by emptywheel
For those of you looking for my post on the news that Fitzgerald has been handing over files to Waxman, but Bush won't let him have the White House files?
That post is over at my new digs. Come check it out!
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jonno,
Glad to see you've connected! We'll just pretend the problems never happened. *g*
Posted by: Mad Dogs | December 04, 2007 at 12:07
Well, ew-fdl logs me in, and says welcome back; but there is no comment textbox. Tried it five times. I think it is WordPress bugs, nonstandard programming at that site. Re this morning's WaMu article at ew-fdl, I was going to link to another weak spot in the subprime scandal, that article about the effects of unregulated oversight of appraisers; though the news outlet has a policy to trim the most strident commentary from the online version of its investigative journalism. My take was lots of people in our fringe of silicon valley were eyeing the taper of ipo's just before y2k, freeing personal capital, banks consumately prepared to participate, and the appraiser fiasco was long time developing and went way beyond subprime matters, though collateralized debt obligation instruments would make a fun post's topic, as well.
Wierd, though that I could post hello, world at fdl yesterday but today no posting allowed. Got other things to do, with software that is compatible. And as tnh morphs into the proprietary site of the new basic owners, those other threads would be where I would type.
Posted by: JohnLopresti | December 04, 2007 at 13:33
Hey, Dismayed, if you are around; the ew-fdl recommendation from our tech associate, to click the refresh button in internet Explorer brings the comment textbox on screen.
Posted by: JohnLopresti | December 04, 2007 at 13:46
Apropos the Opera problem - another oddity with Opera is that the new FDL has a beige (not a white or light gray) background on the main and comments pages (per my earlier comment about a beige background). EW's new FDL page, however, is a very pale gray/muted white on Opera. Meanwhile, on Firefox (which I use to comment @ FDL), the main and comments pages of the new FDL are a bright white (while EW's new page is the same pale gray/muted white that it is on Opera). Go figure. Thanks for the heads-up on the timing of the site transition, EW; I'll watch for your farewell post here in the next few days.
[The blue bar color seems to have been muted (or at least the commenters' names changed to a contrasting color), to my eye, since Saturday, on the main FDL, so that now it's just the overly bright contrasts and especially the too-tiny font lettering that keeps the FDL posts and comments "smothered" or muted, and difficult for me to read - without the manual fix helpfully offered above to manually enlarge the FDL font. (I tend to figure that if website fonts are too small to read in comfort without manual adjustment, someone isn't particularly concerned that the words be read, and I treat the content accordingly - I imagine other more casual readers do the same.)]
On FISA: Thanks for that heads-up about the Judiciary Committee business meeting, EW (over at FDL), and for the link to the copy of the Specter bill. Here's the information from the Senate website:
I wonder if this is the Republican-endorsed version of immunity that Harry Reid, at the behest of Jay Rockefeller, will relabel "bipartisan" and arrange to pass with 60 votes, so as to override Chris Dodd's hold. I can't tell whether this is the same language Specter had available two-and-a-half weeks ago when he offered an immunity "substitution" amendment during the Judiciary Committee FISA mark-up (which was not voted on, but which ended up seeming pointless because Specter admitted that the state secrets issue would continue to trump resolution of the underlying merits of pending cases). But at least - if C-SPAN would cover it - we may see a little more debate out in the open about immunity, instead of just more closed-door deal-making.
For those who didn't spot it, there's an interesting piece at Balkinization, which the Judiciary Committee has apparently been briefed on, that proposes legislating an end to the state secrets blockade, in exchange for perhaps damage caps on any assessments levied against the telecommunications corporations/ISPs for breaking the law:
Http://balkin.blogspot.com/2007/11/poor-substitute-why-substituting.html
In closing: Many, many thanks to emptywheel, and to the whole crew here at The Next Hurrah for welcoming all of us - long-winded and short-and-pithy commenters alike - democratically and openly, these past years. I have very much appreciated your hospitality, and consider this site's steady, quiet presence and information-packed archives a true public service. Thank you.
Posted by: pow wow | December 04, 2007 at 14:50
pow wow,
I hope I'm misunderstanding your intent wrt to commenting over FDL/Emptywheel.
Please take the following oath to reassure us all:
I pledge to continue posting and commenting at the new FDL/Emptywheel site. Signed - pow wow
Puleeeeeeeezzzzze?
Posted by: Mad Dogs | December 04, 2007 at 19:01
EW -- I think your new site isn't working properly. The second part of your post entitled "The NIE and Israel" won't come up, and the comments are down.
Posted by: landreau | December 04, 2007 at 19:47
landreau, tis working just fine for me.
Posted by: Mad Dogs | December 04, 2007 at 19:57
Thanks, Mad Dogs. That's very kind. I hope to, but it probably won't be until after EW can implement the site tweaks she alluded to. In the meantime, keep those Congressional types on their toes for me, would ya? In return:
I pledge to try to continue commenting, over yonder at emptywheel's new FDL digs.
Your faithful servant,
pow wow
Posted by: pow wow | December 05, 2007 at 01:11
I too am having problems connecting to the FDL website.
In the recent past I was able to view FDL as well as Raw Story without issue.
Now both websites hang while something called e.nvero.net is trying to to something.
As you can see, I have no trouble connecting to this website. So, please emptywheel, consider cross-posting for awhile.
My operating system is Windows vista and I am using firefox as my browser. Firefox just went through an update, perhaps that is the problem.
Any help anyone could give with would be greatly appreciated.
Posted by: Annole Broade | December 05, 2007 at 11:20
pow wow,
Just did a little googling about that "e.nvero.net". It seems that Firefox users have been seeing this problem since May and even up to November 27th.
It also seems that users have reported the problem on IE too.
Also users are reporting problems with tribalfusion.com which is indeed one of the ads on FDL.
I'll continue looking at my google searchs to see if I can find a solution for you.
TTFN!
Posted by: Mad Dogs | December 05, 2007 at 13:51
Pardon my doofusness, but that last post was for Annole Broade. Sorry about that.
I'll keep looking for a solution for you Annole Broade.
Posted by: Mad Dogs | December 05, 2007 at 13:52
Annole Broade,
Here's a "solution" that I've found as of 11/01/07:
Post here again if you need additional assistance.
Posted by: Mad Dogs | December 05, 2007 at 13:59
Thanks for the research, mad dog.
Posted by: landreau | December 05, 2007 at 14:33
Thanks for the help Mad dog. I haven't had time to try the workouts above. Just as an fyi, I tried accessing the websites using my old computer running Windows XP. No problems. When I find the solution to my problem I will post it here in case it can help anyone else.
Again thank you for your help.
Posted by: Annole | December 06, 2007 at 09:12
Hi Mad Dogs
Greetings from the frozen tundra. Glad you're still helping people here. I got into an email back and forth with FDL's Moderator (seemed like a techie). I still cannot sign in there using opera and at times the entire site is unstable and redirects me ad infinitum. For the most part I can get emptywheel to load and link to the cont'd stories and comments after a few tries. NONE of the links in the toolbox section top right will work and tho I can login with IE6, if I try on opera, I am transferred back to FDL's mainpage and get a 404 error.
FDL Help is very congenial and trying to help tho they've offered few solutions. They tell me that others with opera are having no problems. Told me to clear my cache, offered many times to "tweak" my password (?), told me to turn off flash etc. None of this stuff even comes close to making a difference. And they won't admit it may be something they are doing on their end. Still the only site on the web I am having problems of this nature with.
I can live without being able to login there as long as I can read Marcy and the commenters I originally got hooked on here.
Posted by: jonno | December 06, 2007 at 12:15
I was afraid that it was going to be something like this.
I went and registered, looked at a post with dozens and dozens of comments, few worth reading, and walked away.
:really deep sigh:
I enjoy the smaller sites with intelligent commentary. I can post a message and feel like part of the community. This has been one of my very favorite places. I'm glad that Marcy is getting wider exposure and remuneration for her hard critiques and thoughtful analyses and trademarked timelines. However, I don't like huge or popular sites. I'd regarded this place as independent, but now TNH is just a cove in a lake. I'll read Atrios, for example, but refuse to open a comments page with hundreds of comments. The constant migraine makes my reading time even more precious, and by the time I've thought and typed, anything would just be buried.
I don't like FDL for several reasons, in no particular order: 1) The mods are snotty without cause (I've been a mod on an art site with 300,000 members and sysop on a games site with preteens, so understand how hard the job is, but politeness is a requirement). 2) The commenters lurch to each fresh post regardless of topic, so everything is off-topic. 3) I would rather deal with Jodi's obtuseness or the occasional passing troll than with immature legions yelling "Frist!" just to piss on the wall higher than the other dogs. 4) The owners and main posters refer to grown and accomplished women, including themselves, as "girls"... which makes this feminist grit her teeth. 5) Having been a mod, I watch community dynamics: clique formation is irritating but inevitable once critical numbers are reached. Members of a clique let other people do their thinking and independence of thought or opinion is not tolerated. Who wants to relive junior high?
For things like live-blogging, they are big enough to handle the site traffic and extra bodies during a trial or congressional hearing means that typing fingers can get rested as the next laptop in the relay takes over. Otherwise, I only go there when following a link.
Thanks, Marcy. I've enjoyed it here. I'll read your posts at the new place, but it will be sporadic and I'll probably not bother posting. My regards as well to the rest of the regulars: Sara with social issues, bmaz and the others with legal perspective and expertise, Dismayed and Phred and tekel and ... thank you for making this a community.
Posted by: hauksdottir | December 07, 2007 at 05:47
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