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Veteran returns to Vietnam; returns photo of man he killed
You said it. *quality
Modern Warfare 2 in 30 seconds.
Rape, Rape, Rape, Rape!
Leaked footage of a Modern Warfare 2 level as a terrorist?
Bill Maher on The Jay Leno Show
Leaked footage of a Modern Warfare 2 level as a terrorist?
Some distributor or developer decides the best way to give their game publicity and to boost its all important opening earnings is to include a gratuitously provocative, sensationalist and utterly unnecessary segment. Somebody acquires the game early, posts the footage on youtube and it reaches critical mass.
The media is drawn to this like a moth to flame in anticipation of easy ratings. They sensationalise it, take it out of content and bring in some 'experts' who have never actually played it or any other video games for that matter but are stalwart advocates against violence in videogames.
They pontificate about how because games are interactive and so realistic, they compel people to commit violence mentioning notable mass killings but being unable to provide any peer reviewed evidence for a significant link between the two.
Uproar ensues, game sells better than it would have otherwise. Rinse, repeat.
The Top 50 Worst Videogame Voice Acting Moments
Countdown 11/11/09 - Worst Persons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYXo67oBXPQ
Countdown 11/11/09 - Worst Persons
South Park Mocks Glenn Beck
Murdoch vows to take all of Newscorp websites out of Google
Col. Richard Kemp On The U.N. Goldstone Report
Getting Ready for VideoSift 4.1 (Sift Talk Post)
2. Add a way to pop up videos in their own tiny window. i remember asking for this ages ago and it didnt happen but now that I see youtube has this i know i can't be the only one who thinks this is a good idea! Because what I at least tend to do, is if I'm watching a long sift such as a documentary, I'll put it on in the background, and do something else while it's playing. you can already kinda do this in chrome pretty easily by ripping the tab off and squeezing it into a small box and shoving it to the side of the screen, but if there was a simple button to create a neat popup, it'd be so much easier.
3. Add a small drop down menu on each video page, that gives you an option of all the obvious long/short/genres/blocked commands to be posted automatically. Leave it so you can still do it manually too and add some witty comment at the end of it of course. I just think not having such a simple option makes it seem a bit archaic.
Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry Debate Catholics
Don't Be A Jerk To Horses
Hardball: Matthews "You Don't Even Know Their Names"
marinara
But yeah, I agree especially since overpopulation and high birth rates are related to economic prosperity, as more countries grow themselves out of poverty, global populations will grow at a slower rate and the problem will go away by itself. Hell, it's even already projected.
Issues that appear to be less important though, which require actual action rather than happening automatically and contradict the interests of corporations, like the ones you mentioned well yeah might as well give up hope on those, so you don't let yourself down
In reply to this comment by marinara:
ahh i know you're smart real smart but dont' worry about overpopulation. worry about aquifer loss in the midwest, loss of habitat resulting in species loss... even industrial chemicals causing buildups and knocking down the ecosystem.
the big things will take care of themselves so don't worry.
Google Navigation = Death of GPS Makers
Anyway, this seems pretty nifty and intuitive. I wonder how they're able to get real time traffic updates or rather what kind of analysis they use to measure traffic density.
Don't Fight The Kha'ak: X3 Reunion Review
*promote
Israel keeps up Palestinian evictions 04 Nov 09
At the very least Obama needs to put the foot down like Bush senior and make aid funds contingent on compliance with an end to settlements although I guess he is still naively hoping for a peace settlement. Not to mention he could simply have no intention of creating a two state solution at all, and just be feinting that. Either way, the chances of anything happening in the near future, or at all for that matter look pretty grim.