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OhYeah posted:A lot of quite wealthy people over the age of 50 have real trouble with anything remotely modern in technology. My sixty-something PhD advisor had the worst typing skills I've ever seen. He was a full-on history professor so it's not like typing should have been something he was unfamiliar with, and yet... 
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Slaan posted:Jerome is a French name, and he is the sender, so I think it was bad knowledge of English rather than French? Or it could be both? Jerome Valcke is French yeah. SNAKES N CAKES posted:It takes a particularly lazy mind to translate "il y a quelques semaines" as "there are few weeks". All the warning signs were there. That's just the level of English in France.
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Jun 11, 2015 20:31
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:My sixty-something PhD advisor had the worst typing skills I've ever seen. He was a full-on history professor so it's not like typing should have been something he was unfamiliar with, and yet... A lot of older academics came up during the "dictate then get a secretary/grad assistant to type it out" days, and have been slow to move on from them (in those instances where they've moved on at all).
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Jun 11, 2015 20:32
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB7CBxfRUaw The epic music probably is the best part of this.
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Jun 11, 2015 22:54
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Captain_Maclaine posted:A lot of older academics came up during the "dictate then get a secretary/grad assistant to type it out" days, and have been slow to move on from them (in those instances where they've moved on at all). When my dad was in college(and he's only a little over 60), he'd pay someone to type up his papers for him. Typing was a secretarial skill back then, not something everyone knew how to do well. It took him years to really learn how to type at a decent pace.
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Jun 11, 2015 23:01
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Per Reuters, the Swiss have seized more IT data, including stuff from Blatter's office.quote:The Swiss Attorney General (OAG) confirmed that "FIFA handed over today seized IT data to the OAG". http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/10/soccer-fifa-election-president-idUSKBN0OQ0O620150610
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Jun 11, 2015 23:22
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If Blatter isn't a moron he probably covered his tracks. I'm surprised he didn't just "lose" his stuff like the Russian bid guys.
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Jun 11, 2015 23:33
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SNAKES N CAKES posted:It takes a particularly lazy mind to translate "il y a quelques semaines" as "there are few weeks". All the warning signs were there. Even if you rammed that poo poo through Google translator and took the first thing it spat out, you'd think common sense would kick in and go, "psst, it's a few weeks ago."
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Jun 12, 2015 00:26
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Kurtofan posted:If Blatter isn't a moron That's an increasingly tenuous presumption.
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Chokes McGee posted:Even if you rammed that poo poo through Google translator and took the first thing it spat out, you'd think common sense would kick in and go, "psst, it's a few weeks ago." Do we know who translated it? The person who translated it into English might not have been a native English speaker. Also, Google Translate spits back "a few weeks ago." Google Translate, due to the way the system works, is actually not super terrible at really common phrases like that.
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Kurtofan posted:If Blatter isn't a moron he probably covered his tracks. With decades of blatant corruption permeating the organization it seems more likely that any attempts to cover his tracks are minimal at best. Remember that this started when a dumbass with a luxury apartment for his cats figured not filling taxes with the IRS was a good idea. Backing the Qatar World Cup to the hilt doesn't speak much for the ability to cover tracks any better by anyone in FIFA leadership.
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Jun 12, 2015 00:55
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Kurtofan posted:If Blatter isn't a moron he probably covered his tracks. I'm sure there are laws about setting fire to multiple dumpsters.
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Jun 12, 2015 01:44
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I expect Blatter isn't a moron, but after decades of sleeze he is probably utterly complacent and sloppy.
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Jun 12, 2015 01:53
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FIFA's communications director has been fired. http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/33099881 quote:Gregorio told Swiss chat show Schawinski: "The Fifa president, secretary general and communications director are all travelling in a car. Who's driving? The police."
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El Scotch posted:I expect Blatter isn't a moron, but after decades of sleeze he is probably utterly complacent and sloppy. I'm not sure it ever occurred to any of them that accepting millions of dollars of bribes could land you in any trouble. I assume they all thought because FIFA is international no country could arrest them and they probably wen't getting arrested by the Hague.
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Jun 12, 2015 01:57
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Morrow posted:FIFA's communications director has been fired. This is amazing.
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Pope Guilty posted:According to this map of football fandom by county, probably the Steelers. Fans of certain teams have certain stereotypes, and from what i've seen, Raider's fans can be found all the way to Seattle and they are deranged people. You might want to avoid someone wearing a Raider's cap.
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Jun 12, 2015 11:01
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Morrow posted:FIFA's communications director has been fired. Worth it.
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RonJeremysBalzac posted:Fans of certain teams have certain stereotypes, and from what i've seen, Raider's fans can be found all the way to Seattle and they are deranged people. You might want to avoid someone wearing a Raider's cap. ESPN has one of those 30 for 30 documentaries about the Raiders- it's made by Ice Cube and talks about the Raiders' time in LA and their style and influence on NWA.
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ntan1 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB7CBxfRUaw  I love how Jack Warner, noted rich person in a position of responsibility, thinks that freedom of speech means freedom from criticism like a redditor.
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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Morrow posted:FIFA's communications director has been fired. This must have been his exit strategy. Bravo.
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Jun 12, 2015 13:59
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Morrow posted:FIFA's communications director has been fired. quote:Fifa said in its statement that De Gregorio would remain with the organisation on a consultancy basis until the end of the year. They're so corrupt they can't even properly fire him. 
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RPZip posted:Worth it.
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Jun 12, 2015 16:47
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Murderion posted:They're so corrupt they can't even properly fire him. The issue may be that they can't find a proper replacement, because who's going to take a job as FIFA's PR guy now?
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Jun 12, 2015 17:12
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Morrow posted:The issue may be that they can't find a proper replacement, because who's going to take a job as FIFA's PR guy now? is Bagdhad Bob still alive
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ayn rand hand job posted:is Bagdhad Bob still alive Yes but not for much longer it seems. "On November 7, 2014, Swedish newspaper Expressen posted a video of a terminally ill Al-Sahhaf in a hospital bed in the United Arab Emirates.[12]"
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Jun 12, 2015 17:20
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Morrow posted:The issue may be that they can't find a proper replacement, because who's going to take a job as FIFA's PR guy now? Oh dear, it appears we've lost our second fiddle. Anyone here know how to play? - Bandmaster S. Blatter, RMS Titanic, 15/4/1912
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Jun 12, 2015 17:40
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Morrow posted:The issue may be that they can't find a proper replacement, because who's going to take a job as FIFA's PR guy now? Call me, FIFA. Let's talk money.
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Jun 12, 2015 17:43
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That was a pretty funny joke. How did Blatter think firing him was going to look? 
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SedanChair posted:That was a pretty funny joke. How did Blatter think firing him was going to look?
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Interpol has suspended its joint "Integrity in Sport" program with FIFA. http://www.interpol.int/News-and-media/News/2015/N2015-080 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33107591
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eviltastic posted:Interpol has suspended its joint "Integrity in Sport" program with FIFA. So is this Interpol signaling their intentions that they want to go to bat in extraditing/trying these guys?
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Some extra  fallout on the side:DFB (German football association) ex-president Theo Zwanziger called Qatar the cancer that is killing futbol a few years ago. Qatar finally gets around to categorically denying that it's cancer (but not the other thing  ), and sues. Zwanziger hires the most expensive lawyer in sight, a former politician who has wrangled money out of the Deutsche Bank 
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DeathSandwich posted:So is this Interpol signaling their intentions that they want to go to bat in extraditing/trying these guys? I was guessing someone in charge realized that they were running a joint program titled "Integrity in Sport" with twenty million euros of FIFA's money and went "are you loving kidding me". Per this article, that's an enormous sum in light of their annual budget.
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Jun 12, 2015 18:58
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DeathSandwich posted:So is this Interpol signaling their intentions that they want to go to bat in extraditing/trying these guys? I think this was basically set up so that FIFA could look like they were cleaning up their poo poo (and probably give a proper slap on the wrist to anyone who did something really dumb) without doing anything. Only, too bad, Interpol's smelling all the blood in the water and realizes they don't have to or want to play nice anymore.
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To be fair, the way I heard the story, Integrity in Sport was an anti-match fixing program and FIFA does have an interest in making sure that no-one but them is fixing any matches.
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One thing I'm curious about is, could Fifa have continued to get away with this indefinitely if they'd been more intelligent about the countries they accepted bribes from? It seemed to me that from the moment they made the announcement, everybody was calling bullshit on the Qatar World Cup. It's just so obviously dumb and inappropriate, but I wonder if they could have just focused on extracting bribes from countries that at least made some degree of sense as hosts.
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The DOJ investigation is older than that, but their absolutely brazen behaviour over the last couple of years has probably contributed to confessions, cooperation from overseas bodies, and the general atmosphere of jubilation.
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EvanSchenck posted:One thing I'm curious about is, could Fifa have continued to get away with this indefinitely if they'd been more intelligent about the countries they accepted bribes from? It seemed to me that from the moment they made the announcement, everybody was calling bullshit on the Qatar World Cup. It's just so obviously dumb and inappropriate, but I wonder if they could have just focused on extracting bribes from countries that at least made some degree of sense as hosts. Well, probably but they would have had to go back like 20 years and start being more careful and intelligent way back when. Remember, this investigation started over two decades ago.
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Alkydere posted:Well, probably but they would have had to go back like 20 years and start being more careful and intelligent way back when. I thought the investigation started a few years ago, but had accumulated evidence going back 24 years.
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