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Exactly. I made a fortune as an intelligence contractor during the Iraq war.

• heyoni 4y ago
  Doing what? Government IT contracts? Were they easy to get?
  • whoopdeepoo 4y ago
    First we were looking for potential uranium deposits with satellite imagery. When that was no longer necessary we switched to identifying targets for aerial strikes. The imagery was pretty outdated but they needed a set amount of targets each week so we weren't very accurate. I got the job through family, my uncle was able to get in the industry in the 80s.
    • rurp 4y ago
      > they needed a set amount of targets each week so we weren't very accurate. I don't think that enabling capricious air strikes is the kind of work that is going to allay most people's ethical concerns.
      • the_only_law 4y ago
        The nepotism involved probably isn’t available to everyone anyway.
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      • heyoni 4y ago
        > I don't think that enabling capricious air strikes is the kind of work that is going to allay most people's ethical concerns. Seriously for a second I was like, maybe the NSA isn't such a bad idea anymore. They're out there making Ghidra and other open source tools so that's nice. And then I read this and immediately thought of that monologue from Good Will Hunting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJHvSp9AKYg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJHvSp9AKYg That's gonna be a no from me dawg.
• voisin 4y ago
  Define fortune.
  • whoopdeepoo 4y ago
    Chump change compared to the hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars wasted but enough for me to not care about the consequences of my actions
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• dontlaugh 4y ago
  So did many other war criminals.