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Postby Feud » Fri Jul 17, 2009 11:34 pm

What do you want to know?

In other news:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,533 ... latestnews
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Postby Mas Tnega » Sat Jul 18, 2009 2:46 am

It's not as scary when you know how the deal actually works.
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Postby Jordy... » Sun Jul 19, 2009 7:38 pm

Someone knows how to add subtitles to a downloaded movie? Movie is just a media-player file and the subtitles are RAR.
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Postby Phelanpt » Sun Jul 19, 2009 8:08 pm

.rar is a typical extension for WinRar compressed files. I'd uncompress it with WinRar or a compatible free version (does 7zip work with rars?), and see if there are any .sub/.txt files inside it.
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Postby Jordy... » Sun Jul 19, 2009 8:42 pm

yeah, this is part of the text file:

0
00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,867
<i>When I started this film,</i>

1
00:00:03,470 --> 00:00:06,496
<i>there were 86 301 Yakuzas in Japan,</i>

2
00:00:06,706 --> 00:00:10,198
<i>spread over a number</i>
<i>of crime syndicates.</i>

3
00:00:10,477 --> 00:00:12,672
<i>Yakuza is a</i>
<i>professionaI gambIing word.</i>

4
00:00:13,179 --> 00:00:15,238
<i>LiteraIIy ya-ku-za means</i>
<i>eight-nine-three.</i>

5
00:00:37,070 --> 00:00:40,665
<i>So, how is your son</i>
<i>Naoki?</i>


But how do I get it to go with the media-player file?
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Postby Phelanpt » Sun Jul 19, 2009 9:51 pm

Depends on your media player program. If you're using Windows Media Player, I think you need something called vobsub. I don't remember how you get that, and don't know if it's still necessary. Other media players(BSplayer, for instance) usually have a "load subtitles" function together with the "load file" function.

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Postby NeatNit » Sun Jul 19, 2009 10:06 pm

Paying for WinRar does nothing except removing the "you're not allowed to use this, but go right ahead" message when it opens.

edit: oops, didn't see the new page, but still.
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Postby Jordy... » Sun Jul 19, 2009 11:53 pm

I downloaded BSplayer, I'll see if that'll do the trick, I had media player classic installed, but I deleted it accidently and then when I tried to re-download it I had to pay so I just took media player wich was free.

and indeed I always wondered why I never had to pay for RAR but I could still just use it.
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Postby Jordy... » Mon Jul 20, 2009 12:02 am

Thanks a lot all, with the BS player it was quite simple.
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Postby Phelanpt » Mon Jul 20, 2009 12:58 am

Xocrates wrote:Now, wouldn't you love if one of my lines entered in one MI episode?

(Yes, I know it's an obvious one :( )

Yeah, just saw it posted by someone else:
He made me spend more than $20 on a video game!
Submitted by JOSHBOX


I'll use the opportunity to remind people that mine is also there. :P
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Postby Feud » Mon Jul 20, 2009 10:55 am

Book Review!

Reading this book cause I thought it would be cheesy and funny, like a B movie.

My rating: :shock:

Writing Style
It's all the worst parts of "gun culture" writing in condensed form. Cracked out conspiracy theories presented as fact, Cops shooting people for not having drivers licenses, clubbing the reader's brain into mush through hyper specifics and insignificant details of guns and supplies. If the reader cares about the specifics of the difference in parts between a Semi-Auto CAR-15 and a modified Full Auto one they will either know it already, or they will look it up.

As it is the thing reads like a Wikipedia entry, nothing can be said without an extended description of it's history, specifications, and price. Seriously, who talks like this? Who cares that a helmet cost you $300 one year, $100 a few years later, when the dollar has imploded from hyper inflation?

Further, when he updated the book for the current version he didn't standardize the time line. As it is trying to figure out what has or hasn't happened is a crap shoot of contradictions. One page he talks about everything collapsing in 2008, the next about people having X salary in 2009. At one point he says they got the idea for a group from 9/11, another from watching The Road Warrior in 2006 while in college, which doesn't make sense since they've all been out of college plus gotten advanced degrees by the time 2008 rolls around. He says in one chapter that the 2008 election doesn't happen due to disorder, later that everyone was worried when Obama was elected President.

Everyone talks virtually identically, which I assume to be the same tone, style, vocabulary, and flow as the author himself. There is virtually no difference in any of the characters except in name.

Plot
Essentially, it's about a bunch of people from Chicago who flee to a fortified position in Idaho which they've prepared through years of paramilitary preparation and stockpiling.

The book covers a lot of ground, from communists with a baby carriage full of dead babies they are using for food, to the afore mentioned crazy stuff, it's a sink hole of bizarre and ridiculous writing. There also included two chapters on a pair of brothers who have multiple shootouts with police officers, who apparently wanted to kill the brothers for driving without a license. According to the author this is perfectly legal for the boys to be doing since license laws are themselves illegal. He mentioned them in a fairly odd place and from what I can tell tied up their story arch quickly, which in no way has thus far impacted anything else that happened in any way.

Apparently a County Supervisor in Arkansas took over Fort Knox, declared himself President of the United Sates, but is actually a stooge for the Bilderberg Group (who have been planning to take over the US since 1933) controlled UN. The UN is now raping and killing it's way across America, is quickly moving through Utah and Southern Idaho due to the "Mormon Church" selling out to them and encouraging it's members to join them. Our heroes (about 12 in number) are now planning to fight back against the seven thousand approaching troops who are supported by 1,000 vehicles, including mechanized fighting units, with homemade thermite and two ultralight aircraft with M-16's bolted to the wings providing Close Air Support.

Wow.
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Postby Ace Rimmer » Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:56 pm

Perhaps it's just an elaborate way to make gun nuts look, er, nutty? :?:

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Postby Xocrates » Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:18 pm

WARNING: May contain nuts?
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Postby Rkiver » Mon Jul 20, 2009 7:19 pm

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/20/ ... -Blasphemy

Oh for fuck sake. Take your religious shit out of my country you bible thumping thickos.

I'm going to go walk in front of a church with a placard saying "God does not exist". Let's see them try ANYTHING as while it may be criminal in Ireland, it's not under EU law.
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Postby NeatNit » Mon Jul 20, 2009 7:37 pm

Rkiver wrote:I'm going to go walk in front of a church with a placard saying "God does not exist".
I'd like to see pictures of that :)

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