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Edward Snowden Is Tired of Being Bombarded By Suitors (mirror.co.uk)
cold fjord writes: The Mirror reports that Edward Snowden is experiencing some unexpected fallout from the notoriety he received from his activism for government transparency. It seems he has become something of a sex symbol and his female fans are sending him graphic nude pictures of themselves. He has found it necessary to dissuade them by reminding everyone that the FBI has a warrant for him (and probably monitor his communications so they will see the pics) and that he already has a girlfriend. No word yet on if this is having any effect.
"When I said I was a fan of transparency, I did not mean transparency of clothing!"
The one in Hawaii? A Russian wench?
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
Snowden's no fool. You get a few genuine groupies, but as many are probably trying to catch the guy out. See also Julian.
Even I am at a loss to explain this one...
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Idiot, just leak the pictures.
Achille Talon
Hop!
Near the end of Citizen Four is shot of them dining in their apartment
A new low!
To assist both Edward and ladies who are interested in him, a special email address has been set up specifically to find Snowden's next girlfriend. After weeding out the fatties and the geriatrics, finalists will be reviewed by Snowden, for when he gets tired of his current GF.
Ladies, please send your nerd creds and nudes to gfsearch@raymorris.org .
Yea Edward, you don't need to tell me. It gets so old having all those women chasing after you. We have such a heavy burden.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
To be honest, I have the same problem. After the thousandth chick sends you a selfie of her pootenanny, it gets a bit tiresome.
Oh, who am I kidding? No, it doesn't.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Its pretty obvious what is happening here.
Extrapolating from good old 'where men are men, women are also men, and children are FBI agents' we can safely assume this is an FBI sting operation aiming to lure Snowden with some juicy ass photos into leaving Russia. FBI went one step further preemptively asserting their answer to obligatory TITS or GTFO.
Who logs in to gdm? Not I, said the duck.
Forward those pics my way!
Or at least upload them to some popular porn site.
Women seem to have a thing for men who do courageous things or things that put you in great danger.
I might have to do something like that... but must be something that doesn't land me in jail
And from the real source (vice):
On Wednesday, however, Snowden slid into my DMs with a response: "I can neither confirm nor deny it means exactly what you think it means."
http://motherboard.vice.com/re...
That's like fourth hand reporting.
lucm, indeed.
And like we care what you care?
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Your supporters from anonymous and the people at 4chan would be grateful.
... said no straight man ever!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
boobytraps
FTFY.
In Soviet Russia, pussy eat you!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Would you leak nudes to Edward Snowden? Yes / No
I approve of his actions. Why would I want to inflict upon him pics of a large, nude, hairy man?
It's not even news for nerds!
Are you kidding? This is about women getting naked and sending pics of themselves to a geek.
This is awesome!
I know that he blew the whistle on major abuses, but still I find it sickening that my government employs thousands of people like him to violate our civil rights and these people are living the high life in places like Hawaii. And it disgusts me when I think about his gf who is a performance artist. Are these the kind of people we want involved in our art communities?
This all reminds me of the Nazi era with the SS people living their high lives. I even saw a video of Eva Braun doing yoga at Hitler's country home near Munich. This is what American society has collapsed to.
In some ways I think what the SS did was more honorable, because they did not try to conceal who they were and blend in.
Its absolutely sickening what has happened in America: A country with an entitled elite class which has a completely different set of rules that the rest of the population.
Like this: http://www.sodahead.com/united...
Or this: http://www.businessinsider.com...
etc.
Achille Talon
Hop!
https://youtu.be/OQc-_zUq1JI (no audio and obviously NSFW)
With a girlfriend like that it surely makes exile easyer to bear. ... Gosh is she cute and sexy. That video has me breathing shallower. And envying the man ... for his girlfriend that is. ... He deserves her. I hope the f*cks his brains out regularly and gives him a good time. He deserves it.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
I think it is to show how poor woman are at making good decisions. A guy like him without the notoriety would be on the ignore list for women. But he showed he is a dangerous guy who is on the edge of getting killed means he is prime material.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
And see a different story would be pronounced throughout the media and western world.
Have gnu, will travel.
Someone needs to do a photoshop pic with Hillary dressed as the Emperor and grinning evilly while doing Force lightning.
Kinda puts an interesting wrench on the idea that guys are the main ones who send unsolicited nudes. Perhaps it's more of a case where women tend to do so in different circumstances (or most guys just don't comment/complain about it).
...he told you that "you shouldn't change your behaviour" in response to government surveillance. Clearly, that message has gotten across. :)
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Attack its weak point for massive damage!
Modern Problems. Oh, to have such a burden.
Look ladies, I'm happily married, but feel free to send me your provocative and/or tasteful nudes on the off chance I'll dump my lovely wife and jump ship to be with you*.
I mean, you DO have some greater-than-zero chance to get with a fine, vintage model like me, and (statistically speaking) probably a better chance than you do cold-calling Edward Snowden, so what the heck, give it a shot. You've nothing to lose and little to gain!
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*terms and conditions may apply
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
There's not a lot of Photoshop to do...
http://media1.popsugar-assets....
lucm, indeed.
I find it sickening that my government employs thousands of people like him to violate our civil rights and these people are living the high life in places like Hawaii.
Yes and no. The pay scale for employees of intelligence agencies is not very high; you won't find a lot of people making more thank $80,000 in the CIA or NSA, unless they complement it with stuff like speaking engagements or book deals.
For subcontractors the salary is higher but there's less benefits. In his last job before working for the Russians, Edward Snowden made $122,000 a year. Once you put aside money for pension, co-pays and such, it's not hookers, coke & vegas money. It's more like, good car salesman money.
lucm, indeed.
I think it is to show how poor people are at making good decisions
FTFY, because we all know men are purely rational when it comes to women, right?
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Um, this isn't exactly an "ex-girlfriend dumped me for a biker" situation.
1. Maybe some women could be legitimately attracted to intelligence and (whether you agree with them or not) a strong commitment to one's principles? Perhaps not enough to fly to Russia but at least to the extent of flirting with the guy to cheer him up.
2. I, for one, look forward to the day when women can send naked pictures to whomever they damn well please without it being a 'poor decision'. Who cares? And before you answer that, why should we care that they care?
3. I, for one, particularly look forward to the day when women prefer to direct their naked fan mail to computer geeks who won't shut up about politics.
Yes, there is: the hood and the Force lightning are missing. Other than that, perfect.
BIE? EIP!
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos
Thank you for the clarification. I agree that those are reasonable salaries in range with what would be expected.
Re: Snowden: Wasn't he an employee of an agency that contracted with the govn't, not an independent contractor himself? And still, in whatever case, I can imagine the exorbitant amount that the middleman contracting company was charging the govn't.
The well is dry, he gave it all to an American journalist. Blame the press if you want to play the card of leaking to the world.
The Russians are keeping him fed merely because it's a cheap way to piss off Hillary et al.
Re: Snowden: Wasn't he an employee of an agency that contracted with the govn't, not an independent contractor himself? And still, in whatever case, I can imagine the exorbitant amount that the middleman contracting company was charging the govn't.
Yes. He was making $122,000 as an employee of a consulting firm. Right there's it's a red flag: people with a solid resume don't go in consulting for other people because that's getting the worst of both world:
-> If you're an employee in the public sector you get shit pay and a dysfunctional work environment, but at least you get gold-plated benefits.
-> As a self-employed contractor working for public sector clients you get awesome money but you suffer the bad work environment.
-> As an employee of a consulting firm sending you to work for a client in the public sector, you get shit pay, the bad environment and no benefits.
As for the rate: whenever it's middle to high end IT consulting, here's a good rule of thumb:
-a self-employed contractor sent to a client by a consulting firm (i.e. subcontractor): 25% of the client's invoice goes to the firm
-an employee of a consulting firm sent to a client: 75% of the client's invoice goes to the firm
Many firms have a mix of employees and subcontractors, and this leads to very unpleasant situations with crooked firms. A typical scam is for such firm to "lock in" a subcontractor for a juicy gig for a client; once the subcontractor agrees not to apply for that gig elsewhere, the firm pretends that their resume has been rejected while they're actually sending some of their permanent staff. This is more common than you would expect.
lucm, indeed.
Which is all utterly insane when it could all be handled more professionally and cheaper by real military instead of a gravy train to the Booz whatever toy soldiers taking a massive cut from the taxpayer.
If the Russians didn't already know everything an external contractor in Hawaii could get then they were not trying.
And for some reason the middlemen are all very well connected politically when they get the contracts, sometimes as very obvious rewards for helping with political campaigns. That among other things is why the Chinese are too busy laughing to reply when we accuse them of corruption - very similar over there but maybe on a different scale but they have been making enough of an effort to cut back on it that casinos are taking a hit due to less money to launder.
I used to work in a large manufacturing organization where janitors and cafeteria workers were outsourced. It was expensive, and they were doing a terrible job, and it would have been incredibly easy and cost-effective to do it in-house.
I was in good terms with someone in HR and I finally found out from her why they kept the outsourcing: working around a clause in the collective agreement that required proportional layoffs. If the company had 800 production workers and 200 support workers (supervisors, managers, HR, receptionist, etc), whenever you wanted to lay off 100 people you had to let go 80 production workers and 20 support workers.
Layoffs are typical in manufacturing. Business is slow? Lay off workers. Business is ramping up? Call them back.
But guess what: you can't get rid of janitors and cafeteria workers (your plant isn't 20% less dirty when you have 20% less production workers). So if those people are part of your support staff, you have to fire engineers or bookkeepers or HR clerks with every layoff to respect the proportional clause, and that can cripple your organization, especially if you're already running a lean support crew; those people also tend to find another job and don't come back. If you keep the support staff to a minimum via outsourcing, however, you have less of them to let go.
I don't know if that's the same exact reason why they use so many private contractors in the NSA and other agencies, but I'd bet a dollar it's something similar.
lucm, indeed.
Casinos in Macau are also taking a hit due to active public campaigns to dissuade the public from gambling. There was a segment about it on NHK recently. Not like I ever make close to enough money (like Edward Snowden did and his ex-co-workers do) to be able to afford to visit there.
I don't think I will ever attend performance art again.
Some girls find it fun to send him nudes or ask for snapchat. so what?
The NSA might see the nudes. So what? Will they send them around the net? propbably not.
clickbait article.
Yeah the FBI seeing the photos is probably a non-issue since a large number of them are probably honeypots in the first place. It's a product of how much contempt they have for this man that they think one of them will eventually work.
HEADLINE:
Snowden caught in honeypot while stepping out on his girlfriend.
God, wouldn't they love that?
Already having a girlfriend, and she's pissed off about it.
He is a living, breathing male. He is saving the ones he likes.
> I approve of his actions. Why would I want to inflict upon him pics of a large, nude, hairy man?
1. Because even large hairy men are sexy to someone?
2. More importantly: Its being monitored.
I want to encourage every person out there.... if you approve of Snowden, then fight asymetrically!
Every hairy dick pic you send him is one hairy manpole for ed snowden sure, but how many spy agencies monitor his communications and must ALSO see your cock?
Think of the big picture.....send hairy cock to snowden for great justice!
"I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"
Yes. He was making $122,000 as an employee of a consulting firm. Right there's it's a red flag: people with a solid resume don't go in consulting for other people because that's getting the worst of both world:/quote.
Now that's a bit of a generalization. The gov't contracts out a lot of work. And I have several friends who work for firms contracted to do gov't work. Sure, the firm takes the majority of the ABSOLUTELY LUDICROUS rate, but that leaves a good chunk left. And they couldn't get those contract directly,
Not saying some aren't as you put it, but contracting for the gov't is a real thing that solid people do.
LITTLE GIRL: But which cookie will you eat FIRST? C. MONSTER: Me think you have misconception of cookie-eating process.
Another reason for so much outsourcing is if you are a publicly traded company. One of the metrics they use to evaluate stock is profit (or EBITA) per employee, to show efficiency. So less FTEs with only slightly less profit shoots this up.
Yeah, let's look out for stockholder value so they don't sue us.
LITTLE GIRL: But which cookie will you eat FIRST? C. MONSTER: Me think you have misconception of cookie-eating process.
Not saying some aren't as you put it, but contracting for the gov't is a real thing that solid people do.
Working on a government gig as a subcontractor makes sense, even if the consulting firm that places you there takes a 25% cut. It's as an employee of that consulting firm that it makes no sense because they give you shit money.
Anyone with a decent resume will open their incorp and subcontract, not become a rental employee. That's why I'm saying it's a red flag for Snowden.
lucm, indeed.
You would lose the bet for many reasons.
First, they don't cut back.
Second, it's an insanely common situation for such contracts to be handed out as rewards to cronies. At best it's a retirement gift to funnel money into the ex-employees small business.
I'll leave the many others as an exercise - remember we are talking about a place run by egotistical losers who get Star Trek set designers to do office layouts and who came in via the political fast track instead of being promoted from within intelligence.
Yes, I used to work at a steelworks that did that. Within five years of using that metric and gaming it by using contractors the previously profitable place in real terms was shut down and the seagull management flew off to shit all over something else. Funny thing is it terms out that using unskilled staff that cost three times as much as skilled ones reduces efficiency, and the unskilled staff tend to die more often in workplaces with a lot of hazards to look out for. Who would have thought - apart from EVERYONE?
That's only a very small part of it since casinos all around the Pacific have been seeing a lot less Chinese "high-rollers" since a corruption crackdown started. Maybe the crackdown is working or maybe the perps are worried about being seen going to casinos and getting caught when they get home?
Either way the political get rich quick scheme for a city of building a casino is looking a bit stupid at the moment. Why go to the back of beyond when Vegas and Macau are not filled to capacity?
we are talking about a place run by egotistical losers who get Star Trek set designers to do office layouts
I didn't know that. I just googled it and wtf. Sad part is that it's not even cool. My cousin's basement is more hi-tech and he earns like $45,000 a year.
I mean, did you see the Commander's Console? It looks like they took the seat from a 2003 Toyota Tercel and bolted it on a freezer that was painted silver. All the furniture around looks like stuff they bought from a failed bakery.
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites...
Fuck that guy.
lucm, indeed.
All they have to do is come to the West Coast and buy property. No worries about pesky immigration requirements. Bring the whole family. And the city hall's in America open their doors wide for the CCP embezzlers. We pay for their kids medical and education. Meanwhile the people they've ripped off rot back in their home country. That's how American humanistic open immigration works.
Yes that's exactly what happens when you can bring in a lot of cash and another popular way to funnel it out. It's funny, but if a non-Communist government ever comes to power in China there will be a lot of US and other pressure applied against it to keep all those Party officials that bought their way in to the west happy.
Those in politics would support their wallets instead of a democratic China so long as the cash reserves continue.
Among the rewards of heroism is the love of women.
He is an enemy of the United States.
Snowden is an enemy of the finacialist ruling clique of the United States. But he is a friend of the American people.
...The Man From Mars.
http://i.cubeupload.com/T6cyLu.png
The security issues alone of that ego trip make the mind boggle, let alone throwing away cash that does not come out of the pocket of the person signing it away.
So instead of carrying the extra production staff when "business is slow", they chose to hire "expensive" janitors and cafeteria workers (who were probably paid less than regular janitorial/cafeteria staff would have been, but their contracting company made a killing).
I have no sympathy for that kind of management and believe that it's destroying, if it hasn't already destroyed, the workplace.
Funny thing is, most of the time on the days after a layoff people had to work overtime because the company mistakenly let too many workers go.
lucm, indeed.
If I'd known there would be this much free pussy for selling out the US, I would have beat him to it long ago.
He's gay. He doesn't really have a girlfriend (in Russia, or anywhere). That's the "push-off" line he uses. So let's examine what else Special Ed has done that's "wrong"?: 1) Theft 2) False credentials 3) Tampering with national security 4) Placing all Americans at risk 5) International flight 6) Traveling on a voided passport 7) Bartering with items/information he doesn't legally own nor has personally created 8) Terroristic threats 9) Unethical treatment toward his employer 10) Misrepresentation 11) Perjury/breach of oath 12) Dereliction of duty 13) Failure to follow orders. 14) Impersonation of known government officials/identity theft. He's also flirting with, in fact, trying to set up the two main offenses: A) Assisting foreign powers B) Aiding the enemy. Sure, the Constitution guarantees the freedom to share more information in the public, and the right to free speech is great... but NOT when it will cause a danger to National Security. The info Snowjob likely possesses is probably EXACTLY the kind of stuff al Qaeda wants leaked out so they can learn better of how to successfully find ways to kill Americans at will. Not to mention, maybe names and locations of counter-terrorism spies that the U.S. has out in the field infiltrating the ranks of those would-be murderers. People want to complain about the NSA and allegedly "spying" on them, but then they'll also complain about not feeling the government is doing enough to protect them from al Qaeda! The NSA is not "hiding" anything, but they'll be truly ineffective if EVERYONE knows what they're working on. They're not interested in photos of your baby or mom's recipes. Has NOBODY stopped for a moment and asked "why" the NSA has been doing what they're doing? Did people think the authorities use magic to uncover terrorist plots? Which would you prefer, "spying" on you or terrorism on you? Snowflake did what he did for the fame (for the escape from obscurity that everyone wants... although most average people simply use Facebook).