Ugh, THANK YOU! This is what I couldn’t get over! You send 6 guys INCLUDING THE LEADER to deliver 12 cantaloupes, to 6 OTHER GUYS??? It takes 12 guys to transport 12 cantaloupes?? So unbelievably stupid.

Overprocessed to the extreme. But I originally thought it was a very pregnant woman on the beach, so what do I know?

Me hate this. This am not funny. Me did not laugh.

This article is not news at all. It’s just a blog post. If anything, it is what you might call a feature. People really need to learn the difference between “fake news” and “some blogger’s position that I disagree with.”

Your ignorance of the history of Ukraine and Crimea, and their places in the Soviet military industry. Russia didn’t “invade” Crimea as the American media, and government, likes to say.

This is #fakenews.

what does this have to do with automotives?

.... I feel like you’re contradicting yourself here, or not really making an argument.

Have any WikiLeaks releases ever been shown to be fabricated?

Motive is always relevant. I’m a nice guy for helping an old lady across the street. But if I have an incentive for helping her across the street, am I still just a nice guy?

I think the issue here is that the CIA lost control of these tools well before Wikileaks. They are out there being bought and sold in black markets. So conceivably they can be used by foreign powers to spy on us, yes.

It’s funny, the right called them terrorists during the bush years. Where were you then?

Honest question here - why would you not take them seriously?

Well, the NSA revelations showed that they were collecting (or at the very least had a court order demanding) metadata for every domestic and international call placed by every Verizon customer. That strikes me as a pretty big violation of the rights of US citizens, but not everyone agrees.

Because Assange’s credibility & motives are questionable at best.

“Recently, the CIA lost control of the majority of its hacking arsenal including malware, viruses, trojans, weaponized “zero day” exploits, malware remote control systems and associated documentation. This extraordinary collection, which amounts to…

Honest question here - why would you not take them seriously?

“Wanting characters to identify with” implies an inability to identify with what is being offered. If your child only identifies with characters who look like him/her, you’ve failed as a parent. Children should be taught to identify with actions, words, deeds, etc. — not skin color, gender, or perceived background.

Doesn’t mean that he is also an engineer and happened to have an IT duty that day.

OK. Serious discussion on titles and labels. IMO, an IT guy, a keyboard jock, is not an engineer. He took computer language and programming classes in school. Likely no physics, no chemistry, no electrical engineering...none of the classes other engineers are required to take. Back in the day, they were called…