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Comment Or when it comes to denying them (Score 2, Insightful) 685

You've got to admit that the circumstances of the 9/11 incident were fairly suspicious. A few days prior to the attack they had an evacuation drill in the towers that was out of the ordinary, the attack occurred during a time of day when most of the people who worked in the towers were not in the building, another building that was not struck by a plane collapsed, and the buildings collapsed in a way that was consistent with the way that buildings collapsed during controlled demolitions when there are explosives planted on each floor at key structural points.

I would seriously not be surprised if the Bush family helped the terrorists co-ordinate their attack in order to create a pretense for war that would allow them to tighten the federal government's hold on national security and drive oil prices through the roof.

Comment Re:Power should be free anyway (Score 5, Insightful) 373

Roads/Schools/Libraries are classified as public goods, which the free market does not allocate very efficiently. That's why we use taxes to pay for them and provide them for everyone. I think the parent understands that they aren't "free" in the sense that you mean.

Go take an introductory macroeconomics class and then get back to us when you're slightly more educated. We really don't have the time or patience to deal with you until then.

Comment Re:Staff self-selection (Score 1) 171

Yeah, but Israel is smart enough not to just accept information from any jackass who comes along out of the blue to offer it to them. What if the person approaching them with information was sent by the CIA as a double-agent in order to assess whether or not Israel really is spying on us? Better to play it safe with such an individual and turn them in to U.S. authorities, gather whatever intelligence they can from legitimate sources, and if they plant any agents, make sure they're people groomed by Israel's intelligence forces, not just some random jackass who comes along offering some intel who could just be a CIA plant.

Comment Re:Staff self-selection (Score 1) 171

You said it man. Every time I hear about a would-be spy trying to sell U.S. Gov't or Corporate secrets to contacts in Israel, I just shake my head. Don't these people realize that Israel is a close ally who wouldn't risk losing our assistance by engaging in espionage against us? Israel has enemies that they are more worried about, their intelligence services are too busy dealing with that to even think about messing with the U.S. -- If you're going to try to sell U.S. secrets, at least sell them to someone who actually doesn't like us or isn't afraid to spy on us, like China or Russia respectively.

Comment Analysis is too simplistic (Score 3, Interesting) 482

Gold is useful if the currency of your country collapses in value prior to your purchase and the world economy is still strong enough to buy your gold.

Economic collapse is not an all-or-nothing event, sometimes the economy in a limited number of countries collapses. An example of this would be Argentina in 1999.

Comment Re:Ugh. (Score 4, Informative) 363

Oh god shut the fuck up. He's right, Anonymous is unpredictable. What the hell part of his post made you think that he gives a fuck what Anonymous does, or that he was in the least bit annoyed? He is annoyed with YOU morons who seem to think that Anonymous is some sort of "organization." It isn't, it's just a flash mob.

"Shameless abuse of /b/ as his personal army" is a reference to a meme on 4chan. People come to the board with requests often, like "harass this guy because I don't like him" and so on. The standard response to these requests (if they don't sound like fun) is to say "/b/ is not your personal army."

Now kindly pull the stick out of your ass.

Comment No (Score 1, Interesting) 363

4chan is just an Internet Amusement Machine. Anonymous does whatever amuses it.

Sometimes that involves posting pictures of dead cats or trolling 11-year old internet girls who show their boobs on tinychat (see Jessica Slaughter), sometimes that involves wishing an old man a happy birthday or organizing anti-Scientology protests.

I have personally seen Anonymous engage in some unusual behavior. For example, someone recently was asking Anonymous on /b/ to troll a high school kid because his Mom had just died and he was homosexual. Anonymous decided that would be a dick thing to do and decided that it would be more fun to troll the person making the request. Anonymous immediately set about trying ascertain the identity of the troll so that they could harass him.

Anonymous is unpredictable. There is no central organization and there are no rules. Anonymous just does whatever it thinks might be fun at the moment.

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