GVIrish

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by GVIrish 10y ago
I'm all for gun rights but allowing firearms on airplanes would be a disaster. Just to start with, if you allow firearms a group of hijackers could ostensibly open fire on the cockpit and kill the pilots before any other passenger cou
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by GVIrish 10y ago
That Dan Luu blog post is gold. It really is kind of sad how arbitrary, capricious, and wasteful hiring in IT is, not to mention the short-sighted thinking about talent. I also really liked the post he did about discrimination in tech: ht
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by GVIrish 10y ago
In any group of people sometimes there are going to be people who don't get along for whatever reason. That doesn't necessarily make that person an asshole. An asshole is who someone who makes like miserable for most people they
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by GVIrish 10y ago
> However, not everybody turns out to be a star and in some companies (plenty still foster it) they don't want their average employees to be completely rogue. I think it's more that most companies don't want employees chal
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by GVIrish 10y ago
Ghost in the Shell is a Japanese film, set in Japan with Japanese characters and you don't think casting the Japanese protagonist as Scarlet Johansson is not whitewashing? On top of that, Paramount contracted a VFX studio which claims
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by GVIrish 10y ago
Could be because 'white girl' is also slang for cocaine.
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by GVIrish 10y ago
Eh, I would say that there is more than one viable way to approach the issue and it totally depends on the people involved and severity of the infraction. In this case maybe counseling/training could fix the behavior in the harasser, m
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by GVIrish 10y ago
You're talking about a couple of different issues here. Official record retention for the purpose of storing to the National Archives rarely applies to the emails of normal employees. There isn't department wide mandatory traini
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by GVIrish 10y ago
I have worked at State since 2009, it's not a department wide requirement. Security training is yearly and mandatory but record retention and NARA compliance is a different matter.
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by GVIrish 10y ago
> Clinton was required to report the unauthorized disclosure of classified info. But she didn't. If she knew the origin of the information, yes. It seems like no one is saying she knew where the information came or that it was clas
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by GVIrish 10y ago
> Intuitively, it feels that those emails aren't official government records. But according to the law, they actually are official records. [1] Emails from top-level officials like heads of cabinet agencies are part of the official
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by GVIrish 10y ago
Used personal email for public business. Ended up with some classified emails on his personal account. Same thing. If you want to get very specific, yes, Colin Powell wasn't using colin@colinpowell.com as his email. But the issue is
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by GVIrish 10y ago
You're absolutely right. I think a lot of people who get to the top in politics or business have an extremely high level of confidence and determination, but sometimes that turns into arrogance and a disdain for rules. Clinton is one
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by GVIrish 10y ago
By your reading, if someone removes classified markings from classified documents or makes a derivative document with classified information and sends it to your email, you are breaking the law by receiving that document. If something is no
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by GVIrish 10y ago
That's not the right analogy. It would be more like if you were a famous business person brought in to be CEO, and wanted to keep using your personal email. You'd probably still catch some flak but you might have enough power&#x2
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by GVIrish 10y ago
> Information is born classified, markings are irrelevant. Not sure what you mean by this. An enormous amount of effort is expended in government to mark classified and confidential documents properly, set their disposition dates, recor
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by GVIrish 10y ago
True, but the magnitude and scope of the disclosures were far different. One would reasonable expect the (potential) punishment to be different.
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by GVIrish 10y ago
That's an interesting article but it doesn't really point to wrongdoing by Clinton. * Blumenthal somehow got his hands on classified info from NSA * He pulled some of that information into an email to Clinton's public email a
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by GVIrish 10y ago
You are mistaken. Original classifying authority means that she can classify things herself up to Top Secret. That is how the term is defined. She can't unilaterally declassify anything so if another agency sent something classified
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by GVIrish 10y ago
> Speculation & Proposition: Since he worked to set up an extra-governmental private server which could potentially be used to hide governmental records, that number should be strictly greater than zero. If an email came from the Sec
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by GVIrish 10y ago
State Department regulations allowed the Secretary of State to use an external email server in their official capacity. As I said, Colin Powell did exactly the same thing, although his reason was because when he came in, State Dept. was wo
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by GVIrish 10y ago
There is more than one network in use at State Department. Opennet is for unclassified materials and that is the network that the Secretary's public email would be interacting with. There is another network expressly for classified m
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by GVIrish 10y ago
Yes, but regular emails for State Department employees don't fall under that. There are some 25000 State Department full time employees and about as many locally-employed staff around the world, then several thousand contractors. Eve
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by GVIrish 10y ago
> Isn't this the least bit fishy? To say that politicians are held to a different standard than the average citizen is in full effect here. Its a HUGE cover up. How is she not in jail yet? I think that's a bit of a misreading o
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by GVIrish 10y ago
If you ask someone out at work and they tell you, 'as friends only' that should be the end of your advances. If you continue past that point and say stuff like, "You're a Mom I'd Like to Fuck" that is clearly
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by GVIrish 10y ago
I think that's a great question and to me it gets down to, 'What are the negative consequences or externalities created by breaking the rule(s)?' With a mining company non-compliance could poison water supplies and sicken&#x2
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by GVIrish 10y ago
Decriminalizing means reducing the penalties for the crime, but it's still illegal. So it might mean you only pay a fine for offending, rather than jail time.
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by GVIrish 10y ago
> But, also, the government has, by and large, shifted its engineering focus away from systems design and more towards systems engineering and integration. Also, in general, the government cannot pay the same kinds of salaries that contr
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by GVIrish 10y ago
Yes, to a degree, several modern fighter aircraft have run into significant cost and schedule overruns due to the additional complexity born of new advanced capabilities. However, the F-35's woes are particularly bad because of some di
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by GVIrish 10y ago
By some estimates the parts commonality is now about 25%.

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