Dog Soldier

Speaking of Libertarians. I voted early today and there was only one office that did not have a Libertarian candidate and oddly enough there was no Democrat running either. Just that one unopposed Republican out of a dozen candidates! Very cool!

Obviously he's no more a Libertarian than I'm a Socialist

Hilariously enough he sent us an email reiterating his position and pretty much confessing to to everything we suspected him of. He's not just a shitbag but he's a delusional shitbag

Well it was really weird, I took on new duties and the first thing that happens is that I'm saying "What the fu...how long has this been going on? Who let this guy in here?"

The Libertarian rant way past bizarre too. I think that was what inspired me to make this thread.

Hiring John Galt

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It’d be a hell of a lot funnier if it hadn’t been a problem I had to deal with. For nearly thirty years I’ve made my living in the “document management” industry. That basically means printing, copying and keeping computers operating. For the longest time it afforded me opportunity to practice martial arts, SCUBA diving, combat shooting and lots of other fun stuff that we all associate with CP2020. On top of that my job was basically to be a grey hat hacker! Couldn’t be any sweeter!

Anyway, getting to the John Galt part a little over 10 years ago we hired a new salesman. At least at the time that all I thought he was. Charismatic, glib and very sociable he had an extensive resume. Had I been involved in hiring at the time I’d have looked a bit deeper into that resume.

Prior to coming to work for us he’d been at 3 other copier companies and all 3 had gone into bankruptcy. The first which I shall call C appeared on paper for years to be a multimillion dollar enterprise. However what was in fact going on was that the owner had developed a scheme where he’d present signed leases to a bank to be used as collateral for a floating line of credit. What he would do was to in fact take genuine lease documents and scan them then using a PDF editing program, for which he’d gotten a free not for resale copy, to change the terms of the leases from the clients agreed on 12 to 36 month into a 60 or 63 month lease.

This bit of fraud then showed the bank a contract with a value anywhere from 1 2/3 times the real value up to 5 ¼ the actual value. Thus a $10k lease netted him a line of credit of anything from $16,666.67 to $50,250!

He did this several ways in fact. The most straightforward was to have his delivery driver attempt to get the office manager who received the new equipment to sign off on the lease paperwork along with the delivery form. This often failed so in that case they’d scan the signature from the delivery form and cut and paste it onto the bogus lease. Only rarely did they modify the actual legal lease document.

This went on for several years until the owner had a heart attack and his wife was late getting the forged documents to the bank to roll over the debt on the line of credit.

Following this bankruptcy the owners sold the company to their son in law who was also a salesman for the company. Upon assuming ownership and doing an audit he was astonished to find that the actual assets of the firm were totally bogus!

What a shock!

He tried to kill his father in law

As this company then went bankrupt the assets were bought by another corporation for the sum of $50,000

The final company then sold a ton of equipment to a large range of state government agencies who had previously had contracts with the now bankrupt companies with a pre-paid service package included in the contract.

The owners of this last company then skip town with the proceeds of those sales without paying the manufacturers.

So yeah, that’d be the guys resume.

He over promised and under delivered for almost the entire 10 years and as I have taken charge of financials and began to hold him to account he got mad and quit.

So what’s that got to do with John Galt of “Atlas Shrugged”?

His leaving was accompanied by a rant that would be right in place at a Tea Party rally. Hard core Libertarianism clichés and slogans. Hell he all but called my brother and myself communists!

We retrieved his issued laptop and had to break his password where we found that he’d attempted to destroy all business related files. We again contacted him to see if he’d voluntarily hand over any backups. His response was that it was “his work and his clients and you aren’t entitled to it”

Stupid stupid stupid.

That shit’s sort of what we do you know? We extracted and recovered ALL of his files and found out that he’d been data mining not just us but our clients as well.

Anyway that assclown is in our crosshairs now.

Comments welcome! and what should a CP 2020 Edgerunner do in this scenario?

I've not even considered a Tavor until now

They're not exactly micro yet. It'll probably be 3 or so generations before they can really abused

Sadly that lawn mower was never found. And thanks for the wishes SC!

Happy Birthday!

Actually pretty interesting

Scientific proof that violent games make you a better person!

no more filling loosening vibrations, no more oil stains on the garage floor, no more "King Kong farting in a cave" exhaust sound.....

Looks like one of the boldest attempts at gerrymandering in history by a venture capitalist.

Always follow the money

The Spanish navaja were and are some of the largest folding combat knives ever made as well as being the oldest design and only novelty pieces ever had blades over 200 mm.

an example

Well I've been saving up my partying for this long weekend

Thanks!

When I bought this book I was primarily thinking along the lines of a thriller or action adventure. As I got further and further into it I began seeing definite cyberpunk trends and ultimately I was casting the characters by the quite obvious "Roles" they were playing.

Lots and lots of Cops using and abusing Authority, a no bullshit Solo, I won't spoil the plot by dropping any hints. Fixers and Corporates set the plot even though you won't catch that right off

There's some hot tech, and did I mention Cops abusing Authority??

Anyway, John Cantrell and his partner/lover Piper are Private Contractors working for the DEA. Their contract gives them a commission based on the street value of any recovered drugs. This leads to an unsteady revenue stream so they supplement that contract by doing odd jobs for Sinclair, a retired Dallas Police Captain who still has his hand in the game and a lot of influence. After recovering a teenage girl from a brothel for Sinclair he give Cantrell and Piper a box containing a piece of contraband with a warning to never ever use it.

Well of course that's exactly what they do and the troubles start

I experienced the same issues for the past few days

A Senior Accounts Manager for a collapsed firm brought a client list and a lot of intellectual property from his former employer to a smaller and more aggressive firm.

After a few years it's been determined that the "ask no questions" attitude when signing this fellow was a big mistake as it seems that he may not have been as senior as he'd pretended and he doesn't have what it takes to live up to the terms of his personally lucrative contract. In short, he's not "super salesman" and his marketing skills would be subpar for a troop of Girl Scouts selling cookies.

Killing him outright isn't feasible and it's suspect that if he's terminated he'll abscond with a new set of client lists and intellectual properties.

Have your man go in on contract as an analyst and get to the bottom of this guys scam, anything illegal that he's up to that can see him gone would goo

That's pretty strong talk from a guy who runs his campaign with Triad money.....

I swear if I were playing in a game and a GM came up with something like that I'd have laughed about it not that long ago

Yeah I'd caught Yee's "tough on guns" stance from other sources but didn't know he was anti-game as well

Seems like gamers are viewed as a sort of soft target by cretins on both ends of the political spectrum

The tipping point for me was the fact that Grossman is apparently totally willing to simply make stuff up out of a whole cloth to make a point, and incidentally sell his books and seminars.

Maybe he believes it. I don't care.

Once it becomes evident that someone is willing to bend the facts to fit their own worldview nothing else that they say can be trusted.

And Wisdom...if there's something wrong with you we won't blame GTA

Some of you, perhaps all of you have heard of Lt. Col Dave Grossman. He's a much sought after speaker in the "tactical community" and appears before packed houses to lecture on killing, mental preparedness etc.

One of his favored hobby horses is the supposed deleterious effect of violent video games on the impressionable minds of innocent youth.

For your reading pleasure I present this essay

Now as you borrow into this document you'll find an assertation that aggravated assault has skyrocketed and that drop in the homicide rate is entirely attributable to advances in modern medicine

Frankly I thought his numbers sounded like bullshit....

So I checked the FBI stats on aggravated assault that you can find here

As you can see...the rates have dropped.

It's amazing what you can learn when you don't accept credentials at face value

Oh, another fun fact. Wolfenstein 3D was released in 1992

According to this graph of violent crime rates compiled from FBI UCR it was about that year when violent crime rates began to drop after climbing steadily starting in 1960

Maybe violent video games actually reduce violent crime

Went to the optometrist for the (delayed) annual checkup and found slight changes in the presbyopia but also a slight clouding that indicates cataracts coming somewhere down the line

So being a progressive sort I've begun the process of selecting what manner of vision correction I'm going for in the next 10 or so years. There are all manner of implants and treatments available and I suspect it's only going to get better

This goes on the list with the shoulder rebuild I know I'll eventually need.

So having said all this, does anyone else have a list of upgrades they are planning on?

stuff I am reading

I would say that the beast mode combatant is going to be handled by increasingly specialized dog breeds. Heck when SEAL Team 6 operators went in to kill UBL they had a war dog accompanying them

I'd think that it'd come in stages

Stage 0: Screening in training "Hell Week" and the other traditionally harsh methods used

Stage 1: Identifying common traits in those who passed. This leads to ...

Stage 2: Recruitment of those with the traits...a kid from New England who has his bachelors degree, played water polo and was in the chess club is pure gold for the US Navy SEAL's

Stage 3: Actually identifying phenotypes that are common in the most succesfull recruits.

Stage 4:Dating Services! Yao Ming was the product of such a union in China.

Stage 5: Enhancements...designer babies...

Stage 6: Profit!

You don't necessarily have to exclude "hot" from "intimidating". I was watching one of those History Channel shows about WWII and they were interviewing a Polish Jew who'd survived the death camps. He said that when the SS arrived in his hamlet. 6' + blue eyed blondes in black with silver flash terrified them all into helpless aquiescence. Style with Substance combined in the most evil way possible