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Goldhedge said:
Odd, I use a MacAir which runs on Unix. It NEVER has an issue. I leave mine on for years. I restart every so often and none of the tabs (on Brave) disappear....


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All the MacOS/OSX systems are based on Unix.

BUT. First of all, since the Internet became a focal point of having a computer, (OSX and later) the whole computer and program were intended to tie you to their online store, paid subscription software, and THEIR "cloud storage."

Once out of the Navv, I got a Mac. Not immediately, but as the advantages to having a computer became clearer. iGot an iMac, with OS 8 on it.

Napster was the big time-waster of that era, and I was annoyed that neither Napster nor other pirate programs would run on Macs. BUT. It was stable; and I could compensate for the tiny storage space (4 gb) with external storage.

The OS was stable but iFound the iMac was only good for about 18 months of use. The motherboard shorted out; and just in that time, it was becoming obsolete anyway. Most of what I had saved was on Zip drives, and OSX was the New Thing, so iThrew the iMac out. Saved the hard drive and later was able to save a few of the things I hadn't backed up - but by then it didn't matter.

Time goes on, and 12 years ago iGot an iPhone. There were things iLiked about it; so iBought a Mac Mini to replace my obsolete laptop. iThought the iPhone could substitute as a travel computer.

The OSX version the Mac Mini had was again, stable. BUT. It had been jiggered by the Fruit Company so that it couldn't search, or write in, any external media. There was a patch - by this time I had external hard drives - but the patch didn't work well.

They wanted me to store my stuff up in their cloud. Yeah...I'm gonna upload a terrabyte of bootlegged music and stolen movies, up there, so the Fruits of the Company can declare them **BAD** and erase them.

No...the problem with Linux's system is, it's written for all computers. Not a specific set of specifications, but a whole rainbow (manner of speaking) of them. The same generation of the same distro of Linux, may work just fine with one computer, but another, from another maker but intended for the same Windows version, it may crash all the time.

That's why I stopped using Ubuntu. It didn't seem to get along with modern Asus computers - desktop or laptop.

It is what it is. It's a ninety-percent system and it's totally free, and that's good enough for me...

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Don't mess with geniuses!!



BREAKING: House Speaker Mike Johnson just said that Elon Musk is "inside" the federal agencies with new algorithms crawling through spending transactions.

Tech bros are going to save our budget.

JOHNSON: “Elon has cracked the code. He is now inside the agencies, he's created these algorithms that are constantly crawling through the data and as he told me in his office, the data doesn't lie."

“Elon is in the middle. He is in the belly of the beast.”

H/t@atrupar
 
Johnson is to be thanked for exactly none of it.

My guess is, he's messing his pants, same as all the other Swamp rats.
 
Bongino is a good choice. Should be a complement to Patel as they are both very analytical and patriotic.
 
Casey Jones said:
So - again I ask - how do you prevent it from being twisted into a VAT/GST tax?

Also there's the logistics of it. Making EVERY MERCHANT in the nation an unpaid tax collector, EVERY TRANSACTION - as opposed to every employer, reporting figures electronically once a year - the cost and unpaid labor of it all is quite different.

Already merchants have to collect sales taxes (in states that have them; my state HAS no sales tax, a far better way to arrange things) and in some states, different items are taxed at different rates. Ohio does not tax food items that are purchased for home preparation. It DOES tax food to be consumed on the premises - as in, restaurants, fast-food, deli purchases at the grocery. For a carry-out restaurant, the To-Go items are tax-free but not the in-premises items. You can imagine the mess that makes, and how the tax boys love to jerk around merchants.

We need less of that, not more.

Not the business of government, how much you make? I agree, in principle. It's ALSO not the business of government what I BUY. If I want to trade fiat notes for a watermelon, how does government figure into it? Why should the watermelon seller be afraid of being caught selling without giving the government its cut?

NO tax structure addresses these moral issues; but there is gonna be a tax. As the Articles of Confederation showed us, if there's no income, there's soon no government; and a different government will replace it.

So pick the least intrusive method.
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Still its a business and you can pass along costs. The consumer still has a choice.

Ideally you wouldn't need a sales tax either, in reality a tariff is like a sales tax on imported goods.
 
CIA doesn't want the American people to know that USAID is actually funding Smartmatic voting machines!

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@EmeraldRobinson: 1. It's time to explain exactly what happened on Election Day 2024 to stop the steal. This will be a very long thread. It involves quite a few people over 4 years. A dozen sources....…
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Voodoo said:
Still its a business and you can pass along costs. The consumer still has a choice.

Ideally you wouldn't need a sales tax either, in reality a tariff is like a sales tax on imported goods.
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I agree. Also have to keep in mind that the federal budget going forward will be greatly reduced on the slashing of the federal government is complete. Trump, Putin and Xi are already talking about a 50% reduction in military spending. Perhaps in the 21st century the world can finally work together and put an end to wars and wasteful spending on them and put that money towards producing something useful for the world.
 

The true cycle of money and power is this:

Soros (among others) used his wealth to install key politicians.

Once in office, they funneled public funds into propaganda and NGOs designed to manipulate us—conditioning voters to elect even more of their kind.

In turn, these politicians ensured Soros and his allies grew richer. But Soros is now just a fragment of the monstrous machine he helped unleash.

What began as his influence has morphed into a self-sustaining Leviathan—one that thrives on our ignorance.

It is up to us, the people, to wake up and destroy it.




 
Trump says release the files and declassify everything. So where is it all? My hope is that Pam Bondi is getting warrants together and is going to send Kash out to make a massive amount of arrests. However, if that is not what's happening then we have a problem.

Highest salary at DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE in year 2024 was $221,900. Number of employees at DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE in year 2024 was 13,665. Average annual salary was $147,500 and median salary was $153,354. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE average salary is 215 percent higher than USA average and median salary is 253 percent higher than USA median salary.
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Pam has plenty of manpower to get this done.
 
Cigarlover said:
Trump says release the files and declassify everything. So where is it all? ...
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I saw a lot of hearsay posted on X over the last few days that FBI and other 3 letter agencies supposedly had rogue actors furiously deleting/erasing documents so they couldn't be released. I have no idea if any of that was true, or if it was just clickbait engagement farming.
 
pmbug said:
I saw a lot of hearsay posted on X over the last few days that FBI and other 3 letter agencies supposedly had rogue actors furiously deleting/erasing documents so they couldn't be released. I have no idea if any of that was true, or if it was just clickbait engagement farming.
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Yea that's a problem on X for sure. So much stuff gets posted it's getting harder to sort through to find the truth. I've also read that it would take years to delete all the info from all of the servers so they can recover anything at this point but who really knows the truth.?

My card there keeps getting rejected for some reason so I cant get verified. Might be doing me a favor.

Anyway, I'll give it another week and if nothing is released then we pretty much know Pam was a waste. The order was to declassify everything. What does she need to go through?
 
pmbug said:
I saw a lot of hearsay posted on X over the last few days that FBI and other 3 letter agencies supposedly had rogue actors furiously deleting/erasing documents so they couldn't be released. I have no idea if any of that was true, or if it was just clickbait engagement farming.
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They can try. There is an old saying that nothing is truly deleted. This is only partially true. There are ways, using the correct tools, that can completely overwrite a hard drive. However, when talking about government systems, one must take into account a couple of things. First, any recipients of your emails must also completely destroy (overwrite) their hard drives. Second, everything (and I mean everything) is backed up onsite and offsite. Usually to multiple offsite facilities. This is done primarily to facilitate COG (Continuity of Government). I used to be heavily involved with such operations. Once a year, I would have to report to an offsite facility in a nearby state and spend two days trying to do my job in a secure facility, while back home they would turn off all the servers to simulate an attack (nuclear, biological, etc...) on Washington. Everything I had on my workstation in DC was mirrored on a workstation in the offsite location. Entire OC-12s and OC-48s are dedicated to sucking off everything you type on your workstation and replicating it elsewhere - usually multiple elsewheres often called service centers or computing centers. This does not even take into account everything that facility in Utah is syphoning constantly.

So, no. When it comes to the government, nothing is really ever "gone". Diversity and redundancy is the name of the game. Staggering amounts of money was spent achieving it.
 
pmbug said:
I saw a lot of hearsay posted on X over the last few days that FBI and other 3 letter agencies supposedly had rogue actors furiously deleting/erasing documents so they couldn't be released. I have no idea if any of that was true, or if it was just clickbait engagement farming.
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Cigarlover said:
Yea that's a problem on X for sure. So much stuff gets posted it's getting harder to sort through to find the truth. I've also read that it would take years to delete all the info from all of the servers so they can recover anything at this point but who really knows the truth.?
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Some interesting replies to this. I'm starting to think we are going to see squadouche.

 
CiscoKid said:
They can try. There is an old saying that nothing is truly deleted. This is only partially true. There are ways, using the correct tools, that can completely overwrite a hard drive. However, when talking about government systems, one must take into account a couple of things. First, any recipients of your emails must also completely destroy (overwrite) their hard drives. Second, everything (and I mean everything) is backed up onsite and offsite. Usually to multiple offsite facilities. This is done primarily to facilitate COG (Continuity of Government). I used to be heavily involved with such operations. Once a year, I would have to report to an offsite facility in a nearby state and spend two days trying to do my job in a secure facility, while back home they would turn off all the servers to simulate an attack (nuclear, biological, etc...) on Washington. Everything I had on my workstation in DC was mirrored on a workstation in the offsite location. Entire OC-12s and OC-48s are dedicated to sucking off everything you type on your workstation and replicating it elsewhere - usually multiple elsewheres often called service centers or computing centers. This does not even take into account everything that facility in Utah is syphoning constantly.

So, no. When it comes to the government, nothing is really ever "gone". Diversity and redundancy is the name of the game. Staggering amounts of money was spent achieving it.
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Over-write it (making changes in wording, etc) or erasing it - and destroying harddrives, Hillary-style, with hammers.

There will be traces left; but the destroyers are banking on the reality that the DOGE team's time is limited, and nothing will come out until long after it doesn't matter politically.
 

21 DOGE staffers resign, saying they refuse to 'compromise core government systems'​

Twenty-one civil service employees resigned en masse Tuesday from Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, saying in a joint letter that they refused to use their technical expertise to "compromise core government systems, jeopardize Americans’ sensitive data, or dismantle critical public services."

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...vernment-systems/ar-AA1zMfy2?ocid=socialshare
 
searcher said:

21 DOGE staffers resign, saying they refuse to 'compromise core government systems'​

Twenty-one civil service employees resigned en masse Tuesday from Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, saying in a joint letter that they refused to use their technical expertise to "compromise core government systems, jeopardize Americans’ sensitive data, or dismantle critical public services."

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...vernment-systems/ar-AA1zMfy2?ocid=socialshare
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“These were Dem political holdovers who refused to return to the office,” Musk wrote. “They would have been fired had they not resigned.”

In a separate post on X, DOGE employee Katie Miller appeared to mock the staffers who resigned, saying: “These were full remote workers who hung Trans flags from their workplaces.”

So... much ado about nothing... aka deep state
 
Didn't Trump ask them to pass a big beautiful budget? And now congress passes another CR. These people just dont seem to understand that the average American is fed up. DOGE uncovering billions in fraud and waste and congress passing billions more in fraud and waste. Of course we won't get to know what's in it until it passes the Senate and Trump signs it. I hope he refuses to sign it and demands an itemized budget per agency.
 
The No Tax Dollars for Terrorists Act (H.R. 260)
This is to prevent our tax dollars going to terrorists in the future.
Where do we even begin with this one?
40 million to the Taliban last year from government programs. Meanwhile Americans get a colonoscopy every time we want to move money in and out of a bank so that they can prevert us from funding terrorists and laundering money. Meanwhile our politicians are laundering millions into families accounts and funding terrorists with NGO's and other government programs.
 


I have been doxxed. Rather than let others control the narrative, I am addressing this directly.

My name is Jennica Pounds. I recently resigned from my job to pursue DOGE-adjacent efforts full-time. While my background check is still in progress, my ultimate goal is to work with the Administration to cut waste and improve efficiency.

What began as a side hobby became a mission when I uncovered the role of NGOs in these issues. This is not about left or right. This is about us—the people.

I gave up everything for this—my safety, my career—because I believe in what I am doing.

I am 100% Deaf and nonverbal. My lack of signing fluency does not make me any less Deaf. It is a result of a language impairment related to my autism called expressive dysphasia, which affects my ability to construct language fluently in real-time. This impacts my signing, speaking, and even writing, though writing allows me more time to correct mistakes. My interpreter and I spend hours refining my talking points to ensure she conveys what I mean, not just what I say.

I am Deaf. And being Deaf is not, and should never be, defined by one’s signing ability, particularly when there are medical conditions involved.

I do not believe the Deaf community should be politically aligned with any party. A priority of mine has always been on holding the Administration accountable to Deaf Americans, including advocating for policy changes such as allowing a second interpreter camera stream on television broadcasts. I will continue using my platform to push for these necessary changes.
 


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