And that last comment got downvoted. I am not against nuclear power. I am against the thinking that they can continue to not be investigated properly and lower the inspection standards in very obvious ways, and continue to think that the nuclear operations in the US would be allowed to continue operating if something happened.

As soon as it happened, all the plants would be investigated and if they let their upkeep of the planet lax in obvious "real problem" ways...the anti-nuclear movement will have them.

It's just stupid to have a watchdog that can't watch and operations that are not held up to standards of operation that would at least give them some hope of averting a uncontrolled reaction. It's making the whole industry look like the fearmongering against them is correct.

Why not insist on higher standards of inspection to alleviate it? If the people want higher standards and more checking, let them get it. What does it hurt to have your plant get a more thorough inspection if you are doing things right? And if you aren't, or your facilities aren't going to last 10-15-20 years.....who does it serve if you don't find that out until after it fails?

Seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to expect corporations providing power to comply with, and that the people should demand. Avoiding it for a few more years of profit would HOPEFULLY prevent that company from ever getting permits to operate again.

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>> ^Hybrid:

1. Make it so I can choose a custom thumbnail in the actual submission page. I would be happy with just this!
2. Ditch the Top 10 Lounge Lizards box from the front page. Not all member ranks can access the lounge anyway.
3. Remove the "login with facebook" button from the top of the page, and put that onto the member login page directly. So a user either logs in with facebook or their username & password. That seems to be the standard way of doing things.
4. Clean up all the social networking integrations/icons/text about the place. A generic "social networking" panel on the right of the page (perhaps replacing the Top 10 lounge lizards box), might be a cleaner way of doing things.
5. A dynamic ticker bar for the top of site, viewable on most pages. Cycles recent "news items" and by that I mean: Videos hitting #1, videos going Top 15, members ranking up, new sift talk posts, new blog posts. Maybe even badge awards (though that might be a lot of news items to cycle).... When news items are low it could generate informal ones like "@dag is only 3 sifts away from getting their crown. Click here to look at their pqueue" etc. I actually had a similar idea for just publicising member rankings before: http://videosift.com/talk/Publicize-member-rank-increases
6. Auto-generated sift talk posts by Siftbot when a member reaches gold or above? Could be a nice way to make sure people don't go unnoticed when they rank up? Though I am aware that there have been some great custom, new rank sift talk posts in the past, so it would lose that aspect.
7. A page (similar to the no thumbs page), that has all the videos that have had dupeof called on them, but are awaiting the second isdupe invocation. Also, I think we do need a notdupe invocation to cancel out bad dupeof calls, before someone randomly calls isdupe without proper checking.
8. Ditch Beggar's Canyon.
9. Server load permitting I guess, but open up the lounge to all non-probie ranks.
10. The ability to transfer powerpoints to another member. I know, strange request, but it'd be nice to have this for those times when members want to reward another for helping them out with finding a video or something.


And this from the guy who just wants custom thumbnails

I love #6 too. It's such a shame we don't seem to make such a celebration of people's milestones like we used to. I really don't think the community is any less inclined, just that we've got lax about it.

Individuals are just as much a threat to our "way of life" as groups of powerful corporations. I submit the alcohol industry wasn't too keen on prohibition, yet it passed to the oppressing of all. Not to distract from the issue at hand, but it is a false notion to think that all the whims of the people are "just" and all the whims of special interest unjust. It is an unsophisticated understanding of the history of democracy and the oppression of the majority that leads to this kind of lax, wishful thinking.

I haven't noticed any laxative effects. Final version. 1 part TJ's Red Pepper and Tomato Soup, 2 parts TJ's Black Bean Soup, squeeze in some lemon juice, add generous amounts of pepper and Tabasco and grate pepper jack cheese over the top when it's done.

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Is the soup a good laxative too? lmao

Um... Lady.. It's just a bird. Re-fucking-lax. If you had never run in the first place, it would never have pursued you.

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*isdupe>> ^mintbbb:

Sorry, but a dupe
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Sorry, but a dupe
*dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Twilight-Landing-At-LAX

Screen capture please.

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*music *wheels

Am I the only one here who's not a fucking stoner?

Shit, whatever. Time for my evening bottle of red wine and a box of laxatives.