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I like to see gangstas hitting the Capri Sun and Orangina, disappointing not to see any Um Bungo though.

Never listened to Speedy Ortiz, but I like this. Made me want to listen to Sleater Kinney/Wild Flag.

Agreed. Takes me 20 seconds to paste in the point winners after a game and the totals get totted up automatically. Fish wanted to do analysis on who was most wildly inaccurate, most optimistic, most pessimistic and all that though. Would be interesting to see it and generate some good abuse on the board, but I couldn't be arsed.

I don't keep everyone's predictions. I only copy correct predictions into a counting sheet. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1QMC3BuA9WUATou7B4TowgXVHVP8USgogHorZk0RUjE4 All match threads should have predictions in the OP with point winners highlighted if you want to do the legwork.

Less than a quarter of Labour MPs voted against the welfare bill though

Mind, compared to Obama the Nobel peace prize winner who's bombed 7 different countries (twice as many as Bush) Clinton was quite restrained.

Jimmy Carter... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/sep/11/president-jimmy-carter-interview on the other hand, Clinton... 1994 – Bosnia: U.S. Air Force F-16 jets shot down four of the six Bosnian Serb J-21 Jastreb single-seat light attack jets for violating UN-mandated no-fly zone. 1995 – Bosnia: Operation Deliberate Force, On August 30, 1995, U.S. and NATO aircraft began a major bombing campaign of Bosnian Serb Army in response to a Bosnian Serb mortar attack on a Sarajevo market that killed 37 people on August 28, 1995. This operation lasted until September 20, 1995. The air campaign along with a combined allied ground force of Muslim and Croatian Army against Serb positions led to a Dayton Agreement in December 1995 with the signing of warring factions of the war. As part of Operation Joint Endeavor, U.S. and NATO dispatched the Implementation Force (IFOR) peacekeepers to Bosnia to uphold the Dayton agreement.[RL30172] 1996 – Kuwait: Operation Desert Strike, American Air Strikes in the north to protect the Kurdish population against the Iraqi Army attacks. 1998 – Iraq: Operation Desert Fox, U.S. and British forces conduct a major four-day bombing campaign from December 16–19, 1998 on Iraqi targets.[RL30172] 1998 – Afghanistan and Sudan: Operation Infinite Reach. On August 20, President Clinton ordered a cruise missile attack against two suspected terrorist training camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical factory in Sudan.[RL30172] 1999 – Serbia: Operation Allied Force: U.S. and NATO aircraft began a major bombing of Serbia and Serb positions in Kosovo on March 24, 1999, during the Kosovo War due to the refusal by Serbian President Slobodan Milošević to end repression against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. This operation ended in June 10, 1999, when Milošević agreed to pull out his troops out of Kosovo. In response to the situation in Kosovo, NATO dispatched the KFOR peacekeepers to secure the peace under UNSC Resolution 1244.[RL30172]

I think Fish has a spreadsheet where he records everyone's prediction in every game and he can apply any rules you like at any point in the season. So at the end of the season if 1 point for each of goals scored/conceded gives a result we don't like (like Thompers winning) he can change it to add 3 points for exact scores and half points for being one off and extra points for getting the result right if not the score etc.

I have no worries whatsoever about Benitez getting the mentality of the squad right. I'm even confident he will be allowed to spend the clubs money as he sees fit. My major worry is whether the club is run as a Premier League outfit and not a 2 bob operation tacked onto a clothes shop. It's worrying that the multi-million pound training ground redevelopment isn't in progress, the club preferring to make a big deal of laying a few pitches that most 5 a-sides would expect at a minimum. Also that the stadium remains falling into disrepair. it's a running joke how often the Gallowgate floods get brought up at the Fans Forum, but it should get brought up until someone at the club listens and sorts it out. The website still isn't fit for purpose and the Box office is still a shambles staffed by children so we get debacles like the last few days where you couldn't buy tickets online, then over the phone, then after 5pm. The owner and Chief exec still haven't been able to say a word publicly since relegation for fear of putting their feet in their mouths and harming the delicate balance of optimism that Benitez has managed to create. The bonus payments will have to be negotiated which we have seen cause friction before. There's lots that could harm the mentality of players and coaches without Rafa being able to do anything about it.

It's becoming ironic. 2 well taken goals, but he missed another dozen chances. He should have walked away with the match ball easily.

I'm all for it, but Ewerk and KCG would be more unbearable than you and CT combined if we did that.

Like he says, people said exactly the same about manning and snowden leaks. I don't think they're as important as that, but given that they led to the resignation of the most senior DNC people, there is definite important wrong doing exposed. I agree, that wrongdoing exposed is less important than the email security question and how all people get it, not just political elites. But it was wrongdoing that was punished as a result of the leaks.

https://theintercept.com/2016/10/13/on-wikileaks-journalism-and-privacy-reporting-on-the-podesta-archive-is-an-easy-call/

Crazy that a private barb is one of their 16 rather than the campaign, DNC and reporters co-ordinating public attacks on Sanders based on falsehoods.

"She called for secure communication while allowing the government to read messages." That's what her campaign saw as impossible. I think the actual email wikileaks shared is an interesting discussion on the matter. They discuss how they should evolve what she blurted out about not understanding the technology into an actual policy. https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9181 Not aware that this has developed into an actual campaign policy position that the US will stop "collecting it all", encourage people to use encrypted services and support companies in providing that service, and formalise a depoartment which hacks into criminals tech when a warrant has been issued. You're asking me what is controversial about the last decade of NSA privacy erosions? If you've not paid attention to why I think it's been bad, look up Snowden's thoughts.

She wants encryptiopn with a back door She doesn't even understand what she's talking about. Her own people mock her position as wanting to "do the impossible". https://theintercept.com/2016/10/14/hillary-clintons-encryption-proposal-was-impossible-said-top-adviser/

You really are awful at misrepresenting what people say. You asked why people might not like Hilary. I linked some of that back to Bill and her shared outlook. You asked why anyone might not like Bill. I provided several reasons I think are legitimate criticisms of Bill Clinton's presidency and then I said... "Many also place the blame for 9/11 with his 8 years in office and failure to neutralize Bin Laden rather than George Bush's 8 months." Apart from the fact that this "failure" would be nothing to do with the rise of Al Qaeda, It's not even an opinion I endorsed.

I'm happy to agree that it's in the public interest without being earth shattering enough to displace a president or presidential candidate. For me, while I think the couple of dozen stories that have come from thousands of mails are all well worth reporting and have importance with regards to how we perceive leaders, more important than that is the fact that Clinton opposes encryption which could have protected her mails from the Russians, Anonymous, Trump or whoever else she thinks stole them. If we're comparing to watergate, it's like her campaign left the door of the room open with a sign above saying "Clinton emails in here" so anyone nefarious could walk in and take them. Nothing was stolen was kept under lock and key. As a result the Clinton campaign has taken to using signal to ensure their communications are encrypted, but Clinton still hasn't publicly endorsed encryption.

Then he's incompetent. People generally look at who a mail is from before opening it. If a colleague was sending a load of work stuff via gmail I'd have to sort it or escalate to security. And I don't handle anything classified.

You think? GQ is the one sabotaging his own predictions in a fit of pique. Sarcastic or not, he mentioned me by name in his latest whine so I thought it would be rude not to reply to that one. Ignored him quite quickly after correcting him and his moaning got more vague too.

Just like the Clinton campaign http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/clinton-campaign-compares-podesta-email-hacks-to-watergate/article/2604645 No though, I was comparing Obama, not Clinton. Obviously Obama's wanst as bad, he's been lying to cover for Clinton's fuck up. Nixon lied to cover his own wrong doing. You will have selected which sections to appear in which order on your app. So you're curating the news yourself on there. At the BBC website, where news editors decide what is newsworthy, the podesta mails are currently the top banner.

BBC care enough to make it their top story. Lying presidents aren't newsworthy like they were in Nixon's day. Lower standards I guess.

Says the bloke with a dozen posts on the subject to my one. You're second only to CT for moaning about your failure to get points. 30 points went missing for half the people taking part when ANS mucked it up. No-one else moaned.

"it looks like POTUS just said he found out HRC was using her personal email when he saw it in the news." "we need to clean this up - he has emails from her - they do not say state.gov" https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/31077#efmAAGABT Pwoppa Nawty!

Considering you fucked up getting your predictions into one poll and anorthernsoul fucked up making another one public (one where I got a point), I'm not sure how you think I managed owt like that?