Most annoying audio ever in a video. I can't stand the way that language sounds. It's almost as annoying as French.

But yeah. The way that driver jumped the gun on that one, it makes me wonder how coordinated the team was...

Sorry I owe you one, hidillleho.....Jumped the gun on the downvote!

^ Sorry, kinda jumped the gun on calling this spam.

I didn't follow the other affairs being compared to this one so the irony is not really striking me. I do have to wonder what is up with certain people who, as mentioned above, can't seem to separate a pointedly offensive comment meant to sardonically illustrate a point and be humorous at the same time, from actual disruptive speech.

I also really hate to say this, but it's the guy currently being deployed to Afghanistan who jumped the gun and used too much force when nobody was even asking him to. Nothing personal MGR, just callin' it how I see it. Remember this: "discretion is the better part of valor".

I jumped the gun on that one, and I shouldn't have. un-hobble him. Hobbling doesn't do anything, because he hasn't abused his star powers.

You're right. I jumped the gun on that one. I'll post in the thread about that, too.

In reply to this comment by budzos:
On second thought, after actually looking at the FAQ, I think this is bullshit.

Q 30 (Hobbling)
"unstable members have a meltdown and use their star powers to inflict damage to the site as well as the whole community. In order to cope with this unfortunate possibility, there exists the ability to hobble (or handcuff) an abusive member before they can continue doing damage to the Sift.

Diamond members and above have the ability to instantly hobble any starred (or better) member who is blatantly misusing their abilities."

Q 32 (Comments)
* What can't I say in a comment?

We love a good fiery comment thread, but sometimes they go overboard. Please avoid personal attacks. It's okay to criticize ideas but refrain personal insults. Please avoid blatantly racist speech, threats, or other verbal abuse. This goes for comments in public arenas as well as private member profile comments. If a comment is bad enough it will probably be deleted due to negative feedback. "

It looks to me like I was not abusing my star priveleges to inflict damange on the site or community. I merely posted an inappropriate comment, which should have been deleted if you felt it was so inappropriate.

EXCESSIVE FORCE!

EXCESSIVE FORCE!

In reply to this comment by MarineGunrock:
I really like you man, but that comment was out of line. Sure QM can be the biggest of douche bags, but an open insult like that was too much. Don't take the hobbling too hard, man. It's nothing personal, dude. Things just need to be done for fairness sake, you know?

I'm awfully happy I did, too. I'm happy you've come to see Rachel as truthful, and not fatally biased, by the way.

Personally I think she's jumping the gun a bit, but it's good to know "the left" isn't going to be like the Republicans and defend everything their leader does.

If you watched the whole Obama speech, you can tell he's got concerns about the legal framework for holding these people. The issue is that the torture program left us with people we know are threats, but the evidence of that is tainted by the methods used to collect it. He could of course argue that the evidence gained via torture should be legally admissible in some way, but that leads us to the dark side.

So does indefinite detention without trial though, but that's what they've had for 8 years, and I think it's probably tolerable to let that continue while we settle the legal and political struggles over what to do with them.

Personally I say giving them their fair day in court, letting them get acquitted, and then keeping tabs on them once released is the right way to go -- collect new evidence, or just plain do the whole ugly war thing and kill them on the field of battle. I'm sure that's not a popular plan, but I suspect Obama wouldn't put up a massive fight if the legal tussle worked out that way.

Much as I wish Obama used all the Bushian "I'm the decider" tactics to undo all of Bush's messes, I'm okay with a return to the Presidency having limits on what it can do by executive fiat.

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
You know, I hate to be the person to say I told you so, but... I told you so. And you even campaigned for that cretin.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Rachel-Maddow-Obama-Advocates-Indefinite-Detention

>> ^poolcleaner:
>> The key to getting away with wild office behavior is the same method used in high school to go from being an A student, getting yelled at by dad for getting an A-, to a C student, getting a "Well at least he passed" when you get a D: First, make people believe you are a crazy, yet still an effective worker -- this may take some time, maybe even up to a year, to achieve. Then slowly increase the loudness of your outbursts. If your coworkers give you annoyed looks, you've jumped the gun -- slow it down, work on erratic behavior, and always, ALWAYS have the ability to change your expression from insane grinning trouble maker to competent, psychologically sound cubicle occupant.
If you do it correctly, one day you'll be shouting at the top of your lungs and no one will care. Just another normal day at the office.


Dude, you're putting too much effort into this. I'm sure Mrs. Johnson wouldn't give a shit about much of anything you did, really, as long as you made sure to get the leaves out of the deep end.

>> ^demon_ix:
If I had a lighter, it would be lit and moving repeatedly from left to right as my mouth was shouting "WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" as loud as it could.
Being at work, however, I'll curb my enthusiasm to a simple upvote and this cheerful comment


I'm at work, I have a lighter and I am shouting "WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO."

The key to getting away with wild office behavior is the same method used in high school to go from being an A student, getting yelled at by dad for getting an A-, to a C student, getting a "Well at least he passed" when you get a D: First, make people believe you are a crazy, yet still an effective worker -- this may take some time, maybe even up to a year, to achieve. Then slowly increase the loudness of your outbursts. If your coworkers give you annoyed looks, you've jumped the gun -- slow it down, work on erratic behavior, and always, ALWAYS have the ability to change your expression from insane grinning trouble maker to competent, psychologically sound cubicle occupant.

If you do it correctly, one day you'll be shouting at the top of your lungs and no one will care. Just another normal day at the office.

hollywoodshorts is the name of the person on twitter and if you notice the tweets it's clear that he or she had something to do with the zoo in question, and therefore it is reasonable to assume that the person in question had a hand in the making of the video.

Look over the tweets, most of them are about lazoo (L.A. Zoo), which is the youtube account and where the video was recorded.

More over the video had 500 views when it appeared here, which of course isn't a conclusive evidence, but suspicious.

If we jumped the gun on this one, he or she is welcome to return and complain, then we can unban her again. I doubt this will happen, because I think it is spam.

If it really does turn out to have an organic, microbial source, then this is the most incredible discovery in the field of astronomy to date.

Having said that, let's not jump the gun. I don't want to come across as pissing on anybody's parade, but remember that this could turn out to be entirely geological in origin.

>> ^BillOreilly:
I'm forced to downvote due to the TOS violation.
Don't blame me, I'm just following the law around here like any good Republican would do.


....and, like any good republican, ya jumped the gun w/o checking it out! Ha!

I've been wracking my brain for the last few days about something which is hard to articulate, but I think I finally have a better idea about:

I just don't understand the logic of "rules" for war. I definitely understand that killing innocent people is "bad," but if you just back up a second, in a situation where War, which is pretty much one country telling another country "I am going to kill you", is declared, what sense does it make that they have to suddenly play by some rules?

Over the last couple of days I've been seeing things which make both sides look bad. Israel attacking civilian targets and Hamas making those civilian targets viable by putting military people in them... ultimately isn't the real solution about avoiding the conflict itself?

It seems to me that once you've introduced killing people as a solution to a problem it really doesn't make much of a difference which people you start killing because eventually a losing side is going to resort to the dirtiest thing they can in order to try to stop you.

I think back to old-school war, where the generals or whatever agreed on a time and place and basically lined up and attacked... even in ancient times, you eventually run into situations like the trojan horse where someone says "hey, fuck the rules; if we just jump the gun and catch them with their pants down, we'll win and isn't that the point?"

Mind you, this is all about the conflict itself. The bigger question which seems much harder to answer is why can't these two groups come to an agreement. I hate to say it, but I'm gonna have to throw religion under the bus with this one and say that it is probably the cause of most of the issues which are pretty much unresolvable.

>> ^qruel:
looks like i might have jumped the gun as I can't get this method to work. Any help would be greatly appreciated !


Try it this way

http://www.dailygyan.com/2008/03/how-to-save-flash-games-in-firefox.html

It works for me most of the time. I don't play a lot of flash games though.

looks like i might have jumped the gun as I can't get this method to work. Any help would be greatly appreciated !