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Peacoffee posted:The U.S. just doesn’t Vaalue that relationship as much anymore. Natal puns are welcome
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evilweasel posted:I'm pretty sure you can count the countries that get a "real" ambassador on the fingers of one hand. It's just not a position that demands someone qualified anymore. The few things they do have to do actually kinda match up well with the skills needed to be a major donor (good at schmoozing lots of rich friends). Does Woody Johnson get a title like “The Honorable” ?
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# ? Nov 16, 2018 03:17 |
My is still active for Florida’s senate seat. Hopefully the hand recount goes well. When is Mississippi’s run off?
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# ? Nov 16, 2018 03:22 |
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Does Woody Johnson get a title like “The Honorable” ? despite the fact that the english have been subjected to the horror of watching jets football in person, yes
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# ? Nov 16, 2018 03:22 |
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Honestly, we probably should just make ambassadors non-senate-confirmable positions, or make it a senate-vetoable position. Is there a specific constitutional provision that requires they be senate confirmed that I'm forgetting?
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# ? Nov 16, 2018 03:24 |
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Hellblazer187 posted:But they are still going to do a hand recount, which was the real chance for this. Oh, I thought that was for the hand recount, not the machine. My bad
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# ? Nov 16, 2018 03:24 |
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https://twitter.com/MLevineReports/status/1063253354829291520?s=19 Edit..... : probably not exciting? https://twitter.com/SeamusHughes/status/1063235675682689029?s=19 JasonV fucked around with this message at 03:29 on Nov 16, 2018 |
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Teddybear posted:Honestly, we probably should just make ambassadors non-senate-confirmable positions, or make it a senate-vetoable position. Is there a specific constitutional provision that requires they be senate confirmed that I'm forgetting? quote:2: He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.
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# ? Nov 16, 2018 03:25 |
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Well, there you go. I haven't brushed up on my appointments clause lately. Nevermind.
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# ? Nov 16, 2018 03:30 |
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I absolutely believe this; every time I draft a motion my first step is to find a similar motion someone filed to copy all of the formatting and boilerplate from. Holy poo poo is that an incredible find.
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# ? Nov 16, 2018 03:29 |
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evilweasel posted:I absolutely believe this; every time I draft a motion my first step is to find a similar motion someone filed to copy all of the formatting and boilerplate from. Holy poo poo is that an incredible find. This is like every lawyer's worst nightmare come to life, except instead of it being having to file an amended motion/complaint sheepishly swapping out names, they've given away that they've filed charges against a guy they're desperately trying to pretend is free to walk out of his self-imposed asylum.
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# ? Nov 16, 2018 03:31 |
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There's a Danish reality TV show that just followed the US Ambassador to Denmark around. Apparently the Danes really liked the guy even if his main qualification was being a big fundraiser.
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# ? Nov 16, 2018 03:41 |
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evilweasel posted:despite the fact that the english have been subjected to the horror of watching jets football in person, yes look, even the English can recognize that the Jets are the Brexit of the NFL world (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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# ? Nov 16, 2018 03:48 |
evilweasel posted:I absolutely believe this; every time I draft a motion my first step is to find a similar motion someone filed to copy all of the formatting and boilerplate from. Holy poo poo is that an incredible find. good lord that is something alright there were tons of rumors a sealed indictment against Assange already existed, too
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# ? Nov 16, 2018 03:50 |
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It has been decades since the Ambassador to anywhere really mattered, except under unusual circumstances. All the real action is done through the consuls, who are career State Department people
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# ? Nov 16, 2018 04:06 |
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Spiffster posted:
every day, making a dead spot in the gulf of mexico
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# ? Nov 16, 2018 04:13 |
https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1063268875951894529 some context on what might have been happening in August in the Eastern District of Virginia Owlofcreamcheese posted:every day, making a dead spot in the gulf of mexico this is the news thread
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# ? Nov 16, 2018 04:15 |
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predicto posted:It has been decades since the Ambassador to anywhere really mattered, except under unusual circumstances. All the real action is done through the consuls, who are career State Department people Or direct phone calls from/to the President or Secretary of State. They are indeed mostly anachronistic.
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# ? Nov 16, 2018 04:19 |
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Wow. It's been nearly a whole page since someone posted a story about how hosed the VA IT systems are. Here, have another. It's fresh, so it has lots of Trumpian incompetence, self dealing, and back-stabbing to go with the short sightedness, COTS capability shortfalls, and hopeless wishful thinking that's par for the course.
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# ? Nov 16, 2018 04:20 |
Xae posted:If you want a good look at the crushing amount of legacy in the DoD or VA read this. What consistently surprises me about the myriad systems in the government is just how incredibly poorly documented they are. Like I get how it happens but it is just so at odds with the documentation fetish that the government usually operates under. The military has a 26 page brownie recipe/specification document. The guide for how my job works is over 2000 pages. Yet there's absolutely nothing known about the format many of these systems use to store data and pass it along to the next system. The whole shebang needs a ground up redesign because we have no loving clue what is even there. To take the strained metaphor at the end of that article further the people in charge of things are busy looking for some talented conductor to make everything play in tune, but we don't even know what instruments the orchestra has, much less their condition, so all that anyone can manage is a long drawn out fart noise.
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# ? Nov 16, 2018 04:30 |
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I think the US Digital Service (arising from the fixing-healhcare.gov initiative during Obama administration) is supposed to address this sort of stuff, but it's possibly too heavily biased towards younger/Internet generation-type people, who may not have the best background in dealing with things designed using 1950s tech.
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# ? Nov 16, 2018 04:36 |
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evilweasel posted:I'm pretty sure you can count the countries that get a "real" ambassador on the fingers of one hand. It's just not a position that demands someone qualified anymore. The few things they do have to do actually kinda match up well with the skills needed to be a major donor (good at schmoozing lots of rich friends). This is not true. It's actually the exact opposite. Click here for interactive version, along with the explanatory article.
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# ? Nov 16, 2018 04:39 |
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enraged_camel posted:This is not true. It's actually the exact opposite. IIRC this is because if you're a rich donor, you want to be stationed (i.e. live) in nice, fancy places like Luxembourg or Amsterdam, as opposed to, say, N'Djamena or Vientiane.
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# ? Nov 16, 2018 04:46 |
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Shifty Pony posted:
That's just the opposite extreme. I don't care if you're the royal chef of Saudi Arabia, under pain of death if you gently caress the brownies up, you don't a 26 page brownie reciepe. You've gone way past the point where the recipe is an active hindrance to making good brownies.
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# ? Nov 16, 2018 04:47 |
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evilweasel posted:I'm pretty sure you can count the countries that get a "real" ambassador on the fingers of one hand. It's just not a position that demands someone qualified anymore. The few things they do have to do actually kinda match up well with the skills needed to be a major donor (good at schmoozing lots of rich friends). Do you think its going to become a job that demands a qualified person post-Trump?
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# ? Nov 16, 2018 04:53 |
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Charlz Guybon posted:That's just the opposite extreme. I don't care if you're the royal chef of Saudi Arabia, under pain of death if you gently caress the brownies up, you don't a 26 page brownie reciepe. You've gone way past the point where the recipe is an active hindrance to making good brownies. It looks like it's less 26 pages of recipe and more like 26 pages of "hey, don't use garbage eggs and sewer water or use fish oil" ingredient sourcing thing for making a food all over in different conditions from different resources.
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# ? Nov 16, 2018 04:58 |
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Do not even think about starting a food derail.
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# ? Nov 16, 2018 05:00 |
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:IT planning words It all has to start with a real ID system and work outwards from there. I'm not some ID showing wierdo, but our records system needs to work outwards from the people. We need to as people of this country haves access to and control our identities. It would be this countries greatest beuricratic moonshot.
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# ? Nov 16, 2018 05:14 |
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https://twitter.com/mattzap/status/1063288025193594890 We need Mueller to do some poo poo so we can finally start to untangle all of this stuff
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# ? Nov 16, 2018 05:35 |
The Glumslinger posted:https://twitter.com/mattzap/status/1063288025193594890 there's a reasonable chance this is unrelated to Mueller - read up on Josh Schulte and the Vault 7 leaks. just a few weeks ago, he was caught with cell phones in prison he was allegedly using to pass (even more) classified information to wikileaks https://twitter.com/big_cases/status/1057753860952023041 quote:The US government says that "in or about early October 2018, the Government learned that Schulte was using one or more smuggled contraband cellphones to communicate clandestinely with third parties outside of the MCC."
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# ? Nov 16, 2018 05:40 |
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Charlz Guybon posted:That's just the opposite extreme. I don't care if you're the royal chef of Saudi Arabia, under pain of death if you gently caress the brownies up, you don't a 26 page brownie reciepe. You've gone way past the point where the recipe is an active hindrance to making good brownies. its a 26 page procurement specification its only that long because people have made hosed up brownies over the years also because technically this is detailed evidence in the case of a contractual dispute by the vendor providing insufficient goods so there's a bunch of extra stuff just to deal with legal bullshit OJ MIST 2 THE DICK fucked around with this message at 05:47 on Nov 16, 2018 |
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OddObserver posted:I think the US Digital Service (arising from the fixing-healhcare.gov initiative during Obama administration) is supposed to address this sort of stuff, but it's possibly too heavily biased towards younger/Internet generation-type people, who may not have the best background in dealing with things designed using 1950s tech. This is exactly what USDS, 18F, and the general TTS effort at GSA are focused on, and have been doing since their inception. It turns out that old technology, by itself, isn't the issue - it's not like you can't just go over to the agency that owns it and eventually track down someone who knows something about it. The issue is that no single human can understand the entirety of these systems. This is compounded by the fact that the government severely lacks deep technical skill at the GS-14/15 level, so among the set of executives that have the power to fix these broken systems, very few know how to buy the right talent or actually direct such an effort. Even if they did, they often lack the power to remove bureaucratic roadblocks or set the correct course of action. What you end up with is an unending cycle of people who know the solution but end up screaming into the void until they burn out and leave. Google developers at USDS needing to read a COBOL book as part of their project is not, comparatively, a huge deal.
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Ceiling fan posted:Wow. It's been nearly a whole page since someone posted a story about how hosed the VA IT systems are. It always amazes me that people think these complex systems can be replaced in one go if you just throw enough money at it. Not that anyone in Congress seems remotely capable of understanding the underlying issues with that idea.
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zynga dot com posted:What you end up with is an unending cycle of people who know the solution but end up screaming into the void until they burn out and leave. Google developers at USDS needing to read a COBOL book as part of their project is not, comparatively, a huge deal. In my experience, telling management what actually needs to be done is a sure fire way to dead end your career in government IT. Especially at these agencies where non-technical people get promoted into IT Management. I applied to he COBOL dev position.
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TheMadMilkman posted:In my experience, telling management what actually needs to be done is a sure fire way to dead end your career in government IT. Especially at these agencies where non-technical people get promoted into IT Management. USDS has an interesting model in that positions are term-based (2 years and a possible 2 year renewal). Knowing that going in removes a lot of the hesitation in telling a room full of directors that their plan sucks. Plus you’re a fed too, so you’re not getting fired or losing a contract.
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TheMadMilkman posted:In my experience, telling management what actually needs to be done is a sure fire way to dead end your career in government IT. Especially at these agencies where non-technical people get promoted into IT Management. quote:In August, the VA spent at least $874,000 on a kickoff event in Missouri, where Cerner is headquartered. Morris and Windom squabbled over stage time and walk-on songs, and she clashed with Sandoval and Stone over how much they would participate, two former officials said. They presented a convoluted organization chart that couldn’t paper over the power struggle. The bad chases out, well, everyone. quote:Another of the candidates recruited by the headhunters was Jonathan Manis, who was the CIO of Sutter Health in Northern California. Manis, 56, had led software implementations at two large hospital systems and is a veteran. He said he was excited about the opportunity and interviewed with multiple VA officials. Dr. Moskowitz is a member at Mar-a-Lago.
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The Glumslinger posted:https://twitter.com/mattzap/status/1063288025193594890 Next time someone complains about a typo in my motion I’m gonna think of this
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I want Assange to go to prison for espionage so bad, not because I care at all about espionage against the US government, but because the meltdowns from the smug conspiracy pricks who thought Trump was one of them would be hilarious.
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# ? Nov 16, 2018 06:30 |
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absolutely the worst outcome for assange is that he is questioned by the bobbies and released and then he's standing there having to figure out what to do with his life knowing that nobody wants to arrest or detain him
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luxury handset posted:absolutely the worst outcome for assange is that he is questioned by the bobbies and released and then he's standing there having to figure out what to do with his life knowing that nobody wants to arrest or detain him I would bet that Assange has a long list of people who want him vanished. So my guess is that in the unlikely event the US government lets him go, he would immediately find a deep hole to spend the rest of his life in.
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