You can earn a power point for each full year on the sift. Been here four years? You can earn 4 power points. Been here six years? You can earn 6 power points. Etc etc. You can buy more, you can't earn more.

I thought it was kinda funny. It was an argument between a professional fundamentalist trained-from-birth debater and a six-year-old, so nothing really came out of it, though it is funny to note that this kid fared better than Theramintrees against Hovind's "truth" argument.

The argument itself is invalid because it oddly requires the other person to agree with the conclusion before being able to make any affirmative statements against it. It's the "because God" argument again.

Six Year Badge! Look at you!


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Looks like that train came and went, huh?

>> ^AeroMechanical:

The voting age should be lowered to six years-old, maybe put a ceiling at eleven years-old. Old enough to read, but young enough to still believe in sharing and being nice to people.


And Santa, Hogwarts, the Easter Bunny, the Great Pumpkin, and God. Gotta get to 'em before parents destroy some wonderful fantasies and instill/strengthen a horrible one. Churches would be made of giant candy canes and sugar cookies.

The voting age should be lowered to six years-old, maybe put a ceiling at eleven years-old. Old enough to read, but young enough to still believe in sharing and being nice to people.

*dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Simpsons-Live

From six years ago, with over 200 votes.

You have good taste!

This particular song was kind of a viral sensation about...six years ago? It found its way all over the place--video game mods, parody videos, all kinds of places.

>> ^dag:

Six years - serious stealth mode.


That's how I roll! Videosift is one of my favorite sites ever. I've wasted so many hours here...

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Six years - serious stealth mode.

They are building a new plant near me. And honestly I think the people wanting to get hired there would probably take a six year pay freeze as part of their employment agreement. It's them using the out of work people in the area from GM closure and other closures to put the squeeze on their current employees, and their employees if they've been unemployed at all HAVE to know that they could be replaced.

My hope is that in 5 and 10 years time, people remember what was done by Caterpillar and choose to not buy their products and work for competitors when the same wage is offered. If people actually remembered and took historical decisions (not in the past year, but 5 or 10 years and more) in their context of the time and use that in their decision making....I just don't see how a company could withstand doing that kind of shit for long.

Unfortunately, people have very short memories and what happened last week, last hour, last minute, last second mentality in all things involving money now. Corporations have fostered that, but people have bowed to it.


I really doubt they get 6 years agreement, but I bet they get at least 3 years on a wage freeze. I also bet their products go up in price more than if the wages had not been frozen, and they end up blaming the workers/unions for those price increases. Insurance will be my first guess on what they blame specifically for costs. And they will secretly question all of those worker comp claims, because those frozen wages probably lead to a lot of disgruntled employees that they now have to monitor more closely and hire extra managers to watch.

It's not just kids of this generation. I'm in my mid-thirties. The past few women I've been involved with have been age appropriate and all have been obsessive texters. But not great conversationalists. There is a constant conversation which seems civil because of the partially asynchronous nature of texting. But then in person, I can't seem to get through more than one sentence without being interrupted about 75% of the time with any woman who is a big texter. Conversely, the best listeners have been those averse to technology (but I haven't had a gf like that in about six years).

>> ^kceaton1:

>> ^skinnydaddy1:
FAA is going to freak if they find this video and incident has not been reported. o.0

I'm right there with you, that may in fact be one hell of a major no-no and I hope they were over empty lands.
I wonder under normal regulations if they are actually even supposed to continue operating in an event like that, considering all the regulations put on flying (there are a lot). I know it looks like some guy's dumpy car just lost a side door, no biggy, but in flying they breath fire down your neck for missing certain bolts or those said bolts even being remotely loose... I'll have to look and see if a pilot can make a judgment call concerning no mandatory operation machinery attached to the craft coming off (that may be part of the main fuselage!)
I did look and see that the national statistic on flights that should have remained grounded getting fixed (some problems not so big, some big enough that when the plane landed emergency crews were needed to put out fires, not including MANY of the emergency landings at the wrong airport before the plane truly does CRASH) that number comes in at around 65000 flights over six years... This is from the FAA, so we're talking about mostly small business's up to large airlines like Delta. BUT, it must always be remembered that they do a better job than your average driver and their car by far; they just have much more "flashier" endings I guess you could say. Which makes the media frenzy about it like a feeding pool that CNN & FOX News ALIKE, engorge until nothing is left but the tasteless morsels that just reiterate everything we have been told by them before this...it is unfortunate that not only we are exposed to this media circus, but also that 'flying' is being dragged through the toxin-filled-sludge created by our media-hype-elite...
I'd figure the ONE group of people that might actually take great care of their machinery is the smaller business and solo-flyer's. I know one of my grandfather's brother spent hours on end with his plane making sure it was in tip-top shape and making sure his flight plans were exacting (he was kinda a bush-pilot, so that was important to him, if you know what I mean). A small off-topic element to this: I remember going through his flight plans and maps that went up through the Western U.S., into Western Canada, then into lower Alaska...it was amazing to see what detail he went into to get the job done; I would feel very safe flying with him if I ever did, because of the extreme measures he went to to get everything right...
I wonder if the pilot had to worry about anything when they landed, it's impossible to see from the clip, but you don't see if it goes up at all and hits the plane--but, I'd assume since everyone is acting basically happy and fine (no panic at all) I assume that the rest of that flight went normally, except for that and the large amounts of paperwork that wold follow it... (Assuming they weren't idiotic and DID report it...)


Found a little blurp about it here.

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Nah it wasn't our fault. There were ten 'other' jumpers before us. Some were new and didn't know how to operate it. On takeoff they failed to close it properly and then in the back from held it down with there feet till 2500 where two of them stood up to close it properly. When they stood on it it was pushed below the stops on either side (the angle iron shaped things) and then turned the handle. I am assuming the locking pin went below the frame of the door. At height they stood to open the door - stepping on the door and turning the handle. The door didn't rise. They then stood on it harder with no change to the result. They then stood on it harder and pushed it down into the wind and it caught air and took off. One of the coolest things I have ever seen. The door landed in the quarry and has been recovered - it needs about $100 in repairs and will be back in action this weekend (or so i have been told).

Was looking for more on it but so far zip.

>> ^skinnydaddy1:

FAA is going to freak if they find this video and incident has not been reported. o.0


I'm right there with you, that may in fact be one hell of a major no-no and I hope they were over empty lands.

I wonder under normal regulations if they are actually even supposed to continue operating in an event like that, considering all the regulations put on flying (there are a lot). I know it looks like some guy's dumpy car just lost a side door, no biggy, but in flying they breath fire down your neck for missing certain bolts or those said bolts even being remotely loose... I'll have to look and see if a pilot can make a judgment call concerning no mandatory operation machinery attached to the craft coming off (that may be part of the main fuselage!)

I did look and see that the national statistic on flights that should have remained grounded getting fixed (some problems not so big, some big enough that when the plane landed emergency crews were needed to put out fires, not including MANY of the emergency landings at the wrong airport before the plane truly does CRASH) that number comes in at around 65000 flights over six years... This is from the FAA, so we're talking about mostly small business's up to large airlines like Delta. BUT, it must always be remembered that they do a better job than your average driver and their car by far; they just have much more "flashier" endings I guess you could say. Which makes the media frenzy about it like a feeding pool that CNN & FOX News ALIKE, engorge until nothing is left but the tasteless morsels that just reiterate everything we have been told by them before this...it is unfortunate that not only we are exposed to this media circus, but also that 'flying' is being dragged through the toxin-filled-sludge created by our media-hype-elite...

I'd figure the ONE group of people that might actually take great care of their machinery is the smaller business and solo-flyer's. I know one of my grandfather's brother spent hours on end with his plane making sure it was in tip-top shape and making sure his flight plans were exacting (he was kinda a bush-pilot, so that was important to him, if you know what I mean). A small off-topic element to this: I remember going through his flight plans and maps that went up through the Western U.S., into Western Canada, then into lower Alaska...it was amazing to see what detail he went into to get the job done; I would feel very safe flying with him if I ever did, because of the extreme measures he went to to get everything right...

I wonder if the pilot had to worry about anything when they landed, it's impossible to see from the clip, but you don't see if it goes up at all and hits the plane--but, I'd assume since everyone is acting basically happy and fine (no panic at all) I assume that the rest of that flight went normally, except for that and the large amounts of paperwork that wold follow it... (Assuming they weren't idiotic and DID report it...)

When the guy told me $2.50 is -way- to expensive for a shot of jack, I never expected anything like this in the six years of my bartending. Punched in the neck -- so odd.

I totally agree with this guy on "your brain panics." I bartend, last night I was jacked by a customer. I escorted out (he was drunk, I refused to serve him, his buddy was cool). I didn't touch him and I walked him outside as I turned around to walk back into work the guy punched me (in the neck). Totally awkward. I shoved him away and he went down. But, someone pulls a knife you're f'ed. You think about it know how you would handle it, and you think I could do this or that, but you don't. You don't have time to think about things. You have to react. I really understand what he says, I will take last night's experience and learn from it, but things can get scary really fast. So up vote on what he says.

Wow, almost six years ago according to http://happy.videosift.com/search?q=&t=v&u=ant&s[]=s&s[]=u&s[]=r&s[]=d&s[]=p&s[]=k&o=old&c[]=61&vmin=&vmax=&sh=&l=&n=&b=&submit=Search OR http://preview.tinyurl.com/8ye3odv ...