>> ^blankfist:

Well stop scaring them so you can capture it on video, jerks!


The sad thing is it looks like they literally mean, ANY SOUND. It looks like one of them nudged a small bell with their nose and the sound triggered both of their paralysis. ( 0:56 mark)

>> ^RedSky:
Given the rock bottom interest rate and the sheer quantity of other measures I think they've rightly concluded that monetary policy has little effect in stimulating an economy out of a downturn. Really it's common sense and historically all but proven that only actual fiscal spending can stimulate a bearish market, much in the same way lowering taxes would have little effect.

I wouldn't say history has shown monetary policy to have no stimulative effect, ever. I think history has shown that in certain types of recessions, traditional monetary policy can cease to be effective. Which leaves more unconventional types of monetary policy once advocated by an economics professor by the name of Ben Bernanke. If only he was in charge of the Fed right now, maybe we'd see some more of that from the Fed...

>> ^RedSky:
Additionally the Federal Reserve's role is really inflation rate targeting than anything else.

Not true -- what Hayes said is correct, the Fed has a dual mandate of maintaining low inflation and full employment. The Fed tends to focus more on that first part, often at the expense of that second part. That's a bad thing.

>> ^RedSky:
And honestly, when I see MSNBC programs like this blatantly ignoring highly relevant facts, exaggerating their point much in the same way Fox does, (such as by making it seem the Federal Reserve has been passive the past 2 years) it makes me call into question anything else I hear from them.

I agree that to someone who hasn't been following the Fed's actions at all for two years might be left thinking that the Fed has refused to do anything for 2 years. But I don't think that's intentional mischief, I think it's an oversight by people trying to make a somewhat opaque topic understandable to people whose eyes normally glaze over whenever there's talk about the Fed and monetary policy.

Oh, and based on everything I've read, fiscal stimulus would be the preferred tool to use here, it's just that we've got the usual political paralysis generated by Democratic spinelessness and Republican audacity preventing us from using it.

Sphincter Paralysis? (1:33 on the white board to the right of houses left shoulder.)

I thought it was Lupus...

Tags for this video have been changed from 'TED, Jonathan Fields, fear' to 'TED, Jonathan Fields, fear, doomsday scenario, belief, paralysis' - edited by calvados

I have a different form of sleep paralysis. I don't have any visual or audio hallucinations, but I do wake up, am aware of my surroundings, can't move whatsoever and can barely breathe. There are only two ways that I get out of this paralyzed state; 1) try breathing and moaning as loud as possible to wake my GF so she can wake me up by pushing on my body. 2) wait for it to subside.

Either way, it's pretty scary, and luckily doesn't happen that often.

I wonder if Sleep Apnea plays any role in sleep paralysis?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_apnea

I get sleep paralysis from time to time. Used to freak me out. I thought there was a ghost in my room. I could "feel" it presense. I was terrified and unable to scream. Them I would feel it slowly pushing on top of me and I thought it was trying to suffocate me. The worse one was when I felt a vibrating inside me which led me to the natural conclusion that this "ghost" was now raping me. It wasn't until I watched a documentary on sleep disorders that the penny dropped. I wonder what would happen to me if I never watched obscure docs late at night... probably be in a cult by now!

Weird thing is I still get it now and it still terrifies me but I don't hallucinate any presemce I just try and scream myself awake. Difference is I'm not freaked out after the event.
THANKYOU SCIENCE

^I've had different versions of sleep paralysis too. When I was younger, things in a dark environment would become monsters, so occasionally I'd wake up and find innocent household object knocked to the ground or broken. As I got older, I'd occasionally wake up with the weird static sound in my ears and not be able to move anything but my eyes. No demons or aliens. For me, it was linked to either stress or strong codine cough medicine. It's rare anymore, but I experienced this weird heavy eyelid syndrome that seems to be related to the phenomena the other night. Very strange and surreal.

I deal with this sleep paralysis on a regular basis. To the point now where I don't freak out anymore, but just wait until my muscles respond.

I found that sleep paralysis happens when dehydrated, completely exhausted, or just not enough sleep.

The thing is to understand that you are experiencing this, which is difficult when one part of the brain is trying to wake the rest of the body up. So a coat hanging on the door can become the gate to hell, or the cat sleeping next to you can become a spider the size of your PlayStation.

Before I knew what was happening I would come out of the paralysis violently, looking to kill the thing that isn't there anymore; fight or flight.

The best thing you can do for someone who experiences this is to help them understand the science behind this disorder.

Also see Exploding Head Syndrome. Cool stuff, which science can explain!

@ Raaagh

This is exactly the bullshit double speak that the average no-brainer 'wow i just saw a video and it was bad, therefore the whole country is baaaad' crap that makes internet discussions of this type of thing as pointless as the pre-pubescent dick swinging between your legs. So you agree that 'sanctions were bad' k, but 'the UN acted on behalf of the US'. Do you have any clue about the UN at all? About the decades of antagonism with the US, its complete paralysis during the cold war, through massive ethnic cleansing in bosnia where UN peacekeepers sat and watched and pretty much for every conflict ever since? Do you even comprehend the furore that currently exists around the UK and US interpretation of the UN mandate which was by no means a clear signal for war? No you dont, you probably dont know what UN stands for.

As for it being irrelevant, youre right - in your little video world the UN was nowhere in that shot so you havent been told an opinion on it yet. I could talk about 2007 and how the rules of engagement developed to the point the americans wouldnt fire until they had double confirmation of weapons because of incidents like this, about the brits blown up by american friendly fire and what a terrible waste of life war is generally and about a thousand other things that make the off the hand bullshit comments about 'OMG arent the americans evil' from a single clip only worthwhile on places like digg and videosift, but youre right - im not at that level. You sit on your fat consumerist arse and dont give a toss about where that keyboard you type on comes from, where the packaging it was wrapped in is now poisoning entire villages in china who burn it for 5p a sack, nah you just chucked it away. Well this war was fought to keep you in that idiot lifestyle of waste we all live in here in the west and at least i can see it, whereas you call it irrelevant. In all fairness you didnt see it in that video so how would you be expected to use the resource that is the internet for more than just typing crap in your short attention span world.

If its any consolation know i dont give a toss about your opinion, because by this time next week the top sift will be a rabbit that can chew a carrot with its arse and youll be saying its the most amazing this youve ever seeeeennn!!111!!!!

To me, every vampire fiction universe has some flaws that keep it from being ideal to my tastes, although I do enjoy at least parts of all of them. For example:

Buffy - I don't like the idea that vampires (with a few exceptions) are inherently evil because they don't have a soul. That cheapens them and turns them into guilt-free cannon fodder. Vampires should be generally evil because they have power, and have had time to be corrupted by losing their (potentially limited) human reluctance to abusing power.

Anne Rice - Look, the occasional person is actually firmly heterosexual, and no amount of time spent being undead would chip away at their inhibitions to reveal a raging omnisexual being within. Not that there's anything wrong with that. In addition, while the series starts out well with old vampires that know nothing of any god and have 'never learned any secret that would save or damn their soul', the later books are shroud of turin, god and devil obsessed dreck.

Blade (based on movies not comics) - Blade's origin doesn't seem so unique that he would be the only 'daywalker'. I also don't really like silver as a weakness for vamps -- one silver bullet grazes an arm and they are dusted? Also, 'born' vampires and vampires that can age annoy me.

Twilight - The whole weakness to sunlight thing comes down to vampires being sparkly in the sun? ...Right. In addition, Edward requires massive fortitude to resist the temptation of eating Bella if she draws blood from a tiny scratch, but there is no mention made of him having to avoid her for ... ahem ... several days a month.

Vampire the Masquerade (based on PC games) - Although I am an atheist and personally dislike Rice's later books due to overly strident religious references, the treatment of Cain of Cain/Abel as the original vampire, and his 13 fledgling vampires as the founders of 13 'clans' with different traits in VTM is quite cool. A negative is that I can't actually imagine that the masquerade-enforcing Camarilla would be able to completely keep vampires off of the human radar with anarchy loving Sabaat around. Plus stake to the heart = paralysis makes no sense.

But since we're talking fiction, there is some suspension of disbelief required anyway, so all of these flaws don't necessarily ruin the final product for me.

Anyway, sorry for the off-topic (sort of) ramblings.

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*controversy.

From the Time article linked above (the other side of the story is that the president's enemies did it to make him look bad... a bit of a stretch, but you wonder - a conspiracy to stop a leftist? Hmm....).

"Colom has said the Rosenberg video is part of a right-wing conspiracy designed to destabilize the government and ultimately bring him down. In a broadcast interview, he suggested that Rosenberg was coerced into making the video. Colom pointed to a radio journalist, Mario David Garcia, as the key link to the conspiracy. Garcia, a presidential candidate for an ultra-right-wing party in the 1980s, told TIME he helped Rosenberg record the video in his office the week before the murder. "It's outrageous. There was never any coercion," Garcia says. "I even left the office while he was recording the video." Garcia says Rosenberg came to him for help and to appear on Garcia's radio show but changed his mind and decided to record the video. (Read a story about the turmoil in Guatemala in the 1980s.)

Nevertheless, Colom supporters have seized the conspiracy theory to defend the President. "We're here in support of our President and against these lies trying to bring him down," said Anita Lopez, 32, as she rallied in front of the presidential palace on Wednesday. Students of the left-leaning public university and indigenous Mayans joined her. Many said the government bused them to the city from the suburbs.

Steps away, thousands of protesters, including students from right-leaning private universities, marched in front of the presidential palace, carrying signs calling Colom an "assassin" and demanding his resignation. The competing protests are the most visible sign of a politically charged environment that has the potential to cause Colom to resign, Isaacs says. "This country has for so long been paralyzed by the pervasive violence and the potent mix of gangs and narcotraffickers," she says. "Now that paralysis has turned into rage. And if these demonstrations pick up momentum, they could have a snowball effect.""

I always preferred the blue ringed octopus. About the size of a golf ball, no anti-venom, and once paralysis sets in, the only treatment is artificial respiration until the venom fades.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-ringed_octopus

did you not start stabbing all your videos to death as soon as you were unhobbified? that could have something to do with your current paralysis.

>> ^thinker247:
I don't like the Siftquisition, and I proved it by issuing two of them against a person and a bot who didn't deserve them.
I also don't like the HOBBITTING, because there's no timeline for the cuffs to be removed. So even after my April Fool's Day boredom and joking are gone from my system, I still can't promote great videos or Sift Talk posts, downvote comments of which I don't approve, dupeof videos that are duplicates, etc.

1. Baptized Catholic.

2. Named after a relative who was killed in the Civil War, fighting for the North.

3. Ronald McDonald was my godfather.

4. Was in many musicals, commercials, radio spots, TV shows as a kid and had a small but visible part in a well known feature film. Notable non-imdb-able credit: You can hear me singing and laughing with other kids during the credits to Poltergeist. Shannon Doherty and Chad Allen were two of my childhood friends (no, I don't keep in touch).

5. Was elected president of my elementary school. My only presidential duty was to raise the flag every morning, which I passed off to my veep.

6. Used to write 'Weird Al' style parody songs. Unfortunately, the tape on which I recorded all of these songs was lost long ago.

7. Have wide feet.

8. My first car was a used 1988 Toyota truck which I kept until 2007. It was twice broken into and thrice stolen.

9. Studied percussion and composition at USC.

10. Was in the Disneyland Christmas Toy Soldier band for two holiday seasons.

11. Did not try drugs or alcohol until I was 20.

12. Used to sell my sperm for extra income.

13. Though atheist since high school, I've twice participated in a nude pagan ritual with strippers on an isolated beach under a full moon.

14. Sleep disorders. I get night terror when I'm extremely stressed. I also occasionally sleepwalk, talk in my sleep and get sleep paralysis.

15. Hiked to the top of Half-Dome in Yosemite twice.

16. Own a fully signed Mr. Bungle New Years 2000 poster.

17. Play Theremin.

18. I've performed at Carnagie Hall, Disney Hall, The Dorothy Chandler Pavillion, among other famous venues.

19. Went to the Cannes Film Festival in 2003 with a film that I scored.

20. Scored my first (and hopefully not last) commercial feature film in 2007.

21. Played in the pit for over 100 musicals. (wonder if I've worked with guessandcheck?)

22. Haven't had cable or shopped at a Wal*Mart in a decade.

23. If I had billions of dollars, I would design video games and theme parks.

24. VS is the only online community I've ever become a part of.

25. Six inches, but girthy.