Long blank video (1:46:39)

I created this video with the YouTube Video Editor (http://www.youtube.com/editor) by duplicating several times the one in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFbc7LWUL8g . This one too is completely empty: no images, no audio. It is uploaded here for experimental reuses in closed captioning platforms. Obviously, it is in the public domain, even though YT does not offer this licensing option.

Update Jan 14, 2012: As I tried to explain in the comments to irate/baffled/amused viewers. I uploaded this video for a purely instrumental purpose: seeing how online collaborative subtitling/captioning instruments can be diverted to collaboratively translate normal texts, and to then export the translation, as you would export the file of translated subtitles.
Of course, you can also collaboratively translate on a wiki page, but the advantage of doing it in a subtitling app is that the original text above the translated part cannot get deleted: this makes revision easier.

I started toying with this 2 and half years ago with DotSUB: see http://etcjournal.com/2009/04/05/collaborative-text-translation-with-dotsub/ . But the problems with DotSUB for that are that a) it does not allow you to have subtitles longer that what its programmers deemed suitable; b) subtitles HAVE to be time-coded and can only be exported in time-coded formats, and it's a bore to have to delete all the time codes if what you want is just a plain text translation of a normal text.
So I decided to try again with Universal Subtitles, where you can transcribe without time-coding. and where you can translate the "non time-coded" transcript, and export the translation as a .txt file.
So I used this irritating blank video to create http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/videos/xHZzawTR9MLF/ , to which I added, as if it were a transcript of the video, Cory Doctorow's "Constitutional Crisis" short story (1). And then I started to translate it in Italian in the http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/videos/xHZzawTR9MLF/it/222759/ subpage: click on "Edit Subtitles" if you wish to see the translation interface.
That's all this empty video is about: just a means to create a translating interface for a text that is just a text.

Update Nov. 7, 2012 Changes to the Amara software made it impossible to re-use the already used "subtitle sets": I therefore asked for the deletion of the above-mentioned page, and made a new one in http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/videos/69iJjyH8euXi/info/long-blank-video-14639/ .

(1) from his "With a Little Help" collection, whose text can be bought in print or downloaded under a , under a http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ license as a digital file from http://craphound.com/walh/e-book/browse-all-versions
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Update March 5, 2012:
As people inexplicably continue to view this empty video, I'm annotating it with links to real videos of interest. So far:
- Say NO to ACTA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=citzRjwk-sQ
- " Se la mafia... Il mulo de Paniz" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG8m7-pMJ_c (see description for interesting links)
- "Listening is learning" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o67wV-MhlY8
- V4B - Video4Blind ("Ho scelto il Costa di Lecce! (V4B)" http://youtu.be/K_BidSCokLc

(June 16, 2012)
And now: Don't Leave Me Out, with subs so far in English, French, German, Hebrew and Italian: http://youtu.be/w91A_nB4rx0 .
The video can be subtitled into further languages at http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/videos/zBpewNm5P8GV/info/dont-leave-me-out/ .

The Snarky Apologist

The Greg Stafford - Snarky Apologist Debate

What we ALL do is IMPORTANT! Can we ALL just Lighten up a bit,

maybe laugh at ourselves? And let's not take ourselves

Since Jesus says the father is the
only true God in John 17:3, if that is so..

what kind of God is
Jesus? A false God? Some other kind of God?

Or did he not really mean only when he
said only in John 17:3?

This guy is.. this was... Bob the tomato. The green guy you are talking about,

that was Pete the pickle.. was the green guy.

hum... i'm sorry..

uh... what was the question? My bad, i'm sorry. What was the question?

What kind of God is Jesus?

What?

What kind of God is Jesus?

hďż˝?..

What kind of God is Jesus?

What kind of question is that?

So the father is the only true God?

Absolutely, absolutely... in a sense

And what sense is that?

I have absolutely no idea.

I all know is that my pastor tells me this and..you know...

.. everything he tells me i know is accurate..

he's schizophrenic, but everything he tells
me is truthful.

That's an assumption that it refers to both of them collectively and not one individually.

What king if crank.. what kind of waste critique is that?

You don't even know the man..

But i think the scriptures are clear that Jesus is Yahweh, and you can see that in scriptures

i think is very clear, it's clear to anybody.

For you?

For who?

For you?

For me?

For you?

I asked you first

The point is though, is Jesus correct.. the father is the only true God?

What other kind of God would He be?

Well...but that's the question.

What's the question?

The father is the only true God.

But that's a statement not a question isn't it?

Well... but that's the question.

The question is is that a question or a statement?

Then what kind of God is Jesus?

True God?

We all know what only true God means.

He's he correct when he said that the
father was the only true God?

I never knew Jesus to be wrong
about anything.

I assume there is one category of true God, and i assume there is one person

in that category, the father. That was what Jesus said. Do you agree with it?

Never assume... when you assume you make an ass of yourself.

That's what my grandfather used to tell me.

You don't agree with it.

See! it works!

How many persons did Jesus placed in the
category of true God?

Don't know. Wasn't there.

So, i'm still not quite
clear. We have a fairly simple statement

made by Jesus, the father is the only true God.

We have a category. True God. We have a
member, the father.

Are there any other members to the category
of true God according to Jesus statement

in John 17:3 ?

You're basing
your statements on the assumption that

you know what you're talking about.

I'm not assuming any such thing.

Are rightfully so.. imagine.. dragging me down here in the middle of the afternoon

when i should be taking my nap.. what's the matter with this? What's the world coming to?

If i had an yard stick i would beat you in every inch of your life.

Disgusting that what is is.

Now, what was the question again?

Are there any other members in the
category of the true God other than the father

according to Jesus in John 17:3?

Who is that question for?

For you.

Me?

You.

That's a good question, can i comeback here next week?

Who is identified as the only true God
according to Jesus in John 17:3 ?

Wrong! who's on first.

You're making an argument on a different point.

You're the one that brought it up!

My point is that on John 17:3
we're talking about the true,

the only true God. Monotheism.

Who is identified as the only true God?
The father.

And you knew that all along.. he knew that all along too didn't he? You're a tricky devil.

You've got to watch this guy

So... what's it to you arius? Were are you going with this?

If the father is the one identified as the only true God

and that's monotheistic, on what basis do you change

the categorization of the father is the only true God by Jesus?

I didn't changed nothing men, i'm just..

listening to you blammering and eat my apple.

And that one i hold against you.

Jesus can tell the truth as an incarnated person

that He can certainly say that the true God
is more than one person.

He didn't. Do you accept His statement or not?

How about His statement that the father is the only true God?

You seem like a broken record.. listen.. either you change the subject or i'll go take a nap.

We get the same result with each question.

What is the name given to Jesus in Philippians 2:9 to 11, that is above every "other" name?

or every name?

Yes... Paul is writing to the church in Philadelphia.

and i went there to a Phillies game. They have a beautiful stadium

But it's actually the name is Jesus. Jesus
is the name that is above all names.

Don't go put the "other" in there.

You guys got a hand slap before

So the name Jesus is above every name?

I think i just said that didn't i? Jesus is the
name above every name... yes obviously.

It's in the Bible.

You must have missed that part.

What part have i missing?

From Genesis and beyond...

This is the highest name in the universe even above the tetragramaton?

What?

The tetragramaton..

The what?

The tetragramaton.

grama... mega.... what?

The tetragramaton.

..mega... tron...

The tetragramaton.

Megagraviton?

Wasn't he one of the transformers?

So... if.. the human.. if... so.. if..

I have no idea what you just said. What's he saying?

So... if.. the human.. if... so.. if.. did he still possess...

I have no idea what that man has just said.

That's my point... i'm sorry... "last question"..

that was the last question? "it's 10 seconds".. ah ok.

I'm just gonna end in that point because we don't have the time for a significant follow up.