Fact x Importance = News

[Daft]

Seriously, that Bismarcking story in no way deserved its own thread. It's not even that funny.

[jayseven]

People complained when I went about 'thread-ripping' in an attempt to encourage a more diverse forum!

 

A nice "oooh the forum isn't like it was back in the day" post, Charlie, but what Ashley says is pretty much true. There are separate threads for TV shows and films to the Biggos, and there's nothing stopping you from making a whole new thread. Mods use their judgement to decide whether a thread is stand-alone worthy, and you of all people should know and respect that.

[Shino]

All I know is, I didn't know about Toy Story 3 until much later because it was in the film landfill thread.

[danny]

It didn't work for news related stuff. It just resulted in one of the following responses depending on the 'news' story;

 

ROFL

OMG people are so weird

OMG people are so horrible

That's so upsetting

I don't understand...

 

I'm all for creating a new thread based on particular albums, artists, tv shows, films etc. Contrary to popular belief though I can't make people do what I want.

 

But really what is so bad about that? If thats all is said the thread will die in a day or two and then it dosent matter anyway. But as already has been said so much is missed by having these huge threads.

[Charlie]

I know what you mean Ashley, threads like this are sometimes good for smaller stories but on the other hand, why does it matter if there are only a few responses and all of them similar? As someone else said if it's not popular it will die and drop off the main page.

 

And whoever I quoted in my original post, it wasn't aimed at you just a rant in general.

[Dannyboy-the-Dane]

People complained when I went about 'thread-ripping' in an attempt to encourage a more diverse forum!

 

A nice "oooh the forum isn't like it was back in the day" post, Charlie, but what Ashley says is pretty much true. There are separate threads for TV shows and films to the Biggos, and there's nothing stopping you from making a whole new thread. Mods use their judgement to decide whether a thread is stand-alone worthy, and you of all people should know and respect that.

Who complained about it? Were they the same people? 'Cause I liked that approach, personally.

 

Well, we can always debate whether the mods' judgement is good in these cases. It does seem like some people disagree with the mods' opinions on what makes a thread stand-alone worthy.

[Ashley]

Eevil complained.

 

Cheap Clothes Cause Chaos - Coopers Called; Causalities Caused, Chaos Ceased.

 

A rummage sale at AmAppy in London led to a riot which injured ten police and led to three arrests.

 

(more vids on YT)

 

Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article7086535.ece

 

Madness, and for such mediocrity too.

Edited April 4, 2010 by Ashley

[Ellmeister]

Notice one guy scraping the loudspeaker away at the end so he could slyly nick it :p

[Dan_Dare]

Women arrested trying to check body on to plane.

 

I'm a bad person. This was the first thing I thought of.

 

[Goafer]

I'm a bad person. This was the first thing I thought of.

 

I thought of this:

 

[Daft]

Malcolm McLaren died.

 

Sad but he had a pretty fucking awesome life.

[Paj!]

My favourite.

 

He was grand.

 

EDIT: Thought it was someone else, but then it was actually someone who I also liked.

[The Bard]

Haha, I was at that American Apparel sale with my girlfriend on the second day, and it was absolutely shit, nothing worth buying at all. Especially farcical when considering that theres this amazing stall in the market that sells t-shirts with some really really amazing artwork on them, and far better than anything you can get from AA.

[Ashley]

Which day did you go? (second actual day, which would be the Saturday, or second full day which would be the Sunday?) My friend went to the Sunday and said it was rubbish.

 

Pixar; making great films, making great scientific breakthroughs

 

Radiologist Richard Breiman, of the University of California, San Francisco is harnessing 3D graphics technology pioneered by Pixar, the studio behind Toy Story and a string of other CGI hits. Called volume rendering, it can assemble those CT slices into images that are viewable from any angle. Breiman can even manipulate the picture, gamer style -- spin it around or animate it for, say, a flight through the bowel. (Bet you can't do that in Assassin's Creed 2.)

 

 

Source

[stuwii]

AP Israel gives urgent warning for it's citizens to leave Egypt's Sinai peninsula

 

What the hell could this mean

 

Well its not as bad as I thought

 

http://http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_ISRAEL_EGYPT?SITE=TXMCA&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

 

Not attack on Egypt but terrorist threat, phew

Edited April 13, 2010 by stuwii

[The Bard]

Could just be some cryptic prophesied protocol of the elders of Zion? Meh? What's the context? Is there any reason to be overly alarmed?

[D_prOdigy]

The only story I found on this was on Capital FM...

 

The Israeli prime minister's anti-terror office said there was "concrete evidence" of an expected terror attempt to seize Israelis in the region.

 

In an unusually strong statement, it said "all Israelis residing in Sinai" should leave now and return home.

 

It also called on families of Israelis touring Sinai to contact the office.

 

It has a standard travel advisory telling Israelis to stay out of the Sinai desert because of the threat of terror attacks.

 

However, thousands of Israelis routinely ignore the warning and go on holiday in the desert and along its Red Sea coast.

 

Egyptian security officials said about 35,000 Israelis are in the Sinai now, and they expected thousands more to arrive later this month.

 

Sky's Middle East correspondent Dominic Waghorn said: "Sinai is a popular tourist destination for Israelis, particularly young Israelis.

 

"Nearly all of them are in the army and therefore soldiers and therefore targets for groups like Hamas who have been known to operate in the Sinai."

 

He added: "Hamas have been trying for a number of months and years to kidnap another Israeli soldier.

 

"They already have Gilad Shalit. They have been holding him in Gaza. He was kidnapped in southern Israel, but the border between Israel and Egypt and Gaza and Egypt is relatively porous.

 

"If Hamas can get its operatives into Sinai and they are able to kidnap an Israeli soldier, then they will be able to smuggle him back into Gaza through the tunnels out of Sinai."

 

Waghorn said the new warning was a "step up" from the ones the Israeli authorities have been issuing recently.

 

In 2004, suicide bombers attacked Egypt's Taba Hilton Hotel, just across the Israeli border, and several campsites where Israelis are known to stay on holiday.

 

Dozens of people were killed and hundreds wounded.

 

Israel controlled the Sinai from its capture in the 1967 war until returning it to Egypt in 1982 in the framework of a peace treaty between the two nations.

 

Yeah, just lock or move to noos thread...

[Happenstance]

 

Oh God, Oh God, Oh God, Oh God, Oh God, Oh God, Oh God, Oh God, Oh God, Oh God, Oh God, Oh God, Oh God, Oh God, Oh God, Oh God, Oh God !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ashley]

Art...

 

(ignore the mirroring)

 

Meet life, its imitating you!

 

Actor Kelsey Grammer is one of the names behind The RightNetwork, a new operation that is being targeted at "Americans who are looking for content that reflects and reinforces their perspective and world-view."

 

Likewise, the network's promotional materials say it will focus on entertainment with "pro-America," "pro-business, pro-military sensibilities" that will ultimately invite conversation and influence "the national conversation."

 

Basically, if Fox News wasn't right wing enough then there's a whole network devoted to it!

 

Urgh. I love Grammar but what the fuck are you doing?

[Dan_Dare]

oh...I thought that was a spoof. Oh dear.

[Dante]

Hitler `Downfall' parodies removed from YouTube

 

Adolf Hitler, for years a vessel of frustration in a popular Internet meme, has been quieted.

 

"Downfall," a German film released in 2004 about Hitler's last days, has been adopted for wildly popular YouTube parodies that have spanned mock rants about topics as varied as playing Xbox video games to Kanye West to Apple's new iPad.

 

Every spoof is from the same scene in the film: A furious, defeated Hitler, played by Bruno Ganz, unleashes an impassioned, angry speech to his remaining staff, huddled with him in his underground bunker.

 

The scene takes on widely different meaning when paired with English subtitles about, say, a late-season collapse by the New York Mets. Most any subject could be — and was — substituted, made even funnier by the scene's intense melodrama, artful staging and timely cutaways.

 

It was the meme that refused to die — until it did.

 

On Tuesday, the clips on YouTube, many of which had been watched by hundreds of thousands, even millions, began disappearing from the site. Constantin Films, the company that owns the rights to the film, asked for them to be removed, and YouTube complied.

 

Martin Moszkowicz, head of film and TV at Constantin films in Munich, said the company had been fighting copyright infringement for years. Jewish organizations have also complained about the tastefulness of the clips, he said.

 

"When does parody stop? It is a very complicated issue," Moszkowicz said. "So we are taking a simple approach: Take them all down. We've been doing it for years now. The important thing is to protect our copyright. We are very proud of the film."

 

Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, said the league was "delighted."

 

"We find them offensive," said Foxman of the videos. "We feel that they trivialize not only the Holocaust but World War II. Hitler is not a cartoon character."

 

Moszkowicz disputed the idea that all the attention to "Downfall," which grossed $5.5 million at the U.S. box office and was nominated for a best foreign language film Oscar, had helped the film.

 

"We have not been able to see any increase in DVD sales," he said. "There is no correlation between Internet parodies and sales of a movie, at least not that I am aware of."

 

Moszkowicz said he didn't know why the videos were only recently taken down and suggested that it could have been "something on the YouTube end."

 

YouTube, which is owned by Google, declined to comment Wednesday about the takedown of the videos.

 

Some have argued that, being parodies, the videos are protected under "fair use," the legal doctrine that holds that the use of some creative works for purposes such as parody and education may be considered "fair."

 

The site's policy about content that infringes on copyright is that it will remove videos if the copyright holder requests it. Using "Content ID" technology, the site is able to digitally search through its enormous archives and automatically remove any videos in violation.

 

That's a process that typically takes days or weeks.

 

However, YouTube promotes the ability to monetize such videos and allow the copyright holder — if it chooses to allow the user-uploaded videos to remain — to earn a percentage of advertising from the clips. YouTube claims that the majority of the more than 1,000 media companies using its Content ID technology opt for this route.

 

"Content ID has created an entirely new economic model for rights holders," YouTube said in a statement.

 

Many Hitler clips were still online Wednesday, and new parodies were popping up featuring Hitler ranting about his removal from YouTube.

 

For years, the meme has held an unusually steadfast position in Internet culture. While most online parodies come and go overnight, new "Downfall" spoofs have been continually created for years. It's not known exactly how many have existed but estimates run in the hundreds.

 

They have served as a kind of soapbox for real and mock anguish, a way to comically vent about anything and everything.

 

The film's director, Oliver Hirschbiegel, told New York magazine in January that he was constantly sent the parodies and he very much liked them.

 

"The point of the film was to kick these terrible people off the throne that made them demons, making them real and their actions into reality," Hirschbiegel told the magazine. "I think it's only fair if now it's taken as part of our history and used for whatever purposes people like. If only I got royalties for it, then I'd be even happier."

 

The loss was felt across the Web on Wednesday as if a grand, beloved tradition had been stifled.

 

In one of its most commented-on posts, the blog Techcrunch lamented that a voice had been lost, writing: "Memes on the Internet don't get any better than the Hitler one."

[Ashley]

Actually, Hitler is quite often a cartoon character.

 

[Cube]

Where is the Hitler parody that complains about the removal of Hitler parodies?

[Raining_again]

This is just the beginning of this stupid data economy bill. If they can do this, what else can they remove?

[Gizmo]

Pretty sure this has nothing to do with the DEB.