always, and good happens to bad, *snif, we miss ya.......Randy whoever....

Screw the bear cavalry, where's the T-rex cavalry?

Edit: on second viewing, that kid in the stroller at the beginning of the video is officially scarred for life. The mom is trying to show him that it is "friendly" and is just sniffing her hand, but the kid's arms are up in a instinctively defensive position and you can tell he is just terrified... awesome! hehe...

In all seriousness, I'm really thrown by how realistic it looks for a puppet. I'd love to see a higher-quality video of it... anyone have a link to one?

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>> ^thepinky:
And I'm curious as to why you guys would find it hard to predict what I thought about derisive comments about gays. I would have thought it was obvious. That was optimistic of me, I guess.


To be completely honest - it's because we think you are conservative in your beliefs, so we were sniffing out hypocrisy - assuming that you would hold anti-gay beliefs. But you surprised me at least. Kudos to you.

Dude, he is not kissing her hand, he's licking or sniffing it. Bless you and your fairytale view

Was this blowing the weapons in place? I'm just wondering, I was under the impression that they do not do that any more, especially with non combatants in the area. Non combatant being the guy over on the right side of the screen, not the dog (for you funny people out there )

>> ^Lurch:
After checking around a bit and seeing the vehicles involved, this is the result of an EOD (Explosive Ordinance Disposal) controlled detonation. EOD had already prepped the blast as evidenced by the evacuated area and lack of anyone interfering with the blast site. If you go to the liveleak version which has a few more seconds in advance of this one, you can hear soldiers commenting on the dog wandering into the blast zone. They can't make the dog get out, and no one is going to walk in there. So, do we halt the convey and continue to place human life at risk until the dog gets bored sniffing around the blast site, or blow it and move on? I've ridden with EOD before and they do not mess around or waste time when destroying roadside explosives no matter what random animal wanders into the blast site. Also, you'll notice that the people are kept away. Detonations are announced and areas are cleared to avoid injuring any civilians.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1be_1204379225&p=1
You can hear one soldier surprised saying "its a dog" after it wanders in. Another says "just blow it. dont wait for the dog to get out of the way."

After checking around a bit and seeing the vehicles involved, this is the result of an EOD (Explosive Ordinance Disposal) controlled detonation. EOD had already prepped the blast as evidenced by the evacuated area and lack of anyone interfering with the blast site. If you go to the liveleak version which has a few more seconds in advance of this one, you can hear soldiers commenting on the dog wandering into the blast zone. They can't make the dog get out, and no one is going to walk in there. So, do we halt the convey and continue to place human life at risk until the dog gets bored sniffing around the blast site, or blow it and move on? I've ridden with EOD before and they do not mess around or waste time when destroying roadside explosives no matter what random animal wanders into the blast site. Also, you'll notice that the people are kept away. Detonations are announced and areas are cleared to avoid injuring any civilians.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1be_1204379225&p=1

You can hear one soldier surprised saying "its a dog" after it wanders in. Another says "just blow it. dont wait for the dog to get out of the way."

Oh, you LOVED it Farhad. Daphne and I tag team educated you on the finer points of sniffing out quality vintage cheese. Then you had to get all artsy and snob out on us

Great coke sniffing tune

Wow! With all that gold floating around I'd be worried about some Conquistador's sniffing around looking for some loot.

Congrats all!

^
"Citizens would pay nothing for health benefits."
I trust you mean, directly out of pocket.

I watched the posts regarding Gravel's views on health-care. He has some good ideas and some, not so good. His views on employer mandated health care are spot on. He is correct in asserting this was a post-WWII perk that companies in the private sector used to compete for the returning work force. Initially the health-care benefits weren't reported as income to the employees. The Feds sniffed that out quickly and told the employees they owed federal income tax on the benefits. There was such an uproar, the Feds backed off. So, now it's a tax exempt benefit for employee and employer alike. That is bad for everyone involved. If the system were scraped;
(1) Businesses could pay more salary to employees. They both win.
(2) The Feds could tax the excess salary to the employees. The Feds win.
(3) Businesses become more competitive in the World markets.

His idea of vouchers is a bad one. And, his description is really a two tier system. He says, "we would have universal coverage" and he says "those who can afford it, can buy extra insurance." Many countries are battling the public/private dilemma. Health-care provided outside the "universal coverage" is often more costly, but of higher quality and more readily available, (i.e. no waiting a year to get your hip replacement.)

Taiwan has that "swipe card" medical identification/information system in place. That is SLICK. However, our current health-care system is like a universe of independent nations. They use different soft-ware vendors, sometimes within the same institution, and none of the products are compatible with the others. (as you would expect).

Our hospital has been trying to convert to all electronic records for the last 3 years. Software glitches, and simple infrastructure issues (not enough WALL OUTLETS to plug everything in!), have thus far stalled the effort. I don't see how it would be possible to bring all the private US hospitals together in an electronic network within the next few decades, barring throwing all computers and associated software out the windows, and starting over completely. That's going to be a tough sell, because many hospitals have already invested millions in the products.

sniffing and huffing wood is dangerous, this is unacceptable

*NSFW

^Good find Dotdude. Unfortunatley for Doc_M however, that's an actual woman; something he barely comes into contact with while peering into petri-dishes of god knows what, sniffing all the bacterial effluvia, and hallucinating himself in an invisible plane made of taped together petri-dishes and goatseing anyone unfortunate enough to look skywards.

This one has me sniffing permanent markers.

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue, just when I could have had a special Sift button for it.

In reply to this comment by dystopianfuturetoday:
I make my living as an artist, and part of my income comes from royalties, but I am very much opposed to current copyright and patent laws. The record industry isn't suffering because of piracy. The record industry is suffering because it is bloated, stagnant and boring.

The film makers and songwriters who are popular enough to be mass downloaded are too busy sniffing coke off a hookers ass through thousand dollar bills to give a fuck (Maddona and Lars excepted). The film makers and songwriters who are not popular enough to be downloaded would kill for the amount of exposure mass downloading would provide. This issue isn't really about the artists. It's about record execs who need a third yacht or a summer home on the French Riviera.

When the major record labels die, I will dance on their grave.

I also have a major problem with the concept that certain combinations of notes and words can be claimed as property by individuals. I have an even bigger problem with medical patents that allow drug companies to hold a monopoly on life saving drugs, allowing them to play extortionist or executioner to the misfortunate of the world. Our concept of economics is completely out of whack.

I have to respectfully disagree. Firstly, the sheer fact that major record/distributing institutions have survived is because they are an unfortunate necessity. Smaller artists simply cannot pull off a Radiohead/NiN and distribute their work single-handedly. The onerous costs and social networking involved in trans-continental product proliferation and promotion far exceed the capacity of a group of twenty-something year olds out of high school. Perhaps sometime not too far ahead in the future when high speed internet subscription reaches a certain level globally, file sharing promotion may play a pivotal role but as of now any such capacity is all too evidently dwarfed by the lucrative publicity big record companies can offer. If anything, traditional distribution companies will likely be replaced by online counterparts such as iTunes which will make previously culturally segregated media available to the world. In addition to that big record companies also act as financial lending institutions to unrealised artistic talent, usually in return for exclusivity deals and nowadays further encroaching upon merchandise and concert returns for years to come.

I think the real question should be, are record companies abusing the leverage in a predominantly oligarchic industry structure? I wholeheartedly agree that the methods being used by the RIAA and their associates are counter-productive, but I have yet to see any conclusive evidence that these measures have come about due to affluent corporate executives scouring for additional earnings.

As for medical patents, again an even more apparent necessary evil. The costs involvement in clinical research and in particular testing and safety verification are exorbitant. Extortionate, even for the mammoth pharmaceuticals industry. Were it not for the presence of patents, then nobody would undertake such an 'investment' and medical breakthroughs would stagnate.