They seem to be proposing the sort of normal military service that used to be fairly common, although exactly universal in peacetime. The sort of marksmaship that they're describing exists even in countries with strict gun control like South Korea, Germany and Britain. It pays off in spades in cases where war comes home and civilians must be relied upon to defend against invasion.
Some of the European countries phased their mandatory conscription programs out as recently as the 90's-00's, and it's maybe not the ones you might first assume who had them in the first place - the Danes, Swedes, Finns, the Swiss, etc. Others still have conscription in case of war, but that's not so unusual at all, and may not mean front-line posts for many who're unfit for the duty for one reason or the other.
Many roles in a nation's military are far from the front, everything from administrative, intelligence analysis, supplies and warehousing, medical roles - there's a pretty wide spread of tasks beyond holding a gun and firing it at your nation's enemies.
"We're going to make it impossible to use the entire volume of this product, because the tube that feed the pump-cap doesn't even reach the bottom of the container. If you're mad about it, select another ripoff product owned by the exact same parent company or maybe eat shit. We don't even care that it's useless."
Their cybersecurity is dogshit too. If the government can't keep people from stealing your digital records, no fucking way that gimmeDNA.com is going to do a better job.
Sure, but lying during a process involving security clearance would essentially hang over their head the entire time that they used the credential as a means to get work. It's not like lying about whether or not you like the food that someone served at a dinner, it sticks.
Hate to break it to you, but there were 100% innocent people held at CIA black sites for years without any charges, evidence of wrongdoing, or legal means for the persons detained to regain their freedom.
I can remember hearing years ago that a bunch of them were literally just business rivals or personal enemies of the ones who accused them and collected rewards for turning in Taliban/Al-Qaeda terrorists. Imagine your IRL least-liked person phoning a foreign government and making shit up about you, then getting $5-10K and you're stuck in a windowless cell blasting Slipknot for more than a decade afterward. Someone just * snaps fingers * and you disappear from your life after getting pulled into a panel van.
I've been told that for clearance above reliability that social media use becomes an issue. 4chan was specifically cited to me by the person with whom I spoke. I'd assume that this means any/all alphabet government agencies, but Army was all that I heard about specifically.
"Do you browse or use 4chan?"
"No."
"OK, good, because you weren't advancing beyond this stage if you said yes."
Heard about this just a few hours ago, and have been laughing ever since. This is going to be brutal, there are people who registered with .gov e-mail addresses. As the use of 4chan has been cited to me as potentially disqualifying people seeking security clearance for government, police, or military careers, this hack single-handedly has the potential to torpedo thousands of edgy bois in one fell swoop.
What do you mean one day? We poured hundreds of billions of dollars (adjusted for inflation) into weaponizing atomic power, then dropped the sun on Japan twice.
They seem to be proposing the sort of normal military service that used to be fairly common, although exactly universal in peacetime. The sort of marksmaship that they're describing exists even in countries with strict gun control like South Korea, Germany and Britain. It pays off in spades in cases where war comes home and civilians must be relied upon to defend against invasion.
Some of the European countries phased their mandatory conscription programs out as recently as the 90's-00's, and it's maybe not the ones you might first assume who had them in the first place - the Danes, Swedes, Finns, the Swiss, etc. Others still have conscription in case of war, but that's not so unusual at all, and may not mean front-line posts for many who're unfit for the duty for one reason or the other.
Many roles in a nation's military are far from the front, everything from administrative, intelligence analysis, supplies and warehousing, medical roles - there's a pretty wide spread of tasks beyond holding a gun and firing it at your nation's enemies.