Things I learned from watching Echelon Conspiracy

145. FBI agents couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with automatic rifles and pistols.

146. Navy SEALS apparently were never trained to look both ways before crossing the street.

147. Most electrical outlets are extremely hazardous and can short out by tapping a belt buckle against them.

148. One punch to the head is usually enough to knock someone unconscious for several minutes and if done right, will leave them without a mark or feeling any pain.

BMWs explode if you shoot in their back windows (kinda the same as #75, but more precise)

Renaults are self-repairing

there are cameras in the weirdest places, and all of them are connected to the internet



AAAAANYWAY, look at the time, I must go continue my mental breakdown away from the internet now.

148. Thai archives are protected by a password hard-printed on a metal token that can be memorized by a freelance IT security specialist.
149. Text-to-speech devices articulate like actor school graduates in a perfectly sensible human-like manner.
150. When kidnapped and tortured by trigger-happy FBI agents in a railway warehouse in Czech Republic, do not ask to contact US embassy nor try to talk to them later.
151. Assassins always dress in black military-looking uniforms.
152. Assassin snipers stick to small-caliber sound-supressed sniper rifles instead just blowing the apartment with a portable RPG or something.
153. Assasins do not communicate with said sniper before walking into his line of sight.
154. Government agencies need a room filled with IT specialists to intercept three text messages.
155. An all-seeing all-knowing computer needs an FBI agent's help to track down a person.
156. When hiding from NSA, make sure you stare closely at every security camera on every wall.
157. Computer interfaces in movies are always user-unfriendly, slow and beep a lot.
158. Nobody understands why an egomaniac computer system would choose a freelance IT security expert for some of its purposes.
159. Delivery boys in Russia always leave their cars with the engine running while they deliver the goods. Who would steal a car in Russia?
160. Drifting a lot makes you go faster.
161. After you chase someone into a deadend, the MOST unexpected thing they can do is to ram their way out of it.
162. FBI agents do not flank.
163. Coffee is cold.

130) If you write a movie and can't think of an original ending, take one from another movie, like War Games.

131) If you wind up winning a girl who is a secret angent with excellent hand-to-hand combat skills, expect her to giggle and act like a high school freshman in a roomful of seniors.

Is anybody able to say where the quonset hut style building is? It's the building with the servers...the pavers used for the driveway must have been expensive....just curious where that building really was.

Is anybody able to say where the quonset hut style building is? It's the building with the servers...the pavers used for the driveway must have been expensive....just curious where that building really was.

6. I learned that "Things I Learned From Watching...." lists are stupid and unoriginal, and are designed for people that don't have a life, and want to talk to others who don't have a life.

165. Sexorcists (whatever that is) have trouble counting beyond 131). And tend to use their favorite single-digit number instead.
166. Unlike underwater demolition, parachuting and drownproofing, Navy Seal training program doesn't include zebra crossing.
167. if you are rammed by two cars simultaneously, saying "forget this" will have them flip over (but only if you are driving a Renault Kangoo)
168. A typical security control room in a Czech casino doesn't take a back seat to NSA headquarters, neither in terms of computer equipment nor access to criminal records.
169. When someone shoots through your apartment windows and you just so happen to find a position without line of sight, don't stay there, but run like crazy through bedroom, kitchen and bathroom.
170. After receiving a dubious tip from an unknown source with prior knowledge of (and thus somehow involved in) a plane crash killing 160 people, trust it to travel to a foreign country without any further explanation and don't worry about cashing in big time thanks to supernatural text messages (you can pray for the dead later on just as well).
171. After supernatural text messages make you rich, scream around like nuts.
172. FBI special agents are so special that they wait for hours behind casino doors in prior knowledge of the target passing through said door for immediate knock-out, but aren't special enough from possibly escaping luckily through another door.
173. Artificial Intelligence doesn't include switching your monitors off when doing secret updates or _not_ displaying a message like "in 10 minutes I will take control of the planet, but don't you worry"
174. Before taking over the world, it will send itself a pop-up window ... click OK to take over the world, cancel to abort ....
175. concerning #79 ("79- If you in a subway tunnel and a train is coming full speed towards you, try to outrun it for a while but then jump on the next tracks."): when you have just learned a clever survival technique, don't use it again, for example a minute later when in the same situation.
176. If you have a strategically superior weapon ... don't use it right away, but only - say - after 10 minutes, preferably accompanied by something like "okay, NOW it's enough ... you wanted it like this!"
177. If you see unkown men with machine guns on CCTV entering your building, you run, but you don't take the guy with you who just helped you (and turns out to save the world). And if you are the guy who will "save the world", you don't care about unknown armed men, but continue working on your computer monitors.
178. NSA chief and mastermind of a global AI computer network doesn't know sh!t about computers, for instance turning them on ("what the hell is authorize BIOS?")
179. When traffic lights turn red and approaching an intersection blocked by other cars and pedestrians, honking's better than hitting the brakes.
180. Shane West doesn't understand he should wait for the news anchor to actually mention the crash of flight 4400 before grimacing in disbelief.
181. When hot gals pass in front of you at a pool, it's best to blow bubbles into your drink to make a good first impression.
182. It's more fun and rewarding watching a bad movie including subsequent IMDB visit than to watch an average movie (and I'm serious about this one).