[Gllug] Microsoft its not our fault honest gov

Hall RJ R.J.Hall at rhul.ac.uk
Fri Sep 14 16:26:13 UTC 2001


Maybe if you crash a super tanker full of the filth into Southampton docks
you might have some luck

-----Original Message-----
From: Jake Jellinek [mailto:jj at positive-internet.com]
Sent: 14 September 2001 15:02
To: gllug at linux.co.uk
Subject: Re: [Gllug] microsoft its not our fault honest gov


If only someone could come up with a good reason for removing "Sunny D" 
from our shelves, perhaps under some chemical warfare proviso.

Jake.


--On 14 September 2001 14:10 +0100
--David Damerell apparently said about the subject "[Gllug] microsoft its 
not our fault honest gov":

> On Friday, 14 Sep 2001, Jim Bailey wrote:
>> I know we blame them for just about everything else but can we really
>> blame them for this?
> [MS Flight Sim taken off shelves because of allegations that WTC
> pilots trained on it.]
>> http://media.guardian.co.uk/attack/story/0,1301,551488,00.html
>
> No. I mean, this is beyond absurd - even if it was true, that would
> hardly justify yanking the game.
>
> I could murder someone by driving a car into them (and probably only
> get 6 months for causing death by dangerous driving, but that's
> another issue). We'd better ban driving lessons!
>
> [Also, why Microsoft in particular? Other people do accurate flight sims.]
>
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> David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?
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