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If kinda' odd. You'd probably have to be, like... passing along harddrives or something, to slot into a similar situation. Which I think is largely legal now, really. So long as you're not copying the data et al (and it could probably count if you move it from a computer to a flash drive or somethin') you're relatively good, far as I'm aware.

Theres a small chance that the Russia investigation could go international, well, more international than it already is, since Nigel Farage has been named a person of interest in the probe. He hasn't been accused of anything, but it's well known that he has connections to Trump and his staff as well as Assanage. It's entirely possible that he simply got caught in the middle of all this and did nothing wrong.

Amusingly enough, the guy has pretty vehemently denied basically any connection to russia (for all the specific wording of the denial on record is somewhat... questionable). Can't recall what farage's record is on that sort of denial, though. For all I know that just makes the potential connection more likely instead of less.

Quote from: Donald Trump, tomorrow, probably

50 years I've ran my businesses, and those people, my people, they know what loyalty means. You all need to get with the program.

That's where we kick him out and refuse to pay any remaining or future presidential stipend or whatever, right? I'm not sure how we'd get inside him and declare bankruptcy from within, burning who knows how many jobs to the ground in the process. Maybe the SVR knows the trick :V

It's kinda' weird, but I think I actually halfway like taking things towards this general direction. Something about recognizing non-traditional means of communication just sits right, for whatever reason. Acknowledgement that actions actually have meanings, I guess. Something like that. Can totally see all the royally screwed up directions it could go, but... still.

Half grok the court's decision, basically. It makes a certain degree of sense that something like liking can act as spreading libel or whathaveyou, if doing so is increasing visibility of such things or whatev'. Guess if I had to make a offline comparison, it'd be something like getting into trouble for chilling inside a group of KKK members going about burning churches or whathaveyou. You probably won't get a by even if you're not in full getup or helping with the arson, or committing any other act save just associating with 'em.

Could swear there's actually some sort of criminal or civil offense for that, now that I think about it. Something related to aiding or abetting... along those lines.

... actually, now that I check the definition, something like liking a libelous facebook post might actually count as fairly straightforward abetting, particularly if you're aware the post is defamatory/false. The crime itself involves presenting and disseminating false et al information, so if you're knowingly raising the visibility of such and spreading said information, well... well. Don't know if I ever noticed that before. Do know there's some protections regarding that sort of thing in the US for journalists -- they can't really get in trouble if they spread false or libelous info, at least if they weren't aware of the problem at the time, or something roughly in the shape of that -- but I don't know how far or in what manner that extends to other members of the public.

Though in other news somehow related to the presidential twitter typo (twypo?), what in the blue hell is wrong with spicer? Apparently the official white house line is that it wasn't a typo, it was intentional, and some small group of people know what it means. Sweet fornication you bloody idiot all you had to do is say typo! That was the whole of what you needed to do to do your freaking job!

Hrm. Pretty sure I actually ran into that one, but kept moving due to the whole access thing. Didn't bother checking to see what registration actually entailed, heh. Got about twenty minutes before I have to haul off for a while, but I'll see what that involves if the time allows and/or I don't forget by the time I get back.

E: Well, request submitted. Email from 'em says the request will be reviewed and responded to within seven days, so... yeah.

Probably don't want to tempt fate that much. Moment you change the name like that is the moment zombie diana rises from the grave and reinstitutes an absolute monarchy, then proceeds to devour the brains of the living.

I've occasionally used it to make corrections to book keeping/accounting/database material, iirc. Very rarely (it would be single digits in terms of incidents, over every time I've tooled around with that sort of thing in the last decade and a half or so), but sometimes it's faster than clearing out or starting from an empty cell or whatever.

Takes a lot for it to happen, though, since not only do I have to remember it exists, its efficiency also has to beat out muscle memory delete/start over in terms of speed and effort. But every once in a long while, the insert function saves me like a whole five or six seconds of effort or something. Want to say a time or two was more because whatever was getting information stuck in it/fixed had shit UI than anything, rendering more normal means of doing its duty less effective. Some obscure irregular window (as opposed to all the non-obscure inconsistent bits of UI shotgunned throughout the program) in quickbooks or some crap like that.

Now, scroll lock? I still can't manage to remember what that does. I've never intentionally used whatever it's there for, and the time or two I accidentally pressed it, as near as I could tell there was no effect. So long as that thing's there, insert shall forever be the second most useless button on the keyboard.