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I think you're comparing apples to oranges. An article from the mainstream media about bin Laden's killing is nothing out of the ordinary. This link, however,

I think you're comparing apples to oranges. An article from the mainstream media about bin Laden's killing is nothing out of the ordinary. This link, however, is likely the first time in history that something so covert and meticulously planned has been exposed in real-time by someone experiencing it himself. We get the opportunity to see it from his perspective without the media's filters - just raw data. This is incredibly fascinating to me.

fluidcruft 15y ago
Yeah, seems like we kill him every other day.
pnathan 15y ago
Agreed. I will have to archive this guy's tweet stream when I get home. This is history, people.
dkarl 15y ago
He heard about bin Laden being killed the same way the rest of us did.
- guyzero 15y ago
  But unlike the rest of us, he heard bin Laden being killed.
  - dkarl 15y ago
    Ptolemy saw the earth go around the sun every day his whole life. So what? This guy didn't "expose" anything because he didn't know what was going on himself. All he heard was helicopters and an explosion. All the rest -- starting with the fact that one of the helicopters was not Pakistani -- was just gossip he heard nth-hand from eyewitnesses. If Obama had not held a press conference, he still wouldn't know what happened. What's historic about that? It's just the standard excitement and local gossip when something dramatic happens. If he had credibly detailed a piece of information that wasn't officially released, or if he had reported something interesting before it was openly announced by the U.S. government, that would have meant something.
    - TikiTDO 15y ago
      Sure, it's not really historical, but it is certainly indicative of the new age. If you look at the top articles right now, not one of them is particularly important in the grand scheme of things. I think this is surely more interesting that finding out that some data center management tool that perhaps a few dozen people on here will ever use has switched to a different open source license.

fluidcruft 15y ago

Yeah, seems like we kill him every other day.

pnathan 15y ago

Agreed. I will have to archive this guy's tweet stream when I get home. This is history, people.

dkarl 15y ago

He heard about bin Laden being killed the same way the rest of us did.

guyzero 15y ago
But unlike the rest of us, he heard bin Laden being killed.
- dkarl 15y ago
  Ptolemy saw the earth go around the sun every day his whole life. So what? This guy didn't "expose" anything because he didn't know what was going on himself. All he heard was helicopters and an explosion. All the rest -- starting with the fact that one of the helicopters was not Pakistani -- was just gossip he heard nth-hand from eyewitnesses. If Obama had not held a press conference, he still wouldn't know what happened. What's historic about that? It's just the standard excitement and local gossip when something dramatic happens. If he had credibly detailed a piece of information that wasn't officially released, or if he had reported something interesting before it was openly announced by the U.S. government, that would have meant something.
  - TikiTDO 15y ago
    Sure, it's not really historical, but it is certainly indicative of the new age. If you look at the top articles right now, not one of them is particularly important in the grand scheme of things. I think this is surely more interesting that finding out that some data center management tool that perhaps a few dozen people on here will ever use has switched to a different open source license.