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NSA Recruitment Drive Goes Horribly Wrong
An anonymous reader writes "The Guardian is running a story about a recent recruitment session held by the NSA and attended by students from the University of Wisconsin which had an unexpected outcome for the recruiters. 'Attending the session was Madiha R Tahir, a journalist studying a language course at the university. She asked the squirming recruiters a few uncomfortable questions about the activities of NSA: which countries the agency considers to be 'adversaries', and if being a good liar is a qualification for getting a job at the NSA.' Following her, others students started to put NSA employees under fire too. A recording of the session is available on Tahir's blog."
Nazi's : invaded neighboring countries, isolated and killed 6 million Jews
NSA : never actually done anything ever (that we know of).
The resemblance is uncanny.
If you want to keep sucking off your jackbooted masters, you'll need a new sound bite to try to excuse it. That one stopped working decades ago.
Why is this upvoted? That's seriously offensive.
PS: I don't reply to ACs.
That is a question to ask NSA public affairs, not HR recruiters. If you expect that answer from them your expectations should probably be adjusted.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
Ahh to be young again, and have a strict moral code. Yes I am a sellout but I am glad I did. I still have my lines of what I consider right and wrong. However a lot of the things that use to enrage me as a kid no longer really bother me, as I realize that it just isn't that important on the grand scheme of things.
PC (Windows vs Linux) vs. Mac: So what after 10 years or so I need to buy new software and hardware anyways, I'll choose what I like then.
Open Source: well I no longer have free time to tinker with the source code. So I just get what works, If I need to shell out a few hundred bucks for software so be it, I am a sell out remember, I get paid to do my work so I have money.
Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll: I am married so Sex is out of the picture (in terms of it feeling like I am breaking the rules), Drugs (I am too old to care if they make me look cool or not, so I rather not mess with my body), Rock and Roll I have an iPhone I can listen to any damn music I want.
In summary I am comfortable with myself and my beliefs, I don't feel the need to show people off to make them look stupid, when they are just doing their job. As I see it, the NSA a government job, I get paid to use Powerful computers and make interesting algorithms. I can justify many of the moral imbiguities of saying it is helping more people than they are hurting.
Yes being a sellout give your more time in your life to be a good person.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
And yet there's any difference if it the D/Rs were reversed?
When the Republicans do something bad, the media print stories about how horrible it is. When the Democrats do the same thing, the media print stories about how wonderful it is and how anyone who thinks it's bad is a right-wing nut who should be executed for treason.
Well, the current depression is not accidental in the sense that all the policies and all the political winds, movements, the mob and the politicians agreed to take the path of least resistance, to avoid working, to shift responsibility and blame and the payments to somebody else. I absolutely agree that creating a welfare society is good for the political system to remain in power, the poor, the stupid, the uneducated always want somebody else to do it all for them at the expense of anybody, doesn't matter who becomes the sacrificial lamb. Here is a great piece of satire explaining some of this in simplest terms.
However when it comes to the three letter agencies, I think from their perspective there is no push to worsen the economic situation on purpose to push people into totalitarianism. They (3LAs) are certainly part of the problem from the POV that they are a huge cost centre (and also they are helping the uncompetitive monopolies to have an upper hand in negotiations, which is really what this spying is ALL about - money that can be made by spying on people).
But while I don't think 3LAs are pushing for a worse economic situation, they are part of the problem that causes it and they certainly wouldn't let a crisis to go to waste.
You can't handle the truth.