Seems to be doing better than the Stomp group, no?

No hub caps, kitchen sinks, brooms, trash can lids, pipes, etc.

I did an experiment in elementary school similar to this one but I used a coffee can with a snap on lid and flour.

*bugs

Over a week ago, I got a bite above my right compound eye brow that made a big bump and made my right compound eye lid swell.

I don't think he actually figured out about the handle being a lid lock, I think he just used it as a perch and put enough pressure on it while yanking on the lid to move the handle away. Yeah, he got the job done, but with persistence and not brains, at least in this case.

At 1:13, the bot at the lower left is tipping it's lid with nothing on it. That tells me the package fell off at some point since it wouldn't have gone anywhere without a scan first.

Was thinking the EXACT same thing. She definitely got a claw in the eye lid at least.

It's funny because the entire time I was thinking, yeah it's cute now but wait until it claws your face off for petting it one too many times...and then...wham, right in the eye lol.

It's like watching a man with explosive diarrhea refusing to lift the lid of the toilet he's sitting on.
It makes me actually angry enough to put on purple pants. The plumber's guild should hire an assassin to take him out for sullying their reputation.

Ignoring the apt title, I started off hoping he would think about it for a second and maybe adjust his strategy and was cheering for him a little.

By the end I was damn annoyed at him and now figure he was last seen scudding into the middle of a lake and then sinking when he let the damn lid fly up yet again!

ewEwEW!!! You should always flush with the lid DOWN!!

*related=http://videosift.com/video/Aerosol-formed-via-toilet-flush

Surprised it's a boy too, but that's a "whatever" moment to me. I'm more bothered at how the models are rendered with a multitude of racist/typical Hollywood "Asian-looking" caricature that's far from reality. Jaundice skin tone? Check. No eye-lid? Check. But it's already an improvement from the pre-90s! Look! No bucktooth!

There's got to be better technology/creativity to render a model that look Asian without looking like a bad caricature.

While the camera wouldn't get that kind of sound recording, you can easily record a piano like that with close micing. You stick the microphones inside the lid, down near the strings. It gives a very wide, expansive, soundstage. Here is an example of one kind of setup like that.

However it has a downside: It picks up more of the piano's noise, in particular hammer and pedal noise, as well as key noise. Those are the noises you hear, particularly when he starts working the pedals hard.

In terms of his key movements being sync'd to the music, they look sync'd to me. That kind of thing isn't that useful for evaluation because there are too many variables that can affect it:

1) The sync of your system. Your sound system and monitor have a delay to them. Depending on the difference in the delays, things can be a bit out of sync, perhaps noticeably so. Unless you have your system calibrated for it, which isn't likely on a computer.

2) Problems in the A/V sync in production. Something like this would probably be recorded with two devices: A hand held camera, and a dedicated recorder. The audio from the recorder would then need to be sync'd manually with the video. Depending on how accurate that is done, there can be some desync.

3) Sync issues in the video. I'm sure you've seen plenty of videos online with sync issues, various problems in encoding and streaming can cause them.


Not saying that this is real for sure, I don't know, just that I don't see or hear anything inconsistent.

@harlequinn

I see the root of the problem in the US simply being existing gun availability (incomparably high to any other developed country) which makes them cheap, plentiful and relatively easily obtained without a license. I'm sure that better mental health and poverty programs would help in the US but those would surely only chip at the problem and many would fall through the cracks. To me, a more trusted, reliable and locally available police force is more the answer. I guess the relative geographic dispersion in the US is a factor here, and probably why guns took off like they did in the first place.

Comparing to here in Australia, I would much rather bans kept a lid on availability so that we never have the problems the US does. Not that any other country is ever likely to match the US (89 guns per 100 people, versus 15/100 here in AU), but better safe than sorry. I think that statistic better than anything describes why so many Americans have the attitude to gun bans of 'well then only the criminals will have guns'. The ubiquity and accessibility is highly apparent in the US, whereas here in AU and probably most parts of Western Europe they are a rarity and that argument seems bizarre.

Sawing through the lid of a hot-box of death while standing on it; these men are true professionals and it still makes me cringe to watch that.

Kids are astoundingly cunning in how they analyse things. Same with pulling out the "child safe" plugs in the wall sockets or working out how to open pill jars with supposedly child proof lids.

Good on the little tacker. I think this deserves a "LIKE A BOSS"...=)

The devil is in the details, isn't it?

For instance, what kind of guaranteed minimum income are we talking about?

The context they used (automatisation, labour supply) suggests to me something along the lines of an unconditional basic income. If that's the case, it cannot be compared to a minimum wage at all, since it has effects that go far beyond the labour market and the income situation. It's a massive reshaping of how we organise society. And it becomes a pain in the ass to even conceptualise properly once you talk about how to finance it...

A minimum wage, no matter how decent it is, doesn't even put a dent into the disparity between income from labour and income from capital. It makes life less horrible for those it applies to and it somewhat curtails the welfare queens among corporations who like their wage slaves being paid for by society. Yes, I'm looking at you, Walmart! Still, on its own, it does very little about income inequality, and nothing at all about wealth inequality.

How would I address income inequality?

In German, the words for taxes and steering are the same: "Steuern". If you want to steer the income towards a more equal distribution, taxation might be the easiest way to go about it. Treat all forms of income equally in terms of taxation. Or go one step further and treat wages preferentially to support employment.

However, redistribution will only get you so far. So why not address it at an earlier stage: distribution. Mondragon serves as a successful example of how a cooperative structure puts democratic checks and balances on the wage structure within a corporation. One person, one vote puts the lid on any attempts by higher-ups to rake in 300 times as much as the peasants on the factory floor.

Yet it doesn't do anything about the inequality between wages and capital income. Even a combination of progressive taxation and fixed income-ratios doesn't do much about it. Especially since non-wage income can evade taxation in a million different ways and most politicians in every country in the world seem more than eager to protect what loopholes they created over the decades.

So what's my suggestion? Well, progressive taxation of both income and wealth, living wage plus job guarantee, support of democratic structures at the workplace, international pressure on tax havens (which includes my own fecking country). Realistic? No. But neither was our welfare system until it was implemented.