Indicted Ex-FIFA Executive Cites Onion Article In Rant Slamming US 194
schwit1 writes with news that former FIFA Vice President Jack Warner has evidently not heard of The Onion. In a video on his Facebook page, Warner holds up a printout of an Onion story titled “FIFA Frantically Announces 2015 Summer World Cup In United States” and says: “Then I look to see that Fifa has frantically announced, 2015, this year [...] the World Cup, beginning May 27. If FIFA is so bad, why is it that the USA wants to keep the Fifa World Cup?” The next World Cup is not due to be held until 2018 and there have been no games in the U.S.. Warner is facing extradition to the U.S. on corruption charges. Time further reports: Even Sunday wasn't easy, when Warner needed two attempts to get his message across by telling followers that the latest accusations against him stem largely from the U.S. being upset that it did not win the rights to host the 2022 World Cup — which went to Qatar. In an eight-minute Facebook video, which was quickly deleted after numerous news reports picked up on the gaffe, Warner held up a printout of a fictitious story from The Onion bearing the headline: "FIFA Frantically Announces 2015 Summer World Cup In United States." The fake story was published on Wednesday, hours after Warner was indicted in the U.S. and arrested and briefly jailed in Trinidad. Warner asked why the story was "two days before the FIFA election" when Sepp Blatter was re-elected as president.
meta onion (Score:1)
I wonder if The Onion had ever published a story about real life people or new organizations referring to Onion stories as if they were true?
Does US have any real jurisdiction over FIFA? (Score:1)
This 'onion' issue is but a side-show of the indictment of FIFA officers by the Obama Administration
While everyone knows that FIFA is corrupt, we must also acknowledge the fact that the indictments from US is a kind of a long-stretch, for all I know FIFA does not belong to USA alone
Re:Does US have any real jurisdiction over FIFA? (Score:5, Insightful)
They claim evidence that the corruption was carried out on US soil using US banks. That's better reasoning to me than "Fifa is multinational and under no one's jurisdiction" as they will claim.
But frankly the fact the US isn't completely obsessed with the sport like some other nations will go a long way to keep things impartial.
If fifa threatens to ban the US from world cup consideration you can expect a very heartfelt "oh darn" as a response and the investigation will continue.
Re:Does US have any real jurisdiction over FIFA? (Score:4, Interesting)
They claim evidence that the corruption was carried out on US soil using US banks. That's better reasoning to me than "Fifa is multinational and under no one's jurisdiction" as they will claim.
But frankly the fact the US isn't completely obsessed with the sport like some other nations will go a long way to keep things impartial. If fifa threatens to ban the US from world cup consideration you can expect a very heartfelt "oh darn" as a response and the investigation will continue.
By the FCPA, they wouldn't even need to claim that the corruption took place on US soils and/or using US banks. All it takes is either a US national or legal resident, or US company or US-based subsidiary of a foreign company (Traffic Sports USA) to engage in bribery of foreign officials, or be bribed by foreign officials. Bribery and being bribed by foreign officials is the hallmark of FIFA, and that organization pretty much screwed itself up the moment it established links with US companies.
The US is not alone in this. Many developed countries have similar provisions with a global scope (fraud/bribery of this type committed anywhere). A lot more have similar provisions only on a local scope (only those committed locally.)
This FIFA thing is a good thing, but unfortunately the penny arcade crowd is going to tear it down in their endless, nihilistic pursuit for yet another reason to be upset or whatever.
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They claim evidence that the corruption was carried out on US soil using US banks. That's better reasoning to me than "Fifa is multinational and under no one's jurisdiction" as they will claim.
But frankly the fact the US isn't completely obsessed with the sport like some other nations will go a long way to keep things impartial. If fifa threatens to ban the US from world cup consideration you can expect a very heartfelt "oh darn" as a response and the investigation will continue.
By the FCPA, they wouldn't even need to claim that the corruption took place on US soils and/or using US banks. All it takes is either a US national or legal resident, or US company or US-based subsidiary of a foreign company (Traffic Sports USA) to engage in bribery of foreign officials, or be bribed by foreign officials. Bribery and being bribed by foreign officials is the hallmark of FIFA, and that organization pretty much screwed itself up the moment it established links with US companies.
So this is all about the US getting the 1994 World Cup through bribery?
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They claim evidence that the corruption was carried out on US soil using US banks. That's better reasoning to me than "Fifa is multinational and under no one's jurisdiction" as they will claim.
But frankly the fact the US isn't completely obsessed with the sport like some other nations will go a long way to keep things impartial. If fifa threatens to ban the US from world cup consideration you can expect a very heartfelt "oh darn" as a response and the investigation will continue.
By the FCPA, they wouldn't even need to claim that the corruption took place on US soils and/or using US banks. All it takes is either a US national or legal resident, or US company or US-based subsidiary of a foreign company (Traffic Sports USA) to engage in bribery of foreign officials, or be bribed by foreign officials. Bribery and being bribed by foreign officials is the hallmark of FIFA, and that organization pretty much screwed itself up the moment it established links with US companies.
So this is all about the US getting the 1994 World Cup through bribery?
I'll answer in the affirmative to satisfy your supposition.
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in their endless, nihilistic pursuit for yet another reason to be upset or whatever.
Adequate description of 90% of the internet.
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... unfortunately the penny arcade crowd is going to tear it down in their endless, nihilistic pursuit for yet another reason to be upset or whatever.
Are we to get some deep meaning from this spew of faux witticism?
We got your reply, what more can we ask?
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... unfortunately the penny arcade crowd is going to tear it down in their endless, nihilistic pursuit for yet another reason to be upset or whatever.
Are we to get some deep meaning from this spew of faux witticism?
Anyone who is tired of being manipulated into being 'outraged' by people trying to make money will find it wise.
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This is a 'safe' incident over which the DOJ can swing for the bleachers.
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as the commercial circus that the US turns events into would have been a even worse stain on the sport than the current issues.
Worried that the world cup might be a 'commericial circus' are you? Oh I'm sure it'll never happen. Christ.
Re:Does US have any real jurisdiction over FIFA? (Score:5, Interesting)
The US is far from impartial. They lost of a bid for the world cup which would have been a massive
US Soccer [ussoccer.com] lost a bid. The US at large doesn't give a shit, and would on the balance prefer to not have their regular traffic/TV coverage messed with over a niche sport only played in the suburbs by children. I'm perhaps exaggerating, but not by much. US Soccer has less political pull in the USA than the Muslim Anti-Defamation league.
To top it off, US Soccer doesn't really care any more either. Yes, they were really sore about losing a bid. But they've lost every bid they made since 1994 (as have nearly all other bidders). There's nothing special about that. The last one was special just because the "winner" made all sorts of "investments" in countries that voted for them, and they happen to be a country that is physically incapable of hosting a World Cup. This is so cartoonishly corrupt, that its clear there's no point bothering to bid if you aren't going to cheat. So US Soccer has essentially washed its hands of FIFA Cup bids. They released a statement over 4 years ago saying US Soccer will no longer be making and Cup hosting bids until the process has been cleaned up.
Now lots of folks internationally are skeptical of this. Surely if you wave enough money under their nose, they will bite, right? That's certainly the theory the rest of FIFA seems to operate under. So far US Soccer has held though. I hope they continue to do so.
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Now lots of folks internationally are skeptical of this. Surely if you wave enough money under their nose, they will bite, right? That's certainly the theory the rest of FIFA seems to operate under. So far US Soccer has held though. I hope they continue to do so.
There's the other issue that US Soccer doesn't have enough money to wave, anyway.
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I was talking about FIFA "waving enough money" under US Soccer's nose. In particular, there had been some noise last year about just giving the US Qatar's World Cup hosting gig, and lately FIFA has been practically begging the US to submit another bid for one of the later cups. Personally, I hope US Soccer sticks to their guns on this, and refuses without reform.
Its not like its really that much money by US standards anyway. The cities that get to host would be spread out all over North America, and the i
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I was talking about FIFA "waving enough money" under US Soccer's nose. In particular, there had been some noise last year about just giving the US Qatar's World Cup hosting gig, and lately FIFA has been practically begging the US to submit another bid for one of the later cups.
Errm, yeah, that makes sense. Are you already building up a defense? "If we wanted bribes from people who want to host the World Cup, why would we give the US money to host it?"
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Niche? (Score:2)
US Soccer [ussoccer.com] lost a bid. The US at large doesn't give a shit, and would on the balance prefer to not have their regular traffic/TV coverage messed with over a niche sport only played in the suburbs by children. I'm perhaps exaggerating, but not by much.
You are exaggerating by "much". 25 million people in the US watched the USA-Portugal match last summer. No fewer than four sports network families available on cable show soccer matches from around the world (and NBC paid $250 million for the rights to just one foreign league for three seasons). And perhaps you've never heard of the MLS? Two expansion teams this year, and three more confirmed in the next three years, and the franchise fees are approaching $100 million for each. I get that most people still
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You're preaching to the choir a bit here. I'm a big fan myself. I've been a player since the 70's, and actually have two games (one indoor, one outdoor) scheduled tonight. Tottenham Hotspur supporter (COYS!), but I refuse to support an MLS team until Tulsa has one like we did in the early 80's.
You aren't wrong from a data perspective. In fact, if anything you are underplaying it. Soccer is huge in the immigrant community, and among the young it is actually more popular than Baseball [espnfc.com] now (and growing). Thi
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. The US at large doesn't give a shit, and would on the balance prefer to not have their regular traffic/TV coverage messed with over a niche sport only played in the suburbs by children. I'm perhaps exaggerating
Not an exaggeration, but I have some OT points. There is a lot more money in World Cup Soccar than in, say, NFL American Football. Actually, that's an understatement. The coverage of NFL, the professional production ethics, the skill of the techs and producers, and the resulting broadcast makes World Cup look like what it is, really really shitty production. I can't tell you how many matches I've attempted to watch where it seems like the company producing the footage is using like maybe 3 cameras, and swit
Re:Does US have any real jurisdiction over FIFA? (Score:5, Interesting)
Easy fix. Coke, McDonalds, VISA, Budweiser and every other US corporation can pull sponsorship, then see how it works out for them. I've also heard UEFA (European Football) is discussing separation from FIFA, so it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to get the Japs and Koreans on-board, ask if Uncle Rupert wants to buy in, and start a whole new organisation. Screw the Russian and Arabs, we don't need their filthy money.
This is actually not too far off from what I've heard talked about. Nearly all the sponsors are US-based, and probably don't want their brands associated with corruption. "Have a Coke, and a dead Qatari migrant worker" doesn't quite have the right ring to it.
Also, Nate Silver did an analysis [fivethirtyeight.com] on UEFA's threat to leave FIFA. While the "western" rule-of-law countries have almost no voting power in FIFA, they have nearly all of the paying viewers. If they left together, UEFA (- Russia) and a few other countries (USA, Japan, S. Korea, Australia, Mexico, and Brazil and Argentina for bonus points), could easily break FIFA. That group there would take about 70% of FIFA's income with them, and 70% of its last round of 16 teams as well.
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Wow, you are out of touch together with Nate Silver...
An argument last made famous by Mitt Romney supporters [theweek.com]. Not that Nate doesn't get things wrong every now and then, but this kind of blindly dismissive argument against Nate's data-driven analysis has proven in the past to be a really great way to make yourself look foolish.
Speaking of which, guess what happened [theguardian.com] less than 2 hours after you posted this? :-)
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Of course it has jurisdiction if the crime is committed on US territory or using US assets. If, if you electronically rob a bank in the US then you fall under the jurisdiction. Of course if you do that at the direction of another country and refuses to extradite you then you can get away with it.
This FIFA issue isn't about cheating at sports, but about money fraud, bribery, etc. And FIFA is not being charged with any crime, but some of the officers and employees of FIFA. Belonging to a rich club does no
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And that, in short, is the kind of response you would get from 99% of US sports fans...
Just my $.02...as another American, I'd have agreed with you about 30 years ago. But then along came soccer moms, and their kids have grown up, and another generation of kids playing have taken their place. I believe we're now at about 98.5%.
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Soccer has been around awhile in the US, generally something played at most high schools for P.E., even if there were no tournaments or pro leagues. At university there were soccer intramural teams in the 80s as well. It's grown huge over the years because we have lots of immigrants too and you can't shut out the outside world forever. It's also a sensible outdoor team sport which isn't as violent as American football or rugby or with lots of standing around like baseball.
Remember that 100 years ago these
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30 years ago = 80s, so yes we agree. Prior to that, not so much. And http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B... [wikipedia.org] helped bring attention to the sport in the U.S. Certainly, as we become more Latin, we'll see much more. But, the best thing FIFA could do for itself financially would be to bring the games to the U.S. Thus far, their marketing of it here pales in comparison to that of other sports.
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Nope he means football, but not the weedy version of rugby played in America by precious little flowers who are so delicate they need to wear helmets and have a breather after every throw of the ball, not the game where 60 minutes of action is padded out to three hours with TV adverts, not the game where being caught cheating gets you a slap on the wrist instead of disqualification.
He's talking about football, the game where use of the feet to control the ball is the rule rather than the exception, where sk
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Nope he means football, but not the weedy version of rugby played in America by precious little flowers who are so delicate they need to wear helmets and have a breather after every throw of the ball,
Having played both football and rugby at the collegiate level (football on the organized school team, rugby on the school's club team) I exerted way more energy in football than I did rugby. Of course, since I played offensive line, I was essentially in a scrum every play of the game. When I found out you spend half the time in rugby just jogging around I was in heaven.
Re:Does US have any real jurisdiction over FIFA? (Score:5, Informative)
This 'onion' issue is but a side-show of the indictment of FIFA officers by the Obama Administration
While everyone knows that FIFA is corrupt, we must also acknowledge the fact that the indictments from US is a kind of a long-stretch, for all I know FIFA does not belong to USA alone
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 (FCPA) allows the US to prosecute anyone, anywhere, irregardless of citizenship for specific forms of fraud so long as said person has caused US companies or US-based offices of foreign companies to commit said type of frauds or has used the US banking system to commit said type of frauds. Traffic Sports USA is a company being investigated for that that type of fraud, and so many other businesses tied to either FIFA or CONCACAF.
Now, when I say specific forms of fraud, the law strictly refers to fraud intended to manipulate of foreign politicians or foreign state agencies or to partake in exchange of benefits or gifts with a foreign politician or foreign state agency or representative. The nomination of Qatar for the next World Cup (as a result of a payment under the table to secure those right) falls into that category.
If there were no nationals (or national or US-based business entities) involved at all, then FCPA wouldn't apply at all, and there wouldn't be any news to blather and bloviate about.
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The US interest in the FIFA affair is not because of any concern with the healthy development of soccer, but because we get to make an example of a wealthy foreign twirly-mustache organization for the crime of depositing cash in American banks. While our liberals call it "imperialism" when we bomb ISIS to save minority populations from genocide, bullying foreign banks into adopting our insanely complex regulations against dealing in cash is just fine with them.
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Bribery, tax evasion, trafficking and drug dealing are crimes in their own right, and are just as much crimes in other countries as in the US. A prosecutor should be able to marshal evidence against a perpetrator of any of these without resorting to made-up economic crimes like depositing cash into banks. But Congress decided to criminalize banking as a power play to establish the jurisdiction of US law in places where it doesn't belong - you know, imperialism.
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So are you saying that corrupt Mafia-esque organisations should be free to commit crime on American soil with American money providing they don't actually live in America or leave the country afterwards then or what?
You should be proud that America is the only country that's found the balls to say enough is enough and put an end to Sepp's mafia rather than trying to make it all party politicial and pretending Obama has somehow been bad again. This is a good thing all around, there is nothing bad about what
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Historically, football was the word for any sport played on foot. It has nothing to do with kicking a ball. It was to distinguish itself from polo and other mounted sports.
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Historically, football was the word for any sport played on foot. It has nothing to do with kicking a ball. It was to distinguish itself from polo and other mounted sports.
Hmmm... do you know a (great) game called handball [youtube.com]?
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Yes, I have heard the term handball.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F... [wikipedia.org]
It is even mentioned along side of the etymology of football.
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Yes, I have heard the term handball.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F... [wikipedia.org]
It is even mentioned along side of the etymology of football.
O.K., Sir... so based on that (Although the accepted etymology of the word football, or "foot ball", originated in reference to the action of a foot kicking a ball, this may be a false etymology. An alternative explanation has it that the word originally referred to a variety of games in medieval Europe, which were played on foot.) i can still claim that football is a game... "of a foot kicking a ball"! Right?
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As long as you also mention that it may be a false etymology as the article states right there, then proceeds to provide the other etymology.
As both etymologies are given equal weight right next to each other, is it correct to try and claim that what I said was false while utterly ignoring that the foot kicking ball etymology is considered as possibly false, but not the played on foot etymology?
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Re:Does US have any real jurisdiction over FIFA? (Score:5, Funny)
It really is impossible for you to write anything without saying that you are Greek, is it?
Of course it is possible for me to write something without saying that i am Greek.
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It really is impossible for you to write anything without saying that you are Greek, is it?
Of course it is possible for me to write something without saying that i am Greek.
The bigger question is "can you write anything without saying you are Great?"
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It really is impossible for you to write anything without saying that you are Greek, is it?
Of course it is possible for me to write something without saying that i am Greek.
The bigger question is "can you write anything without saying you are Great?"
Without saying that i am Great? Sure...!
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His schtick is that he thinks that the hosts file is the only way to block malware.
It's actually more odd than that: he "advocates" an installed program which curates the Hosts file. Seems too complicated for me; I just download a hosts from mvp or whereever.
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Sheesh...no sense of humor today. Get over yourselves mods.
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Now, you stupid barbarians, you have to learn 2 things:
1) there is a good reason THE WORLD calls real football... "football"
2) there is a good reason THE WORLD use the metric system - "off-topic", i know, but...!
Yank here...1) We don't give a fuck 2) See 1.
Greek here... 1) Because your dicks are smaller when using the Imperial system! 2) See 1.
Which brings us back to the topic of corruption.
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Now, you stupid barbarians, you have to learn 2 things:
1) there is a good reason THE WORLD calls real football... "football"
2) there is a good reason THE WORLD use the metric system - "off-topic", i know, but...!
Yank here...1) We don't give a fuck 2) See 1.
Greek here... 1) Because your dicks are smaller when using the Imperial system! 2) See 1.
Which brings us back to the topic of corruption.
Exactly: it all starts at 0... you have zero corruption until you have some corruption!
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Re:meta onion (Score:4, Informative)
I wonder if The Onion had ever published a story about real life people or new organizations referring to Onion stories as if they were true?
abcnews has such an article [go.com]. The article includes lots of good links, including a link to the Onion FIFA article [theonion.com].
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Not from The Onion, but there's Literally Unbelievable [literallyu...evable.org]. It's a bit more focused, though, posting funny examples of people on Facebook mistaking Onion articles for real news.
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Not officially The Onion, but all about it.
Come on! (Score:5, Insightful)
We all saw this "news" on Sunday in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. And you got to all this length of stealing the bit and posting it on slashdot just to miss the punchline? Well, for those who have not seen it here it goes:
"Only a FIFA official could be corrupt enough to think the Onion article is not a joke, but something that could actually happen."
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FYI, the FBI doesn't have much of a case.
Oh, you've seen all the evidence? Where can the rest of us see it? Clue: You can't and won't yet.
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Only a FIFA official
Pretty certain there are some Olympic Games officials that could get there. Some Formula One folks too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Onion#The_Onion_taken_seriously [wikipedia.org]
Highlights: Fred Phelps from Westboro Baptist Church, MSNBC, Fox Nation, United States Capitol Police, and Congressman John Fleming (R-Louisiana)
So yeah, you don't actually have to be from outside the US to not know The Onion.
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I think the bigger issue is that a high ranking executive from a multinational sports organization should do more fact-checking than a stay-at-home mom on facebook when making a public statement.
As opposed to some US Congresscritter or a Fox News Website or the fucking police? Who actually should know something that is virtually unknown outside the US? Hello?
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Yes, how the hell would a FIFA executive be expected to know about the FIFA World Cup? He literally worked for the most direct source of information. He doesn't have to know that The Onion is satire to ask some of his ex-colleagues to know if a a World Cup is actually happening or not.
And again you expect from foreigners what you don't expect from Amercuns. Pure hypocrisy.
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US world cup (Score:4, Funny)
Is that a US style "world" cup? so that would include a few US states right?
Au contrair (Score:2)
Is that a US style "world" cup? so that would include a few US states right?
Not true! We'll probably allow one or two Canadian cities to play along, to give the World Cup(tm American Soccar League) "that international" feel.
Re:US world cup (Score:5, Funny)
Of course it isn't. Canada is a province of the US.
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"CANADA IS NOT A STATE!!!" Of course it isn't. Canada is a province of the US.
Better to think of Canada as a collection of US provinces currently tied to a future independent French speaking state.
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Re:US world cup (Score:4, Informative)
As an American who's spent a not insignificant portion of his life in the great white north (I also have family there), I don't understand why it is that only Canadians seem to bring this up. Americans have no interest in Canada ever becoming a state. You're our best trading partner, and have a long history of being one of our best allies. Many of us have even accepted hockey, but we draw the line at curling.
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I don't understand why it is that only Canadians seem to bring this up
I'm a canadian, and until now I've only ever seen it brought up by people who I presume are american. Also bgarcia's invocation of it is really out of context, so this seems like a pretty bad example to jump on.
Curling (Score:2)
The secret to curling is understanding that it isn't really a sport so much as it is a drinking game...
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In that case I look forward to your lessons.
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Lack of attendance by the others doesn't make it less "universal".
Jack Warner (Score:2)
Journalism (Score:5, Insightful)
The Onion may be satirical, but it's fact-checking is about as good as mainstream 'journalists'.
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And here on Slashdot, we check your punctuation - get that apostrophe out of there!
He says dashingly. And, don't even try to claim that was on porpoise.
correct me if i'm wrong (Score:2)
but isn't the inability to reckognise blatant sarcasm an indcation of some sort of psychopathy? (schizophrenia?)
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There's been some recent studies that have suggested a link between the inability to detect sarcasm and dementia. Those with disorders that appear somewhere on the autism spectrum also can have difficulties detecting sarcasm, especially in written works or when there are no physical cues to imply sarcasm (a smile, wink, etc).
In Jack Warner's case, I don't think dementia or an ASD is the issue. I think it's just that he's corrupt as hell and grasping for anything at all. He just grabbed a concrete cinder b
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yeah you're right i confused it with what sapolsky said in one lecture about schizophrenia, where a person with this condition can not recognize underlying meanings or colloquial speech (eg "raining cats and dogs" to a schizophrenic is exactly what it says on the label.)
There have been no games in the U.S. (Score:2)
Scopped by NPR (Score:2)
So, I heard this story on the radio at 5:45 PM CDT yesterday. Slashdot, you were scooped by NPR. (On bot this story and the one on US Airport Screeners).
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Mentally disturbed people are unable to recognize sarcasm, and many nerds are affected by mental disturbances. I learned this by watching the "Big Bang Theory".
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If you weren't such a liberal racist fucker, you'd know that Warner isn't just some "foreign black man" from the sticks. He's from Trinidad and Tobago which, according to Wikipedia, is "the third richest country by GDP (PPP) per capita in the Americas after United States and Canada. Furthermore it is recognized as a high income economy by the World Bank. Unlike most of the English-speaking Caribbean, the country's economy is primarily industrial,[10] with an emphasis on petroleum and petrochemicals. The cou
Re:How is this news for nerds? (Score:5, Insightful)
It's not necessarily fair to expect a highly senior member of an organization to literally know the nuts and bolts of everything that their subordinates know and do, but it's reasonable to expect that they have a handle on the big picture. If they don't have such a handle on the big picture then it looks like they're even more corrupt, simply living the high-life without providing.
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This guy's skill seems to have involved getting good contracts through 'soft skills.' His gullibility to this is reminiscent of 419 eaters [419eater.com].....those who scam fall hardest to scams because of their greed.
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"Liberal racist fucker"? It's the LIBERALS that are racists now? LOL.
Oh yes, they can be. Should I provide you with examples? Now, I have no dog in this fight as of who is better or worse, liberals or conservatives. But anyone who thing racism is strictly a non-liberal trait is full of shit.
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According to the CIA World Factbook, Trinidad and Tobago has a population of about 1.2 million people, or about the size of Dallas, TX. Not exactly a huge place population wise - only 159th in the World.
But since its quality of development (and the discussion herein) centers in its GDP per capita, it kind of doesn't matter a flying turd if its population is just 1.2 mills, does it?
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You're using a plugin to watch Youtube?!? Why would you want to do that?
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Oooh, someone got their sacred cow gored (or in this case, their prophet drawn)..
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olympics and football world cup has already gone to the level of "whoever wants to take it and do it can have it" - that doesn't stop the bribes though and coincidentally the countries getting the games lately are places where bribes are normal way of doing business so those countries weren't yelling foul over them.
for example jack warner has now provided info/claims how he got bribed - but he doesn't even think of it as a bribe, just as normal. buying votes or getting his votes bought was normal order of b
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olympics and football world cup has already gone to the level of "whoever wants to take it and do it can have it" - that doesn't stop the bribes though
Yeah, that's why the US held the World Cup once, the Winter Games thrice, and the Summer Games four times. Somebody better look into that.
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So is my cat.
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FIFA is exactly what is was, nothing more and nothing less. An association with representatives from each country managing an 'Sports Advertising' association based around a specific set of rules and over grown children who can accept doing the same thing over and over again. This is turn sponsored by many governments using public funds, not for the benefit of the public but to subsidise 'Sports Advertising' in return for promotion of those politicians who vote in more 'Sports Advertising' subsidise at the
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If you look up the screen, you will see a nice big "back" button, press that, and off you go an play in the next article, and leave the grown ups alone to get on with thier discussion...
It might not interest you, but others are more well rounded individuals, and we can cope with hold a discussion of a corrupt official using youtube ( a technology much loved and loathed by nerds ) to beg for money and display his stupidity.
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Zoom in on the picture and you can see that his right arm is down by his side. The elbow is WAY out of frame, it should be close to where the light gray progress bar turns dark gray.