sampsonjs
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Comment · 1 year ago
As opposed to your buddy popehat. lol
Comment · 1 year ago
The thing where a guy got shot in the neck by one of their fellow travelers.
Comment · 1 year ago
"Rest in Power #FidelCastro": https://x.com/blklivesmatter/status/802568605212647425
They didn't take the Jordan Neely verdict very well either. Someone joked right after the verdict on Twitter that we should brace for more riots. Whoever runs the account said that sounded like a good idea.
Comment · 2 years ago
Archived link used to highlight the relevant portion of the article, which is a digression, but worth highlighting.
Some HN users will use the ad hominem that the writer, Greer, is a wack job. Well, as Greer points out, William of Ockham was a medieval theologian. What does that make everyone who still (incorrectly) cites him?
Given the contempt media writers have for Western religion these days(and most HN users as well), it's amusing that a 14th century religious propagandist is treated as if he was capable of making such a broad claim about the nature of the universe. Maybe not all old philosophers were good enough thinkers to be worth citing.
Some HN readers will want a more mainstream source on this topic. How about the magazine whose owner was friends with Ghislaine Maxwell, and whose editor was a big pusher of the "Iraq still has an active WMD program" narrative in 2002? Great, here's an Atlantic piece: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/08/occams-r...
Comment · 12 years ago
I'm just glad PRISM is nothing but an extremely expensive Rube Goldberg contraption for responding to warrants. Golly, why did Yahoo bother going to court to fight the notion that when a court issues a warrant ...
"Yahoo also felt that warrantless requests placed discretion for data collection 'entirely in the hands of the Executive Branch without prior judicial involvement' thereby ceding to the government 'overly broad power that invites abuse” and possible errors that would result in scooping up data of U.S. citizens as well.'
Oh.
Comment · 12 years ago
Right, that just occurred to me.
Comment · 12 years ago
Worst possibility is folks email are now targets, and there's enough info to get past password reset questions.
Comment · 12 years ago
The most uncomfortable thing on an SF-86 would probably be your past convictions, but it's unlikely you would get a TS in that case. After that, maybe the names of family members. It also would have your current address and foreign investments, but nothing extremely personal.
Comment · 12 years ago
It's too bad The Master has departed, I'm going to miss his words being quoted to "settle any possible HN argument" in the words of this great comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1716028. Also going to miss all the pearl clutching about "this comment/thread is horrible", okay maybe not. I assume work was never finished on the Lisp AI that would block comments he disagrees with, any of the mods still working on that?
Comment · 13 years ago
Steve Coll, of all people, did a great job with your ususal argument months ago:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/07/nsa-co...
Comment · 13 years ago
"I don't do work for the USG". Talk about burying the lede. So where did you get this knowledge about the awesomeness of Government training? I DO work for a contractor, one that hires from the same market as everyone else, with lower salaries. We're not all morons, but I was unaware we were turning substandard hires into geniuses. I must have missed the training program.
Comment · 13 years ago
I think the WaPo should start a section that's full of Hustler style porn. When people complain about porn in their Washington Post, they can just say "That's a separate department!". TLDR: if you disgrace your sub-organization, you disgrace the entire organization.
Comment · 13 years ago
You seem to think you successfully defended Google and the NSA. My technical chops are just as good as your, if not better, and I found your efforts utterly buffoonish. If you don't like people disagreeing with you or criticizing the gov, time to pack it in.