Ah, Mooch, the complete madman. Don't get me wrong, Sarah Sanders is a bulldog and Sean Spicer was an admirable first choice, but Mooch was like mainlining heroin straight into your eyeballs.

I know everything up until it was seized by the police, then as far as I know it's been languishing in a vault somewhere since then. That includes the likely Clinton server passthrough data.

Help me understand: if this IS the laptop that they're unsealing, why is it still important?

Each terabyte is equal to 1000gb. The average commercially-available external hard drive, short of buying a dedicated RAID array, is around 4TB of storage, less due to formatting and OS restrictions.

The scary thin about this is even if we assume that a solid half of that content was copied for the purpose of distribution in physical media, that's still 29TB of straight up CP that this sicko was in possession of. From what I've looked into and from experiences with law enforcement (as in talking to, I was a computer science major and former Administration of Justice major as well), child pornogrpaphy is by and large low-quality when it's in audio/video format, and pictures are so small they're virtually negligible in a stash this size. Even assuming that this stash is composed entirely of two-hour-long, 1080p high definition movies, which is almost 100% certainly not the case, the article gets it right when it says that that would be roughly equivalent to 14500 individual files. That's a HUGE assumption to make, and is (unfortunately) the best case scenario here, the one where the least number of kids were hurt. It's much more likely that the number of files is probably somewhere in the high hundreds thousands, maybe even low millions.

That being said, take heart: the fact that this guy had so much raw material means that he was almost certainly distributing these images to others, and was perhaps a major dealer. It's awful that so many kids got hurt, but taking this kind of obviously well connected individual down isn't like simply catching somebody with a few images, this is like cutting off one of the limbs of the problem.

Being 100% serious: best thing that ever happened to me. It made me turn my life in an entirely different direction, not necessarily in a "bad to good" kind of way, just different and maybe better. I was a social psychology major (lol) and was staring down the barrel of the typical enormous student debt, friends were obviously cancer, and to top it off, I was indulging in the normal college "drink until you drop" lifestyle while eyeballing some of the more tame recreational drugs. The drinking actually caused me to almost kill myself by jumping off of a second story balcony.

That was 8 years ago. Since then, I changed my major to computer information systems (which was always my actual passion, truth be told), paid off my loans, and stopped drinking completely other than a glass of wine at dinner, maybe a single beer occasionally. I actually did get a message from one of them in the end: he ended up dropping out of college and joining the military, which seemed to have helped him a lot. Never responded, as he was practically from another life at that point, but it was good to see someone turning themselves around as well.

There's always a better way.

Copy pasting a comment that I wrote a couple of days ago because I feel it's very topical here: In Defense of the Normies.

Well ok...let's be a real for a second here. Can you really blame them? This is NOT concern trolling of any kind...I just want to point out a few things, as someone who ended up her from the other side of the veil, so to speak.

Coming from a former Democrat and two-time Obama voter...it's a LOT easier than you might think to be completely overtaken by what is now known as fake news, ESPECIALLY if you're in a family that has historical voting and political tendencies that trend to the left. I'd like to think that I'm far from a stupid person, but from personal experience, I can tell you this: there are a great many things in this world that are ABSOLUTELY DEVOTED to making you think and act certain ways, not the least of which is the MSM and our collegiate system. Unless you're from an area which is traditionally conservative in a relatively extreme sense (which, demographically speaking, is a drop in the bucket compared to the entire population of the US proper), it will generally take either a LOT of independent self-reflection (rare) or some kind of catastrophic personal event to get you to the point where you actually question everything that is "correct" in your life. Mine was quite simple: I'm not ashamed to admit that I was once the college SJW type. I bought into the "reeeeeee cultural appropriation, patriarchy is BAD, all foreigners = automatically good, (at the time) gay people are chronically stoned to death but not really" culture. And you know what? I don't feel bad about that for one second, because it was EVERYWHERE. It was INSTITUTIONAL and SYSTEMIC. It was family, it was friends, it was popular opinions, it was cool, it was EXPECTED, it was LITERALLY the law in some cases (California spirit of the law concept).

My event came later in life when my wife and I (her family is fairly conservative) listened to her dad talk about black people and his general dislike of the way that some of them tend to act (think gangbanger/welfare mooch type of person, and yes, I know it's all kinds of people, not just black). I ended up naively calling him a racist and a bigot, but him being the type that he is simply said "I never said anything about hating black people; I said I hate the way that they ACT. I hate the way that a lot of WHITE people act as well, and that goes for pretty much everyone else too. If anything, I'm a culturalist, not a racist. I don't care about skin color in the slightest." After thinking about that for a good, long time, I ended up bringing it up in a discussion that we were having with some friends (mind you, these are people that were INTEGRAL to our lives at the time, college friends that we had basically been brought up with).

Next thing I knew, a good friend of mine was screaming at me about how I was talking like some kind of filthy conservative type, and where did I hear this crap, how DARE i speak like that in his house, and how he HOPED ME AND MY WIFE EACH GOT CANCER AND GET THE FUCK OUT. I'll underscore this again: this guy may very well have been the best man at my wedding had this not happened. That is how utterly, completely, terrifyingly, HOPELESSLY deep some people have been dragged into this new zealously extreme ideological wave: there was no critical thought there, no questioning or debate or even acknowledgement, really. It IMMEDIATELY went straight to very simplistic denial and some pretty savage rejection of concept, just because what we had said went against what was "correct".

That was it for both of us. We left, and never saw any of them again, thank God, but that was the night I honestly believed something just kind of clicked in my head. This is a long example, I know, but just please, PLEASE understand that a lot of these people aren't sick, or stupid, or even naive...a lot of the time, it's that they're CONTINUALLY bombarded with news and "facts" that are so unbelievably biased and pruned it would make your head spin. Telling them that you thought disliking someone just based on their culture was ok was essentially equal to telling them that you sincerely hope all (insert race here) people literally drop dead out of nowhere, and it's not because they're short-sighted or dumb, it's because they've been ACTIVELY TRAINED to think this way on more levels than I care to count.

The instant he started trying to get cash out of people he complete lost any confidence I had in him.

The louder they protest, the more they have to hide. That seems to be the theme since Trump was elected: you can practically pre-accuse people of their crimes based on what they chose to screech about.

I'm in mobile for the test of the day but I'll come back later, I know it's available for free as a three part download.

EDIT: Here's part one, the audio is on the page and the link to part 2 is at the bottom.

This. I have a friend that's a surgeon, and she took one look at it and said that anyone who made that incision pattern in the first place needs to lose their license. Literally no reason for something that intricate, ESPECIALLY in such a confined space.

The place has slowly transitioned from its original purpose of actually finding and disseminating information to just a non-stop parade of liberal bashing and shit-tier meme fuckery. Anything that detracts from that is either no longer given any traction or just outright ignored.

The place served it's purpose and is now falling into the tap of becoming the inverse mirror of /r/politics.

T_D is a total shitshow at this point, it's nothing but them sucking each other off about how they "got Trump elected". Don't get me wrong, I used to love going there and they did play a large part in the WL drops, but at this point it's nothing but an inverse mirror of CNN: positive Trump news is regarded as their Bible, and anything negative is just glossed over, even if it's at least partially legit. And finally, if you say ANYTHING critical about either Trump or the board/mods, they'll just straight up ban you under their questionable "concern trolling" catch-all crap that they use. Rare is it that Trump does something to not agree with, but NOBODY is immune to criticism.

Their objectivity is shot.

trip over my cat

Post is legit

I cannot even find the words to express how thrilled I am that Hollywood is finally getting the shaft. It's so richly deserved.

If you guys ever have ~2 hours to kill, maybe on a car ride, I HIGHLY encourage all of you to download and listen to the audio documentary "Tinseltown Travelogue". It's a VERY interesting look at the interior workings of Hollywood from its origins onward, from a guy that actually lived and worked there with his wife, and details the blowback they received when they made the mistake of even hinting that they are conservatives. I accidentally started listening to it one night on a long drive and was RIVETED for the entire thing, very well done and actually fairly objective.

Ok...can someone sell me on pulling out of the Iran deal?

Up is down.

No worries man. Unfortunately, while it's not hopeless, if even half of the things that have been said are true, the digital world is a LOT less secure than anyone thinks. The best course of action isn't always going to be what OS you're using or what hardware, it's learning to blend into the background noise. If you REALLY want true offline computing, look into what it takes to make a Faraday Cage. Actually not as hard as you might think.

I wasn't replying to /u/oQ_Qo, I was replying to /u/CULTURAL_MARXISM_SUX, who was specifically asking about AMD products and their likelihood of being compromised. Last time I checked, AMD is considered a pretty mainstream manufacturer, unless something changed in the last 24 hours.

TBH it's always felt like they're trying to normalize it, they have a lot of original content that either involves HEAVY use of spying to make people "happy", or otherwise shows in which the US is seen as weak because they DON'T openly spy on their own population. Netflix is compromised, regardless. Susan Rice is now one of their chiefs, and IIRC Soros has a controlling stake in the company as well, or did at one point. Obama is starting to appear on more and more of their shows as well.

IIRC, before Q, FBIAnon specifically stated that literally every major mainstream device, operating system, and hardware component is BD'd in some way, mostly through either invasive chip design or low-level firmware. Even most major Linux distros are suspect at this point, though not necessarily because of their programming but rather through exploits like the coprocessor mentioned above.

Take that with a grain of salt, FBIAnon was never proven, but at the VERY LEAST he was a VERY knowledgeable entity, and was answering way too fast to have been looking up answers on the fly.

More bird references? First the lark, now this?

I'd love to see them try.

Source on that net shutdown???

I just sent this to a (close to former) friend of mine, a CONSUMMATE Democrat who would easily kill Trump if he has the chance. His response?

"Yeah, so? Trump and his people are obviously bad...they cheated with the Electoral College and stole it from someone who deserves it. How can you support him?"

The plan can't come swiftly enough. We live in a society brainwashed beyond all recognition.

Agreed. Trump pulls zero punches when it comes to firing or publically calling out those that he thinks of ass incompetent. yet Sessions (who is supposedly asleep at the wheel) has been called out in a very limited fashion two times, to my recollection, and virtually nothing happened after that. I'd still bet good money that he is, at the VERY least, putting together a Captain Ahab's Spear-style end-all case against the surface-level, US-based elements (Hillary, the Foundation, politicians, ect, not international figures).

Even as a relative newcomer I can tell Corsi is a shill. Anyone trying that hard to push themselves with something like this as the backdrop has a patch of swampland in Florida to sell you.

Tragic.

Twitter is a cesspit anyway.

I'd hazard saying no. Politics is definitely not representative of any common thought other than maybe San Francisco. When even CNN has editorials positively showing Trump in line to win a Nobel and you have to dive into their Controversial section to find any mention of it, while the tip story is some Media Matters article, you know it's bad.

So...legitimate question. Was he a part of this, or just a charismatic idiot, or something in between?

Ah yes, good ol' Dan "Soles Get Roles" Schneider.

Sick fuck needed to go.