As Dieter from Sprockets would say, I am drawn to him like a moth to a flame.

Your video, Can Dieter punch a bear trap and get his hand out in time?, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

*ban2.0
EL-FATIH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhwlgf511KM

*related= http://videosift.com/video/mayor-Dieter-Reiter-opened-Oktoberfest-on-Saturday
*ban1.0
EL-FATIH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmNU-1YQEaE

http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2010/01/12/egypt-new-find-shows-slaves-didnt-build-pyramids

"Dieter Wildung, a former director of Berlin's Egyptian Museum, said it is "common knowledge in serious Egyptology" that the pyramid builders were not slaves and that the construction of the pyramids and the story of the Israelites in Egypt were separated by hundreds of years."

The layout on iOS is sub-optimal. You can't zoom and it's hard to hit the quote button to reply.

Also, the top 15s, top rated comments,etc all appear in one vertical column.

But I'm loving the clean, dieter rams aesthetic on desktop browsers. Kudos

edit: actually, one complaint. On chrome anyway the "top new videos" sidebar, the video titles seem to have some sort of white embossing. It makes it really hard to read.

As far as I can find, you're wrong, but information on the matter is fairly sketchy.

Dates ranging from February to March (March date only on wikipedia, that oh so solid source for information.... ) - Germany's surrender was in May. and death tolls ranging from 20,000 to 500,000. All depending on who's viewpoint you take - the political responses section is interesting on Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II#German

However, probably the largest hole I can poke in your comment is this recent investigation which was undertaken by '13 prominent German historians' in 2008.

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Historical Investication
For decades historians have accused the Allies of killing up to 500,000 civilians on the night of February 13 1945, when British and American planes destroyed the old city centre.

But a special commission, comprising 13 prominent German historians, has now revealed that the previous figures were exaggerated or derived from dubious sources.

Instead, they concluded that no more than 25,000 people died during the attacks, debunking the claims of many revisionist historians who wished to compare the bombing to the Holocaust.

The commission, assembled in 2004 and headed by one the country's most prominent military historians, Rolf-Dieter Mueller, studied all the available evidence about the event - much of which was examined for the first time.

Mr Mueller said that the final report of the commission, to be published next year, aims to end the "ludicrous speculation" about the Dresden causalities, which was used for propaganda by the Nazis.
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With that in mind, "A million or so civilians" and "After the surrender of Germany" seems a bit much.

Either way, this is a video about a German car factory - and a pretty cool one at that. Upvoted for the auto-bots.

>> ^Drachen_Jager:

"Dresden is best known for it's historic buildings."
I guess they cut the part that goes on, "Which were all burned to the ground along with a million or so civilians when British bombers firebombed the city after the surrender of Germany."

Watched it last night. I'd pass on it if you have other things to do. It just sort of feels like he captured incredible footage of the Iraqi oil fires that he didn't know what to do with. The footage is amazing, but he sort of laid this sci-fi narrative over it.

In reply to this comment by therealblankman:
Oooohhhh... let me know what you think.

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Arriving next from netflix: Lessons of Darkness.

In reply to this comment by therealblankman:
>> ^schmawy:
I love these.


Me too, I love Herzog films. Been working my way through his filmography recently... Fitzcarraldo (a masterpiece), Little Dieter Needs to Fly, The White Diamond, Grizzly Man (superb), Rescue Dawn and last night saw Burden of Dreams- a documentary about the making of Fitzcarraldo. This series of Children's book narrations is really close to the mark.

Oooohhhh... let me know what you think.

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Arriving next from netflix: Lessons of Darkness.

In reply to this comment by therealblankman:
>> ^schmawy:
I love these.


Me too, I love Herzog films. Been working my way through his filmography recently... Fitzcarraldo (a masterpiece), Little Dieter Needs to Fly, The White Diamond, Grizzly Man (superb), Rescue Dawn and last night saw Burden of Dreams- a documentary about the making of Fitzcarraldo. This series of Children's book narrations is really close to the mark.

Arriving next from netflix: Lessons of Darkness.

In reply to this comment by therealblankman:
>> ^schmawy:
I love these.


Me too, I love Herzog films. Been working my way through his filmography recently... Fitzcarraldo (a masterpiece), Little Dieter Needs to Fly, The White Diamond, Grizzly Man (superb), Rescue Dawn and last night saw Burden of Dreams- a documentary about the making of Fitzcarraldo. This series of Children's book narrations is really close to the mark.

>> ^schmawy:
I love these.


Me too, I love Herzog films. Been working my way through his filmography recently... Fitzcarraldo (a masterpiece), Little Dieter Needs to Fly, The White Diamond, Grizzly Man (superb), Rescue Dawn and last night saw Burden of Dreams- a documentary about the making of Fitzcarraldo. This series of Children's book narrations is really close to the mark.

I'm an enormous fan of his work.. Loved "Heart of Glass," "Little Dieter Needs to Fly," & "Encounters at the End of the World."

Harmony Korine is a friend of a friend -- and Werner was great in "Julian Donkey Boy."

Several friends were in attendance when "Werner Eats His Shoe."

This man is a living legend. No question.

>> ^peggedbea:
does his necklace say "norm"?


It say's "Nora", the name of his girlfriend later wife who actually destroyed the band in a yoko ono kind of way. Although this really is terrible, Dieter Bohlen (the blonde one) is among the most successful producers ever (he sold more than 150mio records). I don't like him, especially since you cannot avoid him on german tv these days, but i do respect his career.

1. I dated Joe DiMaggios grand niece in high school

2. I have ben on a plane when it was struck by lightning

3. I shook Bill Clintons hand when he was president

4. I smuggled a machete onto a commercial flight as a kid

5. I did not get my drivers license until the age of 28

6. I have a ten inch scar on my belly from having my spleen removed

7. I had no idea how long the scar was until I measured it for this post

8. I went on a pilgrimage to Kurt Cobains house in Seattle a few months after his death

9. I once went to a school protest dressed as Frank N. Furter

10. I have climbed Mt. Warning for sunset on three different occasions

11. I have touched a dead person

12. I once threw confetti in Dieter Bohlens face at a party

13. I once jumped out of a cab because I couldn´t pay the fare

14. I had a backstage pass for a Michael Jackson concert, but was too young to know what it meant

15. I clung to a fence for three hours in the pouring rain at the same Michael Jackson concert so I could see better

16. I once applied for a boy band, but the application was returned unopened because of insufficient postage

17. I can´t sing

18. I can juggle

19. I design my own t-shirts

20. My mom drove me 400 miles to see Bruce Springsteen, interrupting my summer camp stay

21. My mom and I jumped a fence in 1987 to go see David Bowie at an open air concert in Hamburg

22. I have a cool mom

23. I skipped school once to go to a Garth Brooks concert in Frankfurt dressed as a cowboy

24. I don´t have a middle name

25. I registered an email account for my son on the day of his birth

26. I never know when to stop

Edit: Just thought another thing that really belong in this list (Just tells you 26. is really true!):

27. During my lifetime I have found three messages in a bottle.

Yeah, I was aware I had the ability as a diamond, just thought it wouldn´t work on my own post since thats what it said in your sifttalk description of it.
That´s why I didn´t try it first on the post mentioned below.

But apparently it works anyway, so I hope it´s there to stay

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
Actually you can do it because you're a diamond, which is the min level required for dupeof.

Hmm. That's definitely an idea worth considering. Seems like it should be fine to allow self dupeof invocations...

In reply to this comment by maatc:
Edit: Nevermind, it works! (please leave it on if its a bug
Hey Lucky,

just wondering wether it might be a good idea to make *dupeof available on your own submissions and here is why:

More often than not someone catches the dupe that either doesn´t know about the merge possibility or has not enough rank to invoke it. Usually both times people just leave a "dupe" with the link.

Now of course I´d love to merge the dupe with the original, but can´t.
Surely there is a reason for this limit, but I can´t think of it, since it doesn´t improve your own vote count or such...

I realize this is a powerful invocation that should not be misused, but that has already been taking care of with limiting it to bronze diamonds, no?

Cheers,
maatc