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A comment on How a Microsoft Font Brought Down Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (2017).

Re:How a Microsoft Font Brought Down Pakistani Prime Ministe... by userbinator on Friday July 06, 2018 @08:05AM (#17470706)
It's like watching a movie set in the 1950s and noticing someone in the background walking past with his head looking down at a smartphone.
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Re:How a Microsoft Font Brought Down Pakistani Prime Ministe... by emeth on Friday July 06, 2018 @11:23AM (#17472152)
Like this Charlie Chaplin 1928 movie, with a time traveler talking into a cell phone walking by?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU_k4yGPeOI

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Re:How a Microsoft Font Brought Down Pakistani Prime Ministe... by chungy on Friday July 06, 2018 @02:37PM (#17474022)
Good luck getting cell reception in 1928 :)
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Re:How a Microsoft Font Brought Down Pakistani Prime Ministe... by ChrisRR on Friday July 06, 2018 @08:33AM (#17470853)
That's called an anachronism.
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Re:How a Microsoft Font Brought Down Pakistani Prime Ministe... by amp108 on Friday July 06, 2018 @10:07AM (#17471467)
We're not talking about movies with a giant snake.
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Re:How a Microsoft Font Brought Down Pakistani Prime Ministe... by arif_sohaib on Friday July 06, 2018 @10:10AM (#17471488)
Finally a comment about the article and not about Pakistan.
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