Comment Or... (Score 3, Interesting) 108
How about sending along a couple of backpacks (and monetary donations) with vetted charitable aid groups (Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders, etc)?
Shouldn't be long; the story is
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those running Linux, all naked and petrified, just like Natalie Portman.
He is merely wrong by law, not by morality.
I was merely pointing out that his morality is not above question, and the conclusion that 'therefore he is a hero' is likewise flawed.
Now then, back to the NSA. And quit trying to derail this conversation. The NSA is in violation of the US Constitution.
Actually, you're the one trying to derail the conversation. If you'd taken a second to read this thread, you'll notice that the initial comment I replied to stated:
He is merely wrong by law, not by morality
The sub-discussion I was involved in is clearly about whether or not Snowden had a moral right to do what he did. My view is that while he was working for the NSA/Booz Allen, he was furthering their goals, and once he knew it was wrong, should have divorced himself from their employ. If his goal in continuing to work for them was only to gather evidence, the pay he collected should be considered dirty money and donated. The fact is he knew of their behavior, continued to work for them, took their money and kept it for himself, and then went public.
Or, more succinctly - he had no problem taking their money and continuing to work for them after he knew what they were doing was immoral.
Also who gives a shit about "moral high ground"?
The guy who posted this comment, for one. If you'd bothered to read the comments to which I'd responded, you might have noticed that you were the one hijacking the conversation, not me.
I don't think "A transcendent being of pure energy requiring neither food nor shelter" was among the poll options.
So he should've gotten another job. But continuing to do the work for which he was paid, for an agency he knew to be corrupt makes him complicit. He was perfectly happy to take dirty money, and he's got no moral high ground on which to stand.
They turned it off for now. What's to say they won't turn it back on a year or two from now?
That scenario would really only apply to people who keep their XBone online, wouldn't it?
the talents of Jennifer Lawrence, who I happen to think is a primo piece of ass second only to the adorable Anna Kendrick
I agree with you on both these counts, but I especially agree with the people who modded you '+5, Insightful'.
To the systems programmer, users and applications serve only to provide a test load.
