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Wikipedia... Shutting Down?

Discussion in 'Archive: Your Jedi Council Community' started by Ghost, Dec 14, 2011.

  1. Healer_Leona

    Healer_Leona Squirrel Wrangler of Fun & Games star 9 Staff Member Manager

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    Get your homework done early kids!

    Exactly what the local DJ said on the ride home today. lol
     
  2. PrincessKenobi

    PrincessKenobi Manager Emeritus star 7 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    Meh, just means I have to go to the Rock Band website to see what new DLC there is instead of using Wikipedia.
     
  3. Kyle Katarn

    Kyle Katarn Force Ghost star 6

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    Dammit, and just HOW will I know how many dogs have played Spuds McKenzie over the years without wikipedia!?
     
  4. duende

    duende Jedi Grand Master star 5

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    little children! cheat on all your homeworks with wikipedia before it blacks out! 'cause you won't be able to look at it once it blacks out! for 24 hours! but you can use it tomorrow!
     
  5. DarthTunick

    DarthTunick SFTC VII + Deadpool BOFF star 10 VIP - Game Host

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    Despite the egotistical nature of this, it's still effective/a good thing for Wikipedia to do. Why? Enough people will talk about this (no matter how they feel on the merits of this action)/it will create more awareness concerning SOPA/PIPA.


    Los Angeles Lakers: Drama, guaranteed.
     
  6. Only-One Cannoli

    Only-One Cannoli Ex-Mod star 7 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    Errrr wikipedia is a great method to direct you to reliable sources of reference. Sounds like you people are either 1. misusing it
    2. too old to understand how the majority of college students use it.
     
  7. DarthTunick

    DarthTunick SFTC VII + Deadpool BOFF star 10 VIP - Game Host

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    I love using it for information/trivia on movies & TV shows. Also, I love to randomly search through/learn about different aspects of various cities around the world via Wikipedia.


    Los Angeles Lakers: Drama, guaranteed.
     
  8. Todd the Jedi

    Todd the Jedi Mod and Loving Tyrant of SWTV, Lit, & Collecting star 6 Staff Member Manager

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    Lol, Spanish Wikipedia is still up. Probably some other non-english ones as well.
     
  9. Ramza

    Ramza Administrator Emeritus star 9 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    Yeah, I've been reading Google Translated Spanish Wikipedia. The ensuing Engrish is actually pretty entertaining.
     
  10. dp4m

    dp4m Chosen One star 10

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    Fortunately, TV Tropes is still up!

    /phew
     
  11. Ramza

    Ramza Administrator Emeritus star 9 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    Really? I ought to ch- oh no you don't.[face_plain]
     
  12. Aytee-Aytee

    Aytee-Aytee Jedi Master star 5

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    Try Japanese Wikipedia with Google Translate.

    "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory) film was screened at the United States in 1971. Directed by Mel Stuart.

    Roald Dahl's children's literature in the original novel "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" is. Tim Burton's published 2005 "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) is was the second film from the same original. In Japan, was released on DVD from Warner Home Video November 23, 2001.
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    Screenplay by Dahl himself wrote a draft of the original (but modified by the staff, most of them movies). There are many parts of the movie musical tailoring, original characters have appeared, including Charlie's school teacher. Also, Charlie's father is absent from the beginning.
    Parents attach to children entering the factory, and one from the original two (this change in 2005, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" was also passed.) I work as a feature, "When the plant entrance, forced to sign a pledge scene of enormous length marked shall indemnify any damage caused by Wonka from the possible danger inside", and here are the influence of Western legal culture-specific litigious society.
    Oompa Loompa people working at the plant played any person of any short-statured (2005 "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," provides compositing and CG played in dozens of separate one-minute Deep Roy, the robot used to reproduce). Also drawn on the original "crack the nut squirrel room" is difficult to reproduce because the technology was "golden goose" or are replaced in the room, microphone technique was extended in height Bee Tee The scene was cut from the factory come out after he's been so terrible that children also made ?Shikattarashii.
    A sequel to the original "Great Glass Elevator" (Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator) was also a movie is planned. However, Dahl was not happy because it has refused to work can now short of realization.
    When publishing avail, but commercial success, many fans found a charming psychedelic cult film unique atmosphere. Anime also "The Simpsons," "Dexter's Lab" TV shows such as such as a parody of this work can be seen in songs such as Marilyn Manson also has little influence in the Western media.
     
  13. jp-30

    jp-30 Manager Emeritus star 10 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    Haha, nice.
     
  14. jp-30

    jp-30 Manager Emeritus star 10 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    Google Cache!

    http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:VmS6zjm3epUJ:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spuds_MacKenzie+spuds+mckenzie&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=nz&client=firefox-a
     
  15. MarcusP2

    MarcusP2 Manager Emeritus star 6 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spuds_mackenzie?banner=none
     
  16. VadersLaMent

    VadersLaMent Chosen One star 10

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    This blackout appears to be working as every news item i hear on the radio and tv says the folks in Washington are reversing their stance and coming out against SOPA.
     
  17. Lowbacca_1977

    Lowbacca_1977 Chosen One star 7

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    Have you any good sources on who in Congress has changed stance?
     
  18. Darth Guy

    Darth Guy Chosen One star 10

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    Weren't people already moving away from the legislation before today? Hell, the Obama administration already promised that the President wouldn't sign the bill(s) if it's still so draconian by the time it reaches his desk.
     
  19. Lowbacca_1977

    Lowbacca_1977 Chosen One star 7

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    Yeah, but I'm seeing a rough list of 10 Republicans and 2 Democrats that have withdrawn their support as of a couple hours ago.
    http://www.ology.com/politics/list-legislators-fleeing-toxic-sopapipa-bills-grows/01182012
     
  20. anidanami124

    anidanami124 Jedi Master star 6

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    OH come on only two Democrats so far? Come on Obama said he would not pass the bill and Nancy Pelosi so against it and so is Moveon.org. They are on the same said as Michelle Bachmann and Ron Paul. You would think that more then just two would be against it by now. But the Republicans are not better. Only 10 so far? Then again the rest may start to feel unclean being ont he side of Bachmann and Paul so. But really only 12 so far?
     
  21. Ghost

    Ghost Chosen One star 8

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    Only 12 who have changed their mind... this day.
     
  22. Terr_Mys

    Terr_Mys Jedi Grand Master star 6

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    Ugh, just watched ABC News' coverage of the blackout. Totally glossed over the issue and didn't explain the reasons behind the protest at all. Just had some 15-year-old look for Mission Impossible 4 torrents to show how easy it was to find copyrighted material from "foreign sites." Oh, with a sound bite from Chris Dodd for good measure.

    wtg, Disney.

    Anybody see the other networks' nightly news coverage?
     
  23. Ghost

    Ghost Chosen One star 8

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    Haven't heard about it at all on TV news channels yet, not even a mention.
     
  24. Count_Drabbu

    Count_Drabbu Jedi Knight star 2

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    NBC's was about the same. Completely dismissive, even snarky. Williams introduced it by saying that critics claimed the bill "would somehow lead to censorship," and it ended by saying that by midday, most people had figured out how to get into Wikipedia by hitting the ESC key, as though that invalidated the point.
     
  25. MasterDillon

    MasterDillon Jedi Knight star 2

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    No, that can't be true, that's impossible!!!!!!!!!!!!!