IGN: The “brew”-haha over the so-called “hot coffee” modification to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas continues, with a media watchdog group now issuing a warning to parents about the game — and developer Rockstar finally commenting on the allegedly unlockable pornographic content.
Author: Jonas Heide Smith
Indecent immigration affairs
The Danish Immigration Service has found itself in a crossfire of disastrous allegations concerning corruption at a level practically unprecedented in Danish administration (within the set of known cases, of course). Given the present knowledge the institution is in dire legal difficulties.
The vice director admits today that she cannot give guarantees against additional problems given the current “campaign” against the Service. Let me give a peace of free communication advice. What you want to say is this: “Given that we are taking our problems extremely seriously, leaving no stone unturned I cannot guarantee that still-hidden cases will not turn up but I can guarantee that no new cases will be added to this pile because of our new procedures for avoiding such scandals”. That’s what you want to say. You do not want to blame the media. Trust me.
Adding to the oddities, the right-wing Danish People’s Party declares today that it will not protect the minister of immigration affairs if it turns out that she was aware of the situation in the service. Excuse me, the person legally responsible now has to have been aware of the situation? Such an approach to administrative responsibility is of course likely to create a veil of ignorance around all ministers so that they can rightfully claim that, no, we really were not aware of the situation.
But then again, the Danish People’s Party, never lost much sleep over immigration bureaucracy irregularities.
Free as in free beer
I’m the most closed-source open source fan on the planet.
But let it be noted that NVU, the freely available multi-platform web editor has arrived in its version 1.0. Haven’t worked seriously with it, but from what I can tell it looks pretty impressive.
Copenhagen, come in Copenhagen
Showing my combined gaming effort of the near past, present and future here’s my state-of-the-art Axis submarine as Captain Schmidt glides gently through the narrow strait between Zealand and Amager only to find… a surprising mass of land (crippling my forward torpedo tubes) and no trace of Copenhagen.
Other than being geographically challenged, Silent Hunter III seems quite promising. But then again, I’m biased towards all things submarinian.
Online submarine battle, anyone?