Eyes Everywhere: Encryption programmer Paul Le Roux and his commando kill squad(mastermind.atavist.com) |
Eyes Everywhere: Encryption programmer Paul Le Roux and his commando kill squad(mastermind.atavist.com) |
This. One million times this is true journalism, making seemingly worthless bits of information into an expanding web of knowledge, where 99% readers would have no clue.
Would that be the same division here that was pooh-poohed for parallel construction?
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE97409R20130...
The protagonist's goal is to amass real world power. The books have subtitles like "How to Own a Country" and touch on arms dealing and small armies to protect your own illegal ass.
Although I found it quite entertaining and educating (it introduced me to htop, e.g.), the writing is not top notch and it may be quite dated now (it's over ten years old).
I just started getting into Sci-Fi (particularly dytopian worlds) and my Dad recommended this book as a "must read".
I'm halfway through it and love it so far.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chasm_City
I just want to point out that these medals just mean that he was a soldier at some point between September 11, 2001 and now. Service medals are given out just for showing up.
Wikipedia:
The honor has been given to a broad variety of notable people . . . . It has also been bestowed upon various people who are not generally considered especially notable – they have been people from "all walks of life". . . .
Under Governor Steve Beshear in 2008, so many commissions were being issued that state budget cuts led to a major change in the design of the commission certificate. The certificate was downsized from the 10-by-15-inch (25 by 38 cm) size to 8.5 by 14 inches (22 by 36 cm).
It is quite a story, Le Roux going from a gangly teenager hunched over his computer to a man who is able to amass a small commando squad at a moments notice...it seems as though Hollywood would struggle to come up with such a plot.
How you go from raising an army to invade a country, operating shady call centers in a myriad of countries, and ordering hits on reporters and real estate agents is anybody's guess. The crazy thing is he was running all of this by himself. I'm still puzzled how he managed to do it for so long.
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Basically you filled a form and they issued a prescription which then affiliated pharmacies filled.
If the clients use the medicines legally (e.g. for themselves) and know what they need I don't see a problem.
And the series fail to deliver - it started promising, but it lacks the big crimes and operations outside of the pill business. It is serialized novel of "Pivoting Bad with Mediocrity."
They agreed to murder for money, and you feel sorry for them?
I agree that there are structural issues to address here - the conduit from ex-military to mercenary work seems to be quite active, and it's not healthy for society to allow that to continue. But these guys are accountable for their actions just like any adult in a free society - the fact that they were in the military does not absolve them of that responsibility.
I think the overnight creation of these powerful mercenary orgs will be a long lasting negative force with all sorts of ill effects.
That compromise exists! It's known as "over the counter" medications. They require no prescription or doctor in the first place.
Doctors should fulfill the needs of their clients. The legislature has realized that, for some drugs, people may need help to avoid addiction, or to avoid killing themselves with overdoses, or to fully understand the risks and possible complications, etcetera. To try and ensure these needs are met, they passed laws to require doctors to meet these needs, compelling them to act as a check against abuse, to perform due diligence in checking for possible conflicts with other medication, and to ensure the risks of the medication have been properly communicated (because let's face it - who reads the fine print?)
A doctor acting as a rubber stamp is not performing any of these tasks, and is not helping fulfill the full needs of their clients.
There is a reason doctors undergo training and are held legally liable for mis-prescription.
The service may not have been illegal when only looking at the patients being served (I have no idea) but it was certainly illegal from the doctor's side. Not to mention...highly unethical from the medical side. All the doctors involved should have had their licences revoked.
The previous article said that those forms were rubber-stamped. No matter what you declared, you got your prescription.
And regarding clients using the medicines legally, that's like saying that sellers of explosives shouldn't check their clients, because it's the clients responsibility to use them legally.
I'd go with a showrunner from "Justified" and yell at them not to make up too much of the mayhem. The "bad guys" on that show ring true to me, they are self serving, nihilistic and make poor decisions.
