...and STILL we respect him. Dude does more science blitzed than all of Fox News stone cold sober.

i like ron paul.
we dated for a bit because we had so much in common in regards to civil liberties and a non-intervention foreign policy.
i had to dump him due to his free-market corporation obsession.
it had just turned creepy...
he still calls on my birthday though,very sweet.

the american people are against any military action.up to 80% of the population kind of against,but what have we learned over the past 10 yrs?
the american government ignores the population and relies on bobbleheads like blitzer and this other cunt to promote the propaganda.

"so let me just say,that after being briefed the gas attacks took place"
ok..im listening,please continue.
"and that the assad administration is responsible"
the assad situation is responsible?
really? are you sure? because as far as i can tell there is not one shred of evidence.
well,thats not quite true.isreali intelligence says the assad regime is responsible.
and if the isreali intelligence says its assad then it MUST be true right? they wouldnt,,you know..lie.

whoa whoa whoa mr quigley.
am i correct in assuming that your entire argument is basically "trust us"?

you sir,are a whore who would sell his integrity to the highest bidder.you have lost any right to speak on this situation or for any of your constituents to show you any form of respect.
i revoke your right to participate in human affairs and i bid you good day.

i said good day!

and look at our little slut blitzer trying to snipe from the bleachers.
oh blitz...
you sold your soul a looong time ago.
nobody listens to you anymore.
they are just transfixed by the beard.

to imply that military force is a righteous and just course of action due to 100,000 people dying ignores the fact that america has used chemical weapons.

so when THEY use chemical weapons it is a crime against humanity but when WE use them it is justified?
nice logic captain propaganda.

and if we are to take your argument to have any validity.then i am forced to ask this question:
"if the united states has the right to invade another country for crimes against humanity.that the invasion is for humanitarian reasons (as if bombing and killing is humanitarian),then explain to me why so many countries were NEVER invaded by the united states,even when THEIR crimes against humanity were far more egregious?"
see:rwanda
see:east timor
the list is NOT short.

cant answer?
then i submit that your argument is no argument at all.
because if you were a true journalist you would have asked "where is the diplomatic solution?"
"why are we we going in to drop a limited sorte of bombs?"
"in what reality could that produce positive results for the region?"
"where is the international political pressure to bring these factions to the negotiation table?"
"where is the evidence that assad's regime is responsible?"
"why is the obama administration ignoring the military commanders advice of non-intervention?"

i could do this all day.

there is a bright spot in this otherwise dreary and dystopian picture.
the american people are not as politically gullible as they were 10 yrs ago.
we SEE whats going on.
the world SEES whats going on.

welcome citizen to the united states of empire.
please have a seat.
be quiet and obey.
your government is in control.

>> ^ChaosEngine:

>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:
Hah! But no, seriously.
@<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/lantern53" title="member since August 6th, 2010" class="profilelink">lantern53 knows.. that depriving servers of a living wage and forcing them to bust their asses for 5% gratuity on a $130 check.. you know, builds character.
Struggling in quasi-poverty for years of your life is what the American Dream is all about! duh.
That's why Mitt Romney is such a great American and needs to be President.
He knows what it's like.. to force people to struggle. For their own good.
p.s. - Everyone knows that raising the minimum wage is just another Socialist/Marxist scheme by Obama to disenfranchise the Job Creators in this country.
While I completely agree that people should be paid a living wage, I don't really have a problem with tipping. People should bust their asses in their job, especially if your job is customer facing. Customer service in the USA is so much better than almost anywhere else I've been, (it's particularly bad in NZ)


Just a meaningless anecdote (just find it funny that you mention it):

I went to Sydney once (15 years ago) and the very first day, I went to a place called the Juba Cafe. My friend and I were surprised to find porridge on the menu, because all I knew of porridge was from Oliver Twist or Little Orphan Annie. Our server, who's name was Anna, was really surprised to hear it, so she bought us porridge to convince us it was good. It was. Then, after we ate (before we tipped her) she invited us over to her apartment for some wine that night. When we got there, she had invited all her friends over to meet "her new Americans." They gave us wine, we talked for a long time about NZ (where she was from) and they rolled me the first "baseball bat" that I ever smoked, with the the little cardboard filter in it and everything. They also introduced me to Aphex Twin (the "Richard D. James Album") and we bonded over Ween, which I was surprised to hear they knew all about, even in 97'. So, after we were completely blitzed, Anna and her friends took us out to dinner, where we ate and drank and talked for hours and didn't pay a dime while these guys all treated us to a great first night in their city. I'm not even sure how we got home, but they sure didn't let anything bad happen to us.

The reason I mention it, is that I would say it was, easily, the best service I've ever had in my entire life, anywhere. We had to leave town the next day and I never saw or spoke to any of those guys again. I really wish I'd kept in contact with them because I owe them so much more than a night out. I still roll a fat bat and pop in the Aphex Twin on a pretty regular basis.

>> ^artician:

>> ^oohlalasassoon:
Mine still works
Games I have are Blitz, Star Trek, Spike, Clean Sweep, and Scramble (my favorite).
And despite the title of the vid, I don't think the raster-graphics that Vectrex uses are considered pixels.

Actually, rasterization is the term for putting an image to a pixelized format, usually a file or other read-only format to be displayed as it is.
I think what you meant to say was "vector" graphics, as vectors were what the Vectrex was designed around.
Either way, all graphics use pixels in the end, as that is the raw building block of the digital image, so the title of this is something of a misnomer if taken literally. It's a bit like saying "paperless sketch", or something.
Vector processing is basically the precursor for polygonal rendering and the real-time 3D we are used to seeing today. The primary difference to raster images being that it is drawn and manipulated in real-time, as opposed to raster-imagery being a simple, unalterable record of an image in pixels (like a recording).
I fail at the metaphors, but you get what I'm saying.


Whoops. I did indeed mean to say vector, not raster. Raster's actually what I think of when I think of pixels, so I said the opposite of what I meant. Long day. Thanks for your informative reply

>> ^oohlalasassoon:

Mine still works
Games I have are Blitz, Star Trek, Spike, Clean Sweep, and Scramble (my favorite).
And despite the title of the vid, I don't think the raster-graphics that Vectrex uses are considered pixels.


Actually, rasterization is the term for putting an image to a pixelized format, usually a file or other read-only format to be displayed as it is.
I think what you meant to say was "vector" graphics, as vectors were what the Vectrex was designed around.

Either way, all graphics use pixels in the end, as that is the raw building block of the digital image, so the title of this is something of a misnomer if taken literally. It's a bit like saying "paperless sketch", or something.

Vector processing is basically the precursor for polygonal rendering and the real-time 3D we are used to seeing today. The primary difference to raster images being that it is drawn and manipulated in real-time, as opposed to raster-imagery being a simple, unalterable record of an image in pixels (like a recording).

I fail at the metaphors, but you get what I'm saying.

Mine still works

Games I have are Blitz, Star Trek, Spike, Clean Sweep, and Scramble (my favorite).

And despite the title of the vid, I don't think the rastervector -graphics that Vectrex uses are considered pixels.

Play a bit of LoL casually sometimes, or at least enough to know what the champions do. Prefer HoN/DotA2 tho . I wonder if Amumu did that deliberately. No need for bandage toss when Blitz does it for you .

If you missed this: http://www.dota2.com/tournaments/international/game/29/?p=0&v=1 you should give it a look. All the games are good, Chen makes some amazing saves and just general great play.

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"Lady Outside Wal-Mart Allegedly Pepper Sprays Fellow Customers: In an attempt to get the best deals. Another Wal-Mart customer was shot outside his car in an attempted robbery."

"Black Friday got off to a dark start in the U.S. as several shootings, a bomb scare and a pepper-spraying shopper marred the annual post-Thanksgiving buying blitz."

Terrible terrible things are happening on Black Friday. Let's condemn them all as nasty stinky hippies.

>> ^rougy:

@bcglorf,
There were a lot of "house flippers" as I've heard them called, but I doubt it was a majority of the "bad loans" that Wall Street was packaging in their CDO's. I'm guessing 20% of those loans would be a high guess, most likely in the 10% range.
I'm convinced that the Adjustable Rate Mortgages (ARMs) were a major culprit that caused a lot of people to lose their homes. Back around 2004, there was a big advertising blitz here in the states about how people could refinance their homes using an ARM and make themselves some easy money.
What actually happened was that those loans were sold---which I don't think was always allowed---and the fine print said that each time the loan was sold, there was an adjustment to the mortgage.
My parents bought a little house for a rental. Their first month's mortgage payment was about $180. Not six months later, they were paying almost $500, and they couldn't get out of it. They were lucky. It wasn't their primary residence and they were able to sell the place suffering a relatively minor loss.
Anyway...I still haven't found anything new about Greece's problems, but as of today it still seems to be a powder keg situation.
Cheers.
EDIT:
Look at this graph from Wikipedia.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Sovere
ign_credit_default_swaps.png
One look at that tells me that Greece's problem probably doesn't have much to do with its social spending.


The 'making easy money' off of ARM's is a big part of what I was talking about. Regular people were encouraged to make 'easy money' upgrading their primary residence. There's of course big fault on the banks for encouraging and profiting off that, but there's also fault on the regular folks making the easy money too.

I didn't just mean professional house flippers, even a regular Joe that noticed his house had gone up by $40k since buying it a year ago deciding he'd sell, use $20k of the profits as down payment on a bigger home, and the other $20k to furnish the new home with nice toys. More than just a few of those guys did it a second or third time too, an why not? The problem ones were the ones that extended themselves to the max where they couldn't make their mortgage payments unless their planned sale at a profit panned out. The banks were stupid to lend to those kind of people, and that's been well established. It's been less popular though to point out that the borrowers were stupid to take the deal too. It's been even less popular to point out that the borrowers often made a lot of money along the way too. My beef is that the banks stupidity got cushioned by tax payers. The right approach was taken by letting the borrowers live with their decision, the banks should've been treated the same.

@bcglorf,

There were a lot of "house flippers" as I've heard them called, but I doubt it was a majority of the "bad loans" that Wall Street was packaging in their CDO's. I'm guessing 20% of those loans would be a high guess, most likely in the 10% range.

I'm convinced that the Adjustable Rate Mortgages (ARMs) were a major culprit that caused a lot of people to lose their homes. Back around 2004, there was a big advertising blitz here in the states about how people could refinance their homes using an ARM and make themselves some easy money.

What actually happened was that those loans were sold---which I don't think was always allowed---and the fine print said that each time the loan was sold, there was an adjustment to the mortgage.

My parents bought a little house for a rental. Their first month's mortgage payment was about $180. Not six months later, they were paying almost $500, and they couldn't get out of it. They were lucky. It wasn't their primary residence and they were able to sell the place suffering a relatively minor loss.

Anyway...I still haven't found anything new about Greece's problems, but as of today it still seems to be a powder keg situation.

Cheers.

EDIT:

Look at this graph from Wikipedia.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Sovereign_credit_default_swaps.png

One look at that tells me that Greece's problem probably doesn't have much to do with its social spending.

Took me a while to get a free hour to watch, but I'm glad I did. Actually, I ended up wishing that he had been allowed to take a leisurely pace through the full talk rather than having to blitz through the last 1/3rd or so...

Still, very interesting and enjoyable -- nice sift!