>> ^RedSky:

>> ^heropsycho:
They're both fools. Both offered overly simplistic rationalizations for complex issues, or sometimes didn't even offer that.

x2, x3, x4.
The argument oscillated between being against free trade and disbanding massive government departments because they're inefficient rather than reforming them. In other words there was no actual discussion and it was just two people shouting separate ideas at each other.


x5

>> ^heropsycho:

They're both fools. Both offered overly simplistic rationalizations for complex issues, or sometimes didn't even offer that.


x2, x3, x4.

The argument oscillated between being against free trade and disbanding massive government departments because they're inefficient rather than reforming them. In other words there was no actual discussion and it was just two people shouting separate ideas at each other.

HEY, I've been here! Looks like the secret's out, this is literally one of my favorite places in the world I can escape to with any regular frequency. Huntington Gorge kicks bushels of Green Mountain ass.

Been going here like clockwork every summer since I was about 5 years old. It's about a 25-30 minute drive from Burlington, 15 minutes or so from Essex. Beautiful place, a couple different spots to jump from depending on how bold/experienced you are. A little something for everyone's specific comfort zone.

The spot where all the deaths occur and will probably continue to occur is unsurprisingly the highest/trickiest place to jump from. There's not much clearance on either side of you as you try to clear two overlapping ridges and NOT land in the "dead zone".

Basically, the river current plunges under the bottom of the rock face a few feet away from where you would want to land and goes underground (the regulars refer to it as a whirlpool but I'm not exactly sure what the proper term for it is) for a good 30 feet before resurfacing; the vast majority of people sucked under don't come out the other end, getting pinned against debris (there's said to be a few good sized logs down there) or stuck in a pocket where the oscillating current keeps you in spin-cycle until you drown.

The "newbie" area, in video @ 2:19 with the guy back-flipping, is a 20-25 foot drop with a nice 12 ft circumference pool to land in, 10 feet deep with a soft sandy bottom. This is where you go to build up courage for "the jump". Here, the only thing you really need to worry about is hitting the water properly (clench those cheeks and streamline yourself!).

The slides/caves carved out by waterfalls further up/down river are also places to check out if you're not into the whole thrill-seeking thing, accessibility depending on how dry/wet a summer it's been.

What an utterly agreeable configuration of natural elements this place is, well, for me at least.

If you read two posts above your original one, I provided a link that describes the mathematical theorem behind this phenomenon.....suitable link, wouldnt you think?

>> ^MaxWilder:

>> ^charliem:
>> ^MaxWilder:
Why is nobody crying fake? C'mon! It looks fake! Are there other videos with this effect happening?

Because the phenomenon is a very well understood and documented real behavior of digital information systems?

Thanks for that illuminating response.</sarcasm>
How about actually saying something useful if you are going to respond to a question?
Like this: The reddit discussion about the video contains a number of interesting links with other examples of the Rolling Shutter phenomenon, including a video which shows how guitar strings actually oscillate.

>> ^charliem:

>> ^MaxWilder:
Why is nobody crying fake? C'mon! It looks fake! Are there other videos with this effect happening?

Because the phenomenon is a very well understood and documented real behavior of digital information systems?


Thanks for that illuminating response.</sarcasm>

How about actually saying something useful if you are going to respond to a question?

Like this: The reddit discussion about the video contains a number of interesting links with other examples of the Rolling Shutter phenomenon, including a video which shows how guitar strings actually oscillate.

>> ^MaxWilder:

Why is nobody crying fake? C'mon! It looks fake! Are there other videos with this effect happening?


Because the phenomenon is a very well understood and documented real behavior of digital information systems?

You need to sift another 93 videos to use the promote invocation on another sifter's vids (gold star required).

Once you are silver you can call quality, which is almost as good. As a lurker, I always used to skip over the promoted video tab anyway, and I'm sure I wasn't the only one.

You can, of course, self promote as a shortcut if you go charter (or buy ad-hoc power points)... but to promote other peoples videos you need to do the legwork to get your own ones sifted first.

Now for the reason I wanted to leave you a note: By the time you have sifted 100 videos you will have worked out that there are many ways to promote a video, and using the promote invocation is only one of them. Upvoting a clever or witty comment gets it into the "recently upvoted comments" tab, putting in a clever or witty comment tends to draw folks in (from reading the recent comment stream), spamming the user profiles of everyone you think will like the video works rather well too There's always the option of starting a playlist of similarly cool videos, a cool title helps.

The guitar video had actually already been promoted by ctrlaltbleach, so even if you had the power points and a gold star, sifty would still have refused to listen.

Didn't KP tell you this once?
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yeah, i didnt think so. I still dont know how to promote

>> ^lucky760:

How do you titillate an ocelot?
You oscillate her tits a lot.


BOOO!!! get off the stage!!! BOO!!!!!

How do you titillate an ocelot?

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You oscillate her tits a lot.

>> ^oritteropo:

I hope the cvr transcripts get translated into English and released >> ^therealblankman:
>> ^oritteropo:
I'm sure they were expecting a smoking crater and not the brilliantly successful landing we saw! If I hadn't heard about it before hand, I would've been expecting that from the start too!

>> ^Longswd:
Almost looks like he lost rudder control (hydraulic failure?) and was steering by varying engine thrust between the left/right engines. I wonder how many seat cushions had to be surgically removed after landing.

A little background: apparently this plane had been in storage for some years, taken out of retirement, refitted, etc. This was a test flight to make sure everything was working correctly- apparently not though. The oscillation started shortly after take-off and the pilot was able to circle the field and land safely- no passengers on board, but I'm sure the crew had to requisition new undergarments.



knowing Russia, I'm sure it's "fuck shit dick bitch motherfucker cunt fuck shit bitch" etc etc etc

I hope the cvr transcripts get translated into English and released >> ^therealblankman:

>> ^oritteropo:
I'm sure they were expecting a smoking crater and not the brilliantly successful landing we saw! If I hadn't heard about it before hand, I would've been expecting that from the start too!

>> ^Longswd:
Almost looks like he lost rudder control (hydraulic failure?) and was steering by varying engine thrust between the left/right engines. I wonder how many seat cushions had to be surgically removed after landing.

A little background: apparently this plane had been in storage for some years, taken out of retirement, refitted, etc. This was a test flight to make sure everything was working correctly- apparently not though. The oscillation started shortly after take-off and the pilot was able to circle the field and land safely- no passengers on board, but I'm sure the crew had to requisition new undergarments.

>> ^oritteropo:

I'm sure they were expecting a smoking crater and not the brilliantly successful landing we saw! If I hadn't heard about it before hand, I would've been expecting that from the start too!


>> ^Longswd:

Almost looks like he lost rudder control (hydraulic failure?) and was steering by varying engine thrust between the left/right engines. I wonder how many seat cushions had to be surgically removed after landing.


A little background: apparently this plane had been in storage for some years, taken out of retirement, refitted, etc. This was a test flight to make sure everything was working correctly- apparently not though. The oscillation started shortly after take-off and the pilot was able to circle the field and land safely- no passengers on board, but I'm sure the crew had to requisition new undergarments.

Space-Time V1.0

1:1
First the Higg's boson came to be with a photon, light defined by dark, as the quantum space-time field or quantum foam oscillated into fruition a virtual particle with an asymmetrical energy matrix. Thus it hast made what is creation.

1:2
Then thoust foam made up and down quarks, strange and charm quarks, and top and bottom quarks. And the foam was happy.

1:3 Next came thine foam's baryonic matter that thou'ist made from; and all composite particles. Then came the other matter, unknown to man and animal, but by gravity and still some to none.

Etc...

We can do the same stupid thing.

>> ^flavioribeiro:

Once you compensate for deficit spending, nominal GDP declined approximately 10% per year over the last 3 years, and oscillated around 0% for the 7 years before that. This has been masked by borrowing trillions of USD, which is the only way the government can stimulate anything. I believe the US does not have the production capacity you expect it to have, which would be required to produce a true economic recovery and not have GDP merely return to pre-2000 levels.

There's no such thing as "once you compensate for deficit spending" when it comes to GDP. If you do that, it's something other than GDP. You may make an argument for why you think some other number aside from GDP is a better metric of the status of the economy, but growth in GDP is growth in GDP.

As for the productive capacity, if we'd had a massive earthquake and tsunami, yeah, I'd expect our productive capacity to diminish. We didn't lose anything in the way of supply infrastructure though. We just saw demand for goods and services drop across the board.

In any case, my main point is that fixing the slump is the only way to ever fix the debt issue. I also think any attempt to fix the debt now is going to be self-defeating, since both raising taxes and cutting spending will make the slump worse, which will in turn only make the debt worse.

>> ^flavioribeiro:
I completely agree, and so does Karl in his latest video. The recovery process is going to be very painful, because Congress will most likely not enact a decent healthcare solution or a widespread reform to the tax code, and will defend special interests and military spending at all costs.

Again, you're blurring two unrelated issues together. Debt doesn't cause recessions, recessions cause debt. Debt might lead to inflation which can hamper overall growth, but right now we're seeing abnormally low inflation, even with short term interest rates at zero.

>> ^flavioribeiro:

>> ^bmacs27:
Also, if our balance sheet is so bad, why aren't the bond markets punishing us?

Because quantitative easing pushes down the yield on short-term bonds. On the other hand, it increases the yield on long-term bonds (since QE is essentially printing money, it raises the expectation of inflation in the long term).


That's what bmacs is talking about, and we're not seeing signs of increased expectations of inflation at all. 10-year bond rates are expected to settle at the expected 10-year inflation rate + some return, and looking out there today, I see it's around 3.6%, which is lower than it's been for most of the time they've been tracking it. See that spike in the middle? That was the last time inflation caused problems for the real economy in the US.

>> ^NetRunner:

I say getting a solid economic recovery is job #1. A huge portion of the deficit right now is due to the recession itself -- it lowers our GDP (and therefore the tax revenues), and it means a lot more people going on government assistance because they're unemployed and can't find a job.

Once you compensate for deficit spending, nominal GDP declined approximately 10% per year over the last 3 years, and oscillated around 0% for the 7 years before that. This has been masked by borrowing trillions of USD, which is the only way the government can stimulate anything. I believe the US does not have the production capacity you expect it to have, which would be required to produce a true economic recovery and not have GDP merely return to pre-2000 levels.

>> ^NetRunner:

It's also just one step shy from suggesting that we euthanize our elderly, process them into soylent green, and sell it to pay down our debt.

I completely agree, and so does Karl in his latest video. The recovery process is going to be very painful, because Congress will most likely not enact a decent healthcare solution or a widespread reform to the tax code, and will defend special interests and military spending at all costs.

I'm from Brazil (but I've been around, and I've worked in the U.S.).

>> ^bmacs27:

Also, if our balance sheet is so bad, why aren't the bond markets punishing us?


Because quantitative easing pushes down the yield on short-term bonds. On the other hand, it increases the yield on long-term bonds (since QE is essentially printing money, it raises the expectation of inflation in the long term).