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>> ^jonny:

dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Travis-Pastrana-leaps-into-new-year-with-record-jump

Geez, I thought we had poor city planning on the west coast in the United States. This is pretty bad.

Why create a tiny roundabout without massive YIELD notifications in the middle of a four lane intersection -- and with a crosswalk? It's a recipe for disaster. Just put up some stop signs/lights and turn it back into a normal intersection.

The only roundabouts that I know of that work (and even these have some problems) are larger, multi-laned roundabouts with a solid structure/island in the middle to prevent driving straight through it and other similar moving violations due to ignorance/impatience.

We have a decent number of larger roundabouts in California, mostly in south Orange County (as well as the Orange circle, which is more inland) and there's a couple in Long Beach. I've NEVER seen these types of problems. Reminds me of what happens when street lights go out due to a power outage.

>> ^Trancecoach:

where does this take place?


Long Beach, southern California, according to the original video on Vimeo (follow the link to live leak),

Thanks a lot for bringing that to my attention. There did seem to be some kind of a kink in our indexer. I did a bit of kicking and smoke started coming out of it, but I think it should be working again.

In reply to this comment by SlipperyPete:
Lucky,
Are videos being properly indexed at the moment? It seems that there's an larger than usual number of dupes these last couple of days, and running searches on terms used in titles & tags don't seem to be generating the results you'd expect.


For example, I did a search for "Travis Pastrana", and neither of these vids came up in the results:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Travis-Pastrana-jumps-269-feet-over-Long-Beach-Harbour
http://www.videosift.com/video/Travis-Pastrana-leaps-into-new-year-with-record-jump

Similarly, searches for terms used in both these dupes failed to generate any results (search term = reality show bus):
http://www.videosift.com/video/ONN-VH1-Reality-Show-Bus-Crashes-Causing-Major-Slut-Spill
http://www.videosift.com/video/VH1-Reality-show-bus-crashes-in-California-spilling-sluts

Lucky,
Are videos being properly indexed at the moment? It seems that there's an larger than usual number of dupes these last couple of days, and running searches on terms used in titles & tags don't seem to be generating the results you'd expect.


For example, I did a search for "Travis Pastrana", and neither of these vids came up in the results:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Travis-Pastrana-jumps-269-feet-over-Long-Beach-Harbour
http://www.videosift.com/video/Travis-Pastrana-leaps-into-new-year-with-record-jump

Similarly, searches for terms used in both these dupes failed to generate any results (search term = reality show bus):
http://www.videosift.com/video/ONN-VH1-Reality-Show-Bus-Crashes-Causing-Major-Slut-Spill
http://www.videosift.com/video/VH1-Reality-show-bus-crashes-in-California-spilling-sluts

>> ^visionep:
I wish they had put something else in frame to get some sense of scale. These little guy's are tiny. They have some similar jellies at the Long Beach Aquarium and I'm guessing from the size of the specs around these ones you could probably fit 5 or 6 in a teaspoon if not more.


http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/AnimalDetails.aspx?id=779321
"It grows to a length of six inches."

This reminded me of Close Encounters, now if only somebody added some sound effects.

And of course, I, for one, welcome our new jellyfish overlords.

I wish they had put something else in frame to get some sense of scale. These little guy's are tiny. They have some similar jellies at the Long Beach Aquarium and I'm guessing from the size of the specs around these ones you could probably fit 5 or 6 in a teaspoon if not more.

I guess I'll get in on this. Sorry for the length but I don’t like to shorten this story.

I had just moved to Long Beach, California when I was coming home from class one day. I lived in a rather large building with a locked lobby and when I entered there was a man sitting on one of the chairs. As I was checking my mailbox, he walked over to me and asked if he could use my phone to call a friend that was late in picking him up.

I told him that my phone had just died and he gave me a look as though I was lying because he was black. Strangely enough, my phone had just died on the ride home, so I pulled it out and showed the blank screen. When I did this, he took the phone from my hand and put it into his pocket.

I said, “Uhh, yeah can I have that back please?” to which he replied “It’s dead, you gave it to me. Let’s go bury it together.”
This response perplexed me, so I insisted, “That’s my phone. I need that.”
At this, he stepped toward me, placed his hand on my cheek and said “I just want to have sex with you right now.”

Some background; I am a straight white male.

When he had stepped close to me I could smell the alcohol on his breath, so I took one big step backward and said “Uh no thanks, I just want my phone back.” He refused, but he was not running away. He simply stood there staring at me.

I kept demanding my phone back but he was repeating over and over again that I had given it to him. This was when I started to get angry. I started yelling in the lobby for someone to call the police, however no one responded. I started screaming at the guy but he just stood there.

Finally, someone started coming down the lobby staircase to walk their dog. Before I could tell the person to call the police, the weirdo says “This guy wants to have sex with me but I don’t want him to!!” The man walking his dog thought we were in some sort of lovers quarrel and walked out of the lobby. I couldn’t believe it.

Eventually, after I had been screaming at the guy for another 5 minutes, he said he would give me back my phone for $10. I told him he could go to hell, to which he pulled out my phone and told me he would break it. When he did that I attempted to grab it from him and he tried to make for the door. I blocked him and we started getting into a wrestling match in my lobby (I don’t really know why I did this as he was much bigger than I was). During this time I heard someone yell “I’ve called the cops!”

At one point during this wrestling match I lost my balance and he managed to slip out the door and make his way down the street. I took off down the street and managed to get in front of him. I tried to stall him for the cops so I stopped him and said “Hey man! We got off on the wrong foot. Why don’t we just start over; maybe I can help you with some money.” He said he wanted $5 for my phone. I said I had no cash on me so as he went to crack my phone in half I slapped it out of his hands. It landed behind him and when he reached to pick it up I grabbed the sleeve of his other arm and ripped it clean off. This caused him to stumble and allowed me to make a dive for my phone. I picked it up, screaming “Haaaaaaaaa!” and ran back to my lobby.

He took off and cops never found him even though he only had one sleeve.

I don't really think you are like the skull guy, just having some fun with you.

As far as I know, not paying your taxes will only result in gun play if you fire first. Paying income tax is part of our system and no one is forcing you to work or live in this country, just like no one is forced to work at Wal*Mart. You can petition the government to change it's stance on income tax, and I can petition the government to change it's stance on abusive corporations, but in the meantime, our reality is what it is.

I don't see poorness as a permanent state of victimhood - which, btw, is classic right wing radio way of demonizing people who give a shit (*fear) - I just believe they shouldn't have to work more than 40 hours a week to make ends meet. I don't think capitalism is immoral, either, but I do think it amoral and have no problem curbing its destructive properties.

It's no mystery why Wal*Mart is popular. Its dirt cheap prices are subsidized by abuse of its workers, union busting, and government welfare. Just because something is popular and successful doesn't mean it is good or healthy. (ex: boy bands, Titanic, sniffing glue)

I'm sure cigarettes and alcohol would be very popular among grade schoolers, but I don't hear anyone lobbying on their behalf. Removing speed limits would probably go over well too, but would be a death warrant for countless people.

I believe LA did mount a large, successful campaign to keep Wal*Mart out, which is a fight most smaller cities are not powerful enough to wage (which is why there should be limits on corporate size and power). There are several Targets in LA, which are better stores anyway. They are much more respectful of employees too.



In reply to this comment by blankfist:
You can try your best to push me to the fringe with your personal attack, but there's a big difference between the guy in the skull mask's message and mine. Here's a little social experiment for you. Why not stop paying your income taxes, and every time you're contacted by the IRS or any government bureaucrat just ignore them. Let's see if they send men with guns to your house. But, that wouldn't be violent, would it? No, they're all "peace officers" there to keep the peace for you and me, right? They would never shoot you or me.

Back to your wage slavery. I think you have a very strong isolationist perspective of people. You see poor people as hapless victims floating alone in the world, unable to get above it all because of an evil capitalist system permeating society around them. They're not alone. We all coexist together. If someone wants to live better, they have a chance to work together to improve their conditions... without Walmart if they choose.

If you don't want Walmarts in your community, then you can always be persuasive and convince people to voluntarily not be patrons of the store. It's not like they moved into every city in the country overnight and destroyed small business by force. They were allowed in and welcomed. Why have you turned me into a defender of Walmart! You bastard!

By the way, I don't see a Walmart in Los Angeles. The closest one is in Long Beach, and it opened a long while back. Maybe people in LA don't want to give up their boutique style shops for that kind of thing? I don't know.

You can try your best to push me to the fringe with your personal attack, but there's a big difference between the guy in the skull mask's message and mine. Here's a little social experiment for you. Why not stop paying your income taxes, and every time you're contacted by the IRS or any government bureaucrat just ignore them. Let's see if they send men with guns to your house. But, that wouldn't be violent, would it? No, they're all "peace officers" there to keep the peace for you and me, right? They would never shoot you or me.

Back to your wage slavery. I think you have a very strong isolationist perspective of people. You see poor people as hapless victims floating alone in the world, unable to get above it all because of an evil capitalist system permeating society around them. They're not alone. We all coexist together. If someone wants to live better, they have a chance to work together to improve their conditions... without Walmart if they choose.

If you don't want Walmarts in your community, then you can always be persuasive and convince people to voluntarily not be patrons of the store. It's not like they moved into every city in the country overnight and destroyed small business by force. They were allowed in and welcomed. Why have you turned me into a defender of Walmart! You bastard!

By the way, I don't see a Walmart in Los Angeles. The closest one is in Long Beach, and it opened a long while back. Maybe people in LA don't want to give up their boutique style shops for that kind of thing? I don't know.

In reply to this comment by dystopianfuturetoday:
If you want to live in an apartment and eat food, work is compulsory. If you live in a small town where WalMart has killed all the local businesses, AND you want to live in an apartment and eat food, then working at WalMart is compulsory. Wage-Slavery.

How about some turn about. If you don't want to pay taxes, then don't own property, work or ever buy anything. You are free to not participate in activities that require you to pay taxes. You are making a choice to pay taxes.

Also, enough of the violent victim fantasies. No one is going to shoot you. You sound like that skull guy.

>> ^SplinterOfChaos:
This vid is missing the call outs! Here are some.
Fuck my sister
The fifth of November
elbow sex!
2 4 6 8 this is how we procreate! Group sex, group sex.
What do you see?
2 4 6 8 this is how we procreate! Group sex, group sex.
Watch out for those stairs! . . . Bitch falls every week.
No jumping on desks!
2 4 6 8 this is how we procreate! Group sex, group sex.
They all died! That's bullet time for ya.


Oooooor:

2, 4, 6, 8 -- Show us how you masterbate!
3, 5, 7, 9 -- We know you do it all the time!
10, 20, 30, 40 -- Rocky Horror makes me horny!

Representin' Long Beach, California. My days of this nonsense are over, but, my gord, how it stays with you...

Tags for this video have been changed from 'youdiejow, jellies, macro, hd, jellyfish, long beach, aquarium' to 'youdiejoe, jellies, macro, hd, jellyfish, long beach, aquarium' - edited by youdiejoe

I took the liberty of stealing it

http://www.videosift.com/video/Youdiejoes-latest-Jellies-at-the-Long-Beach-Aquarium

LOL.. this infomercial is totally scripted.

Check out the Canadian version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6IkMulFjEY

In the Long Beach version they admit to datamining every car ever encountered by big brother: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXjZcFesCdE

Also, if you think this is just local cars, or this data is NOT uploaded to national databases then you are a moron.

Knowledge Computing Corporation and ELSAG North America Law Enforcement Systems today announced a strategic partnership to support information sharing and intelligence-led policing initiatives among law enforcement.

"COPLINK's information sharing, tactical analysis, lead generation, visualization and decision support solutions are proven performers when it comes to solving or thwarting crime and terrorism," stated Mark Windover, President and CEO of ELSAG North America. "Because over 70% of all crimes involve the use of vehicles, the license plate data available through ELSAG's system will become even more valuable in helping law enforcement prevent criminals or terrorists from falling through the cracks."

"ELSAG has demonstrated consistent leadership in providing one of the most advanced and accurate license plate recognition solutions in the industry," said Robert Griffin, CEO of Knowledge Computing Corp. "With a combined reach in over 1700 jurisdictions nationwide, spanning across 33 states, including all five of the nation's largest cities, this partnership will enable both companies to expand and better serve our client base."

Once both companies have completed their pilot deployment together, ELSAG North America will become an official member of Knowledge Computing Corp.'s COPLINK Interoperability Certified Partner Program.

My father was in the Navy and his cruiser -- the USS Long Beach -- sailed into the eye of a Hurricane once. The waves outside the eye were so bad that the captain was crying under the stress, apparently. (You might, too, if you knew you were responsible for the lives on that ship.)

Anyway, when the ship finally sailed into the eye, the water was as smooth as glass, about as surreal a view on nature as anyone is likely to experience.

Well, that's how my dad told the story.