>> ^Hybrid:
sweatypalms


I've got sweaty palms just from watching this sift!

On a different note if he falls does a pointy eared green-blooded alien wearing rocket boots catch him by the ankles?

I think culture can be used to affect evolution. Not always in a good way, though. The fact that the intelligent don't fuck as often as the dumb is kind of scary to me.

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I think it's simply a cultural evolution. We're breaking out of a 20 year oppression from freedom of speech known as "political correctness". I was listening to Louis CK the other day in an interview from a couple of years ago and he mentioned that his comedy used to be more "silly" and nonsense. He hadn't really found a voice for himself until this one joke that he told.

Half expecting the audience to gasp, he told them that he had a 3 year old daughter that was a "fucking asshole". The audience erupted with laughter. He then built on that joke and the next time he went on stage he told the first part, then said "I get the whole 'baby in the dumpster' thing". The crowd was dying of laughter. From story of personal evolution of an act, I deduce that we're all adjusting our compasses. We still know what ignorance is from the days of political correctness, but we're no longer afraid to offend others. We're now entering the "You don't have the right to not be offended" era.

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indeed. i'm wondering if the popularity of that type of comedy is indicative of some sort of positive trend in the evolution of the human consciousness. or maybe i'm just grasping for positive trends among the less interesting aspects of a singular species destroying the planet.



ha! delightful. "get over yourself comedy"! def. a far cry from amos and andy.
spot on. hopefully we are getting less petty as a species.
i've been kicking around the connection between evolution of the consciousness and cultural/societal evolution. something about w/out culture/society we'd be jabbing eachother with pointy sticks. culture as either an evolution lubricant or as the primary propellant. the pretty hip too on the idea of the internet, being a cultural phenomenon, propelling evolution based on information exchange.

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
I think it's simply a cultural evolution. We're breaking out of a 20 year oppression from freedom of speech known as "political correctness". I was listening to Louis CK the other day in an interview from a couple of years ago and he mentioned that his comedy used to be more "silly" and nonsense. He hadn't really found a voice for himself until this one joke that he told.

Half expecting the audience to gasp, he told them that he had a 3 year old daughter that was a "fucking asshole". The audience erupted with laughter. He then built on that joke and the next time he went on stage he told the first part, then said "I get the whole 'baby in the dumpster' thing". The crowd was dying of laughter. From story of personal evolution of an act, I deduce that we're all adjusting our compasses. We still know what ignorance is from the days of political correctness, but we're no longer afraid to offend others. We're now entering the "You don't have the right to not be offended" era.

In reply to this comment by criticalthud:
indeed. i'm wondering if the popularity of that type of comedy is indicative of some sort of positive trend in the evolution of the human consciousness. or maybe i'm just grasping for positive trends among the less interesting aspects of a singular species destroying the planet.



ha! delightful. "get over yourself comedy"! def. a far cry from amos and andy.
spot on. hopefully we are getting less petty as a species.
i've been kicking around the connection between evolution of the consciousness and cultural/societal evolution. something about w/out culture/society we'd be jabbing eachother with pointy sticks. culture as either an evolution lubricant or as the primary propellant. the pretty hip too on the idea of the internet, being a cultural phenomenon, propelling evolution based on information exchange.

Beware the Two-Apple-Beast of Aaaargh! It has pointy teeth and will attack without warning. LOOKOUT! It moved! SEE?! Told you it moved.

Mexicans reinventing techno and comparing designs on the laptops - looks like the complete opposite to me.

>> ^rottenseed:

Whenever you want to see what people did for entertainment before TV and the internet, look at Mexico.

>> ^rottenseed:

Whenever you want to see what people did for entertainment before TV and the internet, look at Mexico.


That's hilarious racism right there.

Taste mah pointy hat o' death!!

Oh man this is an awesome clip.

BTW, water can be manipulated with electric fields; at >10 Tesla you can make it levitate. Since magneto is constantly lifting huge metal-ish things, it makes some sense that he'd also be able to lift people, pointy-animals, cacti, sewer-water, etc., and fling them at enemies.

... most of the time artists under a deadline just pulled superhero ideas out of their ass, often with random limitations or 'kryptonites', and if it worked they ran with it.


(... here's a random citation, because why not)

Even though it's gimmicky, I'll keep playing my Bulletstorm and maybe Crysis 2 (you know, a real engine). These games also don't need to suck the U.S. Military Industrial Complex's Dick at every turn.

I'm so tired of military shooters and even sci-fi shooters (and that includes Crysis, but Crysis saved itself with an amazing engine and sandbox gameplay, "an Oblivion FPS") that have to have their military command and objective structure, copying each other, not too mention they all come out from basically the same three companies...

I still think the engine to beat is the Crysis or Crytek's engine. To me it would be great for everything from RPGs to puzzlers, but they don't have the toolset like Unreal does. You can look at the top FPS games across the board and all of them but Bulletstorm have a military oriented gameplay or mechanic driving it. To an old-school gamer it's incredibly frustrating to have such a bland choice of games.

They are ALL the same except for textures, voice work, animation, and what comes out the tip of the big pointy thing. Exciting... I'd rather play Crysis I over again and again, or Portal, or Half-Life 2... Sorry, but Halo goes in with the ad nauseum group.

Indeed, check on murder rates for other countries and you get an interesting picture. Turns out, you can still commit murder without a gun. Or even suicide rates , self directed violence. Death by gun is a red herring in larger human condition of pain and misery. There are high levels of death and crime in many states that have complete gun control, which should come as no surprise. Turns out, humans are basically viscous apes, give him a stick or a gun and he will make an attempt to take what isn't his. I propose to ban pointy sticks, they have been a problem for much longer than guns.

The real question is why would you treat someone who has committed no crime against his fellow man as a criminal. It is the EXACT same question as the drug war. Sure the crack head MIGHT do something bad, but as long as he hasn't leave him the fuck alone.

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Do not taunt the nuclear razorblades after they have learned to throw sharp pointy objects with a degree of accuracy.

And why the hell are the crazy ones so much better in bed......

She has the Abilities of a blender and emotional stabilizability of a pcp addict. Good times!

True story, Dated a red head for a couple of years. I was working Hazmat response to a large corporations computer chip manufacturing plant. After being at work for about 36 hours do to rather nasty accident. I went home. No one was living with me at the time and I had not given her a key yet so I closed and locked the door put the chain on it. Took a long shower and crashed. A couple of hours later I felt her snuggle up to me and I thought how nice. Then It hit me. I live on the damn 5th floor and the only way in to the apt was to climb up the balcony's outside. I swear I hit the ceiling when I jumped out of bed...

@blankfist, I'm glad you see fascism in the tea party now.

I'm against them, as I always have been.

I don't see how reasoning with them is possible -- they live in a world that operates on its own facts, and have for years now.

I've tried several times to point out that you and I should be on the same side -- against the tea party -- but usually you've been cheering them on, because they've been calling Obama and Democrats Nazis.

Still, I'll take another ally, even at this late hour.

As for the elitist smugness, think that's all in the eye of the beholder. I think conservatives have always acted out of a sort of ignorant smugness -- that gut "common sense" is always superior to those of us with book learnin' who use big fancy words (like Keynesian).

Personally, I think it's amazing that an ideology that valorizes the elites in our society has somehow painted the ideology of egalitarianism as being somehow "elitist". It's another amazing feat of up-is-downism propaganda.

It's also more of the cult of victimization that fuels fascism at work -- if someone points out that your deeply held preconceptions are based on faulty reasoning or incorrect facts, you can just tell yourself it's another pointy-headed socialist disrespecting you, and when we put those traitors into camps, they'll be made to see the error of their ways...

I'm curious about what this says about the rest of the NRA logic defending "Bearing Arms"... How this any more / less deadly than a hand gun? it's pointy? it doesn't make a bang? it's painfully slow to reload? I can own a machine gun - and bring it to a political rally... but not this? >> ^NordlichReiter:

These are very illegal.
In fact there is a federal law banning ballistic knives which was laid down in 1986.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s099-2411

Not sure where up north means to you. In Ohio they might redo a road (freeway/highway) every 5-7 years unless there is some sort of catastrophic problem like supports failing or someone striking the supports. Most of the roads go longer than that for full replacement. They obviously do pothole patching and small resurfacing on roads that need it at least once a year, although this has become more of a potluck thing with the economy. Lots and lots of side streets are going un-repaired while they redo entire neighborhoods using the stimulus money. Which...this is happening because they funnel all the money through 2-3 huge road crew companies like Kokosing and these guys aren't going to hire on 4x the crew to complete the jobs quick...they will stretch it out until the economy improves so they can keep who they have working.

I can't comment on how strong this glass may be, but a lot of those "unbreakable" screens break and those "unscratchable" screens scratch. So if all it takes is a focused amount of pressure, a screwdriver or big pointy rock being run over by a loaded semi might be all it takes.

Newer finish layer asphalt, when it's black or a really dark grey is pretty flexible. Especially if it's a hot day outside, it'll flex into nearly an L shape before breaking and folding in the size a man could carry. And in truth most roads freshly installed are made up of probably 3-4 layers of asphalt, 1 or 2 base layers (rockier than finish), and probably 2 finish layers..if not more. Depends on how many times they have to redo it to make the surfaces of all the lanes smooth.



>> ^GeeSussFreeK:

They have crazy glass man. This ain't your bay windows. You are talking titanium level resistance to heat and cold, fracture and the like. Like he said, we know LOTS about glass. It is less about "can we", and more about "how we". 15 Years for a normal road is pretty unlikely in most of the country. Up north, it is about once a year because of the extreme ice and water damage. This on the other hand could power its own deicing system most likely (which he talks about in other videos, this is old news). It is great to see that he has a working model now. I don't know if I like the idea of wireless in there, hackers and what not. I would still keep tethered control to all that, which shouldn't be hard at all. I don't know that it is reasonable for it to act like a bridge and not a road. If the water washes away its support base...like a normal road, it collapsing is par for course, roads shouldn't be over-engineered to be bridges unless the cost is free. Also, if the road has power, you could have pressure sensors on it to feel for road imbalance issues which is much better than having to deal with potholes. I wonder about traction issues in rain. It could channel water much better than asphalt, but what if it is saturated? Then again, running my own hand against this glass surface with a lot of weight has a pretty high resistance.