Is there a point where a baby carriage bounces down a staircase in this film?

The bar on the truck's side looks like it came down after the other side. It looks almost like he started to go around the corner, saw the other gate, and stopped to back up. By that time, the gate had dropped behind the carriage over the truck bed. His options were to backup and break the gate, or go forward. Must have thought he could make it.

Of course, if there were lights flashing before the gate started to drop (as they all do around here), then yeah.. an idiot.

what, oh WHAT have they DONE to that poor Underwood Wide Carriage? i figured they got a wide carriage for this performance for more key stroke sounds per advancement... but it looks like they've removed/obstructed the drive belt, thus disabling carriage advancement. i hope what's been done to it can be reversed at a later time, otherwise they've destroyed a classic machine...

deep breath, and..... phew, i'm better now.

anyway, cool performance nonetheless!

Dalmatians can be very serious dogs in my experience. And strong. There's a reason that firemen like them. I'll have to look that up.

Some people really got themselves in over their heads after that 101 Dalmatians movie by Disney. "Oh, we'll get a puppy for each kid", right? In a year that was one hundred and twenty pounds of sinew and muscle, wanting to go outside.

[e:] Here's a passage from Wikipedia, 'for what it's worth':

Today the Dalmatian serves as a firehouse mascot but, back in the days of horse-drawn fire carts, they provided a valuable service. Dalmatians and horses are very compatible, so the dogs were easily trained to run in front of the carriages to help clear a path and quickly guide the horses and firefighters to the fires. The dogs were sometimes also used as rescue dogs to locate victims in burning structures. Dalmatians are often considered to make good watchdogs and it is believed that Dalmatians may have been useful to fire brigades as guard dogs to protect a firehouse and its equipment. Fire engines used to be drawn by fast and powerful horses, a tempting target for thieves. So, Dalmatians were kept in the firehouse as deterrence to theft. The horses have long since gone, but the Dalmatians, by tradition, have stayed.

I love it when people try to save lives by creating more horrific weapons.

Gatling and Nobel sitting in a tree,
K-I-L-L-I-N-G
First comes love,
Then comes marriage,
Then comes Oppenheimer in a baby carriage.

Dead video replaced. Baby carriage starts to roll at 3:11 on video.

Religious dogma? That's all you; has no relevance to my comment.

In larger cities, the time of the corner store with its banker's hours and three employees is at an end, just like the horse and carriage went away with the arrival of mass-produced cars.

50 years from now, you'll have a nano-machine in your office that can fabricate products, and someone will be bemoaning the "stomping out" of Wal-Marts and stores you had to travel to to get stuff.

Competition breeds progress and the consumer wins.

I am not saying I disagree with your overarching beliefs, but you present them in a terrible way.

1. No biologist, geneticist, virologist would say evolution is a fact. It is a theory. The same way GR, Quantum Mechanics, and LQCD are theories, it just happens to have a copious amount of supporting evidence. Ask Doc_M.

7. The Second Law of Thermodynamics, I think you mean. And what it really says it that disorder will increase (or stay the same, see Kittel) in a closed system. The earth is an open system, the number of particles for example can change, ergo, the second law need not apply.

Yeah, are a native english speaker? You should check out a word processing software like Word or WordPerfect. Something, please for the love of Choggie, delineate your thoughts with a carriage return.

Thanks, and happy sifting.

MH

i am not a big fan of arguments that start "like it or not"

i mean i am sure some of my ancestors were saying "like it or not, the king is the king, so we all must do what he says, and isn't it nice when he rides around in his golden carriage, at least we get a nice parade to look at"... and then some people said "fuck this" and we got parliamentary democracy.

Yaroslawb, you bring up utilitarianism, but you do not deliver an analysis based on it; you give us a straw-man argument about child nutrition, which I assume is not serious. I am not sure that a utilitarian analysis would support prohibition, but I would be interested to hear one that did. I am predisposed to legalization, so I am biased, but I would put it as follows.

First, a review. A good example of utilitarian thinking comes from Mr. Spock when he tells us, "the needs of the many outweigh the needs the few, or the one." This speech illustrates both the goal of utilitarianism, and its costs. Put another way, the classic scenario is: "You are standing at a train switch and a train is rushing down the tracks. A car is stalled on the tracks. If you do nothing, a family of five will be killed. However, if you pull the switch, the train will miss the car but hit an unattended baby carriage, killing the baby inside. What do you do?" Utilitarians kill the baby every time.

So let's apply this ethic to the drug problem. Heroin exists. Cocaine exists. Marijuana exists. Alcohol exists. These are the train coming down the tracks. We cannot wish the train away by making it "illegal", but we can affect society by doing so or not. So, which way should we send it to make sure the fewest people are hurt? Either way, we are going to have ugly elements in our society, including underachievers, child prostitutes, drug addicts, violent criminals and innocent victims. But how can we minimize this?

With criminalization, we attempt to force all individuals to never ingest, posses or essentially be in the presence of any number of "bad chemicals". If somebody does it anyway, we apply punishment on the grounds that our rules have been broken. I think this approach is totalitarian, and that that is almost always a bad thing. I could explain why, but we are talking about utilitarianism, which might conceivably accept totalitarian solutions (as the bearded Spock does).

With legalization, you argue that we will let the tigers loose among a population of innocents that are unable to defend themselves. And you are right, this will certainly be true in some cases--possibly in even more cases than we have right now. I happen to think not, but let's assume so--I suppose prohibitionists would argue that lower prices and legal availability would cause more people to experiment with addictive drugs--people who otherwise would not have. The question, from a utilitarian point of view, would be how much drug use would increase under legalization compared to the level of drug use we see now, plus the commonly cited side-effects of the drug war, such as incarcerated parents, incarcerated children, wealthy criminals, gang violence, polluted drugs, lost taxes, etc.

The facts as I understand them (many of which are cited in this video and in the posts above) when slotted into this type argument come down on the side of legalization, but that does not necessarily mean a totally laissez-faire approach. Regulation, education and treatment would keep the vast majority of people off drugs most of the time--at least when it matters. It is true that this approach will never result in zero drugs, while prohibition always _seems_ like it at least could someday result in zero drug use--in principle. However, I think that is an illusion, and a dangerous one because it makes legalization feel like surrender, which causes people to think irrationally on this topic.

And all this is still assuming that all recreational drug use is all bad all the time no matter what. This is essentially a moral position and might not be true either--especially from a utilitarian viewpoint (see also Bill Hicks)--but I do not think it is necessary to establish this either way when discussing the basic issue of legalization.

Show me a well managed private service! Do you never have to call the phone company or the bank? Is "The Office" all fiction or is it a perfect parody of a real problem in money driven enterprises?
You can't just say "there were problems in the USSR so that proves that free markets are the solution to everything!"

I don't think comparisons with the USSR are very valid, and I am sitting in Lithuania right now.

Fact remains that the free market is a perfect solution for 90% of stuff, and the other stuff is not possible with a free market.

Tell me how private enterprises are supposed to build multiple competing train lines and offer different carriages with different colours on them and how that is very "efficient". In the UK, the first thing the new train companies did was to repaint the stations and put fares up.

Tell me if we would all collectively subscribe voluntarily to a multitude of private armies to defend our country, and if that would be a good thing.

Tell me how amazingly wonderful Microsoft software is and how it should be the world's most popular operating system due to market forces.

Tell me why it's good to have advertising companies inventing elaborate half truths about products we don't need.

Tell me where the country full of sensible consumers making the right choices is.

Tell me how collective purchasing spontaneously happens without any government organisation. Tell me how it's fair that commercial companies operate in areas where labour is not only incentivised by money, but by human things like compassion and fun.

I, like you, would LOVE there to be a perfect solution like 100% free markets, but it just doesn't work like that in a real world with real people.

Thats on par with running a horse drawn carriage off the road and then having it explode. Worst special FX I've seen.

Dead video replaced. I believe this one is shorter, but it does show the baby carriage going down the steps.

anea, please keep your arms & legs inside the carriage at all times and do not unbuckle until the ride comes to a complete stop!

welcome!!

Quboid, it is not dangerous anymore. When I was there there are three trains doing that route daily. Only one of them has a passenger carriage, but all have the control cars.

Obviously you can ride in the ore cars, it is free but dirty.