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You might get a chuckle outta this.

I've heard anecdotes (from two different people independently) that English is the only "level 6" language, but I don't know on what scale this is measured and I can't find a reference offhand.

Sadly, though- companies like blip.tv have already filled the niche of high-quality videos, and they're getting attacked left and right by other sites like metafilter which already does revenue sharing...and there are a billion and one embedded FLV hosting sites...

I think you meant metacafe the video site, and not metafilter the community weblog.

That aside, I once read somewhere that web 2.0 companies don't want paying customers. They want eyeballs, they're easier to get than cash, and much less of a hassle. Google being an advertising company, that's doubly true.

Anything with more than 5 megapixels needs digital image stabilization - otherwise your extra resolution will be smeared out by natural shaking of your hands (or even your tripod - but this takes effect later).

Not like it hasn't been done before though.

We should focus our efforts on exporting all our gas-guzzling vehicles over there instead

Plans are afoot, but it's only in the early stages.

and in France the violence has turned to urban warfare

But I'll come back to that later. First:
It's people like you who are responsible for the rise of Sadam, Hitler, Bush and other despots. You justification is: there are "good" reasons to persecution. Hitler shared your point of view.
Instead of going after the people who failed to act (or juts let things happen that 9/11 to get the convenient war propaganda), you let your rights burn, you justify your own oppression, you take the lies about terrorism in Iraq as granted (the only terrorists active in Iraq were backed by the US and were acting to replace Sadam by a more cooperative dictator, just like in the very well documented coup against Mohammed Mossadegh which led to the current Iranian situation). You support the american terrorism. You can't recognise a failed leader when you see one, Bush speaks in YOUR name, he acts in YOUR name.

they have developed a reputation for it.

Americans have developed a reputation: a short summary of things done in YOUR name: You call others nations terrorists if they don't support in your holly war, you invade a country under false pretexts, plan the chaos (disbanding the government and army http://www.cfr.org/publication/7853/iraq.html) which will justify the presence of your army in the country. You steal all the oil you can while people argue about the effectiveness of your strategy. You kill people at random (just for fun, a video) and you create laws to avoid being prosecuted... You kill more people cause it's fun It's bad you broke rules but no laws, because killing people is not a crime (the killers will walk free and proud in your streets). You have a strong tendency of acting like criminals at every level of the state and you make your own law how and where it pleases you; As Bush said "He tried to kill my dad". And so you bombed a nation with radioactive waste (twice http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/95178_du12.shtml, http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0515/p01s02-woiq.html). Also, giving false evidence about mass destruction weapons to bring other nations into your jihad is another strategy in you sick failed-state. And this reputation of being christian fanatics who create your own private (out of the law) saint armies http://www.blackwaterusa.com/ counts for something... Your leaders are a reflection of yourself.

I think there are valid reasons for millions of people around the world to seek vengeance against the US. So stop complaining, having a 1984 like system at the airports and having your laptop stolen by greedy TSA officials is a low price to pay for your own security when you are too lazy to act responsibly. You don't deserve freedom if you can't fight for it... It's up to you as a citizen of a country to watch where your freedom goes... You are just like russians, happy to give away your rights by fear of loosing some of this daily comfort. At the airport you are treated like cattle, because you are... Your country and its officials (from top to bottom TSA agents) consider you as such... it gives you

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1057544/tatiana_the_tiger/

I'm not worried... I have Old Glory Insurance. I'm covered.

My response is that if you think this is a perfect example of drunk driving deaths, you confirm that you have no interest in the truth.

Your statement that this is a perfect example of drunk driving deaths means that you believe people who drink and drive must think it is funny when people die, and that it is OK to kill people if they are hippies or gay. The level of dishonesty or lack of understanding you show is astounding.

Combine that with the fact that the video supplies is:

1) Woman was drunk
2) Bicyclist hit by car driven by woman
3) Bicyclist dies
4) Woman laughs nervously at jokes made about bicyclist's death
5) Woman had a previous DUI on her record

The pieces that are relevent to the argument are: 1) Woman was drunk
2) Bicyclist hit by car driven by woman
3) Bicyclist dies

Some pieces that are missing to make a legitimate HONEST evaluation of the situation:
1) What was the path of the car 2) What was the path of the bicyclist 3) What were the road conditions 4) What were the light conditions 5) Was it foggy?

Basically your clip shows exactly why you are being dishonest. You don't know what the CAUSE of the accident was. You only know that the driver was drunk, and you want to come to the conclusion that alcohol HAS to be the reason for the accident if the drive has it in their system. May be it was, maybe it wasn't. Either way, it is dishonest to say that you can make that determination based on the video you presented. In fact it is a little disgusting that you would hope the woman laughing at the death would help in your dishonest argument.

Case in point:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/241409/bicycle_rider_hit_by_a_car/

Bicyclist hit with not alcohol involvement. If the accident in your example played out EXACTLY the same as the one in mine, you would user yours as proof that alcohol caused the accident.

Besides, you still have not come up with a single primary source other than the police for alcohol related accidents, even though you said there were others. So, basically what it boils down to is that you have a social/political agenda, and you feel the ends justifies the means in achieving it. So, you will lie, deceive, exagerate, and use whatever other tools you need to try to convince people that your social/political agenda is correct.

According to various high ranking official, there might be a factor that will not tolerate the weaponizing of space:

Short:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzwauVZu6QU

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/227929/the_eighth_witness/

Long:

http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=6552475158249898710

http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=-4694075066240662837

Want scarier?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi_CgGGDglY&watch_response
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I96S9vygn1o&watch_response smartcar at the track.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/240685/smart_car_vs_ferrari/

Ate it's lunch, although it's only a slow Fararri 430.. (only 450hp) 7.1 pounds for every HP generated.

that smartcar has 3.2pounds for every HP generated making it over 2X faster than the fararri.

Also the hayabusa now has turbos available for them bringing the horsepower WAY up...
http://www.turbo-kits.com/hayabusa_turbo_kits.html

Ralph Wiggum! See here or here.

Basicaly it is a bunch of groups of lights that go on and off individually. The first time I saw something like this a few years ago it was impressive. Now it is just another one.

It would be more impressive if he were realy steering each light individualy and thus making his whole house a screen. The real chalange would be to have more then one angle in which it looks great (no just good). This would mean some weeks or months of 3d modelling first to see how it works.

The obvious next step whould be a connection to the Internet, although a repeating message with "Fuck Global Warming" would be also apropriate.

Some other lights here from 2005 and although in one colour, better then the one now posted

Here also something that looks better and is from 2006.
A last one is here.

how they once stood outside a door pushing on it for 10 minutes when the door was labeled "pull"

You mean like this guy?

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/166869/pull_dude_pull/

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/739389/how_to_disable_back_forward_cache_in_firefox/ Hey, I can't be helpful by doing a quick http://www.google.com/search?q=disable+back+cache+firefox google search for you...

iRack and iRan have been copyrighted by Apple.

The iRack is falling apart.

I really used to like Metacafe.com but they have gone a little downhill with the quality ever since quantity really kicked in.

Anyways, they now have producer awards for movies where they promote bogus instructions to build supposedly cool things (or insctructions for magic tricks) that simply dont work. The best/worst thing I found is a self made laser cannon build from a cd burner:

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/756433/laser_flashlight_hack/

Metacafe has part 1. YouTube playlist of the seven other parts.

It is a very sad case,
Take a look at this
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/926746/myspace_suicide_the_story_of_megan_meier/

It doesn't identify the person who created this "josh" and manipulated this young girl. I also don't think you can call her fat by any stretch of the imagination.

If you go by the Law probably there is no actual crime committed, but it is very very wrong. If it had been down to the childs peers perhaps its understandable children do immature hurtful things, most people here of all places know this, some will admit to themselves to being the bully to going along with the crowd and participating.

Being both victims and perpetrators, we see both sides, most of us by now should have the maturity to at least feel some remorse for what we did as children as well as regret for what we endured as children too.

But thats just it , these are things which pretty much ended with childhood, although sadly it still occurs in adult hood. At least we are of an age where we can remove ourselves from the bullys or do something positive.

It was an adult who crafted this assault on a young girl, planned it and carried out the attack, it wasn't spur of the moment it was carried out over six weeks in the cruelest way building up megans trust and love in josh and then destroying her emotionally. It's worse than the bully's taunts at school, the beatings, gossiping and bile. At least you know where you stand with your enemy's.

For most of us it doesn't matter who carried out this assault, although I think most of us will be sickened by it. For the people in that community it is important the Law isn't going to punish this woman but would you associate with her? support her business? She shows no regret, will not answer or attempt to do any kind of restitution even after the childs death she pretends to be a friend of the family, she has the family looking after a christmas present for her own family, which gets destroyed when they find out the truth, and her reaction is to call the police and have them arrested for criminal damage!

Is it any wonder that people are outraged at this womans gall. That the law appears powerless to act. It's disgusting. Unfortunately she isn't alone we all know people like this and we compromise our own beliefs associating with them. Worse still is that we know we bully too, to a greater or lesser extent, we don't object when we see others doing this.

We can't make a difference in this case but we can in our own lives, perhaps we might go a little easier on the shop assistant at best buy who reads the side of the box to us ... ect.

How do you feel about your own behavior, do you think you might want to change some aspects?

It'd be wrong if this woman was assaulted or her property vandalized, however until she takes some responsibility for her actions acknowledges her part in this childs death at least some regret! I see no problem with her peers ostracizing her.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/174231/family_guy_fcc_song/
Possibly NSFW

I don't know if this is the clip you saw, but here's the voice of Mario.

No, quoting RedvsBlue: "Bad marketing. not enough repeated letters to be catchy, so it's being replaced with HHDDVVDDBVDs"
then again Bluray is already obsolete er I mean red-ray
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/575487/red_vs_blue_go_go_gadget_video/

At 44MT, the FOAB would have been the second most powerful bomb ever detonated, coming in just after the Tsar Bomba. However, it's not quite that powerful. Not by an order of magnitude or six.

The American-made MOAB (Mother of all Bombs, or the more boring official Massive Ordnance Air Blast) weighs in at 11 tons TNT, and the Russian-made FOAB (Father of all Bombs, no official name given) weighs in at a whopping 44 tons of TNT. No, that's not kilotons or even megatons like the previous poster wrote, just plain tons. Not even close to even a puny nuclear weapon like the Hiroshima bomb (about 13 kilotons TNT). Not that I'd like to be in the neighborhood when either one of these babies goes off, though.

Here's some linkies for your clickification:
Mother of all bombs (GBU-43/B): wikipedia, Global Security, Discovery Channel snippet
Father of all bombs: wikipedia, the Guardian article, YouTube

No qualifications at all...

But given the performance of a sturdy, dense, streamlined 1.5 ton automobile put up against primary jet engine exhaust, and the fact that cessnas and sailplanes rely on large, weakly loaded wings + control surfaces in order to generate their lift... I would feel pretty confident in predicting that attempting to enter a turbulence cone a half mile (perhaps significantly more) behind the 747 in these planes would result in a large "snap" followed by a plane chassis that has lost interest in the 747, and is now pursuing horizons that are more firmly grounded in stiff reality.

In some ways Florida in 2000 is a serious contender for the biggest election crime ever.

I seriously doubt that Richard Nixon would say so. As it has happened before. I predict it will happen again at some point.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1960#Controversies

It really is the same old crap over again. Just a different time and different group. The whole system is corrupt from top to bottom. Your vote matters little and your reps vote is bought over and over again. Even if they are voting.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/854050/texas_voting_scandal/

I am sure this happens more than we would like.

As for humor it was pretty much the 2000 election where it stopped. Everyone became very polarized on the issue and forgot that this site was supposed to be fun...

I don't watch mythbusters-- no cable. However, I did find this video, which matches your description. Very amusing. I'm a big fan of heist movies such as Rififi

I can't find it on youtube at the moment, but, I've seen video of "thieves" spying a formidable looking safe, rocking it on it's side, and then prying the door off with crowbars. An advertisement for a specialized safe dealer. Essentially, a media safe will keep your data safe from fire, but unless it has been designed to delay burglars, it's like painting a big sign:

Hey Thieves, this is where I Keep my Lewt!

I've always enjoyed this "feature":

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/838403/why_i_love_excel/

This aint nothing new...build your own!

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/587507/microwave_technology_homemade/

I recommend a thermite disk eraser - http://www.metacafe.com/watch/599982/how_to_make_t hermite/ - which will provide a very quick method of creating a very non-recoverable hard disk. Thermite FTW!

they [the IRA] tried to focus on political targets because they were attempting to achieve a political goal. I'm not excusing their actions, nor am I saying that they didn't kill hundreds of innocent bystanders, but they generally didn't go out of their way to blow up coffee shops, discos, and bus stations.

WTF?!

I can't let this go uncorrected.

I'll take a wild guess that you're not British. I might even go further and guess that you're in America (where many people happily funded the IRA's regular bombing of civilians, until 9/11 there was a distinct lack of aversion to terrorism it seems).

Actually, they happily bombed shopping malls and city centres , offices, pubs, restaurants, public transport...

The IRA VERY MUCH systematically "went out of their way" to kill and injure hundreds of civilians.

There's a reason I moved to Canada. Not that it is wildly better or all that different, or even free of major stupidity and scandal, but it seems to be largely (but not completely) free of retarded hatefilled shitbags. And while the gov't has a deeper hand on things here, one would expect boneheaded nanny state nonsense like the legislation in TFA from Canada, not from the USA. OH, how times have changed... The Rethugs want to blow up the planet and make everyone a classic Xian sexless mouthbreathing mallrat and the Dems want the corporations to own every piece of cultural artefacture in perpetuity, and make it all safe for the lowest and stupidest citizens and remove the responsibility that PARENTS SHOULD BE EXERCISING in favour of the nanny state.

As the Dukes of Stratosphear (XTC) crooned:

I'm the Mole in the Ministry
And you'll all bow down to me.
I'm the mole in the potting shed.
I'm the bad thoughts inside your head.
And you won't catch me...

As a little black girl once shouted into a bullhorn on the TV show "Wondershowzen":

RISE UP PEOPLE!!! RISE UP!!!

RS

For those of you who don't know what this means and are too lazy to search yourself... here's a link: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/145167/family_guy_yo uve_got_aids/

For those of you who read this and thought "do they really have automatic shotguns?", wow.

In spite of the number of negative replys to your question, I think you should know that it does indeed appear to be possible. If cars that ran with these engines were put into mass production I would buy one right away regardless of the cost, because in the long run I would save an untold fortune.

Take a look at this video of a news report to see what I mean: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/128967/water_as_fuel /

Actually, it's fairly accurate that they hate the free nature of our society. They have eplicitly derided our culture in general, the concept of democracy, and the idea of freedom of conscience (especially freedom of speech). However, most of them probably wouldn't be doing anything about it if we weren't already interfering in their countries. They might down the road if they actually took control of the middle east, but we wouldn't be a priority like we are now. Note: The kind of people who murdered Theo van Gogh and make death threats against Ayaan Hirsi Ali definitely are a problem, but they aren't exactly Al Quaeda either.

That being said, switching to nuclear wouldn't actually fix everything, because there would still be reasons for us to act in the middle east. They like to pretend that Israel is 100% responsible for any problems between them and palestine, but that's simply not true. Is it right to condemn Israel for searching ambulances and thus delaying medical care to palestinians, when the palestinians have been caught smuggling weapons and people in via ambulances? Blocking a one sided condemnation is the right thing to do, but would still serve as a cause for them.

Effectively, they may dislike us because of our way of life, but we're a target because we interfere, regardless of whether that interference is right or not.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/128834/family_guy_ri ght_to_bear_arms/ bear arms ftw!

Something tells me the bonfire didn't include anything current from O'Reilly, Addison-Wesley, or Prentice-Hall PTR. Also unlikely to have included any popular (or vintage) RPG material, any collectible graphic novels, anything that has ever been on any high school required reading list, or anything that anyone acutually buys. I'd be willing to bet the contents of the bonfire are limited to overstocked books that were published as the extension of the writer's ego (e.g., I see large stacks of books by current politicians that nobody is expected to buy -- the value is in the perception that a stack of hardcover books generates), or various kinds of craft, collection, or coffee table books that tend to sit in the bargain aisle for years, that even the used bookstores won't take.

Now, if you told me the guy was burning a specific list of books that indicated a certain political statement, I would take a little interest. If you told me that the local government sanctioned this burning -but stipulated what books may and may not be burned- I'd pick up the torch and lead the protest. If you told me that the bookstore owner was burning somebody *else's* books without that person's consent, I'd expect civil and criminal action to follow.

As it happens, I'm merely amused that the bookstore owner got a ticket for having an unpermitted fire in a place where open fires of that type are illegal. It would have been ironic (but very unfunny) if the fire had gotten out of control and burned anything the owner considered "inventory."

I would support a law that required recycling in a situation like this. But all the comments that charity and libraries "should" take these books, don't come from a point of view that seems to understand just how useless a waste of space the sort of books that even a bookstore owner would destroy, really are.

Of course, no book is ever really useless

And it's sad to realize that paper was once considered so rare, that this was even conceivable.

One Size fits all!
Seriously.
I know there are different sizes. But is there really a point? They do stretch quite well

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/335285/how_strong_is _a_condom/

Or Yao Ming.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/344428/apple_powerbo ok_small_and_big/%20target=

Ive never personally had or seen a sam adams, but this is what I always think of when I hear the name: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/90815/family_guy_sam uel_adams/

a link would have completed it.

Have a look at the smart. http://www.metacafe.com/watch/60538/smart_car_cras h/ Yes they also crashed a smart into some kind of jeep and the results were devastating, for the jeep ... Even if the typical Hummer is more like that concrete wall ... well you saw the wall test :) (btw. E-class vs. smart: http://www.canadiandriver.com/articles/jk/040908.h tm). Not 'reactive' but smaller/lighter != weaker :)

I don't think that had anything to do with breaks, I'm not a pilot, but my father is and usually you don't apply the breaks until ALL wheels are on the ground to help prevent just this sort of problem, and to prevent the front wheels from coming down too hard. This clearly happened well before the front wheels touched down. Having one set of tires touching down before the other set can cause enough drag to twist the plane some too, so that is a possibility. Not only that but on large planes the breaks are next to useless at high speeds, they use reverse thrust instead, which takes some time to engage.

While this is no where close to a "smooth landing", it was FAR from being out of the ordinary. Take a look at this video to see what the planes are really capable of. Search google for: "boeing crosswinds flight test" to find more of the same, those pilots are insane.

You really have to see it in action! I found the video on metacafe.com that was mentioned in the article.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/445498/robotic_beer_ launching_refrigerator/

Wow, great idea! It sounds kind of like Metacafe.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/207659/amasing_rc_je ts/

...and here's what you can do with eight:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbITzCI2AU0

Those little hairdryers deliver up to 50 pounds of thrust and sell for $3000-$5000.

rj

While I am no chemist, I did marry one. I remember seeing a British TV show on G4 or something where they dropped a metal pellet into a ceramic bathtub. In a few seconds, the tub was demolished. I could only imaging what would happen if someone were to flush 10 of these down the toilet. Before I'm flamed and corrected, I understand that this pellet is not a liquid and making everyone toss their toothpaste will not stop this kind of attack. Anyone see the show I'm talking about and provide a link? I seem to remember them mixing a couple of benign chemicals to form explosions before the tub was blown apart.

However, Googling for the show mentioned above, I came across this link that shows a white powder and two liquids mixed together. When this mixture set (after 30 minutes) a match-head size drop of this stuff blew a watermelon to pieces. The video did not list the chemicals involved, but could this be something similar to what these guys were planning to smuggle aboard? I could see security testing for the finished product, but is it possible to test for the components that make it up?

And to those that say this is not possible, can you watch the video and explain to me how this could *not* be done?