| A while back Robert wrote about the relativity of "live" broadcasts of soccer games in warped media space. Few days back I happened to work out in a health club during the last half of the US/Italy match. The TV was tuned to Univision, the Spanish-language channel. Game ended in a 1-1 tie. As I left the club, the TV in the lobby was tuned to the beginning of the second half of the US/Italy match. The announcer was speaking American English, and standing out on top of the screen were the words "LIVE." I asked the guys watching if they wanted to know how the game ended, since it was already over. When I explained how I knew, they first made it clear that saying the final score would result in a serious perturbation in my personal path dependence. Then one guy looked back at the screen and, with a facial _expression_ reminiscent of Munch's The Scream, said, "But it says it's live..." Mike |
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