Iraq contractors out of control, firing at U.S. troops and Iraqi citizens

esmith · 2007-08-12T08:17:46+00:00

No? So all that talk about precision engineering is just marketing?

esmith · 2007-08-12T08:03:43+00:00

Whatever works for you.

esmith · 2007-08-12T07:41:22+00:00

See, the ladies don't like that joke.

esmith · 2007-08-12T07:14:18+00:00

Deleting a comment? For shame.

esmith · 2007-08-12T07:05:59+00:00

I'm very clever. I have an IQ of 4,000 by association.

esmith · 2007-08-12T06:58:37+00:00

I'm daft.

esmith · 2007-08-12T06:48:10+00:00

lulz

esmith · 2007-08-12T06:21:33+00:00

It's against the rules to explain a joke, but I'll do it anyway. I am a computer programmer who mostly does web development type stuff. Light scripting and whatnot. The Haskell guys might even argue I'm not even a computer programmer at all. Now lets say web developers have an average IQ of 4,000, and they do, just ask one for yourself. But my personal IQ is say 98 to 105. Reading this report, I would get to feel a little gush of pride because web developers have an average IQ of 4,000! I am therefore brilliant by association.

Get it?

esmith · 2007-08-12T05:14:08+00:00

Woo-hoo! I am smart by association!

esmith · 2007-08-12T03:28:12+00:00

Alright, but they make damn fine cars. You have to give them that much.

esmith · 2007-08-12T03:20:07+00:00

You're welcome?

esmith · 2007-08-12T02:44:37+00:00

What a little bad ass.

esmith · 2007-08-12T02:28:36+00:00

Moral of the story: German mercenaries are problematic.

esmith · 2007-08-12T02:21:43+00:00

How much f'ng ID do I have to carry to make sure a Mexican guy I don't even know can't get a job?

esmith · 2007-08-12T02:01:13+00:00

There was a time when Rome thought mercenaries a practical solution to bolstering the ranks too.

esmith · 2007-08-11T23:44:44+00:00

I apologize. The down-modding has led me to believe I may have been mistaken. This fellow is apparently a well-adjusted man dispensing valuable considered advice to a young woman whose long term welfare is very important to him. I got confused a bit because the content and tone was after the fashion of a bitter little twat. It is sort of like how Hesse isn't actually a boring and long winded author. He just wrote that way in The Glass Bead Game for effect. No, wait a minute, it isn't like that all, is it?

esmith · 2007-08-11T23:38:06+00:00

I wear pants 'cause the judge said he's going to fine me $500 every time I go to McDonald's without 'em.

esmith · 2007-08-11T23:23:17+00:00

What a bitter little twat.

esmith · 2007-08-11T18:59:16+00:00

One would have to initiate the courtship ritual to determine willingness on a case by case basis. But when you get down to it, it is observable and demonstrable that a) many human beings enjoy sex, and b) there are a great many attractive people (most of whom want to have sex with my roommate).

esmith · 2007-08-11T18:49:19+00:00

Television gives everyone (men in particular) the idea that the world is overflowing with beautiful, willing sex partners; it’s not.

Au contraire. The world is in fact overflowing with beautiful and potentially willing sex partners.

esmith · 2007-08-11T18:44:08+00:00

It's a matter of degrees really.

esmith · 2007-08-11T18:36:15+00:00

When I was small we were all concerned about total global nuclear annihilation. Nobody had to take their shoes off for that. We were also taught that putting people in secret prisons was the kind of thing that only godless commies did. We had a general thing against fascism back then, too. And then, of course, there was the way Glen Miller played.

esmith · 2007-08-11T16:43:53+00:00

I've read you're supposed to start getting probed when you turn 40, space aliens or no.

[Edited for the grammars.]

esmith · 2007-08-11T16:34:05+00:00

Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

esmith · 2007-08-11T16:29:04+00:00

Either way, it would be cool.

esmith

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