>> ^quantumushroom:
Where is Canada? If America can pay for all the Mexican illegal invaders' emergency room visits, shouldn't CANADA, who believes the WHOLE WORLD should have "free" health care, step in and rescue this poor woman?


SOMETIMES WE DO. YOU'RE WELCOME.

We also fight your war.


*edit*

There are plenty of recorded incidents where U.S. citizens cross the border, and go see Canadian doctors. Your ignorance is astounding, your argument patently false and indicative of many of your nations citizens who are poorly educated about Canada.


The Difference between Canadian health care and American health care.

"On average, U.S. citizens experience some of the shortest wait times for non-emergency
surgeries among industrialized countries, although the waiting times vary considerably by
procedure [11]. Furthermore, the short waiting times apply mainly to those who have insurance;
for those who do not, the waiting line is arguably infinite."

See the words "for those who do not" in this report on a comparison between US and Canadian waiting times. Yeah, we have some pretty weak things that are going on in our country, in regards to health care. No one is perfect. However, that line, that simple statement "for those who do not" does not exist in Canada.

That is why any argument you can put forward, ie. advances in equipment, wait times, or by my accounts minimal (or, in redneck, - fascist) government oversight, or the treatment of our aboriginal population, any of these arguments fall flat in the face of these following arguments

- Everyone is on the waiting lists that need to be, yet the quality of care does not go down, and we live longer, and people can move up on the waiting lists in case of urgency. (If you show up at the emergency room and need an operation or procedure to save your life, it is provided, free of cost, as with your recuperation and aftercare. Waiting lists are in part a result of brain drain to your stupid country where doctors are paid more, to prescribe unnecessary care to people who don't know any better to enlarge their paychecks, while patients are dropped at fire halls upon discovery that they are uninsured, disgusting behavior I might add.)

- Everyone, including the aboriginal populations in our country, get health care, instead of being denied. Fuck, you almost completed a genocide against your population, am I incorrect? Anyways, I digress. What I love about our system, is an accurate quote from an msnbc article, that reads, "Most have made their appointments that day. None will receive a bill." - You also tax your citizens to go to war in far flung corners of the earth for national security, a government run entity, and yet you balk at the very idea of sending tax dollars towards health care, which SHOULD be a government run organization.

- Our prescription drugs cost much less in our country because pharmaceutical war- i mean, druglords, aren't giving us hourly corporate mandated rectal exams here in the great white north. Huzza! That is why there is a billion dollar industry for us, and that market comes from desperate Americans, unable to afford the medicine that allows them to function, add to their economy, be productive in their society, and not worry about their health care, and thus are free to pursue their liberty, and justice for all. Cue Metallica. (?)

Idiot.

>> ^fford:
this is a dupe
http://www.videosift.com/video/Horror-Film-Guns-Commerical


*dupeof=http://www.videosift.com/video/Horror-Film-Guns-Commerical

Ugg, this was the longest-shortest video ever.

>> ^chilaxe:
^
"Most religious groups in USA have lost ground, survey finds" (USA Today, 3/10/09).
The least risky way to make predictions is to start with the data .


Largest amount of ownage in shortest amount of posting space award goes to........................ CHILAXE! Get up here and make a speech.

shortest stellar post evar! u rock.

My understanding going into this video and before reading the comments:

Everything (simplifying) radiates energy, which we visualise as a wave, and we label emitted energy as the electromagnetic spectrum.

Radio waves are just part of the electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) in the same way as light is. They just have a certain frequency (or wavelength). For different ranges of frequencies of the EMS, you get different types of rays as we know it. Gamma rays, x-rays, UV rays, visible light, infrared, microwave, and finally radio waves. Gamma rays have the shortest wavelength and radio waves have the longest wavelength. They are all the exact same thing.

The longer the wavelength, the less energy the wave has and thus shorter wavelength = higher energy.

So for example, the sun. The sun is extremely hot and so emits a LOT of energy and so produces very high energy emissions including (amongst other things) light waves, which we can see with our eyes.

Saturn however is very cold and so the energy it emits is very low, meaning that it emits low frequency waves. The lowest frequency waves are what we refer to as radio waves.

So feed those radio waves into your average radio. The radio uses various algorithms and stuff to decode the signal that it recieves (a radio wave) into sound (another type of wave, unrelated and dissimilar), that we detect with our ears. The algorithms will do what they do and we get what you hear here.

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That's what i think, anyway. Dunno HOW the waves are produced, but the previous comment seems a reasonable source. I'll ask my dad tomorrow and let you know.

Yeah, it was a good idea to post that siftalk. I'll think about it and see if I want a video or two to be posted there.

In reply to this comment by alien_concept:
Well I guess that we all don't have the same favourites as other people do of ours, but at least we might try to get as much votes on one or two vids as possible in the shortest space of time. Post whatever you want up there mate, or nothing. Just tryin to fix shit if at all possible

In reply to this comment by mauz15:
Thanks but I actually did not like the fact those 5 videos of mine were my top ones. =]

In reply to this comment by alien_concept:
http://love.videosift.com/talk/Post-Your-Top-Ever-Vid-Here

Well I guess that we all don't have the same favourites as other people do of ours, but at least we might try to get as much votes on one or two vids as possible in the shortest space of time. Post whatever you want up there mate, or nothing. Just tryin to fix shit if at all possible

In reply to this comment by mauz15:
Thanks but I actually did not like the fact those 5 videos of mine were my top ones. =]

In reply to this comment by alien_concept:
http://love.videosift.com/talk/Post-Your-Top-Ever-Vid-Here

Who ever said a man couldn't do 2 things at the same time? walking, peeing and calculating the shortest path from the left to the right side of this video. Pure genious!

Fun.

SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
So This Is Love

WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
I Fucked Your Wife

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
Calling from Hell

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
Summer's Gone

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
Everybody's Talkin'

WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
The Shortest Straw

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Feel Good Hit of the Summer

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR PARENTS?
No Love Lost

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
Ice Queen

WHAT IS 2+2?
Away From The Numbers

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
Burn

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Creature of the Wheel

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Unto Others

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
Bombtrack

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Locked and Loaded

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
Hate Kill Destroy

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
He Who Sought the Fire

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Reaping Stone

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
Benighted

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Restless

WHATS THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?
Anything

HOW WILL YOU DIE?
Day Tripper

WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?
Darts

WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
Goodbye Blue Sky

WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
Abandoned, Pleased, Brainwashed, Exploited

WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?
Pushit

WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?
In Winter

DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?
Call of the Zombie

IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?
Allegro Assai

WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?
Vengeance is Mine

Mate, i think you've completely misread my post.

I'm saying that political correctness (ie. the need to enforce "black history month", the need to force people to say "chalk board" instead of "black board") is, i would say in most cases, counter-active to racial equality. And that's what morgan freeman is saying.

Racial equality is when no one even thinks about the need for black history month. To draw one's own connotations of racism from any use of the word "black" and ban it as a result is counter productive.

What i suggest IS treating others with respect. I hope i'm clearer now, i'm sure we're talking about the same thing.

I'm sure we agree on this matter and this is a misunderstanding, otherwise i don't understand your viewpoint at all!

In reply to this comment by dystopianfuturetoday:
>> ^dannym3141:
I've always said this for years, as long as we have political correctness - ie. the need to enforce necessary AND UNNECESSARY changes to how we communicate - racism will never be gone. You draw attention to racism and i would say encourage racism by kicking up a fuss when someone demands that we use "chalkboard" for "blackboard".
This world has enough problems with racism without searching for it around every corner. Something that a lot of activists fail to realise.


I knew these words were going to be forced into some kind of conservative political ideological mold.

Morgan Freeman isn't suggesting we ignore racism. After all, MLK, Malcolm X and Rosa Parks' 'fuss kicking' brought equal rights under the law to everyone. Freeeman is merely saying that black history should be included as a year-round part of American history, and not relegated to the shortest month of the year.

Also, I don't get people who have such a huge problem with treating others with respect. Is the social pressure to say Asian instead of oriental really that oppressive to you?

>> ^dannym3141:
I've always said this for years, as long as we have political correctness - ie. the need to enforce necessary AND UNNECESSARY changes to how we communicate - racism will never be gone. You draw attention to racism and i would say encourage racism by kicking up a fuss when someone demands that we use "chalkboard" for "blackboard".
This world has enough problems with racism without searching for it around every corner. Something that a lot of activists fail to realise.


I knew these words were going to be forced into some kind of conservative political ideological mold.

Morgan Freeman isn't suggesting we ignore racism. After all, MLK, Malcolm X and Rosa Parks' 'fuss kicking' brought equal rights under the law to everyone. Freeeman is merely saying that black history should be included as a year-round part of American history, and not relegated to the shortest month of the year.

Also, I don't get people who have such a huge problem with treating others with respect. Is the social pressure to say Asian instead of oriental really that oppressive to you?

>> ^daxgaz:
I had to down-vote this sift. I realize the games are awful and i feel bad for anyone who gets one as a present. however, from their site:
"With a small elite team of 6 people ...
...We boast the shortest time required from development to product release in the industry. Ordinarily the average development period for a game is 18 months, whereas Phoenix need a mere 3-5 months."
I work in the game industry and I can read between the lines and know what this actually means. Those six guys probably sleep at the office more than at home. if they have kids, they might as well be orphans and I would bet they don't get paid overtime. I have been through a situation like this (i started my career at the infamous 3DO) and I know that even good people will make a crap product when put in a situation like this.
So, while I understand why others ridicule them, i can't do it myself. walk a mile in another mans shoes, etc...


Nope, it's no excuse... it's like saying "Look, all these knock off brand sneakers, glasses, bags etc. may be absolute shit, but come on, let's not point out how bad quality they are because people who aren't doing very well make them"

Nope, doesn't cut it. Yeah you can feel bad for people down on their luck, but these are people with at least the education required to be able to code, so they should be doing better than this. And even with a short turn around time they aren't EVEN TRYING. Come on, you get together a bunch of your mates and I GUARANTEE you can get better written and performed voice work than this... it doesn't take more TIME it takes SOME CARE.

So I think downvoting this is the wrong attitude, you don't hide shite quality like this and allow them to keep making it, you call them out on it and make them lift their shitty little game a bit and actually... TRY.

Also, just pumping out copies of other things. BAH, at least try to make something vaguely original.

No sympathy.

>> ^daxgaz:
I had to down-vote this sift. I realize the games are awful and i feel bad for anyone who gets one as a present. however, from their site:
"With a small elite team of 6 people ...
...We boast the shortest time required from development to product release in the industry. Ordinarily the average development period for a game is 18 months, whereas Phoenix need a mere 3-5 months."
I work in the game industry and I can read between the lines and know what this actually means. Those six guys probably sleep at the office more than at home. if they have kids, they might as well be orphans and I would bet they don't get paid overtime. I have been through a situation like this (i started my career at the infamous 3DO) and I know that even good people will make a crap product when put in a situation like this.
So, while I understand why others ridicule them, i can't do it myself. walk a mile in another mans shoes, etc...


yep, I work in the games industry too - but the bottom line is, you can't be proud of a game that is best described as 'avoid'

|These are cheap cheap games, made on the cheap. And yes, even if you are very talented - you will not be able to produce much of quality in such a short time frame. But still....the London driving game, I mean...come on!!

I had to down-vote this sift. I realize the games are awful and i feel bad for anyone who gets one as a present. however, from their site:

"With a small elite team of 6 people ...
...We boast the shortest time required from development to product release in the industry. Ordinarily the average development period for a game is 18 months, whereas Phoenix need a mere 3-5 months."

I work in the game industry and I can read between the lines and know what this actually means. Those six guys probably sleep at the office more than at home. if they have kids, they might as well be orphans and I would bet they don't get paid overtime. I have been through a situation like this (i started my career at the infamous 3DO) and I know that even good people will make a crap product when put in a situation like this.

So, while I understand why others ridicule them, i can't do it myself. walk a mile in another mans shoes, etc...