we *can* work together, the problem is that most of the time we don't *want* to work together. Humanity is still very much ego driven and selfish. We'd still rather compete than cooperate

How do you convince someone who has "made it" that in all probability, they were merely lucky. How many success stories can be boiled down to basically right place, right time. I'm not saying don't work hard..quite the opposite....hard work/skill combined with luck is what usually equals success. If you only have one or the other, things won't move forward.

most of the atrocities committed by humans in our history have usually been committed by people who thought they were "deserving" or thought the universe was on their side" when bzzt...wrong...please try again. The fact that they were defeated kinda proves that they weren't

but yet..try to convince someone that they are not "the chosen" "the pre-ordained" and you'll likely have better success talking to a brick wall.

Just the other day I had to work with a programmer who thought his coding was "divine providence" (his words)

When the day comes when we can successfully and consistently compartmentalize and/or shut off our ego when needed, humanity is going to leap forward.

Totally unable to suspend disbelief on this one.

That kid's response is based nowhere in reality. No kid in the middle of a game would just sort of shrug and do the frowny eyebrow-raise if it shut off. He would have been immediately screaming "WTF!" or some variant thereof.

And like @Zawash said, what stupidly unrealistic functioning of electronic devices. That I can live with, but the fraudulent human behavior is unforgivable.

I am gonna guess that that arcing along the lines was a dead short and it arced until the transformer on that pole @:42 exploded. The sound of arcing electricity continues after the transformer blew so until the power stops traveling (melts wires/breaks continuity or power along grid is shut off/destroys itself), it continues.
2013 and we still use wires above ground....y'oud think we'd be further along-Thank the J.P. Morgan types of the world for arcane tech they can still milk for greenbacks.

I've always wondered about this because it shuts off like 5 or 6 times every time I pump gas on my car! So annoying.

When my goddamn gas tank isn't full that's when it shuts off... fucking asshole gas pumps. I wanna turn a crank goddamnit make that shit overflow... this is murica!

I was just wondering about this the other day. At the gas station I go to, some of the pumps have different nozzles for whatever reason. With the blue ones, it shuts off and won't give any more when my tank is only 3/4 full. With the green ones I can fill it up all the way. It's pretty annoying and didn't happen with my old car.

edit: Oh, and not that he necessarily is, but doesn't it strike you that the guy presenting comes off as a little too dim to be presenting this sort of video?

The existence of the furry subculture has spoiled this for me. I can't quite shake the feeling that he's going to shut off the camera and go get fucked by a zebra or something.

@eric3579, here is a transcript. So you can get the info without the annoying delivery:


And finally, New Rule: there are scandals, and then there are scandals. And perspective is important. Yes, to explain Benghazi, Susan Rice used talking points. But at least she didn't have to read them off her hand! [graphic of Palin looking into her palm]

Now this week, someone was taken off a cross-country flight in handcuffs for singing "I Will Always Love You" for three straight hours. And that's still fewer times has said "Benghazi". I've seen this woman [Megyn Kelly] say Benghazi on my TV so many times, I don't know if it's a problem with the set, or I'm in an Asian horror movie, and there's a monster named Benghazi.

Congressman and friend of Real Time Darrell Issa is the Chairman of the Oversight Committee, and as most Californians know, he made his fortune in car alarms. And now, ironically, has become a loud, repetitive, but ultimately pointless device that you wish to God someone would shut off so you could get some sleep. (audience applause)

But here's the difference between Darrell Issa and a car alarm. Sometimes when a car alarm goes off, there's an actual crime. I keep looking for the crime here, I feel like Reese Witherspoon arguing with the cop. Why are you arresting me? Susan Rice said "mob" instead of "al-Qaeda"? Obama said "act of terror" instead of "terrorist act"?

Republicans are constantly coming up with these never before stated secret rules, that they only tell you about once you've broken them.

"You don't make important speeches from a teleprompter!"

OK.

"No golfing until we have a budget!"

All right.

"Thou shalt not criticize the President when he's on foreign soil, unless he's a Democrat, of course, then it's OK."

Congressman Peter King thundered that the President was almost four minutes into his first Benghazi statement before he mentioned an act of terror! Ah yes, the four-minute rule. Fuck, how could I forget?!

'Scuse me, Nixon ran a burglary ring out of the Oval Office. Reagan traded arms with terrorists. Bush ginned up a war where thousands died by sending Colin Powell to lie to the UN with props, remember that? He turned an American hero into General Carrot Top! But I let it go. I said this is the business we've chosen.

But please, don't tell me that freedom died because Susan Rice broke the scared bond between citizens and talk shows. In a poll this week, 4 in 10 Republicans said Benghazi is the worst scandal in American history. Second worst? Kanye West snatching the mic from Taylor Swift.

If you think Benghazi is worse than slavery, the Trail of Tears, Japanese internment, Tuskegee, purposefully injecting Guatemalan mental patients with syphilis, lying about WMDs, and the fact that banks today are still foreclosing on mortgages they don't own, then your hard-on for Obama has lasted more than four hours, and you need to call a doctor. (wild audience cheering and applause)

And while the press has been occupied with scandal, the biggest scandal, and the most important story of the century so far, happened last week. Scientists reported that the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has passed the long-feared milestone of 400 parts per million. And unless you're a chimney sweep, that's bad news. Because humans have never lived through it.

You think Susan Rice gave bogus talking points about Benghazi? What about the bullshit talking points the entire Republican Party has been spewing on climate change since the 90s? (audience applause)

I wanna see the e-mails to find out who came up with the talking points that global warming is just a theory, and that it needs more study, and climate change is a hoax. The Obama administration isn't dirty, the air is.

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Ive tried shutting off the engine in my vehicle mid ride, it also happened to shut off the power steering. at high speeds, not a good idea.


Not a good idea at high speeds? You don't really need powersteering at highway speeds, at all. What IS dangerous when messing with your ignition key is the fact that the steering wheel lock will engage if you pull your key out of the ignition, and THAT'S not very much fun in high speeds.

Ive tried shutting off the engine in my vehicle mid ride, it also happened to shut off the power steering. at high speeds, not a good idea.

Something I have come to realize now that I am engaged: Many women really do not understand the fact that most men are just as much under the effect of hormones as they are. And they NEVER shut off.

It should never be an excuse for men OR women. But it is something that couples should at least understand.

I was driving my '87 VW Scirroco home when it suddenly just shut off. The motor just stopped producing power but made no noises of any type. I rolled to the side of the road. The timing belt had snapped and the motor had proceeded to jam the pistons into the valves. It was totaled.

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Odd that they're not trying to shut off the cameras. I guess they want to show the world how much worse than the US they are. Sad.

Interesting spin. You should work for Fox.


Volatile much?

Odd that they're not trying to shut off the cameras. I guess they want to show the world how much worse than the US they are. Sad.