Panama, Chile, Argentina, Cuba, Venezuela. Would you like me to go on or are you going to continue to be fucking ignorant of the entire infamous (and now long-since publicly exposed) history of the CIA since the 1950's?
Sadly, it's a classic weakness--one that has done in a lot of otherwise very smart men (just ask the saps who got taken in by that hot Russian agent we just deported). The CIA was smart to hit him where he was weakest. Bad timing on the accusations though--too soon (but I suspect this was a rush job).
If Joseph Fritzl had released a slew of classified U.S. documents and threatened to release even more (including CIA materials) two weeks before his arrest, then yes, I would be pretty fucking suspicious of those charges.
Considering how far your theories are going to ignore the blatantly obvious conclusion, I think you're the one in the tinfoil hat on this one. The CIA was just really dumb to make it so soon. But, considering he was threatening to release more documents soon, I think they were forced into a rush job.
If he's guilty, then the timing means nothing. In fact, the better timing would be before the documents had been leaked.
Obviously you missed his statements that he has a number of even more confidential documents to release. And the point isn't just to threaten, it's also to discredit. And a sex crime charge is a great way to discredit (everybody hates rapists and molesters, right?). The Scientologists have been known to do this when they want to get really nasty.
There are coincidences, and then there are things that are *very* unlikely coincidences. If you take out a huge insurance policy in your wife's name and a day later you turn up dead under mysterious circumstances, that could just be a coincidence too. But you would be pretty foolish if you were a cop investigating that death not to strongly suspect a connection there.
Actually, that's pretty smart thinking. When the zombies attack, they'll know the real brains are in the physics department. Meanwhile, the students in this class will be safely ensconced with a roomful of lazy slackers.
No tin foil hat for me, thanks. The CIA's very long track record is well-established. It would be hard to find a country in South America that hasn't had the CIA assassinate (or try to) at least one of their leaders in the last 50 years. It's the worst kept secret in Washington. And if you think there aren't still plenty of suspiciously well-timed crashes that still happen, well I would call that naive.
A guy goes 39 years without a criminal record with anything more significant than a hacking charge on it. And then he suddenly decides to become a rapist 2 weeks after releasing a cache of documents that embarrasses the world's most powerful government and threatening to release more? Are you kidding me?
Do you REALLY think that's just a coincidence? Come on. Even I knew this was coming. Or maybe you think I'm just psychic.
If he's going to keep releasing stuff that embarrasses powerful government, he had better get used to being smeared in every way conceivable. At least he's too high profile to assassinate. But I would be very careful about flying if I were him (a lot of people have pissed off the CIA and had tragic airplane accidents shortly thereafter).
You may think that HR is wrong on this. But the more you try managing (or even working with) complete social retards and uber-downers, you'll realize that there is indeed such a thing as someone who "sucks the air out of the room." And they can be the most qualified goddamn engineer on the planet but they'll still put you months behind on your project, because they'll bring everyone around them down. I've seen people like this absolutely poison an office, to the point where nothing was getting done and everyone HATED to even show up at the office.
And I'm more concerned about China than either. And the U.S. government certainly doesn't seem to have any problem with U.S. companies exporting all their computer jobs there.
My experience in academia taught me that there was no such thing as the "authoritative" source. If one scholar thought one thing about a particular subject, there was always at least one other scholar who disagreed with him/her. Most of the encyclopedia articles written in more scholarly encyclopedias (like Britannica) are therefore usually written by a single scholar, not a crowd of them. Get a crowd of these yahoos together and odds are you won't even get them to agree on what time it is. I've sat in on meetings where grown Ph.D.'s argued like children over so-and-so getting to teach a 100-level class that someone else wanted to teach (because so-and-so is an idiot who disagreed with them in some journal article written 20 years ago). Any attempt to get agreement out of scholars usually just results in really bland "committee" history (the kind some prevalent in so many unreadable textbooks). Such controversy-free scholarly writing is bizarre at best, absolutely misleading at worst.
For all the ribbing it takes, my experience with Wikipedia is that it's generally pretty reliable. In the subjects of my narrow areas of expertise, I've found it to be pretty accurate--or at least as accurate as any other conventional source (i.e. Britannica). Of course, scholars don't like it because they don't get paid to write articles for it (the way they often do in encyclopedias) and writing for it gets them no tenure-track kudos in the publish-or-perish world. That means most scholars are never going to be happy with Wikipedia. And that has nothing to do with its purported lack of accuracy, but rather scholarly politics.
Until pretty recently, Sony wasn't a very appealing target. For a long time Sony lagged far behind the 360 (at least in the U.S.) and Wii. It's only been in the last year or so that they've gotten enough decent exclusives to finally be on the radar. Combine that with their recent removal of the OtherOS option, and hackers have finally started to actively work on the PS3 as a worthy target. It won't take them years to release the next hack, probably more like months (if not weeks or days).
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Panama, Chile, Argentina, Cuba, Venezuela. Would you like me to go on or are you going to continue to be fucking ignorant of the entire infamous (and now long-since publicly exposed) history of the CIA since the 1950's?
No thanks. I don't want to eat people--whatever their nationality.
Not if you can outrun a cow.
Maybe we should start some sort of psychic friends network.
And I don't even like having to remove the film and stir it halfway through microwaving. Where's *my* book, dammit???
Sadly, it's a classic weakness--one that has done in a lot of otherwise very smart men (just ask the saps who got taken in by that hot Russian agent we just deported). The CIA was smart to hit him where he was weakest. Bad timing on the accusations though--too soon (but I suspect this was a rush job).
If Joseph Fritzl had released a slew of classified U.S. documents and threatened to release even more (including CIA materials) two weeks before his arrest, then yes, I would be pretty fucking suspicious of those charges.
Considering how far your theories are going to ignore the blatantly obvious conclusion, I think you're the one in the tinfoil hat on this one. The CIA was just really dumb to make it so soon. But, considering he was threatening to release more documents soon, I think they were forced into a rush job.
Obviously you missed his statements that he has a number of even more confidential documents to release. And the point isn't just to threaten, it's also to discredit. And a sex crime charge is a great way to discredit (everybody hates rapists and molesters, right?). The Scientologists have been known to do this when they want to get really nasty.
There are coincidences, and then there are things that are *very* unlikely coincidences. If you take out a huge insurance policy in your wife's name and a day later you turn up dead under mysterious circumstances, that could just be a coincidence too. But you would be pretty foolish if you were a cop investigating that death not to strongly suspect a connection there.
Actually, that's pretty smart thinking. When the zombies attack, they'll know the real brains are in the physics department. Meanwhile, the students in this class will be safely ensconced with a roomful of lazy slackers.
Well, I guess then I *am* just psychic. Palm reading, anyone?
No tin foil hat for me, thanks. The CIA's very long track record is well-established. It would be hard to find a country in South America that hasn't had the CIA assassinate (or try to) at least one of their leaders in the last 50 years. It's the worst kept secret in Washington. And if you think there aren't still plenty of suspiciously well-timed crashes that still happen, well I would call that naive.
You bet your ass.
A guy goes 39 years without a criminal record with anything more significant than a hacking charge on it. And then he suddenly decides to become a rapist 2 weeks after releasing a cache of documents that embarrasses the world's most powerful government and threatening to release more? Are you kidding me?
Do you REALLY think that's just a coincidence? Come on. Even I knew this was coming. Or maybe you think I'm just psychic.
I'll alert the trailer parks to expect incoming anal probes tonight.
If he's going to keep releasing stuff that embarrasses powerful government, he had better get used to being smeared in every way conceivable. At least he's too high profile to assassinate. But I would be very careful about flying if I were him (a lot of people have pissed off the CIA and had tragic airplane accidents shortly thereafter).
You may think that HR is wrong on this. But the more you try managing (or even working with) complete social retards and uber-downers, you'll realize that there is indeed such a thing as someone who "sucks the air out of the room." And they can be the most qualified goddamn engineer on the planet but they'll still put you months behind on your project, because they'll bring everyone around them down. I've seen people like this absolutely poison an office, to the point where nothing was getting done and everyone HATED to even show up at the office.
No, the CPU would just start sparking and blow up, like in the movies.
And I'm more concerned about China than either. And the U.S. government certainly doesn't seem to have any problem with U.S. companies exporting all their computer jobs there.
If you had actually read my post, you would see that I specifically mentioned the removal of OtherOS as a primary motivator in hacking the PS3.
My experience in academia taught me that there was no such thing as the "authoritative" source. If one scholar thought one thing about a particular subject, there was always at least one other scholar who disagreed with him/her. Most of the encyclopedia articles written in more scholarly encyclopedias (like Britannica) are therefore usually written by a single scholar, not a crowd of them. Get a crowd of these yahoos together and odds are you won't even get them to agree on what time it is. I've sat in on meetings where grown Ph.D.'s argued like children over so-and-so getting to teach a 100-level class that someone else wanted to teach (because so-and-so is an idiot who disagreed with them in some journal article written 20 years ago). Any attempt to get agreement out of scholars usually just results in really bland "committee" history (the kind some prevalent in so many unreadable textbooks). Such controversy-free scholarly writing is bizarre at best, absolutely misleading at worst.
For all the ribbing it takes, my experience with Wikipedia is that it's generally pretty reliable. In the subjects of my narrow areas of expertise, I've found it to be pretty accurate--or at least as accurate as any other conventional source (i.e. Britannica). Of course, scholars don't like it because they don't get paid to write articles for it (the way they often do in encyclopedias) and writing for it gets them no tenure-track kudos in the publish-or-perish world. That means most scholars are never going to be happy with Wikipedia. And that has nothing to do with its purported lack of accuracy, but rather scholarly politics.
Until pretty recently, Sony wasn't a very appealing target. For a long time Sony lagged far behind the 360 (at least in the U.S.) and Wii. It's only been in the last year or so that they've gotten enough decent exclusives to finally be on the radar. Combine that with their recent removal of the OtherOS option, and hackers have finally started to actively work on the PS3 as a worthy target. It won't take them years to release the next hack, probably more like months (if not weeks or days).
But if it makes you feel any better, Sony--yeah, you've "won."