Hitler Responds To the iPad 38
One of the best in the "Hitler Responds" series.
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Hitler does have a point (Score:1)
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All the models, including the $499 one, include WiFi. The only differences among the models are the flash memory size, the 3G support, and the GPS (included only in the ones that have 3G support).
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Subtitles do whatever your player device or software decides on doing. If someone wanted to be obnoxious they could patch their favorite player to make them pan, spin, flash, whatever...
Oh the irony (Score:2, Funny)
Not the best (Score:2)
This one was pretty tame. The best I've ever seen was the Hitler rant about the balance in Company of Heroes [youtube.com]. Fit the scene like a glove. I think you can still enjoy it without having played the game.
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"He carried off 3 tons of gold! How did he do that?"
They all suck (Score:2)
Especially if you have even the most basic knowledge of German.
The most spoken native language in Europe, language of 4th largest economy (and #2 in exports, half of whole EU, just behind China...but not so much as the US). Studied by 2/3 of Japanese students; *.de is the second domain after *.com; 1 in 10 books is published in German...
Why would anybody want to have even a basic working skill of that, eh?
Re:They all suck (Score:4, Informative)
Because they can start learning it when they actually need it? The top languages in the world: [wikipedia.org]
Total number of native and secondary speakers of top languages.
1. Mandarin Chinese (1.12 billion)
2. English (480 million)
3. Spanish (320 million)
4. Russian (285 million)
5. French (265 million)
6. Hindi/Urdu (250 million)
7. Arabic (221 million)
8. Portuguese (188 million)
9. Bengali (185 million)
10. Japanese (133 million)
11. German (109 million)
Just because you live next to Germany and it makes sense to you, it doesn't mean it makes sense to everyone.
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Sure, though reasons I touched on make it a more desirable language then simply when looking at that ranking.
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"Primary", where did you get that idea from? More like 3rd; and with mild sleep deprivation.
Anyway, disregarding all mentioned and generally applicable benefits of (even small) German familiarity - it makes those Hitler Youtube remixes much less "enjoyable"; would make them less widespread perhaps. That gotta has value...
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Perhaps, to be more precise, it's more about how long such fad can go on. Sure, even native speakers can be amused about such remixes...few times (especially when talking about remixes of the same footage).
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Unfortunatelly it's possible, I guess, that this cheapens the scene, the film. Yes, OTOH it's quite likely that Untergang remixes brought many viewers to the movie proper, giving it greater potential influence; it might more then make up for what I percieve as cheapening (plus, while using humor to cope with horrible things is understandable, I guess it's a bit scary to me that so many people might need to escape like that in this case)
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As for the languages, Germany is in decline. It has an aging population and will need mass immigration to retain any competitiveness.
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Pretty unlikely, to be honest.
http://www.erothitan.com/press_info/2002-10-28_the_perfect_european_en.html [erothitan.com]
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I disagree; I'm in my third semester of German, which admittedly isn't much (right now I'm planning on building my vocab by reading Max und Moritz), but even though I can pick out bits of what they're saying I still think some of them are pretty funny. This one [youtube.com] is my favorite.
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My mistake, this one [youtube.com] is the good one.
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You should learn English first; it would suit you better to figure out how your current primary works than starting on other languages.
It appears to me that you do not have a multilingual background, since your post was rather misinformed. Learning another language in addition to your native tongue only serves to improve your understanding of your native tongue. This has been researched and I speak from experience, as I'm the parent of two bilingual children. Languages do not compete over space in the brain, they support each other.
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There's a heck of a lot more to the use of a language than the raw number of native speakers. Example, honestly, which of these would you rather learn? Italian or Tamil? Korean or Marlathi? German or Bengali? I'm not trying to diminish the importance of those languages, they're important too, but you've got to consider economic, scientific, cultural, ect. significance a language has as well as how many people speak it, and in those terms German ranks very high. In other words, you're wrong. German i
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I agree it's not as simple as raw numbers, but other factors complicate it even more. For example most of German people I know are very fluent with English. If you need to work with them, you can just use English and they will too. In other hand, generally Chinese, French and Russian is different matter (from the good economic and scientific countries and where it makes sense to do business).
The cost-to-benefit ratio is a lot better for those countries because generally you can't work good with plain Englis
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Yeah, I guess that is also true; the same thing applies to Hindi, but still, that won't help you any if you want to read something on paper or without a site without getting 'my hovercraft is full of eels,' or if you want to stray off into the more native places in Germany/Austria/German Switzerland. I'm not saying that there aren't considerable reasons to choose another, like Arabic or Portuguese, just that I think it balances out enough to make German also a very good choice. I admit I'm a bit biased her
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The reason I'm saying this is that when I was in Germany, everyone spoke good English so you got around. Of course, if you're going to work in a German company, then it's good to know German language, but generally you get around there with English and can work with German companies just with plain English.
On the other hand, while I was living in Russia pretty much no one could understand English. For the first months I got around just by sign language there (ie. cashier in store asked - which I learned the
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To add to this - the company I work at works with German companies using English, but we had to hire someone knowing Russian to work with them as it was impossible otherwise.
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109 million speak German.
Germany = 82 million.
Austria = 8.
Switzerland (half of) = 4.
When you take out the odd bits of Belgium and Luxemburg plus former colonies like Namibia there's not many left over.
That means nearly everyone who speaks it does so by accident, and hardly anyone is choosing it as a second language.
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He's German. He has no sense of humor.
Dude, don't you know. . . (Score:2)
Ignorance mixed with a feeling of superiority makes everything seem funny.
Ironically, conceited and ignorant people acting on their conceit and ignorance are often a joke in and of themselves. -A sad joke, but a joke nonetheless.
-FL
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It's sad when "software freedom" comes to mean that you can install any 3rd party software you want on your device and are able to put whatever data you choose on or off the device.
Give these iPads teeth and have them hovering about like an old Herbie movie and you've got Stallman's recurring nightmare.
This is very suspicious (Score:1)
Wont be a problem finding one (Score:1)
No, not really good (Score:1)
Pretty lame actually. This is actually much better: http://www.johnmortell.com/2009/09/04/hitler-responds-to-all-those-downfall-clips/ [johnmortell.com]