It's like dangling dope in front of junkies only to snatch it away.

>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:

Baaaah.
I guess you're gonna vote for Obama and Goldman Sachs again this year as well?
>> ^Quboid:
This video is trying to tell me that EA remake the same shitty game that idiots buy over and over.
However, what it actually tells me is that the maker of this video is a hipster asshole who thinks his opinions are worth more than other people's, and who thinks because they don't like Call of Honour, then people who do are simple minded, gullible sheep. This asshole is so full of his or her own opinion that anyone who disagrees must have fallen for EA's evil marketing because anyone actually thinking independently would surely have the same opinion as them, as they're so fucking special; they're the only sane person.
EA, Activision and Ubisoft do produce many shitty games and are involved in underhanded tactics like buying reviews. However, that doesn't mean all their games suck and it doesn't mean people who like an EA game, even an uninnovative sequel, are wrong. The implication that we should all follow what this guy thinks (or if you prefer, independently come to the same conclusion) would make us sheep.



What? You know this is a video about EA, not a political thing, right? I can assure you I am not going to vote for Obama or Goldman Sachs this year but this has zero to do with me thinking this guy is a prick for setting himself up as some sort of superior being.

If the video just criticised EA's game production system and how it results in a massive lack of innovation, and how PC gamers tend to get shafted, fine. I agree. But this guy implies that players who buy the latest FIFA, Battlefield or whatever are fools and that's insulting. I bought BF3 because I liked BF:BC2, not because something shiny was dangled in front of me and not because IGN gave it good marks. Likewise, I bought FIFA12 because I played FIFA11 lots and even though little has changed, I've still got many, many times as much gameplay from it than I've got from most other games from developers and publishers big and small.

My complaint isn't that poor little EA don't deserve the criticism. My complaint is that he seems to think people who don't share his opinion must be fools.

Pffft, jja is a one trick hack who can never deliver anything worth while, because all he cares about is having a carrot dangling over people who pay to watch him dangling it while adding more lens flares.

>> ^messenger:

Question for experienced cat owners:
I love playing like this with kittens, especially encouraging them to bite me because I like how it tickles, and I find it cute how ineffectual it is. I've also heard that doing that trains cats to bite people whenever they play, a habit which they retain into adulthood and become those annoying cats that bite your guests. Is that really true, or is it just in the personality of the cat whether they'll bite as an adult?
Thanks!


I don't think it has anything to do with it. I have two twin cats, and both are total opposites. One seems to know that claws and teeth hurt, so when I play with her she keeps the claws tucked and doesn't bite hard if it's just my hand. If I dangle a string or some paper in front of her though, she'll shred the crap out of it. The other isn't into playing. If I dangle toys in front of her, she doesn't give a crap, but if I leave a toy mouse on the floor and leave the room, she'll go at it. If I come back in the room and she sees me, she stops playing and acts like nothing was going on.

They both like to sit in my lap. The one that seems to know claws hurt doesn't use her claws when she makes biscuits on my leg, but the other one really digs in and I have to put something on my lap.

It's a false choice between what you're saying and what Romney is saying. I recently "fired" Comcast and switched to Verizon for internet and cable. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Do I want to see Comcast employees get fired per se? No. Messing with their livelihoods? No. But they did have crap customer service, and they screwed with me on my bill.

That's what Romney is talking about. He's talking about the freedom to fire those who aren't providing adequate service.

This is the posterchild of why these kinds of quotes piss me off. He never intended it to be that he gets kicks by firing the average person. He was talking about liking to have the ability to fire his health care provider if they don't provide adequate service. The ONLY ways that interpretation can be made is if you're partisan, or hear it being taken completely out of context. Meanwhile, what's missed is honestly a potentially good point made by Romney that there are advantages to keeping health care in the private sector that's worth discussing further. Why not actually talk about that idea more in depth?! No, let's just plaster Romney's big gaffe, talk about it being a gaffe, why it's a gaffe, blah blah blah. It's idiotic.

Look, I'm not pro-Romney, and I know the Romney camp does the same thing to Obama. I just hate it when anyone does it because it impedes an honest exchange of ideas. I very very sincerely doubt Romney wants to fire people for record profits strictly. The simple fact of the matter is a business can't exist long term unless they're profitable. I get really sick and tired of people throwing his time at Bain as a job liquidator as if it's a bad thing. Did he accomplish what the business plan was very well? Yes. That's an asset because he clearly is competent in that regard. Does that mean he'll be a good President? Not necessarily because gov't doesn't and shouldn't run like a business, because it's chief goal isn't profit. I'd look more at his record as Governor of MA for more about that.

I just wonder... what happened to honesty?

>> ^VoodooV:

Why do they have to cover up what they really think?
When your policies simply don't reflect reality and you have to obfuscate and sugercoat what you really want in order to not be laughed out of the campaign. I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that what you want isn't what the rest of the world wants.
So yeah, I'm going to go out on a limb and say:
- I DON'T like to fire people.
- I DON'T like fucking with people's livelihoods.
- I DON'T like dangling the threat of poverty and throwing people out onto the streets as a method making them conform to what I want.
- I DON'T like seeing people get more and more worse off while I see record profits.

True. I do have to agree that even out of context it's not that horrible. It's just more of the same. I actually feel bad for them.

They constantly have to cover up how the really feel about stuff and sugar coat it because what they really want would completely shift the world away from the republicans, assuming that isn't happening already.

"I hate poor people because I honestly believe poor people are only poor because they're lazy" gets translated into "coddling them isn't helping them"

"I'm a greedy fucker and I don't care that if income was distributed more equally, I'd still be extremely well off, but we'd *all* live better lives. I got mine, so fuck you." gets translated into "Don't tax the job creators"

When you constantly have to cover up how you really feel about stuff because you KNOW that would turn more people away. Maybe it's time to re-evaluate how you think stuff should work.

If it really is a Christian nation as they like to claim, why do they have to hide it? Why DON'T we have more religion in the public sector if that's really what everyone wants?

If these people really were merely responding to the will of the people as our elected officials are supposed to do. Why do they have to cover up what they really think?

When your policies simply don't reflect reality and you have to obfuscate and sugercoat what you really want in order to not be laughed out of the campaign. I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that what you want isn't what the rest of the world wants.

So yeah, I'm going to go out on a limb and say:

- I DON'T like to fire people.
- I DON'T like fucking with people's livelihoods.
- I DON'T like dangling the threat of poverty and throwing people out onto the streets as a method making them conform to what I want.
- I DON'T like seeing people get more and more worse off while I see record profits.

I was going to say something crass and sarcastic about Marvel comics getting Spiderwoman's breast size wrong, but then she was dangling, one-handed, off a chunk of sandstone I could crush with my bare hand and I was like .

I can't find a video, but the Canadian Navy lands in weather worse than that because of a very simple toy (that you yanks refuse to adopt because you didn't come up with it).

The helicopter dangles a strong cable, with a hook up, about 10 metres long. Ship's crew feeds the cable to a winch, pilot gives full up-lift while the winch drags him down. Perfect landing every time. The nickname for the device is a Bear Trap, but I'm not sure if that's the official name.

>> ^deathcow:

contrast with
http://videosift.com/video/The-extreme-limits-for-landing
-helicopters-on-moving-ships

A lot of the features people seem to think would improve C are the features that would completely defeat the purpose of the language. Adding object-oriented features would add overhead (and OO features can be imitated through coding techniques anyway). Adding exception handling adds HUGE overhead. Adding garbage collection, like Java? Ridiculous amount of overhead. Methods for catching dangling references: more overhead. Pretty much anything you do add is going to degrade the language for its specific purpose.

Now if you can afford to handle some of that overhead, you have C++ as an alternative, which was made to introduce some of those extra features, yet still maintain its speed. And this is what many projects do. The Linux kernel needs to be as fast and efficient as possible, and so it uses C. On the other hand, there are desktop environments like KDE that use C++ instead to take advantage of those extra features and aren't as concerned with raw speed considering the environment they run in. And this continues all the way up to higher level languages.

As for insecurities and bugs, there is no reason to blame the language. Even in the hands of a good programmer, any language is a liability. Java is the perfect example, due to its enormous adoption in the early 2000s. There are TONS of Java programs out there that are insecure, buggy, and error-prone, and yet one of the goals of the language was to minimize this. Is it easier to make these mistakes in C? Of course! But it's nonetheless a necessity in the programming world.

Just take a look at the Linux kernel. It's written ENTIRELY in C, and yet it's certainly more stable and secure than the Windows kernel, which is a combination of C and C++. (And go ahead and suggest to Linus Torvalds that it should be switched to C++ or some other "more modern" language. He'll give you a nice 10 page essay on why you're wrong.)

Oh, to add to that, most of the drivers written for your computer are written in C.

The point is that C is most definitely NOT past its prime, and in fact due to the embedded systems industry, it's getting a resurgence.

Issykitty might scale a wall if you dangled a pair of cute shoes in front of her. >> ^Lawdeedaw:

Is this @Issykitty? Meow, meow, here Issy...here girl... Laser pointer.

Also, it's important to check out the Youtube comments and the video uploader's description. If you did that, you'd know his non-dying performances outweigh his dying performances. Someone did all that work and now you don't need to: http://www.compleatseanbean.com/deathbycow.html

HE DIES IN:
Airborne - bye bye Toombs
Caravaggio - Rannuccio gets his throat slashed
Clarissa - Lovelace is skewered by Sean Pertwee
Don't Say a Word - Patrick Koster is buried alive
Equilibrium - Death by Poetry - Partridge is blasted away by Christian Bale while reading Yeats
Essex Boys - Jason Locke meets a nasty end in a Range Rover
Far North - Loki is frozen. Naked. In the snow. A chilling end if there ever was one.
The Field - the infamous Death by Cow - Tadgh falls over a cliff, pursued by a herd of stampeding cows
GoldenEye - Alec Trevelyan falls a long way down and is crushed by a satellite dish thing
Henry VIII - Robert Aske meets a gruesome end
The Island - Death by Clone. Merrick is shot in the throat by a nasty grabber thingy with a sharp
hook and a cable that gets wrapped around his neck, and while he's struggling with Lincoln
Six-Echo, the catwalk they're on collapses, and Merrick ends up dangling by the neck. Currently
the most creative dispatch of Sean's career. Definitely well hung.
The Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King) - Death
by Orc. Boromir. Arrows. Need I say more?
Lorna Doone - Carver Doone drowns
Outlaw - Dead Dead Dead. Was there ever any question? Dead.
Patriot Games - Sean Miller is beaten up, boathooked and finally blown up by Harrison Ford
Scarlett - Lord Fenton is dispatched
Tell Me That You Love Me - Gabriel Lewis is stabbed by Laura. Or he stabs himself. We're not
quite sure about this one, actually.
The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion - Death by summoning a god's avatar. Martin Septim (the son of the Emperor, aka The Lost Heir) meets his X-Box end when he attempts to save the world.
The Hitcher - Surely you jest. You need to ask? (There were two different versions filmed. He dies
in both of them.)
War Requiem - The German Soldier dies, but returns in the afterlife


HE LIVES IN:
(Leo Tolstoy's) Anna Karenina
A Woman's Guide to Adultery
The Big Empty
The Bill
Black Beauty
Bravo Two Zero
Exploits at West Poley
Extremely Dangerous
Faceless
The Fifteen Streets
Flightplan
Fool's Gold
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
In the Border Country
Inspector Morse: Absolute Conviction
Jacob
Lady Chatterley
The Loser
My Kingdom for a Horse
National Treasure (But only because of a rewrite. In an early version
of the the script Ian Howe got eaten by alligators in the subways of
New York. Really. Honest. I wouldn't lie to you. I wouldn't.)
North Country
Percy Jackson (Zeus is more or less an immortal so death seems a bit
redundant, really...)
The Practice
Pride
Prince
Punters
Ronin
Samson & Delilah
Sharpe (14 films)
Sharpe's Challenge
Shopping
Silent Hill
Small Zones
Stormy Monday
Tom & Thomas
Troubles
The Canterbury Tales - The Nun's Priest's Tale
The Dark
The True Bride
The Vicar of Dibley
Troy
Wedded
When Saturday Comes
Windprints
Winter Flight

Major Theatrical Performances:
Macbeth ... Yes. He dies. And gets his head impaled on a spike.
Romeo & Juliet... What do you think?
Fair Maid of the West ... Spencer doesn't die!

Someone is probably dangling a fake mouse or more probably, another cat is batting him once he gets close. There is something he wants right over that barrel, something far more important than not getting wet.

Okay, you want to take it to the next hyperbolic stage? How about a more appropriate comparison that is on your level?

If I put a gun to your head, and say, "Rape your own children or I'll kill you," then by golly I wonder what you would do.

If you come across me dying of thirst in the desert, and you say "I'll rescue you, as long as you give me your house," I would say "Fuck yeah! Why the fuck did I end up in this stupid desert (Job) to begin with!"

I say those are all bullshit examples you shot back--and that my responses are just as bullshitty. But that aside, this is more a societal problem than an individual problem. Because everyone clings desperately to the meager jobs that corporations dangle in front of us with like carrots...

>> ^NetRunner:

>> ^Lawdeedaw:
Forced is a misrepresentation too. Not to focus on the small, but you are not forced to work for Target, so therefore you are not forced to watch this.
If I put a gun to your head, and say "sing me a lullabye, or I'll kill you," I'm not forcing you to do anything, you have a choice.
If I come across you dying of thirst in the desert, and I say "I'll rescue you, as long as you give me your house," I'm not forcing you to do anything, you have a choice.
If I say "watch this video or you're fired", I'm not forcing you to do anything, you have a choice.
I say all of those statements are false, and for the same reason. Coercion is being applied every time. The last one is certainly the least intense form, but it's coercion just the same.
And when unemployment is at its worst in most people's lifetimes, there's not a real big difference between the 2nd and 3rd scenarios, especially for people who were making their living working at Target when times were good.

I thought it was just dangling from a thin wire, I never looked at the info until now as I was thinking in my head it would be cool if it used magnets to levitate. BUT that's exactly what it is, that's damn cool. DAMN NEAT DAMN COOL.

HURRUH for everyone, we all win.

He also had the help of special shoes and floor riggings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smooth_Criminal#Anti-gravity_lean

>> ^lucky760:

For those who don't get it, I welcome you out from under your rock, and this is what he's trying to imitate:

Obviously MJ pulled it off with much better showmanship, but that goes for everything MJ did (including dangling babies).