On Wednesday, August 11, 2021 at 12:09:34 AM UTC-4, Kevrob wrote:
On Tuesday, August 10, 2021 at 8:12:30 PM UTC-4, The Doctor wrote:
In article <sefaik$lpo$1...@reader1.panix.com>,
Keith F. Lynch <k...@KeithLynch.net> wrote:
Kevrob <kev...@my-deja.com> wrote:
pete...@gmail.com wrote:
Nowadays, participating in usenet feels like being at the
after-after party of a con, Or being 7th century Romans, wandering
through the ruins of the Forum.
The newsgroup next door, rasfw, had over a thousand posts in July.
If this newsgroup is quieter, it may have something to do with the
lack of in-person fannish events over the past year and a third.
I am awaiting the demise of one of the men who "killed USENET," New
York Governor Andrew Cuomo may be getting his for unrelated reasons.
We shall see. He's a slippery bugger.
Political demise, you mean? He's only 63.
"Believe the women," he said. He neglected to add "except when they >accuse *me*." Caught riding a broom-stick to the witch-hunt?
I remember his idiotic attack on Usenet, back when he was New York's >attorney general rather than New York's governor. But nothing much
came of it, given that I still get my Usenet feed from Panix, which
is in New York. He couldn't even shut Usenet down in his own state, >never mind the other 49.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/07/more-isps-decide-filter-usenet-newsgroups
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo recently succeeding in
pressuring AOL and AT&T to join the ranks of Verizon, Sprint, and
Time Warner Cable in limiting access to many or all of the Usenet newsgroups hosted on their servers.
And how often do you see someone using any of those ISPs of yesteryear? >I've received 3607 emails so far this year. Eleven are from an AOL
email address, 10 are from a Verizon email address, and none are from
an ATT, Sprint, or TimeWarner email address. It sounds like they all >shot themselves in the foot.
Remember, kiddies, it's doubleplusungood to look at feelthy
peectures on your computer, but perfectly OK to grope people you
have power over!
To be fair, he hasn't been convicted yet. Even people who oppose due >process and free speech deserve due process and free speech.
Cuomo now sacked by New York democrats!
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Actually....
[quote]
The third-term governor’s resignation, which will take effect in two weeks,
was announced as momentum built in the Legislature to remove him by impeachment and after nearly the entire Democratic establishment had
turned against him, with President Joe Biden joining those calling on him
to resign.
[/quote] - https://apnews.com/article/andrew-cuomo-resigns-17161f546bb83c32a337036ecf8d2a34
He's jumping before he's pushed. Technically, the Assembly majority
could proceed with impeachment, but that would be unlikely to move
fast enough to lay charges by the 24th. Who knows what mischief
Cuomo could get up to in the next fortnight? He ought to hand over
the keys, now.
I strongly doubt that Cuomo will 'get up to nonsense' in the next two weeks.
He isn't Trump, a loose cannon with zero respect for process. He's a career politician, and will be looking to how history will remember him rather than settling petty scores.
pt
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