[Leica] Did the world dodge a bullet?

Stephen Barbour stevebarbour at mac.com
Sat Nov 4 16:49:14 PDT 2017


Put em both in a capsule bound for Pluto.
It will get there in about 700 years.

Sent from my iPhone

> On Nov 4, 2017, at 2:33 PM, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
> Hi frank,
> Actually I don't know what it might be called?
> But man I surely would be ticked off!  :-( And I'd make every effort to figure out how to kick that little fat ass North Korean pay for it? What of course I have no idea? But if I did and could do it?  His ass would be hurting from me kicking him around like a soccer ball! :-)
> HE & ASSHOLE TRUMP together! Then maybe we on planet EARTH might feel a wee bit safer?? MAYBE???  :-(
> Dr. ted  O. C. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Frank Filippone
> Sent: November-04-17 11:18 AM
> To: 'Leica Users Group'
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Did the world dodge a bullet?
> 
> Is that what is called "collateral damage"?
> 
> Frank Filippone
> 
> Red735i at verizon.net
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+red735i=verizon.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Ted Grant
> Sent: Saturday, November 4, 2017 9:16 AM
> To: 'Leica Users Group'
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Did the world dodge a bullet?
> 
> 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.
>>> 
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