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Yes. The Southpark episode was much better even...at least that had a Tron reference!

Not news for nerds, geeks, or even someone outside of Australia. I mean what am I going to do...get a plane ticket to attend that party?!?! Let's be real here...

Annnnd... It's gone.

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/154416/pleasure-model

When two groups of retards attack each other, no one wins...

You've obviously never seen Timmy vs Jimmy

http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s13e13-dances-with-smurfs

Here's the Scientology episode.

There's a reason I cannot find the Islam episode.

We're all the descendants of retarded fish frog squirrel monkeys!

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/155351/retard-babies-butt-sex

Here's the thing - we're all gonna die in the end, so all these fights against proprietary formats won't mean jack.

In that case, so is replying. Yet you seem to care enough about justifying your position (perhaps to yourself) to reply, so don't give me this nihilistic bullshit.

In life we pick the battles we can fight. These are potentially important issues, but basically given you're effectively saying about 90% of people are part of the "problem", I don't give a fuck anymore.

When 90% of the people are part of the problem is when I absolutely do care.

Take another battle I've picked: Religion. There's a small minority which does some really crazy shit. And they get away with it in the name of "religious tolerange", because a majority of the world believes enough crazy shit of their own that it takes a lot to make us as a culture say, no, you can't let your child die because you'd rather fucking pray than get help.

Easily 80-90% of the US population is religious, which makes it a safe bet that you are, too -- probably also Christian, probably believe faith is a virtue. If so, merely by supporting the idea that faith is a virtue, you are encouraging yourself and those around you to turn off their critical thinking and skepticism when the situation calls for it. That kind of thinking leads to atrocities. Never mind that merely by calling yourself "Christian", you lend credibility to these fuckwits.

Am I going to win? Not really. I do hope to reinforce separation of church and state, to promote actual science education instead of "Intelligent Design", and to establish some basic rights the religious would deny, like the right to marry. I'd love to see people tolerate less of the extremists. I really doubt I'm going to see the religious become a minority in my lifetime.

But you know what? I'd like to think that when I'm lying on my deathbed, I lived for things that matter. I'd like to think that I'd still be the kind of person who would be ashamed to think I gave up because it was too hard, or because there were too many people who disagreed with me.

Life shouldn't have to be some damn crusade.

You're right, it shouldn't. But this is the world we live in, and there are some issues which tend towards exactly that -- either you're a good little worker propping up the status quo, or you're actually helping to move things forward.

And life should be meaningful -- and it's up to you to find that meaning. Maybe you honestly don't care, but that's not what I'm hearing. What I'm hearing is that you do care, you're just too lazy to do anything about it anymore.

Yet somehow, you're not too lazy to post, and to try to justify how much you don't care. That says a lot.

Here's the thing - we're all gonna die in the end, so all these fights against proprietary formats won't mean jack.

In that case, so is replying. Yet you seem to care enough about justifying your position (perhaps to yourself) to reply, so don't give me this nihilistic bullshit.

In life we pick the battles we can fight. These are potentially important issues, but basically given you're effectively saying about 90% of people are part of the "problem", I don't give a fuck anymore.

When 90% of the people are part of the problem is when I absolutely do care.

Take another battle I've picked: Religion. There's a small minority which does some really crazy shit. And they get away with it in the name of "religious tolerange", because a majority of the world believes enough crazy shit of their own that it takes a lot to make us as a culture say, no, you can't let your child die because you'd rather fucking pray than get help.

Easily 80-90% of the US population is religious, which makes it a safe bet that you are, too -- probably also Christian, probably believe faith is a virtue. If so, merely by supporting the idea that faith is a virtue, you are encouraging yourself and those around you to turn off their critical thinking and skepticism when the situation calls for it. That kind of thinking leads to atrocities. Never mind that merely by calling yourself "Christian", you lend credibility to these fuckwits.

Am I going to win? Not really. I do hope to reinforce separation of church and state, to promote actual science education instead of "Intelligent Design", and to establish some basic rights the religious would deny, like the right to marry. I'd love to see people tolerate less of the extremists. I really doubt I'm going to see the religious become a minority in my lifetime.

But you know what? I'd like to think that when I'm lying on my deathbed, I lived for things that matter. I'd like to think that I'd still be the kind of person who would be ashamed to think I gave up because it was too hard, or because there were too many people who disagreed with me.

Life shouldn't have to be some damn crusade.

You're right, it shouldn't. But this is the world we live in, and there are some issues which tend towards exactly that -- either you're a good little worker propping up the status quo, or you're actually helping to move things forward.

And life should be meaningful -- and it's up to you to find that meaning. Maybe you honestly don't care, but that's not what I'm hearing. What I'm hearing is that you do care, you're just too lazy to do anything about it anymore.

Yet somehow, you're not too lazy to post, and to try to justify how much you don't care. That says a lot.

side note - Originally there is no no need for phase 4

*sips espresso*

Hm. Seems something very similar to this was depicted a while ago...

I used to think as you do, and I've come to realize that while it's very true for some things, it's exactly wrong for many.

Test with no collaboration and no open book / Google are not the real world and just lead to people who can pass the test but have no idea on how to do the work.

Well, to start with, if you only know how to solve the problem with Google, do you really know how to solve the problem? Anyone can Google for the answer. What you need to do is solve the problem yourself. Yes, it's boring, it's something everyone else has already solved, and you probably solved at least once on the homework. But if you can solve this problem, you've demonstrated that if someone throws a new problem at you, one no one has solved yet, you'll be able to do it -- and it'll be all the easier when you have Google to help.

The same can be said of the book.

If you test people in groups, you now have all the problems of groupwork -- how do you know who did what? Who actually contributed, who did all the work, and who sat back and collected the credit? Or, if it's a problem that actually needs multiple people to solve in the given time, maybe one of the students you're about to fail was actually competent, just got stuck with a useless group?

Even assuming the students are honest about it, it can be hard to remember how it actually happened.

Add to that the logistical problems. If you allow Google, but not collaboration, how do you prevent students from communicating? What if you want to limit collaboration? How do you know a student hasn't hidden an answer sheet on Google or in their book?

The only way this could possibly work is if you came up with at least significant variations on a project each semester, if not entirely new projects, and you made sure that the key concepts you want students to understand are something Google doesn't know -- which means you're basically going to do original research each semester. Really?

Homework is good on its own, and it has many of the above problems. But a test is one way to make sure a student has actually learned something from your course.

Of course, the better courses include sufficient information on the test to bring it closer to the environment you were supposed to be doing your homework in -- enough to avoid the memorization, but not enough for you to just Google "Hey, everybody, what's the answer?" For instance, for my Data Structures course, the Javadoc for relevant pieces of the Java APIs was included on the test. For my introductory Physics course, relevant equations were included on the test, you just needed to know what they mean and how to apply them.

And guess what?

If you made it through that Physics course without understanding what E=K+U means, or F=ma, or K=(1/2)mv^2, guess what? You don't know what they mean and how to apply them. Sure, on the job, you have access to Google, so maybe you could Google things like the universal gravitational constant or the formula for energy in a sinusoidal oscillator, but if you have to Google for what F=ma means, you didn't learn a single goddamned thing from that course, and you deserve the F you'll be getting. If you don't know that F means Force, you get F for Fail.

You can have the Java Collections APIs -- we don't care if you've memorized something your IDE will tab-complete for you anyway. But if you can't loop through a linked list without Googling "linked lists" or using iterators, you don't really understand linked lists. I don't care that iterators make more sense in the real world -- you fail, see you next semester.

This just reminded me of the South Park episode: http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s11e13-guitar-queer-o

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/187269/look-out-indy I can only imagine what kind of awful plans for successful dead movie stars he has conjured up in his head.

We can't all be poor AND stupid you know?

That's just NASCAR, not real racing ;)

Coming here and showing off with your luck and genes. We can't all be poor AND stupid you know?

You insensitive clod!

Somebody has to come up with a better solution.

Have they made a "Pleasure Model"? http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/154416/pleasure-model

These are friends (and family) who I have had long, long before Facebook. I think they still like me, but they're too annoyed (or worried) by my "paranoia" to be around me because I won't "friend them". I told them they're free to e-mail, instant message, or call me, like they always have in the past, but that's "old fashioned" and "everybody else uses Facebook" so they usually just meet or hang out without me. I still see them once in a while when "nobody is online", but then they try to convince me to sign up so they "aren't alone" and they can add me to their contact lists in the same convenient place they have everyone else.

I don't do things because everybody else does them, but in this particular case, with the size and influence Facebook has over people's lives, I can understand why someone might put their privacy values aside and sign up, pretending privacy concerns don't exist. I'd say I'm a little more strong-willed and passionate than that, but it comes at a price. I respect your suggestion, and I'd normally suggest the same, but it's not just some "buddies" from school who I barely know; it's people I've known for a long time and gotten along quite well with, up until everyone got sucked into this thing. Now, to me, they seem disconnected from reality, while to them I appear like a disconnected, paranoid Luddite.

And to think now some of my college professors are considering putting their coursework in Facebook... I just can't win.

I remember commercials especially from Billy Mays that would startle me so badly

      Obligatory South Park:

      Ike? Is that you?

      No! That's ignorant! I'm not dead...HI! BILLY MAYS HERE FOR CHIPOTLAWAY...

      If you have no idea what I'm talking about, you can watch that episode here.

So, it will be illegal for governments to make propaganda and put in on the internet with the intention of affecting political change in a country other than their own. In the US, where propaganda is perfectly legal, we could argue all day about what is and is not propaganda. So, how does a foreign government make a serious attempt to catch other governments doing it? (spies, perhaps?)

Or will this just be a pretense for unjustified wars? The UN equivalent of yelling "it's coming right for us"?

I suspect that it might start something more like this

Is this really news? Southpark already pointed out the obvious.

This. I think South Park provided the best insight when Chef was telling Mr. Garrison about how black people kept adjusting their vocabulary based on when white people starting imitating it.

Perhaps this will help.

"Due to copyright and other legal reasons, South Park video content cannot be viewed outside the United States."

No, but it gives me a pretty good idea why they're in such a shithole and digging themselves deeper.

What precisely did you think that Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, the Jonas Brothers, etc... really were?

Perhaps this will help.

Que?

There's always this approach....

This is the perfect job for Petey the Don't Sue People Panda

The decision to buy a hybrid is usually emotional, not rational. A 2007 survey indicates that most (57%) Prius owners' primary motivation for purchasing the vehicle is because "it makes a statement about me". As other posters (and a South Park episode) have commented, buying a hybrid is just a new way to be smug.

...isn't usually a problem; in fact it's usually a benefit. Maybe in other countries it is impossible to hate someone who never showed his face, but in the US it actually makes things easier. Whatever your political affiliation, one of the easiest and cheapest ways to disparage a group is to attach the words "big" or "faceless" to it. "Big" government, "faceless" corporations, "big" labor, etc. People don't trust you unless you can show them your face; that why for example BP was so eager to get a spokesman in front of cameras (too bad for them he made a douche of himself, but the point stands.)

The problem with the ASCAP/RIAA et al. is that they simply don't have anyone they can trot out in front of a camera without it looking like a South Park cartoon. "Look, there's Lars now. [...] This month he was looking to have a gold-plated shark tank bar installed right next to his pool, but thanks to people downloading his music for free, he must now wait a few months before he can afford it." Hollywood has spent decades highlighting the rich and glamorous lives that their stars lead, with huge houses, fast cars, and all of that; now they've got to try to work against all their own marketing to tell us that these same artists are starving and they have to put ordinary blue collar workers into debt for the rest of their lives to support them.

Who is the biggest dick now?

I think you knew the answer before you said that... (you american have a soo-big penish)

How many atheists are known to have started religious wars and tried convert entire countries or kill them if they wouldn't convert?

As someone else has already said, several Communist dictators. After reading the comments here on Slashdot, I can easily imagine a few of the people that have posted using violence to eliminate all traces of religion from the world. South Park also had a couple things to say about it.

Oh Oh. Smug Alert.

Here's a quick tutorial.

Watch the South Park episode mentioned above: http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/267112

I think South Park was the location of these clinical trials

Wasn't there a South Park episode about this?

http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/127947

My favorite line from the episode:

"No one plays just a little Heroin Hero..."

Me and Kenny don't give two shits about stupid-ass Wales anyway

Well, it’s always the wizard alien. Didn’t you know?

Having said that, Dragon works fairly well, provided you modulate your speech.

If you want a laugh with Dragon, turn away from the screen and talk normally, then look at what it has transcribed..

For real hilarity, try chasing the dragon: http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/155898

I knew he was the love child of Jesus and and an alien

Has anyone checked whether they just did it for comedic effect? It seems quite unlike them to censor long, preachy speeches. I mean hell, they air the rest of South Park...

Yes, people have checked. It was also confirmed on The Daily Show.

Yu can still watch it, if you know the link:
http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/1405/
http://www.southpark.de/alleEpisoden/1405/?lang=en (German site)
http://btjunkie.org/search?q=south+park+S14E05 (BitTorrent meta search)
You’re welcome. :)

Goto http://www.southparkstudios.com/news/3878

The South Park logo.. to the left of their "Statement".

Right click and view the bigger version of the image

http://southparkstudios.mtvnimages.com/default/image.jpg

Look right below satan. To the left of the "H" in the sign.

You realize, the original episode that showed Mohammed before it wasn't cool to show Mohommed is on their website? here it is. Completely un-editied.

I'm expecting the 201/202 episodes to be posted the same way.

Sure it will, in fact, here it is: http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/267116 Oh wait, that just leads to a message where they say they don't have network approval to stream the unedited version. I guess that's part of the reason why the unedited version isn't linked to in their statement.

I watched the show on http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/1405/ . Uncensored. Like everybody else.

Well, actually on southpark.de, because I’m in Germany, and they stupidly force me to use that site.
It was linked on the front page. Interestingly, it went out of the episode list again. The blog post and comments are gone. The forum's database is down. And now the front page link to the above URL is also gone, reverted to the old episode.
The direct link still works though.

But it feels weird even thinking of having a TV again... A projector is the same price, if not cheaper, much much bigger, can be used on your PC (which itself can be hidden in a corner), and my projector even has mouse control built into the remote.
I think your IQ jumps up by at least 10 point, when you throw away your TV. (Unless you replace it by 4chan, of course. ^^)

Well, I live in Finland, and http://www.southparkstudios.com/news/3878 gets redirected to some .fi site which just gives an error "Due to copyright and other legal reasons, South Park video content cannot be viewed outside the United States.". So basically I can't even read their news section or TFA. Anyone have a mirror?

You realize, the original episode that showed Mohammed before it wasn't cool to show Mohommed is on their website? here it is. Completely un-editied.

I'm expecting the 201/202 episodes to be posted the same way.

Same ep with one of the best renditions of the Xenu story EVAR. If you didn't sense the sarcasm by that point, please RMA your sarcasm detector, because it's clearly non-functional.