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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.