Good thing they make a highly sophisticated camera disabling device. The bigger concern is, if the console is voice activated to turn on, is the audio recorder always on?

He was a political appointee, what do you expect? He was actually never in any capacity a spy. He was an infantry officer and a teacher more than he was anything else until 2004 and after when he was overall commander of Iraq then Afghanistan. The director of any agency in the US is an administrator above all else.

I am (I have a graduate degree in political science), and he is right.

I think most couriers/handlers see "fragile" more as a challenge than as a warning. You know, see how far it can bend before it will break, that kind of thing.

Look at every picture you can find, every video of any kind of tactical unit. Notice something? They all wear gloves. Biometric locks would be completely useless.

I've noticed the exact opposite during my education. I live in Georgia, and we have a lot of Spanish speakers in my general area. Of course my middle school offered only French and Spanish (I chose French). My high school offered French, Spanish, Latin, and German (I did one year of French and 3 of Latin). I went to college in rural, middle of nowhere North Carolina, and my university offered French, Spanish, Biblical Greek (it was a baptist university) German (which I took for 2 years) and, my senior year, Arabic (which I also took). Did graduate school back in Atlanta where I took more Arabic, and as it was a large, state university they had all manner of languages one could take. I am of the opinion that most students learn Spanish because it is considered the easier of the languages. But, just like with any other subject, the opportunities to learn something new are out there, you just have to want to learn.

Italian kind of makes sense. Several east African nations were originally Italian colonies(such as Somalia). If people from this area wanted to go to a Western nation, Australia would be a logical choice. A good pairing with French, which is/was spoken by a lot of Africa. It seems to me that Australia is expecting either an increased African immigration, or is looking to expand its presence in Africa.

They are married, so I doubt that is an issue

I guess that would explain all these horrible outbreaks of polio, mumps, and measles we've been having....

Oh, wait, we aren't having large outbreaks of these diseases? Well, then I guess vaccines work.

"Artsy" douches like this guy? Some people simply don't want permanent records of their daily activities. The number of people against it goes up sharply when that invasion of privacy is used commercially or for profit.

Lay off the moonshine. That shit's rotted your brain.

Atlanta airport, working on the ramp. A single person can easily live here for 30k a year, if not less. And remember, that 100k is with OT of time and a half. He has 7 years, pay scale tops out at 10 years. First year is about 1800 a month, 10 years gets you mid 4k a month. And that is base.

If you love working on cars and want to be a mechanic, you don't go to college for engineering, you go to trade school and get certified. If you want to work on planes, you go get your A&P, you don't get a degree in aeronautical engineering. We need people to fix our cars, unclog our pipes, weld stuff, etc. These jobs aren't glamorous, but they are stable, pay much better than you think, and can be obtained by attending a much cheaper trade school than going to a university. I currently work part-time doing unskilled labor, and one guy I work with, after only being there 7 years, makes over 70k a year working no more overtime than many salaried employees. When he tops out in 3 more years he will probably be making close to, if not more than $100k. And this is in a job that requires no more than a high school diploma.

Damn, I should have been a geologist.

Yes, you should. I was a student that was unemployed. Now that I graduated and am no longer a student, I am just unemployed.