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2009-02-19, 21:25 | Link #1625 | |
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Election Gimmickry: Famous Faces in Indonesian Election Paraphernalia:
* Naruto Uzumaki "endorses" a local candidate for an Islamist party called PKS. (Sankaku = NSFW) * Candidate as Superman. * David Beckham "endorsement". * the Panda from Kung Fu Panda "representing" PKS. Anything to attract the voters. (Reminds me of similar gimmicks foisted upon us Filipinos by candidates desperate for name recall) As it has become big news in Indonesia, it is an irony, according to one Sankaku commenter, that he, as an Indonesian, is ashamed to see PKS -- an anti-anime political party -- pasting the face of Naruto on a campaign poster. Quote:
http://www.indonesiamatters.com/94/y...s-affiliation/
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2009-02-20, 02:41 | Link #1626 |
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One word. OUCH!
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/0...l-penetration/
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2009-02-20, 05:48 | Link #1627 | |
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Apa ini!? Lagi bodoh lah, PKS - where got this kind of nonsense, man? Baru "Idea" eh? Lagi bagus, siapa! Translated: Spoiler for translated::
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2009-02-20, 14:07 | Link #1628 | |
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2009-02-20, 15:13 | Link #1629 | |
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2009-02-22, 22:18 | Link #1633 | |
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Whoops! Citibank sends Nigerian scammers $27 million dollars
I don't know what it says about the bank that it fell for forged documents from the National Bank of Ethiopia with phone numbers (that were actually cellphone numbers to the scammers) asking them to wire $27 million dollars by fax. Don't they run proper checks or something to make sure it isn't a scam before being scammed not after? I loled at this comment: Quote:
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2009-02-24, 05:55 | Link #1634 | |
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Why are they making a big fuss outta it? It's normal for TV shows to show celebrities eating expensive food and nobody around the world is complaining (well except the poor people but their just in envy.)
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2009-02-24, 06:39 | Link #1635 | |||
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You're right to point out that it's most probably envy that caused the outrage. But there is also a question of whether the TV programme or TV station is publicly funded, like BBC or PBS is, for example. If that is the case, then the anger is easily understandable: it's in poor taste to showcase such extravagant indulgence when many people are currently in danger of losing their jobs, or are already jobless. And even if that's not the case, the producers of the programme still demonstrate very poor editorial judgment by running such a story amid Japan's worst recession since the 1974 oil crisis. A similar case happened in Singapore recently. A very high-ranking civil servant published a story about his lifestyle and recreational activities in a local newspaper: Cooking fiasco — lessons for Government and blogosphere Quote:
The Singapore Government reacted swiftly and rapped the Mr Tan's "ill-judged article". ============== Anyways, I beg pardon for the digression into "serious news". Here's something silly to make up for it, from the same source that MrTerrorist cited. Outrage over schoolgirl trousers Quote:
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2009-02-24, 06:42 | Link #1636 | |||
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2009-02-24, 10:01 | Link #1638 |
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The TV License Fees that Japanese Citizens/residents pay all go to NHK, the other stations don't receive this money, or even a cent of it. Which means NHK must use its cash more wisely than the private stations.
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2009-02-24, 10:02 | Link #1639 | |
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Nevertheless, to argue even a hint of causality from these findings is ludicrous. As with most non-experimental studies of media effects, it suffers from the problem of self-selection. The choice of music and the choice of a sexually-active lifestyle could just as well spring from some common set of causes. Video gaming studies that purport to show links between violent games and violent behavior suffer from similar methodological problems. Now I don't expect the BBC to choose what to cover based on methodological purity. I'm more concerned about the peer reviewers for the American Journal of Preventative Medicine in which the Pittsburgh study was published.
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