Funny how Trump still blames lack of raking and management on the fires when he's had plenty of time to do something about it. Given the majority of the fires are happening in FEDERALLY MANAGED FORESTS!

Moron doesn't even realise he's blaming himself after he tried the same shit last time.

Fucking idiot thinks a 50yard firebreak will stop an uncontrolled fire front. Ember strike starting spotfires miles ahead of the front but yeah that 50 yard clear strip will do a lot.

Embers burning down the trunk into a root ball---just waiting to catch fire again...

Just in case you were wondering (I know you weren't)

Psilocin is....



Wait for it






4-HO-DMT

Just wanted to add an ember to it

Woodkid - The Golden Age feat. Max Richter 'EMBERS' has been added as a related post - related requested by Zawash on that post.

Woodkid - The Golden Age feat. Max Richter 'EMBERS' has been added as a related post - related requested by Zawash on that post.

Woodkid - The Golden Age feat. Max Richter 'EMBERS' has been added as a related post - related requested by Zawash on that post.

...as I rightly predicted, you missed or overlooked the posts @ http://videosift.com/talk/this-site-is-being-removed, RIGHT, you don't get email notifications nor do you follow comment streams, RIGHT, AND the overlap of pertinence conveniently saves some typing, so....

"...pathetic self-deluded "little...thing" unsuccessfully, incessantly peddling his self-promoting, illusory, persecution complex effused, over compensatory inflated self-worth dribbling in a never-ending vain campaign of misrepresentation and deceit to unsuccessfully justify his existence to himself and to whomever else he deludedly believes hasn't the experience, acumen or awareness to know or see otherwise."

...AND...

"...self described "little...thing" whom with its adoption of this well earned moniker belies the slightest claim to any semblance of real self-respect or self-worth and further demonstrates Its inability to not only represent any idea he may borrow or steal but in the most banal, basest manner with no apparent capacity for self-awareness or objective perspective much less the truth. The question begs as to whether this incapacity is deliberate or if it is born of another pathology of which a number are glaringly obvious to many here and which is the subject of many frequent conversations here some of which I have copied and if the slightest ember of yearning to real self-awarenes exists in It I would be amenable to provide them...PUBLICLY ONLY,,, with the speakers names redacted of course. I WILL FURTHER PROVIDE THAT I WILL NOT BE A PARTICIPANT IN ANY PROVIDED CONVERSATION. As a further albeit futile stipulation I will only provide Lounge conversation as a anticipation of the pitifully predictable refuge to Its ascribing any such conversations to private conversations on profile pages that It prefers to paint in his persecution complex's inimitable fashion. OF COURSE, THIS WILL NOT BE ENTERTAINED."

...or rather the self described "little...thing" whom with its adoption of this well earned moniker belies the slightest claim to any semblance of real self-respect or self-worth and further demonstrates Its inability to not only represent any idea he may borrow or steal but in the most banal, basest manner with no apparent capacity for self-awareness or objective perspective much less the truth. The question begs as to whether this incapacity is deliberate or if it is born of another pathology of which a number are glaringly obvious to many here and which is the subject of many frequent conversations here some of which I have copied and if the slightest ember of yearning to real self-awarenes exists in It I would be amenable to provide them...PUBLICLY ONLY,,, with the speakers names redacted of course. I WILL FURTHER PROVIDE THAT I WILL NOT BE A PARTICIPANT IN ANY PROVIDED CONVERSATION. As a further albeit futile stipulation I will only provide Lounge conversation as a anticipation of the pitifully predictable refuge to Its ascribing any such conversations to private conversations on profile pages that It prefers to paint in his persecution complex's inimitable fashion. OF COURSE, THIS WILL NOT BE ENTERTAINED.

...AND WHILE I MAY NOT TELL ALL AND EVERYTHING...I DO NOT LIE OR MISREPRESENT...DELINEATE OTHERWISE "LITTLE...THING" AND CHALLENGE ME TO PRODUCE EVIDENCE TO THE CONTRARY AS HAS BEEN REPEATEDLY OFFERED...BUT YOU WILL NOT AS YOU ARE COWARDLY DISPOSED AND DISPOSED SHOULD YOU BE!

I've noticed a predictable yet still disheartening trend in the comment threads of many videos covering the Ukraine uprising: anti-Occupy Wall Streeters pointing to the relative pacifist nature of the Occupy movement as proof of that movement's insincerity and ineffectiveness.

What the anti-Occupy folks need to understand is that the only thing separating America from the Ukraine is that a weak ember of faith that the system can still be reformed with non-violent tactics still smolders in the hearts of the have-nots and will-never-haves.

They should be celebrating and thanking their gods for the non-violent nature of Occupy yet they mock and draw erroneous conclusions that have the potential to produce a hell on earth that until today, only happens on their televisions in distant lands.

...from the dying embers....

Thank ya.

Embers would fly in the direction of prevailing winds wouldn't they? They're doing what they can do with what they've got to work with here-

Visited my brother there in 2006 and we took the Shinkansen from Tokyo to Hiroshima. And you're right, they're a lot of fun. Just super cool. Definitely a different type of experience than say, this -- although sticking your head out a window and getting coal embers in your eye has its own charm.

While not the greatest fan of your steady fare of human foible and suffering, or the abundant cute-overlord, we appreciate the energy and sincerity of your work. We especially appreciate, and personally applaud your taking the reigns from that zealous patriot of politics-at-large and NPR junkie, your hubster, NetRunner, who was about to induce embolism through steady threat of perfusion leading up to and during, the 2008 Election.

How is ol' NetRunner these days?? We get the impression the fire is but an ember or burning brightly elsewhere..


☣ Peace and Love from a nemesis and fellow traveler, choggie/chingalera ☣

We keep it weird here in Austin

I heard it was great! My fear of the outside world kept me from attending (cursed be the realm of the burning sky ember).

@heropsycho and @Mikus_Aurelius Thanks for your great replies. I will continue this conversation some more after I get home, but I wanted to say mikus raised a really good point that I couldn't wait to investigate further. The "income=expenditures" does seem a rather bad assumption. And I would like to offer my own pontifications a probable solution, I also put in an email to their info station. I present it here for reading.

"Hello. I imagine you won't have time to respond to this email, but I
have a question about one of the graphs in the FAQ. In Figure 2, the
graph assumes to make a balanced rate based on income = total
spending. That seems like a rather dubious assumption, as lower
income families will spend a disproportionate amount of their total
income when compared to someone of higher income whom will save more.
Was this just done for simplicity, because it would seem like the
actual rate would have to be higher all around given that money being
spent from the upperclasses isn't nearly has high, or I assume isn't
nearly as high. Is their any evidence to support the claim, is what I
am asking, that total income is directly equal to total spending. It
seems like to bold a statement to take on face value without some
reason to believe that. I love the idea of the fair tax, this
question seems to be burning in my mind as needing an answer."

Now, income is a strange beast. Steve Jobs only gets 1 dollar a year from his job, so how is that graph mapping it in relation to his income? Who knows, perhaps that is why it is so directly correlated, that most all money will get spent in the end regardless of salary. And I think the other graph still holds in spite of the figure 2 one, that total spending seems to be more steady then total income. You can think of income as a fire, and spending as the ember. People are always going to find money to spend, perhaps even hidden money like we all did in monopoly...that no one REALLY knows about. I still have lots more questions than answers on many of the different ways we could do taxes, but there is one thing I do know. Complex systems favor large businesses. The rules of scale mean anyone with a payroll department already can factor off some of the cost of compliance with normal business costs. Small businesses can't do this as easy. Also, complex systems are breeding grounds for lobbies getting special exemptions for their pet business. The entropy of the intent of a complex, income based system seem like something we could do without.

In closing, I am sad we ended up talking about which one was "more or less effective". Unless the cost is astronomically different between the 2, we shouldn't let that even be a topic. Reason being is we were talking about which one is right or wrong, and if one is morally wrong, it really shouldn't matter if it is cheaper. It is kind of like lawyers and the public defender. We could cut costs of the justice system by snubing out the public defenders, but we would be doing something we see as wrong by saving money in this case (I am not saying I support public defenders, just an example). So the rightness and wrongness of something should be the first focus, and its effectiveness a very much latter criteria. I don't have time to get into that real argument, but I thought I would add those 2 little tid bits before I had to get back to the grind.