[Gllug] microsoft its not our fault honest gov

[David Irvine]

Tushar Joshi wrote:

>On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 02:10:24PM +0100, David Damerell wrote:
>
>>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.]
>>
>
>I think you are missing the point here. They removed the Microsoft flight
>sims off the shelf because they weren't accurate and if you had learnt to
>fly a plane using the software you would most likely crash it. As per
>Tuesday.
>
>Tushar
>
Yes, real planes don't have "What to do when you get a  BSOD at 
20,000ft" in the instruction manual.

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