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What do Microsoft and the Chinese Olympics Committee have in common

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Why they both fake demos. Microsoft used to give presentations where the presenter pretended to do a live demo, when in fact a video was playing and they moved their mouse as if giving it live, they also did a fake demo in the anti-trust lawsuit a few years back.

Which leads us to the Chinese Olympics, the footprint fireworks were prerecorded, and a young girl singing was replaced with a "prettier" one who mimed, aren't all kids cute, even ugly ones? So I have to wonder was there a miss-communication, surely they meant to replace Sarah Brightman, replace her with a better looking fake singer would never be a bad thing?

Posted by Carl Tyler On 08/12/2008 | Permalink |

Comments

1 - The guy running the Olympics fireworks show would end up in jail if the show didn't please his communist master. So he had to be careful.

Posted by Wassim At 12:40:41 PM On 08/12/2008 | - Website - |

2 - so Carl what's wrong with Sarah Brightman Emoticon

Posted by Dad At 12:52:49 PM On 08/12/2008 | - Website - |

3 - @2 are you serious?

Posted by Carl Tyler At 12:54:20 PM On 08/12/2008 | - Website - |

4 - miss-communication ... is that like a misspelling?

Posted by Mike M At 01:10:12 PM On 08/12/2008 | - Website - |

5 - @4 It's how FrankenNotes told me it was spelled.

miss-communication was ok
miscommunication was bad

Posted by Carl Tyler At 01:13:09 PM On 08/12/2008 | - Website - |

6 - According to the story in the NY Times, it was the party officials who demanded that they use the voice of the other, supposedly less pretty, girl.

Posted by Richard Schwartz At 02:00:53 PM On 08/12/2008 | - Website - |

7 - Is the Olympics an excuse for thinly veiled racism? No one was hurt because the little girl mimed. They have put on a great show and as far as I can see done nothing the Americans or Europeans wouldn't have done. Wanting perfection in front of the world largest television audience doesn't seem a bad aspiration to me. Rant over Emoticon

Posted by wayne At 08:56:07 AM On 08/13/2008 | - Website - |

8 - @7 Not sure I follow Wayne, are you proposing this blog posting is racist or that the general attitude of the west is racist towards China?

I'm not sure I'd call the west racist, I think what's happening is that we're getting a wakeup call, that there is a country with over a billion people that are kicking our arses when it comes to work. Things are going to change, and not everyone is going to be impacted in a good way.

Basically market forces which has been so good to America, is about to be the thing that kicks America's but.

Posted by Carl Tyler At 09:12:41 AM On 08/13/2008 | - Website - |

9 - You misspelled butt. But it is ok.

Posted by Wassim At 02:55:51 PM On 08/13/2008 | - Website - |

10 - @9 Jeez Emoticon

Posted by Carl Tyler At 02:57:39 PM On 08/13/2008 | - Website - |