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Jon Stewart: ChatRoulette

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Re: Jon Stewart: ChatRoulette

#31

"ChatRoulette is like regular roulette, but five of the chambers are filled with cock." Strangely profound statement. As always, he does a magnificent job of making the mainstream media look like morons.

Not wanting to be a pedant, but I think the exact quote is "ChatRoulette is like Russian roulette, but five of the chambers are filled with cock."

Regular roulette doesn't involve a gun and chambers... unless you run up gambling debts to shady people, I guess.

Re: Jon Stewart: ChatRoulette

#32

I don't know wtf is wrong with these newspeople. Not that many people know about ChatRoulette -- for instance, no one in my family knows about it, and with all the time I spend online on sites like this, I've only heard it mentioned a few times. But when you get on TV to "warn parents" about this "frightening new trend" of seeing penises, you tell a lot of "normal" people about it and only make things worse. The main…

um, are you aware that Daily Show is satire and not really 'newspeople'. Just saying.

"See also the ridiculous obsession with Twitter."

Re: Jon Stewart: ChatRoulette

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post #21

Friends don't send friends links to geo-locked video clips.

Geo-locked? That’s strange. Where? I can watch here in Germany. Despite having to endure ads which are in no way relevant for me. I thought only Hulu was geo-locked. People might simply not know that something is geo-locked if it’s only unavailable in a few places. The sites (regrettably) don’t come with a warning.

Unavailable in Canada.

Re: Jon Stewart: ChatRoulette

#35
post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the contrary, I think they understand exactly what this site is about and are happy to demonize it, possibly to the extent that they can get the powers that be to introduce restrictions on online video so that we can all go back to getting our spoon-fed media.

No, I think they're morons. That seems more consistent.

I see no reason why they can't be both, evil and morons. :-)

Re: Jon Stewart: ChatRoulette

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post #26
post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Geo-locked? That’s strange. Where? I can watch here in Germany. Despite having to endure ads which are in no way relevant for me. I thought only Hulu was geo-locked. People might simply not know that something is geo-locked if it’s only unavailable in a few places. The sites (regrettably) don’t come with a warning.

Unavailable in the UK.

I'm seeing it fine in the UK. There's a bit of firefox configuration to do first, but I got around to that a few months ago, then forgot about it - it just works now. You can probably find it if you google.

Re: Jon Stewart: ChatRoulette

#37
post #21

Friends don't send friends links to geo-locked video clips.

Geo-locked? That’s strange. Where? I can watch here in Germany. Despite having to endure ads which are in no way relevant for me. I thought only Hulu was geo-locked. People might simply not know that something is geo-locked if it’s only unavailable in a few places. The sites (regrettably) don’t come with a warning.

Where I am (Sweden) the full episodes are locked, but the partial clips are free.

Re: Jon Stewart: ChatRoulette

#38
post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Geo-locked? That’s strange. Where? I can watch here in Germany. Despite having to endure ads which are in no way relevant for me. I thought only Hulu was geo-locked. People might simply not know that something is geo-locked if it’s only unavailable in a few places. The sites (regrettably) don’t come with a warning.

Unavailable in Canada.

http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/the-daily-show-with-jon-ste...

Re: Jon Stewart: ChatRoulette

#39
post #32

I don't know wtf is wrong with these newspeople. Not that many people know about ChatRoulette -- for instance, no one in my family knows about it, and with all the time I spend online on sites like this, I've only heard it mentioned a few times. But when you get on TV to "warn parents" about this "frightening new trend" of seeing penises, you tell a lot of "normal" people about it and only make things worse. The main…

um, are you aware that Daily Show is satire and not really 'newspeople'. Just saying. "See also the ridiculous obsession with Twitter."

Yes, but the Daily Show also showed clips from actual news programs, and they are certainly clueless.

Re: Jon Stewart: ChatRoulette

#40
post #27
post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unavailable in the UK.

That’s both mean and strange. What possible gain could there be from excluding the UK and (seemingly) allowing access in continental Europe?

Looks like they're blocking predominantly English-speaking countries.
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