There is law that requires certain financial documents: 15 U.S. Code 1632.

Let that be expanded to more common disclosures that are required or protected by law. As if anything is more common that a credit card statement or application.

"like trump blaming tariffs tanking the world economy on Biden."

Except he hasn't done that. Listen carefully, he blames multiple Presidents and administrations for bringing us to such a state that our government is spending unsustainably, manufacturing has been given to China (and other nations within their sphere of influence), and our economy has been damaged such that it is sight of real trouble.

You disagree? Citations. When did Trump blame Biden for tariffs? Feel free to restate your assertion to avoid the embarrassment.

"I never even suspected another president of using US government to attack my fellow Americans."

Then you were not paying attention. That is the WHOLE POINT of the Patriot Act, and FISA. The entire reason for the existence of these tools.

Are you still not paying attention? Then keep it turned off, because we will find our government has done worse, and will keep doing worse even after we convince our representatives to deny them the legal means to justify their acts. If we ever bother to do so.

Who or what is this 'they' you refer to? You expect me to accept your premise that every political party, and every political actor, hasn't been doing this for decades, perhaps longer?

The exceptions are few and far between. Don't bother with trying to convince me of 'your side' didn't and doesn't do this. Of course they did, and still do, and will.

"bothsidesism">

"False balance, known colloquially as bothsidesism, is a media bias in which journalists present an issue as being more balanced between opposing viewpoints than the evidence supports."

But you keep on doing you. It's working.

Taking bets on which agency is tracking ever.single.person.they.can.

Especially the one who need not be tracked, their whereabouts are broadcast and publicized worldwide.

Wow, you still don't get it. The US federal government is out of the citizens' control. Still. It's being redirected as if it were a 50 mile long oil tanker. No stop and go, no abrupt change in direction, but the inputs are so very noticeable. Watch the horizon. Not that much has changed yet. And that includes the pre-existing surveillance state created before 2001, expanded in 2004 and continuously since.

It's only news to the legacy media when their team loses.

Dark Matter

That's fixable.

It gives our military the defensible demand that equipment be delivered with sufficient documentation and access to necessary parts to enable personnel to repair the equipment. And correctly so, as if it should have been different ever.

I heard some time ago that many US military bases use civilian contractors to provide many routine services, especially notable food services. Cooking and feeding our military. Not all of our forces deploy elsewhere for service, but when they do, they ought be be able to be more self-sufficient than not, and food is crucial. Why are they not feeding themselves on base, and so refining their skills and abilities?

So also, vehicles as a prime example, they need to (or ought to) be able to do whatever is necessary to succeed.

"Arkansas wants federal money from storm damage"

At least you get this right. Disaster relief is as often as not treated as a jackpot for state government. 'Free' money, good PR, fix whatever they care to, even if it isn't complete, and fairness is of no consequence.

Our current Administration is trying to redirect primary responsibility to states, they know better the real risks and needs, or should.

Living in the Phoenix area, I have flood insurance. this year to cost close to $1800. Why? First, because we get thunderstorms (monsoons they are called out here) that could, every 100 years or so, overwhelm the drainage systems, and my home is 6 inches below the flood risk level. My neighbors 25 feet to the east and 50 feet south of me, no need for flood insurance. My neighbors 15 feet to the west, and those north of me, yup. Why nearly equal to my hazard insurance? Because FEMA must make me share the risks of those in peril from hurricanes, for instance, in places where these occur at least every decade, or more often, and are compelled to build back the same - assuring us of further expenses to build back the same again. And often build back worse, as contractors too often build substandard replacements, and local authorities fail to even detect flawed construction, much less compel remediation.

So, does Arkansas fail to plan for such contingencies, knowing FEMA will swoop in and fix it all, and it will be taxpayer money from all the country, thereby avoiding the burden of having to pay the bill, and gaining the benefit of blaming someone else?

And the affected people of Arkansas? They will be left holding the empty bag, indeed.

I also have not had to wait for Windows 10 or to become responsive and usable much more than 10 seconds after the desktop appears.

My ongoing nag is the slightly improved performance of the Multiple UNC Provider (MUP). Back in NT and 2000 days you could search for something in File Explorer and wait impatiently as, eventually, the MUP would enlist the assistance of DNS etc. to search for an object, file usually, that had a FQDN embedded that should NOT exist externally. But it would in fact search the Internet for your presumably, provably, local resource. DNS queries that were 'not found' just resulted in another general search of all protocols and connections.

Annoying. But Windows 10/11 hasn't had that much trouble, and I have not witnessed delays while it seemed I/O was setting up. In fact, I think it was Windows 7 (or was it 98?) that finally decided not to close up audio drivers, but just toss them, on shutdown. At some point, maybe in 7, network drivers also did not ask for confirmation from external connections before shutting down. Stuff that was probably left to clean up until the operational issues were 'resolved'. Or made sufficiently tame to move on to the lower priority improvements.

I'm in the other half-ish. I'm frakking retired. Done listening to my teammates groan about The Man, done listening to their wailing about layoffs, done listening to them explain to me how dam important they are, they are a people person, dammit! Done listening to Bob (either one) asking me what I actually do.

Ami complaining about 2024? '23? '08? 1999? '90? 1984? 1960? As if change is change.

Or do we yet understand this is an evolution of warfare. Cyber weapons, states attacking the populations, assymetrical warfare at its logical development.

It will get worse. Doubtful we can prevent real damage to individuals.

Even alleged 'accidental' (I prefer to categorize this as incompetent) deletion of critical data should be considered a security issue. Your security systems should protect against internal threats, and even those from 'official' support or maintenance.

This sort of incident demonstrates the value of some relatively obscure file system permissions of operating systems etc back in the day, such as delete or rename inhibit (really the same thing, somewhat). Some of these Microsoft came to relatively late in the game, others earlier. Either way, forcing those grey hat actors 'doing maintenance' and not being sufficiently careful or observant to jump through another, and another, hoop to perform damaging or fatal actions seems proper. I wonder, was that in place?

Nonetheless, no real excuses for the trained and alleged competent team to make such a mistake. And yes, I've made similar mistakes. Only saved by planning and having sufficient recovery resources available. And realizing that in a hospital system, downtime risk more than lost billings.

I don't think you can describe the Saturn as built by NASA. Each stage was built by the prime contractor and their subs, and was delivered. NASA stacked them. That's not the same thing as building. And NASA didn't do it alone, of course they had a small army of the contractors, engineers, technicians, etc. To be able to accomplish all this. It's not that SpaceX builds everything, they may have subs and I don't care. But NASA didn't build Saturn, they stacked it. And they control the launch, yes. More contractor engineers and technicians in the room. It's not a knock on NASA, it's just how it was.