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How a Microsoft Font Brought Down Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (2017)

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Re: How a Microsoft Font Brought Down Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (2017)

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Post by selimthegrim »

jessaustin wrote: post #15
amriksohata wrote: post #9

Pakistan is not a democracy, it is run by the military regardless of who is in power, the ISI it's it's real head of state, which have a pro-islamist agenda but with a slightly modern outlook for economic growth. Regardless if he did any wrongdoing, there have been far worse acts by politicians in Pakistan and they have got away with it.

I didn't really understand USA until I spent some time considering Pakistan.

This. Pakistan is a Republican wet dream, if Republicans were Muslim.

Re: How a Microsoft Font Brought Down Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (2017)

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Post by nobrains »

philliphaydon wrote: post #10

If it was released in beta of longhorn in 2004 couldn’t they have still legitimately created the doc???

Even if it was, it would beg the question of probability of them (1) installing and using the beta and (2) somehow selecting an obscure font and (3) the font ends up becoming the default font years later.

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Post by iKSv2 »

amingilani wrote: post #13
amriksohata wrote: post #9

Pakistan is not a democracy, it is run by the military regardless of who is in power, the ISI it's it's real head of state, which have a pro-islamist agenda but with a slightly modern outlook for economic growth. Regardless if he did any wrongdoing, there have been far worse acts by politicians in Pakistan and they have got away with it.

That may have been true a few decades ago, but it's certainly becoming more democratic.. still not the best, though. Especially with the military curb circulations of a private national newspaper.

Sure its not perfect but its definitely not how it was in my childhood ( The Musharraf days )

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Post by Waterluvian »

amingilani wrote: post #13
amriksohata wrote: post #9

Pakistan is not a democracy, it is run by the military regardless of who is in power, the ISI it's it's real head of state, which have a pro-islamist agenda but with a slightly modern outlook for economic growth. Regardless if he did any wrongdoing, there have been far worse acts by politicians in Pakistan and they have got away with it.

That may have been true a few decades ago, but it's certainly becoming more democratic.. still not the best, though. Especially with the military curb circulations of a private national newspaper.

Democracy is more palatable these days because the power it yields to the people can be reclaimed easier than ever through modern technology. Keep the wrong ideas contained through control of media channels, censorship, etc. and you can marginalize the true freedom their vote supposedly provides.

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Post by iKSv2 »

philliphaydon wrote: post #10

If it was released in beta of longhorn in 2004 couldn’t they have still legitimately created the doc???

"longhorn" aah that word triggers the memories of "packs" we used to get on deviantart to modify your windows back in the day
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