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today's irritating news
Oct. 30th, 2007 01:09 pmGovernment apologises for getting immigration figures wrong by almost 30% - ah, how can you expect people to formulate good policies for a country when they don't even know what the current situation is? That's 1 in 200 of the population they completely overlooked, or 1 in every 100 workers. Useless.
Someone staged a fake Federal Emergency Management Agency news conference concerning the Southern California wildfires. Not just a random impostor, but actually one of FEMA, who thought it would be fine to have other FEMA workers pose as journalists to ask convenient questions. As one person said, this is the sort of thing that corrupt officials do in third-world countries all the time. Amazing.
'Virtual worlds "threaten values"' - probably true, but why call the speaker, Lord Puttnam, an 'industry veteran'? He has worked in film. Neither games or virtual worlds are films, nor are they the same industry, unless you're talking about some sort of fluffily-defined 'entertainment industry' which probably includes strippers and amusement arcade attendants. Hell, why not get Belle de Jour in as the next speaker then. Ahem. At least BBC News didn't continue their frankly foolish trend of touting Second Life as the be-all and end-all of virtual worlds. SL apparently has as 'many' as 45,000 concurrent users these days, which is less than 6% as many as World of Warcraft has in China alone.
'The fighting fund set up to help find Madeleine McCann was used by her parents to make two mortgage payments, their spokesman has said.' Of course they fucking did, you morons! If you're contributing to a fund to help 2 people scour the world for their daughter, then do you expect them to be magically fitting this around their full-time jobs? This is not news, get rid of it. What next? "OMG MONEY DONATED TO ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND ACTUALLY WENT TO SOMEONE PARTIALLY-SIGHTED!!!11one"
*deep breath* Ok, I think I'm done, for now.
Someone staged a fake Federal Emergency Management Agency news conference concerning the Southern California wildfires. Not just a random impostor, but actually one of FEMA, who thought it would be fine to have other FEMA workers pose as journalists to ask convenient questions. As one person said, this is the sort of thing that corrupt officials do in third-world countries all the time. Amazing.
'Virtual worlds "threaten values"' - probably true, but why call the speaker, Lord Puttnam, an 'industry veteran'? He has worked in film. Neither games or virtual worlds are films, nor are they the same industry, unless you're talking about some sort of fluffily-defined 'entertainment industry' which probably includes strippers and amusement arcade attendants. Hell, why not get Belle de Jour in as the next speaker then. Ahem. At least BBC News didn't continue their frankly foolish trend of touting Second Life as the be-all and end-all of virtual worlds. SL apparently has as 'many' as 45,000 concurrent users these days, which is less than 6% as many as World of Warcraft has in China alone.
'The fighting fund set up to help find Madeleine McCann was used by her parents to make two mortgage payments, their spokesman has said.' Of course they fucking did, you morons! If you're contributing to a fund to help 2 people scour the world for their daughter, then do you expect them to be magically fitting this around their full-time jobs? This is not news, get rid of it. What next? "OMG MONEY DONATED TO ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND ACTUALLY WENT TO SOMEONE PARTIALLY-SIGHTED!!!11one"
*deep breath* Ok, I think I'm done, for now.
