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1 hour ago, Larry said:

Just had a patient's mother inform me that she is a civil war expert. And the civil war wasn't about slavery, it was because the North didn't have any ports, and wanted the South's ports. 

No, no, no. It was about State's rights...................................................................................................................to own slaves

I don't think removal of these statues is sanitizing history. Anyway, there is a weird line here between our country granting honorable status to the former Confederate states, and their citizens, and the dishonor of the cause they fought for (with valor in many cases).

My aunt lives right over in Westmoreland county VA and I was left speechless when she openly told me one day (we were at a funeral and discussing her son, my cousin) "he has his difficulties, but at least he didn't marry negro girl." I was like "What year is this?"

It isn't a mass shooting in the traditional sense, but what the heck happened in Chicago over the weekend? This is such a sad statistic.

Cold logic vs. heated emotion. This always ends well.

24 minutes ago, Renegade7 said:

This what you talking about?

 

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-thomas-jefferson-statue-stand-with-jefferson-20151021-story.html
 

Yeah, looks like it didn't gain a lot of traction. Here is where I read it originally.

https://www.change.org/p/the-university-of-missouri-remove-the-statue-of-thomas-jefferson-from-campus

1 minute ago, Renegade7 said:

Court of public opinion it would seem.  Whether the legal method or this one, if we agree someones statue like Jefferson won't get toppled, who's statue are you actually worried will?

Didn't some folks already try to remove T. Jefferson's statue on a college campus in Missouri or somewhere?

20 minutes ago, Renegade7 said:

 If anything people taking down these statues themselves will help force the issue for change in that state, which as visionary had pointed was matter  impossible via legal means.

 

Maybe. But it will also give conservative media just another red meat talking point to feed the aggressive masses. "Look, see, this is what I have been telling you all along! Liberals hate anybody who disagrees with them! Universities are intolerant, blah, blah, blah..." Get out the virtual pitchforks, torches, and Facebook memes.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/08/indian-bank-hit-in-13-5m-cyberheist-after-fbi-atm-cashout-warning/

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On Sunday, Aug. 12, KrebsOnSecurity carried an exclusive: The FBI was warning banks about an imminent “ATM cashout” scheme about to unfold across the globe, thanks to a data breach at an unknown financial institution. On Aug. 14, a bank in India disclosed hackers had broken into its servers, stealing nearly $2 million in fraudulent bank transfers and $11.5 million unauthorized ATM withdrawals from cash machines in more than two dozen countries.

 

The FBI put out its alert on Friday, Aug. 10. The criminals who hacked into Pune, India-based Cosmos Bank executed their two-pronged heist the following day, sending co-conspirators to fan out and withdraw a total of about $11.5 million from ATMs in 28 countries.

The FBI warned it had intelligence indicating that criminals had breached an unknown payment provider’s network with malware to access bank customer card information and exploit network access, enabling large scale theft of funds from ATMs.

 

Part of a message I got from a corporate lawyer today. Due to the President cutting some deal with ZTE. This could be a serious financial burden for some companies.

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Congress included a provision in the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, which the President has signed into law.  Under that provision (Section 889 of the Act), two years from now, all Federal agencies will be prohibited from contracting with any entity that uses telecommunications or video surveillance equipment or services from the following Chinese companies:

 

Huawei Technologies Company

ZTE Corporation (or any of their subsidiaries or affiliates)

Hytera Communications Corporation

Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Company

Dahua Technology Company (or any of their subsidiaries or affiliates)

 

So, looks like the bulk of the cases are pre-2002 and since then the RCC has had significant internal reform to mitigate a lot of these crimes. At least there is one positive nugget in this whole mess.

https://patch.com/pennsylvania/levittown/vatican-releases-statement-pa-catholic-priest-sex-abuse-report

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The bulk of the report, which has been described as the "biggest and most exhaustive ever" investigation into priest sex abuse by an individual state, covers events that occurred before the early 2000s. And even though there are 300 priests named, the grand jury notes: "We should emphasize that, while the list of priests is long, we don't think we got them all."

The Vatican's statement says "continued reform and vigilance at all levels" among the church has led to a reduction in abuse.

"By finding almost no cases after 2002, the Grand Jury's conclusions are consistent with previous studies showing the Catholic Church reforms in the United States drastically reduced the incidence of clerical sexual abuse. The Holy See encourages continued reform and vigilance at all levels of the Catholic Church. The Holy See also wants to underscore the need to comply with the civil law, including mandatory child abuse reporting requirements," the statement said.

 

24 minutes ago, Renegade7 said:

Ya, don't work there anymore but want to say I tried that after spending some time looking for people with same problem. 

 

I really think it's because the DCs are too old, kept seeing articles that even importing that module to your local computer doesn't matter if the DCs don't allow AD queries vis powershell.  You ever seen the no ADWS thing before? 

 

I both DCs in that domain were 2008, not 2008r2 (started with r2), and I wanted to avoid login to the DCs via RDP to run powershell locally. WinRF wasn't enabled on DCs, and didnt get permission to do it, so login via powershell to DCs, import that module, and run commands may have worked, but not an option before I left.

No but seems to be in thing right now.  Third time I've witnessed a full migration, this will be first from gmail. You gonna keep an on-premise exchange server?  I was walking in same time they were decommissioning it, so didn't get chance to see how they worked together.

We currently have 5 separate AD/Exchange 2010 org's. Looking to go hybrid on one and consolidate the other 4 into one 2016 org in a resource forest (they can't use commercial tenant and would have to go Fedramp w/ GCC High plan).

Evaluating the complete costs of running email on-premise for a large international company and writing a business case to move to Office 365 is none too easy...

This is unrelated to the RCC, its about two evangelical pastors who confessed to adultery, but the case of Art Azurdia is the way the RCC should be addressing these things, not with euphemisms, beating around the bush, and secrecy.

https://thecripplegate.com/a-tale-of-two-confessions/

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A Tale of Two Confessions

 

In the past month, two prominent pastors have had their private sins publicly exposed: Bill Hybels and Art Azurdia—one nationally known and whose fall was front page news, the other known only inside of evangelical circles and his fall reported largely on social media.

Both demonstrated conduct contrary to the qualifications of 1 Timothy 3, conduct that disqualifies them from being elders. Both committed adultery, and the fall of both men will obviously bring shame on the name of Christ.

But there is one huge contrast between these two situations—namely, how their respective churches responded. 

In the case of Hybles, the accusations against him were not handled biblically and the potential harm for not only the families involved but for the church herself has been increased by that failure. In the case of Azurdia, his church followed the Biblical pattern for situations like this, and while his conduct will certainly cause some to question their faith, his church has mitigated that in large part by their adherence to scripture.

 

more at link

I think its a mistake to separate Lin and Czabe. They had rapport.

3 minutes ago, PeterMP said:

 

The border with Mexico is more secure now than any time in US history.  We have more people and more equipment on the border now then ever.  If we are going to talk about border security, we have to have a measure of what it means to be secure.  If one person comes over the Mexican border illegally, is it not "secure"?  Is the illegal Mexican more of an issue than the person that flies and has a legal visa or something, but stays after they should have gone back?  Estimates have ~50% of the people here illegally coming in on planes, not over the Mexican border.

 

That may be, I personally don't know and don't have reason to doubt you. But I am somebody who does not have the moral flexibility like Trump or many of his supporters.

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The other point here, is the human brain is an odd device.  If somebody lies, correcting the lie with the negative just re-enforces the initial statement.

 

If I say the sky is red and in correcting me, you say the sky is not red, you are actually re-enforcing the sky is red in other people's minds.  Trump isn't stupid.  He knows how to manipulate people to get what he wants.

 

Exactly. Except he takes it beyond negative fact correction and employs the argument from emotion to the nth degree. He may be dumb on policy, but he knows people and how to manipulate them, and he's proud of it. Overwhelmingly, most of his opponents spend almost all their energy correcting his statements with a negative, instead of working to further their own cause. Playing his game.

23 hours ago, JCB said:

 

Sweet Christmas, really? Dude, how 'bout I just take your word for it and not read that.

 

I mean . . . 

If you want to know how President Trump's mind works, seriously read this. Most people react to him exactly as he wants. Just look at the quantity of content on here about him.

https://www.businessinsider.com/dilbert-creator-scott-adams-explains-trumps-persuasion-style-2017-10

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So why did I say Trump had exactly a 98 percent chance of winning when I couldn't possibly know the odds?

 

That's a persuasion technique. You saw Trump use the intentional wrongness persuasion play over and over, and almost always to good effect.

 

The method goes like this:

1. Make a claim that is directionally accurate but has a big exaggeration or factual error in it.

2. Wait for people to notice the exaggeration or error and spend endless hours talking about how wrong it is.

3. When you dedicate focus and energy to an idea, you remember it. And the things that have the most mental impact on you will irrationally seem as though they are high in priority, even if they are not. That's persuasion.

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Trump used the intentional wrongness persuasion play off then, and it seemed to work every time, at least in terms of attracting attention where he wanted it. It even works when you know he's doing it. If you're talking about whatever topic he wants you to focus on, he has your mind right where he wants it, even if you are criticizing him for his errors while you are there.

For example, take Trump's campaign promise that he would build a "wall" on the border of Mexico.

Common sense tells you that solid walls are not the best solution for all types of terrain. In many locations, the most cost-effective solutions might include wire fences, or digital monitoring of various types, or something else.

 

If Trump had wanted to be accurate, he would have mentioned all of those solutions every time he talked about border security.

He did make some casual admissions that the border would be secured in different ways in different places. But most of the time he ignored those details, and wisely so.

By continuing to call it a "wall" without details, he caused the public and the media to view that as an error.

So they argued about it. They fact-checked it. They put together cost estimates.

They criticized Trump for not understanding that it couldn't be a "wall" the entire way.

 

How stupid can he be?????

And when they were done criticizing Trump for the "error" of saying he would build one big solid "wall," the critics had convinced themselves that border security was a higher priority than they had thought coming into the conversation.

 

The ideas that you think about the most are the ones that automatically and irrationally rise in your mental list of priorities. And Trump made us think about the wall a lot. He did that because he knew voters would see him as the strongest voice on the topic.

It also sucked up media energy that might have focused on political topics he didn't understand at the same depth as his competitors. Master Persuaders move your energy to the topics that help them, independent of facts and reason.

 

 

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2 hours ago, c slag said:

The words "war" and "liberal" are two words that really excite the base and thus improves ratings 

That and now media outlets are alive with more conspiracy theories claiming this was only done by companies to influence the coming elections.

14 minutes ago, stevemcqueen1 said:

I had a very different perspective on Killmonger.  To me he came off as incoherent and not believable.  I also thought his plan was harebrained and I thought Michael B Jordan went too "comic book" with his performance.  Visuals that work in comic books can come off as too overstated and silly on screen.  The villains were the one thing I didn't like about Black Panther.  Serkis was OK, if a bit annoying.  I thought the film really failed to develop Daniel Kaluuya's character and missed an opportunity to take advantage of the actor's talent.

 

I think the best villains have been the ensemble movie villains:

1 - Ultron

2 - Thanos

 

Distant third - Loki

 

Those movies have a much better opportunity to develop their villains because the main characters have already been well established by their appearances in other movies.  Ultron and Thanos were the main characters of their films.  That said, I thought MCU missed an opportunity with Baron Zemo in Civil War.  He was very forgettable.  Ross and Stark were the real villains of that film.

 

I think Obadiah Stain, Vulture, and Red Skull were the three best villains from the solo films by far.  They were legitimately good.  I thought Whiplash was alright but undeveloped.  Hela and Ronan the Accuser were competently portrayed but not particularly interesting.  Darren Cross was a bit incoherent and underdeveloped, like Killmonger.  The Mandarin was a joke and a major missed opportunity.  Ego was absurd.  Aldrich Killian, Robert Redford (can't even remember his name), Malekith, Kaecilius and Dormamu were nothing.  Vague sources of conflict with no personality or development whatsoever.  Ant Man and Wasp didn't even have a villain.  Winter Soldier was a pawn who makes a clear face turn.  Grandmaster was fun but not much of a villain either.  It's been so long since I've seen Hulk that I honestly can't remember if Abomination was the villain or if he was from the Ang Lee movie instead.

Am I the only one who thought Justin Hammer, as inept as he was, was one of the better villains? Maybe he wasn't just a "real" villain?

12 hours ago, Springfield said:

Man, I’d love for more outlets to bounce these “conservative” voices.

 

How long until Fox News cries outrage on the left for killing “freedom of speech”.

I'm already seeing the complaining among the Trump supporters on social media. Even one's who don't like him.

13 hours ago, zoony said:

 

This is 95 percent of modern US Social issues

 

Most spoiled, soft country in world history. 

I heard you saying this in a Johnny Lawrence (Cobra Kai) voice.

Pat Stewart looks pretty good for a man who is 78

1 hour ago, Mournblade said:

 

Also, Antman and the Wasp was NOT a very good movie.

 

Marvel's days as top dog won't last forever.

 

I loved it. It's supporting cast makes up for anything lacking in the top billed actors. I was left wondering though, what did Michelle Pfeiffer eat and drink for 30 years in the Quantum realm? I mean you are smaller than a water molecule...

27 minutes ago, nonniey said:

It wasn't bad though which cannot be said about Justice league.

I liked both, but Marvel is better by far.

1 hour ago, JCB said:

I'm still processing the fact that the Dilbert guy is MAGA.

You should look up his interviews and articles about how Trump uses a form of mass hypnosis to persuade people and plant suggestions.

NSFW due to language... wish he didn't use the F word so much. Anyways, he makes a good point: "be a man and work". I think that applies to a lot of these incels as well as a lot of "not-so-incels" as well. Mental illness is a more complex discussion.