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World Trade Towers and Pentagon Attacked
The World Trade Towers in new york were crashed into by 2 planes, one on each tower, 18 minutes apart. Nobody really knows who did it, but the planes were big ones. Normally I wouldn't consider posting this on Slashdot, but I'm making an exception this time because I can't get news through any of the conventional websites, and I assume I'm not alone. Update We're having server problems. Sorry. Updated info, both towers havecollapsed, pentagon hit by 3rd plane. Part of it has collapsed.
[This is gonna cost me some serious Karma]
The computer gaming industry is gonna get blamed for this. I can just hear it now:
"It was a couple of kids, who had played lots of flight simulator games, like Microsoft Flight Simulator, and thought they could fly for real. This scourge must be stopped, and games must be BANNED!"
On another, just as ridiculous note, once again this shows just how stupid it is to have, of all things, life preservers on an airplane. Why not put parachutes on boats as well?
We do not live in the 21st century. We live in the 20 second century.
History has shown that the best way to unite the American People is to give them a common enemy. Whoever is responsible fucked up, and fucked up badly. If they're trying to scare me, they did a piss-poor job of it. My resolve is firm. If called upon by my country, I will do everything within my power to make sure this does not go unpunished.
You can run. You can hide. For a while, you may even succeed. But the United States of America will not forget. And we'll be waiting. Say hello to my little friends.
--Fesh
Kill -9 'em all, let root@localhost sort 'em out.
This tragedy (and, unfortunately, Major News Event) really illustrates how not-getting-it ALL of the websites of major national news providers are. Instead of concise, light website design with a few carefully encoded JPG files, we get bandwidth-heavy Shlockwave and ActiveX "multimedia experiences" that, in the even of an actual story, quickly brings the likes of MSNBC down to its knees. In the meantime, we're left with AP wire stories and phonecalls from my mother.
// I will show you fear in a handful of jellybeans.
So this is the first crash not involving Windows in quite a while. What a weird day all around.
PS- I'm not feeling too happy about being right next to CNN Center posting this.
Game... blouses.