I liked it right up to the point where they dissed on Seattle.

WTF, "certainly no one's Emerald City"...pithy Detroit douche! You got a problem with Seattle?

I have to disagree, works for me.>> ^spoco2:

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
Contrast is the whole point of a good mashup, detheter and spoco. It's pithy.

Contrast and Gelling is the whole point... not just one song that then stops for a bit of another song, then continues, which is pretty much what happens here. Just every now and again you get a bit of Enter the Sandman thrown in that really grates.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

Contrast is the whole point of a good mashup, detheter and spoco. It's pithy.


Contrast and Gelling is the whole point... not just one song that then stops for a bit of another song, then continues, which is pretty much what happens here. Just every now and again you get a bit of Enter the Sandman thrown in that really grates.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
It's pithy.Contrast is the whole point of a good mashup, detheter and spoco. It's pithy.


WORD!

Contrast is the whole point of a good mashup, detheter and spoco. It's pithy.

>> ^blankfist:

GEEZUS!!! TL;DR!!!! I need pithy two word answers, NR!


Pig Fucker.

GEEZUS!!! TL;DR!!!! I need pithy two word answers, NR!

Coming from "sumone" too "ignorent" to even know how to spell "genoside" I'll take that pithy remark as the highest compliment.

>> ^westy:

nobody noticed because noone cares to listen to sumone as ignorent as yourself.
>> ^bcglorf:
People have probably noticed I have little patience for the pathetic ignorance that leads people to cry how genocide is happening today, and point at the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as examples.
You are absolutely right that genocide has continued to happen since the holocaust, and few have cared. You're even right to ascribe guilt to America for some of them. But you need to be pointing at Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge. You need to be pointing at the era where America backed, or failed to remove Saddam as he perpetuated multiple genocides of his own.
But more importantly still, if you actually care about genocide being perpetuated then spend some more time talking about the worst ones that are still happening today. Rwanda just recently managed to kill more people more quickly than the nazi death camps, and they did it without setting up camps or factories, they just picked up enough machetes to get the 'job' done. The crew that did it never was caught or stopped either, they were chased out of Rwanda into the Congo, were they are still raping and killing the days away.
Somalia's president is a convicted war criminal by the ICC, and the whole of the Africa Union is willing to protect him, because there are that many leaders of African nations that are all worried that if the Darfur genocide could get him in trouble, they might be too.
The list of genocides going on today, right now, are endless. If the best example you can come up with is the American import of inexpensive chinese labor, I suspect your priorities are NOT on ending genocide and lie in much different place. Don't sully the fight against genocide with your own prejudices.

>> ^Winstonfield_Pennypacker:

the equivalent of marching into a vegan's house and DEMANDING that they personally butcher a cow and chow down on the resulting BBQ.
So when advocates demand gay marriage and DO NOT account for these distinctions, then the legislation moves from sensible to radicalism.

Again i had to downvote your comment for two reasons this time.

1 -- How on earth are you going to sit there and attempt to seriously offer that as a comparison to gay people who campaign to have marriages acknowledged by the church? You're trying to persuade people that it's radicalism by associating it with ritual aniaml sacrifice. I doubt you can even keep a straight face when saying it. It's like going around claiming that winstonfield_pennypacker is a huge fan of adolf hitler's ideals and thinks all jewish people should be slain - see what i did there?

The only vague "vegan" comparison i can make is that you want to be a vegan but your religion requires that you eat pork at 4pm on a sunday in honour of the great almighty vajayjay. So you ask if you can join the local vegan club (.. i'm trying, give me a break) and demand that they let you in even though you eat meat. I mean, fair enough you agree with all their ideals and you don't want to eat meat, but you have no choice in the matter, you're bound by other things.

Your speculations about how gay rights campaigners can slip into radicalism by not defining their demands haven't convinced me at all. At worst it's just matter of forgetfulness or short sightedness. At best it's just a slogan to get the message across quickly - "We demand that you accept gay marriage!" Instead of - "We demand you change the law such that long term gay partners are allowed the same rights and status as straight people!" It's not quite as pithy.

2 -- Plus even if i were (and i weren't) to accept (and i don't) that your speculations prove that gay rights campaigners get radical (they don't) when they demand "gay marriage" in such a loose term, you haven't given any evidence that anyone DID this at all. You've just speculated about "if this happened, it would be radical." So not only would it still not be radical, you haven't even shown that it's happening in such a wide spread manner that you could reasonably say there's radicalism going on.

I'll warn you in advance not to reply with links to gay rights groups with one member each, all demanding that gay people get free visits to the moon, you'll prove yourself to be no better than media outlets who refer to "radical muslim extremist with a hook" for a balanced view of the middle east.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

I like them, but I know what you mean. Their reharmonized arrangements of banal pop tracks are clever and pithy, but at the end of the day, it's still a banal track at its core, and not the kind of thing I need to hear more than once. They could also stand to expand their orchestrational palette a bit too.

They do have their own material on their youtube channel... Not that I've listened to it, I enjoy their clever and pithy reharmonized arrangements of banal pop tracks.

>> ^volumptuous:
blech
If Lada Gaga isn't bad enough, now we have this. I know there's lots of fans here, and the band also parouses the sift and I hate to be mean to them, but holy hell this stuff is crazily boring to me.


I like them, but I know what you mean. Their reharmonized arrangements of banal pop tracks are clever and pithy, but at the end of the day, it's still a banal track at its core, and not the kind of thing I need to hear more than once. They could also stand to expand their orchestrational palette a bit too. Bust out that theremin. Get away from the drumset and bang on some household appliances. You don't need to have toy glock and toy piano on everything you do, the more you use them the less special those cool sounds become. There is a fine line between having a distinct stylized sound and having everything sound the same.

Sorry for the unsolicited advice if you are reading this Pomplamouse - as you are obviously very talented and have a huge fanase that loves you just as you are - but armchair criticism is the whole point of the internet, isn't it?

I wandered into the thread almost by accident. A swipe of my finger left a bright streak in the thick dust that had accumulated over what must have been weeks of inactivity. It had obviously been a happening thread at one time - 88 upvotes was well above average, even today. I couldn't blame Krupo, of course - the post was over three years old, ancient by Sift standards, and besides, ol' Krupie had a channel to run.
Some might be depressed by the finality of it all - a grim reminder that, no matter how brightly we shine in our heyday, we are all destined to fade into obscurity. (Dust to dust, after all.)
I looked at it differently. It was peaceful here. Freed from the hectic bustle of the front page and unflinching eye of the Top 15, one has a chance to sit back and take it all in. There was no pressure to post some pithy observation about the video or the conversation it fostered. There was no risk of having your witty retort beaten to the punch by a faster (or punctuation-averse) Sifter. Heck, there was little risk that a new post would ever be read at all.
And not only peaceful, but hopeful.
I had found it, hadn't I? And not just me.
Here and there, bathed in the amber glow of the evening sun that filtered through the listlessly-floating motes, were signs that some kindly stranger had done what he could to keep the place from falling into complete disrepair.
Or perhaps, not so kindly after all...
It was strange, but as I took the time to inspect the repairs that rasch had made those many months ago, I began to realize that what was usually a benevolent act was here tinged with animosity. Crescent-shaped dents around a driven nail suggested careless, or perhaps even angry, strikes. Gouges in the head of a bolt, the stripped slots of a screw, paint that didn't quite stay inside the lines, it all spoke to a generous act undertaken with a fair degree of resentment.
I could tell now that rasch hadn't particularly liked this place. But why, then, would he have spent the time to fix it up? Was it a sense of duty to the Sift? A debt owed to Krupo? Or perhaps he just did it for the Power Point? Perhaps I would get a chance to ask him one day, or perhaps I would never know.
Not that it really mattered either way. It was an old story in an even older thread, and who knew if I might be the last Sifter to disturb its well-earned rest. As I approached the door to leave, I cast one glance at the still-crisp video that flickered in the corner and gave it a chuckle, then pressed out into the rapidly darkening night. The lights of the Top 15 beckoned in the distance - hell, maybe I could do with some excitement after all.

^Atheism is essentially an ideology. There's a difference between a non-believer and an atheist, although the definitions often get muddled together.

All the different words are hard to define sharply, because so many people attribute different meanings to them: non-believer, atheist, agnostic, anti-theist, humanist, secularist, naturalist, free thinker, rationalist - they are all a different facet of the same gem, so to speak.

I'm vehemently opposed to organized religion, the concept of faith, the specific god of the bible and qua'ran (sp?), evangelical believers, irrationalists, people who do not accept evidence that are contrary to their beliefs, people who believe without any shred of evidence, people who are not grown up enough to see the world as it is, mysterianists, people with undeserved power, injustice, willful ignorance, willful confusion of the masses, deception, wickedness (as defined by my own sense of morality), exclusive knowledge, secret societies, secrets, censorship, bondage and slavery.

Whatever pithy label fits that, I'd use. For now Libertarian Atheist covers it fine, I think.

Don't think it's the showcase, storefront, or availability of designs that's keeping the turd barely afloat-The idea....Great! The product...(stand by for brutally honest review)

The graphics are lame as fuck.

The slogans for the most part, pretentious and doubleplusunclever.....weak? un-inspirational? "Lame" works here as well to describe the Smugly Smartstein flavour....esp. the designs having pithy little tweaks regarding the existenze of Godz(s) and the like....Advice to would-be designers??.. Keep it simple. Keep it direct. Try to encapsulate the sentiment in one simply done, artful graphic...not something that looks like some Corel practice session....no one wants to look like a geek, even if they are geeky already.

For example, The Pilsbury doughboy in an SS uniform with the caption, WHITE FLOUR! is somethig to wear proudly. The Giza complex with the caption, SLAVERY..Gets Shit Done!"....I would wear this, beaming with mischief, all day long.

Fuck Darwin, he's as dead as god. C'mon kids, you got some talent...if you can't design some decent quips n' clips for giggles and shit tickets, get some designers who can tweak some Photoshop and went to clever classes instead of playing video games and smoking too little good ganja!

>> ^Winstonfield_Pennypacker:
I disagree. The locations you mention have quotations & images of philosophers, historical figures, poets, authors, actors, atheletes, and public figures of all kinds. Some (not all) of those displays have origins in religion. The historical role of religion in government and law is important. It is part of our culture. For a modern court or school to give a nod & pay homage to that role is not a slap in the face of any particular belief system, nor is it 'advocating' any particular religion.
When a library somewhere puts up a pithy quote from Frued, Nietzsche, or some other sectarian it isn't a big deal to me - even if I disagree with the overall senitment. It doesn't make me want to 'join' an organization that respects the subject. They are just tipping a hat to 'good advice' and great people & events from our shared history. To suggest that some images/quotes/events/displays should be banned because they happen to have their origins in religion is censorship of the worst kind - and people who claim to be 'open minded' should be ashamed to have any part of it.


If a courthouse had a display of a dozen different ancient law codes, and the ten commandments was one of them, I don't think it would be a problem for most atheists. The problem is when that is the ONLY one displayed, especially in the form of a "2.6-ton granite monument".

And if you take another look at the ten commandments, only two of them (murder and theft) are still against the law. Well, two and a half, since bearing false witness is sometimes illegal. If you want to "give a nod" to it, fine, but others try to claim it's the "foundation" of our legal system (as in the article). Twenty five percent congruity is not a foundation, and I doubt there is a religion or philosophy where those actions aren't condemned. So "give a nod" to all of the other ones, too.

And I also think it is highly unlikely that your local library would be able to post "God is dead." on the wall. But I'm glad to hear you would let it slide if they did.