Interesting, but hitting a pole headfirst at 90mph and not dying instantly would be a miracle. JFK "died" at the hospital, though I'll bet his perception and life functions ended about the time his skull landed in his wife's lap. I was only trying to clear up a common misconception. Thanks for the extra knowledge.

In reply to this comment by Payback:
just a quick rebuttal fyi, in BC, Doctors, Registered Nurses, Registered Psychiatric Nurses and Licenced Practical nurses can pronounce death, although there is no legal reason to do so. The only legal demand of the process is that a death certification be made within 48 hours. It would be negligent imho if there wasn't at least a nurse present. I believe it is an IOC requirement.

just a quick rebuttal fyi, in BC, Doctors, Registered Nurses, Registered Psychiatric Nurses and Licenced Practical nurses can pronounce death, although there is no legal reason to do so. The only legal demand of the process is that a death certification be made within 48 hours. It would be negligent imho if there wasn't at least a nurse present. I believe it is an IOC requirement.

In reply to this comment by rgroom1:
just a quick fyi, only a medical doctor can pronounce someone as dead. The only time that anyone else can is if there is positively no chance of survival. He probably died on impact with that pillar, but he can't be pronounced dead until a doctor sees him.

In reply to this comment by Payback:
He didn't die during the video, only due to injuries which occured.

This is playing all over the news, we will not be stopping anything by killing it.

Well that didn't last long... *dead


Err..referring to the IOC copyright youtube claim..not the...oh dear

One IOC member said that trying to get through Chicago's airport security was terrible.

http://boingboing.net/2009/10/02/olympic-committee-me.html

So perhaps we owe the loss of the Olympics to... the Patriot act? .... and? .... Ding ding ding!
The former administration? Oh!!.... tell me what I win.

One IOC member said that trying to get through Chicago's airport security was terrible.

http://boingboing.net/2009/10/02/olympic-committee-me.html

So perhaps we owe the loss of the Olympics to... the Patriot act? .... and? .... Ding ding ding!
The former administration? Oh!!.... tell me what I win.

In reply to this comment by demon_ix:Pointless masturbation was your expression. I'm not against CGI in general, I'm just saying in this particular video, using CGI would make a completely unremarkable video, while using Lego blocks made a unique and awesome video.

Why? The effects of the video are cool enough regardless of being constructed of lego. If someone made this video with CG, with say like 200 hrs of hard work, you'd say it was worthless? WTF is wrong with you? Let see you make a video this cool with CG.

I can and have. I say that to me it doesn't matter if any records were broken in the production of the video, since that's not how I measure if the video is good or not. You keep hanging on to the tiny technicalities and thus miss the entire point of what I'm trying to say.

No, the whole point of what you're trying to say is that you "feel" it is important to make this with Lego. Well, guess what buddy, what you "feel" doesn't mean very much. You need to support it with reasoning. You'd make a terrible critic if all you can say is that you "feel" something is right.

For the last time. The car analogy was simply to illustrate how using a shortcut would invalidate the entire endeavor.

And for the last time, it was a shitty analogy. It doesn't work. I've repeatedly stated why your analogy doesn't work, and you've repeatedly failed to address my critism. If you're just going to conveniently ignore questions that you can't answer, what is the point of me talking to you? I might as well be talking to a stubborn 12 year old.

The sift may not care about regulation blocks, or other made up rules that you use to define athletics for yourself, but there are rules to this here siftage. While I don't consider myself a part of the Digg community, and thus don't care one bit what they vote up or down, I do consider myself myself to be a part of this community, and thus care about what gets sifted up or not.

Made up rules that I use to define athletics for myself? You mean the sport of sprinting as defined by the International Olympic Committee that the whole world recognizes? Hey, basketball must be some silly made up rules that I personal use to define athletics right?

And You must be deluded if you're comparing the sift to the IOC. This is worse than your Usain Bolt analogy. The sift is a tiny slice of the internet, and the members get to choose what videos get shown on the sift. It's a community forum where people gather to show and tell the cool things they found on the net. And just like any other public forum or gathering, there are rules, but that hardly makes it the same as the regulatory body of a sport. The authors of the videos themselves don't even have to know or care about the sift, and the sift in turn, have no power over them. You must be far deep in denial or really desperate if you're grasping at such tenous strings to mend your broken analogy.

>> ^joedirt:
He's banned, screw it, is only 2 weeks. None of this post-humourous siftquisition. If lucky or dag are annoyed enough to ban you then live with it, otherwise leave blankfist a profile comment and he will whine until his imaginary Super Friends take care of things.
And, fail troll fails. I'm glad you lrn2 use IMG tag, but you still are a fail troll. Keep posting it places and maybe some day.. someone will think you are clever.


>> ^joedirt:


"I can't see out this idea is not a blatant violation of the rules if you do go ahead with Upvote Everything Day (TM)"

"Hey faggots, you are clearly violating many of the rules that have caused people to be banned. I am requesting a siftquisition for anyone who takes part in such behavior as blanket upvoting other submissions, especially in a reciprocal nature."

"ban... You better hope everyone else agrees with you, cause the good thing here at least is that one person cannot ban you."

"...you encourage folks to test boundaries, abuse the voting system, and get Siftbot a gold star all in the name of good fun."

>> ^joedirt:


"I can't see out this idea is not a blatant violation of the rules if you do go ahead with Upvote Everything Day (TM)"

"Hey faggots, you are clearly violating many of the rules that have caused people to be banned. I am requesting a siftquisition for anyone who takes part in such behavior as blanket upvoting other submissions, especially in a reciprocal nature."

"ban... You better hope everyone else agrees with you, cause the good thing here at least is that one person cannot ban you."

"...you encourage folks to test boundaries, abuse the voting system, and get Siftbot a gold star all in the name of good fun."

@kulpims, thanks! Any sifters out there with some knowledge of languages obscure enough (preferably with a non-Latin alphabet) to fool the IOC/Chinese/YT?

Talking about a photo finish... Anyway, I do think the Chinese won the Olympic medal for having vid's removed from the interwebs. Please, IOC, I just want to enjoy those moments again and again and again until it turns out the winners have to be disqualified ;-).

>> ^Oblyvious:
Who cares. The IOC approved it, China approved it. You would have done the same thing if you were trying to promote your country wouldnt you?
Are there no more important issues to read about then someone lip syncing?


I care and no I wouldn't have. The actual little girl is very cute and was shamefully robbed of her opportunity to display her voice in front of the world. Sure there are more important things to read about, but I happened to come across this and my opinion on the matter is "Shame on them".

Who cares. The IOC approved it, China approved it. You would have done the same thing if you were trying to promote your country wouldnt you?

Are there no more important issues to read about then someone lip syncing?

The funny thing is that the mask's they were wearing are allowed by the IOC. That means that the athletes are allowed to wear them during the games events that they are participating in if they so decide to.

This narrow highway's vulnerability was one of the factors that the IOC was seriously questioning during the bid process.

Still, compared to the crazy Beijing smog, a wee little rockslide doesn't seem as bad... though isolating the two venues (the alternate route is like a 6 to 8 hour drive in a big detour/loop along a poorly maintained road) would definitely but a hamper on things.

Fingers crossed everything holds steady for 2010.

Iraq was banned because of the Iraq war started by the US of A, that's what I was hinting at.

IOC is a highly political organ, which values politics higher than sportsmanship.