jgross206

Can you provide some examples?

why "captain" in quotes?

Can you expand on that? Under what definition of terrorism is the NSA a terrorist organization?

It seems to me that their intent to be as clandestine as possible makes them distinctly non-terroristic.

> Why? Because them caring about outward appearances would signal to me that they have a fundamental lack of understanding about what factors are relevant to running a successful business.

why does it matter to you if your customers understand what factors are relevant to running a business?

The difference, to me, is that the lack of freedom you describe is simply a part of the human condition (food and shelter require work, which has been true as long as life has existed) as opposed to what you call "traditional slavery" which is man-made.

can you share some of your reasoning behind this (quite extreme) belief?

i am not joking

cops also ask you if you have drugs in your car.

i think its tera-hashes per second

You can't just call everything you disagree with "trolling". This is exactly the lack of diversity of thought OP was asking about. Now we're not even allowed to question the Snowden-worship?

> Looks like somebody wants to nominate themselves for a government contract.

Interesting how when the news media baselessly questions the motives of whistleblowers it's a "smear campaign." When someone on HN does it to someone who's vaguely pro-NSA it's the top comment.

In what way does your anecdote support your assertion that "a year is much too long"?