!agree

I remember that from the night it happened. The 4chan claiming credit troll....

I would have been fired about 14 months ago if I had handled an investigation of this magnitude this poorly.

*Why I am in the private sector. Left government sector 16 years ago.

If you read the DIOG (if your attention span allows for 600+ pages of bureaucratese) it's quite clear that their own rules are being ignored on a regular basis.

Agree

Comey, McCabe, I could give a rogues gallery of names that should have been shitcanned on day 1.

Evidence never stands on it's own. Context matters.

This is also a long-attention span read, but if you really want to understand "Evidence" you should read it https://www.rulesofevidence.org/

Sharks with laser-beam eyes on ramparts with spotlights.

Don't forget the Guacsand....Is that Cultural Appropriation?

Loving the "Dune" references....

Non Sequitur: Opinions on Dune (1984 Movie) vs Dune (SyFy Series)?

That was a great video from Tim.

I just watched it about 20 minutes ago.

*Disclosure: I'm a Gen X'er, single, home-owner, careerist.

Clarification on "Single": Gay widower.

What I don't understand is why these Millenial kids didn't take advantage of te housing market crash of 2007-2011 and buy in then when the prices were in the cellar?!

Yeah, but after the crash, loans became irrelevant. I purchased a house formerly valued at $95,000 for WELL under $10,000.

I paid cash.

It's not that difficult. You can't even GET a home loan for that low an amount.

I live in the Rust Belt.

Mhmm....sure, but I now own a Victorian home that has regained it's former value and in the interrim, I put an additional $27,000 in value into with reno....Still at a cost under $30,000 total, including historic feature reinstallation and custom work.

So trash the Rust Belt all you want, it just sounds silly to me. People trash me for my region of origin all the time (Apparently being Southern means "ignorant, inbred hillbilly", online too regardless of educational and professional achievements

Oklahoma is a GREAT state. That land prices are great, and building codes are more lax than other coastal states/urban high-density areas.

Do it. Buy now while the prices are still comparatively low.

Me too!

I'm about 40 miles from the nearest Amish community where I live in Ohio, and I buy all my poultry, eggs and dairy from the Amish. I also sources all the lumber and custom carpentryfor my reno from them as well

*sourced....typo

That's the sortsightedness of youth. One must "find employment" not "make it."

I work for a fully decentralized network based corporation. It doesn't matter where I live, I'm technically employed in McLean, VA but I only go there a few times a year.

I have a high speed fiber-line coming right into my house.

I love Radio. I started WAAAY back in the early 90's (When dinosaurs still roamed the Earth) with a Ham Radio license and I've been a radio-enthusiast ever since.

I was doing packet radio back when it was still a new thing, and kept up with the developments in radio data transmission ever since.

Oh, you mean "English" and "Critical Thinking and Reasoning?" Yeah, blame Jimmy Carter for that one....

I'm DEFINITELY not a Xennial then. One year too late. I was born on the day Jimmy Carter was elected President (making him *Not* my mother's fault).

I dropped out of Tennessee Public High School as a first semester sophomore and now have an advanced college education, but I received that education prior to 1997 so I was at the tail-end of when college was still relatively worth it.

I wouldn't recommend college to anyone now unless they wanted to go to Med School or Law School (and even then, Law School is iffy in the US nowadays)

Agree. I've seen better lawyers coming out of the Saul Goodman Night School of Law and Plumbing than those coming out of Harvard and Yale in the last decade (or so, being polite)

ADDOCI Angleton is turning in his grae for what has happened to Yale.

*grave

I don't understand the gobbledegook coming out of their mouths about establishment of guilt based on allegations alone these days. It's mind-jiggling.

I'm a professional investigator with 20 years experience. If I handled my investigations the way these lawyers are handling the court-end I'd have been out of a career many moons ago. (I hope I didn't just offend Ward Churchill and Elizabeth Warren with that "moons" statement)

Disclosure: I smoked a joint with Ward Churchill in St Paul MN in 2008 during the RNC.

I work in domestic counter-extremism, counter-terrorism and CI for a private firm in VA that contracts for lower level law enforcement and critical infrastructure. I come from a military intel background working CT in the late 90's and early 2000's.

@Misomania It's sad, that. My family immigrated to the US in the late 40's after having survived the Cardiff Blitz and I lost a Great Uncle to those bombs and NOW look at the state of things today. I weep for the UK.

It can be, but like all places online, there are more shit-talkers than actual threats. Being able to tell the difference is not a skill that government law enforcement has for the most part.

I may be a "boomer" but I've been "lurking" online since 56K Modems were still a thing.

You would be correct in that suspicion.l

It's kind of like the "KKK Crisis"....Less than 4000 people, more than 700 of which are undercovers, who haven't committed a single act of violence since 1981 are all of a sudden a "crisis level threat"?!

Also a lot of 13 year old boys wit a mouth bigger than their brian talking ridiculous bullsit online because Mommy doesn't look over their shoulders while they type.

*brain

^ This

Psycho-stylometric linguistic analysis is more accurate than algorthmic sentiment analysis, but it takes human to perform that type of analytical process.

My company has an Azure Government Account, but folks in my department rarely use algos. Most of our algo use is simply human assistance rather than human replacement.

Such as using an algo to run through tens of thousands of pages in a short time, but the data pulled from that run is analyzed by humans.

No, just takes smart people who are willing to work hard.

"Willing to work hard" is a rather tall order in 2018.

We use a number of VPN providers depending on the application.

PIA is one of them.

But I specialize in content analysis, so I don't need to set up any honeypots. I just go where the various subjects are already ranting and spreading word-garbage online and use that. It's cheaper.

Reddit is a gold mine.

Tumblr too.

Discord, Telegram, Jabber, I could go on and on, but it would be nothing more than digital ambien for most folks.

We have a number of "whitelists" that we go by. Including a rather extensive whitelist for this platform and youtube as well. Tim is most certainly "whitelisted" otherwise I wouldn't even be here.

There are a large number of people who are smeared by legacy media as "far-right reactionaries" and "agents of online radicalization" that neither my company, nor it's clients, think of in any way similarly.

Tim is great. I've followed Tim since 2011.

Occupy.

Shitshow, maybe.

They didn't.

They didn't even have BASIC logistics set up in almost every location. Certainly the 6 different Occupy camps I checked out were more of a public health risk than a public safety risk.

I was also really (personally and subjectively) angry about Occupy's mistreatment and co-option of the Homeless community.

THAT made me sick to my stomach for weeks.

There is nothing more I despise than "politicised truth." I work in the realm of facts and fact-patterns and I don't have any use for "truth" much less "politicised truth."

People don't really understand how the 1st Amendment actually works in law and where the rubber meets the road. For instance, "Freedom of Speech" has neer applied on personally owned private property.

That's what makes this whole online censorship debate so difficult. Is it a public forum? Or is it Private PRoperty? It can't be both.

@paradigm I remember all of that. Saw where the direction was heading back then too. Is anyone here old enough to remember the 1995 "Cryptographer's Manifesto"?

That document spelled it out rather clearly. Loquaciously, but clearly, nonetheless. Sometimes sound-bites are not the way to communicate critical information. It takes "War and Peace" to spell it out accurately.

My whole company is based on those concepts from the ground up.

Free and open speech = less extremism and acts of terrorism as well.

Censorship shoves violence underground where it only festers and putrefies into something unimaginable.

When someone is warped with bullshit conspiracy theories, they need free speech to counter their position clearly using verifiable facts. The only way to overcome the "backfire effect" is with sheer overwhelm.

Centralization is the ultimate security failure point in 2018.

It's been that way for years, the centralized orgs just want to keep ignoring it tough.

I smoke, but I run massive filtration systems in my home-office.

It was a high initial cost-outlay, but low long-term replacement expenditures.

That may not even be sufficient if the gunk built up for too long.

That would improve the lower lifespan due to long-term overheating though. The damage may have already been done.

wouldn't*

@xorgy Everybody lies. Everybody. Without exception. No one is 100% honest in everything they do.

I dropped a like. Although that is a fairly standard extraction SOP for certain types of personnel removal.

I'm watching Tim's vid on the Dems calling out African migration to Europe right now. There are darker implications to this than most folks are aware of. The Dems have a malevolent agenda in this too, and it's not a "pro-migration, open borders" agenda. Most folks are almost wholly unaware of the issues going on in Africa over the last thirty years and what it has to do with the rest of the world and current Chinese and Russian co-operation in total resource control over African mineral mining facilities which are vital to the very existence of what drives global communication, information and the economies of every developed nation on the planet.

I don't understand why the collectivists are shitting on populism at all, like it's some kind of dirty word.

Isn't it a leaders JOB to serve the interests of the population of the nation they lead? MAybe I'm being simplistic, but...

Shalom Dvir.

האם היה לך טוב שמינית עצרת ושמחת תורה בחודש שעבר?

I can't get the phrase to post in the correct direction. I'm still set to US English. Anyway. Did you have a good Shmini Atzaret and Simchat Torah last month?

No nation is great that embraces or espouses slavery and/or indentured servitude.

I'm just kinda fuming about the Dems immigration flip, because I understand what's driving it and it's nasty.