Re: A fun urban legend...

From: Hal Finney (hal@finney.org)
Date: Sun Apr 20 2003 - 19:32:57 MDT

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    Mike Lorrey writes:
    > Just saw the news when I was browsing some anarchist websites.
    > Allegedly a fellow named Carllsin was busted by the SEC for insider
    > trading because he turned $800 into $350 million in a matter of weeks.
    > The fellow claims he isn't an insider trader, he is instead a time
    > traveller from 2250 AD.... offers the location of bin Laden if we let
    > him go... Turns out, obviously, that it is an internet hoax. Expect
    > the leftie communuts to continue to believe it four weeks after it
    > first broke wind. Apparently they don't check their facts even with
    > such a pathetically weak story.

    The article was originally from the Weekly World News, the tabloid
    which all the other tabloids are ashamed of. Actually it's the only
    one I sometimes buy because it's so funny, with the stories having no
    acquaintance whatsoever with the truth. You can see some examples at
    http://www.weeklyworldnews.com.

    I can't find the time travelling trader story there now, but it was
    discussed on slashdot where they linked to
    http://tv.yahoo.com/news/wwn/20030319/104808600007.html, which
    occasionally reprints some juicy WWN tidbits in their gossip column.
    Apparently the yahoo.com brand was enough to give the story a certain
    amount of credibility, and it got reported as fact here and there.

    I'm amazed that you managed to put political spin on such a stupid story.
    It's a good example of how an entrenched ideology forces you to interpret
    everything through its narrow filter. Refresh my memory... is Bigfoot
    a Republican or a Democrat?

    Hal



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