It predates your story by at least five years, 2007, when a Silicon Valley engineer revealed that a backbone line had been spliced and all traffic was passing to government machines.
That revelation also inspired an outraged public backlash of ‘meh.’
Like so many things, they only seem expensive until you try to make your own.
Of course they were spared. Would YOU target your virus at people you know to be armed with space lasers?
Wow. Very good, thank you.
I read quite a few comments, admittedly not all. But I haven’t seen this asked.
How is this 600 pounder handled? Forklift? Hoist? WTH?
An oft-repeated admonition in legal circles is that lawyers should avoid even so much as the appearance of impropriety. And that’s before taking the bench. Any suggestion that any of this was done unknowingly is preposterous.
I crack me up.
ETA: Others often fail to see the humor.
These downvotes indicate that some of the assholes have now migrated.
Colonel Flatulence doesn’t have any friends.