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we see that there is still ubiquitous misunderstanding regarding gross negligence. please looks above at our earlier post. http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/87025-us-election-2016-part-ii/?p=1825704 we gave multiple examples o' gross negligence. doug shoots somebody in the leg but doesn't intend to kill. doug drives while drunk and 'causes a fatal accident. doug uses bungee cords to strap down a child in a car. please note that in all such cases, doug intended to commit a crime, but he did not have intent to commit homicide. fumbduckery doesn't result in a get-out-of-jail-free card for doug. again, doug actual had criminal intent in all our examples, but it just weren't the ordinary requisite intent w/o the benefit o' a statute that makes gross negligence applicable. again, gross negligence is not simple a measure o' horrible mistake. negligence is mistake. gross negligence requires fumbduckery and an otherwise unlawful act. is more than a terrible mistake. *shrug* gross negligence were gonna be extreme difficult to prove beyond a reasonable doubt. we didn't follow the hearings today, but is our understanding that a clinton prosecution for gross negligence woulda' been a singular and noteworthy exception. people has been disciplined and/or fired for similar stoopidity as displayed by clinton and her people, but has never been criminalization. that being said, am thinking that the bigger picture is being missed by folks on the right who is distracted by the allure o' a potential criminal indictment. comey is not gonna be able to do clinton any favors with these hearings unless rebublicans make it seem like they is involved in a witch-hunt. comey weren't investigating clinton regarding her truthfulness to the public or Congress, so such questions directed at comey is little more than grandstanding. is our opinion that republicans should be focusing instead on the details o' "extremely careless." the magnitude o' clinton's stoopidity in this matter must be brobdingnagian. instead o' trying to find a way to criminalize clinton, we see far more potential clinton pain in revealing that a future President o' the United States of America were comically inept. trump is already viewed as a cartoon character by folks who dislike him. curiously enough, trump can't hurt his image by saying stoopid stuff. somehow when trump blurts out idiocy, folks who like him see such as genuine... trump, at least, is real. *snort* part o' the appeal o' clinton over trump is that she is a competent politician who would represent the office with appropriate dignity. republicans can serious diminish that perception. turn clinton into a joke. make her a punchline. has folks think o' clinton as cartoonishly incompetent. if Gromnir wanted to hurt clinton's Presidential aspirations, we would be focusing on her incompetence rather than her potential criminal liability. HA! Good Fun!

change to "morning of" the fbi presser doesn't actual help diminish the notion that the rather dramatic change on free-college were precipitated by the email crisis, does it? but we do agree that it would take something drastic to prevent clinton from being elected. HA! Good Fun!

lack of indictment hardly ends the race for sanders. sanders knows he can't have the nomination, but he wants issues addressed. well, guess what? sanders supporters, folks who has stated that they would not under any circumstances vote for hillary clinton, is now more relevant than ever. the email scandal is actual just getting started as now we is gonna have congressional hearings to address the fbi investigation... in depth. does anybody look good when investigated close by law enforcement? those hearing is gonna last through the election. is gonna be ugly. is always ugly. last week, clinton didn't need sanders or his supporters. come election time she may very well need every vote... or maybe not. we do know that today, in her first public address since the release o' the "extremely reckless" comments from the fbi, clinton announced that she were gonna adopt free-college plan, which were a major sanders pledge. yeah, the race for the nomination is long over, but "it goes on hillary, the race is not over." HA! Good Fun! ps only partial tongue-in-cheek. clinton did do a sudden 180 on free-college. is no coincidence that such happened after fbi presser and following the moves by republicans in Congress to get hearings started.

well, if you can't do the work now, chances are that after the next few months o' mastic hell, you will. have fun. HA! Good Fun!

be stronger. *shrug* US has many states that is bigger than european countries. on a global stage, small is at a distinct disadvantage. perhaps luxembourg has a vibrant movie industry, but how does it compete with USA? the disparity in volume is impossible to ignore. is also kinda hypocritical. how many cultures in europe was wiped out, absorbed, and/or forgotten over the centuries? have sherman set the way-back machine for a time remote enough from the present, and every fertile river valley in europe woulda had its own unique culture. current euro nations destroyed and absorbed many cultures now forgotten. inevitable. the world keeps getting smaller, and cultures is becoming increasing shared rather than unique. and the pace o' change is increasing. fear o' assimilation, sadly, will only hasten the demise o' smallish nations and peoples. in the current world that is changing and evolving at a dizzying pace, the way to combat assimilation is not through isolation or rejection o' the more dominant cultures on the planet. share. become integrated and integral so you ain't lost and forgotten. as a member o' an endangered culture, we do have concerns 'bout the seeming inevitability o' our lost language, history and identity. is a concern for us. even so, we realize that fear o' the dominant paradigm will not stop or even slow the rate o' cultural decay and loss. and perhaps it makes you feel better to know that the lifestyle and culture o' a place such as williston, north dakota, a fracking boom town going bust, is gonna be far different than south beach in miami florida. heck, every couple years we gets to hear 'bout the south's culture and heritage is in danger o' being lost. bits and pieces o' what was once unique and essential American culture is lost and altered all the time. your same concerns is echoed in small towns 'cross every state in the USA. HA! Good Fun!

first link is kinda repeating what we said 'bove 'bout criminal/gross negligence. perhaps is easy to get terminology confused. when doug shoots victor in the leg w/o actual intent to kill... *shrug* but again, for a showing o' gross negligence, you are requiring a level o' fumb duckery that is extreme. now, if is true that folks is routinely prosecuted for far less than what clinton did (failed) to do, then we would be concerned, but to cherry-pick isolated cases where indictments did occur is hardly compelling. HA! Good Fun!

california coast is very nice. usa is enormous, so you can find pretty much any climate you wish. heck, some states is large enough such that they is having every conceivable weather category within the boarders. snowiest place in the usa is in ca, and a two hour drive from snowiest will get you desert or mediterranean or whatever... HA! Good Fun! ps manifested may have some legit claim to best weather. personal, we find endless perfect weather to be boring, but we can see the appeal.

why not? even in socialist nations, the marketplace o' ideas is the dominant paradigm. thank goodness. am also not certain what people thinks is american culture, given just how eclectic and diverse is the usa... particular compared to european nations. usa culture is constant changing and indefinable. is always absorbing, refining and exporting ideas from every corner o' the earth. "Why would you want to go from Sweden to the US. They already have more benifits of every conceivable kind than practically everywhere else." well, if you are self-sufficient and successful, you don't need rely on benefits. that being said, the increasing polarization o' the haves and have-nots in the USA is discouraging. the middle class isn't actual disappearing, but the working class american, once the foundation o' the US population and economy, is now becoming relegated to second-class citizen status. recent studies show that virtual all new jobs created since the recent economic downturn has been for folks with at least some level o' college education. changes need be made. even so, if you is successful, the USA is a fantastic place to live. HA! Good Fun!

am thinking that a bit o' the anger from folks who were disappointed by the fbi recommendation is due to a misunderstanding regarding what is gross/criminal negligence. gross negligence is not accident or mistake. when we thinks negligence, we think mistakes, yes? so gross negligence would be a particular bad mistake, yes? no. gross negligence is more o' a "wtf is wrong with you" standard. doug shoots vincent in the leg but weren't actual planning on killing vincent. intent were to scare vincent and nobody were more surprised than doug when vincent died. doug drives home while intoxicated. doug didn't have cab fare and his home were only a few miles away and he didn't think he would cause an accident. doug didn't have a baby seat for his child, so he thought the bungee cords in his trunk would suffice to keep the baby secure in its seat. etc. negligence is actions that is unreasonable. gross negligence requires fumb duckery levels o' stoopidity or indifference. comey referenced clinton's actions as being "extremely careless." am certain that such words were chosen careful. if Gromnir were forced to explain gross negligence w/o using any legal jargon, we might use "extremely careless" to describe the requisite state-o'-mind. if there is a meaningful difference in English 'tween recklessness and extremely careless, it is gonna be so minuscule a gnat would starve on the difference. even so, comey recognized that, "no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case." why? well, in similar situations in the past, folks has presumably been fired as 'posed to prosecuted. also, as we tired to stress above in this post, fumb duckery is a rather difficult threshold to overcome. you got an extreme smart, presentable and well-prepared defendant so proving gross negligence beyond a reasonable doubt is gonna be a more difficult task than in an ordinary prosecution. bruce asking trump to apologize is kinda misguided here, 'cause comey were pretty darn critical o' clinton. 'ccording to comey, there, "were evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information." comey also made clear that an ordinary member o' the State Department would face consequences if they had acted with the extreme carelessness that clinton displayed. thanks to ny times v sullivan, a case that trump loathes, is no way trump would ever need apologize. is more than a few football fans following this board, yes? comey's comments 'bout clinton reminded us more than a little of the presser by fred bright when he announced that he wouldn't be pursuing a sexual assault/rape case 'gainst ben roethlisberger. both comey and bright took the opportunity to public chastise a celebrity, but in each case, the burden o' proving beyond a reasonable doubt made prosecution o' a case untenable. HA! Good Fun!

*image* the ironic part being that the mechanical keyboard we is using started doing the double-s nonsense. am hoping there is dog hair or somesuch simple impediment gumming up the works. perhaps bacon? HA! Good Fun!

needed intent and/or more. couldn't show intent. weren't enough for gross negligence. HA! Good Fun! ps you are also misreading "intent." espionage and treason would be at issue if we were discussing intent to inform russians through unsecured emails. clarification: intent, when speaking o' criminal negligence and recklessness and gross negligence, does not mean that the defendant actual intended badness to happen. criminal intent/recklessness replace need for actual intent in very limited situations. would a reasonable person understand a danger, but the defendant acted with reckless disregard o' such dangers to human life or with indifference to consequences. law and english is not the same.

She was lying. If that bothers anyone. well, is not lying if one assumes that ms. clinton were really incompetent. hillary clinton, the "extremely careless" choice? *shrug* as o' july, 2016, ms. clinton's failure to take proper security steps with classified information appears to have been a given. not debatable. the fact that fbi couldn't find evidence o' willful disregard or intentional subversion o' security protocols is less than shocking. the investigation were too remote from actual events to have been anything other than pro forma. unlike enoch, is tough for us to see the mishandling o' classified emails as "whoopsies." using a private email server for correspondence that had even the potential o' resulting in communications o' classified info were, in and of itself, careless. if we were talking o' a couple emails that arguably strayed into classified subject matter, we could understand clinton's mistake. nevertheless, is tough to claim that none o' the +100 whoopsies that were actual recovered failed to make clinton reflect on the possibility that a private server were a less than ideal option for handling such communications. more than 100 "whoopsies" as it turns out, is disconcerting. for Gromnir, is not a matter o' percentages or volume. +100 opportunities for more enlightened reflection that were ignored by clinton? "whoopsie" indeed. that being said, we suspect it would be prohibitive tough for a prosecutor to prove necessary intent beyond reasonable doubt. clinton and her people had so much time to prepare before the fbi ever began investigating. even if clinton were guilty o' something more sinister than a kinda bumbling disregard for possible dangers related to unsecured email communications, the chances o' finding proof o' such woulda' been reduced to a great degree. *chuckle* our time doing criminal law were limited and now long past, but am recalling a smuggling case that drove us nuts. had a situation with some jackarse royal from a middle-eastern country trying to smuggle endangered species outta the USA. is not as uncommon as you might think. in any event, we had local customs agents inform state department o' their suspicions o' smuggling BEFORE contacting law enforcement. even worse, folks at state contacted the prince BEFORE calling US Attorney's Office or anybody at DoJ. *&$%! by the time law enforcement interviewed the suspected smugglers, the ne'er-do-wells might as well have been reading responses off o' 3x5 cards. *&$% and @#$* and double $%#@. how long did clinton get to prepare her folks? dunno. we weren't expecting anything from the announcement. weren't gonna exonerate and weren't gonna condemn. am thinking we got what we expected. HA! Good Fun!

should probably keep it light, 'cause your history is suspect. http://origins.osu.edu/review/after-abolition-britain-and-slave-trade-1807 britain continued to be involved in slavery long after it passed its anti-slave laws, and it profited from involvement with slavers much, much longer still. HA! Good Fun! ps am not holding up the US as some kinda shining abolitionist beacon... obviously.

speaking from personal experience, speaking of self in third-person makes a person sound crazy. if there is one thing Gromnir knows, it's crazy. HA! Good Fun!

am not a stephen a. smith fan (understatement) but he has a point. http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/16761817/nba-players-react-kevin-durant-decision-join-golden-state-warriors HA! Good Fun!

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http://www.forbes.com/forbes/1999/0405/6307082a.html article date is 1999. HA! Good Fun! ps w/o emotes some o' you folks don't get sarcasm, so just pretend we included whatever is the current snark tag.

dear lord. from april through october, our community has a weekly event involving gourmet food trucks. every sunday we gets five or six local gourmet trucks peddling their culinary wares at a park within our gates from 4-8PM. one or two such vehicles is having traditional truck food such as burgers or barbecue. is typical one desert-specific truck in the convoy. the remaining three trucks will be unique. mexican-korean fusion. personal wood-fire pizzas. peruvian cuisine. etc. the july 3rd event were a bit different in that we also had live bands, extended hours and ten trucks... including a bacon truck. bacon. everything bacon. "Bacon brownies, topped with whipped cream, drizzled with Hershey’s Chocolate Syrup, and more Bacon bits." "Slow-Cooked Pulled Pork, mixed with Hickory Smoked Bacon, tossed in our Bacon BBQ Sauce, then topped with a tangy Carolina Slaw, topped with chipayo sauce!" "Sharp Cheddar Cheese and Hickory Smoked Bacon Crumbles, fried to a crispy chip. Served w/ Sour Cream." "Our most delicious bacon-wrapped bites of brilliance – Our famous Mac ’n Cheese balls wrapped in applewood bacon and deep fried." etc. we ordered multiple items from the menu, including the deep-fried mac n' cheese balls, wrapped in bacon. ... am feeling our age this AM. we can no longer overeat w/o suffering consequences. long gone is the days when we could make management cry at an all-you-can eat breakfast joint, followed by a slab o' baby-back ribs for lunch, and topped off with the lion's share o' a pizza for dinner. nope. we need exercise moderation or feel the wrath o' gastro-intestinal rebellion. in our defense, the mac n' cheese balls were delicious. 'course we current feel as if there is a large rock rolling 'round in our gut... a bacon wrapped rock. ah well, happy fourth. am gonna take a prilosec and endure severe bloating and cold sweats for the next 24-36 hours. it were worth it. ... perhaps we shouldn't o' had so much homemade guacamole for lunch? HA! Good Fun!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSkOyhmt_-g just 'cause your visit to deadwood offers us an excuse. enjoy the 4th. HA! Good Fun!

https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/1360547/the-countries-where-women-have-the-biggest-natural-boobs-in-the-world-and-the-smallest/ HA! Good Fun!

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if you ain't in a raid guild, operations will serious test your faith in humanity. the problem being that being in a raid guild will almost definite destroy your faith in humanity. pug for ops? HA! chances are you spend hours on a pointless endeavor that ends up costing you ridiculous credits on repairs to your gear as you endure wipe after wipe after wipe afterwipeafterwipeafterwipe. raid guilds would be ok if you didn't need have to interact with your fellow guild members. the drama-free guilds peopled only by mature gamers may not be complete mythical, but they is having a life span measured in a handful o' months. kinda amusing , but we did mostest o' our ops stuff when we were still doing serious pvp. many pvp folks were in raid guilds, and when they were short a few bodies, they would frequent ask Gromnir to fill in at heals or tank. when we stopped doing pvp regular, we also stopped doing ops. we don't miss doing ops. miss the gearing opportunities a bit, but not enough to do pug or join a guild. actual, we haven't played swtor for months. the game has more appeal for us if we take the frequent multi-month hiatus. the dvl event looks idiotic, but we ain't too smart. gonna take one empire and one republic character through eternal level to be acquiring the new companions. got a guardian and marauder each to level 25, but is already becoming a slog. am kinda curious 'bout the new companions, so thanks to our ocd we will likely stick 'round 'til we get both new characters to 65. am assuming that the companions is actual imp v. pub as 'posed to dark v. light, but we ain't bothered to check. HA! Good Fun! ps well that is mildly interesting... and dvl naming actual now makes sense to us. seems companion choice is resulting from global dvl point totals at the end o' the event. if more folks play ls, then we all get ls comp. if folks 'cross all servers play more towards sinister, then the ds companion will be the choice. rif

It sounds like you've had enough of the midwest anyway. And it would be closer to family. Eh, I like having the different weather, but Portland would give me that. Kind of annoyed that they didn't give me more warning about the branch I was moving to being terminated. it would appear that forty-one does not understand his value to the ship. row well, forty-one. HA! Good Fun!

the bugs could eat mammal brains to steal memories and intelligence and the horror they might inspire would still pale compared to the gut-churning revulsion we suffered when reality tv celebrities evolved back in the early 1990s. we spit on your centipedes. we laugh at them. there were articles in the freaking nyt and washington post telling us 'bout the conflict between some grimy bike messenger and a kid with aids... with comments from president clinton? freaking surreal world. bring on your sooper bugs and antibiotic-resistant diseases and chuds. our capacity for shock and awe died when paris hilton became a celebrity. HA! Good Fun!