26 Comments on Tuesday September 25, 2007 : Criminal Tribunal of Rwanda
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NUMBER ONE!!
Damn you! #2 will have to do.
Well, at least they’re posting! Yesterday had good participation.
I usually like Ruud’s reports but this one really left me hanging. Maybe he has Part II lined up. The younger guy on the street said there was usually nothing to do there until the tribunal started and now there is life as money is being spent. $1 billion to sentence 27 people? Many others still free? Who’s hunting them down? Who’s money is that; the UN’s? How many people are on that tribunal that their spending boosts the local economy?
What does the congress center serve up when there is no tribunal? There must be other things going on there as the area looked fairly well developed.
You can thank the Useless UN for all this.
While gov’t misspending is rampant everywhere, who, under current conditions, would otherwise take on the task of serving justice in these cases?
We, as developed nations, are not affected by their local conflicts but should we just sit by and let them annihilate themselves? No, we jump in under the flags of the UN and do what we can on the surface. I guess it’s the gobs of money mentioned that cause our outcries. That, and questions of why so much goes here, yet not a dime is sent to other areas where much of these same crimes are being perpetrated. But we know the answers to that; huge economical interests of certain large countries that pull all the strings.
The 800,000 who perished was due to the UN’s inepitude. UN forces sat by in their armored vehicles and watched as the ax muders hacked people to death. I remember seeing the brutality featured daily on nightly news. After a week’s worth of this insanity and no action by the UN forces who sat their like inhuman fools I turned off the TV in disgust…never to watch another news broadcast about the issue.
I always thought the UN was the same as the US but am I naive to believe that the UN is the most developed hope we have for a world body?
You know how it “kinda” works to have cities run by states run by the whole country? Wouldn’t it work to extend that to cities run by states run by the country run by the world?
I didn’t major in international politics but I believe the answer is “yes”; the UN is the most developed hope we have for a world body. I can’t think of another.
The UN should be dismantled.
It desecrated its original mandate a long long time ago.
Where is the UN furor over what’s happening to the monks in Burma? The killing of more than 2500 non-muslims by muslims in muslim-dominated south Thailand since 2004.
The list goes ON & ON & ON…
The United Nations is an oxymoron, with the emphasis on morons.
Drew had you witnessed the Rawandan massacres on TV as I did, your stomach would have done a few double flips.
Watching a Sarah Silverman ad over a report like this is totally surreal, and an experience on wouldn’t have even on conventional television.
Is there any way to move the overlays to default-off? Even if by membership, etc? They’re very intrusive.
The ads need to go. I understand that Rocketboom, being offered for free, needs to make it up somehow, but the ads are just too much. I get home after a day of being bombarded by advertisements to watch Rocketboom, my favorite podcast, and … nooo! There are advertisements! It’s just too much. I am simply too tired of everybody trying to sell me something (a commercial for a TV show still counts). If you can, please put ads on the Rocketboom website instead of in the actual videos. Or at least remove them from the iTunes Rocketboom video podcast.
Hey, I don’t really mind the ads, though annoying. The only problem is that they seem to make playing the podcast in iTunes much more problematic, it slows down my computer and pixelates the picture whenever I mouse over. The controls don’t look right either (not translucent). I’m blaming the ads because that’s what’s changed, I hope you find an ad format that doesn’t incurr craziness.
Why don’t you crybabies just click on the X? Are you that lazy? Let Drew and Co. make a few bucks so you can still watch for free.
Amen!
Hear, hear.
I’m mostly watching on a cranky old PC that is now defaulting to Flash. I may regret reporting this but: I’m not seeing any ads at all. There’s 30 seconds of post-roll but it’s all black screen. If this is a glitch, it’s one I can live with.
But when I throw caution to the wind and try QT, I somehow manage, despite being old enough to remember JFK’s funeral, to manuver my mouse to the little X and press down with sufficient force to render the nasty ad to nothingness. Such power.
Though I agree, Sarah Silverman supered over war crimes was quite the mindf*ck.
Ah, war crimes. Don’t you love it when a town hooks itself into a growth industry? I just hope for the town’s sake that some more atrocities get reported. Can’t think of another line of work that pays $37 million a pop.
Ronen, that\’s exactly what has crossed my mind. In fact, yesterday Sylvia (another user) was complaining about the flash, and I put a post on the Blip.TV and RB deal on my blog. I wonder how the RB is going to react the users\’ reactions on the ads. One thing is sure though, you need to have some financial support for a sustainable good stuff. If not from users, from ads. Good, relevant, non-intrusive ads.
Anyone else having problems with the HD/bittorrent RSS feeds? I\’ve only managed to connect twice in the last month. Also, the hd version has only been 7.1 KB the last two days.
Oh, and my 2 cents, the ads are easy enough to close. No worries.
Thanks for all the feedback on the ads. I also wanted to let everyone know that there are so many ways to get Rocketboom, you can probably find a way that would be okay for you.
For instance, if the overlays really kill it for you, try watching Rocketboom on an aggregator that does not support them. Or try a filetype beside .mov or flash. The files of wmv, 3gp, mp4, m4v (HD), for instance, do not have the overlays.
Also, the dotsub flash videos do not have overlays (select “english” or another language at the bottom of the page for instance).
Hope this helps for the people who are against the ads and really do want to keep watching.
I thought the Sarah Silverman ad over this video was funny, though a bit much.
Ads… too bad. I won\’t be watching Rocketboom anymore. Ever.
If you must advertise (I understand, really), how about filling up some of that whitespace with static (non-animated) advertising? Sure the site would lose a bit of the aesthetic, but it wouldn’t interfere with the content that counts!
I don\’t know but the HD-feed is not working again :/
http://www.movedigital.com/rss/rocketboom/main.xml
Looks like it\’s always problem with it. I\’m using iTunes.
If you hate intrusive ads don\’t sign up for FREE phone service with these guys.
They monitor the VoIP phone calls by software and pertinent ads are pushed out to the caller\’s softphone screen. To make sure you didn\’t miss anything they email them to you also. Lovely.
By the way, if you\’ve got nothing to do until the new ep gets posted, please sign the online petition urging the UN to do something in Burma/Myanmar:
http://www.petitiononline.com/9848/
The shit hit the fan there early this morning with the first protesters shot dead.
woooooot first comment
thank you