6th July 2016, 5:28 AM
Clinton's other investigation, regarding that cell phone business, is now closed. This one is a bit less satisfying than the last though. While the FBI won't be pressing charges, they did make it clear that there's enough evidence to say Clinton was extremely careless in managing her e-mails. Not really sure what to make of that one. If it was true carelessness, I wouldn't be surprised. Old people are notoriously out of touch with technology and many out of touch users in larger settings notoriously take IT requirements as suggestions they can ignore the very first time it becomes an inconvenience. I have little doubt the same would apply to equally old Bernie, I'm sad to say. Aside from the judge that recently made a ruling on the Google v Oracle case, very few politicians seem willing to take the time to learn about anything tech related.
I wanted to clear one thing up. I am not suggesting any vast conspiracies here. I'm suggesting a bunch of really tiny conspiracies, the sort that actually do exist in the real world. That is, of the back room "you scratch my back, I'll scratch your's" type that define a lot of politics. The main difference is that I don't think anyone has any huge plans. These are purely "in the moment" conspiracies that have no real goals beyond the next election cycle, and all of these backroom deals all conflict with each other because, again, it's all a bunch of tiny machinations, Game of Thrones style. That said, the vast majority of government's injustice has less to do with those backroom deals and more to do with sheer incompetence on a large scale.
I wanted to clear one thing up. I am not suggesting any vast conspiracies here. I'm suggesting a bunch of really tiny conspiracies, the sort that actually do exist in the real world. That is, of the back room "you scratch my back, I'll scratch your's" type that define a lot of politics. The main difference is that I don't think anyone has any huge plans. These are purely "in the moment" conspiracies that have no real goals beyond the next election cycle, and all of these backroom deals all conflict with each other because, again, it's all a bunch of tiny machinations, Game of Thrones style. That said, the vast majority of government's injustice has less to do with those backroom deals and more to do with sheer incompetence on a large scale.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)