Off Topic Thread 3.0

Drew Brees is ok at Muricaball.

thomond2006

Drew Brees is rolling back the years.

So is Trump failing this medical going to be the easy way out for Republicans?

(He hasn't failed it yet)

Buer

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So is Trump failing this medical going to be the easy way out for Republicans?

(He hasn't failed it yet)

I'd be very surprised if he failed it. A medical isn't going to show up anything with regards to being a narcissistic arseh*le. Physically, he's fine. Mentally, I would imagine he's medically fine also. He may have some sort of personality disorder but I doubt that will be identified in this medical and if it was wouldn't be sufficient to see him out of office.

People need to accept that he's seeing out his term. He's already one year down and the furore over him had died down significantly before the book was released last week.

Buer

Buer wrote: »

I'd be very surprised if he failed it. A medical isn't going to show up anything with regards to being a narcissistic arseh*le. Physically, he's fine. Mentally, I would imagine he's medically fine also. He may have some sort of personality disorder but I doubt that will be identified in this medical and if it was wouldn't be sufficient to see him out of office.

People need to accept that he's seeing out his term. He's already one year down and the furore over him had died down significantly before the book was released last week.

Yeah I'd have thought that myself but a few talking heads in the US say that this being highlighted (it's a standard medical that was happening anyway) immediately after Trump spent the weekend with Republican leadership is suspicious timing. The suggestion is that this is one of the few ways Trump can step down and save face and that it may even be part of an overall deal to limit his future liabilities similar to the one Nixon availed of.

Buer

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Yeah I'd have thought that myself but a few talking heads in the US say that this being highlighted (it's a standard medical that was happening anyway) immediately after Trump spent the weekend with Republican leadership is suspicious timing. The suggestion is that this is one of the few ways Trump can step down and save face and that it may even be part of an overall deal to limit his future liabilities similar to the one Nixon availed of.

I would have thought the exact opposite. Tell all book comes out with allegations against his mental fitness so he immediately undergoes a medical and nips it all in the bud, wins a bit of PR and undermines the book as quickly as possible.

There's a host of commentators on Trump who are just desperate to cling to any sort of opportunity to see him undermined when they'd be much better sticking to the concrete stuff which there is plenty of.

The report will be nothing but positive. He can refuse to release the negative parts.

What's more likely is that Sessions get removed and replaced with someone who can and will fire Mueller

prawnsambo

Deleted User wrote: »

Yeah I'd have thought that myself but a few talking heads in the US say that this being highlighted (it's a standard medical that was happening anyway) immediately after Trump spent the weekend with Republican leadership is suspicious timing. The suggestion is that this is one of the few ways Trump can step down and save face and that it may even be part of an overall deal to limit his future liabilities similar to the one Nixon availed of.

The Democrats would prefer him to stay there I'd imagine. He's doing more damage than they could ever do to the Republicans. Conversely, that's one reason why the GOP might want him gone.

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

Yeah I'd have thought that myself but a few talking heads in the US say that this being highlighted (it's a standard medical that was happening anyway) immediately after Trump spent the weekend with Republican leadership is suspicious timing. The suggestion is that this is one of the few ways Trump can step down and save face and that it may even be part of an overall deal to limit his future liabilities similar to the one Nixon availed of.

This sounds like a bad House of Cards plotline.

I'm in pretty much no doubt he'll be in office until at least 2020.

Zzippy

Kailani Dirty Teenager wrote: »

The report will be nothing but positive. He can refuse to release the negative parts.

What's more likely is that Sessions get removed and replaced with someone who can and will fire Mueller

Firing Mueller would be a PR disaster for him. Nixon might have survived Watergate if he hadn't fired the special investigator. It was seen as going too far, even for the Republicans, and they abandoned him and told him they wouldn't vote for him in an impeachment vote. Firing Mueller would be an admission that there is serious evidence there of treason or very serious criminal activity, and the furore would be incredible.

Zzippy

Zzippy wrote: »

Firing Mueller would be a PR disaster for him. Nixon might have survived Watergate if he hadn't fired the special investigator. It was seen as going too far, even for the Republicans, and they abandoned him and told him they wouldn't vote for him in an impeachment vote. Firing Mueller would be an admission that there is serious evidence there of treason or very serious criminal activity, and the furore would be incredible.

Nixon would have survived if Fox News existed and it's lauded as one of the reasons conservatives concocted their own 'alternative' news channel to challenge mainstream media which was predominantly liberal.

Obviously it's become a frankenstein that has distorted and damaged the fabric of America but the rules since Nixon have changed a lot. Reagan wouldn't have gotten away with the shít Trump is pulling either but nowadays who knows.

Get me Roger Stone is worth a watch, between him Ailes and Murdoch they've really screwed America hard.

Buer

prawnsambo wrote: »

The Democrats would prefer him to stay there I'd imagine. He's doing more damage than they could ever do to the Republicans. Conversely, that's one reason why the GOP might want him gone.

I don't think so. The American economy is getting stronger. Whatever about his policies socially, the bottom line is always going to be money. If people are in jobs and the money is rolling in then he'll get stronger. His tax plan has completely mortgaged the future and is a giveaway to the wealthiest but the average man will also see a few more dollars coming in.

He's appealing to the most basic wants of his electorate and that's the most important thing. The economic improvement is taking place across the globe and was well underway when Trump took office but he gets to preside over it and claim credit for it.

When 2020 comes around, he might well look pretty smug and confident. I don't think he'll run for a second term but I reckon the Democrats have done precisely the same thing all over again and misread the situation thinking all they had to do was turn up. They're now going to struggle to win back as many seats in the mid-terms as they were confident of doing a few months ago.

thomond2006

Saints @ Vikings is going to be fun on Sunday.

Zzippy

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Nixon would have survived if Fox News existed and it's lauded as one of the reasons conservatives concocted their own 'alternative' news channel to challenge mainstream media which was predominantly liberal.

Obviously it's become a frankenstein that has distorted and damaged the fabric of America but the rules since Nixon have changed a lot. Reagan wouldn't have gotten away with the shít Trump is pulling either but nowadays who knows.

Get me Roger Stone is worth a watch, between him Ailes and Murdoch they've really screwed America hard.

The rules may have changed a lot but I still think firing Mueller would lose Trump a lot of the republicans in Congress and a huge amount of his support from floating voters (the hardcore don't care what he does).
Also, I hear Mueller has been working closely with prosecutors in DC and NY so even if he is fired, I wouldn't be surprised to see state prosecutors issue charges against the Trump organization (Jr, Jushner, Ivanka) as they may well have, or be given, the evidence before Mueller actually goes (he will undoubtedly know when it's about to happen). Rumours that charges will be brought in state courts to avoid the chance of pardons for convictions in federal courts.

Zzippy

Zzippy wrote: »

The rules may have changed a lot but I still think firing Mueller would lose Trump a lot of the republicans in Congress and a huge amount of his support from floating voters (the hardcore don't care what he does).
Also, I hear Mueller has been working closely with prosecutors in DC and NY so even if he is fired, I wouldn't be surprised to see state prosecutors issue charges against the Trump organization (Jr, Jushner, Ivanka) as they may well have, or be given, the evidence before Mueller actually goes (he will undoubtedly know when it's about to happen). Rumours that charges will be brought in state courts to avoid the chance of pardons for convictions in federal courts.

Yeah I agree with all of that, Trumps numbers currently would suggest that he's lost the floating voters but he can always get some of them back.

It's apparently well known in Washington that the Democrats are sitting on a gold mine of information from closed sessions that they are waiting for appropriate moments to release. They can only release it by reading it into the records within one of the house chambers so it's not stuff that can be leaked easily but the information is all there and it goes beyond the Trump campaign.

Cannot remember the password to a machine in work, what a first day back, literally been at it since 9am

dregin

Deleted User wrote: »

Cannot remember the password to a machine in work, what a first day back, literally been at it since 9am

I know about 5 passwords. This is what password managers are for. Also, SSH Keys.

irishbucsfan

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Cannot remember the password to a machine in work, what a first day back, literally been at it since 9am

You should try to set things up so you never have to remember anything. Committing things to memory is an anti-pattern.

That's how incompetent people like me survive!

Synode

Are password managers secure? I've always been too nervous to use one.

awec

Synode wrote: »

Are password managers secure? I've always been too nervous to use one.

IBF uses a postit note that he sticks to his monitor.

prawnsambo

awec wrote: »

IBF uses a postit note that he sticks to his monitor.

And another one on the keyboard in case he forgets about the one on his monitor.

irishbucsfan

Synode wrote: »

Are password managers secure? I've always been too nervous to use one.

There's a risk there of course, but I'm fairly comfortable using them. If you're really paranoid you can self-host secret managers which would be what enterprises do.

awec

prawnsambo wrote: »

And another one on the keyboard in case he forgets about the one on his monitor.

Yea.

"The Russians are never getting my passwords!" says IBF.

Buer

prawnsambo wrote: »

And another one on the keyboard in case he forgets about the one on his monitor.

IBF sticks his home address on his key tag so whoever finds them can return them to him.

Buer

awec wrote: »

Yea.

"The Russians are never getting my passwords!" says IBF.

Greg in accounting however has full access.

molloyjh

I just have the same password for everything. As long as you have something that works well, i.e. has letters you can easily swap out for numbers or special characters (an i to a ! or an E to a 3) then there's a good deal of variation you get from the same word that's also very easy to remember. If you've run out of options you can always just add a number or special character to the end and cycle through them. What you're asking yourself to remember then is very, very limited but can also be very secure. An 8 or 9 letter word where you swap out letters for numbers/characters alternately can easily last a year or more.

Zzippy

molloyjh wrote: »

I just have the same password for everything. As long as you have something that works well, i.e. has letters you can easily swap out for numbers or special characters (an i to a ! or an E to a 3) then there's a good deal of variation you get from the same word that's also very easy to remember. If you've run out of options you can always just add a number or special character to the end and cycle through them. What you're asking yourself to remember then is very, very limited but can also be very secure. An 8 or 9 letter word where you swap out letters for numbers/characters alternately can easily last a year or more.

I've had the same password for over 10 years and I've never been ha-

3iuht otnyg rtiu gfkjg thiuh
323 cg4rcbg3i7btg iucubga 4ctibregerbjfd vfer k jegfgiguhbe giu53t35 ti g9n5q hc g87ernyht ov45hybiwr ytikt

Dammit!

irishbucsfan

Buer wrote: »

IBF sticks his home address on his key tag so whoever finds them can return them to him.

Last year I left my bag behind me when I was out. I realised that when I picked it up you could find inside:

1) A spare key to my apartment
2) A bill with my home address
3) A photocopy of my ID
4) A printout of a flight boarding pass that showed I would be in San Francisco for the next two weeks.

Luckily that didn't fall into the wrong hands! (I had just moved back to Ireland and was sorting out bank stuff at the time, hence the ridiculous supply of information/goodies I was carrying around with me!)

prawnsambo

irishbucsfan wrote: »

Last year I left my bag behind me when I was out. I realised that when I picked it up you could find inside:

1) A spare key to my apartment
2) A bill with my home address
3) A photocopy of my ID
4) A printout of a flight boarding pass that showed I would be in San Francisco for the next two weeks.

Luckily that didn't fall into the wrong hands! (I had just moved back to Ireland and was sorting out bank stuff at the time, hence the ridiculous supply of information/goodies I was carrying around with me!)

Bet your login to boards was safe though. :pac:

irishbucsfan

People using the same password in different locations is one of the biggest sources of malicious access to accounts. It's definitely an option but if you use a password manager it's a little safer and I find it quite convenient. Last thing you want is one security breach ending up with your email address and one password in a Russian database.

Although I am not a bastion of bulletproof security. About a week ago, funnily enough, my Spotify got hacked into. I only realised because the people who hacked into it gave it away as part of a giveaway. The guy they gave it to didn't realise it was stolen and logged in to discover all my playlists. He then created a playlist of his own and in the description of the playlist he said exactly what had happened and that he never knew it was stolen... Quite a shock for me!