Coss Posted February 22, 2010 Report Share Posted February 22, 2010 Makes ya larf dunt it. See below a screen shot of an article about 300 trucks blocking roads, so the photo is of ? nine buses. Further demonstrating the uselessness of journos in LOS. Don't they want to be helped? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 I have never seen the BiB mess with any bus, anywhere in LOS...but they farkin should as many bus drivers are complete idiots and should be sacked!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThaiHome Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 They did get the number of wheels correct. :content: Maybe there were 300 trucks behind the photographer. the article does say they blocked over 4 km or road, so maybe this is just the front. Keep in mind, the GT 2000 was not made in Thailand. It was made in the UK by a con man the UK authorites let operate for almost 10 years, selling worthless gear to 3rd world countries. It was only when he endangered British troops with his junk that they stepped in. Why are you not condeming him and them? Why are you people blaming the victims of this scam? TH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunsanuk Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 Hi, "Why are you people blaming the victims of this scam?" Probably because even though the device has been proven faulty there are still many people in power here who adamantly defend it. Sanuk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThaiHome Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 Yep, and the same thing is happening in Iraq and every other country that got taken in this scam. Don't get me wrong, I hope the UK goes after this guy with everything its got, including the foreign bribery laws, and names the people they find that took bribes to buy it. TH Link Iraqi Interior ministry still backing 'bomb detector' The ADE-651 is still in use at checkpoints in Baghdad Some Iraqi officials are insisting that a controversial bomb detection device works, despite a BBC inquiry in which experts said the item was useless. Britain has banned exports of the ADE-651 and the director of the company selling them was arrested and bailed. But the device is still being used at checkpoints all over Baghdad. ... Another explanation for the current controversy came from a senior Iraqi interior ministry official, Assistant Deputy Minister General Tareq al-Asl, interviewed by the newspaper al-Sharq al-Awsat. "The reason the director of the company was arrested was not because the device doesn't work, but because he refused to divulge the secret of how it works to the British authorities, and the Americans before them," the general was quoted as saying. "I have tested it in practice and it works effectively and 100% reliably." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pom Michael Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 The photo on the print version of the paper was different - it showed hundreds of stopped trucks and buses blocking the highway (Bang Na Trad) yesterday noon time. Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallenda Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 Probably because even though the device has been proven faulty there are still many people in power here who adamantly defend it. Just to be clear, this device isn't what can even fairly be termed "faulty" since that implies that it could somehow possibly work. The basic idea of the thing is that it runs on something like ESP or psychic power, and the way it would detect a bomb would be via something like magic. (the best analogy would be Uri Geller bending a spoon with his psychic abilities) It's total superstitious nonsense. There's not a shred of science-based technology in it. It doesn't even use a battery or electricity. You might as well pick up a rock and point it at the would-be bomb (at a distance, no less). The result would be exactly the same. That's what they should do, run some blind tests commparing its detection results vs that of a 7-11 Slurpee. With confidence I can predict that it will not significantly outperform a Slurpee. And actually, there's a 50-50 chance the Slurpee would win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 Psst! Wanna buy some bomb detecting rocks? I'll give ya a good price. :hubba: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pom Michael Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 I think you should say, "I'll give your government a really super price, and give you back a big rebate personally." That would be a better analogy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted February 23, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 They did get the number of wheels correct. :content: Maybe there were 300 trucks behind the photographer. the article does say they blocked over 4 km or road, so maybe this is just the front. Keep in mind, the GT 2000 was not made in Thailand. It was made in the UK by a con man the UK authorites let operate for almost 10 years, selling worthless gear to 3rd world countries. It was only when he endangered British troops with his junk that they stepped in. Why are you not condeming him and them? Why are you people blaming the victims of this scam? TH I hereby condemn the UK Con Man, the UK authorities, and the idiots in 3rd world countries who bought this device. Fuckwits one and all. Though the OP was about journos and their inability to "get it right". Kind a like when a news story of Tiger cubs being born is accompanied by a photo of a Leopard. "Maybe there were 300 trucks behind the photographer. " Well then the photographer is not very good is he/she? If the subject of the photo is at 180 degrees to the direction the camera is pointed, then some training is in order. Cheers Coss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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