Excuse me, it's 'Dear Leader'. Please report to the ministry of truth for 'processing'.

Sure. corps do government a favor, toss the puck over the side (or through the revolving door at the top of the pyramid), and government throws them a bone.

Exactly.. at least it was honest in that regard.

Without it, the government could overtly censor anything it didnt' like, so no, it's still better that we have it than not. You expect the government to regulate the media into telling the truth? hahaha

So how is this different, functionally, from state owned media like the soviet union's pravda? I mean, at least with that publication, everyone KNEW what it was, and who wrote its copy. I"m sure a lot of publications are/were doing this, esp the big ones. These days I would not assume anything I'm told is anything but lies by omission doused in extra potent koolaid. News is flavored, now, to the prevalent mindsets created by the propaganda.

It's a sad state of affairs for supposed bastions of liberty and democracy like the USA. How can free nations be governed by the people when the people have no real information on what the government is doing?

Bought a used panasonic svhs deck with svideo out and a time base corrector. Got a used capture card that has svideo in. I used an xfi card I had laying around to capture the audio at 48khz 16 bit (for dvd/ac3). It is possible to get old pro-grade vhs equipment with component outputs and a requisite component in capture device, but this is more money, and I wasn't convinced it would make much difference over a short-run svideo link for low grade standard vhs.

After installing lagarith lossless video codec, I used virtualdub to capture the video/audio output of the vhs player at 720x480. This results in losslessly compressed avi which could be edited in virtualdub to cut out unwanted parts, or it can be loaded in vegas or premier. After the editing, avisynth scripts could optionally be used to filter the noise out. There are gpu enabled plugins for it that work really well for this. After the editing and tweaking of the optional avisynth filters, the footage is probably as good as it will get. Just load up the scripts in virtualdub and reencode back to lagarith again, or if the filtering was skipped, just save out the edits made back to lagarith.

I also wanted my stuff on dvd to hand to non-technical family, so I used hcenc to push the avisynth script to dvd compliant mpeg2. This encoder does an excellent job and takes avisynth scripts as input. For the ac3 audio, I used aften. I used dvdlab to create menus and master the dvd image. I suppose if menus aren't needed, the dvdlab step could be skipped by using dvdauthor, instead, to create the dvd-video file structure and imgburn to burn it to a disc. I do recommend at least placing indexes at regular intervals so that the video can be skipped through with the chapter skip buttons.

This windows-centric method really wasn't that hard and should be doable with OSS equivalents. In terms of cost, the deck I managed to get my hands on cost me $100, and the dvdlab software is cheap (free as in beer and uncrippled if you use it within the first 30 days of installation). Like everything else, it's a cost/benefit ratio calculation, but I really doubt anyone else could've gotten a better result, even with pro-grade hardware.

lagarith
http://lags.leetcode.net/codec...
hanks's mpeg2 encoder

http://hank315.nl/
virtualdub
http://virtualdub.org/

ac3 audio encoder
http://aften.sourceforge.net/

to master the mpeg2/ac3 elementary streams from hcenc and aften into dvd-video
http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.n...

optional, if you want a nice gui for menus and mastering/authoring of a dvd-video compliant image/disc.
http://www.mediachance.com/dvd...

to filter the video. requires learning its scripting syntax, and reasonably powerful gpu if you want to use the gpu accelerated plugins
http://avisynth.nl/index.php/M...

take your wannabe sinophilic ass over to *.cn

well obviously they wouldn't have to go if they don't want to. either way the hospital staff will be exposed. the point is to minimize exposure to the general population.

Why are we bringing people infected with a virulent disease that has no real cure back to this country? Send doctors in a cargo plane with the needed equipment and to the patients there. Then quarantine the personnel and the patients for a minimum time before releasing to be sure it hasn't spread.

Moving infected people around is a mistake.

Total transparency is not healthy for human psychology and social behavior. Just look at what the spying programs have done to create the current delusional group psychosis that is washington DC culture. Do you really want to be at the mercy of a bureaucratically enforced morality for every little decision you make? If everyone knew everyone else's business, you can be sure that getting permission to do anything noteworthy would be next to impossible. You can kiss individuality goodbye.

I would never, ever want to live in such a society.

Yes, but slashdot is primarily a USA audience, so it would be reasonable to state the fact your experience was not 1980s USA.

Yeah.. instead of timing your jumps, now you just hold down the jump key.

Or you could just learn to kill them. Abusers make easy frags.

haha yeah..I have to admit, the death sounds are funny...sampled from the show and mutilated..

Uh.. yeah, that's exactly what I said.