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Activist-Comedian Interrupts VW Exec's Geneva Presentation to Install "Cheat Box"

posted by takyon on Thursday March 03 2016, @08:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the defeat-device dept.

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Common Dreams reports:

In a slick protest and righteous reminder that Volkswagen has yet to leave behind its Dieselgate emissions cheating scandal, British activist and comedian Simon Brodkin sabotaged a VW presentation at the Geneva Motor Show Tuesday. As marketing chief Juergen Stackmann sang the praises of their new electrically powered Up! models, Brodkin ambled [1] onto the stage in VW-branded overalls, wielding a wrench and prop [labeled] "cheat box", and began climbing under the car to "fix it". "It's okay, I have the new cheat box", he calmly explained to the bewildered Stackmann. "No one's going to find out about this one."

[...] As Stackmann tried to haul him out from under the car--"It doesn't need a repair, it's a perfect car"--Brodkin referenced VW's [lying, disgraced] CEO with, "Mr. Müller says it's okay as long as no one finds out."

[1] Content is behind scripts. archive.is clears up that nuisance.

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by anubi on Thursday March 03 2016, @09:17AM

    by anubi (2828) on Thursday March 03 2016, @09:17AM (#313011) Journal

    Now, how do we nail Microsoft, SystemD, and other distributions about folding crapcode into their releases?

    This last read of the day gave me something of much mirth to go to sleep on...

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by anubi on Thursday March 03 2016, @09:20AM

    by anubi (2828) on Thursday March 03 2016, @09:20AM (#313012) Journal

    Oh, incidentally, if you just want to see the act... its already up on YouTube. [youtube.com]

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 04 2016, @07:28AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 04 2016, @07:28AM (#313488)

    If you like this kind of activism, you will probably like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yes_Men [wikipedia.org] and their https://archive.org/details/The.Yes.Men.Fix.The.World.P2P.Edition.2010.Xvid [archive.org] (CC BY-NC-ND)

    If for no other reason, then just to spite US chamber of commerce.

    • (Score: 1) by anubi on Friday March 04 2016, @07:42AM

      by anubi (2828) on Friday March 04 2016, @07:42AM (#313494) Journal

      Thanks! I wasn't aware of these guys...

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 04 2016, @10:13AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 04 2016, @10:13AM (#313542)

    For the former a pie in the face will do, for the latter - wait until systemdick is mature then draft a system to replace it that is a clusterfuck.