?

:)

@#14 ... What if you had to insert a line? ...

The sequence numbers I used incremented by 10 per card.

So it was easy to insert a card in the deck in the proper place.

00010
00020

Often became

00010
00015
00020

And then

00010
00013
00015
00020

etc...

More from the article...

... "Bottom line is that basically, if we were to have a conflict with one, the chances are we would have a second front," Lt Gen. Jeffrey Kruse, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, said.

Moscow-Beijing ties have soared to new heights since the countries announced a "no limits" partnership shortly before Russia's February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Increased bilateral trade has helped buoy Russia's heavily sanctioned economy, while Russia has provided China with cheap oil and natural gas.

China maintains it is neutral regarding the Russia-Ukraine war but censors social media content critical of Moscow's war, which Beijing has neither condemned nor labeled an invasion.

"We see China and Russia, for the first time, exercising together in relation to Taiwan and recognizing that this is a place where China definitely wants Russia to be working with them, and we see no reason why they wouldn't," Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines said on Thursday. ...

@#139 ... Not exact same, but similar. False numbers were used in multiple instances.

Are you pretending once you lie about it, every other lie about the same thing is suddenly legal?!? ...

My guess is that that current alias is trying to argue that anything fmr Pres Trump does is legal, damn the legal details.

I may be wrong on that, though.

@#133 ... Now you are talking out of your arse. ...

Why?

Wow, unexpectedly, the lyrics of the song caught my attention.

Speaking of NYC...

@#117 ... A person cannot be guilty of criminal intent unless guilt is admitted or it's tried and proven in court beyond a reasonable doubt. ...

Yup.

So, what is your current alias' point?

@#57 ... Time to tax the living F out of them!
Eff them all! ...

I disagree.

@#11 ... That publication was part of the study material for a training course I took years ago. I didn't take it seriously at the time but I kept the book and pulled it out today. I have been to hundreds of protests, mostly during my years as a police officer in DC. Looking back, the book was spot on.

I am a firm believer in the first amendment and the right to protest peacefully. Unfortunately, so many protests are not peaceful. ...

Yeah. I agree with that "peaceful" aspect.

And police officers often have to put themselves between the peaceful and the violent.

As seen in the J6 riots.

@#3 ... The idiocy of progressives ...

What is the "idiocy" here?