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The dog is clearly talented and may perhaps be able to skip a couple passes of the rope (though that's questionable) but the extended video of the dog jumping up and down is clearly edited*. The exact same sequence of the dog jumping up and down is used multiple times in each new camera angle. In one of them, at about 0:50, you can see some fade artifacting from the editing process. I'd love to see the original footage if it exists, but I think it probably doesn't...

*I can tell because of some of the pixels. (;



actually dog is jumping rope perfectly. no editing of the dog jumping rope at all. i should know. its my video and my dog. took me 5 straight weeks to complete the trick. no camera tricks here.

The dog is clearly talented and may perhaps be able to skip a couple passes of the rope (though that's questionable) but the extended video of the dog jumping up and down is clearly edited*. The exact same sequence of the dog jumping up and down is used multiple times in each new camera angle. In one of them, at about 0:50, you can see some fade artifacting from the editing process. I'd love to see the original footage if it exists, but I think it probably doesn't...

*I can tell because of some of the pixels. (;

song is Jump Up Bounce Down! by fantomenk if anyone cares

I had a cat that would do this too. She'd jump up on the chair next to you and tap you on the shoulder. She'd also get on your lap and paw your face like she was trying to pet you back.

With a name like chaosEngine , I would have assumed you knew why people do things like this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire>> ^ChaosEngine:
>> ^spoco2:
Um, yeah, he did explain the motive:
a) You get heaps of traffic to your sites in the first place to get the file sharing software etc.
but mostly
b) You can then go to the law makers and go 'Look how many people are illegally downloading our content, you MUST allow these hugely heavy handed and insanely over the top punishments to go through'... 'Well, before we thought it was just those 'fringe' elements, but you bring forth a compelling case of this becoming mainstream... yes, let's give you these insane powers'.
It does make sense. They didn't like these people pirating their stuff, but it seemed to be too 'small time' and 'limited'. So, let it slide, and even actively encourage it, until it becomes mainstream enough that you can start jumping up and down and get laws passed that give you far greater powers than you otherwise would have had.
He is annoying to listen to though, I'll give you that.
He also has an over-inflated sense of himself if he thinks that his video will single-handedly bring about a stop to SOPA

Fair enough, as I said, I didn't get that far, but thank you for suffering through it and explaining it.
That said, I'm still not sure I buy that explanation. It pre-supposes that being given "insane powers" is the end game for these corporations. It all seems a little too "bond villain" to me (ya know, let's spend billions on a nuclear shark so we can extort the world for a 1% profit).
I could very well be wrong, but it still sets off my bullshit radar.

>> ^spoco2:


Um, yeah, he did explain the motive:
a) You get heaps of traffic to your sites in the first place to get the file sharing software etc.
but mostly
b) You can then go to the law makers and go 'Look how many people are illegally downloading our content, you MUST allow these hugely heavy handed and insanely over the top punishments to go through'... 'Well, before we thought it was just those 'fringe' elements, but you bring forth a compelling case of this becoming mainstream... yes, let's give you these insane powers'.
It does make sense. They didn't like these people pirating their stuff, but it seemed to be too 'small time' and 'limited'. So, let it slide, and even actively encourage it, until it becomes mainstream enough that you can start jumping up and down and get laws passed that give you far greater powers than you otherwise would have had.
He is annoying to listen to though, I'll give you that.
He also has an over-inflated sense of himself if he thinks that his video will single-handedly bring about a stop to SOPA


Fair enough, as I said, I didn't get that far, but thank you for suffering through it and explaining it.

That said, I'm still not sure I buy that explanation. It pre-supposes that being given "insane powers" is the end game for these corporations. It all seems a little too "bond villain" to me (ya know, let's spend billions on a nuclear shark so we can extort the world for a 1% profit).

I could very well be wrong, but it still sets off my bullshit radar.

>> ^ChaosEngine:

Ok, I'm sorry, I got about halfway before I had to stop otherwise I would have chainsawed my own ear drums.
Sorry, I don't really buy it. CNet wasn't owned by CBS until 2008. And even then the suggestion that it's some sort of conspiracy by disney or whoever to spread the use of file sharing seems really far-fetched.
Whenever I'm confronted by something like this I always ask "What's the profit motive?" I don't really see the end game for the content producers here.
Exec A: hey let's distribute file-sharing software and then people will pirate our stuff without paying for it!
Exec B: errr, ok. How does this make us money?
Exec A: we'll sue a bunch of poor people for millions. They're bound to pay up and the negative publicity won't impact us at all.
Exec B: riiiiight. /backs away slowly
Frankly, I think it's far more likely that cnet, zdnet and so on were tech web sites run by tech guys whose owner hadn't a clue what they were doing. Meanwhile the tech guys were just doing what every other tech guys did and hosted the popular software. I can't actually credit the studios with that much understanding of the technology. "Never attribute to malice what can more easily be attributed to incompetence." Frankly, if anyone in the content industry were even slightly less retarded, they'd have done what valve did ages ago. When we get the movie/tv version of steam, this problem will largely go away.
a good question to ask climate change deniers.


Um, yeah, he did explain the motive:

a) You get heaps of traffic to your sites in the first place to get the file sharing software etc.
but mostly
b) You can then go to the law makers and go 'Look how many people are illegally downloading our content, you MUST allow these hugely heavy handed and insanely over the top punishments to go through'... 'Well, before we thought it was just those 'fringe' elements, but you bring forth a compelling case of this becoming mainstream... yes, let's give you these insane powers'.

It does make sense. They didn't like these people pirating their stuff, but it seemed to be too 'small time' and 'limited'. So, let it slide, and even actively encourage it, until it becomes mainstream enough that you can start jumping up and down and get laws passed that give you far greater powers than you otherwise would have had.

He is annoying to listen to though, I'll give you that.

He also has an over-inflated sense of himself if he thinks that his video will single-handedly bring about a stop to SOPA

Fuck people like this just love the sound of their own voice don't they? He's an idiot who loves to jump to the most insane conspiracy theories... he jumped up and down about the supposedly 'faked' Obama birth certificate, with an 'expert' on his show... after taking ZERO time to look into how documents are made by the PDF scanning process.

He'll take any issue, find some ranting loon angle to go at it on, and go nuts... And then paints himself as a 'hero'. He's a dick, he's a twit, he's a simpleton who thinks he's deep.

Moron.

Also... I just kept hearing this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyBlOe2cT1Y

Cats have an extremely high pain tolerance, especially when it comes to heat. They say if your cat acts like he's in pain, he's really in pain.

A friend of mine from years ago had a cat that jumped up next to the (gas) stove while it was on and accidentally put his tail in the flame. Within seconds the fire had spread up his tail and back (like a flaming skunk stripe) but he sat there cleaning himself like nothing was wrong. They wrapped him in a dish towel to smother the flame. He had minor burns on his skin but he came out fine.

>> ^Boise_Lib:

What did she feel that made her jump up?


a spring in her cushion

What did she feel that made her jump up?

I ran into so many freaking invisible walls playing rage it wasn't even funny anymore.
Oooh- we littered the landscape with all sorts of fantastic looking rabble but I'm sorry mate- you can't jump up that 20 cm ledge.
It also was no challenge at all (I never even had to use a defib charge on nightmare), let alone felt I actually had to use all those toys they provided. Just stand still and wait for the doods to stick their head out did the trick 90% of the time. No need to duck.

That's coming from someone who's prime gaming activity usually is firing up nethack every now and then.

It seems weird because everything not invovling the core game-design seems to have been done right.

Good sportsmanship is great, and a good thing to encourage. However, this rule doesn't punish "bad" sportsmanship, unless your standards for "bad" sportsmanship are so ridiculously hair-triggered that you'd prefer to watch all sports being played by Robots versus Vulcans.

It is possible to be a gracious winner and yet remain visibly happy that you won. What does any any Olympic athlete do after winning a race, landing a tough jump, setting a new record, or having any other momentary success? They give themselves a little fist-pump, grin like idiots, puff out their chest and hold their head high -- and that is probably the bare minimum for even the most stoic competitor ever. Is that bad sportsmanship? No.

What happens at the end of every World Series, Superbowl, or Championship of any sport ever played? One team jumps up and down in a mass hug, acting like schoolgirls and completely unashamed of doing so, while the other team has their arms at their sides and stares blank-faced at the ground 3 feet in front of their feet. Is that bad sportsmanship by the winners? No.

I love the tradition in NHL hockey where at the end of any playoff series, the entire roster of both teams lines up and shakes hands with every member of the opposing team. This can happen after 7 games fueled by hatred and bad blood, bench clearing brawls, or whatever. They put that aside, line up, shake hands, and congratulate each other on a well-fought series. Is that good sportsmanship? Yes!

Encouraging good sportsmanship makes sense. Coming up with punishments that can potentially alter the outcome of games for some behavior that is arbitrarily decided is "bad" sportsmanship is crazy.

Very cute, but when the phone rang I jumped up and ran to answer mine