I'm no monarchist. But you're tilting at windmills. The symbolism you speak of is dead, because everyone knows how ridiculous they are. The government treats them with disdain and are always cleaning up after one of them goes gobbing off. The constitutional veto that the Queen nominally has, for example, would be impossible for her to exercise.

The British tourism industry is based almost entirely on the history of the Royal family and the USP is that we still have one - they're not just figures from history, we have, as Mr Stanhope points out, the genuine article still in residence. It's a zoo.

Okay, to me it looked more like he was getting his elbow out of the way... tucking it in which causes his shoulder and head to tilt (hope that makes sense).
Watched it several times...

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That's a good point actually, if the wind was strong enough, the bike would be tilted right over to counterbalance it, but without the inertia of cornering, so you'd have your body pressed against the side of the bike.

Overworked, exhausted, and in 'fuck this fucking job' mode here seen on his last day before being blacklisted from the oilfield AND trucking industry, not to mention being barred form ever returning to the state of ND after serving time there.

A condition referred to as, 'full-tilt' and he'll be lucky if they give him the spoke key to a bicycle after this.

(bet he has some hardcore metal or most likely, some sheit ghetto-rap cranked-up to 11 on his stereo and couldn't even hear the thunks from the beams on his boom....at least you'd like think so.)

@ChaosEngine

I will venture that "socialization" of the means of production can remain separate from their "nationalization," and also their only possible compliance with non-aggression while contributing to free-market prosperity, comes -- if by "means of production" we mean, not the built factories, railroads, whatever, but the allowance of such building. That is, if we socialize "intellectual property."

As such, patents plain and simple legally restrict "the means of production" to those who own them. Socialism, when it comes to IP, does make sense. It makes no sense, however, when it comes to scarce goods.

In this regard, Wilhelm Reich's "Mass Psychology of Fascism" (PDF) is a good book to read on this subject as it goes a long way towards explaining the mass appeal of the state. He may focus too much on irrational drives, and remains stuck in untenable syndicalist ideas, but here we must distinguish thymological irrationality from praxeological "irrationality." Praxeologically, humans are always rational, never irrational.

For this, I think it'd be interesting to put Reich's theory next to "public choice" theory for a more complete picture, but then, we'd need to have an intelligent discourse rather than the name-calling and epithets I've come to expect.

While this may all seem rather academic, this discourse has many practical uses, like understanding the chances of reversing social trends towards statism, etc. since it seems to me that a Manichean system, with a mix of chaos and order dominating, and periodic tilts towards one end (chaos, nazism, communism) or the other (order, rationalism, anarchy), can serve social orders like a yin-yang with neither pole ever dominating totally or for long.

Would have been even better if shot with a proper tilt/shift lens, but that is details..

*promote tilt shifts!

yeah fake, no way a plane that big tilts around that fast.

Thanks!
(Gotta make some of my own some day - I have a 24mm tilt/shift lens.. )

I love tilt shifts! *promote

Love the Michael Jackson tilt to his hat.

> I can't figure out how the single track model steers.

Tilting, pulling, pushing the handle to get different parts of the track digging differently

I like these I found missile command (rather late) when I got curious about www_watch_missilecommand_mod in the yt html code.

Also, search for "askew" or "tilt" for a giggle.

@lantern53
ill agree with the sentiment of your comment if not the wrongful use of certain words.

bush was a big business president.
perma tax breaks anyone?
to use the term "progressive" in describing bush is being inaccurate at best and dishonest at worst.

the bush admin pushed through some of the most extreme expansions of executive powers (thanks addington and woo).they are guilty of war crimes.they are guilty of spying on american citizens.they are guilty of perpetrating an illegal war based on total fabrication.
and all of it.every last bit...retroactive immunity.

now here comes obama.
and while his rhetoric is beautiful and poetic,having a strong populist flavor,the facts remain that not only did the obama admin CONTINUE the bush executive powers,his admin EXPANDED them!

/waves to the NSA

so i do not know where you get this "fundamentally changing" this country when it has been business as usual.
unless you are speaking of oabamacare and i would point out that obamacare is a health care provider bail out.

bush bails out the banks.
obama bails out big pharma and health insurance industry.

and we get to pick up the tab.

the rhetoric may have a progressive tilt but the reality is business as usual.socialism for the rich,capitalism for the poor.

and it bothers me that some people i know who were ultra critical of the bush admin are relatively silent in regards to obama.