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WCDT 8-13 December 2014 (Strips 2850-2854)
osaka:
Man, the last time I tried to import cthulhu.h into my projects they just segfaulted.
I like where this whole story is going. Maybe Emily can get Clinton to chill, since if she didn't she could always use her evil powers or something.
hedgie:
The code will only run when the stars are right.
Akima:
--- Quote from: jheartney on 10 Dec 2014, 23:41 ---In the U.S. you'd need a warrant at the very least
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Just the same way you would for tapping people's phone calls! Oh wait...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrantless_searches_in_the_United_States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_(2001%E2%80%9307)
If warrantless intervention is justified by mere espionage and terrorism, would the USA baulk at it to preserve the structure of reality from a potential portal to unimaginable horrors from beyond?
That brown dress does nothing for Emily.
Zandin:
--- Quote from: jheartney on 10 Dec 2014, 23:35 ---From the National Reconnaissance Office website: "The NRO is the U.S. Government agency in charge of designing, building, launching, and maintaining America’s intelligence satellites. " This is not an agency that would launch an open enforcement action inside U.S. borders. For that you would see the FBI.
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Jeph would not use an already existing acronym for a new agency. It makes zero sense, and he puts too much effort into these for something that lazy. The NRO is an intelligence agency that uses satellites to spy, so we can either assume they were watching Emily, or that her AI tried to access the network. That would make it an NRO matter, no matter who they worked with to execute the shutdown order.
--- Quote from: jheartney on 10 Dec 2014, 23:41 ---Why in the world would they do that? In the U.S. you'd need a warrant at the very least, and afterwards they'd need to arrest Emily to justify the break-in. Much more likely you'd send a worm to quietly corrupt the project data. This would stop it from compiling and show junk data if you opened the project.
Of course the fictional "National Robotics Office" might not even be part of the U.S. government. If they're hiring the likes of Clinton, they're probably not.
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Absolutely zero evidence Clinton works for them at all, and a warrant is absolutely not needed for anything considered a national security threat or that infiltrates their system first. It clearly was not a virus or worm since Jeph said an EMP was used, ergo one was used. The title of the strip is "From Orbit, No less" so there's your satellite link if you need it. I'll admit that the tactical squad thing was mostly for my own headcanon, since I like the idea of big scary men ruining a science project, but the evidence obviously disproves that.
Natswash:
--- Quote from: hedgie on 11 Dec 2014, 00:16 ---The code will only run when the stars are right.
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Gibbous! GIBBOUS I SAY! THE MOON WAS GIBBOUS UPON THE EVE OF THE PROJECT!
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