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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.'"
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.
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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...that nobody's holding a gun to your head and forcing you to use "this outdated concept", right?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.
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You have *no* idea what you are talking about.
so how exactly would you take photos aligned properly to the viewfinder without running the sensor hot all the time, which lowers SNR?
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"'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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Anger-laden post aside, he's right. Unless it's a huge fuck-up (and Todd doesn't pick up his phone), you'll never see a retraction on the front page or anywhere easily noticeable.
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I guess it was a case of 'vorauseilender Gehorsam"
'speeding ahead obediance' would be a litteral translation, meaning giving in to pressure, before the pressure even occurs.
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.
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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I hope you enjoy your well-earned lulz, good sir troll. Next time pick something less obvious.
Hmmm ... I'd sorta assumed that the anonymous "troll" was a professional photographer making an unsubtle joke.
Apparently it was too subtle for some of the readers here.
I just got a new Canon t2i. It's one of the best cameras I've ever used, and is far easier to use than any point-and-shoot that I've ever seen. Well, except for the usual problem with digitals, that the complex UI sometimes does things very different than what I expected or wanted, and I have to figure out how to back it out of whatever mysterious state it's gotten itself into. But I've seen that with a number of the latest P&S cameras which also try to do more than what their users want. This is really a problem with the "D" in "DSLR", not with the "SLR" part. Anything digital always comes with a complex "nerdview" UI for the first decade or so. Its main problem is that it doesn't fit in my pocket. But it does do a good job of telling people that I'm a serious photographer. ;-)
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Actually Kuwait has an official newspaper dedicated to just doing that. Publishing all laws, new or modified, and making it available for viewing everywhere.
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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