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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!"
Snowden's no fool. You get a few genuine groupies, but as many are probably trying to catch the guy out. See also Julian.
The one in Hawaii? A Russian wench?
I think he broke up with the one in Hawaii and went to great lengths to do so - outing classified information, going on the run, etc... I think he told her, "It's not you, honey, it's the FBI." Future girlfriends beware.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
the girlfriend from hawaii lives with him in russia
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.
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
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?
A Russian wench?
Wouldn't a Russian mail order bride be much cheaper if you were already IN Russia?
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 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.
Have gnu, will travel.
...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!
The postage and packing would be cheaper, certainly.
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."
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.
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.
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.