i can NOT believe this was EIGHT years ago



holy cow the years are passing by quickly...

Eight years and you do that. fuck. Jackass.

Whom am I talking to ?

I don't make Waffles because I need to use that silly machine. Why would I ever want to use this thing - what they don't tell you here, is they overflow and drip out the sides -- all over your burners....
I use a regular Teflon griddle, wipe minimal oil on with a paper towel, and have no issues flipping anything.

Talk about trying to sell people things we don't need.

Oh, and that thing limits you to four at a time, I can make up to eight at a time, because I don't have restrictions..., not to mention little ones and big ones...

MUSKEGON COUNTY, Mich. — A Norton Shores man was arrested Sunday after leading police on a chase on his moped.

Norton Shores Police were dispatched to a home on Reneer Avenue west of Leon Street after Richard Shear, 28, allegedly threatened his mother and girlfriend with a sledgehammer and a knife and tried to set the house on fire.

Sources tell FOX 17 that the suspect’s mother called police after he threatened her with the weapons.

He`s accused of threatening his girlfriend too, but she told FOX 17 that never happened.

Sources also tell FOX 17 Shears attempted to light the house on fire by pouring gasoline on his landscaping then throwing a candle.

They say he also slashed an SUV’s tire before hopping on the moped and fleeing.

As FOX 17 took a closer look at the incident, we learned Shear has a history of drunk driving arrests, but we’re told he is also seeking help for mental health issues.

We’re told Shear, just like many other servicemen and women, suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), a result of his time spent serving overseas in Iraq during his eight years in the Marines.

Those close to him tell us he has been struggling with PTSD, abusing alcohol to prevent dealing with the deep seeded issues and hitting rock bottom on Sunday.

Police say the chase ended back at Shear’s home when he tried running back inside but was arrested by police.

His bond has been set at $100,000.

http://fox17online.com/2014/10/27/man-on-moped-leads-muskegon-co-law-enforcement-on-low-speed-chase/

The Washington State Patrol is dismissing speeding tickets issued to drivers near Cashmere last Tuesday and Wednesday because as many as eight police officers blasted through a speed trap there without being cited.
Full story: http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/102d6fe5c5504380876898d56acb3ed6/WA--Speeding-Tickets-Tossed

I'm back!!!

Slaves? Yep
Job discrimination? Hell yeah/
Depiction of victim as criminal? You bet your goddamn arse

We done yet?

Don't get me wrong, racism, particularly against blacks, is still an issue in the US (and other parts of the world). But maybe next time read a history book or two before spouting such utter drivel.

And if you really want to get into an oppression contest...
African slavery started a few hundred years ago.
The Irish have had EIGHT HUNDRED YEARS* of oppression by the English, and I haven't even touched on the godawful misery the Jews have endured for thousands of years.

But that's a meaningless pissing contest and it only leads to idiocy.

* I am culturally obliged to write that in all caps. Sorry, it's an Irish thing.

@leebowman - Apologies. We never censor anyone on VideoSift, except for spam, and that is the case here. The system mistakenly detected your high level of activity immediately after sign-up as being from a possible spammer, and it tried to redact any potential spam.

All your comments have been restored and you've been white-listed so the system will never again mistake you for a spammer. Obviously, we encourage new users to participate, but being inundated by spammers over the years has required our automated spam-detection thresholds to be rather strict. (This kind of false positive has happened maybe twice before in eight years.)

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I listen to this everymorning while I make 16 loaves of bread and eight pies. Hurruh for music and the 90s.

No one made a conscious decision to run him over? Okay, lets say a cop pulls a gun and his foot slips a bit, and he fires the gun accidentally straight into the pickpocket. You yourself imply that now the analogy is equal...

But even if it is not even, this is what it boils down to:
A completely incompetent driver, worse than a 90 year old blind man with chronic seizures, is out there driving. That is pretty evident and only an idiot would disagree with the video showing overwhelming proof. Therefore, this woman should NEVER, EVER drive. I would have hated that to be some seven-eight year old kid that she "did not see."

At the same time I understand @ChaosEngine, even if I somewhat disagree with him. The car could have easily crushed his head like a melon, left him a vegetable for the state to take of forever, and the funny part of that is even a rapist doesn't get that sentence. Obviously everyone here is for corporal punishment and the death penalty--if you believe this "karma" punishment is appropriate.

Come on. You know it is really eight years....

@bareboards, I hardly knew ye....

Tesla goes full circle and gives the finger to patents: http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you

Seeing as I have been "lobbying" for massive patent/copyright reform for almost eight years now, I feel obliged to buy Elon Musk a case of beer should I ever run into him.

These things are all the rage at my gym here in Japan (they have about 7 or eight of them next to the treadmills). Unfortunately the only people I ever see using them are 60-year old grandmas LOL!

Frick. Eight years. Not including beginning months of lurking.

Thanks for all the good times and not so good times, VS!

"The dog, identified by local news station KERO as an eight-month-old Labrador and Chow mix"
Sorry, folks, that's part of the problem right there.., Chow. These dogs are skittish and will attack for no reason at all.
My wife was bitten in the face, across her eye, by one at a friends place, for trying to move it off the bed in the night. The dog himself, is a great dog, a family dog. but you just can't trust him one hundred per cent of the time. which is unfortunate. You just learn to move extra slow around him. (not to mention, putting him outside when small kids come over).

I don't think anyone's advocating forced population control here.

I only think that people are advocating that a greater emphasis on family planning be incorporated into your prescription for everyone to "control his own activities and teach his neighbor the virtues of his infinitely sustainable choices."

Doing this too fast would be demographic suicide for a lot of complicated reasons, I don't think anyone is denying that, but a very significant organic reduction over the course of a few centuries would be beneficial for humanity and could be reasonably attained. It's certainly less far-fetched than mass colonization of Mars or Venus in the same timeframe.

And that's an important distinction here. We aren't really concerned about the environment here. We're concerned about what's best for us.

The environment is going to shrug us off and incorporate all our plastic, CO2, and evidence of narrowing biodiversity into a few more strata and continue doing its thing. It has survived mass extinctions before.

It's ridiculous to think that we can even destroy the environment. Our population size and its destructive effects would be reduced to insignificance long before we hit a point of no return and the biosphere's existence is even slightly threatened.

We should be framing the argument in terms of how to achieve an environmental equilibrium in which humanity can live in a comfortable and humane manner.

I think we're a lot closer to a point of no return with regards to achieving that goal.

For my money I'd say that exponential population growth isn't pointing us in that direction, and living - as I do - in a rapidly modernizing "second world" country tells me that bringing all eight billion of us to affluence too quickly poses its own significant dangers.

Let's not forget that this videos two main points are that we are demonstrably in a period of exponential growth, and that exponential growth from the limited perspective of the inside can be deceptive. Points of no return that seem far away are in fact very close.