And so it begins...

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 4:44 pm

http://contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf ... t_22_03_06

The Department of Homeland Security now apparently has the power to restrict what can and can not be said in movies.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 4:48 pm

Maybe I'm reading it wrong... but surely they're just declining permission for their name / likeness / whatever to be used?

Surely no different to any other organisation refusing clearance for stuff?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 5:02 pm

I don't see it as any different to a decade ago when the USAF denied the producers of Independence Day use of their aircraft over the use of Area 51.

I'm not sure how the author of the article managed to typo DHS as NHS, however, seeing as no keyboard layout has those keys on the same hand, let alone near each other, and it's got nothing to do with the UK.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 7:06 pm

Rebis wrote:I'm not sure how the author of the article managed to typo DHS as NHS, however, seeing as no keyboard layout has those keys on the same hand, let alone near each other, and it's got nothing to do with the UK.

N is right above the space bar, though. It's possible they knocked the key whilst starting the new word, then misfired on the D, without noticing.

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Aaron Hong · Post by **Aaron Hong** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 1:41 pm

Brendocon wrote:Maybe I'm reading it wrong... but surely they're just declining permission for their name / likeness / whatever to be used?

Surely no different to any other organisation refusing clearance for stuff?

Like Volkswagen not wanting their VW Beetle made into an Alternator....

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 5:15 pm

Aaron Hong wrote:
Brendocon wrote:Maybe I'm reading it wrong... but surely they're just declining permission for their name / likeness / whatever to be used?

Surely no different to any other organisation refusing clearance for stuff?
Like Volkswagen not wanting their VW Beetle made into an Alternator....

Not quite. Volkswagon is a privately owned (but publicly traded) )company. A government agency is completely different.

Post by **Best First** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:02 pm

yeah, it would make a crap alt mode for one thing.