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The Algorithm March is Back
Category: Technology
Posted on: December 3, 2007 11:55 AM, by Greg Laden
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Nothing more funny than watching prisoners forced to reduce themselves to children for the enjoyment and ridicule of a crowd.
Unless I'm missing something here (and in which case I'm sorry), this is plain revolting.
Posted by: Eyal Ben David | December 3, 2007 1:21 PM
This is actually their daily exercise. Apparently the warden was sick of just marching them in a circle for an hour a day and started teaching dance lessons. Eventually it turned into massive dance routines that everyone actually enjoyed doing. They've done Thriller, Radio Gaga, and a couple others.
The warden claims that a few of the prisoners became professional backup dancers after getting out of the joint.
He put the videos on Youtube to share his ideas with other wardens and promote a more exciting daily exercise.
I don't know Eyal, it actually sounds kind of cool!
Posted by: Isaac | December 3, 2007 2:01 PM
Well, that definitely shut me up.
Maybe it is viewed different in their culture. I know in the west this would pass as a sadistic abuse of the prisoners.
As someone who served in an army and was forced to do these kinds of routines, I can imagine how I would feel if my sergeant would've wanted us to do thriller for his amusement.
Oh well...
Posted by: Eyal Ben David | December 3, 2007 6:06 PM
You did the Algorithm March in the Army?
(I would have thought this more likely for the navy...)
Posted by: Greg Laden | December 3, 2007 7:34 PM
Hehe, we did much weirder stuff than the algorithm march.
The whole routine becomes exponentially more complicated when you add a rifle to the mix.
But it was never to this kind of music, only marches. Which felt less humiliating, although not by much.
Posted by: Eyal Ben David | December 4, 2007 8:03 AM