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Second response of yours, noting I don't 'read the news' seems like another opportunity lost.
Basically - what you're comments sound like are typical right-wing wishing-well opinions:
Here's the scoop - a reply to a NY Times article (via quora.com):
In fact it wasn't and the Times was wrong to suggest that it was.
It is true that the Federal Records Act of 1950 requires letters and written correspondence sent or received by federal officials, such as the secretary of state, to be designated government records and they are supposed o be retained so that congressional committees, historians and members of the news media can find them. There are exceptions to the law for certain classified and sensitive materials.
The Federal Records Act of 1950 did not include e-mails or electronic communications from a personal e-mail account. Not surprisingly I know given that those things did not exist at the time. The law was updated to include e-mails from a personal account. The update was signed into law by President Obama in 2014, two years after Ms. Clinton resigned her office.
She did not break the law. Whether it was a good idea for her to act as she did is of course a different question. But the Times, much as it did during the so-called Whitewater scandal that wasn't, got ahead of the story in its zeal to take a shot at Ms. Clinton.
Do you know there are people who actually think the Times favors Ms. Clinton and wants her to win? Weird huh?
Another excerpt (npr.org):
Addressing the Federal Records Act, NPR's Scott Horsley reported last month on the question of whether Clinton's exclusive reliance on a private email account violated it. Here's some of what he reported:
"A State Department spokeswoman says Hillary Clinton did not break any rules by relying solely on her personal email account. Federal law allows government officials to use personal email so long as relevant documents are preserved for history."
And over and over on TV, whilst the TOP SECRET document were being announced, the spokesman for the agency who made the announcement emphasized that they were not 'secret' when she received them. There's also an interesting caveat: agencies don't coordinate on what is or isn't classified - and it's quite possible to receive an unclassified item from one agency that's classified by another.
These are just a couple - the first two on my search list, actually - do the google search and find a ton of them.
Well - where'd you get your 'informed person' (mis)information?
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Wow! You actually put some time and work into your reply, just to try an put me in my place.
Now that is funny.
Cheers. 
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Roger Wright wrote: And if I want to pursue my first love - embedded programming - I can always grab some stepper motors and an Arduino developer kit, and convert my machines to numerical control.
Embedded programming is a passion of mine also, and a lot of fun.
Don't know whether you're up for a little Linux or not but you might want to check out the Raspberry Pi Zero[^].
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I'll look into that, Mike! Interesting stuff, though I haven't done any such programming in years.
Will Rogers never met me.
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It takes a while to get back into it, there's been so many changes since I had last done it and there are a myriad of chips and systems.
I chose Atmel as my primary development chip because; it's cheap, large choice of tools, the IDE is free and based on Visual Studio as opposed to Eclipse. (hate Eclipse)
BTW Good luck on your semi-retirement. It's awesome!
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Get a 3D printer and you can print any parts required. 
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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People who cannot be named, whose motivation I do not understand, using sources that cannot be disclosed, have forced me, using means I am not at liberty to reveal, to publish this partial transcript of a recent interview between Guccifer (aka Marcel Lehel Lazar) in his prison cell in Romania.
I believe this fragment came at the end of the interview with the FBI, NSC, and Homeland Security, personnel (their names were redacted, replaced by the initials of their organizations), after Guccifer ("GC") had agreed to make no legal defense against his extradition to the U.S. where indictment on at least nine felony counts await him. [^]
GC: "No Chipotle, no MacDonald's, only Taco Belle, and Wendy's ... I want that in writing."
FBI: "Check ... and no vegan, no low-fat, no free-range chicken ..."
NSC: "Only goat milk ... that could be a little difficult."
HS: "How about visiting rights for your wife ... you know ... once a month conjugal privacy night in premium cell with ..."
GC: "I don't have a wife."
HS: "Oh, believe me ... you will ... women are going to stand in line to want to marry you, dude."
GC: "Don't call me 'dude' !"
NSC: "That's an insult in Romanian."
FBI: "What does it mean ?"
GC: "It is something bad do to mother."
HS: "Oh, sorry."
... a silence ... content redacted ?
GC: "Women with blonde hairs to marry ?"
FBI: "Certainly ..."
GC: "With big parts like Kardashians ?"
HS: "Undoubtedly ..."
NSC: "I'm still curious about why the hell you are making it easy for us to get you to America ... other than the fact we're going to put 50,000 US dollars in a secrete account in the Cayman Islands every month, and buy your mother a house ... "
FBI: "Contingent, of course, on the quality of your ... product."
GC: "Ha ! You already know my ... product ... is the best."
HS: "You can say that again ..."
GC: "No Windows 10 ... you got that in writing ... right ...?"
FBI: "Check: one Linux box with two highest-performance Xeon's, core memory 256 ..."
HS: "The Xeons will be at least the 4870 ..."
NSC: "Come on GC, why do you want to America ?"
GC: "Romanian hamburgers suck, America is reality tv-show, Romania is only reality ..."
FBI: "Listen, GC, I'm not sure you're really coming clean with us here, but, frankly, I don't give a damn ... you're going to do a minimum three years in the most comfortable prison on the planet ... as long as ... you produce ..."
NSC: "... product."
GC: "I will produce ... product."
HS: "Okay, we'll be back tomorrow with (name redacted) from the (organization redacted) to do the final signing."
GC: "Bring me two McPuisor's, and super-size the cola ... and the fries."
FBI: "What's a McPuisor ?"
HS: "Are you cleared to access that information ?"
... laughter ...
[^]
NSC: "Here ... I've got it ... '1 slice of chicken, roasted for 2 minutes in vegetable oil (a mixture of rapeseed oil and sunflower), one crunchy layer of breadcrumbs golden McPuişor sauce, pickles, bun.' "
GC: "By the way, do you know that the (redacted) you (redacted) in hotel room last night is ... (redacted) ?"
FBI: "Put me down for the goat's milk guarantee ..."
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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Sometimes I wonder if it's all a big conspiracy!
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I can't wait for your book, Bill. These excerpts are keeping me on the edge of my seat. and that's not too comfy at my age!
Will Rogers never met me.
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It's not obvious on the picture.. but these things are really huge! 
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Galaxies are not that big!
Take the milky way for example, our home.
Well if you stack up all humans on earth from head to toes (the whole 6 billions of us), well the milky way is only about 160 billions times that long!
Peanut I said! 
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I suddenly feel very, very small 
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Quote: Thanks again for using your PayPal Business Debit MasterCard starting with 5581 on December 23, 2015.
The merchant has completed your transaction.
Please see your transaction details and final purchase price below.
Your PayPal transaction ID for this purchase is:
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Amount : $9.38 USD
Please log in to your PayPal account :
http://www.gygzt.com/ysw/nowResolveCaseIDnr/PP-209-338-501-475/myPayPalonline/webPayPalInc/loginPPal.html
Really? www.gygzt.com? WEAK, WEEEEEAAAAAKKKKK attempt, idiots.
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And yet there are people who will fall for it.
And honestly, if someone is gullible/stupid enough to actually believe that email, they seriously deserve what happens. Get with the program, people!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Sadly, yes there are. 
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The message, in a way, proves your point.
If Phishing wasn't still successful, even after so many years of warnings, then it's clearly still working. It only takes a very small percentage of a gazillion people to make one's fortune in email scamming.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: And yet there are people who will fall for it.
And those are the people that they're targeting. It is a common tactic to deliberately make the mail transparent to people with a bit of nous because they will simply dismiss it rather than making trouble for its authors. The last thing they want is for people to be replying who will smell the rat later down the track and nearer to exposing them. The response of the OP is exactly what they want. Job done.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Ha! And see they're also use the "starting with" gambit.
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Registrar: HANGZHOU AIMING NETWORK CO.,LTD
Email: xyang10@qq.com (also associated with: SHANGHAI MEICHENG TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD)
Location: Jiangxi - Nanchang - Chinanet Jiangxi Province Network
Server type: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
IIS6?!  Guess they're not worried about the security of their server, then.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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That doesn't mean anything in terms of the phishers' identities. My web site got hacked and a huge number of html files and folders created on my server before I discovered it. I imagine that my website had a lot of phishing pointers to it and was therefore identified on blacklists everywhere, but I had nothing to do with the junk it hosted. My main regret is that I didn't know about it sooner (since nobody notified me). I discovered the crap myself.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Excellent!!
I so admire people possessed of artistic talent. I haven't any... 
Will Rogers never met me.
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