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gets my vote. I remember getting home very drunk on beers and inflating a conventional mattress for my brother. when i deflated it the next day the room was filled with the delightful scent of stale beer breath.

Yeah, guys - it's just a viral ad for the flying mattress company.

I can't really tell what's happening here. It looks like the mattress is flying along behind the truck and that knocks the bike out from under the rider. Maybe the mattress was falling off the truck just as it was passing the cyclist?

The odds that a cyclist, a mattress and a webcam would be at the same space and time are inconceivable.

There's no such memo.

"He's talking about people with more money than they can possibly spend looking for more tax breaks so they can accumulate even more wealth that they're never going to spend."

This is just stupid. Sorry to say. People don't just hoard billions of dollars under the mattress.They spend it. They buy bonds, stocks, assets, goods, services, investments, start businesses or expand existing ones, advertise, do all sorts of things with it.

"unlike those billions sitting in off shore account."

In the case of money sitting in off shore accounts, first, it is being spent by the banks that are storing it. Second, it is also invested in overseas businesses, like Apple stores in Ireland and elsewhere in Europe or paying dividends. And third, it would not be there moving so slowly if not for government taxation which incentivizes a lack of flow. To the extent that it does not circulate (and I contend it flows much more than you allege), the stagnation is the result of yet more government-caused distortions.


What specific corporation or individual do you claim does not invest its surplus money? Name one.

For starters, corporations need to either invest their profits or pay dividends.
So, again, who are you referring to specifically?

Even if they have some money in the bank, the banks are investing that money, lending it out, etc. So again, who specifically are you referring to?

As I've said before, ignorance may be bliss, but thankfully, we don't all have to be as ignorant as the least informed among us.

I haven't seen one of these in person, but my guess:
1) The ground is hard, the floor of this tent is soft like a hammock, so you wouldn't need to have an air mattress if you care about comfortable sleep while camping. Sometimes the ground is sharp - sticks, rocks, etc - you wouldn't have to clear an area below this tent.
2) regular tents really suck on wet ground if it's been raining hard- even if they are "waterproof"
3) animals - if you hang it high enough and use a rope ladder that you pull up, it's not likely that any animals will get in your tent because of food odor. (not saying it's bear-proof)

Disadvantages:
1) you need to have 3 strong trees to strap it to
2) it's probably heavier to carry while hiking than a regular 3-person tent, since nylon seatbelt-like straps are pretty dense.
3) if something goes wrong, it's gonna hurt when you hit the ground.
4) depending on weather, might be a lot colder than a ground tent.

They do say you can use it on the ground, so I guess really only #2 applies, depending on the situation.

So much of what you are saying here is not terribly accurate.

Fleeing in this case is easier to sympathize with on account of the US's recent history of locking up and torturing whistle blowers for years on end.

You do live in a country where you pick and choose which laws to follow. Constantly. Like most people. Did you have a drink before you were of age? Have you rolled through a stop sign? Did you tear a label off a mattress? Have you smoked weed? Average people break the rules when they think that the rule is dumb and deserves to be broken, or when they think following the rule would be a greater wrong than breaking it. I expect the latter case applies to Snowden.

Turning himself in is hardly win/win. Maybe he's not interested in being locked up and abused for years on end for what he considers a service he did to the US people. It's not everyone's sole goal in life to die of old age.

His case isn't that much stronger if he turns himself in. He's not some rhetorical genius or a mastermind lawyer waiting to uncover his byzantine court strategy. He released some information regarding serious infringements by the US govt, and that's it. His motives are easy to see, and anyone could pick up and argue his case for him. It's just not that deep.

You're right that the outcry didn't follow. People are getting rather well conditioned to being spied on in pretty much everything we do. To me, the much more important revelation was that the US govt had a collection of secret laws that only it knows about, and that it acts based on it. Privacy is just the tip of the iceberg.

What gets me and should get everybody mad as hell, is that it took Dr. Guppy here and a so-called news network to rile the alleged intelligentsia as to the 70-plus-year dupe of otherwise practical, common-sense humans. What a fucking ruse. The fact that CNN's latest ratings-blasting segments from Dr. Dickcheese here has the fans of reason gushing proves only that the duping of another generation is still alive and well.

I say we kidnap this tool Gupta and inject him with some black-tar heroin for a few weeks while he's tied to a fucking rusty, mattress-less box spring, then put his paltry ass on-set in front of the cameras...

Happy large round guy from Korea.....*FTW!

..he could use a new mattress as well, eh?

Western central banks bad, mattress good, m'kay??

....anyone else think the narrators' hot??

I rather have my nice, large, solid-wood, comfy, king-sized bed with a high end tempur-pedic mattress, my handmade armorie, and a nice, solid wood desk. Sleeping on cheap-particle board and foam as an adult seems like the most useless idea to me.

That's pretty cool, though I don't know if I'd want to put anything more fragile than a mattress on that thing.

Particularly scary was the fact that the mattress played a soap opera audio snippet as it narrowly missed the driver.