Man did this look stupid.

VERY GLAD I STUCK AROUND that extra fifteen seconds.

*promote

I got as far as "eligibly" and then I could go no further. Sounds like a couple of 14 year old trolls trying to get in their fifteen minutes.

Easy access to a "Best videos of the last six months" (or something similar) page. Maybe even a constant "best vids of all time".

So much content goes through this site that anyone but the most dedicated user is bound to miss a ton of it. Our first option is the top fifteen, or we could check specific channels, or even browse playlists, but other than that, a custom search for videos is required.

There's so much great stuff here, I just think that easier access would bring more and more people.

Lawrence "Larry" Lessig
is an American academic and political activist. He is best known as a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trademark, and radio frequency spectrum, particularly in technology applications, and he has called for state-based activism to promote substantive reform of government with a Second Constitutional Convention.
He is a director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University and a professor of law at Harvard Law School. Prior to rejoining Harvard, he was a professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of its Center for Internet and Society. Lessig is a founding board member of Creative Commons, a board member of the Software Freedom Law Center, an advisory board member of the Sunlight Foundation and a former board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Lessig


Chris Hedges
is an American journalist, author, and war correspondent, specializing in American and Middle Eastern politics and societies.
Chris Hedges is currently a senior fellow at The Nation Institute in New York City. He spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than fifty countries, and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News, and The New York Times, where he was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hedges

Tyrion is easily one of the best characters in the book series, bar-none. It was highly gratifying to watch a few episodes of 'A Game Of Thrones' and realize very quickly that not only had Peter Dinklage read the books, but moreover he "gets" Tyrion, he understands the character. He nails the character perfectly, something I was very worried about before the show started. Now that the show is in full swing and onto it's second season, it was very easy to realize that he was one of the reasons that the show succeeded, as much like the book, I look forward to every section and piece with him in it!

/Oh and I see this has the mysterious @ant downvote--this will hit the top fifteen in less than half a fortnight!

It is obvious that people "close" early. I used to try to close the shop 5 minutes after we were supposed to close. Theoretically, it was supposed to take 30 minutes to close to go through all of the paperwork, money, etc.

Sometimes I would have people get there five minutes after. And even though we were closed and I had my coat on, I would re-open the store. I would answer the phones a clear fifteen minutes after we were closed... it's a job, do it well. Do your fucking job.

>> ^BoneRemake:

@Stu
I have never seen or heard of this idiotic practice before, I do not live under a rock. What I have experienced is a different posted note on the front of the store that states the different closing hours due to holiday or fire drill or what not.
This assumed alignment to un-posted opening hours is in poor practice. If you are going to change your regular hours, post a fucking note a couple days before, I would be and will continue to be pissed off if some dick smack closes earlier then posted times, because they are being dick smacks.
It is laughable how some of you people are putting this on the shoppers for going last minute.

>> ^spoco2:

You justify your downloading your way, I do it mine. Let's leave it at that


See, this is exactly what I'm talking about. What's the point of having a conversation if you only want to talk to people who agree with you?

It seems to me that you're just drawing the conclusions from what I say that make you feel better about your behavior. Maybe "an orgy of self congratulation" would've been a better metaphor.

It's important to point out here too, that the money issue was just one of many that might affect my decision. A decision which by the way, was never actually made. All I said was that I didn't think that I would have a problem stealing from the guy. And I've already said twice now that I probably wouldn't download it. But since the first thing you harped on didn't work out for you, you'll just move on to the next single issue that you can label as some popular opinion. There are countless issues to bring up about the subject, and I brought up at least a few. But I never said anything like: "I will download this because of this".

And speaking of the money thing, I'm kind of wondering if five dollars is really that cheap. Sure, it's not a lot of money, but I can buy most of Louis C.K.'s DVDs for around fifteen bucks. Let's compare:

For fifteen dollars, I can get a physical copy of something. I can loan it to a friend or put it in a box, unwrapped for years and who knows, it might even be worth more sometime in the future. And even if it's not, I can still sell it if I get tired of it and maybe take a dollar or two off of the next DVD I buy. Shit, I can trade for a sandwich maybe!

I can't loan the digital copy to a friend and it's certainly not going to increase in value(it wouldn't matter anyway, because I can't sell it or trade it). And if anything happens and my computer crashes, the only way I could've prevented it's loss is by... making a digital copy. See the irony there?

Not to mention, a DVD involves hundreds if not thousands of people to make. All the people who produce the raw materials, the marketers, the people who manufacture the final product, the people who ship the final product and let's not forget the people who sell it. All those people take a bite of a measly fifteen bucks. To me, when you compare the two, the guy who sells a digital copy for five bucks and only has to pay the production crew(which the DVD people have to pay as well) and what? a few web techs? That guy's making out like a bandit if you ask me.

I know, maybe I don't make that strong of a case. But at least I know how to have a fucking conversation.

Mark of the Beast, by Manilla Road. Early, experimental, album shelved for twenty years because the band themselves thought it was shit, finally released because a fifteen year old fan heard a bootleg copy and grew up to run a record label. Possibly not the most convincing start to a recommendation. Well, he loved it, and I love it too. Retro even when it was recorded, very 70s, lots of dreamy prog numbers and the occasional blast of heaviness. Complexity, sincerity, wailing guitar solos everywhere, Mark Shelton's incredible love-it-or-hate-it voice, wow, I don't know why I'm not listening to it right now.

1. Mark of the Beast
2. Court of Avalon

3. Avatar
4. Dream Sequence
5. Time Trap
6. Black Lotus

7. Teacher
8. Aftershock
9. Venusian Sea

10. Triumvirate

>> ^xxovercastxx:

>> ^ShakaUVM:
Heh, I taught kids TKD for a number of years. This isn't too out of line with what normally happens.
Sometimes I'll get on my knees and tell them to punch me in the chest, and they can't do it. I'm not moving. I'm not blocking. They just can't do it.

There were teenagers in my class; of higher rank than me, even; who fit that description and were no more dangerous in sparring than these little guys. It used to really annoy me that they kept passing their belt tests without developing any skills at all.


It's funny there could actually be a thread about this.

Even fifteen years later and 70 pounds heavier, I can still knock a fucking house down with my back-turning side-kick. But I remember when my one tough instructor Marcus used to yell at me to hit him while sparring, I could never hurt him. He was a veteran of a shitty childhood and even when he put his hands behind his back, I could never hit him hard enough in the chest, stomach, kidneys, etc. to even make him blink. Of course, I was wearing gloves, but still. It was always like one of those dreams when you just can't do the thing you want to do and it always made me feel like my arms were just a couple of limp sausages.

I like ideas.

I also like not voting for something I find out is shit.

I do not think its anything to ask a person to confirm a upvote, it takes a whole whopping two extra seconds if that.

I liked the time out idea, reset it within a seven second period or so. Fifteen if you failed the drunk/high test.

>> ^dannym3141:

...is her backstory that her lifelong dream was to kiss another girl but she could never overcome her crippling aversion to whoring herself out for fifteen minutes of fame on a smalltime radio show but finally was given the chance to realise her dream in a dingy, sweaty room occupied by some equally dingy and sweaty men?


hi danny!
/waves

I didn't realise videosift had a cartel. Do you put the squeeze on everyone who doesn't enjoy your video submissions?

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...is her backstory that her lifelong dream was to kiss another girl but she could never overcome her crippling aversion to whoring herself out for fifteen minutes of fame on a smalltime radio show but finally was given the chance to realise her dream in a dingy, sweaty room occupied by some equally dingy and sweaty men?


i love it when a person gets in touch with their inner douche.
good job brother.be proud of your own douchebaggery.

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...is her backstory that her lifelong dream was to kiss another girl but she could never overcome her crippling aversion to whoring herself out for fifteen minutes of fame on a smalltime radio show but finally was given the chance to realise her dream in a dingy, sweaty room occupied by some equally dingy and sweaty men?


i love it when a person gets in touch with their inner douche.
good job brother.be proud of your own douchebaggery.

...is her backstory that her lifelong dream was to kiss another girl but she could never overcome her crippling aversion to whoring herself out for fifteen minutes of fame on a smalltime radio show but finally was given the chance to realise her dream in a dingy, sweaty room occupied by some equally dingy and sweaty men?

I went looking and found this. It seems like this video is indeed *timeshift. That is how I read it.

"What possessed Paychex (or whatever company before them) to put a monstrous, rotating metal head in front of the building, I will never know, but it is cool. Even better is the fact that the head is made up of bunches of little platters. Unfortunately, what looks like perhaps fifty tiny platters do not spin - only the larger "bundles" of platters (four or five of them).

This means that the forehead and the nose can be pointing in different directions at times. It seems to happen - roughly - every fifteen minutes or so, and the head points generally in compass points in relation to the building behind it, but it does not necessarily go around those points, stopping at each in order (like dealing a deck of cards).

Instead, it seems to follow you. We had an impromptu picnic, and the head pointed away from the building. But when we were sitting on the steps, it turned to look at us, in a disjointed way. Then we went to the side and it reconfigured (to its normal state) and looked in that direction. Then we went back to the steps and it turned that way. Eventually we got used to it, until we went to leave and the head turned and in its cross-plattered way, it turned to look at us, as if to ask us not to go. That was a bit creepy."