the whole breaking into to serve a warrant is fraught w/danger and sheer stupidity.

- go into a house, the occupants have the right to gun every intruder down. dead cops when one JW witness call could get the door open and layout scanned?
- how many in the home deserve the death penalty?
- should landlords be held liable too? shoot up the f'n' place! good call officer fife.

seems to be just lazy law enforcement. too fast, too uncertain, too inhumane. until they have inside agents clearing the house for innocents (even a dog) it's a desperate act of fools.


yeah. i know. but after reading how a cop carelessly discharged his weapon into the head of a sleeping child - no crime is worth another crime.

That's fantastic. I got a reasonable understanding of semiconductor physics and chip layout in college, but seeing it actually physically happen just made a lot of it click together... 30 years later!

Maybe it's just me, but I think this deserves a *promote.

I was unaware of that option as i've never used the new layout.

Reddit is a mess anymore with the new/old layouts, I'm sure it's something on their end that needs to be done to allow just media embeds and not the whole post.

That's an odd finding. On the video, it looks like the incoming pilot landed on an apron between two pads. Even if the departing helicopter was centered, that's still awfully close. Sudden gust of wind and it might have happened anyway.

Edit: Ok, I see how the layout is.

https://goo.gl/maps/EnzXgvDf6YHMEj9S7

Seems a screwy setup, to be honest. I note the satellite image shows a chopper parked even worse than the first one in the video.

It's a fractionation tower (fractionation column, spliltting tower etc. - lots of different names) for separation of components of natural gas or light ends of distillation or cracking processes for hydrocarbon refining. Hard to tell specifics, but if for Shell in Fort Saskatchewan (the Scotford site), one might guess given length and layout could be debutanizer or perhaps depropanizer for synthetic crude refining (looks too short for a de-C3, but hard to tell on its own).

Looks very cool and I want one because of that, but it seems like a massively inefficient design for something where efficiency is pretty important. Why the steel frame? Why not aluminum or one of those fancy bike alloys if aluminum isn't strong enough? Why the big wheels and fat tires with all their extra weight and increased rolling friction just for the sake of aesthetics? The minibike layout does seem pretty good for an electronic bike though.

I bet the door is what's wrong. Doesn't seem to match the interior layout. The heater grate on the floor should never be in a walking area, and wouldn't be if the door opened to the left.

At the bottom of all the new layout pages it says 'beta opt out'. click that for the old design.

I see what you mean with the new layout. The colors completely detach the description from the video. I'd recommend changing back to the old VideoSift layout* You won't regret it and you can always switch back if you choose to.

*at the very bottom of the page click on 'beta opt out'

Thanks. It's weird, I really didn't see the description...

Looking again, I notice that in the latest layout the title and the 'submitted by' info is located right under the video in the white background area, but the description is lower down in the gray portion on top of the comments. If you didn't have a chance to get your second coffee, you might miss it!

After reading some more on the subject, this has been that way for many decades, possibly longer but the history is spotty further back. The CSIRO thinks it is possibly due to the nearness of a coal seam to the rifts and/or drought.

The recent fracking has drawn attention to it, with many locals claiming it has gotten worse since the fracking. Scientists are still researching it further to see if this is true.

I don't support fracking, but some of these reports usually are about things that were pre-existing due to the natural layout of the region. However, there are some cases where it is definitely a cause of the companies fracking in the area.

For instance, a recent study proved that drinking wells in Texas and Pennsylvania were affected by the fracking company not following the correct procedures. This led to the wells being contaminated with gas. They found that there were clear cases of substandard work that led to cracked steel and concrete in the casing of the drill sites. They said in the study that if the companies had followed the correct procedures, the contamination could have been easily prevented.

More on the wells - http://www.newsweek.com/fracking-wells-tainting-drinking-water-texas-and-pennsylvania-study-finds-270735

They probably should use the same method to check the origin of the noble gases in that river.

As far as I know, it does matter which button you hit, but the button layouts can be changed on-the-fly, which is what makes it look like he's hitting the same buttons but different things are happening. The layout keeps changing for different parts of the song.

But I don't know for sure, I've just looked into getting one of these things a long time ago and that's what I recall figuring out about them.

On the new layout pages (the front page, Unsifted, and single-video page) there is a "light | dark" toggler in the middle of the page footer. Please give that a try and let me know.

Thanks!

There are dropdown barriers and lights in place. Without audio or a better angle on the lights it's hard to say whether or not the lights are working or if there are bells clanging. That being said the layout of infrastructure at this location seems inherently dangerous.