US Politics Mega-thread - Page 5728

On October 22 2016 00:51 Adreme wrote:
To help with Kwarks point the Russian economy is REALLY bad with a bad long term outlook. Any help Russia can get with these they NEED to take.

On October 22 2016 00:54 LegalLord wrote:

Copying quotes to try to use as zingers certainly helps in that regard.


Russia's economic problems are structural for the most part. As with many things, the 1990s played a large part in this.

On October 22 2016 00:54 LegalLord wrote:

Copying quotes to try to use as zingers certainly helps in that regard.


Russia's economic problems are structural for the most part. As with many things, the 1990s played a large part in this.

On October 22 2016 01:03 WhiteDog wrote:
War is a great way to get out of any kind of economical problem actually.

On October 22 2016 00:36 Rebs wrote:


Dafuq you on about man, Duterte's got Russias back. No way Killary is gonna fuck with Russia now. They gonna go all Pacquiao on your asses.

On October 22 2016 01:06 WhiteDog wrote:

The germans are a great exemple, their economy was blooming during the 2nd WW, because they completly dedicated their production towards war, and the population was willing to accept restrictions due to the war.

Internet down for many as massive cyber attack stops Reddit, Spotify, Twitter and other sites from working

A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack has taken down systems run by Dyn, Inc, one of the largest providers of internet services in the world. And as a result it seems to be causing problems for a variety of websites – including Reddit, Spotify and Twitter.

Dyn runs domain name servers or DNS. They work as a phone book or map to the internet, making sure that when someone writes an address into their computer or phone, it can be directed to the right place and show the right information.

As such, an attack on a DNS company can wreak havoc across large parts of the internet, stopping websites from loading. That is usually done through a DDoS attack, where the servers are hit with so many requests that they stop responding.

The attack is mainly hitting the East part of the US, according to Dyn, Inc. But because it is hitting the tools used to make websites load, it can cause problems across the world on various sites.

As well as the problem being generalised, some people in the same area might find that other people are able to get online, or that other devices are able to. That may be because of the way that DNS information is cached by some networks, meaning that it can still be accessed even if the servers themselves are down.

An update on Dyn's website read: “Starting at 11:10 UTC on October 21th-Friday 2016 we began monitoring and mitigating a DDoS attack against our Dyn Managed DNS infrastructure. Some customers may experience increased DNS query latency and delayed zone propagation during this time. Updates will be posted as information becomes available.”

It said that its engineers were working to mitigate the issue, and that it would post more information when it was clear what was going on.

On October 22 2016 00:47 KwarK wrote:

50 years of the US being the strongest nation in the world by far was about 40 years ago now and I don't remember WW3, although I hadn't been born yet when you're predicting it having happened. Just saying. Furthermore the US hasn't taken over the world. It has economic interests all over the world but those can shift with the balance of power, and have been. China has gone from being a colony to a great power in its own right but rather than needing to explode out of constraints imposed upon it by external forces, as Germany tried to do, it can just buy influence and power in Africa using the exact same means that the US uses.

The game is much more flexible now than it used to be. The end of the explicit spheres of interest system has allowed for continual adjustments to preserve the balance. The Philippines is actually an example of the solution, not the problem. If it were a US colony then it couldn't barter itself to the Chinese. But it is not so it can.

On October 21 2016 22:50 Thieving Magpie wrote:


10 out of 10 generations believe that their government is in decline, and yet the world turns.
10 out of 10 people believe they are not malicious to others, and yet bad things happen.

On October 22 2016 01:06 WhiteDog wrote:

The germans are a great exemple, their economy was blooming during the 2nd WW, because they completly dedicated their production towards war, and the population was willing to accept restrictions due to the war.

On October 22 2016 01:12 WhiteDog wrote:

You misunderstood my post : war does not increase your life condition, but it solve economical problem because A) people are employed B) people accept restrictions (to a certain extent).

On October 22 2016 01:13 a_flayer wrote:


Sorry, I realized that I was potentially unclear and edited my post for clarity (and had in fact finished editing before you posted your reply). I had thought it would have been obvious from the second paragraph where I was coming from. And 50 vs 90 years really doesn't matter for what I was trying to point out.

On October 22 2016 00:29 KwarK wrote:

Because their choices are
1) Accept it, say that you wanted it all along, be a part of it and get shit in return.
2) Don't accept it, say it's shit, do nothing about it, get nothing, be made to look like a bitch.
3) Don't accept it, try to flaunt it, get slapped down like a bitch and do nothing about that.

Donald Trump has to deal with his much-criticized debate performance. His poor poll numbers. A national political director who has all but disappeared less than three weeks before the election.
But behind the scenes there are ominous signs of even deeper problems.
The candidate’s expenditures on legal fees have already caught the eye of campaign watchdogs, who say such unprecedented rates of spending suggest there are as-yet-unknown controversies bubbling beneath the surface of the businessman’s organization.
The campaign financial disclosures for September, released Thursday night, seem only to reinforce those worries: The Trump campaign spent more than half a million dollars on lawyers in just one month.
By way of comparison, Mitt Romney’s campaign spent just $1.15 million over the course of his entire 2012 presidential campaign. Trump’s spending on lawyers now tops $3 million.
“Hard to say if any of these legal representations represents a serious problem for the campaign, since we don’t know the subject matter of each one,” campaign-finance lawyer Brett Kappel told The Daily Beast. “The overall level of spending on legal fees, however, remains extraordinarily high, indicating that there must be a great deal going on behind the scenes we don’t know about.”
Trump’s legal fees would be astronomical for any conventional political candidate, but of course the Republican nominee has a knack for drawing controversy, and all the lawyers that entails.
His charity has come into question after being improperly used for political purposes; and the campaign has experienced unprecedented turnover among senior staff, including the departures of managers Corey Lewandowski and Paul Manafort, former Trump delegate manager Ed Brookover, and communications aide Michael Caputo.
But the legal nightmare may just be beginning. It was not until early October that a recording of Trump bragging about sexual assault was released, prompting a wave of accusers to step forward and allege sexual misconduct by the Republican nominee.
Trump’s spending on lawyers has been distributed over a number of law firms.
The fourth highest expenditure for legal spending, more than $55,000, went to an organization called Parliamentary Strategies LLC, which shares an office address with Harvey & Binnall PLLC. Jesse Binnall, a partner at the firm, is a parliamentarian who previously represented Dimitri Kesari, a former aide to Ron Paul’s 2012 presidential campaign. Kesari was sentenced to three months of house arrest and paid a $10,000 fine for a plot to pay for an endorsement ahead of that cycle’s Iowa caucuses.
Over the course of September, Trump spent about $320,000 on his primary law firm, Jones Day. The campaign spent $34,000 more on New York law firm Larocca Hornik Rosen Greenberg & Blaha. It also paid more than $70,000 to Chicago’s Locke Lord LLP and $3,000 to Michael A. France Trust in Sarasota, Florida.

The Trump campaign also spent more than $21,000 on “research consulting” with O’Melveny and Myers, a prestigious law firm headquartered in California; and thousands more for lawyers at Belkin Burden Wenig & Goldman, as well as Bell, McAndrews & Hiltachk.
With just a few weeks left until Election Day, the Trump campaign’s spending on lawyers portends a long road ahead for the Republican nominee—even as the campaign season winds down, his legal troubles may not.