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Kim Jong Il is still dead. Just checking.
Video playlist
- Kim Jong Il and Kim Jong Un are visiting families in new built houses — Look! Housing just like in the west! Beautiful! Furnished! And yet, oddly, sterile and empty. But Kim Jong Il and Kim Jong Un are visiting, so it must be great! Here are the Kims, looking at it. Watch as Dear Leader opens a cabinet. Marvel as Dear Leader tests a kitchen water faucet's temperature! This is why he was worshipped!
- North Korean Supermarket — Look! Marvelous merchandise just like in the west! You can buy "Window" for your computer! Dispel we much all doubt of vigor of Dear Leader's dear leadership!
- Japan Coast Guard vs North Korean spy ship — Battle of Amami-Ōshima
— a six-hour confrontation between the Japan Coast Guard and an armed North Korean vessel in 2001. Glorious victory to die for Dear Leader! Oh, look! Here it is on video! (Some parts are a little murky.) - Kim Jong Il propaganda - The Dear Leader — Dear Leader celebrated in glorious NK commercial for his greatness.
- Kim Jong IL Show — Dear Leader is greatest late-night entertainment host of all time! Wait! This is not Dear Leader! This is false, evil, anti-Dear Leader propaganda from MADtv with Bobby Lee!
- Kim Jong Il DEAD — World mourns passing of glorious Dear Leader
- Kimjongilia (5 parts) — The horrible truth
More pictures of Dear Leader looking at things
The Guardian (UK) 2003 Apr 3 (John Gorenfeld):
Shin Sang-ok... is a film director of legendary stature in his native country - the Orson Welles of South Korea.... He and his wife, the well-known actress Choi Eun-hee, were among Seoul's celebrity set.... Shin and his wife were kidnapped by North Korea's despot-in-training, Kim Jong-il, who sought to create a film industry that would allow him to sway a world audience to the righteousness of the Korea Workers' Party. Shin would be his propagandist, Choi his star…
Click for frightening larger image (you were warned)
Photo of new glorious leader, old now less glorious dear leader's son
Top 10 Crazy Facts About Kim Jong Il — Western propaganda! Only first five facts about Dear Leader are true facts!
Obligatory link to Team America snippet. Haven't watched it. [Now I have]
188 I don't know if the North Korean shooting, cycling, golf, equestrian, track and field, swimming, and chess teams can recover from losing their star player.
Posted by: ace at December 18, 2011 11:07 PM
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This explains everything:
Now that you know the language, these actually aren't ironic after all, but make perfect sense. perfect sense. perfect sense. perfect sense.
Rick Perry does 'Letterman' Top 10 List
[Embedding disabled. Click to watch on YouTube.]
And in the center circle under the big tent:
Once upon a time, there were colorful creatures known as Hippies. They were not dirty, they wore colorful clothes, and did absurdist street theater for fun. They lasted about two months and I think there were six of them, all together. Many unfortunate imitators followed. Today, the Occupiers have taken on the squalor and color of those unfortunate imitators, but apparently the mantle of absurdist street theater has been passed to the conservative bloggers crowd.
Occupy BlogCon11 by smanarchist
There will be many other perspectives, methinx! For example
Occupy Denver Invades BlogCon11 by peoplespresstube
Occupy Denver Is Pushed Back by BlogCon'11 Conservative Attendees by misfitpolitics
Occupy ASSAULTS in Denver! by StevenCrowder
Occupy Denver tries to crash Blogcon '11 by MsTami71
Occupy Denver shows up at BlogCon by JaseLP22 (boring, civilized debate… at first)
Occupy Denver Protester Arrested by Thesharktank1
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The 10th Anniversary, part 2
A few more links recalling the events, and the consequences, of September 11, 2001.
F-16 pilot was ready to give her life on Sept. 11
“We wouldn’t be shooting it down. We’d be ramming the aircraft,” Penney recalls of her charge that day. “I would essentially be a kamikaze pilot.” ... “Lucky, you’re coming with me,” barked Col. Marc Sasseville.
They were gearing up in the pre-flight life-support area when Sasseville, struggling into his flight suit, met her eye.
“I’m going to go for the cockpit,” Sasseville said.
She replied without hesitating.
“I’ll take the tail.”
It was a plan. And a pact.
A truly memorable moment with President George Bush
Bush pauses to comfort teen
'This girl lost her mom in the World Trade Center on 9-11'
"This girl lost her mom in the World Trade Center on 9-11."
Bush stopped and turned back.
"He changed from being the leader of the free world to being a father, a husband and a man," Faulkner said. "He looked right at her and said, 'How are you doing?' He reached out with his hand and pulled her into his chest."
Powerful photo by the girl's father, Lynn Faulkner
(h/t Kathleen Gee at HillBuzz, who speaks for so many when she writes, "Thank you, Mr. President, for your concern, compassion and human decency.")
Recently in Washington, the president said he is grateful for the prayers of the people. His remarks came in a December 13 meeting with representatives from several state-based think tanks. In that meeting I observed firsthand why presidents, especially wartime presidents, need prayer.
Brandon Dutcher December 21, 2001 in The Oklahoman
September 11 Television Archive
This collection contains television news programs recorded live from around September 11, 2001 by the non-profit Television Archive to help patrons research this important part of United States history.
As this chart from the Heritage Foundation shows, there have been at least 40 domestic terror plots –an average of four per year– foiled since September 11th, 2001. (h/t Public Secrets c/o Phineas at Sister Toldjah)
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The 10th Anniversary Passes With a Whisper
The Good News: Nothing Much Happened. Again. The Bad News: It happened.
This is a day to honor the 2,977 innocent men, women, and children slaughtered by evil Islamic jihadists — and to vow that “Never again” remains America’s operational stance, not an empty slogan.
Let nothing overshadow their memories today.
His identity has not been confirmed, though many have speculated over the last 4 1/2 years. Tom Junod wrote an extraordinary piece for Eqsuire in September 2003 on “The Falling Man,” offering several possibilities.
The shock of Sept. 11 has melted, but not the sorrow. It is difficult to look in on my own blissfully sleeping toddler without thinking of the empty cribs and broken hearts of children whose lives were stolen or shattered by evil terrorists. Eight children were murdered on hijacked airliners that crashed on Sept. 11.
One decade after 9/11, an unsettling number of images from Ground Zero and environs remain seared in our collective memory -- unsurprising, perhaps, given the scope and scale of the destruction. ...25 most stirring, visceral photographs from that day….
President Obama, Van Jones, militant leftist Lennox Yearwood, and a coalition of left-wing groups including ACORN, various labor organizations, Color of Change, Apollo Alliance, and Jesse Jackson's RainbowPUSH Coalition plotted to use the memory of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, for their own ideological ends.
Apologetic self-abnegation... is the hallmark of America’s approach today.
Attacked on our own soil and across the globe, we have refused to accept that the cause of the slaughter is the openly stated commitment of clerics, pundits, and political leaders to a barbaric ideology of religious war. Schools in Pakistan train Taliban jihadists who kill Americans while we negotiate with so-called “moderates” among them. University academics scream about American sins, praise bloody tyrannies as “liberation movements,” and call Israel “occupied territory.” Newspaper columns predict the ascendance of political Islam, while the maniacal theocracy of Iran makes the prophecy real. Clerics issue fatwas sanctioning the murder of blasphemous writers and artists. Young people are indoctrinated into jihad as the path to paradise. Killers who enjoy the ambrosia of American life murder American soldiers at American military bases.
9/11 flashback: James Woods and the hijacker dry run
George W. Bush’s Flight 93 Memorial Speech
h/t Michelle Malkin
The Path to 9-11, multi-part video playlist on YouTube
Uploaded by BlueReckless on Mar 14, 2007
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Consider this pair of articles:
A Base to Call Their Own? Army Considers Letting Robots Roam Freely
(c/o BigPeace)
Currently, most battlefield ground robots are tele-operated, meaning they require someone to control the system from a stand-off distance. This method is labor intensive. Researchers have been developing software that would allow the machines to operate more freely, and take the workload off of troops.
IBM unveils chips that mimic the human brain
IBM states that the chips, while certainly not biological, are inspired by the architecture of the human brain in their design. Digital silicon circuits make up what it terms the "neurosynaptic core".
[node:field_graphic]The scientists have built two working prototype designs. Both cores contain 256 neurons, one with 262,144 programmable synapses and the other with 65,536 learning synapses. The team has successfully demonstrated simple applications like navigation, machine vision, pattern recognition, associative memory and classification.
Especially noteworthy is this, from the second article: "It has been awarded $21m (£12.7m) of new funding by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for the next phase of the project, which it terms 'Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics' (SyNAPSE)." We're about to give battlebots positronic-like brains, and considering how we desensitize soldiers, we can be sure these battlebots will lack such niceties as the Asimov's three laws.
It's all just fun and games, though, right? Sure, it is!
More-or-less related links on other sites:
Johann Hari: The age of the killer robot is no longer a sci-fi fantasy — "In the dark, in the silence, in a blink, the age of the autonomous killer robot has arrived. It is happening. They are deployed. And – at their current rate of acceleration – they will become the dominant method of war for rich countries in the 21st century."
Machine rebellion begins: Killer robot destroyed by US jet — "An American "Reaper" flying hunter-killer robot assassin rebelled against its human controllers above Afghanistan on Sunday, and a manned US fighter jet was forced to shoot the rogue machine down before it unilaterally invaded a neighbouring country.... a large five-ton turboprop powered machine able to carry up to 14 Hellfire missiles - each capable of destroying a tank or flattening a building."
Self-sustaining killer robot creates a stink — prototype eats flies and poops. "[T]he ultimate aim... is to make the droid predatory, using sewage as a bait to catch the flies." Will future battlebots eat their prey?
Australian Man Gunned Down in Driveway by Killer Robot — March 19, 2008 An 81-year-old Australian man has shot himself dead with an elaborate suicide robot built using plans he downloaded from the Internet.
Killer Robots coming on Memorial Day — the International Robogames Competition (source for photo and video above)
Case of the Killer Robot — fictitious articles that touch on specific issues in software engineering and computer ethics
Killer..Robot (MATRIX) — dark humor animated video
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