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Calibri Font Plays Its Role: Pakistan Now Sans Sharif as Prime Minister is Disqualified (neowin.net)
Usama Jawad, writing for Neowin: A few weeks ago, we reported that Microsoft's Calibri font has been used as evidence against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his family in a corruption case. Today, Sharif has been disqualified from his position as a part of the court's final verdict of the case. The case concerns the "Panama Papers", which is a collection of 11.5 million documents detailing information related to over 200,000 offshore accounts. Ever since the Panama Papers were anonymously leaked back in 2015, there has been a major shift in the political situation in many countries. One such country is Pakistan, where the names of numerous members of the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's family were spotted in the papers. If you aren't aware of the Calibri controversy, it is as follows: Nawaz Sharif's daughter Maryam Nawaz submitted photocopies of several documents in order to deny any corruption, but it appears that the documents contained Microsoft's Calibri font, even though they were dated February 6, 2006. It is important to note that the font wasn't commercially available until much later. Despite being created in 2004, the font did not reach the general public until January 30, 2007.
Come on, now.
Bravo.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
Worstest pun I think I've ever seen on /. Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!....OK, maybe I smiled a little.
Well played, sir...well played
I just wanted to congratulate the submitter. News for nerds and a grade A pun in one go. Well done.
Don't do that.
So using Microsoft products can indeed make you loose your job!
Rock the Calibri! Rock the Calibri!
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But ISIS is very anti-embezzlement. Just think about it: that money could have gone toward the intelligence services aiding in more terrorist plots. They are right to remove him!
So when one 1:10 are pro ISIS/terrorism/etc, you declare a whole country as "terrorist"? In the same respect, western countries are gay, since they have, an average, about 10% gay people? There may be a lot of off shit going on over there, but this kind of generalism is really foolish.
Wow...documents that have been out for over a year are going to now become an issue that will lead to this chain of scandalous events? Sorry, if they were going to be an issue for now President Trump they would have been an issue before he got elected. That's not to say that people like you won't continue to claim there is something when there's nothing...but there really is nothing.
This should be a big wakeup call to all C[E|O|I|T|X]O's to not use Microsoft products. Ever.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Uh, 10% is an order magnitude too high for LGBT population (inclusive, not just "gay people").
The point is not so much that the populace--or parts of the populace--support an organization that beheads non-believers, but rather when the state sanctions and supports those beliefs.
58% of Americans view drone warfare as positive even though they also feel that the US has failed to achieve its goals in Afghanistan. The US intelligence services continue to spy on all Americans. In comparisons the garbled tweets of the President are constantly analyzed by the 24 hour press.
You underestimate the red tape involved in legal proceedings, it can take years for some fairly trivial cases to reach court. The quantity of information just means there's more work to do to prepare a case.
What is this, where am I, what year is it.
Nobody asked.
But the government supports and facilitates terrorism
And I would have gotten away with it too. If it hadn't been for those meddling Sans Sherif fonts.
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You should watch your blood pressure with all that salt.
What are you, some kind of Comic Sans?
Uh, 10% is an order magnitude too high for LGBT population (inclusive, not just "gay people").
[Citation needed]
Sure, Sans Sharif was corrupt but still, nobody is looking forward to Prime Minister Komik Sans. ;)
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
You know, we give the OPs a lot of crap for non-tech, repetitive, political news.
But that has to be one of the best title/article postings in years.
"Calibri Font Plays Its Role: Pakistan Now Sans Sharif"
Well played, sir/madam.
-Styopa
Who said anything about courts? aicrules simply stated that if they were going to be an issue, they would have been an issue already. You know, sorta like how Clinton's emails were an issue. Which, by the way, the amount of hullabaloo that Clinton's emails received circumstantially proves you wrong.
The US just has ended the CIA program to funnel weapons to Syrian "opposition" i.e. a billions dollars program of weapons trafficking through Qatar Jordan and Turkey that lasted for many years.
I'm a leftist Euro-wimp and I'm glad Trump won the election not the terrorist cunt in chief.
The pimp bitch campaigned on not accepting that reality and waging all-out war and that's why she lost.
Of course, this is also a lesson in the limits of the "lesser of two evils". But americunts get what they deserve I suppose.
The US Democratic party can also then be described as a terrorist party.
The Calibri font was definitely available although not immediately commercial, alpha and release candidate versions of Office containing the font appeared as early as 2005.
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The Panama papers have done more than Wikileaks with much less publishing. More hacks along those lines, exposing the 1%, is how reform can be accomplished. Its the best use of the NSAs all seeing power that I can think of, even if it is a pipe dream.
... of a certain major news network waving around a Microsoft Word generated document to "prove" that a certain president had dodged the Vietnam War draft ...
While 1 in 10 may be pro ISIS, other 9 support other Jihadist groups, like the Taliban, al Qaeda, Lashkar e Toiba, Jaish e Mohammed, Harkat e Mujahedeen, and a plethory of Islamic alphabet soup of Jihadist groups. So yeah, that whole country IS terrorist.
9% a lot lower that can be expected for a muslim country given that ISIS is the kalifate reborn.
The first time I saw fonts at the center of an investigation was the CBS story about George W. Bush's military service. The CBS news story presented a document from the 1970s that was supposedly from an IBM Selectric typewriter when in fact it was from an Apple Macintosh using Microsoft Word default settings and a Palatino font. At the time, I was surprised to see how obvious the forgery was, and how easily it was exposed. Without this case, I wonder if anyone would have investigated the Calibri font in Pakistan.
I'll believe in law when Clinton is brought up on war crimes. Until then, nothing but Gorillas fighting for dominance.
This is Anne Frank syndrome. The one who 'wrote' her diaries in ball point pen and ink, which was not available until later years.
Wow...documents that have been out for over a year are going to now become an issue that will lead to this chain of scandalous events? Sorry, if they were going to be an issue for now President Trump they would have been an issue before he got elected. That's not to say that people like you won't continue to claim there is something when there's nothing...but there really is nothing.
The Watergate break-in (and arrests) happened June 17, 1972.
The Saturday Night Massacre was October 20, 1973.
The impeachment investigation started February 6, 1974
The first article of impeachment was July 27, 1974.
Nixon resigned August 8, 1974.
That's over 2 years from crime to impeachment for a simple break-in/cover up. You think they're going to charge a Presidential candidate, much less a sitting President, for financial crimes after this short an investigation?
And, in case you haven't been following the news, Trump's escalated war on the DOJ has coincided with news that the Mueller investigation was starting to look into finances. I don't know if Trump is implicated by the Panama Papers specifically, but there's a ridiculous amount of smoke surrounding the Trump Organization.
I stole this Sig
That's not how confirmation works. Have the job, then get reappointed? New confirmation hearing. Confirmed as a Federal Judge but appointed to be on the USSC? That means a new confirmation hearing! If the senate adjourns (breaks for longer than 3 days) POTUS can make a recess appointment which allows the office holder until the end of the next session of congress to hold the office without Senate confirmation. Of course if the Senate confirms them they stay in the position.
- Tjp
I am in wallow with my inner money grubbing capitalistic pig. ... Oink!
So, if you did not like it, would you call it a Comic Sans?
The pun might not be new, but it was new to me, and I enjoyed it's aptness. I also hope that the pun was partly a nod in the direction of the (un?)famous 1977 April Fools' Day extended hoax by The Guardian: San Serriffe
Conservatives were vocal about constitutional transgressions of Obama but wow. They did not have the former president and former failed candidate backing them with playbook on how to be disruptive. The likely hood Trip will be impeached is nil. The democratic leadership doesn't want Pence as POTUS for one. The other is there is no proof of Russian collusion. Expending the efforts of many US government workers and investigating vigorously the best they have come up with is his son met with a Russian attorney who wanted to discuss getting rid of the sanctions on some Russian citizens. While you may think some Trump staffer's actions, even if family, can bring down Trump, it just isn't so. It has to be Trump's actions. And has to meet the "high crimes and misdemeanors" standard or Trump has to be proven incompetent ... And sadly for you, enacting policy against what you personally believe is appropriate is not incompetence. Trump can declare war on Russia (extremely unlikely scenario) and that is not incompetence. Trump can invade North Korea and wipe it from the face of the earth, still not incompetence. Trump can play water polo and request bills be presented on waterproof paper and sign them in a pool with a space pen. Still not rising to the level of impeachment. Obama wrote EOs that changed legislative intent, circumventing the separation of powers, also wrote EOs that downright created new law effectively, also unconstitutional. The constitution really doesn't allow a Presidential edict to circumvent Congress. No impeachment for Obama. Clinton had sex in the oval office with a staffer, constituting gross misconduct and definitely a violation of the laws against using a position of power to entice sex from a subordinate. And it doesn't matter if she was participatory, he violated the law. He lied to congress. He asked what the definition of "is" is. Clinton was impeached but not found to have risen to the standards for actually being removed from office.
Good luck trying to get Trump impeached because you don't like the way he's going about doing his job.
- Tjp
I am in wallow with my inner money grubbing capitalistic pig. ... Oink!
you want civil war then? Because that's what you get when you overturn elections.
A certain percentage of population is always going to be a little messed up in the head. For just about any country.
We elected Donald Trump, after we found out that he was a thief (Trump Univ.) who stole from the vulnerable, and someone who likes to grab women by their private parts and brags about it to his buddies...
We shouldn't be pointing fingers at others.
How does this get +4 insightful? I guess 4 out of 5 mods like completely fabricated statistics??
You'd think that people would know better than to just toss something off on their computer and back date it by now.The internet will find you out!
No. We can argue the degree of probability, but it's definitely non-zero.
Assuming you are not Robert Muelller, then this assertion is currently groundless. We'll see what evidence the investigations uncover in due course
Incorrect. Impeachment is a political process, not a criminal one, and can be on whatever grounds Congress decides. Maybe they hate water polo a lot more than your realise?
Resorting to whataboutism shows how desperately low you've sunk, though you can hardly be blamed when potus45 himself is also spraying the whatabouts around.
I took out two wagers last year, one that he wouldn't last a full term, and the other that he wouldn't last until the end of 2017. The first bet is clearly in play and I haven't given up on the second yet either. Note also I got 3-1 odds on the first bet. The current price has now dropped to between 11/10 and 4/6, depending on which bookie you use. Just reflect on that - bookies are giving roughly 50/50 odds that he won't survive the term! If you really are so confident that the likelihood of impeachment is nil, then there's a barrowload of profit to be made if you're willing to put your money where your mouth is.
Uh, 10% is an order magnitude too high for LGBT population (inclusive, not just "gay people").
[Citation needed]
Wikipedia has an article on this topic. In a July 2014 government survey, 1.4% of Americans self identify as gay or lesbian. A Gallup poll from 2012 showed 3.4% self-identified as LGBT. Note that 3.4% is significantly lower than 10% and higher than 1%, but 1% is close to 1.4% for just gay or lesbian.
B'cos it's true! 3 of the groups I listed are Pakistani Jihadist groups based in Pakistan (1 of them in Pak Kashmir), and the other 2 have their main presence there.
Please tell me what is the definition of "high crimes and misdemeanors"?
You can't because it isn't defined. Congress could decide that jaywalking is a high crime or misdemeanor, and impeach on that basis.
Impeachment is a political process, not a judicial process.
The real "Libtards" are the Libertarians!
yes and the KKK and NRA have head quarters in US
Typical strawman. One is a legitimate organization under laws that SJWs loathe, while the other is a defunct organization w/ just a handful of members that barely does 1 terror act a year either within or outside the US. The groups I listed are all active terror groups in Pakistan that are either active in day to day terror acts within Pakistan itself, or use Pakistan to back terror acts in Afghanistan or Kashmir.
Typical strawman.
Well.
What you said was that everyone in Pakistan is aligned with one terror group or another.
Which is, of course, blatantly false, and you provide no evidence whatsoever for it, either, since, well, there isn't any such evidence to be had.
So, why don't you just fuck off, eh?
Liar.
...will there be a new Sharif in town?
Know whose name was brought up 1700 times in Congress since 1996?
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