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    Image of Canoehead Canoehead
    12/14/09

    In reply to "Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Iraq": 22 Million Lost Bush White House Emails Recovered
    I pity the fools who have to paw through these. I just finished helping out on a pro bono doc review for "an important civil rights case", and of the thousands of emails I reviewed (out of over a million in the project), I found two that were relevant - the rest were LOLCats, jokes, dinner plans and gossip.
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    12/14/09

    In reply to "Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Iraq": 22 Million Lost Bush White House Emails Recovered
    Article photo is WIN
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    Image of Ryan_Long Ryan_Long
    12/14/09

    In reply to "Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Iraq": 22 Million Lost Bush White House Emails Recovered
    22,000,000 emails is a lot. Trust me. But how many people work in the federal government with these 'lost' emails? Say it's 50,000. That's only 440 per person.
    If this is 22,000,000 emails between Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Satan- that's a little more of a pickle.
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    Image of Slinkytech Slinkytech
    12/14/09

    In reply to "Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Iraq": 22 Million Lost Bush White House Emails Recovered
    Once they release them though we'll never see it on any news network, that's for sure. Five years from now they're still gonna be humping tiger woods' leg for one more mistress story instead of talking about our worthless corrupt immoral politicians doing nasty things to nasty women.
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    Image of thechansen thechansen
    12/14/09

    In reply to "Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Iraq": 22 Million Lost Bush White House Emails Recovered
    Ignoring any political commentary: The lack of redundant backups (and offsite back ups) from an IT perspective is just plain gross.

    Of course I don't know all the details in this particular case, but if you are supposed to back stuff, which clearly is the case here, then head to fucking Walmart and at least buy the $70 external hard drive and half ass back it up
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    Image of pz pz
    10:49 AM

    @thechansen: Blame the switch from an IBM Domino email system to a Microsoft Exchange one.

    The IBM system did automatic backups very easily -- the Microsoft system apparently couldn't, or couldn't very easily.
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    Image of thechansen thechansen
    10:51 AM

    @pz: [technet.microsoft.com]) .aspx
    (friggen autoshorting is ruining the link. Just copy the link, then add .aspx to the end)
    its not exactly brain surgery.
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    Edited by thechansen at 12/15/09 10:53 AM thechansen was starred thechansen was unstarred
    Image of pz pz
    11:02 AM

    @thechansen: Try again. :P
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    Image of thechansen thechansen
    01:17 PM

    @pz: this is what i get for being lazy... proper link. [tinyurl.com]
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    Image of pz pz
    02:29 PM

    @thechansen: Whatever those instructions were, they were too much to bother with, apparently.
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    Edited by pz at 12/15/09 2:29 PM pz was starred pz was unstarred
    Image of EpiphyteCorp. EpiphyteCorp.
    12/14/09

    In reply to "Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Iraq": 22 Million Lost Bush White House Emails Recovered
    Thank goodness we now have the transparent administration we were promised!...... right?
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    Image of fort-brag fort-brag
    12/14/09

    @EpiphyteCorp.: Is there any way to demote pointless comments like this one?
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    Image of EpiphyteCorp. EpiphyteCorp.
    12/14/09

    @fort-brag: Unfortunately not. I'm not entirely convinced, though, that my comment is "pointless". I thought Bush was a douche and I'm not defending him at all. President Obama used instances such as this to express his platform of a transparent office, which we are yet to see.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    12/14/09

    In reply to "Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Iraq": 22 Million Lost Bush White House Emails Recovered
    Hey W! We found your spam folder! You still want these pills?
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    Image of RainyDayInterns RainyDayInterns
    12/14/09

    In reply to "Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Iraq": 22 Million Lost Bush White House Emails Recovered
    Maybe they should send that team into Iraq to look for the WMDs...oh wait...the WMDs weren't "lost"... sorry, our mistake.
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    Edited by RainyDayInterns at 12/14/09 6:25 PM RainyDayInterns was starred RainyDayInterns was unstarred
    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    12/14/09

    In reply to "Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Iraq": 22 Million Lost Bush White House Emails Recovered
    "the same email messages the Bush White House denied losing."

    you mean the same 22 million emails they CLAIMED they 'lost'?
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    Image of Joel Johnson Joel Johnson
    12/14/09

    @nutbastard: Well, they claimed they lost about 5 million, but it was definitely a confusing way to phrase it in the lede. So I've cleaned it up a bit. Thanks.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    12/14/09

    In reply to "Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Iraq": 22 Million Lost Bush White House Emails Recovered
    from: D. Cheney[I_B_QuailShootn@yahoo.com]
    to: The Dubya [gwbushroolz@aol.com]
    date Fri. Dec 13, 2002 at 5:49 PM
    subject: Condi Pics. lol hawt :)

    [body redacted]
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    Edited by Kaiser-Machead at 12/14/09 5:58 PM Kaiser-Machead was starred Kaiser-Machead was unstarred
    Image of RicketyCricket RicketyCricket
    12/14/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: You forgot the several dozen "Fw:"s that would precede the subject title.
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    Image of Noobs-R-Us Noobs-R-Us
    12/14/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: I just threw up a little in my mouth. Thanks for that.
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    Image of dimsum4u dimsum4u
    12/14/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: sure it was the condi pics and not the palin pics that mccain sent to help W and Dick determine who his running mate should be.
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    Image of ManiacFive ManiacFive
    12/04/09

    In reply to Senator Introduces Bill to Smack Down Early Termination Fees
    I'm not sure how it works in the states, could somebody clarify this for me? Using o2 in the UK for an example, if you sign up for a 18 month contract and want to cancel, you'd be expected to pay the amount of monthly line rental x months remaining on contract

    Is the early termination fee Verizon applies a flat fee? regardless of when the early termination occours? Because that does sound like BS to me.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/04/09

    In reply to Senator Introduces Bill to Smack Down Early Termination Fees
    My only problem with ETFs is from a legal standpoint.

    Penalty fees are not legally permissible. As the motion court (correctly) held in Ayyad v. Sprint, early termination fees are impermissible because they do not constitute liquidated damages.

    If carriers want to claim that ETFs are liquidated damages for subsidizing the costs, then let them prove that in admissible form to beyond a preponderance of the evidence.

    It's not about morality; it's about legality.
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    Image of Badlands99 Badlands99
    12/04/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Then clearly this is a job for the judicial branch, not the legislative branch.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/04/09

    @Badlands99: Most problems can be solved through enforcement of existing law as opposed to creation of new law.
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    Image of Badlands99 Badlands99
    12/04/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Thank you for that refreshing bit of reason in this damp pit of lunacy.

    We already have an insane amount of laws, we hardly need new ones about cell phones.
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    12/04/09

    @Badlands99: Not a problem. Our country seems to think that "judge-made" law is somehow inferior. However, judge-made law often injects a fair amount of reason into vague, ambiguous, or otherwise deficient legislation.

    This is more brightline-philia (a nasty fetish where people think that there needs to be a law to cover every one of life's possibilities). This legislation simply doesn't need to be passed. Basic fundamentals of contract law that have existed for generations can easily be brought to bear on the question of the propriety of ETFs.

    We have judges for a reason: to interpret law, i.e. to take existing law and apply it to a set of circumstances, thereby refining the law.
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    Image of Duckspwn Duckspwn
    12/04/09

    In reply to Senator Introduces Bill to Smack Down Early Termination Fees
    Everyone, please raise your hand if you do not want to get involved in this argument. *raises hand*
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    Image of Mayor McRib Mayor McRib
    12/04/09

    In reply to Senator Introduces Bill to Smack Down Early Termination Fees
    I don't have a problem with ETF's, I just have a problem with them being doubled. If they want to charge $350 they had better be giving away their best smart phones for free. I broke my contract with them when I decided that an iPhone was more important that impeccable phone service, guess what, I paid the fee ($110 due to it going down every month of service) and went about my business. There is no such thing as a free phone, get over it.
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    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    12/04/09

    In reply to Senator Introduces Bill to Smack Down Early Termination Fees
    The carriers have painted themselves into a corner with the subsidy model. There's no question they'd like out of it but none can afford to be first. A law banning ETFs altogether might have the unintended consequence of ending subsidies.

    Despite the risk, I'd like to see it happen. I wonder if a similar desire by VZ is behind the seemingly poor timing of their increased ETFs.
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