From: Robert Harley (Robert.Harley@inria.fr)
Date: Wed Dec 20 2000 - 07:23:45 PST
Jay Thomas wrote:
>Yeah, I know, more ramblings from the tin-foil hat brigades.
Healthy skepticism from The Register:
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Iraq buys 4000 PlayStation 2s in world conquest bid
[...] Some 4000 consoles have made their way to Iraq, those agencies reckon.
And that, says the report, is depriving American kiddies of their requested
Christmas prezzies, poor dears.
[...] one unnamed military intelligence source told WND. [...]
Unnamed military source? 'Sony marketing mouth' would be a better description.
[...] This sounds almost as bad as the scare stories from the early 1980s
of Sinclair ZX-81s being nabbed by the Soviet military so for their Z-80a
CPUs - handy for controlling ICBMs, we were told.
That story proved to be nothing but Cold War paranoia and survivalist
jack-off material, and that's pretty much what the WND report appears to be.
[...]
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Whole story at: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/15584.html
Rob.
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