(South) Korean Nationalism Open Thread

Submitted by M Aurelius on Mon, 10/08/2012 - 10:25am

Open Thread

Because Gangnam Style (marginally NSFW) is too low-brow for The Forvm.

And because they can build bigger missiles now.

Just finished "The Vengeance Trilogy" last night

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Submitted by HankP on Mon, 10/08/2012 - 11:10am.

[link]

Highly recommended, but definitely not for the squeamish. Let me repeat that, if you don't like graphic bloodshed, DIY electro-torture, kidnapping, rape, murder of young children, inside-the-coffin views of cremation, dentistry performed with a hammer, etc. you may want to pass. If you have Netflix, there are a ton of free Korean movies available for streaming. Virtually every one I've seen is very good, but very graphic.

I blame it all on the Internet

Just How Does One Put Together a Viewing Like This?

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Submitted by Traveller on Mon, 10/08/2012 - 4:07pm.

...it is a trilogy that you watched relatively close in time I presume....I get every cable channel possible and I could not find these if I wanted to...

So, Netflix? Amazon? Are they streamed to your computer or to your TV? If TV how is this done?

I watch too much TV anyhow (movies while I work) so I'm not looking to expand my viewing universe...but I am curious how one does this in a practical sense.

Best Wishes, Traveller

Free streaming on Netflix

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Submitted by HankP on Mon, 10/08/2012 - 4:43pm.

their streaming has an excellent selection of foreign movies.

EDIT: Yes, I stream it to my computer which is hooked up to my TV. Most modern computers and TVs have HDMI ports to allow you to plug the TV into your computer. Some TVs have direct internet connectivity, wired or wireless, and built in clients for Netflix and other services.

I blame it all on the Internet

I saw Oldboy

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Submitted by Pranky on Mon, 10/08/2012 - 4:55pm.

a few years ago. Certainly original and unsettling. But I remember the violence as so over the top it was nearly parody. Nearly. I think...

I can't say I "enjoyed" it, but it is a very interesting movie. Did not know it was part 2 of a trilogy.

The other two are similar

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Submitted by HankP on Mon, 10/08/2012 - 5:40pm.

the violence is quite over the top. No eating live octopus, though.

I blame it all on the Internet

I'm more partial to the Hyuna version

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Submitted by nyoos junkey on Mon, 10/08/2012 - 5:02pm.

http://youtu.be/wcLNteez3c4

Currently my ring tone. Generating a lot of cube farm gopher heads in work.

PSY featuring Hyuna as a ring tone?

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Submitted by brutusettu on Mon, 10/08/2012 - 9:32pm.

Surely a Japanese version of a Girls' Generation song would be a better choice.

4minute - Freestyle (Hyuna's group)

"I’m to believe that North Korea is so dangerously unhinged that they would attack without warning – yet so meek and easily cowed that they will sit quietly and not retaliate when we start bombing them."

Major Kong

Well the impossibly cute way she

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Submitted by nyoos junkey on Tue, 10/09/2012 - 2:28am.

mangles up the "gangnam style" really works. I've cut t up so it starts with that.

The girls generation track you posted has some potential too, but it would take quite a bit of editing to make it work as a ring tone.

The chipmunk mangle style is cute?

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Submitted by brutusettu on Tue, 10/09/2012 - 8:36am.

I saw Hyuna's Bubble Pop (Hyuna videos probably are NSFW) a few weeks before PSY's video went viral, which was either right before or right after I saw the Gangnam Style video.

After hearing it again, take out that dubstep stuff out around 2:30 and it's not a bad pop song.

Major Kong

For Jordan

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Submitted by HankP on Mon, 10/08/2012 - 6:13pm.

Romney Proudly Explains How He's Turned Campaign Around

I blame it all on the Internet

This is going to revolutionize politics. -nt-

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Submitted by Jordan on Mon, 10/08/2012 - 9:43pm.

M Aurelius was probably right.

Ha

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Submitted by HankP on Mon, 10/08/2012 - 9:51pm.

"He's not dishonest, he admitted he lied!"

I blame it all on the Internet

Missing Diary

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Submitted by M Aurelius on Mon, 10/08/2012 - 6:30pm.

Unless my brain is working worse than I thought, a diary seems to be missing, by John IIRC.

Any idea what happened?

I am not a pessimist. I am an incompetent optimist.

He emailed me about it

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Submitted by HankP on Mon, 10/08/2012 - 6:39pm.

I didn't see it, there's nothing in the spam queues, and there's no entries in the logs showing that he created and posted a diary. So I'm not sure what to do here.

I blame it all on the Internet

Send an email to Hot Drupal?

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Submitted by M Aurelius on Mon, 10/08/2012 - 6:42pm.

It sounds like maybe they did a restore and blew it away at some point?

Are any comments missing elsewhere?

I am not a pessimist. I am an incompetent optimist.

Nope, everything looks normal

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Submitted by HankP on Mon, 10/08/2012 - 9:37pm.

I changed the settings on some of the anti-spam stuff, maybe one of the modules flagged it as spam. But the logs look normal, nothing else is missing as far as I can tell.

I blame it all on the Internet

?

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Submitted by M Aurelius on Mon, 10/08/2012 - 9:56pm.

How could a module flag as spam a diary that is already up?

It had a bunch of comments, too.

I am not a pessimist. I am an incompetent optimist.

It's the neutron bomb of anti-spam

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Submitted by HankP on Mon, 10/08/2012 - 10:06pm.

it checks content against an online database and flags it, then it gets deleted at the next CRON run (every hour). I changed the settings so that it will stay up for 2 days before it gets deleted and you and I will see that it's flagged.

Sorry, this is a side effect of completely eliminating spam, sometimes valid content gets flagged. We're getting hundreds of spam attempts per day, so I may have made the settings too strict.

I blame it all on the Internet

Can it be set to not Published?

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Submitted by M Aurelius on Mon, 10/08/2012 - 10:15pm.

If spam stays up 48 hours it kind of defeats the purpose of anti-spam.

But if it's deleted, and it's not spam, we just exchanged problems.

It should make it not Published, then delete it 48 hours later, if possible.

I am not a pessimist. I am an incompetent optimist.

You can look at the anti-spam module

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Submitted by HankP on Mon, 10/08/2012 - 10:59pm.

under administration. My understanding was that it would not publish flagged content, but it apparently does. I don't see anywhere to change the options about published/not published.

Also, I set up a group called "longtimeuser" and put everyone I recognized in it, that group is supposed to be able to post content and bypass spam checking. Not sure why it didn't happen this time. But then again, I've kind of resigned my self to running this site on what amounts to beta software.

I blame it all on the Internet

Is This Our Equivalent Of The Gray Goo Problem?

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Submitted by M Scott Eiland on Tue, 10/09/2012 - 12:06am.

We might wake up tomorrow and find out that there's nothing left but truly indestructible things like statusquobuster's Article V diaries, plus a few of Brooks' ten thousand word hypotheticals left over from 2008.

The universe may well have been created without a point--that doesn't imply that we can't give it one.

Are We Certain That John Himself did not Delete this...

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Submitted by Traveller on Tue, 10/09/2012 - 12:25am.

...by accident or design?

I remember someone deleting a diary and all following on comments with it...the poster, iirc, simply deleted the diary in a fit of pique...that is what I assumed happened in this instance.

But since John wrote to you, maybe not...but maybe by accident since the poster of Diaries have admin privileges wrt their diary?

Best Wishes, Traveller

Can't Do That Any More

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Submitted by M Scott Eiland on Tue, 10/09/2012 - 12:45am.

Thanks to the incident you're referring to, the "delete diary" function was removed (unless Hank put it back at some point).

The universe may well have been created without a point--that doesn't imply that we can't give it one.

Only sysadmins can do it nt

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Submitted by HankP on Tue, 10/09/2012 - 1:24am.

I blame it all on the Internet

+1

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Submitted by M Aurelius on Tue, 10/09/2012 - 1:20am.

A great new definition of indestructible...

I am not a pessimist. I am an incompetent optimist.

Impenetrable isn't the same as indestructible nt

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Submitted by HankP on Tue, 10/09/2012 - 1:28am.

I blame it all on the Internet

Gangnam style celebrations after winning in cricket.

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Submitted by mmghosh on Mon, 10/08/2012 - 10:47pm.

Is nothing sacred?

literally anything can become right or wrong if the dominant class of the moment so wills it

Was that a PSY move?

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Submitted by Jordan on Tue, 10/09/2012 - 6:54am.

I think most people over here think Gangnam style is just the K-pop version of Monty Python horseback riding.

M Aurelius was probably right.

One of them does another "dance" move from the video

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Submitted by brutusettu on Tue, 10/09/2012 - 8:47am.

the other dude on the side of the screen does the little horse ride, then the little move with the hands on his hips, and then back to the horse ride.

the video has some parts in a stable, someone was probably fully aware they were doing some phantom horse riding and was aware the coconuts.

Major Kong

And a Bonus Message to David Stern (nsfw)

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Submitted by brutusettu on Tue, 10/09/2012 - 9:39am.

The Onion Voter's Guide To Barack Obama

The Onion Voter's Guide To Mitt Romney

Major Kong

Romney lies: "Obama has not signed one new trade agreement."

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Submitted by Jordan on Tue, 10/09/2012 - 11:14am.

Obama signed three new trade agreements, after renegotiating some of their terms and guiding them through Senate approval.

Romney appears to be trading on the word "new" here, since these trade deals were begun in 2007 under George Bush, a redefinition of the term which further cements his status a lying weasel with zero respect for the intelligence of the voting public.

M Aurelius was probably right.

A dynamic

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Submitted by catchy on Wed, 10/10/2012 - 7:07pm.

There's a dynamic here that's been repeated -

Obama advocates horrible economic policy once considered conservative, but is now bipartisan.

Conservatives lie about said policy anyway, and Dem energy is directed toward securing "credit" for bad policy.

Cf. deficit reduction and spending freezes in a recession, trade agreements, SS cuts, etc.

As for the public's intelligence, these are horrible, anti-jobs agreements sold under the lie of being about "free" trade, rather than about intellectual property interventions to make markets less free, reducing wages, and shipping jobs overseas.

So why not tell another lie about them?

Mitt Romney debates Mitt Romney

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Submitted by Jordan on Wed, 10/10/2012 - 10:12am.

M Aurelius was probably right.

Alex Karras: 1935-2012

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Submitted by M Scott Eiland on Wed, 10/10/2012 - 11:04am.

Godspeed, big guy.

The universe may well have been created without a point--that doesn't imply that we can't give it one.

Mongo no longer pawn in game of life nt

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Submitted by HankP on Wed, 10/10/2012 - 11:57am.

I blame it all on the Internet

Hey Hank. Fellow mods too

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Submitted by Darth Cuddly on Wed, 10/10/2012 - 9:30pm.

I just noticed that I've been a member 5 years and 51 weeks. I registered within a day or two of the site's transition. Now, I'm not a doctor or nothing but it looks like an anniversary/birthday is upon us. Um....uhhhhh.....um,.well I got.nothing after that.

In the medical community, death is known as Chuck Norris Syndrome.

I did all the work

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Submitted by HankP on Wed, 10/10/2012 - 9:37pm.

getting people to show up for the 5th anniversary. Your turn this year, mods.

I blame it all on the Internet

10/12 -10/14

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Submitted by M Scott Eiland on Wed, 10/10/2012 - 9:40pm.

First test front page item: 10/12/06

First "open for business" diary: 10/14/06

The universe may well have been created without a point--that doesn't imply that we can't give it one.

5 years 52 weeks

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Submitted by aireachail on Wed, 10/10/2012 - 10:55pm.

sonny

Happy Time For ARod Haters

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Submitted by M Scott Eiland on Wed, 10/10/2012 - 10:29pm.

Raul Ibanez hits for slumping ARod in 9th and goes deep to tie game, then again in bottom of 12th to win it for the Yankees.

The universe may well have been created without a point--that doesn't imply that we can't give it one.

MA files: Reuters sucks

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Submitted by catchy on Thu, 10/11/2012 - 4:11am.

Here they are reporting on a recent IMF meeting:

(Reuters) - The IMF prodded Europe and the United States to act faster to resolve their debt troubles, blaming plodding progress for creating economic uncertainty and slowing global growth.

But no quotes produced support the claim that the US needs to "act faster" on its "debt troubles". All the quotes in the article suggest the opposite -- that there are fears the US will act too quickly on deficit reduction, particularly in the form of jumping over the fiscal cliff.

This is run-of-the-mill, conservative bias by a news org, but it's on the suckier end of reuters's reporting.

I wonder what % of this consensus for the conservative viewpt. on running a deficit is due to corporate media obfuscation.

Obviously there are many guilty parties, but I don't think the average person reading and watching the news has any clue that many prominent economists don't recommend deficit reduction right now.

The equation Recession = Deficit seems to have

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Submitted by Jordan on Thu, 10/11/2012 - 6:34am.

been unshakably planted in every news reporter's head, almost as if there's a backdoor in the Chinese hardware.

M Aurelius was probably right.

Yup...

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Submitted by M Aurelius on Thu, 10/11/2012 - 11:15am.

I'm done with Reuters as a general news source, except a couple of columnists.

The editorial direction has shifted dramatically in a short period of time, but in a subtle way. It's not foaming-at-the-mouth Fox News, so it's kind of more insidious.

I am not a pessimist. I am an incompetent optimist.

And reuters reports 180 degrees bass ackwards

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Submitted by catchy on Thu, 10/11/2012 - 1:56pm.

on the IMF World Economic Outlook summit.

Turns out they were not warning principally about debt in the US, but about premature fiscal consolidation, and austerity. Whoops! We just happened to report conservative talking points instead of economic facts!

"Took It Like A Man"

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Submitted by M Scott Eiland on Thu, 10/11/2012 - 7:33am.

ARod quietly answered many of his critics last night by handling a tough moment with class and as a good teammate. Give Joe Girardi for having the guts to make the right call, too.

The universe may well have been created without a point--that doesn't imply that we can't give it one.