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Stephen Colbert vs The Hungarian Government
jefu writes "The Hungarian government is sponsoring an internet vote to name a new bridge. So far naming the bridge after acter Chuck Norris has been the most popular. However, last night Stephen Colbert (of Comedy Central's "Colbert Report") suggested that viewers vote to name the bridge after him. Remembering the effect that a Colbert segment had had on Wikipedia, I visited the voting page (in Hungarian when it works) soon after that and it was completely non-responsive. This morning (8:00 Thursday Pacific time) it is showing a "Horrible exception" and a Jetspeed/tomcat stack trace. " I believe Colbert's straight-talking sensibilities have earned him far more than just a bridge in whatever continent Hungaria is in.
Instead I think we should consider renaming one of our lesser used states as an honor more appropriate to his grippy contributions to America. We're not doing anything with Colorado these days anyway, but imagine the appeal of a new and improved state with a virile name like Colberado. Book your tickets today!
The very name of the country gives me an urge to go to Burger King. Why not take a vote on renaming Hungary itself?
Where were you when the voynix came?
What a moren, doesn't even know how to spell ACTOR.
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I already named my falafel after Bill O'Reilly.
Where were you when the voynix came?
"I visited the page when it works", and you link to it for the slash masses to connect to. I feel sorry for the site admin.
It's not on any map I can find.
it seems that chuck norris is not longer the top choice: Az indoklás megtekintéséhez kattintson a névre! Zenebutik-Zenehíd 260730 [13%] Chuck Norris - híd 158656 [8%] Zrínyi híd 156978 [8%] Vásárhelyi Boldizsár - híd 155314 [8%] Bethlen Gábor - híd 152720 [8%] Batthyány Lajos híd 122877 [6%] Szent Korona - híd 122325 [6%] Bocskai István - híd 121137 [6%] Hunyadi Mátyás - híd 120784 [6%] Szent István - híd 119985 [6%] found on http://www.m0hid.gov.hu/toplista anyone care for a transaltion of all the other names?
[JL] IH8U
mine must be defective, I'm not finding "acter"
Ah, how I miss my public school education.
The country's name is not "Hungaria" it is "Hungary."
And the country is in Eastern Europe.
Though, given the average American these days, we should feel luck he didn't think it was in the US.
Besides, Chuck Norris doesn't need a bridge. Chuck Norris walks to the river and the water gets out of his way. Sorry.
So the site is already fried because of Colbert, and your brilliant idea is to put it on the front page of Slashdot?
There goes the Hungarian electric grid.
People used to worry about slashdotting. Not any more.
WTF I thought at least the geeky americans were less dumb than the rest...
that the population of Hungarian bridges has tripled in the last 6 months.
Build a man a fire, he's warm for one night. Set him on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life.
I'm honestly quite surprised you have no idea what continent it is on...
She's built like a steak house, but she handles like a bistro....
This is clearly an attempt to steal Slashdot's patent pending method of destroying webservers..
First the TV crowd slams their site and now they get slashdotted. Their poor server's CPU must have melted by now.
why colorado? there is good skiing there. why not something like south dakota? what the hell is in south dakota anyways.
(here goes my karma down the tube)
...For the beast had been reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror.
Why would you use Java for a government web site that's presumably going to get a lot of traffic? Java is OK for low-usage web sites, but it's far too slow for something that's going to get medium-to-high traffic.
News for Nerds, Stuff that matters, and Steven Colbert news.
"So the site is already fried because of Colbert"
I'm already starving just from reading the name "Hungary" over and over. Mmmmm fried by Colbert. mmmmm.
Where were you when the voynix came?
Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi already celebrate this Great American.
Then he could be the first state to outlaw abortion, have the fewest laws of any state, host a biker rally, and have drive through liquor and ammo stores everywhere.
.357 hollowpoints. My Ex is in town, and I wanted to get her ... er ... I mean get her something special...
Cobert to drivethrough speakerphone: Hi, I'd like a fifth of Tequilla and a box of
"We are all geniuses when we dream"
- E.M. Cioran
We're not doing anything with Colorado these days anyway, but imagine the appeal of a new and improved state with a virile name like Colberado.
It would be much more appropriate to rename Idaho's Portugal, a.k.a. California's Canada, a.k.a. Washington's Mexico, a.k.a. Oregon.
Stevegon? Orebert? Stevegonebert?
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(And if THAT isn't enough, notice the 'o' and the 'e' were swapped in the same spot...)
"I'm honestly quite surprised you have no idea what continent it is on..."
I have an extra supply of Depends on hand to take care of the continents problem.
Where were you when the voynix came?
They should name it the "Voice of Reducto" bridge.
And it's called Hungary, not Hungaria.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
I vote for "CmdrTaco Bridge".
Slashdot: Failed Car Analogies. Amateur Lawyering. Anecdote Battles.
Colorado is fine, but how about Nevada? Don't you think we could call it Smith&Wesson? Or why not rename California to In&Out?
And I'm still looking for a cool named all-you-can-eat chain to rename D.C.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
The bridge in Hungaria should be named:
-The Chuck Norris Bridge
-The Steven Colbert Bridge
-Geza Hofi's Bridge (an actual Hungarian)
-King Steve's Kickass Bridge
-The Bridge of Death
-CmdrTaco's Bridge
You are reading a copy of my copyrighted post.
Ah, I see how this generations favored comedian/political satirist is tech news. You probably shouldn't make this more widely known, though. Pretty soon Ted Stevens and Robert Byrd will battle to the death to have diplomatic envoys have that bridge named after them.
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please _____ SZERVÁC Attila from Hungary http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungary
SZERVÃC Attila -
I know, I know, it's Hungary, not Hungaria.
You are reading a copy of my copyrighted post.
It's Oregon that needs the help. As it is now, we can't decide if it's California's Canada, Washington's Mexico, or Idaho's Portugal. (I always thought it was the North Pacific's Ecuador, but I'm a liberal. What do I know?)
Change it to Colbertegon, and you've got a destination! It's not anybody's anything! Of course, we'd have to move the capital to Colbervallis...
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Is that countries like the United States sponsor votes to elect leaders!!
It would be pointless to name a bridge after Chuck Norris. If they did no one would dare use it, because everyone knows that no one crosses Chuck Norris and lives.
We are sort of taking the Colbert Report and one-upping them.
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In response, Joe Lieberman denounced Stephen Colbert for hacking the bridge's website, and demanded the Hungarian government launch a full investigation.
Seriously. Hungaria?
Ha. Has anyone seen the movie Network?
I suggest a new term for the internet world-- Colberted.
"Yes, one day my public site was discussing Hungarian Bridges, but then these monkeys flew out of the sky and started posting. Now we're discussing Icelandic ducks and Chinese lay-midwifery. Ouch! I think I just got Colberted".
Not to be confused with "Colbertism, a 16th Century French practice of mercantilist protectionism.
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
Get a brain! Morans
Now that's funny!
And it's in Europe. Some of us are Hungarians here you know.
The voting page
Vote for STEPHEN Colbert, NOT Steven.
The bridge should be called Hungaria... No, wait! Hungary! The bridge in Asia should be called Hungary. Where is Spain again? Europe! The bridge in Europe, in Hungary, should be called Colberto. Or Steven Colbert's "truthiness" bridge!
Everybody loves Steven Colbert.
(seriously, as long as I can't pronounce it, it's okay. tough luck chuck)
It is called hungary, how is that a troll?
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Does anyone know of a good Hungarian to English translator?
-Michael, AKA Frankie.
When did it become cool for editors on this site to flaunt their ignorance?
Learn to spell the name of the country (Hungary) and what continent it's on (Europe). As a Hungarian national, I find your attitude laughable. This may be one reason why people outside of the US cannot stand the popular attitude towards other countries here.
Several major Linux projects like MPlayer are Hungarian made as well, which could have the slightest chance of marking it on your map.
Next time Slashdot, Linux, or Apple is not represented correctly in some type of media, remember that perhaps others give as much crap about your passion as you do about theirs.
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v. owned, 0wned, pwned, 0wn3d, pwn3d, own3d.
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examples: I owned you in counter-strike. You were owned at the party yesterday.
Nice one.
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What is this crap. Sounds more like a pre-teen blog post than anything news worthy.
You should know that this is a spontaneous joke of Hungarian people, nothing serious. At last! Despite centuries when you had to shut up, and the eastern hordes ruining down the country several times, people there did not loose their sense of humor. This is the real knews. /yes, IAAH - I am a native Hungarian/
They should name it after Bela Lugosi or maybe the
Polgars. At least those people were Hungarian at one time.
To be fair, I can't find Deustchland on the map either nor Myanmar... But in reality the Hungarians don't refer to their nation as Hungary, but rather Magyarország.
So heck... We can keep calling Hungary or Germany or Burma anything we want because they call themselves something else.
"I am the king of the Romans, and am superior to rules of grammar!"
-Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368-1437)
after dead people? I really don't like the trend to name buildings and infrastructure after living persons. I really didn't like it when a building in my town was named the "[town's mayor] art center" (where [town's mayor] was the current actual mayor). Does this sound tacky to you? I thought that one named buildings and such after dead people as a tribute. Now it just seems to be a trendy thing to do. And the nice thing about naming stuff after dead folks is that they can never do something embarassing or stupid once they are dead (I'm thinking: "The Michael Jackson Music Center for Children). That last one was a hypothetical, but I hope you get my drift.
... whatever continent Hungaria is in ...
It was still in Europe the last time I checked. Besides, if it was in America, naming of the bridge would go to the highest corporate bidder.
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I say just out of pure irony, we rename Oregon to something having to do with Colbert
And the joke is what just flew over both your heads. The posting was intentionally done in Stephen Colbert's style, i.e. intentionally ignorant.
Slashdot, Digg, and Stephen Colbert.
Internet write-in vote spamming was funny ~10 years ago, now it is just played.
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See the 1998 People Magazine poll:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Joseph_Nasiff_
And I'm sure everyone who has gone to college since 1990 has at one time seen "Calvin and Hobbes" elected as a write-in for some office.
Well, OK, I guess write-in spamming STILL is pretty funny...
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We're USING the name. (For what, precisely, I can't tell you. It's, uh, a matter of National Security.) I suggest you go after Wyoming instead. Nobody lives in Wyoming, at least nobody worth talking about.
Nostalgia's not what it used to be.
Just because you don't know what is going on in Colorado does'nt mean there is nothing going on in Colorado, CmdrTaco.
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One of the hotly contested swing seats on congress is up for grabs in a fair race. Both sides see it as a referendum on policy.
See this article for more information CmdrTaco, then take my suggestion we rename a irrelevant website after him. Say... Colbertdot.org
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/05/washington/05ho
Never answer an anonymous letter. - Yogi Berra
We're not doing anything with Colorado these days anyway, but imagine the appeal of a new and improved state with a virile name like Colberado.
Yeah, and Wisconsin's not doing much for us either these days.
Let's rename it "CowboyNeal".
What?
brCowboyNeal
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SZERVÃC Attila -
Leave Colorado and the rest of the West alone. Go for some place in the midwest rust-belt that has nothing of value. Everyone vote for Michigan... it's a shit-hole in any place. Maybe a name change will grow some quality.
You may know it as Myanmar, but it will always be Burma to me. -J. Peterman
Let me get this straight: Stephen Colbert "Colberted" the site, flooding it so that it was getting Tomcat stack traces. And so, as a remedy, you slashdotted it?!
Reality has a liberal bias.
- "Scientia non habet inimicum nisp ignorantem"
Private stem cell research continues and advances. Bush did the fiscally responsible thing and vetoed a spending bill that would have wasted billions on something that the private sector and state governments are already handling.
Listen, I knew Bocskai István, and you, Mr. Colbert, are no Bocskai István.
Tip of the hat to Lloyd Bentson for his single meaningful - and truly eternal - contribution to political discourse.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
To accomplish your task:
To vote, go here- http://www.m0hid.gov.hu/szavaz
UPDATE!!! Walk-through of the voting process:
The site is still only partially accessible due to the overload in traffic I imagine (lots of "Cannot Find Server" errors). But I did submit the nomination and at least one of the members of the Colbert Nation got through enough to get him on the ballot. On the form for justification for the nomination, I submitted "Lép Colbert van a áthidal között Magyarország és Amerika" Which means (according to Translation-guide.com): "Stephen Colbert is the bridge between Hungary and America". (Actually, what I'm pretty sure has happened is that the internet translation tool has mangled the translation and it says something like "Stephen Colbert has complete apple frog feet for the Mopping of Americans" or something.)
So vote early, and vote often.
The Top Nominees: (as of 8/10/2006 11:15 AM CST) http://www.m0hid.gov.hu/toplista
Toplista
Az indoklás megtekintéséhez kattintson a névre!
Zenebutik-Zenehíd 260730 [13%]
Chuck Norris - híd 156741 [8%]
Zrínyi híd 156415 [8%]
Vásárhelyi Boldizsár - híd 155314 [8%]
Bethlen Gábor - híd 152669 [8%]
Batthyány Lajos híd 122824 [6%]
Szent Korona - híd 122266 [6%]
Bocskai István - híd 121083 [6%]
Hunyadi Mátyás - híd 120734 [6%]
Szent István - híd 119933 [6%]
Some Other Nominees: (as of 8/10/2006 12:15 PM CST)
Stephen Colbert - 168
Jack Sparrow - 37
Monty Python - 25
Bruce Lee - 29
Skywalker - 21
Jackie Chan - 20
Steven Colbert - 12
Abe Vigoda - 3
Gene Simmons - 3
Sponge Bob- 1
Come on folks, read up about who Stephen Colbert is. He puts on a fake right-wing American-idiot persona as his act. The story submission here is simply mimicing it. He's a comedian, it's a joke. Laugh. He (and the article) is making fun of the self-centred American attitude.
just a bridge in whatever continent Hungaria is in.
Is Taco being funny here or truly demonstrating an offensive ignorance of world political geography?
I guess the joke is on me since I can't tell. (Slashdot "quality" these days...)
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Agreed - Figures, I always lose my mod points just beforee I actually want to use them. Then again, unfortunately it can't get rated higher than 5 anyway!
A sentence you'll never see on an Internet discussion board: "You know what? You're right."
I don't know about or care what this clown has said or done beside the current problem. He might be really funny, that's great and why he's one of the few granted a chunk of the country's precious and government limited broadcast spectrum. None of it make what he's doing right. In fact, his abuse of his privileged position makes it worse.
Yes, you can screw online polls and sources of information. If jerking people around is your thing, you might think it's funny. Most people don't enjoy being jerked around and most people outgrow the urge to do it. We can be sure that everyone but economic competitors will get over messing with Wikipedia. It's not really much more fun than screwing with books down at the local library. When the novelty of having such a resource wears off, vandalizing it will just look the waste of time and effort that it is.
Getting a little closer to home, Taco, how would you like it if the clown made fun of Slashdot next and advised his audience that they should join this small group of losers ? Yeah, that's what I thought. Fuck the haters.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
... why other countries don't like the US.
Good example of the "Colbert Effect" or in short hand called "Colberted." Sorry Slashdot you're not the only kid on the block who crashes sites. Move over.
Call me a traditionalist, but I'm not sure linking it on Slashdot was the best way to restore the site from internet death.
*No site* mentions Cuck Norris like that and survives! Only 11% of the votes? That should be *at least* 115%!
New Slashdot overlord: ColbertTaco.
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I always start my morning by putting some Bill O'Reilly in a bowl. Then I flush.
My vote goes to Ohio. Other than Cedar Point (which can easily be lopped off and slid over to Detroit), the state is a complete waste. Indiana is close behind, though.
hey hey now- we're doing just fine in Colorado. Being home to a very large SUN campus among other things.
How about we sacrifice Nebraska. Colbraska would be so much cooler.
Be careful next time you're on a ladder, because the joke might smack you in the face.
College Humor at it's best
"Hey, how about Iraq? Israel? Turkey? What continents are those countries in? Europe? Asia? Africa?"
It is quite cut-and-dried what continent these are in. The only ones that get kind of vague are the Caucasus-area countries (Georgia, Armenia, etc). Iraq is 100% Asian. Israel is also 100% Asian. Turkey is mostly Asian (in fact, the term "Asia" used to apply mainly to east-of-Bosphorus Turkey), but there is a small part of Turkey that is west of the Bosphorus, next to Greece. This part is European. Once you know what's where, you don't have to cover up ignorance with the catch-all "It's all Eurasia" claim.
Where were you when the voynix came?
Stephen Colbert arrested as a cyberterrorist and extradited to Hungary. In other news, Hungarian pirate music service "allthosemp3s.com" has reportedly been shut down. Hungarian officials pronounce a "Victory for Freedom".
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"Tip of the hat to Lloyd Bentson for his single..."
Slashdotter, I served with him, I knew him, He was a friend of mine. Slashdotter, you are no Lord Bentson, the Senator from Texaco.
Where were you when the voynix came?
What you are describing are autonyms versus ethnonyms (I guess) for places.
As you point out the differences can be vast, even in history - the names we know some peoples or places varies greatly - in the Western world a lot of the names for ancient peoples come from the Greek/Latin names for them -- not necessarily from the name the peoples' called themselves.
Today, I still puzzle how some names were given -- for instance Japan is really Nihon.
Of sourse, every language/country has some different names for others.
there's no sense in trying to trick everyone that the climate there is warm. Besides, it would put pressure on South Dakota to rename to South Colbert, just to make things balance.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
Steven Colbert's whole show is a satire on self-important self-style media 'pundits'.
Colorado, for some people, is the most important state in the country right now. http://www.thedenverchannel.com/politics/9638818/d etail.html
I make websites and stuff. Buy one.
...get bent!
Also may I suggest Wyoming.
(note: Yes I get that this is a joke.)
Brings back memories. :)
So no one will try voting for the Abe Vigoda Memorial Bridge? For shame!
Cmdr Taco, allow me to congratulate you on your true red-blooded americanness, unless of course you are one of the many persons on our Internets who is actually a socialist-cozening Canadian.
While your proposal to upgrade the name of one the lesser American states, which is to say one of the states which does not produce oil, is certainly sound, in fact our entire American solar system could use an image upgrade.
I know I am not alone in my preference for a more masculine and aggressive stance regarding naming conventions, and I call on every American to support this fine idea.
I mean come on, people he's a glory hound just like Stern. I'm glad you all like him enough to go around and do anything he says, but ask yourself "why should we?" Think of the other great comedians, Chappelle never told people to go around screwing up other people's legitimate things. Christopher Titus did in that show but made it humorousnot serious. Why would anyone do anything a comedian tells them to do on a tv show? It just gives them an overinflated ego so they'll continue to create stupid and moronic stunts like this to get more news coverage, and you the viewer gets nothing if not banned from what ever place it's happening.
It just goes to show the fact that Colbert has followers that as so gullible they'll do what ever he tells them. But sadly I've a feeling he's growing too big too fast. Either the media is going to stop listening to him, or his fans will or he's just going to order something too outlandish and get bit on the butt for it when no one pays attention. At least then he'll be spoofing Geraldo.
From what I read, the Chinese changed the
"He might be really funny, that's great and why he's one of the few granted a chunk of the country's precious and government limited broadcast spectrum. None of it make what he's doing right."
I take it you have only heard of Colbert, and have never watched his program? If you did, you would find it that it is on a closed-circuit "cable" channel called Comedy Central, and is carried only over cable TV or point-to-point satellite transmission. Thus "The Colbert Report" does not take up any space on the precious and limited broadband spectrum.
Where were you when the voynix came?
The country's name is "Hungry."
The capital city is "Starving"
Dude, it's called Hungary and it's in Eastern Europe. It is the homeland of the people formerly known as the Huns (yes, Atilla and all that).
:)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungary
Heh, "Hungaria". LOL
Later, GJC
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It is a sad state of affairs when the technical people of the most powerful and mega-nuclear-trigger happy country on Earth cannot tell the difference between "Hungry" and "Hungary" and haven't a clue to where it is. I say this as a Hungarian (magyar) who was born and lived in United States, but moved to Hungary for good. Yes... I live a few kilometers from the said bridge. But if the slashdoters wish to vote for a worthy name for the said bridge why not try this: http://www.m0hid.gov.hu/ The second or third menu on the left will give you a long list of radio buttons. (try them all, until you see the long list) Forget Chuck Norris. Why not vote for something from our history: Vajk-Istvan Hid (my recomendation) Vajk/Istvan was our first catholic king of Magyarorszag - 1006 years ago. Vajk was his pagen name, Istvan his christian name, he gave up the first and assumed the second. The bridge is realy two bridges because it is so long.. so the name is fitting. If the slashdotters feel up to it, lets push this bridge name up the list. Give it a try (when the server is responding again - 1-3 days) Ja..and did you know that Hungary is a nation wealthy in foodstuff. Throughout history there has never been an extended period of hunger. There was always plenty of food, and the weather was kind too. Plus it was THE wealthiest nation in Europe several times in history.
Unfortunately I can no longer find substantiation for this; however, I was once taught the reason for the odd name of Japan. It turns out that the first westerners to interact with Nippon were a group of missionaries from Portugal in the 16th century. Well, these missionaries found out about Japan while they were in Malacca. Well, the malay way of saying "Rising Sun" (i.e. the land of the rising sun, Japan) is Japang which comes from the Chinese jih pun.
Well, it isn't hard to see how jih pun becomes Japão which becomes our English version, Japan.
By the by, ni pon/hon is literally the "source of the sun" or "sun source." Hence, the rising sun, land of. It all makes sense as Japan should be the first part of Asia minor to see the sun every day.
"[Physics] has nothing to do directly with defending our country, except to make it worth defending." -- Robert Wilson
How much are you getting paid to post this?
"My God...it's full of trolls!"
instead of the Colbert nonsense (which I'm frankly starting to get tired of). Once the site is back, I'll nominate Neumann János.
in whatever continent Hungaria is in.
Do you mean: whatever continent Hungary is in?
(It's Europe, by the way)
Reinvent the wheel only at either a lower cost, greater effectiveness, or your own personal enrichment and satisfaction.
What exactly is a "grippy" contribution? Is it a Hungarian idiom, maybe?
Of course, in Hungarian notation the name will end up being brdgColbert.
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a skull.
I believe Colbert's straight-talking sensibilities have earned him far more than just a bridge in whatever continent Hungaria is in. Instead I think we should consider renaming one of our lesser used states as an honor more appropriate to his grippy contributions to America. We're not doing anything with Colorado these days anyway, but imagine the appeal of a new and improved state with a virile name like Colberado. Book your tickets today!
Well, I can tell you no such thing would happen! I live in Colorado and all good Christians know "Colorado" as the following:
Dobsonia
God's Country
and, my favorite, Six Flags Over Jesus.
If "disco" means "I learn" in Latin, does "discothèque" mean "I learn technology"?
Oh sure, now that slashdot is spent of the Columbine story, now you're "not doing anything with Colorado these days". Have you forgotten South Park? Legalization of pot? NORAD?
Brought to you by your friendly Colorado dept of commerce.
"No, seriously, it's a great place to be a geek now"
p.s.
I would gladly support renamimg my fair state after Mr Colbert if he actually did a good job of making fun of right-wing demagogues. Sadly, he doesn't.
Vidi, Vici, Veni
I get so fricken tired of people on Slashdot who saying they think they know how americans think and what americans do. Shut the hell up! You people are the fricken reason we are bombed, spreading your ideals to others assuming the US is a bad place. Get your fricken facts strait before you start blowing your steam. OMG you people make me sick. The majority of americans aren't represented by one or two mornons...
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. ~Albert Einstein
http://iwanttobestephencolbertsgamerfriend.com/
Seems that Mr. Corbert mentioned that he is a gamer and that he has been to Gen Con. That is all that Peter Adkison needed to make this bid to be his friend.
Shouldn't that be "What a maroon!"
Sigh. I can spell complicated stuff easily (and I'm usually pretty good at spotting typos) and I surely know how to spell "actor", but sometimes my fingers just do the wrong thing and I don't see it.
I think your post is FUNNY, not FLAMEBAIT. Though, it is funny in a sad/odd kind of way.
I'm a so-so fan of Colbert, and rarely watch a whole show because I find him annoying in interviews. Still, at his intent - a mock-conservative commentator - he's pretty damned funny.
I'm really not sure which is worse - SC trying to skew a bridge naming website in his favor, or a government using a web poll to name a bridge.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
So Colbert can issue a DoS without touching a computer?
WTF? This clown either directly plagiarised the preceding one or forgot to log on and repeated the post like a moron and he's getting modded up?
1/3 of jokes get modded OT. If you get the joke, mod 1 in 3 insightful/interesting/underrated to restore karma balance.
1) You mistake a joke for a real opinion.
2)You make a VERY prejudiced remark about ALL american citizens
3) You make an off-topic general insult about our TV (and I feel really sorry for you if you think that TV in anyway that matters?????)
4) You think that thoughtless attitude is a reason why people want to bomb us.
5) You think that americans actualy wonder why people want to bomb us.
Here, let me remove your head from that giant hole in your body:
1. Colbert is a sarcastic show, and the comments about him being straight-talking are supposed to be a joke.,
2. Americans are a varied lot, and any comment that starts off with "Americans think.." is almost certainly indicative of a foolish speaker, not americans.
3. Television, like most art forms, varies by culture, and by defition, deciding which is 'better' is pretty much impossible. At the very least one would need a nuetral third party to judge which is better (if you were moronic enough to care about such a thing), you CERTAINLY can not expect culture A to reasonably judge their own TV better than culture B in a fair manner
4. I am SURE that whatever reason people want to bomb the US, it is for far better reasons than the simple ones you put forth.
5. As an American, I can safely say that I have never wondered why people want to bomb us, I know people are varied and have different reasons, but frankly, I usually have better things to do than wonder about such foolish things. Many of them want revenge because an american soldier killed one of their friends/relatives (usually, but not all the time, in attempt to get them to stop killing innocent 3rd parties). Others are simply frustrated and angry that we don't do what they want us to do and are generally succesfull at what we do do. Finally, others are simply responding to religious and political leaders that need an enemey around which they can rally people to their cause.
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However I believe a bridge is more likely to link two environments whichg are both distinctly different and subtly similar, so I'd go with Béla Bartók.
There are a lot of others that can be found at http://www.webenetics.com/hungary/.
"Can there be a Klein bottle that is an efficient and effective beer pitcher?"
It's true I tell you, feller at work's next door neighbour read it in the paper.
IIRC, an empress of Japan once famously insulted China by writting a not-so-diplomatic letter "from the land of the rising sun to the land of the setting sun."
Ah, old-world imperialist humor. You can't beat it.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
Chuck Norris is the antithesis of funny.
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
This is like a left wing fan club...
Yeah, right. Go read the comments attached to any article on gun control or affirmative action on Slashdot and then tell me that's true (without lying).
Steven Colbert's show is funny, smart and un-PC. That's why Slashdotters like him.
I don't think we should rename Colorado. After all, we DO use it for something - it's lumpy and cold, so at least you can ski there.
I suggest renaming one of the flat middle states that no one ever goes to.
Iowa (where I live) is out, because at least we grow corn and cows here, so it's good for something.
I would recommend Kansas, but at least they grow wheat, and we all like bread, right?
North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska are all good candidates. In fact, why not just lump them all together into one big, flat, useless state and rename it 'Colbert'? I'll bet we could get elementary schoolkids to promote this idea because, hey, two less state capitols to learn, right? We could name the new capitol 'Steve' so it would be easy to remember.
And we could go back to that keen 48-star flag we used to have, too.
Serving your airship needs since 1995.
Hey! That's not true. The war in Iraq really is going very very well.
It's just the news keeps reporting on the 1500 people killed each week, instead of all the bridges which are being built to nowhere.
The -ão part makes a bit more sense in the context of the history of Portuguese. It represents a nasalized vowel which historically had an /n/ after it. For example "são" comes from Latin "sanus", and in Spanish/Italian and presumably Old Portuguese, the form is "sano". Which explains why the N in "jih pun" seems to have disappeared, and why it re-appeared in English (not the first time the English have re-inserted an etymologically historical N into a Portuguese word: for example the Portuguese name of the city of Lisbon is "Lisboa".)
I watched a few of his shows, and laughed laughed.
Then I didn't care about evil doing politicians so I quit watching the show.
If you need text styles to communicate then you don't have a message.
Oh really, show me on a map of Europe where Hungaria is?
Whoooshhh!!!!
bridge names YOU!
We're not doing anything with Colorado these days anyway, but imagine the appeal of a new and improved state with a virile name like Colberado. Book your tickets today!
A nice idea, but last I checked, Colorado has bears...
"Mod, mod, mod...and another troll bites the dust."
I love Colbert, and I sadly pay apple for the privledge of legally downloading his show per a subscription basis. He Is The Master Of Viral Marketing. His show is skyrocketing in popularity. When is he going to take over John Stewart's slot? :)
Horns are really just a broken halo.
he is an ass. Unfortunately, for society at large, the current crop of TV addicted ignorant losers that make up the bulk of the population, think being an ass is funny.
my old sig is obsolete, and I haven't come up with a stupid enough new one yet
IIRC, that's actually from the very first recorded Japanese document, a letter from Japanese emperor to the Chinese one. It was not answered.
I have been doing some extensive personal research for a number of years,
and I can tell you that, out on the streets, no one can tell that you are just a troll either.
I find that punctuating others' retorts with "WHAAAAA!" helps a bit.
Mr. Colbert, Andy Warhol just called and said your 15 minutes are almost up...
Does this mean that Steven Colbert is as popular as slashdot? I ask this because he clearly has the ability to bring down websites. Sounds like he is the new /.
Just a thought.
I found it on my map right next to Canadia.
Silly boy...
WARNING! This girl exceeds the MAXIMUM SAFE standards established by the FDA for BRATTINESS
in Hungaria.
You missed the point. You CAN find HungarY, but you definitely CANNOT fing HungarIA on any map. Make that "modern map" for safety...
Because Up and Down mod requests are equally cliche. :P
If it ain't broke, it needs more features!
"It all makes sense as Japan should be the first part of Asia minor to see the sun every day."
Asia Minor is essentially Turkey, so you are only off by a few thousand miles.
"Bugger this, I want a better world." - Jenny Sparks
Wikipedia to the rescue (although Wiki search was no help, and I only found it by via Google.)
The letter was written by Empress Suiko. It was addressed "The Tenshi in the land where the sun rises addresses the Tenshi in the land where the sun sets."
It was considered an insult to the Chinese Emperor in two ways. First, because of the little dig about the sun rising in her land and setting in his, and second, because she addressed them both as "Tenshi" ("Child of Heaven"), which puts them both on equal footing as rulers when China considered Japan to be a rather insignificant and backwards place.
The message did receive and envoy in response, in spite of the snub, because China needed Japan's military support at the time.
I see no mention of it being the first recorded document in Japanese history, but that could be the case, as I believe that the Chinese writing system was adopted by Japan right around that time.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
Who exactly hates what here? Would you like to explain or are you just trolling for karma?
Not only do you seem to be affected by hysteria, you also don't know what the heck you're talking about. Why do these posts get modded up?
After his ball-busting appearance at the National Press Club Dinner, Colbert should have a destroyer named after him.
I think you mean all the tubes which are being built to nowhere.
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
Thanks for telling me what to think.
Shit - I still think that Colbert is a cunt, and that this is supposed to be a website I'd actually want to read.
I don't have a television. Who's Steven Colbert?
So, people are still watching corporate-sponsored television news shows? Really? You're ok with getting your news from corporate sponsors? Do you Bahh like a sheep when they say something that spikes your pulse?
Check out the BBC Series "Century of the Self"
Part II
Part III
Part IV (The one about most recent uses of propaganda)
Ja..and did you know that Hungary is a nation wealthy in foodstuff. Throughout history there has never been an extended period of hunger. There was always plenty of food, and the weather was kind too.
Well, there was that period in the 1200s after the Mongols tore through Hungary and killed off something like a third of the population. Starvation was pretty common because the peasants were either dead or hiding in the woods, so no food was being produced. That, however, is pretty much ancient history.
That said, Hungary is quite a productive agricultural country. I spent six weeks there one summer traveling around, seeing the sights (and practicing my rudimentary Hungarian), and I fondly remember the good food. The juicy, sweet peaches left a lasting impression on me, and I sure would like to go back to Eger for the great wine. Once on a train, a few elderly women shared their pogacsa (little bread roll type thingies) with me, and I absolutely loved them.
In my opinion, Hungarian wine is quite underrated.
Idiocy has a liberal bias.
Hey where's my +4 Informative for sounding like a wise old sage who in reality has no fucking clue what he's saying!
The same sorta thing happened around the time Archie Bunker was on TV. My father and his brother both watched the show (as everyone did). One of them took it as satire/social comentary wraped in a thin veil of comedy, and he learned a little about himself. The other one took it as jusification for his hate. I think we all know by now that it was brilliant (for the time) TV. Lucky for me and my family, my father learned enough through that characters ugly side, to look into himself and make a change. His brother did not. There are people who recognize when they are being mocked. Others can just go fuck themselves.
Actually, I saw it listed as Myanmar in my textbook last year (although it had Burma in parens)
As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century,free flow of information is the only safeguard against...
Well, haaa! I'm in the Land of the Midnight Sun, I stole your fucking sun!
...
please take it back...
Multiplayer Gaming (defined): Sitting around, discussing single-player games with my friends, at the bar.
...the Hungarian Parliament voted this morning that they would not charge a toll to cross the future bridge. Instead, drivers will be required to tell a booth attendant his name, quest, and favorite color.
Now with more sodium!!
4. The sound that deadlines make as they go flying by.
--DNA
Cool! Amazing Toys.
In Hungaria, bridge names you!
5. As an American, I can safely say that I have never wondered why people want to bomb us
Safely say? You list several reasons but you miss the obvious and real one. USA supports and aids Israel.
it's spelled "Actor".
Bah, what's a few thousand miles to two complete strangers on the interwebs?
"[Physics] has nothing to do directly with defending our country, except to make it worth defending." -- Robert Wilson
Enough said.
I [may] disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
In the GP's defense, he probably didn't think anyone would intentionally make a joke that bad.
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
If you did, you would find it that it is on a closed-circuit "cable" channel called Comedy Central, and is carried only over cable TV or point-to-point satellite transmission. Thus "The Colbert Report" does not take up any space on the precious and limited broadband spectrum.
Cable is a broadcast medium that's just as regulated as the EM spectrum. Position on that medium is a scarce and regulated commodity.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
USA supports and aids Israel.
Doesn't that fall under both "not doing what they want us to do" and the "religious leaders need an enemy"?
Professor James Ketelaar has a pet theory that the name "Japan" is actually derived from a Chinese phrase (spoken to Marco Polo) meaning "Land of the Midgets." I am not making this up.
Japan's name for itself has also changed over the years. They didn't always used to be "nippon." "Yamato" and some other really super long name that means something like "People who live in the grass fields...etc." have been used throughout history.
Did you ever notice that *nix doesn't even cover Linux?
1. Choosing the wrong side in both World Wars.
2. Producing the majority of the world's porn actresses.
"Cable is a broadcast medium that's just as regulated as the EM spectrum. Position on that medium is a scarce and regulated commodity"
Cable is not broadcast: it's cable. It is also not nearly as regulated as the EM spectrum, especially when it comes to content. Position on cable is not scarce: there's room for plenty more channels, and once the old-style cable gets full, they can create more space for channels based on demand. It's nothing like broadcast, there there's only so much EM and they can't create more. There really is no limit to it when if you want more channels, you string more wires (so to speak). When you get down to it, cable channels are no more "scare" than web sites are on the Internet. You struck out three times. Yer out!
Where were you when the voynix came?
As far as oil goes Hungary is not in the Top 50 (guess which countries most terrorist hide in), but it does have some coal, nowhere neas are much as the US does though. Back in the days the US used to top the oil reserves chart too, and even as recently as 2003 it held the 2nd spot for largest oil producer even from dwindling reserves, but now it has "fallen" to the 3rd spot. Note how Iraq has a lot of oil, but it's been producing relatively little, holding on to its reserves to the end. Such things are unsustainable, it's like wobbling a piece of sausage before the nose of a hungry dog, or leaving a hungry goat and a head of cabbage together in the same room, how long can you expect the situation to stand? There is actually a proverb/saying in Hungarian, about a desirable solution, where the "kecske is jóllakik, a káposzta is megmarad", meaning a solution where both the goat is sated, but the cabbage has remained too, but can you think of such a solution for the oil case?
A True Patriot like Stephen Colbert belongs on Mt. Rushmore. They ought to name an Aircraft Carrier after him. Or at least an oil tanker.
These are my friends, See how they glisten. See this one shine, how he smiles in the light.
Dang! I went there to vote, and I couldn't even read the links.
I cried real tears when Li Mu Bai died.
Reading back over your post, it doesn't seem to have any signs in it that would make it seem like a joke. On the contrary, it now seems like you're just claiming it to be a joke to cover your mistake.
With all his calls for fanatic zealotry I'm thinking this guy is starting to appear dangerous. That, or he's a douche.
The first one really says Keyser Soze - hid
Maybe this is... "The Hungarian government is sponsoring an internet vote to name a new bridge. So far naming the bridge after acter Chuck Norris has been the most popular. " Or maybe this... "a bridge in whatever continent Hungaria is in." ooh btw i think he means Hungary, but they do speak hungarian there. Try this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyzQItUhXyw http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungary http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe
You do realize you're on slashdot, right?
Have you been touched by his noodly appendage?
You mean Massachusetts?
hany
"whatever continent Hungaria is in" That may be seen as a proof of gigantic problems in north american education systems.
Ummm ... that would be "Colbertado," right? The "t" is silent, anyway.
-WWWilly &;-)
That depends on what kind of map you use. Some maps are created in a fashion that every countrys name is written as it is called/spelled in its native language, but they are seldom (its hard for my tongue to read some of the exotic names, too). And in case you really want to know where it is: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/europe/hungary_rel_ 94.jpg
Wikipedia descibes endonyms and exonyms as terms synonymous with yours. Either/or, I guess, but I do prefer the symmetry. Easier to remember!
When Chuck Norris posts, slashdotters mod themselves down.
(Dear God, let this not herald a Chuck Norris revival!)
If I remember correctly Stephen said "real americans fail at geography". http://youtube.com/watch?v=AQY9wnPp4NE
Yeah, free Ipod! He is innocent!
"You could work for Rush Limbaugh"
He could keep the Viagra bottle filled. I don't think we'll here anything more from twitty. "What about Youtube?" is a pretty lame response from him when it is pointed out the shocking news that cable is NOT broadcast over the air. (Youtube wasn't my analogy: I never mentioned it in the first place).
Where were you when the voynix came?
re you're response #2, the very statement "Americans think" is misleading, cause many don't. not slighting america, it's my favorite country in the world, i just think the average human is a stupid fucking rock that doesn't think, equally false would be "People think"
nobody's perfect
Soo... you're saying that we should ban organized religion?
I'm with you man!
I was so pissed off I mixed up the href and the text of my links. Let's try that again, shall we?
Wikiapedia Link
CIA World Factbook link
www.wavefront-av.com
oh...ok, i got your point. But today it is very seldom used as hungaria, the old latin name, like many other nations - or have you ever used Germania instead of Germany?
We're not doing anything with Colorado these days anyway, but imagine the appeal of a new and improved state with a virile name like Colberado. Book your tickets today!
The day I become a Colberadan is the day I grab some Fire Sauce and a shotgun, and start hunting for a brass eagle................
Of all the Universal Constants, here's one I know: Nice guys finish last
> Others are simply frustrated and angry that we don't do what they want us to do and are generally succesfull at what we do do.
I agree with you on most points, but this one.
The problem in my eyes is that the US does things other do not want them to; not that they don't do what others want them to.
I hope it came across the way I wanted
I don't think the people of Afghanistan or Iraq expect much from the US. Aside from leaving the the fuck alone to fight their civil wars.
Thus they attempt to blow up everything that reminds them of the US invaders.
As for being succesful... Well I hope you can recall the last two military campaigns (Iraq and Afghanistan) of the US armed forces.
I wouldn't call them exactly successful. More like a sticky nasty trap.
All the same, people are fond of generalizations (hehe), because it does tend to keep the worldview clear and manageable.
Hungry is actually in the heart of Eastern Europe: http://travel.10best.com/packages/show_region.asp? regionid=EEUR
Maybe "Hungaria" is in Central Europe, whatever that country is!
Where were you when the voynix came?
That's right. We didn't. They did, and it stuck.
America got its name out of ignorance. Look it up.
Seems appropriate today.
I suggest that they name the bridge
"Jefu, the bridge to knowledge from those without"
Sounds nice to me.
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
- W. Wriston, former Citibank CEO
It's from the sexual harrassment lawsuit filed against Bill O'Reilly in which he calls up a subordinate and launches into a variety of lewd and disgusting sexual advances including a fantasy involving sex in shower using a loofah as a tool which he later calls "the falafel thing."
Al Fraken loves to bring it up on his show occasionally because it not only shows how much of a creepy, disturbed hypocrite O'Reilly is (on matters of sexual morality at the very least), but the suit also contains a bizarre rambling about how people at the top of FOX and of the Bush administration are keeping an eye on Al Fraken and that "one day he's going to get a knock at the door and life as he's known it will change forever."
Full complaint here at the Smoking Gun.
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
I can't believe I spelled Franken wrong twice.
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
That's exactly what I meant.
Hey, Heres A Nifty c++ Doohicky That Votes For Colbert "hid" automatically!!!
http://www.xenostasis.com/junk/bridge.zip
it takes up relatively little processor speed and i have been running 100 of those processes for 13 hrs, all 100 have sent over a thousand vote packets for colbert thats ~100,000 votes right there!!!
ROCK THE VOTE NATION, THE TRUTHINESS WILL SET YOU FREE~~!!!~~~
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