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No, avoid the doorzone, don't cycle in it at all, I could well be dead right now if I cycled in the door zone - I had some driver fling his door open whilst a bus was coming the other direction up the road, the door just missed my handlebars.

Watch this and tell me you have any time to react when someone opens the door at the last moment.
http://youtu.be/CudJvSbS2aY
Skip to 1:05

Why endanger your life? - stay out of the doorzone and show this video to anyone who cycles because I'm sick of people cycling in the door zone and confusing drivers as to the correct place a cyclist should be cycling - I end up getting harassed for staying safe because of them.

Maybe it's because things were changed after they signed up for an account? Without their permission? In order to cross promote a product no one wants?

If you didn't see that coming, you had your eyes closed.

This Is Google! Are you not entertained?

This reminded me of this.

While I am all for legalizing it, the article does have a point.

I recall at least one British study looking at the link between cannabis and psychosis that found that strains with a high THC/other canabinoids ratio would cause tests subjects to score higher on at least one standard test questionnaire for psychosis, while subjects injected with a more 'natural' blend of THC and other canabinoids would tend to get a psychosis score not much different from them being sober.

The conclusion as I recall was that there is some evidence that strains bred specifically for a high THC content could be more likely to cause psychotic event or temporary psychosis-like states.
BBC did a documentary that filmed part of said study, here it is: http://youtu.be/ZGr0ne9FHOM

After all, replacement children don't come cheap!
http://youtu.be/GYSfncB4peU?t=1m25s

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This is the same photographic technique used to create the stargate special effects in 2001: A Space Odyssey, but putting the camera on a trolley and zooming it in. Here's a really good video on the evolution of the technology. http://youtu.be/KhRo2WbWnKU

For artistic slit scan photography, check out Jay Mark Johnson's work. It's much more interesting than this stuff, imo.

Anyone who hasn't seen the spandex analogy have a look at this YouTube Video.

eventually, you'll be sober

Not a chance!

So now...hackers will not only steal my identity, they will steal my vote.

Nah, the votes will belong to the NSA.

If this type of "voting" becomes widely implemented, the pro-NSA politicians won't even have to pay lip-service to their electorates' wishes any longer in order to be elected/re-elected. Campaign ads might start looking more like a "Tarrlytons" billboard from "Idiocracy".

http://youtu.be/OzUcoZdfCOY

Encryption won't help, as the hardware and the algorithms have already been back-doored by the NSA. Never mind the issues with carriers.

The government exceeding the powers it's allowed is proving, yet again and in yet another way, to be why we can't have nice things.

Strat

Why do you think Vitamin C injections have been banned? Or: http://youtu.be/_nm7nqUigFA

This ladies and gentlemen is Enemy of the State (1998) moment. Straw that could break camels back. Realization that a tool you used to fight your enemies suddenly has more power than you.

http://youtu.be/sg8T1zKKrXM?t=1h46m39s

No, more like Labyrinth Zone in Sonic the Hedgehog -- or their rotating maze special stage for collecting chaos emeralds in said game.

If you need an old-er school reference, it's a bit like playing Brickout, if instead of the paddle you were the ball -- Wait, that reminds me of an old Mac game called Diamonds.

Crap, there goes my evening.

No, more like Labyrinth Zone in Sonic the Hedgehog -- or their rotating maze special stage for collecting chaos emeralds in said game.

If you need an old-er school reference, it's a bit like playing Brickout, if instead of the paddle you were the ball -- Wait, that reminds me of an old Mac game called Diamonds.

Crap, there goes my evening.

I generally do not like the idea of trophy hunting, but in some states excess game can be donated to any meat processor, who will process and package it for donation to those having problems putting food on the table. I believe Texas has such a program, but I don't know if this place is involved in it.

Yes, there *was* a program for hunters to donate their game to feed the hungry. The ever-helpful government stepped in and ended that.

http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/wild-chef/2013/03/la-health-officials-destroy-1600-pounds-venison-donated-hunters

The homeless shelter providing the venison-including meals does not receive any government assistance or taxpayer money. It is self-sufficient.

There are new laws & regulations being passed/implemented by those in government across the US aimed at halting private citizens, churches, etc from feeding the hungry:

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/it-is-illegal-to-feed-the-homeless-in-cities-all-over-the-united-states

http://lovewins.info/2013/08/feeding-homeless-apparently-illegal-in-raleigh-nc/

http://www.8newsnow.com/story/5190505/illegal-to-feed-homeless-in-city-parks

http://youtu.be/uGtWNbSkPfc

There's much more.

With the US middle class disappearing and poverty, homelessness, and hunger skyrocketing, it seems like the government (both (R) and (D)) wants to play "Hunger Games" and use starvation as a tool of control.

I'm certainly reassured that government bureaucrats and politicians being in charge of everyones' health care will be a good thing.

For the bureaucrats and politicians.

Strat

The NSA admit they were wrong? Hell, when has anyone in government admitted they were wrong?

Just off the top of my head:

• In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam by Robert Strange McNamara.
• Bill Clinton Admits "I Was Wrong"
• Rumsfeld confesses he was wrong about WMDs in Iraq
• Greenspan Concedes Error on Regulation
• .

What McNamara doesn't do is out himself as a sadistic tyrant bent on personal glory, so his book wasn't warmly received.

I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

Do I need to attribute that?

When is the last time you admitted you never let the facts interfere with a cherished aspersion?

Oh, but wait ... these admissions don't count. Please, please, tell me why.

A laser-sintering 3D printer can actually print metal rocket nozzles, so I guess that would be Siemens. http://youtu.be/xNqs_S-zEBY

It depends on how the antennas are aimed. They are directional after all. For example, you talk about an "old school" microwave long distance relay -- how likely is it that this will be aimed at you, the ground, etc. It is aimed, as tightly as possible, at the next relay tower.

To the direct south of me, just five houses away, I've measured levels of 24,000 microwatts per meter squared (on the sidewalk) -- one-third of the reading directly in front of a working microwave oven. Move ten feet (or one foot) over and it is "just" 2,000 or 4,000. Outside my home it is 700 and the one time I took readings north of me I gave up after a house or two -- they were in the 100 range. And yes I have an "antenna farm" just a hundred yards away, with dozens of antennas spread over an enormous retirement center roof. By the way, at the base of all that, the front door measurements at the center are just 100 to 300.

It is about are you line-of-sight, and where are the antennas aimed.

My video on the subject.

Sometimes, a minor embarrassment is plenty good.

Anyway, we don't have to guess. We have actual documentary film footage of Hitler's reaction to Jesse Owens' winning the gold medals:

http://youtu.be/UU_GhqVgc9M

Well, one guy did, and he's a U.S. District Court Judge.

"Judge Rules NSA Phone Surveillance Is Legal"
http://www.nationaljournal.com/technology/judge-rules-nsa-phone-surveillance-is-legal-is-a-supreme-court-intervention-inevitable-20131227 [nationaljournal.com]

We will have to say what the 9 supremes say.

well the other judge is saying it's not ok so your judge can stuff it

Well, since we had the "Dancing Itos" http://youtu.be/XQPVA2bGsB4

I guess now we'll get the "Goose-Stepping Pauleys".

Strat

Building cinder-block walls around transformers in the transmission power grid might not be a bad idea. Cheap, and if concrete-filled, will stop most ammo.

It might prevent a single .30-06 bullet (not to mention some powerful yet still common hunting round, like .300 WSM) from reaching what's beyond it, but most of the block would be destroyed in the process, allowing further shots to pass through.

Not that zooming wasn't known and done even earlier, but Blade Runner did the zoom enhance bit long before CSI. CSI simply overused it until they reached Ludicrous Speed.

I get it. You're not a reader. Why ask for a summary [that you won't read] when you can simply watch the scene it comes from on youtube?

captcha: entrap

Jonas from Panono here. We took the prototype up a rock spire in an awesome climbing area called "Elbe Sandstone Mountains" (actually free climbing was born here!). Check out the video: http://youtu.be/MTU4GSdDYOA

This http://youtu.be/z9gINFueof8 pretty much sums up ambition, greed, fear and violence amongst the powerful, the weak and the many. Entities and people in general need to cooperate and chill more; rattle sabers less. Why does culture always have to trend toward slavery or chaos in an unending sine wave? Ancient Rome all over again...an implosion of Hedonists and lollygaggers, crushed visionaries and deranged psychopaths. Reason bless the USA. The word should be printed on our currency and highest offices and monuments: Reason. Right now it's a shark pit with occasional but regular biting.

I didn't know people still flew Zero's.

They don't. There hasn't been a Zero attack since 1945. That's how effective the NSA's program has been!

Well, not sure which side of "effective" this puts the NSA, but the disinformation campaign to lead people to think they've eliminated all the Zeros seems to be at least somewhat effective.

http://youtu.be/UmUseKNrh6Q

Strat

http://youtu.be/ALZZx1xmAzg?t=3s

You wouldn't steal a handbag.

People believe the US faked the landing because they were caught using wires everywhere in their moon video

Apollo 16 astronaut fell and lifted by wire

We can see the wires people!

People believe the US faked the landing because they were caught using wires everywhere in their moon video

Apollo 16 astronaut fell and lifted by wire

We can see the wires people!

People believe the US faked the landing because they were caught using wires everywhere in their moon video

Apollo 16 astronaut fell and lifted by wire

We can see the wires people!

People believe the US faked the landing because they were caught using wires everywhere in their moon video

Apollo 16 astronaut fell and lifted by wire

We can see the wires people!

Here is a video of Steve Jobs saying "app" from 1992: Link!. Don't have to wait long, at 0:16 mark.

Why is the government delivering our mail anyway. That kind of work is much more efficient in the private sector.

Here's an interesting clip on the subject.

BRENNAN v. U. S. POSTAL SERVICE , 439 U.S. 1345 (1978)

Other than Sports there's not much point in watching live television any more, fire up the PVR and shotgun a few episodes of stuff I want to watch and breeze through advertising I wouldn't watch anyway.

Annoying ads are plastered all over, and injected into, YouTube content. Creators are getting paid piddling amounts, and the rules that sort out how much you earn are an ever morphing mess (which allows the likes of PewDIePie to Conquer YouTube) and the lack of any tact from Google regarding user friendliness, I fully expect to see a YouTube rival begin to rise soon (if it hasn't already).

To be honest I'd pay for content creators to keep the good stuff going, like the old PBS drive days, but there's nothing that combines a video service with user donations.

Well, the government has proven we can't trust them to abide by the Constitution. Our armies are so powerful they need keep no secrets. Troop deployment, arms caches, etc. can be known in advance (and probably are due to spies anyway), so even any military action we'd perform really needs no secrets; What the pathetic terrorists threat? Falling down in the bathtub is a greater threat. The secrecy and spying infrastructure costs too much. We can't trust them to have it.

If you give a kid a "toy" that's powerful enough to burn down the house and tell them not to, and they set fire to the whole damn world anyway, well, then you ground the kid, take away their toy, and keep them under supervision. Fortunately the NSA isn't a kid, it knows what it's doing, so we need have no remorse in routing out such Stasi-like spying systems. They'd set the world ablaze on purpose. We can't trust them to keep secrets.

The NSA-like spying world wide has harmed the public trust in their governments. What soldier who served to fight against such oppression would serve a government who willingly perpetrates that which they supposedly fight against? The NSA is a threat to national security for all the world nations. We're braver than this. Cars and Cheesburgers kill 400 times more people than a 9/11 scale attack EVERY YEAR, and yet we put our kids in our fast cars to visit fast food restaurants.

The people must regain trust in their governments, not through ignorance, but through knowledge. We need to KNOW we can trust our governments. We need to see everything they are doing. They can't be trusted to keep secrets without abusing them. The people know what's best for themselves, and any argument that says otherwise is incorrectly assuming the decision is best made by those with knowledge who hold the secrets. Informed decisions about our governance can not be made if the government is cloaked in secrecy. This isn't the Constitution I our founders signed up for. This government is actively over exaggerating fears to turn the home of the brave into the cash cows for the military-industrial complex. Just as Eisenhower feared, and warned.

Tracking CAN be eliminated. Consider a mesh network with store and forward. You download that cute cat video directly from the peers around you that emailed you about it instead of having to do all the hops to get it from the source -- Free Co-Location! The internet is a store and forward network, but ISPs want to charge outlandish fees for bigger buffers. Packet radio also exists. Get the FCC to relax anti-packet radio laws on the public use air-waves, and give us a section of unlicensed HAM band, and you'll have your free network akin to the Internet. Like the BBS era's Fidonet it will self assemble and have anonymity inherent -- You route data for your neighbour, your neighbour can spoof packets and say they are routing them for someone else; point to point nodes can be established. You'll join the network by paying a one time fee to buy the hardware and join the web; Bigger the node, faster the connection. Cellular exists. The public citizens need the right to use their own air-waves. There's no reason backing up your encrypted family files off-site to grandma's and your sister's PCs needs go through a 3rd party. The technical limitations don't exist. You see, a government can't have a kill-switch for a publicly operated network, so they simply don't allow one. "Land of the Free", No, we're not it's enough to make a gadget lover cry.

What I mean is there was a height aspect or Z coordinate. http://youtu.be/kc_-31yFe_s?t=1m6s The gun auto aimed. I don't think the limitations in the map building exclude the fact that there was a 3rd dimension.

They really do bring the product shelves to the workers. Watch: http://youtu.be/gvQKGev56qU

That's right. Australia (where I live) is the burnout capital of the world. -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJmrh7mLKc0 and http://youtu.be/d0-e4fGHuas

"The cloud" just means you're putting all of that data on hard drives owned someone else you don't know.

No, you're missing the point. Not JUST. The cloud is Nifty, Wonderful, Magical Stuff, and Everyone's Using It Except You, Stupid.

Why? Because look at it from a Senior Manager's standpoint: you're offloading responsibility for control, access, and intrusion detection to the companies data "Somewhere Out There" as someone's else's responsibility. You've got an ironclad contract that even includes 9x 9's of uptime. Your data stays available to the world no matter what. Why you even make backup costs go away, with absolutely no need to ever restore. That's just one more thing off your plate, and the bean counters will LOVE you! After all, internal providers are exactly the same as the outside ones, and the latter are much cheaper. Any lawsuit issues will be fielded by Legal just like normal, so no problem there, either. It's golden!

And if your company can't say you're "in the cloud", you're obviously a stupid piddly Luddite computer company (!) that can't stay up with the times and will soon fold -- since you're not following the other rushing lemmings onwards and upwards. [at 3:49, or watch the entire thing if you need context.]

The FBI's not the only one looking for this guy: http://youtu.be/eHHT7dTmw8U?t=57s

Take SpaceX for example - where the fanbois refuse to acknowledge the problems the Falcon 9 has experienced and who also treat the Falcon Heavy as if it were a proven craft rather than vaporware.

So you hate Elon Musk because you imagine that people (who are not Elon Musk) are not adequately upset by all the "problems" that Falcon 9 has experienced? Are you sure fanbois (nice ad hominem by the way) refuse to acknowledge the "problems," it seems to me you are blowing them out of proportion. What Falcon 9 problems are out of line for developing a completely new rocket, including engines? I'm not saying there haven't been problems and I know it took longer than they thought, but I don't see anything out of the ordinary in the course of developing a new rocket. Also, kindly list any comparable rockets that had fewer problems during their development and shakedown phases. Most currently flying rockets have had catastrophic failures during their development and service. The "worst" incident so far for the Falcon 9 was an engine failure, and it still reached orbit and deployed it's cargo - albeit in a lower than optimal orbit. Here is a sampling of some respectable rockets, from respectable companies having real problems:

1. First launch of the Ariane 5
2. Ariane 5 Mission Failure
3. Proton-M launch failure
4. Soyez launch failure
5. Progress fails to reach orbit
6. Taurus XL fails to reach orbit
7. Delta II launch failure
8. Zenit-3SL/ NSS-8 Sea Launch rocket vehicle failure

No rocket technology has ever been perfect right off the drawing board and most rockets flying today are using engines originally designed in the 60s and 70s. Those engines failed a lot during their early flights.

The only currently inservice rocket (that I am aware of) that has not had an outright failure is the Atlas V. That thing is amazing, but it costs 4x as much to launch as a Falcon 9 even though ULA gets launch subsidies. Orbital Services' Antares also looks like a solid platform. Its first flight was originally planned to be in December 2010 (when it was called the Taurus II). Its first launch was actually late April 2013. Two and a quarter years behind schedule (which is about the same delay as the Falcon 9.) Yet it's a much less capable rocket than the Falcon 9, using "off the shelf" engines and therefore should have been easier to design and build. But it turns out that building rockets is hard, even for companies that have been doing it for decades.

I want to be clear, I'm not bagging on any of the existing manufacturers nor their rockets. I just don't understand your animosity towards SpaceX, Elon Musk, and those of us excited that space flight is becoming less expensive.

And I feel the same way about Tesla. I don't expect a car to be perfect. It seems like a damn cool car and most the people that own one seem more than pleased with it. As for this problem existing for quite a while, it sounds like Tesla addressed it once they where made aware of it.

Facts aren't hate - except to the fanbois.

If this has to be explained to you... well, then you're either among the fanbois or terminally clueless as to the world around you.

You didn't list any actual facts and calling people fanbois and terminally clueless is pretty rude.

The amperage needed to charge an EV in a reasonable amount of time is very high! To transfer that much energy through induction is going to require that the induction pad be as powerful as a Magnetic Resonance Imaging system, or higher.

That would be some dangerous stuff.I don;t want to be near the likes of this.

The Amazon drones aren't even remote controlled, but autonomous http://youtu.be/6in-MZeeeGk?t=12m26s

(And even though there's probably some backup control channel and remote telemetrics it's very likely not wifi.)

Here's some insight from Walter E. Williams. You should watch the whole video but to keep things on topic, here's the part where he talks about male/female discrimination.

http://youtu.be/ENL-Jv8GVkk?t=28m52s

sorry.. I really can't resist.
We present to you.. Clive Alive!

http://youtu.be/lydNxM5KV8M

English with Gothenburg accent. :)

I'd love to see a Petabyte-Scale Tape Storage System that looked something like this, only modernized: http://youtu.be/Nq3mNYKR7FM

"After that, if you can't learn largely on your own, especially with online and other material available (and fellow students if you want) you shouldn't be in university."

Now, that's a restatement of the scene in Good Will Hunting where he points out that all the material covered in a college class can be found in the library, effectively for free. Technically true -- true ever since the Gutenberg printing press -- and yet the need and demand for face time with an expert teaching a class has not diminished. So the statement overlooks the support and resources that most people need in practice.

http://youtu.be/QnZ0Y4rvz6E?t=3m15s

Suggestions anyone ?

Please take this to heart: If you want this world to survive, please stop pandering to these religious morons.
It's very dangerous to do otherwise.
You are part of the problem if you are not actively calling them on the carpet for their bullshit you encounter.

That is the best advice I can sincerely give. I would be less of a hard-ass about it if we had more than one planet colonized -- They don't care about space funding; We're all supposed to die according to them.

Yes, we're talking about huge players and huge deals.

No, we're talking about an Obama campaign contribution bundler getting a sweet payback at taxpayer expense to create something that's not designed to work in the first place. Not that that kind of thing is out of character for this administration [cough]rape-A-scan[cough].

But I'll take your bet that this is all a conspiracy to bring about single-payer healthcare. You've made a prediction, now we'll sit back and observe you being wrong.

What conspiracy? It's no secret. Here's one of the architects of Obamacare openly stating it, in a manner and tone suggesting that anyone would be stupid to NOT believe Obamacare is a path to single-payer government health care.

Jacob Hacker, The Architect of ObamaCare and the Public Option in making his case, admits that this idea is a covert route to a Single Payer System.

http://youtu.be/3sTfZJBYo1I

Sorry, but the facts seem to be in conflict with your world-view. I'll take facts over hand-waving, thanks all the same.

Strat

Shhh!!!

The first rule of government-run health care is you don't talk about government-run health care.

http://youtu.be/3sTfZJBYo1I

Somebody forgot to tell that guy, though.

Oops.

Just another way of getting where they've been trying to go for decades.

http://youtu.be/fRdLpem-AAs

Shhh!!!

The first rule of government-run health care is you don't talk about government-run health care.

http://youtu.be/3sTfZJBYo1I

Somebody forgot to tell that guy, though.

Oops.

Just another way of getting where they've been trying to go for decades.

http://youtu.be/fRdLpem-AAs