3. TIL that a 15 year old hacker hacked into the computers of the Department of Def...

TIL that a 15 year old hacker hacked into the computers of the Department of Defense & NASA, gaining access to critical ISS code, and later committed suicide because of having 'no faith in the justice system'

You gave no real, credible evidence to support your initial statement, and still have not.

I gave real, credible evidence. It's evidence enough for there to be numerous articles written about it, and for it be a topic of discussion in psychology. You just deny its credibility; that's your problem, not mine.

You cannot provide a credible source for your claim except for the tons of click-baity headlines...I

"Click-baity headlines" is a shitty, low-effort generalization that you use when you don't want to address any specific claims. Repeating this tired and impotent sound-bite is...well, it's many things, but to be polite, I'll say that it's not constructive to the conversation.

I'm just saying if you go around blowing hard and silly statements like you did, you really need to have some credible, academic research to back it up.

It is not a hard or silly statement to say that more intelligent people are more likely to use drugs (which was the original claim), especially when all the available data supports that claim.

Have a good night dude...its just the fucking internet.....

Except we're talking about real issues. I'm particularly passionate about the Drug War and the society-defining scale of its failure, so I don't appreciate seeing clumsy, inaccurate, and discriminatory stereotypes.

Because of your undying pretentiousness, I hope you stub two toes before you go to bed.

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