Get with it, Kurzgesagt....we've known what happens for 21 years.....
*related=https://videosift.com/video/Space-1999-Breakaway-scene

Space 1999 Breakaway scene has been added as a related post - related requested by newtboy.

Aha! This is pretty recent, and I've seen the actual play that is being, uh, highlighted.

The Colorado Avalanche (COL, white jerseys) are dead last in the NHL this season, and it isn't even close. They are beyond terrible. I'm a fan, but this season is so grim that I can't bring myself to watch games; just catch up once in a while on a week or two's worth of bad news. I saw this play came up just a few days ago.

In the play in question here (can't see much of it in the video, I'll embed below) a Colorado player gets a breakaway. Scoring a goal wouldn't do anything dramatic like get them back in the game, or save the season or anything. But it might save some pride and make it actually appear like they are professional hockey players. Hell, I think Avs fans would have been happy if he just hopelessly shot the puck right into the logo on the goalie's chest. Going through the motions would be an improvement for this team.

Instead, he inexplicably decides to stop, turn around, and attempt to pass to his teammate a few strides back. But the pass is intercepted by a defenseman from the other team, because OF COURSE it is. So they went from a guaranteed scoring chance (a breakaway shot) to nothing. Pretty much sums up their season, in one play.

Here it is:


Considering all that, I think the whole debacle was completely deserving of having a big dick drawn all over it.

I think that's why light poles are designed to give way (not an engineer)---but again; how do you make such a large sign post "breakaway" and still have it support all that weight?

Whatever the failings of "auto driving" technology, I assume it would do better here than the human did...

For the Russia channel: 'You MAY post videos from any of the 15 former breakaway Soviet Republics'

If you look at the giant Ukraine flag on the wall, or if you look at the profile of the person who recorded it, you'll see it wasn't.

Still qualifies for the channel under your breakaway republics rule, though.

Russia Channel by Barseps

I may have bitten off a wee bit more than I can chew here, but hey ho, I'll give it a go. As the Russia/USSR thing is bound to be a bit confusing, I'll keep it down to 2 rules:-

(1)....You MAY post videos from any of the 15 former breakaway Soviet Republics, listed here:-

Sigh, I actually did this once. I didn't drive off with it in my car, but I pulled away without taking it out. There is a breakaway hose joint on them apparently, because it was completely intact and disconnected at this very deliberate looking area. I was completely embarrassed, so much so, that I couldn't even face the attendant (I was pretty young), I just coiled it up next to the pump and drove off. I think I am so crazy now I would mount it like a deer head.



But it makes a godawful sound, I can't imagine not noticing it and driving off into the sunset.

Poor doggy

Looks like the collar was a breakaway one, that's good. But I'm sure it still really hurt.

Nice. I have driven up and down different parts of 1-5, from LA to Vancouver, but never such a long trip in one go. Taking the coast is a slow slog. A cool route would be taking 101 north from SF to see the redwood and the coast, and then scooting back to 1-5 via 199 and Grants Pass.

Aside from the terrain, the night sky is stunning in the more isolated parts of 1-5. Driving around the Cali/Oregon boarder in summer months and seeing the milky way from a convertible is breathtaking.

Also, there's the State of Jefferson, which is cool.>> ^Yogi:

>> ^longde:
Take I-5 from SF to Portland. Some amazing scenery on that trip, especially it you're willing to go off track a little; and good beer at the end.

I've traveled from LA to Seattle by car 6 times in the last 6 months because moving to Seattle and visiting friends and such. Besides getting my time down to 17 hours for the trip I've seen some great stuff and I've never regretted driving even though I take the boring route. I want to do a Coastal Road journey next time...I think it'll be a lot of fun.

I went there last night, it was amazing. Occupy Oakland doubled and I saw many friends from my hometown of SF there in solidarity. Everyone was pretty jovial for having been brutalized by militarization the previous night. The cops did not show up but raided Occupy SF... which is not much of a story since Occupy SF seems to be non existent. Later on that night the guy with the PA announced they were going to SF, which I thought to be a bad move but it ended up turning into a break away march and hundreds of people started marching down Broadway a major street in Oakland.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOMRom8DLvY&feature=related > General Assembly in reoccupied park
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywmfHKCwKoQ > illegal breakaway march

Reporters are being killed in the conflict and part of the aim in these kinds of ethnic conflicts is to frighten the opposing ethnic group, so a sniper fucking with a reporter wouldn't necessarily be surprising. According to the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (wiki):

Four journalists were among hundreds killed in fighting between Russia and Georgia that began on 8 August 2008.

Cameraman Stan Storimans of Dutch television RTL-4 died and the station's Moscow correspondent was injured during Russian bombing of the Georgian town of Gori on 12 August, said Reporters Without Borders (RSF). Earlier in the day, RSF and the International News Safety Institute (INSI) reported that an unnamed Georgian reporter and his driver were killed when a shell hit their vehicle in Gori's main square.

One day earlier, Giga Chikhladze, head of Alania TV, and Alexander Klimchuk, head of the Caucasus Press Images agency and a correspondent for Itar-Tas, were killed in the breakaway republic of South Ossetia, apparently at a roadblock of pro-independence fighters.
Russian "Newsweek" reporter Orkhan Dzhemal said the journalists were attacked by South Ossetian militia after entering the conflict zone from Georgia, reported the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).

Siege-town Gori has become a deadly 'sniper's alley' with citizens at the mercy of rampaging militiamen - believed to be from the breakaway republic South Ossetia - looting and firing guns, some drunkenly.

On Sunday video footage caught reporters from two Turkish stations ducking and saying their last prayers as they were fired upon by Russian snipers.

One of the journalists was hit in the eye but his injuries are reportedly not thought to be life-threatening.

Gori, unlike South Osettia or Abkhazia, isn't a breakaway territory, it's a Georgian city populated by mostly Georgians. The equivalent would be Palestinians shooting their civilians within their controlled territory - it just doesn't make any sense.

My guess is either they weren't deliberately shooting civilians, they just happened to get caught in the near crossfire, or they might have not been Georgian troops at all, might as well have been Osettians.

He's echoing the Kremlin's political talking points memos.

Russia hopes to have it's cake and eat it too by bombing Georgia whilst universally opposing autonomy for breakaway regions all over the world because they don't want to encourage their own breakaway regions (Chechnya, Dagestan).

The thing with South Osettia (SO) is that their seperatists had been shelling Georgian villages for a couple of days before Georgians intervened with their bombardment & troops. After that, Russian forces, which had already been amassed on the border a month or so before that, immediately entered SO - airstrikes, tanks, you name it.

Now why Russia did that is probably unclear to most people that your side of the pond. They're saying they're protecting their "compatriots", a label Kremlin propaganda seems to be throwing around without exhaustion these days, from an aggressive state (Georgia), while Russia for the past couple of years has actually been handing out citizenship and Russian passports to anyone they could in SO (which is constitutionally a part of Georgia) - seems now they did that to just be able to invade.

>> ^Kerotan:
Dude, I know you're American, but just about every European news outlet is running the story.
Back to the video, I have to say, this makes me sick, the last thing the world needs is a sequel to chechnya, what disgusts me more is the fact the Russian population doesn't seem to care, and from a military standpoint they have nothing to worry about because Russian military > Georgian military, so he chance of a attack by georgia on Russian soil is some where between nil and zero.
Now for the lowdown as I have heard it, basically georgia functions as a sovereign state and all that, but there is a breakaway region that ignores national borders of Ossetia, with south Ossetia in georgia and the north in Russia, but both parts of Ossetia officially belong to their respective states.
This is where the water gets a little murky, Russia claims amongst other things that georgia was committing genocide in south ossetia, and that they had an obligation to the south Ossetians to protect them. The Georgians claim that Russia's attack was an unprovoked invasion.
So this is the point we are at currently, with Georgia declaring a state of war on Russia, while angling for a ceasefire/end to hostilities, and Russia quite clearly attacking civilians as you can see in the videos that are already appearing on the sift.
I am not one to usually jump the gun, but what the heck, I would place Russia in the wrong here, since some reports place Georgian dead at around 2000 people, and the way their country is run almost as a dictatorship by any other name.