You can (and should) blame distracted drivers until you are blue in the face. But if you convince a hundred people to be more attentive, a thousand more distracted idiots will fall in line behind them.

I personally would (and do) take additional steps on a case by case basis, well beyond public service announcements.

I would rush - RUSH - to get cones set up in the blocked lane two hundred yards before the blockage. Set up at least a half a dozen cones so that they gradually close the lane as drivers approach, with the lane fully closed at least 50-100 yards before the blockage.

I don't see a single cone in the video.

Full credit for the crash goes to the white car driver. I agree, this case is not above moving over for emergency vehicles.

At least the plug's only at the end of the pipe.

At my parents' house last year, the pipe connecting the manhole to the actual sewer below the street was clogged. Which isn't so bad, unless nobody really notices it and the sewage just keeps collecting in the manhole. After pumping a good 1.5m³ of delicious sewage out into the nearby bushes (smells great at ~25°C), I went down into the underworld (again, great smell). Found the pipe in question and managed to insert a hose with backwards-firing jets into it, connected to a high-pressure washer. The bloody blockage was 6m into the pipe. Probably grease and fat from the kitchen sink, most of all. Anyway, half an hour of bumping into it over and over again finally cracked it.

Not the most pleasant experience. No cockroaches though, so there's that.

I watched millions of YouTube videos and had never seen anything like this. Is it new? I wonder when the official subscriptions will add this blockage.

I agree in principle. I don't see how it could work out in practice, though. If we embargo Libya, it is ineffective because someone else will buy their oil, and effectively the only thing we impact is the economy and the plight of it's citizens, as we have clearly seen with Saddam. This will lead to further claims of racism because the people of the country are being made to suffer.

So, I suppose we could blockage them to really enforce their isolation. But unless we are willing to sink russian and chinese ships trading with them, all we are doing is issuing empty threats. And clearly if we do start sinking those ships, we will start wars and again be called racist.

The only alternative you leave, is to completely ignore their suffering, hope that nobody else intervenes for their own ends, and await the eventual overthrow of the government, which could take hundreds of years. This seems like the least empathetic and most disregarding approach imaginable. Being so afraid to do bad that one refuses to try to do good.

I think the most moral approach would perhaps be the most chauvinist of all. I'm thinking about Japan post WWII. But then I never bought into the post modern nihilistic view.

We're pure intelligence, you're not. You're the biological product of a
cosmological universe. You're molecular matter, I constructed you, fuck you.
I made you up, you didn't make me up, you got it backwards.

You know who
you are? You're fuckin' semantic blockage, that's what made you up. You're
a fuckin' programmer named Christine Gontara.

Favorite song off this album is "Steppin' Razor": https://youtu.be/73ZprL_ZKxI

I am between (closer to no). Ever since I moved last year, I can't get all the local broadcast channels OTA with all types of antenna. My rural nest is blocked by trees, small mountains, giant hills, etc. Basically, it is on the wrong side to get transmitters' feeds compared to my previous nest. So, my family had to get cable.

As for online Netflix, it doesn't have everything like the new episodes, sports, etc. and I don't watch many (movie/film)s (prefer on demand payments to rent). Hulu bugs me with their repeating commercial breaks (even as Plus members!). I hate ad(vertisement)s hence why I block, skip (record!), etc. ~22 minutes out of 30 minute episodes and ~42 minutes out of an hour episodes! That's a lot. Also as a chair (no couch) potato, I watch a lot of stuff including Internet's like on VS (VS is my tube too) and am in control!

Region blockages suck, but we have Internet. There are ways around them if you know how.

Problem with those is they don't break down quick enough and end up clogging sewer systems if used daily. It's why your parents probably told you never to flush kitchen towel down the toilet either, same problem - just doesn't break down quick enough to prevent blockage.

Toilet paper is designed to avoid this problem (except that waxy shiny toilet paper found in public toilets that probably costs 2 quid for a hundred rolls since nobody wants to buy it).

This boring bit of trivia was brought to you by your local water reprocessing plant!

The guy is just as much of a dick as the guy blocking the lane. Why, you ask?

Well, as you can clearly see, he is not only 'punishing' the car blocking the lane, but he is also causing people behind the car to be held up and also creating a situation very conducive to causing accidents as those people jockey to get around the blockage. Did all those people force the person in the car to block the lane? Why should they be punished for the actions of one other driver?

Basically the protester's arrogance equals or exceeds that of the driver he is 'teaching a lesson'.

Blockage confirmed, cannot watch it in the UK either.

>> ^jqpublick:

I think it's more likely that this system extends the drive time of whatever battery cells he has installed in the thing. It's not that he's getting free energy, it's just that at 40 the system is going fast enough that even though there's a net loss, the additional energy stored in the batteries gives a longer running time. I think that's just about all that there is here.
>> ^rkone:
>> ^Drachen_Jager:
That is the dumbest thing I've ever seen.

Agreed. I'd downvote the video if I could. People, if you're in doubt, think of it this way - if the fan could generate more power than the loss of pushing it, then you could just keep adding more fans until it becomes a perpetual motion machine..



Problem, nothing happens at 40 miles an hour in physics for a decrease wind resistance and drag. If anything, the faster you go, the more of a problem wind becomes. There is no possible way that this is extending his drive time. This is exactly equal to holding your hand out the window. If you could turn that blockage into electricity, it will always be less energy than the amount of momentum it sapped via drag. Or else ALL CARS WOULD ALREADY DO THIS! The reason you don't is because it doesn't work.

A simple instance where something like this IS used is the emergency ram air turbine for jumbo jets. When there is a complete loss of power, a ram air turbine drops down to generate emergency power for the hydraulic systems. This increases drag, but it is so small that it isn't a problem. But it is also why air planes don't have windmills on them, anything you use to block the wind is slowing you down more than any recoverable amount of energy via electric conservation of kinetic energy. This is physics 101, entropy, it's a bitch!

Now, if he compressed the incoming air, added a combustion chamber with kerosene or gasoline, then he would have himself a turbine engine for his car, but now, he just has a lesson in why physics is hard.

Great shirt for her, too...Oh and take it from someone who suffers stage fright and a number of other blockages...If you can do this in a crowded supermarket, you can do it nightly for a living!

I couldn't get "The Onion's" embed to work properly (I'll have to notify lucky that they use a new odd format or something...), so for now I'll use this one... Sorry for the commercials and potential region blockage .

Hopefully, this isn't a dupe, couldn't find any. But, as seeing how the embeds are working odd I can see one slipping through I didn't catch.

/Drink your chocolate milk!

*promote

>> ^Norsuelefantti:
blocked


You have BMG and Vevo and their deal per contract to thank for that blockage.. Insects that call themselves lawyers....I will adjust accordingly to grant access to this wonderful song, that by the way, ya contract-law rights motherfuckers out there, who want yer artist to make more money from ancillary sales 20 years later???..should adjust for with reckless disregard to copyright accordingly!!!....Ya fuckin' buncha, Kobe-beef-eatin', too-much-car-for-your-pathetic-ass, next-gig-based-on-arcane-principles, DUMBASSES!!!!

In reply to this comment by dag:
Thanks for letting us know- I'll take this up with our ad providers- see if we can find the culprit.


I haven't seen the blockage in a while but I saw that the Denver Post had an issue with one of their JavaScript. I investigated the script and saw that it contained a broken <meta> tag. The code didn't look all that malicious but No Script sanitizes JS with broken tags. So I think my old post may have been a false positive. Probably just a broken tag in the script in the Google ad.

In hindsight I think I should have saved the whole URL for when I was more knowledgeable of what XSS looks like.

>> ^grinter:
Title changed, and tags altered once more so that people might actually find the video.
^mauz15, I should have left the 'sebaceous cyst' tag I originally had on this. I hate it when I get blockages in the openings of the meibomian glands... especially if I'm wearing contacts. I had no idea they went that far into the eyelid. Thanks for pointing that out.
So, how deep in the skin does a build-up of sebum (or whatever) have to be for the problem to be a cyst, and not a pimple? (not talking specifically about meibomian glands here).


a cyst is different from a pimple in the sense that the cyst is more like a sac, whereas a pimple is like a blockage, a comedo (whitehead/blackhead), papules (red pimples) and pustules (like whiteheads but deeper) resulting from blockage of a hair follicle, oil glands, and other causes I don't know about. How deep? I don't know, probably a lesion is considered a cyst if it makes it to the second skin layer, which is the dermis.

edit: apparently if it is 5mm across, it is a cyst, but I got that from some regular website so it could be false.