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Prankster Calls NSA To Restore Deleted E-mail
First time accepted submitter manu0601 writes "Since the NSA snoops, intercepts and store our e-mails forever, why not use it as a backup service? It just lacks the API to restore files, therefore this guy [YouTube video] called the NSA to ask for a backup restoration. Guess what? It did not work." After all, why should we have to pay twice for services already performed with tax dollars?
So what are we paying them for, anyway?
To be allowed to live... To avoid 'detainment'. These are the things you pay for. I don't know why people are so repulsed when the mafia does these kinds of things.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Damn you, XKCD. See what you did?
Great demonstration of great telephone manner and customer service for a challenge customer, Respect NSA. I for one welcome our new customer service overloads!
Well, they do the actual building...
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
The real problem is that even if you did get your email back it would be heavily redacted. :-)
Becoming part of the foundation of a building is not considered construction.
So, we have to enable the backup service first? No problem:
al Qaida, Jihad, Backpack, Pressure Cooker, Fourth Amendment.
There. That should do.
Have gnu, will travel.
Why does getting jailed for recording a call to an agency known for recording everybody's calls without legal oversight, in order to get a recording of a conversation (even if by email) strike me as just a tad ironic?
I have no problem with your religion until you decide it's reason to deprive others of the truth.
Yup that is correct! The government builds roads, schools, sanitation and they will even recover your lost email for you! ...If you pay... They clearly refused this caller because he lives in Amsterdam (--> The Netherlands --> Yurp) and therefore didn't pay a single penny to the good old IRS. So why /would/ they help him? No $$$ --> No service...
Otherwise I am CONVINCED that they would help him out. That is how the government works, right?
Helping the folks that pay for their wages, comfy chairs, first class coffee on their long leisurely coffee breaks?
Always at the service of the people in a jiffy and with a smile!
Always doing that little extra to make sure your every tax-penny is a well-spend-penny.
The government that always goes for the 110% customer care.
A wink and a tip to the hat whenever you merrily walking out of some government building where they truly understood your case.
Where papers and forms are kept to a bare minimum in order to keep the well oiled machine running as cost-effective as possible.
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Wait... what? Is that my alarm clock? <bleep-bleep-bleep-bleep-bleep-bleep>
I just KNEW I was dreaming...
rm -rf --no-preserve-root /
Yep. Working towards doing it on a totally off-grid solar system.
You're building an entire solar system just to power your house? You must go through a LOT of light bulbs.
Being a ward of the Bureau of Prisons is not the same as working for the fed.
All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson