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Re:The NSA’s Hidden Spy Hubs in Eight U.S. Cities by rdiddly on Monday June 25, 2018 @05:42PM (#17396069)
And the building has "reinforced concrete foundations"! Wow, sounds exotic! Just kidding... not sure if they mean something else, but "reinforced concrete foundations" might be the most commonplace thing in structural engineering. (Most foundations involve concrete, and most concrete is reinforced.) So this is a bit like saying your car has a paint job. But hey I used to be a structural engineer, and unfair ballbusting of the poor hapless journalist aside, I'm still kind of curious what feature they were actually describing.

Edit: I'll wager it's a seismic upgrade. The building's vintage is from back when they didn't have as good of a handle on the seismic stuff. And the Cascadia Subduction Zone is no joke!

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Re:The NSA’s Hidden Spy Hubs in Eight U.S. Cities by ghein on Monday June 25, 2018 @11:55PM (#17397753)
The Intercept are voluntarily acting as an arm of the FSB.

Just think of them as Stalin's New York Times - willing accomplices to Soviet genocide.

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Re:The NSA’s Hidden Spy Hubs in Eight U.S. Cities by dmix on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @12:03AM (#17397781)
Yes, journalism working hard to spread awareness of a massive global surveillance systems, with rubberstamp oversight, that threaten fundamental rights found in all western countries against dragnets and warrantless privacy invasion = must be the Russian boogiemen at work.

"Move along citizen"

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Re:The NSA’s Hidden Spy Hubs in Eight U.S. Cities by hsienmaneja on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @11:47PM (#17405631)
This isn’t a popular place for such a viewpoint.
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Re:The NSA’s Hidden Spy Hubs in Eight U.S. Cities by jessaustin on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @12:52AM (#17397943)
"Soviet genocide"? There are numerous problems with that concept, besides the obvious fact that USSR ceased to exist decades ago. Where is the genocide occurring? Is it Libya? Iraq? Yemen? Somalia? Niger?
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