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"Maxinator", "Five Eyes" Imagine being in the brainstorming session to come up with name for intelligence agencies alliances. "It must sound dangerous, yes, b
by vslira 6y ago
"Maxinator", "Five Eyes"
Imagine being in the brainstorming session to come up with name for intelligence agencies alliances.
"It must sound dangerous, yes, but not evil. Like some kind of anti-villain"
- abledon 6y agoMaximator sounds pretty good with a french pronunciation
- nabla9 6y agoMaxinator was the name of the local beer they were drinking when they came out with the plan. https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/820/2864/ https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/820/2864/
- Hokusai 6y agoThey should have drink Corona. The conspiracy level of the ‘Corona pact’ would have been off the charts.
- DC-3 6y agoThere's no chance that they'd've been drinking Corona; if there's one thing that spies are known for it's a discerning taste in alcoholic beverages.
- clamprecht 6y agoOh you ain't heard of the Pabst Blue Ribbon alliance?
- dathinab 6y agoActually there are some variations of corona which are quite ok. But I don't know if they are sold EU/Worldwide. So it they had meet in Barcelona they might have ended up with that name (or more likely a tapas name ;)
- LargoLasskhyfv 6y agoI prefer https://www.paulaner.com/our-products/salvator/ https://www.paulaner.com/our-products/salvator/ Hicks! edit: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/124/387/ https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/124/387/
- ttul 6y agoBeing familiar with the security industry, this does not surprise me at all. A lot of good work gets done over a beer.
- anonymfus 6y agoDid you read the linked article? It says that the name comes from the beer brand in its non-paywalled part.
- lopmotr 6y agoObviously the choice of name wasn't made by the beer. It must have sounded like a good name too. Homer Simpson's alias Max Power came from a hairdryer but that wasn't the point of it.
- dghughes 6y agoWhenever I read about such organizations I always wonder who cleans the toilets. Whether they are real like the CIA, Five Eyes, or even Dr. Evil someone low down on the ladder has to get access.
- pbhjpbhj 6y agoHere's your new 'eyes only' assignment, cleanup crew. Report for duty on Monday ...
- A4ET8a8uTh0 6y agoI chuckled. Still, poop and urine can contain some useful information that may otherwise be difficult to get. Anecdotally, Kim is very careful as to where he poops.
- _jal 6y agoKeep in mind that there are all sorts of odd circumstances and that the rules surrounding this stuff are necessarily inflexible, so there are lots of different arrangements. That said, in the US, the janitor is probably a contractor. Typically ex-military, they have to pass a background check and are cleared to work in public spaces. When cleaning secure areas, they're escorted and watched.
- consp 6y agoThis is no different in the cryptography community in at least one of the countries in this arrangement. With the broad exception that they usually have to be on the payroll of the company to avoid conflicts of interest (if at a privately held company working for the government in this role). I'm not experienced with the government itself but I suspect no different.
- ttul 6y agoAnd the people escorting and watching them are also escorted and watched. And their families are interviewed. Etc... It's a huge undertaking.
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- lozaning 6y agoImagine being at the meeting where Peter picked Palantir.
- deathgrips 6y agoHe should have picked Fastly or Applifi instead
- qubex 6y ago“Metal Storm” is my favourite one. It’s the trademark for a company that produces an electrically controlled machine gun with an extraordinarily high rate of fire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Storm?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Storm?wprov=sfti1
- snazz 6y agoIt's an extremely accurate name (and logo). The product is scary.
- jacobush 6y agoIt is but in my mind also kind of pointless. At 1600 barrels and 22000 rounds, you might as well lug around a bunch of RPGs, mortars and laser guided missiles.
- WJW 6y agoConventional weapons can already do 4200 rounds per minute (ie 70 per second) at much higher accuracy and with much easier reloading. There just aren't that many cases where you need to shoot vast amounts of metal at something, even anti-missile guns don't need more than ~100 rounds to achieve satisfactory Pkill against anything but the most manoeuvrable targets. Most other engagements these days take place at a range where metal storm type weapons are ineffective. Source: studied weapons engineering at Naval college.
- aikinai 6y agoIt’s also an incredibly good Nintendo game from 1991. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Storm_(video_game) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Storm_(video_game)