The music is "Barra Barra" from the Black Hawk Down soundtrack. And yes, it is awesome.

Wood, the fuel of the past future!

If using the entire empty land mass of the US to grow the trees & brush needed only produces 60% of the gasoline requirements, one wonders where the other 40% comes from. Better than corn-ethanol, but not even close to a solution.

>> ^GDGD:
can anyone suggest music, artist/genre, that would have similar vocal work as is present in the beginning?


reminds me a bit of Lisa Gerrard's work in the Gladiator soundtrack

dupe: http://www.videosift.com/video/Battle-of-The-Batmans-1

It looks like theres a bit more going on then just controlling speed of playback with mouse motion. Just guessing, but seems like the idea is that the video plays as long as the object identified by the initial click keeps moving in the same direction as the mouse. E.g. in the falling cell phone clip, the playback stops as soon as the phone hits the surface, even though the cursor continues to move down past that point (the software figured out that the object had stopped moving and couldn't be dragged any further). Very neat bit of programming.

Same event, wider/different angle... compare 0:07 of this vid to 0:18 of the other. Both towers crumple in the same manner and you can see the same debris pattern in both.

The point of a leveraged buyout is to buy a company, do something to make it more valuable, then resell it at a profit. What exactly that “something” is depends on the company, but usually involves improving its efficiency (layoffs and other cost-cutting are the easiest ways). Yes, this sucks for those on the receiving end of a pink slip.

The big problem is that leveraged buyouts have little downside risk. Since most of the financing is debt, the buyout guys have very little of their own money at risk so they act very aggressively to make the company as valuable as possible before they resell it.

- don’t have to pay back debt
This is misleading. The debt will get paid back in one of two ways, either with the profits of the company they bought or from the proceeds they get when the company is resold. But, if the debt is secured by the assets of the company, if something goes wrong then the debt-holders will liquidate the company to recover their investment.

- company pays less tax because of all the debt
This one’s true, but it’s not a bad thing. The company pays more interest, which is tax-deductible (as are all other expenses of the company). But someone out there will be receiving the interest, which is taxable, so overall tax revenues for the government aren’t significantly changed.

- capital gains tax less than normal tax
I don’t know US tax law, but this is true in Canada. This is the only real loophole in the whole video. It’s something Warren Buffet has talked about a lot (that he pays a lower tax rate than his secretary).