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Kuwait Not Banning DSLR Cameras After All
Voulnet writes "The Kuwait Times, the newspaper that started the false rumor of Kuwait banning DSLR cameras, has posted an update saying that after investigation, it turned out they didn't verify their information. They have now issued a retraction. Quoting: 'The newspaper regrets failing to verify the information. The article wrongly stated that a ban on DSLR cameras was implemented by the Ministries of Information, Social Affairs and Finance. This information is false. In a follow up investigation, it was proved that no such ban has been issued. We regret this error and deeply apologize for any inconvenience caused.'"
However, it'd probably be unofficially enforced.
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Well this should be encouraging to the slashdot editors, if their career doesn't work out at slashdot they can always go to work for The Kuwait Times.
bullshit bullshit
and a few days later whoops on the back page between used car ad's ...
you got your headline, you got your sale, your happy, so why even bother?
oh thats right so you can be responsible! even though you cant bother to even check 1 fact before printing money =(
they should print this crap on softer paper, then we could get some use out of it for wiping our ass on the already printed shit
Well this should be encouraging to the slashdot editors, if their career doesn't work out at slashdot they can always go to work for The Kuwait Times.
The Kuwait Times doesn't do fact-checking
Get the picture?
And how much of the rest of the Kuwait Times' stories are also total bullshit that they just printed without spending a dime to see if it was true, or even plausible?
How much of the rest of the "news"? What an incredible racket to have a business that peddles lies every day, without consequences.
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I hope this outdated concept will disappear from the market pretty soon.
...that nobody's holding a gun to your head and forcing you to use "this outdated concept", right? Your lack of desire to use a product doesn't mean it has to disappear from the market -- and I think you'll find that most pros -- who rely solely on SLRs of various flavors for their incomes -- would probably disagree with you on this desire.
It was interesting that journalists were exempted from the now retracted "ban". Traditionally spooks have used journalism as a cover for their real job. Who else can go snooping around, asking politicians difficult questions? The infamous British spy, Kim Philby ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Philby ) worked for The Economist while stationed in the Middle East. Oh, but he was actually working for the Soviet Union. There must be a "in Soviet Russia, The Economist reporter works for you!" joke in there somewhere.
Other good covers for "legal" spooks are in embassies. With some silly title like "Under Secretary for Cultural Exchange." A retired spook once commented, "If you want to find a spy, look for someone in the embassy who is much too clever for his job." The office for issuing visas is another good place. Before 9/11, a colleague of mine needed to travel on business to the US. Even though there were no restrictions for his nationality, he went to the US embassy, and applied for a visa anyway. He told me that he was surprised how tough the officer grilled him: "You do not need a visa any more, so why are you applying for one?"
I laughed my ass off, and then told him that the "embassy official" probably reported to Langley.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
"'American business is under assault from counterfeiters and pirates every day, seven days a week," Seems to me "kuwaittimes.net" needs to be added to the list of 75 domains the US government seized earlier this week.
You're right. It's blatant counterfeiting of one of our biggest corporations. Faux Newz.
Cue thousands of people who stood screaming on a soapbox before to ... mumble something before scuttling off.
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Why the fuck should I give two-shits about Kuwait? Because we used them as an excuse to start a war there 20 years ago? Ya I'll pencil that info into my future travel plans which - at a glance would beeeee .... never. But I get the whole "tech-angle" argument. Perhaps you can post an article about their bans on battery-powered singing-dildo's and I might find it interesting enough to look at the headline.
Not to mention writing your own comment.
If there's a rumor, it has started somewhere.
Who profits from such a rumor? My bet would be on some consumer products retailer who is worried that too many people in Kuwait are buying DSLR cameras instead of the cameras he has in stock.
Kuwaitis are rich enough to buy more sophisticated products than they really need and Kuwait is a small country where rumors spread fast, so this could be some kind of marketing effort.
Because I've found that the food and service at the Hard Rock Cafe - Kuwait is much better than the one in Orlando. YMMV. Why should we care about anyplace besides what is within walking distance from our living rooms? Ponder that and get back to me.
Good thing the rumor was not something important like the Mohammad being a racists pedophile or that some Slashdot user said Islam is truly a religion of hate.. Current news pieces in papers still should involves getting two confirmed living sources on the record or at least 1 and independent documentation.
I don't know where you get the racism part, as Islam clearly bans racism, but for the other misconception, it wouldn't kill you to read a bit: http://www.rasoulallah.net/v2/folder.aspx?lang=en&folder=852
Rumors can be false or true. The term "rumors" itself does not specify (or even imply) one or the other, so "false rumors" is not redundant.
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Clear now?
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
In a country like Kuwait, you often can't verify whether something like this is true or not. The rules may not be published in any official source, and policies can change at any time. The officials in charge of enforcing the policies might not even know.
Just speaks to how journalism is dead around the world as an effect of the Internet and a race to be the first to break a story, true or not. Everyone with a blog or twitter account considers themselves journalists, and for some reason actual news sources feel a need to compete with this lot.
This is true. You can beat your wife no matter what color she is; you can stone someone to death (or hurl them of a cliff) regardless of color; and of course, you can believe in the great sky fairy no matter what color you are. Definitely no racism in Islam, nor Sharia law, nuh-uh. Islam is completely color-blind, just like it is blind to the equality of women, blind to why one should not intentionally target innocents in service of one's political views, blind to why silence and support is the wrong answer when extremist Islamotards get loose with hijacked aircraft, exploding shoes, and so forth. Well, I gotta go now, I have a cartoon to draw.
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My first thought was that the ban was real, but _NOW_ it was never real. Once the ban got out and people noticed the dumb, then mouthpiece-of-the-government newspaper of record "discovers" that they didn't do their research and no such ban was ever planned.
"I must find out where my people are going, so I can run out that way and lead them".
I would put $10 on the ban having been originally real, but once everything we discussed about it here was discussed about it _everywhere_ someone noticed that it would be a dumb move and counter to the overall interests of the state, at which point documents were shredded and retractions were printed to cover the original error (bad idea) up with the pretense of error (we got our story wrong at the paper).
You don't even need a tinfoil hat to see that one as obvious.
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