The relevant information

What Trump said:
Here’s what Trump told NBC News’s Lester Holt (emphasis mine):

Quote:HOLT: Did you ask for a recommendation?
TRUMP: What I did is, I was going to fire Comey. My decision. It was not . . .
HOLT: You had made the decision before they came in the room.
TRUMP: I was going to fire Comey. There’s no good time to do it, by the way.
HOLT: Because in your letter, you said, ‘I accepted their recommendation.’ So you had already made the decision.
TRUMP: Oh, I was going to fire regardless of recommendation.

Quote:As Spicer tells it, Rosenstein was confirmed about two weeks ago and independently took on this issue so the president was not aware of the probe until he received a memo from Rosenstein on Tuesday, along with a letter from Attorney General Jeff Sessions recommending that Comey be fired. The president then swiftly decided to follow the recommendation, notifying the FBI via email around 5 p.m. and in a letter delivered to the FBI by the president’s longtime bodyguard. At the same time, the president personally called congressional leaders to let them know his decision. Comey learned the news from media reports.
“It was all him,” Spicer said of Rosenstein, as a reporter repeated his answer back to him. “That’s correct — I mean, I can’t, I guess I shouldn’t say that, thank you for the help on that one. No one from the White House. That was a DOJ decision.”

I have a friend who's in the final downward spiral of Glioblastoma - pretty much the worst brain cancer you can possibly find. He's lasted over two years since his diagnosis, but at this point he's not going to see 2018, possibly not the autumn.
Last Saturday, I got asked if I want anything from his house, I rate as family, and they're having to clear the house to sell it to pay for his care, so it all has to go somewhere. In fact, this Saturday we're going over to do some of that.
The question is full of goddamned fucking sucktitude. Piled on top of the emotional acknowledgements that he's in that downward slide, that he's no longer able to live on his own, and already has his appointment to traverse the Desert booked.
Fuck.
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"You know how parents tell you everything's going to fine, but you know they're lying to make you feel better? Everything's going to be fine." - The Doctor

Moon Jae-in http://news.antiwar.com/2017/05/09/moon ... ith-north/ the presidential election in South Korea. From the linked article:

Quote:Moon is a major departure from the recent string of hawks in the
South Korean presidency, advocating peaceful reunification with North
Korea and promising to visit the reclusive nation at the first
opportunity after the election. He is seen as keen to return to the
Sunshine Policy of the early 2000s, aimed at improving bilateral ties
and trying to avoid war.

That’s not likely to sit well with the Trump Administration, which
has repeatedly panned diplomacy in general as a “failed” tactic and has
been talking up increasingly confrontational policies toward North
Korea. Moon, however, is well aware of this, saying he thinks it is very
important that South Korea should develop a less lop-sided relationship with the US ,and “learn to say no to the Americans.”

Saw today's Dork Tower, and I have to agree with Matt.



Could somebody explain to me, please, just how "social justice warrior" is supposed to be anything other than a compliment?
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Why does it feel like 1972?
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Into terror!,  Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell

http://www.cbc.ca/news/multimedia/room- ... -1.4104147]Room without a view: Banksy teams up with Palestinian to open hotel in Bethlehem

Of course, it's Banksy, so expect the establishment to be both a work of art and a political statement.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

OOC: Rob's sidestory #2, set between "Time in the Woods" and "It's All Relative"

She warned the WH that Flynn was compromised. The Russians knew he was lying and had proof. Trump and the GOP are trying to deflect it.  So now Al Franken raised an interesting question. Who else was coordinating with the Russians before Trump took office?
Opinion piece on the hearing be free to make up your minds
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Into terror!,  Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell

From: anika-daini@friggarock.fen
To: anika-daini@friggarock.fen
Subj: Aces High!

Okay, so we had this at the con last year and it was a bit of a hoot to run a quick racing league. Just try and remember this things's not something big and Pro like KoFen - it's a training tool miss VR-is-no-substitute-for-reality had me build out of an old metaverse fork for Daryl to get up to speed and to practice race management. It's just sort of accretted features and grown in model complexity since then with stuff like system stresses and collission damages.

Detailed models we have that're flyable:

RF-47 Kulbit-A (Daryl Haur Ver.)
AF-155- Foxhound-B
LF-162- Wasp
XR-71 Blackbird (With flight-test equipment)

Pilot model is generic.

There's also basic AI models based only on observed data for:
BlackBird Class.
VF-9
TSR-2
Boskone Viper

Mapwise, there's
Frigga Test Track
Ultima Station
Mars (Noctis especially.)

Stuff we have working at the moment is 'Free Flight' mode where you can spin up a jet and take it for a spin, and Race mode.

One more thing:

There isn't that much difference between running into debris, and running into a bullet. Or a missile. And those are easy to simulate. The damage models are down to the bolt and bone. Getting shot will hurt. So will plling G's.

So yeah, there's a 'Combat Mode' too. If you must.

[REX]topgunsoundtrack.torrent.
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Grab the client Here. You're rig models your own spacecraft, the cockpit environment and the feedback loop, so it needs some power to handle the detail but any reasonable cyberdeck from the last two years can run it well.

The Heisenberg engine runs on litvyak.frigga-aces.fen

Other models. Um - well - these are based on actual flight test data - and breakdown data. So we'd need something to test.... and break.

Grab me if you're having any problems getting it to run. Also, the tachypsychia and ping synchronisation will feel a bit weird at first.

-Anika.

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Think DCS meets War Thunder.
And,well, I want to get some peope talking
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http://www.globalgovernmentforum.com/u ... istration/]US lawsuits probe alleged bullying of civil servants by Trump administration

United to Protect Democracy (no, I haven't heard of them, either) filed FOI requests for documents that could confirm or disprove allegations that civil servants have been bullied because they worked on Obamacare or reproductive rights. DOE and HSS both failed to respond within the legally-mandated period. And the State Department wants to be paid for their response.

The FOI laws exist for a reason...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012