No roller rinks? There are a good 2 if no 3 or so within a 30 minute drive, and I live far out in the country where I can't even get pizza delivery because we're too far from anything. This is basically Laser Tag with VR goggles and was bound to happen sooner or later given how well Oculus and other VR outfits are working, or at least appear to be working. I'd guess the props are all lightweight foam to prevent injury. The motion tracking is the question, and I got to doubt it works as well as shown. We are still far from say the VR of Ready Player One or more advanced stuff yet though...

Beared is dyed orange for something about 'Wear something Orange today to support the 10,000 Marylanders with MS!'.

Product placment is pretty suspicious. Is that a pillow or a bag? He also mentions McD's in another report http://youtu.be/NnOY0ODuK34

Although the attention gained may be a tiny bit offset by McDs trying to get away from obesity and poor health food image. Jimmy does not look like the peek of health and fitness. Its easy to infer his McDs diet is a contributing factor. Although im sure the publicity he gives them far out ways this.

"Some day we're going to have to nuke a comet"

No.

Nuking a comet is probably the worst thing you can do to try and divert its path. At best the nuke would shatter the comet and not divert its path, meaning instead of one huge comet intersecting the earth you now have many, many huge comets intersecting the earth.

There are alternative methods out there that will nudge a comet when it is far out, avoiding the "blow it up" mentality the laymen seems to think is prevalent.

You're really far out!

@ChaosEngine
thats the thing though,there is no longer a debate.this man has made the argument that nutrition far out ranks genetics or environment.

he has the data.
50 years of it.

i posted a related video that has 24 votes.
now grant you,the speaker is far more entertaining BUT that speaker uses much of this mans data,in conjunction with his own,to make the case.

i am not a vegan nor a vegetarian but due to evidence like this i have become far more aware of what i put in my mouth.so i am not posting to promote veganism but when the data is THAT compelling?
logic dictates we should incorporate the new data.

i guess i just dont understand the resistance.
one video on the same subject 24 votes.
this one? 2 upvotes and 1 downvote.

maybe this video is just boring.data can be boring.
ah well..i posted for sniper anyways.
so in the end it doesnt matter.

the data is in and now we know.what we choose to do with that information is a personal choice.

Yes, that's kinda the point.
Per capita, BC doesn't have enough seats. We are far out weighed by Quebec and Ontario. And unfortunately, they don't care about what our opinions are. We vote differently than them in every way,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_alienation_in_Canada

Also, Ontario gets more seats than BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba Combined.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Canadian_federal_electoral_districts

Ocker

I couldn't catch which station he claimed he was at either, but here's the transcript of the rest:

00:01: All right, I've just parked? out at ?? station, and I've just been watching this willy willy forming
00:08 (laughs) Check that out, that's one of the bigest ones I've seen in a few years
00:12 That is absolute dare-devil status right there
00:18 Far out, that is grouse
00:21 F#?'n run into this thing
00:24 Woo hoo, Jesus Christ, That is huge!
00:30 That is absolutely huge
00:40 #?$?#?
01:06 Oh my god

Far out, though I wish they'd have sampled Locomotive Breath ... (man)

For anyone that hasn't followed what this is about...

For the problems itemized in this video.
Loss of :
- power brake assist
- airbags
- power steering.

This affair was actually about 1 specific issue :
The detent in the key socket rotator was not as strong as it should have been.

What that specifically meant was that :
IF you had a large heavy keychain on your key, and you jerked it, or knocked it such that it swings hard, the keychain could pull on the key hard enough to turn the key to the OFF position.

So when the car would turn off, you'd lose the power brakes, power steering, and airbags would be inactive.

Under "normal" circumstances, this wasn't a problem.
But for the folks with a christmas tree hanging off of their key, it was a chance to turn off their car while driving.

(side note : Crying about the power steering and power brakes really misses the big issue : The steering lock can kick in while moving... which apparently no one gave enough of a crap about to think for the 2 seconds it takes to notice that elephant in the room)



In this case, the contention over whether or not the core problem with the key socket was negligence boils down to semantics.

Car companies buy their parts from sub contractors.
They spec out the parts, and sub contractors manufacture the parts 'to spec'.

The spec isn't a 'hard' requirement.
If you say "5 Newtons of force", that doesn't mean that 4.999999999999123 Newtons is unacceptable.

Actually, it's standard for ~all parts to not be exactly the spec. They just have to be 'close enough to work right'.

And for that matter, many of the numbers in various specs are 'off the cuff' values that are 'generally known to work fine'. Getting hung up on a specific number isn't salient - what matters is 'does it work right?'.

So the question becomes, what is "good enough to work right?".
In practice, that ends up being a judgment call. Often made by engineers that try out the parts.


Here's where congress and GM differed.

Congress said : The ignition socket wasn't 100% exactly what GM had in the spec that they sent to the subcontractors, so it was wrong from day 1, and they knew it wasn't 100% the spec since pre-production. Hence, GM was negligent.

GM said : Of course it wasn't 100% exactly the spec. That was to be expected. At the time, we had no indication that the actual provided part was so far out of spec that it would not work right.


My personal take :
If this was something as simple as 'actual malfunctions/breakages of parts', then it would be black and white.
But in these cases, nothing was actually broken or malfunctioning.
So you had to rely on statistics and analysis to identify the issue.
Statistics require data, data requires evidence, evidence requires time to collect.
Seeing as how the vast majority of cars had no problem, this isn't the kind of thing that just leaps out at you.

Since any given car, when made in massive quantities, will have all kinds of multiple complaints about multiple systems, you can't just go back and point at incident(s) X and Y and say that it was the smoking gun - because if it was, then you'd have a pile of smoking guns for every other part out there.
Every instance of every part has a small chance of going bad, and with enough cars, you'll have a lot of 'item A went bad' reports to sift through.
You can't jump to the conclusion after the first couple reports that the part is improper, and it's unrealistic to expect anyone to immediately make that conclusion.
In order to make an informed determination, you simply need a pattern to emerge.

(I listened to the CSPAN coverage of the hearings while driving.)

-scheherazade

Other side of the plane has a cone directly in front of it and another not so far out. Right side, guy walking along is kicking two pylons and one gets sucked into the engine it looks like to me.

Not sure I see the point in sticking cones right up against the engines...you're not really creating a barrier. Unless it's just a way for them to make sure the plane isn't or hasn't moved forward.

Wow, so many of these people are so far out of touch with reality.
It's not a choice to work at Wall Mart - It's a last resort. If people had other options, they wouldn't be there. Few people chose to live in poverty

And Who cares about the cheap prices that Wal Mart is able to give. It's self serving. The largest employer keeps it's employees poor so they have no choice but to shop at their own store, which in turn just gives their wages back to employers. Sure other people reap the benefits of some cheap stuff, but let's stay real. It's cheap because the quality is often lowered to meet the competitive contracts targeted for manufacturers to be able to be Walmart's choice product. Nothing bought at WalMart lasts more than a year or two, you always end up re-buying it. So where is the cheap affordability now?

And while Wall Mart works hard to choke out the competition so they can raise their prices on certain products, their merchandising does the same thing. They only target certain manufacturers and give then the lion's share of the merchandising space on their shelves. Selection at Wal Mart is Slim. They are great at choosing your brands for you. The companies that play ball with WalMart. I have better selection on items at non department stores. Case in point Groceries. They have great prices on certain grocery items, but I don't have any choice on the brands I'm buying. And sooner or later, I'll still need to go to the grocery store, because WalMart just can't give me what I need to stock my kitchen with the basics. My Wall Mart doesn't even sell large bags of sugar.

This won't work for me personally with a wife and kids, but I'm impressed by the idea. I think the concept was born out of the desperate need for affordable housing in metropolitan Vancouver BC, where housing prices put even the most modest house far out of reach for most families.

"Historically, Western cities have had a housing-to-income ratio of around three. In Vancouver in 2011, that ratio hit 10.6; the median house cost 10.6 times the median income. Only Hong Kong was less affordable, with a ratio of 12.6."

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/01/23/canada-house-prices-vancouver-2nd-least-affordable_n_1224207.html

however else...far out.

The centre gap = 6 points.
The two outside gaps = 1 point.
Hitting a post = 1 point.

Catching the ball without a bounce = a mark (you get to hold play and take your time to dispose of the ball without contest).

The 50m line is just a marker to show you how far out you are, it has no signifigance other than that.

FAR OUT MAN!