Microsoft the new Smith & Wesson?

[David Honig]

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...