>> ^Skeeve:

Maybe she talks about this in the video (I don't have time at the moment to watch the whole thing) but does anyone else find it ironic/weird that she talks about the impossible, unrealistic image that women have to compare themselves to and yet the leading cause of death in America is obesity-related and around 60% of Americans are overweight (with 30% of those being obese)? It doesn't seem, to me, like people are trying very hard to fit that unrealistic image.


No, the problem is they try, but fail, because it's a completely unrealistic image to attain, so no matter how fantastic they end up looking, they end up looking like an actual PERSON rather than a conglomeration of people and photoshop. This leads to people just giving up because they are never happy with how they look, and then becoming depressed because they tried and failed, and then eating for comfort, and then giving up, "Why should I bother, I've tried and I can't attain what I'm told I should be like".

So, yeah, there is a stupidly high number of fat people about, morbid obesity is trying to be pushed as a 'norm', all because women (and men to a lesser degree) are constantly shown impossible goals for how they should look and therefore give up with no hope they can ever attain it.

(OK, not ALL because of that, also the shit food, lack of exercise etc. etc.... but you get my point)

This is hilarious!

"Oh my God! There's a whole two inches of snow on the ground in front of me! I can't possibly go on! Guess I'll just give up and go back..."

>> ^Duckman33:

Again, I'm not questioning WHY they collapsed. I'm questioning the manner in which this particular building collapsed. Time has no bearing on the matter. People still wonder how JFK was assassinated and it's been what, 40+ years?


The problem with JFK Assassination theories is that no one can come up with WHY those who were supposed to be involved would want to assassinate him. Not that it matters, it basically wastes peoples time while they go to conventions and discuss the JFK assassination instead of say participating in their democracy or trying to make life better for their community.

Also for the 9-11 Conspiracy theories I used to be into it big time. You ever wonder why no one has brought the question to an engineering journal...or architecture organization? Someone who can do some experiments and maybe use their expertise to help people answer this question. I posed that to a few Truthers once and they told me that the US Government must've gotten to them. That assumes that they're that good at keeping a secret with thousands of people involved and if they have that sort of reach we might as well just give up. If they have the power to control all those people...we've basically already lost. Which is why I don't believe it anymore...it just doesn't make sense to me.

>> ^blankfist:

@<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/dystopianfuturetoday" title="member since January 9th, 2007" class="profilelink"><strong style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">dystopianfuturetoday, as government grows you cannot have a government of, for and by...


Oh, we can't? How do you know? Because we've been trying for thousands of years? Well. Plenty of righteous people have been fighting religion for thousands of years. We haven't given up on that, and I think we're finally making some headway.

It's fucking hopeless you're saying. We should just give up and devolve. That's a damned sad perspective, because a world in which we cannot work together, by governing humanity, is a savage world not fit for your children.

My cognitive dissonance must border on religious because I CANNOT and WILL NOT give up my hope for a government of, for and bi [sic].

P.S. Would be great if vs could fix the damned quote system.

I feel ya, my wife and strangely all of my girlfriends of the past were Mac people and it's been the source of some bitter arguments. I recently built a new pc at the beginning of this summer for roughly $1000 and it SCREAMS compared to what you can get out of a Mac for that price point.

My system:

--Gigabyte 890FX (overclocks very well) $179.99
--AMD 1090T 3.2ghz 6 cores w/ Turbo clocks to 3.6 $290 on newegg but i got a deal at the time for $100 off combo
I've got it running @ 3.6 stable on air and 4ghz when other cores are inactive and turbo kicks in
Newegg has it listed
--4 gigs of kingston 1600 DDR3 ~$100~
--ATI Radeon 5850 w/ 1 gig of memory $290
--New powersupply ~$100-$120
and $50 for a new 250gig WD hard drive

And although those are estimates w/ the $100 off the chip @ the time it did come out to about $1000 w/ the tax and all. I recycled the case and the optical drive I had and used stock cooling that came with the chip. I dont have any performance numbers available right now but if you know a thing or two about hardware you know they have all kinds of tricks to help you part with your cash for less.

To be fair, I'll throw in the cost of my monitor which was ~200 my operating system is Windows 7 ultimate which I got from college for $15 and my keyboard and mouse ~50 total
so that's my ~$1300 system

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_mac/family/imac?mco=MTAyNTQzNjA
the cheapest comparable mac here is using an i3 Intel processor (see chart for performance) http://www.guru3d.com/article/core-i3-530-processor-review/12

the video card on the system
http://www.guru3d.com/article/ati-radeon-hd-4670-review/9 compare those scores to the card i got
http://www.anandtech.com/show/2848/4
look @ the crysis scores and bear in mind that the second reviewer was using FSAA and AF at very high

you get the idea

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
I've given up on the iPhone, but thanks for the tip about frash. I really wanted to install Flash apps, but they've said no to that, so I'm saying no to them. When my Macs expire, I may just give up on them altogether. I hear Windows 7 is good, and for the money I paid for my Mac Pro I could have a super sweet PC.


I'm all Droid from this point on.

Signed,
The Anti-Apple blankfist

I've given up on the iPhone, but thanks for the tip about frash. I really wanted to install Flash apps, but they've said no to that, so I'm saying no to them. When my Macs expire, I may just give up on them altogether. I hear Windows 7 is good, and for the money I paid for my Mac Pro I could have a super sweet PC.


I'm all Droid from this point on.

Signed,
The Anti-Apple blankfist

In reply to this comment by JiggaJonson:
Fyi, you can install flash on a jailbroken phone with frash .

I've used it a little and while not nearly as functional as I want it to be in certain situations, it still works.

Also, if you have any jailbreak questions or advice toss em my way, I nerd out when I start fiddling with the file system on my iphone.

>> ^westy:

This game is a DUMP ,
Lag , Pore Graphics , Grind game play ,
Most people that play wow only play it because they are hooked on the level up system not the intrinsic game play, you can get about 40 hours of game play out of wow after that its pure grind , and the game play that you can get out of it is pritty pore.
I think it will take maby another 10-15 years before the technoligy is there to make an MMORPG that is actualy good.
At with whats avalable to the developers at the moment its like trying to make a Wedding cake out of 1 cube of choculet and a bag of flawwer.


I really should just give up trying to read your posts.

Dude, you seem to be the only one that doesn't understand what I'm saying. So I'm not going to tailor my posts to cater to your whims, sorry. If you can't understand what I'm trying to say, then simply ignore my posts and move on. It's really that simple.

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>> ^Duckman33:
>> ^Lawdeedaw:
>> ^Duckman33:
>> ^Lawdeedaw:
>> ^Duckman33:
>> ^reiwan:
I'd hate to bust anyones bubble, but if anyone here on the sift was getting bubbles blown in their face from some girl, you would be livid. He may have been very curt with her about what she was doing, but he handled it better than a lot of non-uniformed people would have.
Then she is taken aback and complains about not getting any respect after what she did? fuck her.

No, I wouldn't be "livid" if someone was blowing bubbles in my face. Kids do it all the time. I ask them nicely to stop. Please don't speak for me, as I can speak for myself.

Wow... Apples to science here.
First, that woman is old enough for all of us to legally play her field. She is not a child. To put this in perspective, all of the above would have to be met... A-You would have to have an adult blow bubbles in your face. B-It would have to be at your job. C-It would also have to be in front of a crowd that does not work with you, D- You would have to lose authority from both your co-workers and the public watching...
Way different scenario.
Kids do it? Kids also piss the bed. Kids also pick their noses and do not wash their hands. Kids do a lot of things adults should not. What if a kid went up to your father's casket and blew bubbles on his corpse? Again, way different...
Now, in a funtastic world, let's reverse the roles. Have the cops blowing bubbles into the crowds with industrilized bubble blowers (So every one get's it.) I say this because if she is allowed to blow bubbles, someone will step it up... and take it to the next level. Someone mentioned flowers next? Sure, with poison ivy on them. Pranks rarely get gentlier if allowed to continue.
But, in all, this cop is a hat... Just because he said about bubbles being a detergent... Lame-o was his name-o.

My point, as before with you has obviously gone over your head. Here I'll say it again so you hopefully can understand it clearly. Please don't speak for me, as I can speak for myself.

I never spoke for you; so what is your point? I have an idea--as I did not speak for you, don't speak for me by saying I spoke for you. Pot, kettle.

Dude, what in THE fuck are you talking about? Do you even READ what I'm saying in my posts before you fucking reply, or are you just an illiterate ass hole? Seriously.
In the conversation, I was asking reiwan (who I was replying to by the way) not to speak for me. THAT was the point of my reply. YOU had nothing to do with it. But somehow you decided it was all about you anyway. <IMG class=smiley src="http://static1.videosift.com/cdm/emoticon/oops.gif"> I wasn't trying to compare the situation in the video to a kid blowing bubbles in my face. I was saying "shit happens, get over it". It's really that simple. I used to play music for a living. I've had far worse done to me in front of "crowds that don't work with me" by adults than someone blowing bubbles in my face. So I'll make a simple request to you as well now. Please don't lecture me on what I would and wouldn't do in any given situation.



I know/knew the point of your first reply--however, since you unfairly and directly compared what happened with you to being mad at something like this happening, then I simply pointed out the two versions as completely incompatible.

You then stated, this time to me, to stop speaking for you--which I did not. Perhaps you were once again telling Re to stop but that makes little sense...

Now you're all huffy and sad because your feelings are hurt. This reminds me of the last time we discussed and you flipped because I inferred something from your writing. However, you assumed something about my writing so we were pretty even...

I just give up on you Duck; either write what you actually mean or do not write at all. Don't just use words you think are appropriate. I am an over-analytical sort and so I get confused when people use words just to hear themselves speak... I will always mistake your point if you have no clue how to put it down in posts.

>> ^Duckman33:
>> ^Lawdeedaw:
>> ^Duckman33:
>> ^Lawdeedaw:
>> ^Duckman33:
>> ^reiwan:
I'd hate to bust anyones bubble, but if anyone here on the sift was getting bubbles blown in their face from some girl, you would be livid. He may have been very curt with her about what she was doing, but he handled it better than a lot of non-uniformed people would have.
Then she is taken aback and complains about not getting any respect after what she did? fuck her.

No, I wouldn't be "livid" if someone was blowing bubbles in my face. Kids do it all the time. I ask them nicely to stop. Please don't speak for me, as I can speak for myself.

Wow... Apples to science here.
First, that woman is old enough for all of us to legally play her field. She is not a child. To put this in perspective, all of the above would have to be met... A-You would have to have an adult blow bubbles in your face. B-It would have to be at your job. C-It would also have to be in front of a crowd that does not work with you, D- You would have to lose authority from both your co-workers and the public watching...
Way different scenario.
Kids do it? Kids also piss the bed. Kids also pick their noses and do not wash their hands. Kids do a lot of things adults should not. What if a kid went up to your father's casket and blew bubbles on his corpse? Again, way different...
Now, in a funtastic world, let's reverse the roles. Have the cops blowing bubbles into the crowds with industrilized bubble blowers (So every one get's it.) I say this because if she is allowed to blow bubbles, someone will step it up... and take it to the next level. Someone mentioned flowers next? Sure, with poison ivy on them. Pranks rarely get gentlier if allowed to continue.
But, in all, this cop is a hat... Just because he said about bubbles being a detergent... Lame-o was his name-o.

My point, as before with you has obviously gone over your head. Here I'll say it again so you hopefully can understand it clearly. Please don't speak for me, as I can speak for myself.

I never spoke for you; so what is your point? I have an idea--as I did not speak for you, don't speak for me by saying I spoke for you. Pot, kettle.

Dude, what in THE fuck are you talking about? Do you even READ what I'm saying in my posts before you fucking reply, or are you just an illiterate ass hole? Seriously.
In the conversation, I was asking reiwan (who I was replying to by the way) not to speak for me. THAT was the point of my reply. YOU had nothing to do with it. But somehow you decided it was all about you anyway. <IMG class=smiley src="http://static1.videosift.com/cdm/emoticon/oops.gif"> I wasn't trying to compare the situation in the video to a kid blowing bubbles in my face. I was saying "shit happens, get over it". It's really that simple. I used to play music for a living. I've had far worse done to me in front of "crowds that don't work with me" by adults than someone blowing bubbles in my face. So I'll make a simple request to you as well now. Please don't lecture me on what I would and wouldn't do in any given situation.



I know/knew the point of your first reply--however, since you unfairly and directly compared what happened with you to being mad at something like this happening, then I simply pointed out the two versions as completely incompatible.

You then stated, this time to me, to stop speaking for you--which I did not. Perhaps you were once again telling Re to stop but that makes little sense...

Now you're all huffy and sad because your feelings are hurt. This reminds me of the last time we discussed and you flipped because I inferred something from your writing. However, you assumed something about my writing so we were pretty even...

I just give up on you Duck; either write what you actually mean or do not write at all. Don't just use words you think are appropriate. I am an over-analytical sort and so I get confused when people use words just to hear themselves speak... I will always mistake your point if you have no clue how to put it down in posts.

No i prefer to reply to comments where they are posted. Sorry if that breaks your own code of practise, but I frankly don't give a crap. You are a moron. get over it.

>> ^Ryjkyj:
My only argument was that if you can't grate cheese, you should just give up on life. After two years on the sift and you still don't know how to reply to a comment: you're probably the perfect candidate for pre-grated cheese.
In reply to this comment by Fade:
Oh, I'm sorry, I clicked a button that posts a quoted reply to a comment posted ON my profile page. How exactly does this help your argument? You're still wrong <IMG class=smiley src="http://static1.videosift.com/cdm/emoticon/tongue.gif">
In reply to this comment by Ryjkyj:
Said the guy who posted his reply to his own profile page.... Ha HA!
Are you fucking serious?
In reply to this comment by Fade:
sliced bread, tossed salad, instant coffee/custard, bottled water...dude you didn't have a salient point to begin with. stop trying to defend it.
>> ^Ryjkyj:
If grating cheese is as hard for you as owning a transportation company, farming, milking and fermenting then you've got serious problems. Pre-grated cheese costs around twice as much and tastes so much worse. To each his own, but I hardly think grating cheese qualifies as an inconvenience.
That's like saying wiping your ass is an inconvenience.
In reply to this comment by Fade:
Oh please. Convenience is such a crime.
Tell you what next time you open the fridge, don't take anything out of it that you haven't grown, processed, packaged and transported yourself. In fact why do you even have a fridge. You never built it yourself and you certainly aren't powering it with electricity you are generating yourself.
Did you milk the cow? Did you provide the cow with green pastures to frolick in? Did you? No. So shut up then.
>> ^Ryjkyj:
People who by pre-grated cheese should just give up. Give away all your worldly possessions, get a job at Walmart and start eating all of your food out of a dumpster. You obviously don't care enough about life to do anything besides eat at Wendy's and watch American Idol.
If you read that statement and think, "gee, that's a little harsh, grating cheese is annoying" then try getting yourself a box-shaped cheese grater. The flat ones are for trimming knuckles only. If you still think it's annoying, then follow the above instructions. Or better yet, open a vein.

My only argument was that if you can't grate cheese, you should just give up on life. After two years on the sift and you still don't know how to reply to a comment: you're probably the perfect candidate for pre-grated cheese.

In reply to this comment by Fade:
Oh, I'm sorry, I clicked a button that posts a quoted reply to a comment posted ON my profile page. How exactly does this help your argument? You're still wrong

In reply to this comment by Ryjkyj:
Said the guy who posted his reply to his own profile page.... Ha HA!

Are you fucking serious?

In reply to this comment by Fade:
sliced bread, tossed salad, instant coffee/custard, bottled water...dude you didn't have a salient point to begin with. stop trying to defend it.

>> ^Ryjkyj:

If grating cheese is as hard for you as owning a transportation company, farming, milking and fermenting then you've got serious problems. Pre-grated cheese costs around twice as much and tastes so much worse. To each his own, but I hardly think grating cheese qualifies as an inconvenience.
That's like saying wiping your ass is an inconvenience.
In reply to this comment by Fade:
Oh please. Convenience is such a crime.
Tell you what next time you open the fridge, don't take anything out of it that you haven't grown, processed, packaged and transported yourself. In fact why do you even have a fridge. You never built it yourself and you certainly aren't powering it with electricity you are generating yourself.
Did you milk the cow? Did you provide the cow with green pastures to frolick in? Did you? No. So shut up then.
>> ^Ryjkyj:
People who by pre-grated cheese should just give up. Give away all your worldly possessions, get a job at Walmart and start eating all of your food out of a dumpster. You obviously don't care enough about life to do anything besides eat at Wendy's and watch American Idol.
If you read that statement and think, "gee, that's a little harsh, grating cheese is annoying" then try getting yourself a box-shaped cheese grater. The flat ones are for trimming knuckles only. If you still think it's annoying, then follow the above instructions. Or better yet, open a vein.

Said the guy who posted his reply to his own profile page....

Now see, when you hit the "quote" button, it's just going to post to your own page. If you want to respond directly to me, then go to my last comment and hit "profile reply" down on the bottom right side of the box. That way, your response to me will show up on my page instead of your own.

If you need any help learning how to grate cheese, you know where to find me. (but you'll still have to hit "profile reply")

In reply to this comment by Fade:
sliced bread, tossed salad, instant coffee/custard, bottled water...dude you didn't have a salient point to begin with. stop trying to defend it.

>> ^Ryjkyj:

If grating cheese is as hard for you as owning a transportation company, farming, milking and fermenting then you've got serious problems. Pre-grated cheese costs around twice as much and tastes so much worse. To each his own, but I hardly think grating cheese qualifies as an inconvenience.
That's like saying wiping your ass is an inconvenience.
In reply to this comment by Fade:
Oh please. Convenience is such a crime.
Tell you what next time you open the fridge, don't take anything out of it that you haven't grown, processed, packaged and transported yourself. In fact why do you even have a fridge. You never built it yourself and you certainly aren't powering it with electricity you are generating yourself.
Did you milk the cow? Did you provide the cow with green pastures to frolick in? Did you? No. So shut up then.
>> ^Ryjkyj:
People who by pre-grated cheese should just give up. Give away all your worldly possessions, get a job at Walmart and start eating all of your food out of a dumpster. You obviously don't care enough about life to do anything besides eat at Wendy's and watch American Idol.
If you read that statement and think, "gee, that's a little harsh, grating cheese is annoying" then try getting yourself a box-shaped cheese grater. The flat ones are for trimming knuckles only. If you still think it's annoying, then follow the above instructions. Or better yet, open a vein.

sliced bread, tossed salad, instant coffee/custard, bottled water...dude you didn't have a salient point to begin with. stop trying to defend it.

>> ^Ryjkyj:

If grating cheese is as hard for you as owning a transportation company, farming, milking and fermenting then you've got serious problems. Pre-grated cheese costs around twice as much and tastes so much worse. To each his own, but I hardly think grating cheese qualifies as an inconvenience.
That's like saying wiping your ass is an inconvenience.
In reply to this comment by Fade:
Oh please. Convenience is such a crime.
Tell you what next time you open the fridge, don't take anything out of it that you haven't grown, processed, packaged and transported yourself. In fact why do you even have a fridge. You never built it yourself and you certainly aren't powering it with electricity you are generating yourself.
Did you milk the cow? Did you provide the cow with green pastures to frolick in? Did you? No. So shut up then.
>> ^Ryjkyj:
People who by pre-grated cheese should just give up. Give away all your worldly possessions, get a job at Walmart and start eating all of your food out of a dumpster. You obviously don't care enough about life to do anything besides eat at Wendy's and watch American Idol.
If you read that statement and think, "gee, that's a little harsh, grating cheese is annoying" then try getting yourself a box-shaped cheese grater. The flat ones are for trimming knuckles only. If you still think it's annoying, then follow the above instructions. Or better yet, open a vein.

If grating cheese is as hard for you as owning a transportation company, farming, milking and fermenting then you've got serious problems. Pre-grated cheese costs around twice as much and tastes so much worse. To each his own, but I hardly think grating cheese qualifies as an inconvenience.

That's like saying wiping your ass is an inconvenience.

In reply to this comment by Fade:
Oh please. Convenience is such a crime.

Tell you what next time you open the fridge, don't take anything out of it that you haven't grown, processed, packaged and transported yourself. In fact why do you even have a fridge. You never built it yourself and you certainly aren't powering it with electricity you are generating yourself.

Did you milk the cow? Did you provide the cow with green pastures to frolick in? Did you? No. So shut up then.

>> ^Ryjkyj:

People who by pre-grated cheese should just give up. Give away all your worldly possessions, get a job at Walmart and start eating all of your food out of a dumpster. You obviously don't care enough about life to do anything besides eat at Wendy's and watch American Idol.
If you read that statement and think, "gee, that's a little harsh, grating cheese is annoying" then try getting yourself a box-shaped cheese grater. The flat ones are for trimming knuckles only. If you still think it's annoying, then follow the above instructions. Or better yet, open a vein.

Oh please. Convenience is such a crime.

Tell you what next time you open the fridge, don't take anything out of it that you haven't grown, processed, packaged and transported yourself. In fact why do you even have a fridge. You never built it yourself and you certainly aren't powering it with electricity you are generating yourself.

Did you milk the cow? Did you provide the cow with green pastures to frolick in? Did you? No. So shut up then.

>> ^Ryjkyj:

People who by pre-grated cheese should just give up. Give away all your worldly possessions, get a job at Walmart and start eating all of your food out of a dumpster. You obviously don't care enough about life to do anything besides eat at Wendy's and watch American Idol.
If you read that statement and think, "gee, that's a little harsh, grating cheese is annoying" then try getting yourself a box-shaped cheese grater. The flat ones are for trimming knuckles only. If you still think it's annoying, then follow the above instructions. Or better yet, open a vein.