The Movie 300 in Fifteen Minutes: http://community.livejournal.com/m15m/14864.html

I liked it so much I changed my avatar... just for a while

Can I get a big "For Sparta!" on 3?

1... 2... 3!

Koopa!

I have not changed my avatar, because I'm too busy dining in hell.

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Naw, you gotta read the review, it's quite accurate

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Damn, I hope I didn't wake anyone up when I laughed at the SATA picture

gnolam, wtf is in the background of that picture? Looks like one of the original 3 ton disk drives from the 50's.... Iirc, it was 3Mb = 3 tons, 1 Meg per ton. Yep, we've come along way.

http://photos-306.ak.facebook.com/ip002/v63/138/82/500811024/n500811024_31306_8241.jpg

I can not type , I am too much laughting with these pict ;-)

In somewhat related news, there are around 1000 Russians rioting and looting in Tallinn since we wanted to transport one of WW2 monuments and some remains buried under it to military cemetery.
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=bronze+soldier&btnG=Search+News

A 115MiB video of the situation, filmed by a random person who was in the middle of it:
http://album.hv.ee/pronksodur/pronksodur1.wmv
Not all of the worst things are there. E.g you can't see them truning over cars and putting stores on fire.

What was left of a small koisk:
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There are some cars turned over and so far 11 policemen have been injured, ~100 people are arrested. So far I don't know how many rioters have been injured.
I sure hope when I wake up in the morning there won't be a warzone out here

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What a coincidence. That image was not made by me
http://temp.matude.com/300.jpg

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Text is in Estonian but images should be self explanatory:
http://www.ap3.ee/Default.aspx?link=http://www.ap3.ee/Default2.aspx?ArticleID=cee655bf-1a75-4977-acb3-3b382899acf4

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Some more photos:
http://www.postimees.ee/270407/esileht/siseuudised/257479_foto1.php#33

Good news is that it seems as things are starting to cool down a bit. Police has succeeded in frightening away a few hundred rioters. All that was needed was to take their batons out, line up and walk towards them. Though it is no wonder, vast majority of the rioters were teenagers who most likely were just "having fun".

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Nice one, our city council has disallowed any alcohol to be sold before May 2th. Hopefully that keeps awauy further rioting
From the little information I have at the moment there have been big damages to several cars and shops. I don't know about how many have been injured.

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Lots more images here, made by the same guy who made the video.

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When you are trying to "defend" some monument what do you do? You raid wool shop, of cource
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Long story short, there are lots of teenagers who don't know history and have nothing better to do. Some brainwashing from Russian television also probably helped quite a bit.

Now the long version.

It is a long story that began before WW2.
Before WW2 Estonia was a republic. When Germany started the war it also occupied Estonia. Some time later Russians started fighting them back and "freed" us from the Nazis and just to be sure they joined our country with USSR for 50 years.

In the honour of around 13 ssoldersthat died when freeing our capitol that monument was raised. Too bad few people know that most of those soldiers were just pillaging Tallinn and some of them were killed because they were trying to rob locals.

For most Estonians that statue is viewed as a symbol of the 50 year occupation by USSR.

Some old time USSR war veterans gather there, drink vodka and celebrate the "freeing" of Tallinn. They also praise the old times when Estonia was still a communistic country in part of USSR, they wave the old flag that was used back then and in some rare cases burn our current flags. This flag burning happens rather infrequently, perhaps 2-3x during the last few years.

For some Russian youngsters who have nothing better to do with their time it is a gathering place where they do just about the same things as those war veterans only they have almost no idea what was going on during WW2 or while we were still occupied by USSR. They are there just because of the action or perhaps because it is cool to be there.

That monument is also used as a propaganda weapon by Russia. Someone even said that they might perform a military operation to bring those bodies back to Russia. Well, they can have them if they ask but it is much more "fun" to threaten with war, isn't it Luckily they will most likely just hope to show Estonia in bad light to other countries and won't do anything else but some economic sanctions.

Our new government decided that as this monument has made things a bit complicated they would dig up the graves and relocate them to proper military cemetery outside of town. That way it won't be used as a gathering place for extremists.

Just in case most of entire Estonian policemen were brought to Tallinn to surround the site while the work was being done. It was rather quiet from early morning of 26'th to around noon. From noon to around 18 there were a couple hundred people there "protecting" the statue. Protecting meant lots of teenagers scandaling "shame" and "Russia" to the policemen

After 18 lots of people got off work and schools and joined them. It was suggested that a total of around 1000 rioters were there. They started to turn cars upside down, trashed at least one kiosk and several shops. They also threw rocks and other stuff at the policemen.

Some hours ago it was reported that 11 policemen were injured. So far I don't know how many protesters were injured but I doubt it was many. Only force that was used to hold them back where some kind of flashbangs that, well, flashed and made a bang

There were a couple of fights with police but I think it wasn't anything major, probably I know more about that in the morning. Currently over a hundred rioters should be arrested.

Some smaller groups of rioters are still walking the city but I think nothing big is going on anywhere right now.

Only problem is that the work may take more than two weeks to finish. In that time there will be two weekends and a national holiday. That means lots of people with nothing to do. I sure hope nothing too bad happens in the next few days/weeks :-\

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A shorter version of the previously posted video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jX80pwVKfk

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A few typos were fixed and some things clarified.