"... with some guy in the middle signing papers."
His name is in the tags with the photo. He's the president of the country. All that effort but can't be bothered to identify the president.
Putin on the Ritz
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#52Haha, the modified photo appeared in a satirical post on Index.hu, there's nothing to see here people, move on. :) http://index.hu/szarvas/2014/02/11/ader_alair/ Here're the other posts from the same series: http://index.hu/szarvas/ All entries are simple montages, they're only funny for people who know Hungarian politics, but for them they're quite obvious. Edit: the man in the middle of the photo is the Hungarian P…
PRESIDENT OBAMA ON PUTIN:
I don't have a bad personal relationship with Putin. When we have
conversations, they're candid, they're blunt, oftentimes they're
constructive. I know the press likes to focus on body language and
he's got that kind of slouch, looking like the bored kid in the back
of the classroom. [1]
It is quite funny.
[1]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewUXm_gqzrU
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/09/us-usa-russia-obam...
Re: Putin on the Ritz
#53Haha, the modified photo appeared in a satirical post on Index.hu, there's nothing to see here people, move on. :) http://index.hu/szarvas/2014/02/11/ader_alair/ Here're the other posts from the same series: http://index.hu/szarvas/ All entries are simple montages, they're only funny for people who know Hungarian politics, but for them they're quite obvious. Edit: the man in the middle of the photo is the Hungarian P…
Actually, that is somewhat informative. I was skeptical of the used methodology and conclusion which reminds me of conspiracy theory nonsense. Knowing that the guy in the middle is pasted in is pretty helpful.
I'm still not convinced about the relevance of the white outline on Putin.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is an interesting thoery called Phantom Time http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_time_hypothesis related to a preiod in the middle ages that may not have existed. supposedly a king wanted to be on the throne during the millennium so faked a few hundred years of history. If true we would only be in the 17th or 18th century. Which may explain why the world didn't end in 2012, or why there still aren't hover boar…
Your last sentence makes it clear you are joking, but just so no one is confused: Without even reading the Wikipedia article, it's trivial to imagine how that hypothesis could be readily disproven. Recorded astronomical phenomena, correspondence of cross-cultural events—even carbon dating is accurate enough to catch a discrepancy of several centuries like that.
Yes I think Halley's comet appears in the Bayeux Tapestry which I assume has been linked to an appearance in the 12th century. Better check the stitching on that to make sure it wasn't modified ;)
[EDIT] Halley's comet apparitions are roughly every century so not that conclusive... cue twilight zone music
Re: Putin on the Ritz
#55Haha, the modified photo appeared in a satirical post on Index.hu, there's nothing to see here people, move on. :) http://index.hu/szarvas/2014/02/11/ader_alair/ Here're the other posts from the same series: http://index.hu/szarvas/ All entries are simple montages, they're only funny for people who know Hungarian politics, but for them they're quite obvious. Edit: the man in the middle of the photo is the Hungarian P…
Actually, that is somewhat informative. I was skeptical of the used methodology and conclusion which reminds me of conspiracy theory nonsense. Knowing that the guy in the middle is pasted in is pretty helpful. I'm still not convinced about the relevance of the white outline on Putin.
I am skeptical of anyone using the expression "conspiracy theory nonsense" so casually.
Re: Putin on the Ritz
#56Haha, the modified photo appeared in a satirical post on Index.hu, there's nothing to see here people, move on. :) http://index.hu/szarvas/2014/02/11/ader_alair/ Here're the other posts from the same series: http://index.hu/szarvas/ All entries are simple montages, they're only funny for people who know Hungarian politics, but for them they're quite obvious. Edit: the man in the middle of the photo is the Hungarian P…
Amazing how language barriers can create this kind of confusion.
That's not just the matter of language barriers -- that's basically a situation where you have some information and you try to draw conclusions without trying to get some context. Quite common with people who know a very narrow field very well which gives them the false sense of competency in other issues.
Re: Putin on the Ritz
#57Searching for 'putin heineken' gives me images of Putin dressed as an astronaut drinking beer:
https://www.google.nl/search?q=putin+heineken&tbm=isch
So there are your pics and it did happen
Re: Putin on the Ritz
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
> We've reached a point in time when we can start actually faking history. It has always been possible to fake history, inadvertently or intentionally. There was a narrow stretch of time when photography became widespread which made it a bit harder to fake history, but photographs were being faked and staged long before we had computers to do digital editing of them. And before we had photographs, it was possible to…
Yes - if anything the internet makes it easier to keep alternatives to the official fictions alive.
But in this case, how can you trust the alternatives more? You might find yourself in the situation, where there is no true story left, there are only fictions pushing different agendas.
Re: Putin on the Ritz
#59Hello, Generatin "П".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_%22%D0%9F%22#Conspir...
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#60` PCA measures JPEG artifacts.` Just for some clarification - how does that work, exactly? If you decompose an image using PCA/SVD and find a cliff in the spectrum, is that a fingerprint of JPEG compression?
All the chunks of a JPEG image should be saved with the same quantizer. If part of an image is pasted in from a different JPEG, there will be a difference in the level of compression.