A chain would not snap like that since it is not elastic. It would just break and drop down.

That's why army only uses chains to pull out trains of mud even though some synthetic tethers can be stronger and lighter.
I think it was Dirty Jobs that had a segment where he was tasked with getting a tank out of a mud. Military has math books that allow them to calc how much additional weight they need to pull depending on how deep a vehicle has sunk.

Television is just a hole, generally. Not that I was ever their main market, but at least I could flip it on at three in the morning and catch some REALLY bad but amusing B-movie being run to fill time in their programming. Now they just put infomercials on in those time periods. On every station.

They used to play actual documentaries on the History Channel. Now it's usually something like "History's TOP TEN BIGGEST EXPLOSIONS" or Wrestling if I give it a go.

The success of mythbusters, dirty jobs and reality television was not kind to Discovery channels programming.

Holy shit nicole stop complaining you don't even have a tvOK SIGNING OFF

>> ^legacy0100:

I don't know, his first comment just rubs me the wrong way. Not sure if I agree with what he says about people shouldn't be responsible when they're running a big company.
He feels he shouldn't be responsible for a company when he doesn't want to be an executive. I agree in the sense that we should not depend on company owner's judgement and morale to be responsible for their actions. That would be a very naive thing to do, and it has always failed us in the end.
The part I'm concerned about is that once you're the owner of a big company, the power is already given to you whether you like it or not, and someone needs to control that power. If you say you don't want that power and hand it to someone else and wipe your mouth, then who else is responsible for the power you've just given away? You're letting someone else do the dirty job for you, and act like a saint saying you have no blood on your hands.
And when someone approaches you saying: "your company is doing such and such evil things!" you say, 'oh, I'm not responsible for those decisions. Ask the other person. I'm clean'. That's bullshit. You are still liable responsible for allowing such powers to goto someone who didn't wield it well.
By the way, that reporter has a nose ring. NICE.


He isn't running any big company. He never was. He rightly pointed out that he was just an engineer who had no interest in creating a big company. He didn't say any of the stuff you wrote. He never claimed an executive should not have any responsibility. None of what you wrote has any connection to this video or Woz.

I don't know, his first comment just rubs me the wrong way. Not sure if I agree with what he says about people shouldn't be responsible when they're running a big company.

He feels he shouldn't be responsible for a company when he doesn't want to be an executive. I agree in the sense that we should not depend on company owner's judgement and morale to be responsible for their actions. That would be a very naive thing to do, and it has always failed us in the end.

The part I'm concerned about is that once you're the owner of a big company, the power is already given to you whether you like it or not, and someone needs to control that power. If you say you don't want that power and hand it to someone else and wipe your mouth, then who else is responsible for the power you've just given away? You're letting someone else do the dirty job for you, and act like a saint saying you have no blood on your hands.

And when someone approaches you saying: "your company is doing such and such evil things!" you say, 'oh, I'm not responsible for those decisions. Ask the other person. I'm clean'. That's bullshit. You are still liable responsible for allowing such powers to goto someone who didn't wield it well.

By the way, that reporter has a nose ring. NICE.

>> ^jjw001:

Am I the only one that doesn't get the premise? The young guy is willing to kill himself from 30 years in the future? Who's going to do that? First hurdle and the story stumbles.....

Was explained in the american trailer - he kills everyone until he meets and kills himself (the mark will be himself as an old man). He won't know in advance which one or when, but eventually one of the marks will be himself. From that moment the killer is retired from his dirty job, and gets enough money to swim in for the rest of his life, which will be until some time in the future, when he's old and weary, and will be sent back to be killed by himself, closing the loop. Thus the name "Looper".
See - simple.

>> ^shuac:

>> ^dannym3141:
...I would estimate that it is only within the lifespan of the oldest person on earth (less than, but whatever) that politics has become a dirty job...

Yes, because the senators of Rome were all squeaky clean.
And if you pull a "but that wasn't a democracy" shit on me, then I'll...I'll...I'll give you such a pinch!


For a given definition of dirty job. I think there's something particularly sinister about modern government as you might have gleaned

There's plenty of tyrants to speak of, but the modern way.. it's like being a tyrant without anyone knowing. They've managed to work their way up the system within the law and steal more money than they ever could outside of it. In the past, tyrants etc... it was a different world, harder to control. But i feel like they have a firm choke hold on everything now. Legally.

>> ^dannym3141:

...I would estimate that it is only within the lifespan of the oldest person on earth (less than, but whatever) that politics has become a dirty job...


Yes, because the senators of Rome were all squeaky clean.

And if you pull a "but that wasn't a democracy" shit on me, then I'll...I'll...I'll give you such a pinch!

@jonny i think your definition of psychopath is a bit off and i think the correct definition really does apply better, especially with my intent in mind. They are indeed interchangeable depending on the desired effect of the word.

Also, we haven't had democracy for thousands of years so i'm not sure what you mean there. I would estimate that it is only within the lifespan of the oldest person on earth (less than, but whatever) that politics has become a dirty job, and so i think that it is reasonable to say "it has become common knowledge", as it would be their children and grand children who would learn it.

The question was meant to be hypothetical. The point is that you must deal with them before you deal with this, because they won't stop.

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Saw that on Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe. If you just spit into the water, they react the same way. (It's unclear, however, if the raw onions you had for lunch would amplify the intensity of their response.)

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http://videosift.com/video/Dirty-Jobs-Bologna-Factory

That has some good ZINGERS as well.

>> ^treat:

Hey dude! Thanks for adding that tag after four fucking years. I've been sweating all this time just praying for somebody to fix this horrendous mess. You're a saint for spending all your free time organizing all these videos and I, for one, certainly do not feel it's petty.


Wow ..
I just happened to watch the video after seeing some other one with Mike Rowe in it and after I watched this, and voted for it, I threw it in cats and dogs. If you don't want it in that channel then take it out. For all I know, catsanddogs didn't even exist when you submitted this.

Great show, great host, perfect together.

This looks pre-dirty-jobs... mike rowe looks like a spring chicken