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*dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Motorcyclist-Jumps-120-ft-to-Arc-de-Triomphe-and-Back-Down

Think this is a dupe:
http://videosift.com/video/Motorcyclist-Jumps-120-ft-to-Arc-de-Triomphe-and-Back-Down

So is the movie CGI or what? Also is this deadpool before or after the Wolverine Origins... or is it a different arc?

I have mixed feelings about the UK plug. 1) they are HUGE. therefore power strips are also quite large, and the wall outlets only have place for one device. 2) I've seen plenty of UK plugs where the conductor goes all the way to the housing, not halfway like he shows as a feature. I've seen Euro-plugs with both types as well. 3) putting fuses on the plug instead of part of the house means that too many <13A devices could be plugged in, and (if used simultaneously) cause a fire in your walls and burn your house down (I assume UK requires circuit breakers and branch circuits nowadays). 4) the same safety device that requires ground to be plugged in first makes it really-hard to plug into cheaply made outlets or power strips (the plastic cover doesn't slide easily).
That said, another safety feature that he didn't mention in the video was that most wall outlets have their own switch on the outlet itself. Turn-off ; plug-in ; turn-on. This prevents arcing, which is easier with the higher 240V.

Euro outlets' holes are too small to fit most screwdrivers, knives, fingers into, and they have both grounded and ungrounded (smaller) variety.

My favorite are the IEC-60309 plugs/outlets, but are only for bigger amperages - 20,30,50,60, etc.

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Turns out I was wrong (about HBO pulling the plug) but also right (about Theon's character arc being glorious).

woo hoo!

Who said anything about "thought provoking meaningful experience"? =)

You're doing what all classic internet "experts" (ie. arrogant twats who think their opinion is the last word on everything) do, creating a fallacious argument to launch your scathing invective at while missing the point entirely. If you tried to bolt depth on to a title like Wolfenstein, you'd be undermining the core of the game, which is Nazi destroying mayhem. Do you really need a complex story arc giving you motivation to kill a thousand mecha-SS riding T-Rexs? Of course not.

A game does not require depth to be fun. Certainly there are plenty of indie games that also indulge in the "no depth all action" genre (http://www.crimsonland.com/ as a classic example).

I do have to correct one error in my previous post however, it's not a stick up your ass. It's your head... ; )

Human reflex response arc is like, what, 100 millisecs? So 1/10 second, so 27.2 feet before you even have a chance of a reflex intervening. And the reality is the you need at least a couple of seconds to actually process visual information and make a decision. Agree---the biker is insane.

Actually, 99% of human behavior is entirely anarchic. I make millions of large and small transactions with other humans on a daily basis which have absolutely zero government involvement, whatsoever. Billions of other people on the planet do the exact same thing. Daily. Government is a fiction by which some people live at the expense of everyone else.

Even Somalia, as you may have seen, grew and improved on almost all counts after the government collapsed, built more roads and infrastructure during its 20 years without government than it did with the government.

What we have now, with a centralized government, is (because people, let alone government, is far from omniscient) more of a "planned chaos," by which little to nothing is fully known as to the long term of effects of anything that the government imposes. At least, without government, we work within natural laws and an emergent order. Instead, what we have now is "positive laws" (imposed by governments) which regulate some people at the expense of the many, while benefiting a very few.

And I think you should learn your history before you suggest that "might-makes-right" argument has shaped the arc of civilization. One cannot make the honest case that government is not behind the worst, most egregious crimes against humanity known to man, with its ability to generate unlimited money to spend on mobilizing huge military empires so "the people's" proxy can drone foreigners to death, or lock them up in Guantanamo or anywhere else, or spy on all their communications, or make them all poor though inflation, or regulate their existence to the most minute detail, or provide them with bad healthcare or any number of other things that government can do.

Not me. I'm joining the billions of people throughout history (from the Puritans, to the American Revolutionaries, to the millions of emigrants via Ellis Island, to millions of refugees, to all those air lifted from Saigon, to all those Americans whose relatives fled from China, Korea, Vietnam, Iran, or anyplace where there's war, or famine, or economic devastation) who decided to opt out of government, and to voluntarily exit the charade.


"But, hey, if you like your government, you can keep it."

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If the wires were insulated it could have been using the smoke in the air to jump between the lines. As the insulation burns off in one spot, the area next to it turns to smoke and the arc moves there.

Try lighting a match in the microwave and then putting a jar over it and quickly turning the microwave on and you'll see a similar effect

I am gonna guess that that arcing along the lines was a dead short and it arced until the transformer on that pole @:42 exploded. The sound of arcing electricity continues after the transformer blew so until the power stops traveling (melts wires/breaks continuity or power along grid is shut off/destroys itself), it continues.
2013 and we still use wires above ground....y'oud think we'd be further along-Thank the J.P. Morgan types of the world for arcane tech they can still milk for greenbacks.

Any knowledgeable sifters know how that happens?
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What trips me out is why does the arc travels so slow? Matter of fact why does it travel at all?