Professor Nicely sent an email to Intel describing the problem that he had come across. The email stated that there was a flaw in the Pentium Floating Point Unit (FPU). Intel did not respond, so Nicely posted a general notice on the internet asking
Henry D. Seum Professor Greenhaw AMH 3547 23 November 2009 Mission Impossible: A Historical Review of the U.S.S Pueblo Incident The events of January 23, 1968 have slipped away from the collective conscious of the American people. For the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK) that day’s proceedings are forever enshrined as a tourist attraction in Pyongyang and receive some 250,000 tourist annually (Gluck). On the morning of January 23, 1968 DPRK forces attacked and commandeered the U.S.S. Pueblo while in international waters. To add insult to injury the crew of the Pueblo were held in captivity for nearly a year and used as a propaganda tool by their communist captors.
The threat of terrorist attacks changed American culture immensely; the devastation wakened the need for protection and a sense of security. Dramatic measures were taken in order to protect this country, so foreign relations were severely affected. Post 9/11 government saw the “link between immigration and security”, and that by changing foreign policy it would “reduce the likelihood of future attacks” (Krikorian 567).The safety measure in airports were countless from metal detectors to full body scans. “The immigration system has being penetrated by the enemy”, the officials realized which led to unfair accusation of innocents (Krikorian 568). “Overzealous officials” grill suspicious foreigners “to the point of near panic” (Khan 559).
This was achieved by means of brain washing. The fear of brainwashing came about around World War II when there were many anti-communist as well as prejudice feelings. During this time when American prisoners were captured by Korea, it was believed that they were subjected to this form of torture. Some prisoners actually denounced their citizenship and took on Communist ideals, this makes many weary as to what brought on this great change that would abruptly cause someone to change their mind to something much more radical. Many people thought that while they were held captive, the Korean officials used methods of brainwashing to carry out their agendas.
This did not run smoothly with the Iranian people they felt as if their whole country was changing into the western society of America. The Iran’s have little knowledge about America, due to the horrible international relationship and the fact that most Iranians believe that America is the devils land. When Pahlavi tired to separate church and state within Iran Its people revolted. Suddenly their way of life was being overtaken by this western civilization they knew little of, besides some of the scare tactics that they witnessed in the media. Pahlavi reign leads to the Iran Hostage crisis, in which one of the hostage takers said “You have no right to complain, because you took our country hostage in 1953”.
On October 24,1994, Dr. Nicely notified Intel about his findings. When he didn’t get an immediate response from Intel, he posted a notice on message boards, asking if others have encountered the same errors. This caused a media sources to interview him on his findings, which caused Intel to acknowledge there was a problem with the FPU. Intel didn’t publicly acknowledge there was a problem with the FPU until November 28, 1994. When Intel did acknowledge the flaw, they offered to replace Pentium chip for customer that experience the error.
Again sadly people flip on the television; see the reports reporters found of Iraqis begging that we get out that we have only made things worse, they see that our government spends too much money on the war, and that x amount of soldiers died that day. Talk about only hearing one side of the story. Then these people go around and try and argue that one side completely oblivious to all the positive things we have done over there that really outweigh those negatives. Yeah life in Iraq is dangerous right now, but they don’t have a dictator running all over their country anymore. Yeah our government spent a lot of money last month on military expenses, but I say if money buys freedom then that’s money well spent.
These times also had many differences. People in the Salem Witch Trials were in the 1600's-a very naive time- while people during the time of McCarthyism lived in the 1950's. Citizens of America in the 1600's were scared of one thing, the devil. The churches wanted to rid their town of anyone who associated with him by being hanged. In the 1950's, however, people were terrified of the red Communists coming to take over their beloved country.
Presidential scandals also have made Americans distrust the government. During 1960’s and 1970’s, the Watergate scandal may have caused low external efficacy because not only did the Nixon administration break into the Democratic National Committee headquarters, but they also tried to cover it up which means that politicians most likely hide other similar
t was in late July that a representative from a public radio talk show asked me to take part in a program on “all the insanity about the twenty-fifth anniversary.” He didn’t have to say the twenty-fifth anniversary of what, but I still didn’t know what he was getting at. It seemed to me that in 2002, twenty-five years after Elvis Presley’s death, and more than two years after the last interesting Elvis impersonator, Bill Clinton, had left his stage, the real story was the evaporation of Elvis Presley in American life. What was striking, given the staggering ubiquity of Elvis Presley after his death, was his disappearance from ordinary talk, paintings, movies, t-shirts, other people’s songs—from the cultural conversation through which a society explains itself to itself. The commemoration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of August 16, 1977 seemed more than anything a media mirage churned up by Graceland smoke machines. A Graceland spokesman had recently discussed the problem facing the operation: if Elvis Presley was indeed immortal, his fans were not.