Stuff like this makes people stitch to Bernie.

Dirty politics.

That is a still panoramic picture, so yes it is a stitch error.

We can't tell what kind of drone it is, nor its size. The broken prop in the frame at the end is cracked like it's carbon fibre, not GFRP or straight plastic. Have you ever been struck by a drone prop? I have. It hurts. I had stitches. I still have scars.

I can't speak to the feminist portion of your question. I am not a feminist; more of a humanist, really. I could assume that having a related ideology might make her jokes more palatable, but it would be only a base assumption.

I asked my wife to view this clip on youtube, without reading the comments on this link. She is not a feminist either, so I simply asked her as a woman, did she find this funny? She said that clip was "mildly amusing" but she did not believe me when I told her that Amy was one of the top female comedians right now. Bear in mind that we don't watch cable, only Netflix and Prime, so she has not had exposure to her comedy skits on Inside Amy Schumer.

I do think Tina Fey is funny for the most part. I love Iliza Shlesinger. Kathleen Madigan puts me in stitches. I would say that this clip https://youtu.be/4wzpYDnqhiI is hilarious and meets your aforementioned criteria. The thing is, I personally find that clip hilarious, and I can't really say that about most of Ms. Schumer's work.

I liked it but the whole film needed more Max (dystopian, low on water, low on oil, low on order, seemingly endless wasteland)... less McMarvel (smooth scene stitching, endless action). I mean all the cars are in pretty good order because there is order in the wasteland this time around

I own about 15 kitchen knives, none of which cost more than roughly $10 individually -- and most under $5 or so. I don't have very well developed knife skills, so I am fairly hard on knives (as eluded to in the video). But, replacing a $5-$10 knife when I mistreat it won't break the bank.

I'm sure my slow, clumsy cutting would make any professional chef weep or facepalm, but I am not an overpriced restaurant worried about the judgements of strangers. And even my meager skills are plenty adequate enough to reduce any food item that I purchase into smaller, bite-sized pieces of food item. Plus I've never lopped off a finger or cut myself bad enough to require stitches or medical attention or anything.

So, I'm happy enough with my cheapo knives and subpar (but adequate) skills in using them. The video does provide good general advice though!

There was an interview with Charlie Cox, the lead actor, on Slashfilm today. He's also saying it's actually one shot. I mean, I guess everyone involved could be lying, but why? It's impressive either way.

http://www.slashfilm.com/daredevil-fight-scene/

Charlie Cox: It was incredible. It was as a special day as it was to as the scene has turned out. We dedicated our whole day to it. The first half of the day was just the camera movements. And then we got into, it was as you know it’s one take, so we had to get everything right. Each attempt that we had at it. And it’s incredibly tricky because it’s not like a long tracking shot with two people speaking, it’s a long tracking shot with people punching. And if one punch doesn’t land, it no longer works. It ceases to work as a scene. So I think we did it 12 times. I think three of them we made it all the way through to the end. And one of them was the one in the show, which is kind of almost flawless. I mean, it’s very hard to pick holes in that.

Peter Sciretta: So its really not stitched together at all?

Charlie Cox: No, that’s one take.

'Zactly. Carry 14 stitches on my left forearm from our 'domesticated' raccoon in its 3rd year of living in the house. Is now a hat.

It was much more pleasing to laugh out loud at each of those than it would have been to have succeeded at holding it in the whole time.

Good videos. That dog had me in stitches. Is that sifted all by itself? I want to show it to my kids.

*doublepromote

This had two nine-year-old boys in stitches, laughing uncontrollably, yet also feeling sorry for the poor little tyke. Compassion was there, but they laughed and laughed...

My post is not hyperbole, but actual personal observation.



You also have to factor in cost+ funding.

On one hand, it's necessary. Because you don't know how much something truly new will cost - you haven't done it before. You'll discover as you go.
It would be unfair to bind a company to a fixed cost, when nobody knows what the cost will be. It's mathematically unreasonable to entertain a fixed cost on new technologies.

(Granted, everyone gives silly lowballed best-case estimates when bidding. Anyone that injects a sense of reality into their bid is too costly and doesn't get the contract).

On the other hand, cost+ means that you make more money by spending more money. So hiring hordes of nobodies for every little task, making 89347589374 different position titles, is only gonna make you more money. There's no incentive to save.



F35 wise, like I said, it's not designed for any war we fight now.
It's designed for a war we could fight in the future.
Because you don't start designing weapons when you're in a war, you give your best effort to have them already deployed, tested, and iterated into a good sustainable state, before the onset of a conflict that could require them.

F35 variations are not complicated. The VTOL variation is the only one with any complexity. The others are no more complex than historical variations from early to late blocks of any given airframe.

The splitting of manufacturing isn't in itself a complication ridden approach. It's rather normal for different companies to work on unrelated systems. Airframe will go somewhere, avionics elsewhere, engine elsewhere, etc. That's basically a given, because different companies specialize in different things.

Keep in mind that the large prime contracts (Lockheed/GD/etc) don't actually "make" many things. They are systems integrators. They farm out the actual development for most pieces (be it in house contractors or external contractors - because they are easy to let go after the main dev is over), and they themselves specialize in stitching the pieces together. Connecting things is not difficult when they are designed with specified ICDs from the get-go. The black boxes just plug up to each other and go.

The issues that arise are often a matter of playing telephone. With one sub needing to coordinate with another sub, but they have to go through the prime, and the prime is filtering everything through a bunch of non-technical managers. Most problems are solved in a day or two when two subs physically get their engineers together and sort out any miscommunications (granted, contracts and process might not allow them the then fix the problem in a timely and affordable manner).

The F22 and F35 issues are not major insurmountable tasks. The hardest flaws are things that can be fixed in a couple months tops on the engineering side. What takes time is the politics. Engineers can't "just fix it". There's no path forward for that kind of work.

Sure, in a magic wonderland you could tell them "here, grab the credit card, buy what you need, make any changes you need, and let us know when you're done" - and a little while later you'd have a collection of non-approved, non-reviewed, non-traceable, non-contractually-covered changes that "just fix the damn thing"... and you'd also have to incur the wrath of entire departments who were denied the opportunity to validate their existence. The 'high paid welfare' system would be all over your ass.

-scheherazade

I had all the stitching replaced in my old (Red & Black) Air Jordan High Tops and had the heel re-inforced.
When I took them in, he looked at me funny. But the shoes were $170 and made entirely of leather. I just told him to do what he could and not to worry if it didn't work out.

What I got back was like a completely new pair of shoes. And the heels were built up solid. That guy was amazing. I paid the $40 and was on my way...

Edit: they looked just these: http://cdn.sneakernews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/air-jordan-1-vntg-banned.jpg

Well, for example, I went to a "shoe repair" guy when my soles needed replacement and the guy said he could repair them. When I picked them up they were horrible, the stitching was all off. The sole wasn't replaced. Basically old school is an art that is cultivated over years and decades of training and apprenticeship.

Actually the rolling stone quote is :

The grand finale was stitched together from 44 separate takes (using 2,328 people), but the high-tech editing doesn't diminish its visual impact.

As long as long as grand finale means just that last LED sky shot I don't think it takes much away from the accomplishment.