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Intillex1147 karma

I'm curious why no American politicians have been reported on yet. Certainly there are some connections to American politics, but with no one being called out, it almost seems as though it could leave room for blackmail.

I'll put my tinfoil hat away now, but the question still stands.

Edit: To clarify the reasoning behind the blackmail statement.

I'll use a somewhat extreme example, but this can be scaled to fit any nation, industry, state, etc...

Let's say the president has an account overseas that's being sheltered from taxes, and he's implicated in the leak. The conglomerate who owns the newspaper could essentially say "I'm on the board of directors for Northrop Grumman, and we've got a bid going on to build the next generation bomber aircraft. It'll be rather embarrassing for you if this information comes out, so why not help me along a little to win the bid, and I'll make sure this doesn't hit the presses."

The fact that the raw data isn't available for public consumption makes this even more dangerous due to the fact that we can't independently verify that Western politicians aren't implicated.

Intillex103 karma

This is Reddit, where a board position was vacated by a presumably white man, and in the job posting it was stated "if you're white, you need not apply."

That's just one example, using the platform we're communicating on right now, that happened in the last couple of months.

Intillex68 karma

I would assume because when they are practicing for specific maneuvers, they generally use landmarks as where to start/end a turn, start a climb, etc... Without the landmarks and just being over water, it makes it much harder to execute precision movements. But I could be wrong.

Edit: Auto correct got me. Thanks for letting me know Capt!

Intillex33 karma

Yep, that sounds about right. Was I wrong about anything in particular?

Intillex11 karma

Suddenlink Communications, who is owned by Cequel Communications.

250gigs is horrifically low, and I've kept very close track of data usage and there's some vast discrepancies not only with myself, but family and friends on the same carrier (as an example, days at a time that I'm on vacation, or away on business show me using 10+gigs of data daily, and there aren't any internet connected devices in my home that I leave behind when going on business.) Obviously my network is secured and MAC filtered, so I know the problem isn't on my end.

Edit: of=\=or