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#242Earlier quoted context omitted.
What about her past makes you think she would have this position?
Rice authorized National Security Agency to spy on UN Security Council in run-up to war, former officials say [0] >> Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice defended Bush's actions, telling "Fox News Sunday" the president had authorized the National Security Agency "to collect information on a limited number of people with connections to al Qaeda." >> ... >> Asked why the president authorized skipping the FISA court, Ric…
Josh, that just tells you she is able to defend and promote the interests of the organization she works for.
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#243When looking to grow our board, we sought out a leader who could help us expand our global footprint. Condoleezza sure left a global footprint in the Middle East alright. Hate do this Dropbox, but time for me to move on. Edit: Suggestions for a Dropbox substitute?
I've been running ownCloud[0] on my server. It has Windows/Linux/Mac/Android/iOS clients and has been working very well for me as a drop in Dropbox replacement. In addition to the clients, you can use webDAV to access your files. [0] http://www.owncloud.org
Hmm.. I use owncloud, and the ethics of the sysadmin completely match my own.
(although he is a bit of an idiot)
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#244Consider that when acting under uncertainty, intelligent, informed people of good will can examine the same set of facts and reach different conclusions. It has become an article of faith that the Bush administration acted in bad faith about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, while all that really has ever been shown is that they were tragically, woefully and extraordinarily wrong. How intelligent, well educated pe…
"informed people of good will can examine the same set of facts and reach different conclusions."
Except they weren't talking about available facts to be examined, and their conclusions. What they were doing was presenting a falsehood as a new fact. Without any evidence.
It's one thing to say "because of x,yz, we think they have WMDs".
What they did was: "THEY HAVE WMDs!!!" (evidence to be examined will be provided soon, promise)
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#245I'm as anti-war as the next guy; we military veterans tend to be more so than most, and I've gotten even more so as I've gotten older. Still, there are those who appreciate that: (A) political leaders aren't supermen and -women. Like all of us, they have to make the best decisions they can with the limited information available to them at the time; (A1) [ADDED:] the signal-to-noise ratio can be problematic; the avail…
> Saddam Hussein had irrefutably demonstrated that he was willing to use weapons of mass destruction in pursuit of his ambitions: he had used chemical weapons both on Iraqi Kurds and on Iranians
With -- lest it be forgotten -- the full support and backing of the US government while he was actually doing it. Heck, when it first became public knowledge and world outrage started, the US rushed Donald Rumsfeld out to (1) demonstrate to the rest of the world that they should shut up and that the US stood side-by-side with Iraq, and (2) reassure Iraq that US support for their actions would continue.
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#246Earlier quoted context omitted.
What about her past makes you think she would have this position?
Rice authorized National Security Agency to spy on UN Security Council in run-up to war, former officials say [0] >> Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice defended Bush's actions, telling "Fox News Sunday" the president had authorized the National Security Agency "to collect information on a limited number of people with connections to al Qaeda." >> ... >> Asked why the president authorized skipping the FISA court, Ric…
Yes, I'm quite aware of all that.
The part you quote is different than your claim. You say she authorized the NSA spying on the UN Security Council. Your quote says the President authorized spying on a limited number of people with connections to a known terrorist organization. You may not see the difference there but I do.
But I fail to see how her actions in the Bush administration leads to her somehow allowing the NSA to spy into everybody's Dropbox account simply because she's a member of the board.
I'll ask a question more relevant to the topic at hand. Rice is and has been the member of several boards of various companies, are you suggesting that she did so solely for the purpose of extracting information to hand over to her NSA masters?
Or could this just be a partisan complaint that is in the fringes of conspiracy theory?
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#247While I wish people took more moral stances like this, I feel like it's nonsensical to worry about Condi Rice, and worry more about the broken incentives around the financial system that Dropbox is headed for. Goldman Sachs is a substantial investor in Dropbox. Where were the cries to drop dropbox then? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldman_Sachs#Controversies Or the ideology "fiduciary responsibility" for public comp…
Really, isn't this the case that a lot of people are constantly outraged about goldman sachs, current state of affairs in the valley and perverted incentives of the start-up ecosystem?
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#248Dropping Mozilla because Eich is anti-gay-marriage made sense to me because Mozilla is the beacon of open source. Mozilla belongs to us in a very personal way, many of us have contributed code to Firefox personally. But Condi Rice joining a completely private Dropbox as a board member - this is a non-issue. I'm as strongly anti-Bush administration and anti-war in general (especially the Iraq War - good grief) as anyo…
It strikes me as the opposite.
Eich's politics weren't all that important. There was a minor issue of whether it would cause trouble for Mozilla's gay employees (or employees who just felt strongly about it) and a big public relations problem, but the technical functioning of the company wouldn't be affected.
With Dropbox and Rice, I think there's a decent chance (not huge, but decent) that she's sitting down and giving everybody pointers for how they can most efficiently and effectively cooperate with the NSA. She's out of the administration but people like this never truly leave.
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#249Earlier quoted context omitted.
MEGA! it's end-to-end encrypted and 50GB free! they already have desktop client for windows and will also release for Linux and OSX shortly.
Yeah lets store everything on a service that has already evaporated once before!
Unlike other services, which are eternal?
If you're relying on a single service with all copies of the data, you're doing it wrong. Always have backups.
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#250Earlier quoted context omitted.
Let's see, is that better or worse than a drone strike? I guess President Obama is trying to keep you alive so it's okay if he takes out a few miscreant citizens with drone strikes, right? (And this is why these discussions belong somewhere else, not on Hacker News)
Oh, another round of what-aboutism. No, Obama is bad and Rice is bad and Bush is bad and anyone serving on the board of a tech startup is a reason to stop using it.
Will you stop using Google? Eric Schmidt has served as a tech adviser to Barack Obama.