What would we do baby without out us -- sha la la la...

Boom Sha-kah-laka!

@chingalera:
You are referring to Kowloon Park in West Kowloon (Tsim Sha Tsui). KWC was in East Kowloon, and has been replaced by Kowloon Walled City Park.

I was just dropping by to tell y'all that the two guys seen at the beginning of the vid, Ian Lambot and Greg Girard, are publishing a new/augmented edition of their classic City of Darkness book under the title City of Darkness Revisited, and it's definitely going to happen as they've blown past their Kickstarter goal this weekend. I own a copy of the first edition, and if you're into that sort of thing it's totally worth it.

The thumbnail image for this video has been updated - thumbnail added by oritteropo.

The thumbnail image for this video has been updated - thumbnail added by oritteropo.

Cheers for that dude
In reply to this comment by Deano:
*quality

Thanks for the info. And congrats on the 99-level Grim Reaper badge!>> ^jonny:

I meant that the owner/submitter of a vid can use the dupeof command effectively no matter what - if it's killed, discarded, already had dupeof invoked on it, etc. I think that's the case anyway.
Recent Comments is a fun place to browse if you feel like reading more than watching.
[edit] - except when I'm on a dead spree. (I'd love to have a way to filter simple command comments like dead and length from the recent comment stream.)
In reply to this comment by messenger:
You had already "dupeofed" it. I could have "isduped" it, but killed it without thinking.
Also, curious: how did you find my comment an another user's profile about yet another user's video? I can't imagine you browse everyone's profile pages. Is there some kind of linkbank thing you followed?
In reply to this comment by jonny:
I think you can use "dupeof" on your own videos at any time, even if it's killed. Worth a shot anyway.
In reply to this comment by messenger:
Hey, I just accdientally killed my dupe Apache crash video before the votes could be transferred to the original one posted by marinara.
You wanna go upvote his?
http://videosift.com/video/AH-64-Apache-helicopter-crash-in-Sha
rana-Afghanistan
Thanks!

I meant that the owner/submitter of a vid can use the dupeof command effectively no matter what - if it's killed, discarded, already had dupeof invoked on it, etc. I think that's the case anyway.

Recent Comments is a fun place to browse if you feel like reading more than watching.
[edit] - except when I'm on a dead spree. (I'd love to have a way to filter simple command comments like * dead and * length from the recent comment stream.)
In reply to this comment by messenger:
You had already "dupeofed" it. I could have "isduped" it, but killed it without thinking.

Also, curious: how did you find my comment an another user's profile about yet another user's video? I can't imagine you browse everyone's profile pages. Is there some kind of linkbank thing you followed?
In reply to this comment by jonny:
I think you can use "dupeof" on your own videos at any time, even if it's killed. Worth a shot anyway.
In reply to this comment by messenger:
Hey, I just accdientally killed my dupe Apache crash video before the votes could be transferred to the original one posted by marinara.

You wanna go upvote his?

http://videosift.com/video/AH-64-Apache-helicopter-crash-in-Sha
rana-Afghanistan

Thanks!

You had already "dupeofed" it. I could have "isduped" it, but killed it without thinking.

Also, curious: how did you find my comment an another user's profile about yet another user's video? I can't imagine you browse everyone's profile pages. Is there some kind of linkbank thing you followed?
In reply to this comment by jonny:
I think you can use "dupeof" on your own videos at any time, even if it's killed. Worth a shot anyway.
In reply to this comment by messenger:
Hey, I just accdientally killed my dupe Apache crash video before the votes could be transferred to the original one posted by marinara.

You wanna go upvote his?

http://videosift.com/video/AH-64-Apache-helicopter-crash-in-Sha
rana-Afghanistan

Thanks!

He should have looped himself singing the 'sha nanana's at the end to build up the number of voices, would marry with the original, and sound really nice.

Nice version though.

I had to look that up

Maybe it is that, I dunno. I get tired of all the hatin' on various forms of pop music. In part because I like pop music (and many other forms of music too) so take it as a personal assault on my taste But also because I don't care for slaggin' other peoples creative efforts. So I call it defending Ke$sha, not other posters.

On the upside, I larn'd a new term!

dupe da dupe doo dee daaa dupe sha walla walla dupe dee dupe da da da dadadaaaa dadadda . wish I new what song that was

How close was that farm to Fukushima Daiichi?




Holy shit, I just thought to myself, "OMFG, what if that's not Japanese?" then I thought, "No, she said that 'cowie mat sha' thing you keep hearing in all the Japanese vids, so you're probably ok."

No matter how well intentioned, I think military interventions nowadays that aim to dethrone an authoritarian regime are practically guaranteed to fail.

Modern combat is fought through surgical air strikes with a limited ground force. It minimizes invading state casualties but poor intelligence from limited local manpower inevitably leads to mass civilian casualties. This progressively undermines local support. Fostering a vibrant democracy or training a self sufficient military and police force, hell, let alone rebuilding the infrastructure from the initial invasion cannot be done quickly. As has been seen from Afghanistan especially, this allows insurgencies to organise and further air bombing simply adds to their recruitment numbers.

Removing totalitarianism also reveals long-held grudges and power imbalances such as how removing Saddam's minority Sunni Ba'ath Party fermented a civil war with the oppressed Shi'ite majority. Local revolutions on the other hand, without intervention create a sense of solidarity regardless of past differences. A foreign coup d'état does not.

States that have democracy thrust upon tend to squander them or relapse back into authoritarianism. Often this is from a lack of established and respectable candidates to choose from, haphazard transition to a market economy (e.g Russia) or a lack of consistent ground level demands from the people resulting in simple pandering by politicians to secure votes with no intentions of governance. Democracy is only able to work effectively when individuals with growing affluence over time begin to demand better infrastructure, services and generally representation of their interests.

Not to mention, especially in Africa, many countries were wished into existence by exiting colonial powers with no logical cultural, religious or ethnic links among them. There is simply no genuine sense of national unity. This is arguably what caused the violence in Kenya in 07-08 following the disputed election. Foreign interventions in ex-colonial countries also inevitably leads to the perception of renewed imperialism, not matter how pure actual intentions. This is why intervention in Zimbabwe to remove Mugabe is inconceivable unless it by the African Union, which is far too weak and unwilling. Even now, Mugabe has considerable support by his colonial independence credentials.

Other countries simply have never had a legitimate and effective government in generations. The Taliban did not so much rule Afghanistan as loosely impose Sha'ria law on individual tribes who otherwise had signficant autonomy. Now that representational democracy has been imposed, there is simply no willingness on the part of an individual tribe to work together to improve the livelihood of all, but merely their own people. Politicians and officials are not corrupt because they are immoral but because political survival means following this creed.

Point is, military interventions don't work in removing despotic governments simply because something can and will go wrong. The only place they are appropriate is preventing genocide or aggressor nations. NATO was correct to intervene in Kosovo, the UN was correct to prevent Iraqi aggression into Kuwait (ignoring Iraqi invasion of Iran was not). Intervention should have occurred in Rwanda and equally in Sudan.

The Powell Doctrine more or less sets out what I wrote above concisely. In short, intervention should occur only with mass popular local support, and be undertaken swiftly and effectively with overwhelming force with a clear exit strategy established.

Thanks to Bush though, the US is overstretched militarily and lacks the moral authority to incite other nations into intervening where necessary. More importantly it's lost the deterrence its successful interventions in Kosovo and Kuwait created.

>> ^bcglorf:

Hurray for anything bringing some attention to the situation over there, particularly in correctly referring to it as Burma and not the Myanmar moniker imposed by the military dictatorship.
RedSky said:
For countries that have essentially had institutionalised repression for a generation or more like North Korea and Burma, I honestly think that the best way forward is to encourage trade with some restrictions in the hope that some of it filters through to the people.
I completely agree with your feeling conflicted on how best to help the poor people imprisoned in these countries. Honestly, I think using a foreign military to remove the regime followed by a nation building program on the scale used in post war Germany and Japan is the best way forward. But no nation on Earth has any reason to spend that enormous amount of money and political good will on something that in essence gains them nothing in the end anyways.
I do dearly wish that when Burma was hit so bad by natural disasters a few years ago the world have reacted more appropriately. Instead of allowing the ruling military to refuse and block any aid from going in, the world should have come in by force with as many soldiers and weapons as needed to deliver the volunteered aid to the devastated areas by force, then simply withdrawn after the aid had been delivered and provided. Sure the military would come and take it all for themselves after anyways, but the people there could've seen for a few months that the outside world actually cares about them and would gladly treat them for better than the junta is. Maybe allowing a base of resistance and opposition to gain wider support.

Bowser from Sha-Na-Na behaves the same way, oddly.