Exclusive transcript: WikiLeaks reveals ass call from a zoo WikiLeaks has started to promote a subset of the documents retrieved from the Democratic National Convention (DNC) as “The DNC recordings”, offering the world 29 MP3 files retrieved from the DNC voice mail system. The Register's crack forensics team can reveal that one of the voice mails may be what experts refer to as “an ass …
Transcript 'sort of' reminded me of a cartoon in a book of 'classic British Seaside postcards' in which the dialogue reads 'Mummy, Mummy, Daddy must have swallowed an elephant, 'cause I can see its trunk sticking out.'
When I read 'ass call' and 'from a zoo' I was expecting harassment calls from the narrower end of the US gene pool.
Methinks that is a classic example of Wikileaks lack of filtering: what the f*ck does this have to do with improving transparency and exposing bad things that happen?
Instead, WL is playing politics. Badly. Heck, this doesn't even do anything for The Great Leader Who Sought To ™ His Name..
"[w]hat's known in law enforcement circles as an 'ass call.'"
"In the States this is colloquially known as a 'butt dial.'"
Thus reflecting the more genteel and proper sensibilities of us Colonists.
Wouldn't the recipient of such a call play for the caller a looping mp3 of a loud fart? Allow me to answer that: I would.
It can't happen with touchscreen phones, unless you are in the habit of putting them in your pocket without locking the screen first. Even then, unless you have thin pockets and a phone that accepts touches through that thin material, you'd have to have your hand in the pocket to make this happen.
A friend with a small Android smartphone normally locked with a scheme left me a 7' message of surrounding noise the other day. She had used the phone and put it back in her pocking without first turning it off (and thus lock it). Oddly, I wasn't even on her list of recently called/texted numbers. And this is not the first time it happens to her. Go figure.
Years ago when phones were the size of house bricks (wait a minute we are getting back there) a mate was visiting his brother when his lad was playing with the new phone thingy dad had. I answered the call to hear him shouting at his lad to put it down. Then followed about an hour and a half of me being unable to disconnect the call, hanging up at my end made no difference. I had to wait until he had driven home so I could call his landline on my mobile to tell him to hang up. I forget how much that call cost him but it weren't cheap
Truth is truth and the evidence is in the emails is good enough for me. Although Hillary was not involved directly in the exchange of internal party communication.. ...the consequence of such tragic events will impact ratings however small or in-significaant it may be. Edward Snowden should not deviate from sticking toward the goal of making disclosures public without redact of documents and specially when such exposures are for every one to see and therefore public has the right to know the misbehavior.
Julian Assange shines.
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