>> Perhaps the only difference is that they've been caught?

That's pretty much it.

Well, this should make the unwashed masses sneaking in from banana republics feel right at home!

Oh really? Having held such a clearance for years (I left that work about 5 years ago) I can tell you that the situation is in many ways reversed. Your very behavior is held hostage just so you keep your job. Want to try some weed while in Colorado? Want to go see the Great Wall of China (actually, you might get this approved)? Three beers at happy hour and get pulled over for speeding? Buy a house at the height of the housing boom and your spouse lose her job so it is foreclosed upon, or she gets sick and the medical bills pile up...

All of these things can lead to your ticket being clipped.

Besides - people act like a clearance is some magical thing that they have earned. Nothing is further from the truth. It simply means you have a clean police and financial record, and don't hang out with militants. All of the investigations and polygraphs boil down to determining that. You fill out the forms honestly, and wait for investigators to determine that indeed you did not lie on your application. Sometimes you sit in a silly little room over by BWI with weird cloud scenes on the florescent lights and answer the same questions while some polygraph examiner tries to upset you. Again, nothing that you have earned through hard work or being special, just that you waited out the process and didn't lie.

So I doubt I will be getting anything delivered by drone.

It isn't like he is going to be productive anyway. Lot's of companies do this, nothing personal. Have a nice little staycation on us.

Clearly they were not targeting drag queen forums. This oversight will be addressed.

If you know anything about government projects... anything at all... then you know that even the most successful programs are often cancelled, defunded, and split up for reasons that one can simply not apply logic to. I have no doubt that there were those in the NSA that were fighting vigorously to shit can this program... simply because it wasn't their pet project, or they wants its funds, or they hated the PM...

Dear Russia,

We would be happy to cooperate on this project.

However, you get to pay for it this time.

If you actually read the article, you would know that the infrastructure is not the problem, it is the providers willingness to hook him up to said infrastructure.

The salient point here is that the educational system of the backwater tribe you are a member of is questionable at best, judging by your reading comprehension.

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Satellite. 4G LTE. Share with a neighbor. Panera.

All have their problems, but this is only a stop gap until he gets his own service.

Seems like a logical first step.

Never was a big deal.

Bananas are not a mineral! But then again they are loaded with potassium.

If that were the true motivator it would be far easier and less costly to take Venezuela.