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I want to help them out by writing software, but I live in a CIA-infested country (the UK) and these reports make me genuinely afraid of reaching out. While I

I want to help them out by writing software, but I live in a CIA-infested country (the UK) and these reports make me genuinely afraid of reaching out. While I greatly admire their courage and respect their cause, I'm not really brave enough to sacrifice myself for the greater good.

andrewcooke 17y ago
so the intimidation worked.
- caffeine 17y ago
  Yes.
  - fdschoeneman 17y ago
    One thing I've noticed about cowards is that they make sure to pick fights with people, and organizations, such as the CIA, the United States, (or some other western, liberal government), who they know will never really do them much harm. You want to make a stand? Send a donation to that Danish cartoonist guy who draws pictures of Allah doing stupid shit. You may be a coward, but I'm sure you're enough of a man to at least send an anonymous check.
ErrantX 17y ago
I've reached out as number of times to them and never had a reply... which kinda sucks
- jonknee 17y ago
  Maybe they were too worried about the CIA volunteering. I'm sure you're not a spook, but they don't know that.
- Vivtek 17y ago
  Yeah, same here. I'd guess they have no end of volunteers, probably about 0.05% of whom actually end up panning out.
  - wizard_2 17y ago
    I've worked with non profits (habitat for humanity, etc) who were too busy to take on more help. Each untrained helper needs resources to be trained. If you're lucky they need of unskilled labor (or untrained labor - skilled is the wrong word) but if they don't then you probably wont get a call back. I've started some of the work unsolicited. Advertising and fundraising to be precise. I kept them in the loop and eventually they want to be involved. Organizations often need to put more work into allow people to help them but they often need to put more work into everything.
  - ErrantX 17y ago
    Yeh my conclusion also; I've wondered about setting up a similar site/service instead. If they have so many submissions a year that they can't handle them all there is definitely scope for more people to help out independantly.
tome 17y ago
Just out of interest, in what way is the UK CIA-infested?

andrewcooke 17y ago

so the intimidation worked.

caffeine 17y ago
Yes.
- fdschoeneman 17y ago
  One thing I've noticed about cowards is that they make sure to pick fights with people, and organizations, such as the CIA, the United States, (or some other western, liberal government), who they know will never really do them much harm. You want to make a stand? Send a donation to that Danish cartoonist guy who draws pictures of Allah doing stupid shit. You may be a coward, but I'm sure you're enough of a man to at least send an anonymous check.

ErrantX 17y ago

I've reached out as number of times to them and never had a reply... which kinda sucks

jonknee 17y ago
Maybe they were too worried about the CIA volunteering. I'm sure you're not a spook, but they don't know that.
Vivtek 17y ago
Yeah, same here. I'd guess they have no end of volunteers, probably about 0.05% of whom actually end up panning out.
- wizard_2 17y ago
  I've worked with non profits (habitat for humanity, etc) who were too busy to take on more help. Each untrained helper needs resources to be trained. If you're lucky they need of unskilled labor (or untrained labor - skilled is the wrong word) but if they don't then you probably wont get a call back. I've started some of the work unsolicited. Advertising and fundraising to be precise. I kept them in the loop and eventually they want to be involved. Organizations often need to put more work into allow people to help them but they often need to put more work into everything.
- ErrantX 17y ago
  Yeh my conclusion also; I've wondered about setting up a similar site/service instead. If they have so many submissions a year that they can't handle them all there is definitely scope for more people to help out independantly.

tome 17y ago

Just out of interest, in what way is the UK CIA-infested?