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RON PAUL EXCLUDED IN IOWA CENSORED BY FOX

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2_zp8P_6_4

This is truly sad, for Ron Paul supporters and supporters of other candidates!

Jabber - Democratic IMs

Ever heard the word AIM used outside of Duck Hunting? If you have, you're probably a little familiar with Instant Messaging. And you're also well acquainted with the fact that AOL Corporation owns AIM. A corporation is legally a person with special benefits. And when you use e-mail or IM, you're sending your conversations and private thoughts through their servers and most often using their clients.

Lemme take a moment to show you an excerpt from Microsoft's privacy statement:

"In particular, we may access or disclose information about you, including the content of your communications, in order to: (a) comply with the law or respond to lawful requests or legal process; (b) protect the rights or property of Microsoft or our customers, including the enforcement of our agreements or policies governing your use of the service; or (c) act on a good faith belief that such access or disclosure is necessary to protect the personal safety of Microsoft employees, customers or the public."

Did you read that last bit? Yeah, act on good faith. Okay, pretend for a second that the PS3 or the Nintendo Wii are better then the 360. I'm not saying they are or they aren't, but just using it as an example. Say you go to the Microsoft forum and log into MSN. You start posting topics about how some console that Microsoft doesn't own is better then the 360, and people start to believe you. So much so that the moderators and admins and soon the actual corporation is paying attention. You're endangering their product, and therefore endangering Microsoft's employees because Microsoft might not be able to pay them.

You're, in their eyes, endangering their employees. So what can they do? They can sell your private information to the highest bidder. They can **** up your IM's with some noob using filters like not sending any IM that has the words "Microsoft" and "lie" or something like that.

Okay, that doesn't sound dangerous. But what if you lived in Natzi Germany (pretend that the Internet existed)? You're IM-ing American soldiers about how bad Concentration Camps is and that sort of tragic stuff, and you're telling them that they should come and destroy Natzi Germany. Take the last three words of that sentence, "destroy Natzi Germany". Microsoft or AOL or Yahoo could start filtering your IM's for those three words and deleting the IM's that contain them. After all, you're threatening the government, which is supposed to "protect" the public. You're "threatening" the public.

Now you might be thinking, "You're making an awful lot of fuss about something that looks kinda small in my eyes". And I'll give you that. This might not seem like a big deal to you, and you might not want to put up too much work to protect your constitutional liberties. And I get that. That's why we have Jabber.

Jabber, or XMPP, is an open protocol (protocol is like AIM or MSN, a chatting service, not necessarily a program, but a group of people, like everyone signed up for Yahoo uses the Yahoo protocol). And open protocol is a protocol that isn't owned by anyone. It isn't owned by a corporation. You can have your own server, and you can communicate to other servers. A person on server A can talk to someone on server B.

There is a variety of Jabber clients, some that have features similar to AIM. If you prefer freedom, you probably prefer Jabber.

Youtube's View System Is Jacked

Look at the number of views and the number of comments (zoom in for better quality): http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/6562/screenshot1lq7.png This one for stepchild, look at the rating and the views: http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/6450/screenshotnc0.png

Kingdom Hearts Fix You by Soraku101

Pretty kick-ass.

Before I watched the video, I went and checked out how many others the creator of it had made, and to my surprise, the number I found was 58, almost all of them Kingdom Hearts amvs. This guy/gal is a hardcore fan, and so I didn't really know whether it was gonna be a crappy upload of "I'm-just-making-this-cuz-KHIII-aint-out-yet", or an epic work of dedication to the wonderful folks who developed KH (you know I love yah).

So I press the play button and am treated to quite a few exceptional and experimental things right up front. Most notable is the fact that she/he blended the music of Udata Hikaru with Coldplay's song in the beginning of the amv. The resulting tune resembles techno, and I guess I kinda liked it.

You'll see a lot of fades watching this amv, and they both help to keep things moving but also keep the action tame enough to walk with such a calm song. That's pretty much it, I really enjoyed the amv, keep it up.

Christmas Shoes kingdom hearts style by tummer37

Inventive, but not without it's flaws.

tummer's newest amv is an interesting one, and the best way to describe it would be to compare it to a Christmas play. There's the actors, in this case Sora, young Sora, and Kairi, and then the characters, in this case the people portrayed in the song. It's not exactly a dub, because there are characters assigned to certain parts, and it's not exactly an amv, because the characters are speaking.

It's interesting to see how the author relates the song to the story, he tries to portray Kairi as a poor, sad woman, and I think what he wanted to get across was that Kairi is in shambles without Sora. The older Sora is talking about shoes, and how he must get them for his mother, Kiari, who he thinks really needs them. After thinking about it for a while, I came to the conclusion that the shoes represent Riku, who Sora is after so that Kairi can be at rest again. Maybe I'm thinking too hard, but if I'm not, Tummer is a kick-ass editor.

Speaking technically now, there are a few problems in his amv. I found it to be a little repetitive, for he mostly used the same clip for one character when it was time for that character to speak, and because he did, it wasn't lip-synced as well as it could've been. However, I understand why he did this. Maybe it was to better establish that one character, for example, Sora, was actually a character in the song, which would otherwise be hard to understand

Tummer's amv had a great theme and story, and although it had a few problems here and there, one can try and overlook them to see the bigger picture.

31/2 / 5

Kingdom Hearts AMV: "Leave Out All the Rest" by BeautifulCerberus

Fairly good.

I have to admit, BeautifulCerberus' 10th amv took me by surprise, when you see Linkin Park in the title, you expect something briskly paced. Instead, this amv has some of the longer, more cinematic scenes in Kingdom Hearts I and II.

Lets start off talking about the music, and whether or not it is put to good use. The song is "Leave Out All the Rest" by Linkin Park, and can be found in their 7th album, Minutes to Midnight. It's a great song, and although it helps to add atmosphere to BeautifulCerberus' amv, he doesn't relate it to the story of Kingdom Hearts. It would've made more sense if the amv was about Riku, who has done some pretty fucked up shit. Ah well, we can make do with Sora and Roxas.

Technically, this amv is fairly impressive. It's original, because the song is kind of a fast one, but the amv is slow. You see a lot of long, drawn out clips of Sora/Roxas jumping and falling, which surprisingly works with the song. I did find a few "glitches", like when a scenes about to fade out, you see the character beginning a new movement. I only spotted it a few times though, so it doesn't bother me too much.

Overall, it's a cinematic amv that you're sure to enjoy, but you won't take anything from it. It doesn't have as much meaning as it could've, but sometimes, we crave a grandeur` look and feel more then a preachy message.

4/5