Here's a 59 second, no-talking version of the video just demonstrating unlocking it if you'd prefer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l1zmVKQPOo

Looks like they're using this design for all kinds of locks, including dead-bolts.

It's not really clear to me who manufactures this thing.

Yeah, that pretty much mirrors my experience with earthquakes in NZ. I live in Christchurch and I've been through something like 10000 aftershocks since 2011. There's nothing in my house that isn't bolted down now, because everything that wasn't is broken

And it's freaking hilarious watching people go nuts over californias little shake

@ChaosEngine
@poolcleaner

I live in Japan and if I were to dive under my desk every time there was an earthquake, I'd be under there at least 3 times a day. Since the 2011 earthquake we've had constant aftershocks, some as strong as 5 and 6 on the Richter scale (which makes the panic seen over California's most recent quake somewhat amusing).

ChaosEngine is correct, you can gauge how bad the earthquake is by the amount of shaking. On March 3rd, 2011--the only time I have actually dived under a table during an earthquake--plates were flying off my kitchen shelves and shattering on the floor.

That said, Japan is a country that is truly prepared for quakes. Any big items you buy like refrigerators or big screen TVs usually come with fasteners to bolt them down so they don't fall over during a quake. The buildings here are incredibly well-engineered to survive a severe quake--very few people during the 3.11 quake were killed by collapsing structures.

Most other countries aren't that prepared. If I were vacationing in a developing country and a quake struck I would probably get the hell out of the building as soon as possible regardless of if it seemed small because I wouldn't trust the engineering to be as sound as it is here.

tldr:

You're both right. You need to use your experience and critical thinking to decide the best course of action in an emergency. And if you don't have any experience with that particular emergency, then you need to trust the people who do have experience to know what they are doing and follow them. For example, if I were ever in an airplane crash the first person I'd look for is the flight attendant to see what they were doing and follow their lead.

I did this exact same thing - that is, build a hand made dining room table for my wife. I didn't care about using reclaimed lumber, but I did want to avoid using glues. I used lag bolts and screws - I figured it would last longer than glue. Also, I used about 1/10th the number of tools he used. But I did use a sawsall and a drill.

I used all pine, but did a faux aging process with vinegar and steel wool, and black tea. It turned out awesome (after 12+ coats of spar varnish on the top... ug). I have two matching benches. It's all very rustic, durable, and functional.

Very cool video!

@SDGundamX, first just to be absolutely clear about this up front, I do not believe anyone should be bullied for being a nerd/geek/whatever. There is nothing wrong with being any of those things.

Ok, my point was that if you reduce everything down to you just being a product of your environment/genetics at what point are you.., well, you?

Does Usain Bolt not deserve accolades for his ability? I mean he's clearly a product of both an incredible genetic makeup and an environment that gave him both the opportunity and the impetus to excel.

I get what you're saying, but I think that society as a general rule has decided that judging people on their taste is a valid choice. We all do it, even if it's in a mostly positive fashion (i.e. people become friends over a shared taste in music/books/games/whatever).

I do agree with him when he says "you shouldn't apologise for it", and changing to fit in just doesn't work (although there are behaviours which you can avoid that will just make your life easier).

The second part I'll admit I didn't explain well. I got diverted while writing it and didn't finish it properly. Yes, absolutely the bully is the problem. If it looked like I was trying to apportion blame to the victim, that was not my intent at all.

I had a pretty hard time in school, and my parents, etc would trot out the tired line of "they're just jealous" or some other platitude. And it's simply not true. The good looking girls are not jealous of the plain girls. The "jocks" are not jealous of the "nerds". They don't even register.

Yes, there are kids that bully because of a bad home or something, but they're the easy ones to deal with. The hardest thing comes from just the constant isolation and torment that everyone does... because they can.

Most turtles/tortoises basically have bolt cutters for a mouth. You shouldn't "play" with them. You'll lose body parts. They play for keeps.

I thought it was refraction from the heat ?

so a shockwave like how a lightning bolt makes thunder I would guess ?

If you mean when they aren't racing, in F1 they completely dis-assemble the car bolt by bolt and check every piece for micro cracks and wear, rebuild the engine and transaxle, replace any worn part, and basically rebuild the car from scratch...almost every time. They also do experimentation with new parts and designs to see if they are worth integrating into the car. With the stresses these parts see in F1 racing, they have to be insanely careful to not put a cracked or poorly made part on, it could easily kill someone if anything fails.
Most of what wins races happens OFF the race course. I was an off road/desert racer, and it was even truer there. Just finishing in off road racing is a victory, and it's mostly due to proper preparation of the car. Being a lone wolf 'team' (meaning I had no pit crew, it was all on me and whatever 'friend' I could rope into helping at the race) it was pretty self gratifying when I was able to drive into the pits at the end of a race (as opposed to being towed or dragged in).

Who said anything about "thought provoking meaningful experience"? =)

You're doing what all classic internet "experts" (ie. arrogant twats who think their opinion is the last word on everything) do, creating a fallacious argument to launch your scathing invective at while missing the point entirely. If you tried to bolt depth on to a title like Wolfenstein, you'd be undermining the core of the game, which is Nazi destroying mayhem. Do you really need a complex story arc giving you motivation to kill a thousand mecha-SS riding T-Rexs? Of course not.

A game does not require depth to be fun. Certainly there are plenty of indie games that also indulge in the "no depth all action" genre (http://www.crimsonland.com/ as a classic example).

I do have to correct one error in my previous post however, it's not a stick up your ass. It's your head... ; )

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(some spoilers here, although not really anything that wasn't in the video)
I thought it was quite good. Not great, but quite good.

That being said, the one thing that I was sure that an "honest trailers" spoof/take on it would include was left out: I lost count of how many times the last propulsive jet before they ran out of thrust in whatever system/mechanism they were using was just enough to get them into "precarious grab, slip and bump off into another precarious grab".

Gorgeous George jets around as carefree as can be -- fetching bolts, unhitched and drifting Sandra ... even the corpse of "man down in the first 5 minutes". He or others talk about how he is going for the record longest spacewalk many times. But then, when they really need it, "oh, sorry, I've just got enough juice left for one more burn".

Same thing repeats for the Soyuz, the Wall-E extinguisher, and conceptually in many other instances.

That is the aspect of the flick that stood out the most for me as begging for a good send-up.

Zeus: Why you keep calling me Jesus? I look Puerto Rican
to you!?

John: That guy back there called you Jesus.

Zeus: He didn't call me Jesus, he said, "Hey, Zeus."
My name, is 'Zeus!'

John: Zeus?

Zeus: Yeah, Zeus! As in father of Apollo?.... Mount Olympus!?
Don't fuck with me or I'll shove a lightning-bolt up your ass!? Zeus! You got
a problem with that?!

John: No!??

Nope.
As the original creator if the channel, I say both'a yorn's perceived criteria fit the EIA bill as the world, 'latissime' is now and until otherwise collectively agreed as un-such, EIA.

This may very well be the evolution of the Russian military's UN-heeded necessity to cull bolting pines from the causeway of graduating recruits, "evolution in action."

This looks so bad.

Cop cars fly UP a mountain, and when coming down hills they just bolt over the edges down a cliff. Yeah, great pathing and AI....