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posted by martyb on Friday August 25 2017, @09:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the Well-that-went-well dept.

Daniel Kammen, a renewable energy expert appointed last year as a science envoy to the State Department, resigned Wednesday, citing President Trump's response to the violence in Charlottesville as the final straw that led to his departure.

Kind of makes you wonder, you know, what kind of President could provoke a science envoy to the State department to resign. But not far to look! As Kammen goes on:

In a resignation letter posted to Twitter, Kammen wrote that Trump's remarks about the racial violence in Virginia had attacked "core values of the United States" and that it would have "domestic and international ramifications."

Even American scientists have ethics, and will not serve violent racist regimes, like Nazi Germany. So there is that.

But the most interesting thing, is the encryption:

However, his most biting message may have come in the form of a hidden acrostic: The first letter of each paragraph spelled out I-M-P-E-A-C-H.


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  • (Score: 2) by JNCF on Friday August 25 2017, @05:07PM (5 children)

    by JNCF (4317) on Friday August 25 2017, @05:07PM (#558978) Journal

    I began the "Race Bias" series in 1995 in response to a post on the alt.politics.nationalism.white newsgroup to the effect that there was no discrimination in employment, university admissions, or otherwise, against European-Americans.

    I was stunned that the regular posters to the group had no instant supply of material to post in reply.

    When you post a journal entry written in the first person, with no disclaimer at the top of it, I get to assume it's your writing. No, I didn't make it to the bottom of that journal entry to see the URL the first time I saw it. Even knowing that you didn't write this, I have no problem lumping you in with the people whose writing you promote sans disclaimer.

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday August 25 2017, @05:15PM (4 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday August 25 2017, @05:15PM (#558987) Journal

    That is so much hogwash, and you know it. I posted someone's post, and provided a link to the original post. It's not my work. I do enjoy shocking the pantywaists around here, but I can't claim credit for Yggdrasil's writings. Hell, in other discussions on this site, I've explained that I didn't have any intertubes in 1995, so how the hell could I be responsible for posts made to any newsgroup in 1995?

    Never assume, you know it only makes as ass of u - but not me.

    • (Score: 2) by JNCF on Friday August 25 2017, @06:25PM (2 children)

      by JNCF (4317) on Friday August 25 2017, @06:25PM (#559042) Journal

      Without assumptions, our models of the universe become useless navel-gazing. Assuming that a first-person journal entry is the work of the person posting it is totally reasonable. Include attribution at the top, or wrap it in a block quote, if you don't want journal entries to be attributed to you. Also, I don't read everything you've written, and what I have read is probably mostly forgotten.

      • (Score: 1) by khallow on Friday August 25 2017, @07:56PM (1 child)

        by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday August 25 2017, @07:56PM (#559089) Journal

        Without assumptions, our models of the universe become useless navel-gazing.

        And with assumptions, they become extremely useful lower colon-gazing.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @08:24PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @08:24PM (#559101)

          Khallow! Pull your head out of you ass, and stop gazing at your colon::::

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @10:46PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @10:46PM (#559139)

      Flat out plagiarism, no indication of original source at the outset. Bad, bad Runaway. And that is even before the Nazism.