Has this country gone mad?!!!

[freakazoid]

Has this country gone mad?!!!

Sure, OK, lets have a Communist Country, China, (who now makes what was at one time IBM computers), supply...wait for it it... 15,000 laptop computers to the United States State Department!! :mad:


What?! Us, China, spy on America? We would NEVER do a thing like that!!! Not us communists; we won't put anything in those Laptops that will in anyway let us spy on you guys! No way, not us, never, you can trust us!!! ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4849742.stm


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[Zzyzx]

Short answer: Yes, we have gone mad.

Longer answer: There was a big uproar about this not too long ago.
"Sean McCormack, a U.S. State Department spokesman, said at the department's daily media briefing on Wednesday that the computers were intended for unclassified systems and would be serviced by the former IBM division." Besides, I have enough faith in our top secret spy agencies' computer IT guys to think that they'd inspect every last solder on every circuit board before they use them.

http://feeds.theshanghainews.net/?rid=b39e9c5e1c705d22&cat=360231fd461d67ac&f=1

[freakazoid]

Short answer: Yes, we have gone mad.

Longer answer: There was a big uproar about this not too long ago.
"Sean McCormack, a U.S. State Department spokesman, said at the department's daily media briefing on Wednesday that the computers were intended for unclassified systems and would be serviced by the former IBM division." Besides, I have enough faith in our top secret spy agencies' computer IT guys to think that they'd inspect every last solder on every circuit board before they use them.

http://feeds.theshanghainews.net/?rid=b39e9c5e1c705d22&cat=360231fd461d67ac&f=1
Damn man, I can't fucking believe this country sometimes...First the prez wants to turn SIX of our major ports of entry over to a fucking Islamic controlled company (oh sure, thay won't help any terrorists) and then we ask the Chinese communists to supply us with thousands of computers to be used by the State Department! Fuck! What next?! Hey, I have an idea...Lets help the psychotic nut cases in charge of Iran get their nuclear bomb program up and running as fast as we possibly can! :mad: IDIOTS are running this country!!!!!

[General Septem]

If they want to put that on computers, let them. I can reformat and install a clean OS if it bothers me. Or I can just build a computer. :P

[jacktheripper]

If they want to put that on computers, let them. I can reformat and install a clean OS if it bothers me. Or I can just build a computer. :P


Yer not too bright of a bulb are you? ... There is no need for the actual spy hardware to even be present in the OS.. It could be in something as small as a chip on the mother board..

Wake up sheeple ^

[General Septem]

Yer not too bright of a bulb are you? ... There is no need for the actual spy hardware to even be present in the OS.. It could be in something as small as a chip on the mother board..

Wake up sheeple ^
Too bad I know what every single chip on my board does, because I build my own computers. Do you even know how computers work? They may be able to spy some some people, but not this box.

[Paisleyspeaker]

Damn man, I can't fucking believe this country sometimes...First the prez wants to turn SIX of our major ports of entry over to a fucking Islamic controlled company (oh sure, thay won't help any terrorists)


It's nothing new man, down here in the Florida Panhandle we have a fuel port/depot that is run by Venesuela who's president Hugo Chaves is openly anti US.

[freakazoid]

It's nothing new man, down here in the Florida Panhandle we have a fuel port/depot that is run by Venesuela who's president Hugo Chaves is openly anti US.

Didn't TV evangelists Pat Robertson hatch a plan to shoot that commie bastard? :D

[hkdbadreligion]

Pat Robertson has done every damn thing... except been elected president... but he did run... so it could count.

[Paisleyspeaker]

Actually if you arn't a rabid patriot Hugo Chaves isn't a bad guy. He is angry at the effects of our poorly thought out foriegn policy. The full effects of the war on drugs can't be felt here. But if you talk to someone from Central America you will here about the huge human and economic cost of the backwards attempt to legislate mans appitites.

[Chigun]

Everything we build nowdays is out of the country. Hell they just packed up the Lego factories here to let poor bastards out of state do the work.

Let's all drink the green sea of money and die fat and miserable. But hey-- at least we'll have our consumer goods.

[Brains_Behind_Operation]

That sounds like bliss! Where can I find this green sea of money?