[yuezhi]

Remind me again why we bothered to build all of the Modern NATO equipment in the first place
It's not as though any of these million dollar expenses are ever going to get used to their full potential.

somehow they find an excuse for everything.

[Luis Dias]

N.Korea's Asian Pacific Peace Committee

lol

A minipax statement delivered by the minitrue.

[General Battuta]

N.Korea's Asian Pacific Peace Committee

lol

Holy ****

[An4ximandros]

They say Kim-Jong-Un is gonna make the first strike himself:

[Luis Dias]

N.Korea's Asian Pacific Peace Committee

lol

Holy ****

Told you, you didn't wanna believe me

[yuezhi]

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/
This has got to be the work of the onion!

[Dragon]

  Well, serves them right I suppose. What makes it even funnier is that Win 8 is essentially a system designed for idiots. And they managed to mess it up. Come on, do something right for once and declare war on MS. That's something I'd like to see.

[The E]

You are assuming that those news were actual, real news. They're not. Which is made clear if you scroll down and read the other reports there.

[jg18]

Indeed, it's a humor blog, and a pretty good one at that IMO.

A couple other posts that are relevant to the topic of this thread:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/04/kim-jong-un-moves-transformers-collection-to-border.html

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/04/citing-exhaustion-kim-jong-un-to-stop-threatening-world-on-weekends.html

[yuezhi]

damn if only it was true. after all anyone can expect win8 to fail epicly at any time

[Fury]

Did you seriously think Norks would be able to afford Windows, let alone know how to use it?

Oh wait, if they use non-free software, they have certainly pirated it.

[Dragon]

You are assuming that those news were actual, real news. They're not. Which is made clear if you scroll down and read the other reports there.

You're right, though it does a darn good job at looking legit, and the article sounded convincing enough, Win8 and NK being what they are (I was in a hurry, so I didn't pay much attention to other articles). The name of the site didn't help, "The Onion" and "The Duffel Blog" sound strange enough that you can tell they're a joke at a glance, while "Newyorker" sounds like an actual newspaper name.

[The E]

You have to be rather gullible to fall for that (Not to mention pretty prejudiced against a certain operating system).

[Dragon]

As I said, I read it quickly and didn't give it much thought. Let's face it, systems sometimes fail (I recall there being an US destroyer crippled by a Win NT bug, though it was quite some time ago). New systems fail a bit more, and Win8 is quite recent. NK isn't exactly known for technical minds, and Kim threatening to declare war on Microsoft sounded rather in-character to me (it did strike me as odd, but I thought it was just another of his antics). I wasn't thinking about such details as there being no reason for NK to actually use Win8 in a missile system (or even to have it at all), or the fact NK wouldn't announce it to the world like that. Let's just say that this was the kind of news I come to expect from them, sort of like Valathil's April Fool (unbelievable, but coming from a guy who done unbelievable things before).

[ssmit132]

I was going to mention something about compatibility issues stemming from a jump between Windows 95 and Windows 8 being not completely unreasonable, but Dragon beat me to it (of course I thought it was bunkum, anyway).

[Scourge of Ages]

You know your regime is crazy when the clearly fake news spoof sounds reasonable

[Lorric]

You know your regime is crazy when the clearly fake news spoof sounds reasonable

I've seen that happen with Saudi Arabia spoof stories too.

[Dragon]

You know your regime is crazy when the clearly fake news spoof sounds reasonable

My point exactly. If this continues, soon nobody will be able to write a good spoof news article about NK, since actual news would beat even the best humorists out there. Extremists and fundamentalists in general often provide good laughs if you're not being ruled by them, and Kim is an extreme example of an extremist (not to mention completely off his rocker).

[karajorma]

You have to be rather gullible to fall for that (Not to mention pretty prejudiced against a certain operating system).

Yep.

[Ghostavo]

I think this is relevant to this discussion.