To answer some questions here, yes, this is ASL. Although most Deaf people would probably call it "signed English," since it uses English sentence structure.

Regarding the "mirror" aspect of ASL, your observation is accurate. ASL is considered a one-handed language, meaning that one dominant hand controls the signing. When another hand it used, it is almost always mirroring the dominant hand or not moving at all. A left-handed person would use their left hand as the dominant signing hand. Compare this to British Sign Language, a two-handed language, that uses both hands in distinct ways for most signs.

Naturally there are tons of crude signs in ASL. The girl in this video may not have known them or perhaps chose not to use them. They typically don't get taught in ASL classes. ASL has a great variety of regional differences, which is why some people may know difference signs for "fuck." Also, signs evolve over time. Some signs that were once considered perfectly fine are now rude or inappropriate (see "Irish"; the terms for gay and lesbian are also heading this direction).

Finally, a lot of popular proper nouns do have their own signs, but not all. I am not sure if Ferrari and Atari do.

I can't speak for chilaxe, but for me it's the tedium rather than the physicality I'd like to avoid. I can't see much of a health benefit from filling envelopes or scrubbing septic tanks. One could argue that it "builds character", but so does learning advanced physics or training for a marathon.

There are many jobs that people would rather not do if their livelihoods weren't dependent upon them, and many of those jobs could (or soon will) be performed by robots rather than people. I don't think that situation, in itself, is a bad thing. I'd rather spend my time improving myself both physically and intellectually, but I also have to eat so that means I need my jobs (I have three currently).

I do agree with you on the value of physical work, but if we end up in a world where people can choose their own methods rather than choosing those that pay well then I believe we will benefit from such a world both individually and societally.


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>> ^Psychologic:
>> ^Lodurr:
Studies are showing that the healthiest and longest-lived people in the world do some daily manual labor their whole life. There's nothing tedious about accomplishing something with your own sweat and two hands: in fact there's nothing more rewarding.
Physical activity is certainly a very healthy thing.
Personally though, I'd rather go hiking than bolt wheels to car frames every day.


I didn't think much of physical labor either until...

>> ^Psychologic:
>> ^Lodurr:
Studies are showing that the healthiest and longest-lived people in the world do some daily manual labor their whole life. There's nothing tedious about accomplishing something with your own sweat and two hands: in fact there's nothing more rewarding.
Physical activity is certainly a very healthy thing.
Personally though, I'd rather go hiking than bolt wheels to car frames every day.


I didn't think much of physical labor either until I worked at the local airport, coincidentally with a lot of Samoans. The best kind of work is something that uses all your faculties--where you need to think and process what you're working with, where you communicate and coordinate with others constantly, and where your body is always moving and being challenged incrementally. I'd still be on the ramp today if I could live off that wage and support my family.

There's a real sense of accomplishment too with manual labor, that you did something real that others will see and appreciate. Cannery workers might think about people opening and eating their well-packed tuna cans. I used to think about every plane I worked on as it took off, how I put up the container locks, closed the cargo doors, then pushed it back from the gate, and now it's flying.

>> ^Lodurr:
Studies are showing that the healthiest and longest-lived people in the world do some daily manual labor their whole life. There's nothing tedious about accomplishing something with your own sweat and two hands: in fact there's nothing more rewarding.

Physical activity is certainly a very healthy thing.

Personally though, I'd rather go hiking than bolt wheels to car frames every day.

@chilaxe

Studies are showing that the healthiest and longest-lived people in the world do some daily manual labor their whole life. There's nothing tedious about accomplishing something with your own sweat and two hands: in fact there's nothing more rewarding.

@rougy, @BansheeX

BansheeX's argument makes sense on principle, but there are recent examples of the dangers of corporatism, and some old examples that we like to forget (sweat shops, factory conditions in the 1800s). The ideal is a capitalist system with strong regulation and oversight from a magically uncorruptable democratic government. Corrupt oversight and regulation is worse than none at all; but responsible oversight is absolutely necessary.

It's interesting that Chicken of the Sea didn't even relocate to a new country with different rules. They simply invested in robotics when manual labor became too expensive. Samoa was very poor before, but it's even poorer now that Chicken of the Sea is gone. They will need aid from the government but it has to be used properly to build their infrastructure and provide better jobs that are stable in the long-term.

>> ^joe2:
that is so much harder to do than it looks


Pfft. Maybe if you only have two hands, silly human.

Damn! He's better than a lot of the guys I know with two hands.

Don't put your first finger on my A-note, pal! I don't care if it is a two-handed lick or not!

Just noticed that he's using that axe the proper way.

Hold it from the upper neck when you're rewinding, and pull down with two hands together at the end when you're striking.

Alright, this is my last post here, because I don't really want to spend another ten minutes arguing hypothetical situations with you. Neither of us is wrong, and neither of is are changing our minds about the issue.

I never said guns are illegal in Canada, but only roughly 26% own guns. When push comes to shove, America still has more gun related deaths then Canada. It could be due to the fact that 71% of Canadian gun owners only have rifles for hunting, and only 12% have handguns, mind you.

Now, try this out. Go to bed, set your alarm for 3 hours, and then wake up. If there's someone at the end of a dark hallway, odds are your vision is going to be blurred and you won't be able to make out any features other then potentially hair length.

As for a thrust having better range then a bat? Bullshit. If you've taken a stance, if they lunge at you, and you swing, I personally have about 5-6 feet worth of extension with a bat, and if you make contact with the center of mass, not only will you knock them if nothing else OVER, but you'll potentially crack a rib or break an arm. A 10 year old little league player can swing a 20 oz bat 60 mph., Strength is NOT an issue.

Also, I'd like to point out that baseball bats don't always need to be swung two handed. If you're able to weild it one handed, you've got an even GREATER reach then any knife, and can move just as easily, historically, clubs are better weapons.

In the show "Deadliest Warrior"
Every time there was a knife vs other weapon, The other weapon won all but once. And that's because the spetsnaz ballistic knife can shoot. The "Club" weapons however, almost always beat whatever it was up against.

This is the typical (real) case: someone carrying a (concealed) firearm is mugged or otherwise held up while doing something else (so as a matter of course, they were taken by surprise). The usual result of this scenario is the perpetrator running away, rarely being shot, rarer still winning a confrontation. On the other hand, if you are not armed and the perpetrator wants more than your money, then all you can do is file a police report afterward, assuming he has no interest in killing you.

I don't get it..this is your defence? my situation of "If they get the jump on you, a concealed weapon does you no good" is wrong, so..you post a situation of the perpetrator getting the jump on you, and the concealed weapon doing you no good, as they get your money and run away, rarely being shot. Perhaps you stated that wrong.

I'd also like to add, that unless you've been hardcore trained to be able to find, draw, and shoot your weapon in a situation like that, you've got one HELL of a chance of fumbling around, and not even shooting it

Spoiler Alert! Geez, ruin the ending of the movie why dontcha.

"Two hands is better than one." He can definitely draw better than he conjugates verbs.

This looks real to me.

Patch changes - You can program keyboards to follow music and change patches at appropriate times. You can also layer patches, so that you can play several instruments at the same time. Combine the two along with some skill and you have the ability to play an orchestral piece with two hands and two feet.

Sped up? - No. This isn't as difficult as it sounds. Try turning off the volume and just watching the performance. This is well within the grasp of a decent organist.

Percussion? - It does sound like some of it is tracked or perhaps triggered via patch changes.

"It's a two handed job for me I'm afraid."

Wow.

>> ^imstellar28:
soldiers who commit war crimes are just "following orders" you'd have to be a "jackass" to confront them about it, you don't have any business complaining to anyone except the president.

Actually, in this case it's more like going to the local IRS branch and "confronting" the clerks there, and accusing them of being guilty for what was done in Guantanamo by people who aren't them, and who aren't answerable to them.

Logic fail.

This is a bit like calling up the GE home appliance support line to accuse the guy who answers of being a murderer because he works for GE, and GE built the engines that are used on the aircraft that bring supplies to Guantanamo, so therefore he may as well have waterboarded detainees to death with his own two hands.

This isn't a case of accepting the Nuremberg defense, the "I'm only following orders" defense. This is the "I didn't do anything illegal or immoral, directly or indirectly, now get out of the way, please, I have other customers waiting" defense.

You want the law changed, and for taxes to end? Great, best of luck on that. How is harassing people in the county clerk's office going to accomplish that?

I asked a good friend - a blues pianist - what it was like to have to think about two hands playing his songs, because to me, a non musician, I could basically control one or the other, the left hand or the right hand.

But he didn't even think about it that way.

His two hands were two parts of one thing, extensions of one intent.

As he saw it, his two hands and ten fingers were merely the extension of one heart.