Using the ‘Net
It would appear that some people are in serious need of more education on using the Internet.
While Danger Room reports that the Air Force Blocks Access to Many Blogs [including this one], according to the BBC they haven’t done a very good job convincing people not to send US airbase e-mails to town web site. Just a minor thing, but all official Air Force web sites and e-mail addresses end in .af.mil, not .com, and classified information is required to be sent via official communication links, not the Internet.
Speaking of education, if you have made up your mind to send annoying comments to a blog, you might consider not using the computers at your school. The thing is, it is easy to identify you and a complaint to the school would, at a minimum, cost you access to the school’s computers, which you really might need in some courses. If you want to be annoying, you should study the Internet in greater depth so that it takes more than a visit to a single reference site to find out who you are.
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Well that’s alright then.
What a totally idiotic and unprofessional response. Those people shouldn’t have been using e-mail, and there would have been incident reports on each e-mail when I was in the service.
There were open and classified channels back in the “dark ages” before the Internet, and if you used the wrong one, you would be explaining yourself to a board of inquiry.
The current crew don’t know or care about security, no matter what their agitprop claims.
The current crew don’t know or care about security, no matter what their agitprop claims.
Aint dat da truth! LOL And they seriously don’t understand the Internet, computers, or people either. I doubt they understand much of anything to be frank.
But then, understanding isn’t what this administration is about, is it? 🙂
I noted that I had af.mil stop by today to see what I was up to. They could at least send their people out on DSL or cable to hide what they are doing, not using official proxies. What total incompetence.
Their stumbling attempts are really annoying, the kid at least made an attempt to cover his tracks, not very successful, but the attempt was made.
I can teach them! For a price of course. LOL A very BIG price! AFter all… It’s 30+ years of my IP (Intellectual Property) rights. 🙂
I’m tough, but fair (exceptions to this rule include: Gates, almost any Republican (certainly all the GOP), and several others in the same class as Gates). 😉
It’s their incompetence I object to, because I know the Air Force teaches this stuff, as do the universities at on-base education sites. It’s covered in the “Career Development Course” manuals that you have to read to get promoted.
I would really like to see less arrogance and more application.
Consider who is the commander-in-chief, and his criteria for advancement in the armed forces. Shit flows downhill, right?
Politics and religion are the ruling factors in today’s Air Force. They need a truly in depth audit to figure out what they are doing with the money they have been given for the last 7 years.
Politics (at least, the Bushmoron/Cheney brand) & pseudo-religion (Let us not confuse the crooked GOP/crooked TV Evangelist branded pseudo-religion con to actual Religion). The entire Administration is incompetent. I am certain Bushmoron thinks everything is easy if you have his style of *faith* and *loyalty*. One only has to read a book (an approved version of course), right?
As Michael said, It starts at the top and flows down. Bushmoron has failed at everything he has done his entire life, and he became President of the USA. What does that tell everyone else? LOL Why even try being competent when you can be an abject failure and still win the prize.
The USA will never see competence in any branch of Government (including the Services and Justice) until ALL the current incompetent loyalist ass-kissers are well gone, and there is a serious restructuring! So, don’t hold your breath.
And don’t even mention that the MIC don’t want competent people in the Military! Heaven forbid… they may actually ask questions, and worse, expect answers… verifiable answers! People may actually find out (and worse, may actually give a damn) that the MIC has been royally screwing the USA for some time now.
Good luck with that.
It’s not enough that people be fired, there need to be trials to prove that there justice awaiting those who violate the laws. Allowing people to resign or retire isn’t going to get it, people have to be held accountable before you can begin building the trust necessary for a functioning government at any level.
The military is riddled with political officers, rather than competent officers, and this has to be corrected.
All of this is going to require rebuilding the Justice Department and staffing it with prosecutors that know what their job is, and are willing to do it without regard for politics. That single department is at the center of the rot in the system.
We are going to need every accountant that can graduate to figure out what these people have been doing with our money, because they haven’t been spending on the programs that Congress authorized.
The government is a disaster and we have to wait out the stupidity of our nominating process before anything else can be contemplated.
I remain convinced of the need for some kind of war crimes tribunal, with due process and reconciliation being the goals, not to mete out punishments in all cases but to have the truth known, with those responsible for primary decisions and those who acted in gross violation of the conscience of humanity dealt with.
Have you forgotten, Michael, – It’s OK if you’re a Republican.
Bryan, that’s presuming they get to keep their privileges. They are playing punch buggy no punchbacks, and we’re not stupid.
Without new congressional leadership, the Republicans have nothing to fear from the Democrats.
Cindy Sheehan ’08. 🙂
Given Madam Speaker performance I don’t know that I wouldn’t be ready to vote for a Republican in her district to wake people up, because she damn sure is carrying water for the Repubs in Congress.
Nobody should vote for Republicans anymore. However, that doesn’t mean people should automatically vote for the Democratic candidate, we do need to have other choices. Cindy Sheehan is actually planning a run in November, so good for her.
With that said, the position of Speaker is not entirely free to act in the way that the person in that role would like.
People need to start voting for individuals and stop voting for parties, because the recent history of party selected candidates really sucks. I don’t have a problem with Cindy, and would vote for her.
The Speaker of the House has as much power as she or he wants and a Speaker that doesn’t realize that shouldn’t be in the job.
Some Speakers are more powerful than others, it depends on how strong their support is among the members. With a coalition of Bush Dogs and Democrats she cannot do anything unless she is sure to keep that from fracturing. We should not however give her a pass on that account, if it is to say that because she is weak she cannot do much, well then it is still weakness. The House has been less effective than promised, and that is her responsibility. There has been nothing done to stop this administration, and frankly when I look at her or Harry Reid they look more like hostages than anything.
i agree those two do look a bit like hostages, but there’s hostages and there’s hostages.
Sam Rayburn got the Civil Rights bill through a House that was controlled to a great extent by Southern Democrats who opposed it. He created the majority he needed by leading. If you don’t lead, no one is going to follow you.
The Bush Dogs have power because she gives it to them. If she showed some power they wouldn’t cross her. The only people she’s punished are those pushing the Democratic agenda contained in the party platform. She compromises before there’s a conflict, so why should anyone listen to her.
Chicken and egg, perhaps, but Nancy Pelosi is no Sam Rayburn, for sure.
The people behind her in the leadership are, if anything, even less courageous.