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U.S caught lying about Iran (1.30 mins)
I'm the one who's mislead?

Holocaust denial, 2005 "In a 14 December speech in the city of Zahedan in southeastern Sistan va Baluchistan Province, Ahmadinejad said that if the Holocaust took place in Europe and Europeans feel so guilty about it, then that is where Israel should be located, state television reported. "They have created a myth today and they call it the massacre of the Jews [the Holocaust],"
http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1063865.html

Threat to is Isreal, 2005 "This week, Hamas head Khalid Mish'al visited Tehran. Designated a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department, Hamas advocates the destruction of Israel. "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it," ... Mish'al told Ahmadinejad on 12 December that Hamas appreciates Iran's stance against Israel generally and the president's "insistence on the illegitimate nature of Israel,""
http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1063865.html

Threat to Isreal, 2005 and 2001 "Mr Ahmadinejad told some 3,000 students in Tehran that Israel's establishment had been a move by the West against the Islamic world. He was addressing a conference entitled The World without Zionism and his comments were reported by the Iranian state news agency Irna. "As the Imam said, Israel must be wiped off the map," he said, referring to Iran's late revolutionary leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. In 2001, former Iranian president Hashemi Rafsanjani speculated that a Muslim state that developed a nuclear weapon might use it to destroy Israel. ... Mr Ahmadinejad warned leaders of Muslim nations who recognised the state of Israel that they faced "the wrath of their own people". "
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4378948.stm

Threat to Isreal, June 2nd 2008, Ahmadinejad "The Zionist regime has lost its raison d'être. Today, the Palestinians identify with your name [Khomeini], your memory, and in your path. They are walking in your illuminated path and the Zionist regime has reached a total dead end. Thanks to God, your wish will soon be realized, and this germ of corruption will be wiped off."

"Death to America" is still a very popular chant. Here it is at a recent rally http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUezKsBCRbk

Here's an article talking about its use in parliament recently
http://www.poe-news.com/stories.php?poeurlid=41572

Here's an article mentioning Ahmadinejad's use of the phrase recently
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2007/09/23/2007-09-23_irans_ahmadinejad_issues_new_threats_aga.html

I'm not condoning what the US and CIA did in Iran. I'm not talking about that at all. I'm saying that Iran might actually be dangerous.


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Zero Punctuation Review - Braid
One of Yahtzee's best efforts. I'm impressed that he has managed to keep it up for so long and the novelty hasn't worn off.


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U.S caught lying about Iran (1.30 mins)
I don't understand this clip. The US's initial investigation linked the siezed weapons to Iran. A deeper investigation disproved that, so they never mentioned anything about Iran. They had planned too, but when the data said otherwise they didn't. What's so bad? According to the clip, they hadn't even insinuated that the weapons had anything to do with Iran at the press conference.

Also Al Qaeda doesn't have an air force or a navy so they couldn't be a threat either, right? People are so wrapped up in their hate for Bush that they refuse to believe Iran could actually be a legitimate threat. Do you want a country who arms terrorists, who wants to destroy Israel, who denies the holocaust, and who regularly chants "death to America" in parliament to have nuclear weapons? I don't. I didn't want North Korea or Pakistan to have them either.


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Massive explosions - BLEVE
I like 1983 reporter. If I were a media boss with a time machine I'd totally hire her.


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World's Bravest Bird
Love the cat's facial expression.


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Amazing Save by Striker substituted for Goalie
Great clip.


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Asinine Japanase "Bullet Hell" Boss
People need to use better tags.


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Lame and Terrible Video Game Endings Second Edition
Here's the first edition: http://www.videosift.com/video/Halloween-Horror-Video-Game-Deaths-and-Game-Over-Compilation

and the third edition: http://www.videosift.com/video/Lame-and-Horrible-Video-Game-Endings-third-edition

But I can't find the second edition on here.


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"Emily" - Image Metrics Tech Demo
>> ^quantumushroom:
"Uncanny Valley" is a consensus theory but not scientifically proven.


Except for the scientific papers that measure and confirm it, you mean?

For instance, http://www.bartneck.de/publications/2007/uncannyCliff/index.html

There's other publications I could point to:
# Hanson, D. (2006). Exploring the Aesthetic Range for Humanoid Robots. Proceedings of the CogSci Workshop Towards social Mechanisms of android science, Stresa.

# MacDorman, K. F. (2006). Subjective ratings of robot video clips for human likeness, familiarity, and eeriness: An exploration of the uncanny valley. Proceedings of the ICCS/CogSci-2006 Long Symposium: Toward Social Mechanisms of Android Science, Vancouver.

The original paper is "Mori, M. (1970). The Uncanny Valley. Energy, 7, 33-35." by the way, but it doesn't include empirical studies.


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kulpims (Member Profile)
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*promote

Thanks


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Crazy 757 Landing
I searched a lot for this video and videosift didn't suggest this as a similar video. So annoying.

*discard


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Princess Mononoke - Journey to the West - Eminence Orchestra
*beg


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"Emily" - Image Metrics Tech Demo
Very misleading / ambiguous video. What parts of that scene were CG? None except for the few overlays, right? Big deal, at that resolution and without realistic rendering we can't tell how good it is.


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Bottle to the Nuts
Hmmm... He's still on his feet. I don't think it can be that bad. Funny none-the-less.


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Condom on a Tailpipe + Goofball Cackle.
Why is it evolution in action? Because there's birth control involved? I don't think that's how it works.


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