Dell's laptops have really gone down the shitter in the past few years, but I've been extremely satisfied with their servers. Granted, I haven't used servers from any other company, but the couple of times I investigated alternatives I always came away with a strong preference for Dell.

Hmm. Could have sworn I saw a shock wave in the evening news video.

Nope. JavaScript off here.

Cast it into falcon statuettes.

But they're not being done dirt cheap.

Foreign intelligence agencies recruiting Americans or conducting operations that cross our borders is a grey area. At some point, if what they discover is actionable here, they need to turn their information over to the FBI. The problem is: That then becomes a criminal case, which can tip their hand conducting further surveillance.

If you are a foreign agent inside the US, a sure way to see if counter-intel is on to you is to make a phone call and brag about the few thousand dollars in back taxes you hid from the IRS. They'll come after you for it and blow years of intelligence surveillance. That's why nobody talks to the IRS.

The CIA doesn't have police powers. The FBI does. Counter intelligence is a rather important duty of the FBI as well.

And often more effective. Because you are working with basically honest people. But our counter-intel people know this and watch for it. So I assume foreign intel outfits do as well.

Why not both?

Possibly a part of his legend.

This is what the fuck it is.

I know. You're probably heartbroken that they didn't check with you about all the details of their operations.

... just another star carved into the memorial wall.

True.

But the "they" you refer to can't be excluded. And specialize in co-opting other movements for street riots, breaking windows of businesses unrelated to the issue and lighting dumpsters on fire. And then disappearing into the woodwork.

Is that make-up water for cooling towers? Or pumped out of a river, passed through an exchanger and then returned with some specified maximum temperature rise?

Hmm. Perhaps to the CFTC they are. But I'd like to see someone take delivery of a bet as one can do with a barrel of oil or bushel of wheat.

Commodities are usually fungible goods. Such that an option or futures contract on one instance (barrel of oil) is interchangeable with any other. Bets are like unique contracts. Payment (or non payment) based upon the terms of that one contact. You can't really compare a search on D4vd with one for Sydney Sweeney (thank goodness).

That's one (of many) reasons we got into trouble in 2007.