Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/11/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Frank, And if it runs short of fuel it'll make big holes in CANADA?????????????????? OUCH!!!!! :-( Dr. Ted Grant O.C. -----Original Message----- From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Frank Filippone Sent: November-03-17 11:11 PM To: 'Leica Users Group' Subject: Re: [Leica] Did the world dodge a bullet? But you will get great shots of the missile going overhead, with the beach in Maui as the foreground, with your Modified A7rII...... Frank Filippone, somewhat geographically challenged...... Red735i at verizon.net -----Original Message----- From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+red735i=verizon.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Robert Adler Sent: Friday, November 3, 2017 5:49 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Did the world dodge a bullet? 1950's (?) - Living on the coast of Georgia -- Cuban missile crisis 2017 - Living on the coast of California -- Korean missile crisis I'm beginning to take this personally! Bob Adler www.robertadlerphotography.com *"Capturing Light One Frame At A Time"* On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote: > I agree 100%. We are doomed. > > Tina > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Nov 3, 2017, at 7:35 PM, Howard L Ritter Jr <hlritter at twc.com> > > wrote: > > > > ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!! I hereby DECLARE WAR ON N.KOREA!! Nuke Bombs & > Rockets start falling in 30 min. ENJOY HELL LIDDLE ROCKET MAN! > > > > > > Suppose the ?rogue employee? exiting Twitter had decided to post > something like that on @realDonaldTrump instead of just inactivating > the account. Kim might not have been panicked into a military > response, but the tension would have gone through the roof, and > Trump?s credibility through the floor. > > > > Just think about this for a minute: ONE low-level flunky at ONE > > private > company, able to impersonate the leader of the most powerful nation on > Earth with what sounds like one of the real thing?s intemperate, > bellicose eructations. The mind reels. > > > > When America has been saddled with a thin-skinned, easily provoked, > arrogant, intemperate juvenile delinquent with all the emotional > stability and self-control of a pimply 13-year-old feeling his first > rush of testosterone for its President and he connects both ends of > his id?s digestive tract raw and unfiltered to his Twitter feed that?s > as accessible internally as mine is, America?s misfortune could become the > world?s. > > > > Do you think that no one outside the WH knows, or could discover, > > the > password associated with this account and how to spoof two-factor > authentication? All it might take is being able to do it one time. How > much would you be willing to bet on the absolute security of > @realDonaldTrump? > The future of the world? I?d bet my dog (not really, Maizey!) that > Kim?s or Vlad?s or the ayatollahs? hackers could do it if they wished, > which of course they fervently do. For God?s sake, think about what > they?re already known to have gotten into! > > > > This is just intolerable. I want to start a change.org < > http://change.org/> petition calling on all social media to close the > accounts of all heads of state under any name that identifies them as > such or becomes recognizable as theirs. I think this mundane episode > is a real sleeper that could turn into something really really major, > and even though few might have thought about it before this, the social > media should have. > I think it?s unconscionable that the muckety-mucks at Twitter didn?t > take every possible step to make Trump?s account accessible only at > the highest levels, and even then requiring two launch officers to > turn their keys simultaneously. > > > > Trump should fly into one of his patented rages and demand that > #failingTwitter put nuclear-level security on his account and should > refuse to use it until the NSA?s top spooks have reviewed every aspect > of that security. Of course, recognizing no interests whatever outside > his own, he didn?t and won?t. > > > > Mark my words. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus