Anonymous wrote:first, there are no "races".

second, based on IQ testing, it seems clear that chinese and japanese asians are smarter than western europeans, and africans tend to be at the bottom.

but I guess we can also debate the accuracy of IQ testing.

who cares regardless?

I'm pretty sure that Buchanan would dispute your first statement. It would be interesting to hear his reaction to your second. I wouldn't be surprised if it resulted in agreement with your third. I guess if you are a member of a group being accused of having inferior genes, you might care.

Anonymous wrote:I'm most concerned with the transmission of data right now, as the software I use for my actual work is (or at least is marketed as being) secure.

I'll be 100% honest here, you completely lost me at public key cryptography! lol I'm using windows and microsoft outlook. I frequently receive emails from financial institutions that look like regular emails, but they are links to their site where I log on for the secure information. I'm guessing there are companies out there that would do the same for my small business, but I don't even know where to begin in my google search. Do you think it's worth looking into my own S/Mime/PGP (whatever those are) or just outsourcing this? Any recs? My daughter suggested something about Google Cloud, but so far I haven't looked into it.

I figured that you would understand a lot of the vocabulary, but just Google a few terms. What is the software that you use for your work? That company might have some options. I have never investigated outsourcing options because I would simply set up my own system. Does your company have a website? An SSL-enabled website would also allow secure transfer.

There are really two issues here: 1) the transmission of the data; and 2) the storage of the data. For the first, you could employ some form of public key cryptography which would include S/Mime or PGP. How you use those depends on the operating system and email program you are using. They can be a pain to set up, but once you get them working they are pretty smooth. Then, once you get the information, you are responsible for keeping it private. I would decrypt it, print it, and file it if you normally keep hardcopy files, and then delete the electronic version. If you want to keep the electronic version, you could keep the encrypted email, but that may not be as secure as it seems. Or, you could save it to another file, encrypt that file, and delete the email. You could use PGP for that encryption as well. Whatever you do, don't rely on simple password-protected documents such as MS Word and the like provide.

TheManWithAUsername wrote:So what?

First, he's probably less relevant than Howard Dean.

Second, he simply said that he's not qualified to answer the question. Why should he be criticized for not adopting some dogma when he lacks real knowledge?

I don't know, Buchanan seems to constantly be on TV. Would he disavow the idea that white people have inferior genes or similarly plead ignorance?

Anonymous wrote:The cartoon is dumb and wholly unnecessary, but I wonder if the outraged Obama supporters would have felt the same way if a similar cartoon was posted in the Bush years.

When MoveOn.org ran an advertisement mocking General Petraeus (satire only, no bullets in the head), both chambers of Congress passed resolutions to condemn MoveOn.org. In the Senate, even Hillary Clinton voted in favor of the resolution. I doubt we will see Congressional action in this instance.

Not Karen Wollstengroft:

I believe that what you observed is Google getting a little too smart for its own good and causing undue concern about the +1 button. Based on my experiences, hovering over the +1 shows your Google account login and says that it will publicly post under that name. In fact, if that name does not have a Google Profile -- as is the case with your work account -- it will not work unless you first create a Google Profile. This is confusing and results in the +1 button being more controversial than it needs to be.

At any rate, I've seen enough. I just removed the button. I had planned to last night, but got busy with Halloween and then went to bed early. Google likes to have 5 days of data for tests, but I have three and that will have to suffice.

TheManWithAUsername wrote:
I dunno - are sexual harassment allegations actually a negative to Rep voters? I'd want at least to focus group that one. There's nothing Rep candidates like more than crying about their victimization by the liberal media as they labor against reality's left-wing bias.

Actually, I meant to say something along those lines and forgot to include it. In the Republic of Tea-Party-stan, sexual harassment is just another way of saying "foreplay". Those whiney feminazis should go home and shave their armpits.

Also, Rush Limbaugh apparently suggested that this accusation was an ugly racial stereotype. I always thought Limbaugh supported the use of ugly racial stereotypes. Has Rush gone PC all of a sudden?

Anonymous wrote:Question. Who will actually go to see the movies? Jonetta Barras has an interesting take on this. With the ward hitting 25% unemployment is this theater going to be state run? I can't see a single private entity doing this. It's so weird that people in America believe that the government should be forcing private enterprise where they should set up shop. So weird. Sounds like something you see in China.

Yes, look at this program right out of the Chi-Com text book (or its that the Little Red Book?):

http://governor.state.tx.us/ecodev/financial_resources/texas_enterprise_fund/

What these heck does this Marxist think he is doing using tax dollars to attract businesses?

I assume that Herman Cain has "I Hate Mondays" on endless loop today. At a minimum, he must hate this Monday. Two stories have broken that are not exactly helpful to his campaign:

1) Two apparent accusations of sexual harassment that ended with settlements paid to the two accusers.
2) Allegations that Prosperity USA, an organization founded by well-known cigarette smoker and Cain aid Mark Block, illegally spent tens of thousands of dollars to help Cain's campaign get off the ground.

With regard to the first, Cain admits the charges but claims they were false. The campaign hasn't commented on the second other than to say it needs time to look into the issue.

While Cain's first reaction to the sexual harassment story was to blame it on liberals, liberals have no interest in damaging him at this point. To the contrary, it's in liberal's interest to see Cain keep threatening Romney. More likely, Cain's Republican colleagues have the knives out for him.

You might look into DCSDKA

http://dcsdka.net/

They meet at Bancroft Elementary in Mt. Pleasant. They are pretty flexible about attendance.

Frankly, the purpose of that forum is simply to be a place for people to discuss things that are not appropriate for other forums. I am not a big believer in preventing people from saying or writing things. Rather, I am a believer in people saying or writing things in the proper context. We've done quite a bit to "wall off" the explicit forum from the rest of the site. For instance, topics in that forum don't show up in the "Recent" or "Hot" topics threads. If there is more that can be done, I'm open for suggestions. But, the only way to know what is happening in that forum is to actually go into that forum. At that point, it shouldn't be hard to avoid threads in which you have no interest. Frequently, the line between "dirty talk" and simply trying to be clear in the discussion of a sexually-explicit topic is pretty clouded. I really don't want to be in the role of adjudicating that line.

Anonymous wrote:Which should we give up to protect our anonymity - gmail or dcurbanmom? Both you and your google contact are very short-sighted.

How about instead of being rude you try to be thoughtful? You are not giving up your anonymity. Gmail has nothing to do with it. Giving up Gmail would not change a thing. I'd love one of you who are so sure that your deepest secrets are automatically being disclosed to everyone on earth because of a simple button to explain to me how you think such a thing is occurring. It's simply not happening. What is happening is that you are massively over-reacting.

BTW, how come there's no comments about my removing all the Facebook stuff? Positive feedback, folks. Has anyone ever heard of that?

Anonymous wrote:
I am not generally a privacy freak, but I think that many of the posters here - like myself - post simply because they are comfortable that this board is anonymous. This change makes me completely uncomfortable. I want to be assured that in no way will my real name be associated with my posts (i.e., they are anonymous), and this makes me think that there are circumstances in which the posts, and even the posts that I am reading, may be associated with my name, if only for a few minutes. To me, that changes the nature of the anonymity of the site drastically.

I understand completely. I appreciate your input. Based on the feedback received so far, I would be surprised if the +1 button is on the site at this time tomorrow.

Anonymous wrote:Don't sell out man.

I'll never sell out. If there is general agreement that the +1 button sucks, I'll remove it. I said that in my first response in this thread.