Although listening to it again, very tiny voice.... "it's a pepsi" follows the coke comment.

I DON'T TRUST CORPORATE AMERICA AND ADVERTISING.

Dang subliminal shit.

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Have to disagree. If it was viral im sure he wouldn't have called that Pepsi a coke.

>> ^bareboards2:

Call me cynical.... Pepsi Max in big letters?
I call this viral ad.
Maybe it is just what it purports to be. I doubt it seriously though.
The combination of the internet and corporate America has made me cynical....

Have to disagree. If it was viral there is no way he would have called that Pepsi a Coke.

>> ^bareboards2:

Call me cynical.... Pepsi Max in big letters?
I call this viral ad.
Maybe it is just what it purports to be. I doubt it seriously though.
The combination of the internet and corporate America has made me cynical....

The implement the guy is using is called a 'superball' and is literally the kind of superball you find in market vending machines attached to the end of some kind of pliant stick. It looks like he has a variety of sizes, each activating different overtones, each overtone having it's own unique size and speed of vibration (like ripples in a lake when you toss a pebble). You can make your own superball very easily by just superglueing a super ball on the end of a stick. You can rub them on nearly anything and it will produce a unique sound based on material, density and speed of friction.

The table also seems like an amazing piece of engineering. The surface must have minimal contact with the supports to create that kind of reverberence. I want one!

>> ^xxovercastxx:

>> ^ant:
Uh huh. I already got an answer on YouTube: "simple. redbox uses the same method as a vending machine. instead of getting candy however you get a dvd. each row has a number, you press a button on the outside which tells a computer inside the machine which row was selected and dispenses a dvd.
Except that doesn't explain how it knows where a returned movie goes.
To answer that, you've got to look in the center of the case, at the little knob the disc snaps onto.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7e/Redbox_Case.jpg
There you will see a small QR-style barcode. This is how the machine tracks its internal inventory. In fact, since it has to track this stuff anyway, I doubt it has designated slots for each movie; It probably just reads the codes and knows what is where.


I'd love to see it in action inside!

>> ^ant:

Uh huh. I already got an answer on YouTube: "simple. redbox uses the same method as a vending machine. instead of getting candy however you get a dvd. each row has a number, you press a button on the outside which tells a computer inside the machine which row was selected and dispenses a dvd.

Except that doesn't explain how it knows where a returned movie goes.

To answer that, you've got to look in the center of the case, at the little knob the disc snaps onto.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7e/Redbox_Case.jpg

There you will see a small QR-style barcode. This is how the machine tracks its internal inventory. In fact, since it has to track this stuff anyway, I doubt it has designated slots for each movie; It probably just reads the codes and knows what is where.

>> ^mxxcon:

>> ^ant:
>> ^mxxcon:
>> ^ant:
I wonder how the machines know which movie it is?

An elf inside quickly looks in the envelope and programs the computer.

Prove it. I saw no elf in that video.

Who do you think was holding the camera?


Uh huh. I already got an answer on YouTube: "simple. redbox uses the same method as a vending machine. instead of getting candy however you get a dvd. each row has a number, you press a button on the outside which tells a computer inside the machine which row was selected and dispenses a dvd.
leprickon 9 hours ago"

Also, too late on your old "By now you should know that just like vampires, elfs never show up on film." comment since it was in my e-mail.

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Imagine how many quarters you'd have to put in that vending machine!

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That is just wild!

The point about developing stuff for poor people is fairly humorous. My parents had money so I know what it's like to feel wealthy (with none of the power) but now I'm a regular old Joe the plumber butt kinda guy probably like Westy - so what are you saying Westy, that you'd only be interested if they developed Quarter Pounder vending machines and $4 out da doe liters of Miller High Life - the champagne of beers?! That is about just as wild as watching that very neat piece of engineering.

And if anyone from Virgin is here - contact me to do more private label design stuff!!

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

I'd be worried about freshness.


That's what he said.

So they now have pot on vending machines, and the city still isnt burned to the ground. Makes you wonder what that fucking drug war is for, eh?

Is she the worst parent in the world?

No, as others have pointed out, not by a long-shot. However, she is definitely misguided, as Dr. Phil said on the show (thanks for the transcripts @Sagemind). Her discipline techniques are based on the idea that humans don't do "bad" things because we fear punishment. Hence, if a child does something wrong, it's because he isn't scared enough of the consequences. The obvious next logical step from that point of view is to scare the kid even more out of doing the behavior again. Like Dr. Phil said, the research shows that style of discipline is not going to get the behavior adjustment she hopes for and may have significant unintended side-effects (i.e. the kid growing up to have some kind of anxiety disorder).


Is this child abuse?

It's difficult to say just from this video. Although some might claim she is "terrorizing the child" there's a lot of ambiguity that needs to be sorted out as to what that means exactly. She's certainly not doing any physical damage to the child and unfortunately no one will know the mental effects until after the child is an adult--we don't see how she is with her kids when she's not disciplining them, after all. If this is a relatively infrequent occurrence at the house (the transcripts suggests she only started using the hotsauce recently out of desperation) and she's a nurturing and loving parent the rest of the time, it could very well be that this is something the kid will grow up and be able to laugh about. If she's like this 24-7 then yeah, the kids need to be removed from the home immediately.

I understand the kneejerk reaction of a lot of Sifters, though. "I would never do that to my kids," people are quick to say. I certainly wouldn't either. But I wonder if it has occurred to those same posters that the discipline techniques they happen use on their own kids would be considered abusive by someone else (not in the legal definition, just in the "I would never do that" kind of way). I saw some proponents of spanking in the comments, which actually IS illegal in many European countries.

The responses to this video remind me of the psychology experiment in which one group is shown a video of a man kicking a vending machine. In a follow-up interview, the viewers state that the man seemed violent and irrational and most are scared of him. Another group is shown the same video only this time they also get to see what happened before he kicked the machine: he put money in, the item he selected got stuck as it fell down the chute, and he kicks it to dislodge and retrieve the item. This group feels the man acted in a rational manner.

The point here is that we got to see only a brief, glimpse into this woman's family (one that was selected for the most dramatic TV value possible) and a lot of Sifters jumped to the conclusion that she was a psychotic abusive bitch. Is she? I don't know. And neither do you.

Two things are certain. One, this video has absolutely nothing to do with religion (thanks to previous posters for pointing this out).

Two... the video is really hard to watch.

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