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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Giuliani moved it to the WTC not long before the attacks despite being warned not to do so, hamstringing the response when the 9/11 attacks happened. The NYPD wanted it put in Brooklyn, but Rudy nixed that idea, probably because he didn't want to be bothered with going to Brooklyn when the Towers were so close to City Hall.
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SquirrelyPSU posted:Just going to jump over the probability that this is sarcasm, but the cops showed up before the RV went up so it was presumably empty. Nope. It takes no effort or training to create a directional charge- it is literally just how you stack them. This isn't OPSEC or anything- it's in numerous wiki articles.
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bulletsponge13 posted:Nope. It takes no effort or training to create a directional charge- it is literally just how you stack them. This isn't OPSEC or anything- it's in numerous wiki articles. The idea of
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Icon Of Sin posted:The idea of It isn't particularly weird, if you know some maths and physics you can make a boom go how ever you want. It happens so infrequently because the millions of people just in the US who could make a boom, don't want to. Because who the gently caress wants to be a murderer! It's a really odd attack, small tidbit, I love telecoms archictecture, especially phone exchanges in the UK, there's a huge amount of industrial history about them that's really odd, and wonderful. Thing is, if you knew anything at all about how any big telecoms anything building is constructed you'd know it's got so much reinforced concrete in it it'd take a small nuke to gently caress it up. So I'm guessing this is a random nutso who got overcharged - like, it almost always is.
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Dec 26, 2020 00:58
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SquirrelyPSU posted:
Yeah, its a lowest bidder/expense thing as usual.
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Dec 26, 2020 02:43
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CommieGIR posted:Yeah, its a lowest bidder/expense thing as usual. I think you mean “a stunning example of public / private partnership resulting in lower costs for the taxpayers” 🙄
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Dec 26, 2020 02:56
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Nystral posted:I think you mean “a stunning example of public / private partnership resulting in lower costs for the taxpayers” 🙄 "How often does the main lines fail, so how much can we save by not having a redundant route/line? I'M A FINANCE GENIUS!" - Some CIO somewhere.
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Dec 26, 2020 03:01
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Its exceedingly rare that those with the intelligence and skills to apply to evil terrorism actually have life circumstances that lead them too it. (Eg any competent college chemistry student.) If you're that skilled someone will pay you money to profit off others death totally legally.
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Dec 26, 2020 03:46
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M_Gargantua posted:Its exceedingly rare that those with the intelligence and skills to apply to evil terrorism actually have life circumstances that lead them too it. (Eg any competent college chemistry student.) This isn't necessarily the case for home grown / domestic terrorism. There have been a ton of cases where successful or attempted/would-be jihadis had higher education, or were even doctors. Back when jihadis were the main concern of the federal government (so pretty much grom 9/11/2001 to around perhaps 2016), a ton of work was done to come up with a profile of domestic terrorists. It really couldn't be done, demographically. Anyone, regardless of intelligence or education, could be susceptible to radicalization, or self radicalization given the right circumstances. Look at the Fort Hood shooter, he was a psychiatrist. It's quite similar to mass shooters, in that it's hard to pin down a definitive profile. Though there are definitely similarities for homegrown jihadis, homegrown right wing terrorists, and mass shooters - often there is an isolation or feeling of isolation from society, and a victim complex where they perceive their community (or themselves) is victimized or under attack. Edit: re reading your post, I have to agree with you, though perhaps I would say "rare" rather than exceedingly rare. Bored As Fuck fucked around with this message at 04:03 on Dec 26, 2020 |
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Dec 26, 2020 04:00
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ISIL had specific recruiters to go after people with higher education, and specific fields. It's not uncommon to have jihadist go after that, but it looks more like White Guy poo poo to me. The mimicking of IRA tactics makes me think Angry White gently caress.
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Dec 26, 2020 04:10
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Engineers are way overrepresented in terrorist groups.
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Dec 26, 2020 04:12
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Current Event: WW84 is a good film that needs a tight 90-105min edit
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Nick Soapdish posted:Current Event: WW84 is a good film that needs a tight 90-105min edit Honestly the same could be said of almost every film made these days.
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Dec 26, 2020 04:48
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hobbesmaster posted:Honestly the same could be said of almost every film made these days. Yeah, that's why I said that exact thing to my husband at the start of the film and I stand by it. Not every film needs to be 2+hrs, pop corn superhero movies can be distilled down
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Dec 26, 2020 04:53
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SquirrelyPSU posted:I feel like a 911 network should have some manner of redundancy outside of one building. You'd think, right? Part of my job is both assessing the security of, and writing disaster plan documents for, systems like that. All too often, they have single points of failure because they are - as others have noted in the thread - struggling for every bit of funding they can get. Now, that ATT let them go down at all? That is weird to me. The lack of redundancy I mostly put down to the known shortage of fiber backhauls in rural Tennessee. It is very weird to me that they can't run the whole datacenter, or at least the 911 systems, on their available generators. Like... this is the sort of thing I would ding an organization for real hard on an audit. You're sort of not in compliance if you can't keep the systems up when the power goes out and you can't demonstrate at least some redundancy. It's kind of a big deal. Maybe some of their generators wouldn't start. Kesper North fucked around with this message at 05:04 on Dec 26, 2020 |
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Dec 26, 2020 05:02
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Or maybe they evacuated so they could check that the building wouldn't fall down.
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Dec 26, 2020 05:40
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Nick Soapdish posted:Current Event: WW84 is a good film that needs a tight 90-105min edit You're a very generous man, Mr. Soapdish.
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Dec 26, 2020 07:12
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Most people in the WW84 thread in CD aren't even bothering to use spoiler tags because it's that bad. https://twitter.com/ItsTheBrandi/status/1342710411607601154 BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 07:23 on Dec 26, 2020 |
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Dec 26, 2020 07:20
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Dec 26, 2020 07:24
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Most people in the WW84 thread in CD aren't even bothering to use spoiler tags because it's that bad. https://twitter.com/EvelKneidel/status/1342697529876611077
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Dec 26, 2020 08:55
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The kids aren't going to get hit by a missile, she uses an RPG-7 rocket to propel herself (yes, it's as stupid as it sounds) ahead of a train of APCs and armored SUVs that are about to run the kids over. There are instances with her lasso in WW84 that make the grapple poo poo that's possible in the Just Cause games look plausible by comparison.
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Dec 26, 2020 09:02
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BIG HEADLINE posted:The kids aren't going to get hit by a missile, she uses an RPG-7 rocket to propel herself (yes, it's as stupid as it sounds) ahead of a train of APCs and armored SUVs that are about to run the kids over. Rocket jumping like it’s Quake 3 Arena? Excellent.
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Dec 26, 2020 10:26
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Call me when we see telefrags
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Midjack posted:Rocket jumping like it’s Quake 3 Arena? Excellent. Rocket-jumping started in Quake 1, noob.
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Dec 26, 2020 11:22
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Riot Carol Danvers posted:Rocket-jumping started in Quake 1, noob. Doom.
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Dec 26, 2020 12:19
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Trap sprung grandpa
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Midjack posted:Rocket jumping like it’s Quake 3 Arena? Excellent. No, as in she magic lassos the actual rocket and uses the momentum of it to launch her into the air. 
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Dec 26, 2020 14:53
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so no one thought that casting a superhero with a strong Israeli background in a movie where a rocket launcher is fired at soccer playing kids might be a little problematic?
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https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1342837753512402947?s=19 And that man was LTjg Albert Einstein, USNR
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It would be nice if the GOP wasn't so thoroughly swinging from his nuts and could get him to shut the gently caress up. Otoh, this 10 week whining spree is hopefully taking 2024 votes away from him.
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Dec 26, 2020 16:16
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stealie72 posted:It would be nice if the GOP wasn't so thoroughly swinging from his nuts and could get him to shut the gently caress up. Why would they? They know their jobs are safe no matter what he does, and ~70 million people agree with him. And if he or some cadre of nutjobs within that 70m actually manages to reverse the election, almost assuredly through violence, hey, it pays to be on the winning side of a coup!  And if that doesn't happen, they'll recant, pretend he had some ~evil hold~ over them and be welcomed into the naive, loving bosom of centrism. In the meantime, they've literally nothing to lose and potentially everything to gain by letting him have his tantrums.
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1342837753512402947?s=19 I see we're to the acceptance stage where he's now acknowledging Biden won by calling him a fake president.
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Dec 26, 2020 16:52
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1342837753512402947?s=19 What, Trump a liar? That's new, right?
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1342837753512402947?s=19 Dude not cool. It was obviously a Marine.
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Dec 26, 2020 19:14
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he forgot sailor!
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I remember sailor
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Time Crisis Actor posted:I remember sailor Pepperidge farm remembers the sailor...
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Dec 26, 2020 19:30
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Time Crisis Actor posted:I remember sailor It was a lot better than carrier
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