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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.
9% of Pakistanis view ISIS as positive. The intelligence services aided the Mumbai terrorist attacks. In comparison a little embezzlement by the PM is a small concern.
Well played, sir...well played
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Link:
https://www.neowin.net/news/calibri-font-plays-its-role-pakistan-now-sans-sharif-as-prime-minister-is-disqualified
Explanation of Wordplay:
Sans here is used as "Without". The Prime Minister's name is Nawaz Sharif.
"Sans Sharif" is a nod to Sans-Serif.
Take a guess which President is referred to 3540 times in the Panama papers connected to concealed trust? Trump.
My bet, since Mueller started investigating Trump's finances, Trump seems to have gone on full panic mode. Trump will try to fire him.
Trump will sack Jeff Sessions, he cannot replace him without a Senate confirmation, so he will appoint an interim person to stand that has already been confirmed. Most likely Brian Benczkowski (whose done work for Alfabank) or Wilbur Ross (headed Cyprus Bank alongside Vekselberg a Putin nominee).
That person will sack Mueller and try to shut down the FBI investigation by budget control.
I just wanted to congratulate the submitter. News for nerds and a grade A pun in one go. Well done.
They just want you to pay more taxes so that they can party hearty in St Tropez, Mikonos,and Key West. Deep down they hate you. That is why they invented global warming, the biggest hoax in the history of mankind.
Jesus has a small wiener.
Don't do that.
So using Microsoft products can indeed make you loose your job!
Rock the Calibri! Rock the Calibri!
The Uncoveror: It's the real news.
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
I guess the difference is Trump likely won't be brought down by a font, unless you mean that font of wanton shit that flows from his oral orifice. Impeach and bury the Trump cunt.
What is this, where am I, what year is it.
And I would have gotten away with it too. If it hadn't been for those meddling Sans Sherif fonts.
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." - K
When you lick a butthoal you lick it for life!!
You should watch your blood pressure with all that salt.
What are you, some kind of Comic Sans?
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
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 ...
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.
This is Anne Frank syndrome. The one who 'wrote' her diaries in ball point pen and ink, which was not available until later years.
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.
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.
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!
...will there be a new Sharif in town?