"social consciousness"? lol! you guys are a joke! obama has not "ordered gitmo
closed" you obviously
don't understand american politics, what a lame attempt to be politically active. i am done with
this piece of shit site. all the good torrent sites are private any way. see you at revott.
when a .torrent site shifts it's focus from providing .torrents, that's the end of a once useful site.
woha..a bit harsh too say...
but hey...let's see you make a torrent site
and keeping runinng 24/7 , eztv is my first and only stop for quality
tv shows or documentry's...this site has class...for pvt site's well
just look at seeder's like 3 or 4 pfft non want that...
any who great documentry...
and perfect quality as useal.
keep up awesome work guy's.
zpm
Posted at 09/11/2009, 18:58
bevis, i think you set the tone when you said this addition 'has wrecked the usability of the main page'.
if you do this feedback for a living, then you should know better than to make such extreme statements.
it is still usable!
we jump to the site's defense because your choice of words were attacking a free service.
that and the fact that it was about something as trivial as a date/time stamp which (as a mac user) you should be able to
get around other ways (use dashboard and it's widgets, then it's a one button push to check the time).
as you said, "up there for thinking".
sorry about the 'name-calling' (just used your name!) but you have to admit that if you choose an online moniker like that,
people will automatically associate it with the pop culture references.
feel free to splat my name for a laugh if you want: zpm.. umm... zits please me, zebras plead murder, zero point module...
enough said. peace to you too.
bevis
Posted at 09/11/2009, 21:08
i agree with soulrebel2008 - that was also unnecessary trolling from adritch. maybe it's better to be rid of him, if that's his
attitude.
zpm, i initially wrote a response to your comment above, but decided to delete it rather than further the argument. nk
requested we keep this thread on topic, so i'm honoring that.
danato
Posted at 10/11/2009, 13:13
Quote by adritch
lol! you guys are a joke!
and yet another insult. behave, please.
as for the clock issue: if you use firefox (and there's no reason why not), there is an addon which
displays different time zones, that you can choose. i for example have gmt, cet and us pacific.
no scrolling needed. always in view.
i also understand why people reacted on bevis's note, because to me it sounded pretentious. look at
me, how well-educated i choose my words... petty. there were so many spelling mistakes. and one or
two on grammar, too.
Boro666
Posted at 12/11/2009, 03:17
Quote by yourmomnh
i have a 6 year old computer and i am unable to play high def codecs like h264. is
there a chance
that the featured releases will be available as a regular .avi? thanks
you can easily convert it to a diffeent format using variety of programs (handbreake, xilisoft) and
simply change resolution to a lower one. h264 is just another codec which you can install (ffdshow
for example) or use software like kmplayer, vlc player. probably the high resolution is killing your
machine.
as for the show it will be a waste of time to reencode it. this documentary is super boring and
watching it is like wasting 20 mins of your life. you could have as much "fun" as watching this
if your friend videotaped some of his bathroom floor, some yard and shown it to you.
stillatcalvin
Posted at 12/11/2009, 13:31
very interesting film, though it seemed to me that the film-maker was having a hard time
understanding the restrictions about filming (even though there was no narrative stating that
explicitly, the shots and statements he included lead me to believe that). i think it would be a bad
idea to give the press free reign over gitmo, the fact is, we're fighting in a war (right or wrong,
that's another topic). in war, we capture people (i think that's a good thing, better than just
killing everyone, no?) if these captured individuals were then sent to gitmo with the knowledge of
locks, camera positions, guard schedules, guard identities, etc, it might be possible to stage an
escape, or even blackmail via threats to family. surely we can all agree this would be bad?
now the real problem with these detentions is that they are kinda based on the old school
nation/state enemy we used to fight. we keep them prisoner until their nation is defeated, we deem
them no longer a threat, or we do a prisoner swap. well, there is no "nation" to be defeated, it's
really, really hard to determine they are no longer a threat (because their ideology is religiously
based, kind of hard to reform), and the other guys we're fighting seem happier to chop off heads
than get a prisoner exchange (or else they demand 3000 prisoners for one of our soldiers). so what
do we do? all we can really do is modify the process to try and prevent accidentally detaining
people who shouldn't be. maybe one day we can return them to their home, when they can give up the
dream of the islamic caliphate returning, but that's unlikely.
Worpe
Posted at 12/11/2009, 20:22
:rolleyes: @ stillatcalvin's post and excuses, but for the subject it's not that bad i guess, you
expect even worse posts, and plenty of fights.
just thought i'd give my view since he went through the trouble of making a lengthy post and i have
diametrically opposite views and you want to keep things balanced a bit
papahuge
Posted at 12/11/2009, 23:42
its an interesting doc, i enjoyed seeing the premises of "gitmo". i would have never expected that they
actually have tv's and videos that they play for the inmates, that is news to me. its also funny to point out
how the guards kept on throwing in "safe and humane treatment of inmates" like it was their job. i would
like to see much more, this was definitely a tease, it shows much, but no story point or drive, no narrative
really, except for a short clip when the director has to sensor his stuff. it was definitely educational to say
the least. but i want to see more of gitmo, i know their security is second to none and filming inside is
strictly regulated, but maybe talking to an inmate or having an interview with one of the inmates would
have been interesting. also i would like to hear more about how the guards adapt to what the inmates end
up doing to pass the time. like making shivs out of soft plastic utensils and salt to make it harder and
lethal.
cheers,
gene
jakkbauer
Posted at 14/11/2009, 08:16
i think guantanamo bay is awesome and absolutely neccesary to let people know we will do whatever it
takes to get vital information. if we didnt have a place like this people would tread all over us. i
hope it never gets closed down.
corezz
Posted at 16/11/2009, 21:57
this release is pretty bad...it is so on the surface it feels almost amateurish and doesnt really
know what it wants to do with the camera. very highschool.
smokeshaq
Posted at 17/11/2009, 21:25
Quote by corezz
this release is pretty bad...it is so on the surface it feels almost amateurish and doesnt really
know what it wants to do with the camera. very highschool.
i have to agree...
and with sheik kalid and the other hardcore qaida's being sent to chicago to stand trial in front of a civilian court the gitmo
prison seems to be closing down rather sooner than later...!
smokeshaq
Posted at 17/11/2009, 21:26
Quote by jakkbauer
i think guantanamo bay is awesome and absolutely neccesary to let people know we will do whatever it
takes to get vital information. if we didnt have a place like this people would tread all over us. i
hope it never gets closed down.
sorry, but your an idiot...
i wanted to add that there was a really good piece on gitmo on ngc a few months back. that one was much better than this
amateurish piece...
sookie
Posted at 19/11/2009, 17:14
nice teaser waiting for the real thing. very informative part about combining toilet paper and salt
to make a 'weapon' that could injure the guards - 'it's a constant battle'... definitely beats
macgyver lol.. anyways didn't look as bad as i thought it would be. tv, fridge even a bed pointing
towards mecca! but one thing i really missed in the documentary.. where are all the terrorists!!??
stromgald30
Posted at 20/11/2009, 03:36
Quote by worpe
:rolleyes: @ stillatcalvin's post and excuses, but for the subject it's not that bad i
guess, you
expect even worse posts, and plenty of fights.
just thought i'd give my view since he went through the trouble of making a lengthy post and i have
diametrically opposite views and you want to keep things balanced a bit
so what's your view? i didn't see a post by you other than to say you disagree . . . which doesn't
mean all that much. i hate how people criticize others for name calling and veiled insults while
they or others with similar viewpoints do much the same thing without being called out.
it's not excuses. the us is in a non-traditional, guerilla war. what do you expect the us to do
with enemy combatants? kill them? an isolated prison like gitmo is necessary. i'm not saying
anything about their treatment or selection to be detained there (or what got us in this situation).
my biggest gripe with the 'documentary' (and i haven't even watched it) is the last statement in the
summary, which is blatantly wrong.
barack obama has not ordered guantanamo bay detention camps to be closed. if he did, they would be
closed. he's the commander-in-chief and has the ultimate authority of the military. the mere
suggestion that he could order it closed and not have that order followed shows a gross lack of
knowledge about the american military/government system. he may have promised to close it in his
campaign, but that's a lot different from giving the order as president.
GenghisKhan
Posted at 20/11/2009, 08:28
Quote by iaidodude
nice point bevis xd
by the way i have also noticed nova king is in my opinion a 'short tempered intolerant "dick"' love
the site dislike that guys 'attitude' and judgeing by the trolls here thought i would add to the
trolling xd
admin:
i think you chose the wrong guy to dislike based on attitude. now i'm going to have to ask nova to
implement a big red ban button for me with the word "dick" on it. guess who the first victim will be.
- santabj
good to see tolerance being demonstrated here and user being banned xd
just like the 'tolerance' showed by the united states of lets make war profitable for our friends in
haliburton etc. so i suppose this poster had his point proven xd.
by the way i found this film amateurish and incredibly boring, sad thing is the soldiers talking in this film
possibly believe the drivel they were spouting about "the care" that the "detainee's" are "provided" with.
