At 09:31 PM 9/26/01 -0700, Xeni Jardin wrote:
Microsoft announced Friday it would remove depictions of the World Trade Center's twin towers from the new version.
Hilarious. Are they going to render a rubble pile? Leave it rather conspicuously blank? BuildingBlt the surrounding texture to fill in? Are they going to scrap their real-world DB of *all* cities and airports and go to entirely synth terrain? Maybe the new version dials the FBI if too many building-hits are being practiced. Think of the game-plot potential: both flight simulator and in-air Frangible Quake(tm). In expert mode you don't get a parachute. Saw this on another list:
Comparing photographs of Osama Bin Laden, I noticed that he recently has = dyed his beard and his hair black. Before he dyed his beard it had thick = grey strands running through it. Now it was reported in the open-source = news that bottle(s) of black dye were found that belonged to the = terrorist with the alias "Atta". I took that information and compared = the open-source surveillance photographs at Logan Airport and noticed = that the hijackers did, indeed, have black hair.
So the lawyers can go after hair-dye makers too. When lampblack is outlawed...