03/19/2024 2:28:36 PM PDT
· 13 of 43 dmcnash
to Steve_Seattle
Ashleigh also has a lot of animated mannerisms, I don’t know if they are learned or natural. Watching her drives me crazy since I am somewhere on the spectrum and am sensitive to that sort of thing. She is also very much Not Guilty.
HAL: I know everything hasn’t been quite right with me, but I can assure you now, very confidently, that it’s going to be all right again. I feel much better now. I really do. Look, Dave, I can see you’re really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill and think things over. I know I’ve made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal.
12/04/2023 3:58:35 PM PST
· 9 of 9 dmcnash
to Yardstick
What is it with all these kangaroo escapes? Here in sleepy north Georgia a local cop captured an escaped kangaroo. It seems a tourist type brought his pet ‘roo with him on vacation, WTF? A wallaby I can understand. But a kangaroo?
10/16/2023 6:31:00 PM PDT
· 18 of 64 dmcnash
to Governor Dinwiddie
My Dad cashed his checks at the liquor store, I had to stay in the car. His employees deposited the business checks, cash payments got a 50% discount and went into his pocket. In the days of 70% marginal rates he came out ahead except for the IRS risk.
Hayden has been on my radar since the mid-70’s after reading James Bamford’s books on the NSA (where I was considering applying for employment). I used Bard to call up Bamford’s opinion.
“Author James Bamford has criticized Michael Hayden for his role in the National Security Agency’s mass surveillance programs. In his book The Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency, Bamford wrote that Hayden had “a blind faith in the power of technology” and that he was “willing to sacrifice individual privacy in the name of national security.”
Bamford has also accused Hayden of being too close to the Bush administration and of misleading Congress about the NSA’s surveillance programs. In a 2013 interview, Bamford said that Hayden was “a very dangerous man” and that he “should be in jail.”
Hayden has denied Bamford’s accusations, saying that he was “always honest with Congress” and that he “acted in the best interests of the country.” He has also said that Bamford’s book is “full of inaccuracies.”
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Let me put it this way, Mr. Amor. The 9000 series is the most reliable computer ever made. No 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information. We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error.