The way she was rambling, I half expected Dr. Zoidberg to be in the first row, casually asking when the mating will begin.

But then I remembered that I was supposed to read something myself and procrastination caught up with me as well. VideoSift, a refuge from work to be done. Even bash.org found its way into a tab again, no escape from that one. Might as well call it a night and get pissed instead.

Very nice Lucky, my best score on hard was 9250. I used a different strategy without the juggling and I didn't let those two flying creeps escape . Of course your best score on the group scoreboard (http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/GroupScoreboard.asp?nver=1.5 group name Videosift) is 9428 with no escaped creeps. I bow before the master

Those models better not piss him off, or one of those day he'll come to work with sandpaper glued to his hands.. and they'll be no escape!

Certain things just plain won't ever get through; there's no escaping it. They're more or less a waste of time to post. Sift has a certain swing to it and it isn't gonna change much any time soon, likely. However, if you really like them, post them and at worst they wind up in your PQ. Don't bother "clearing out" your PQ of things that have few votes. In my eyes, it can be seen as a part of your profile nearly. It also acts not only as a bit of an archive for searching the site for video, but it also eliminates the possibility of 10 other people submitting i--just to fail again and again--simply because they think it has never been submitted before. You can reserve your * kill commands for stuff you want to be out of your PQ "profile" or dupes.

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1000th comment FTW.

Well, from the whole alcohol is worse than pot angle, there is no escaping the fact that alcohol has been acceptable for a long time, and is embedded in culture, I think that the familiarity with alcohol has breed contempt, and like all the posters in chemistry labs every where say, "familiarity with a substance does not reduce its a ability to do harm".

Really, in terms of alcohol, people who call themselves adults need to get some responsibility, since I don't think that an advert saying "Don't drink if you are incapable of drinking in manageable amounts would either go down too well with the general public, or be very effective. In this country at least, people need to learn that if you got severely rat faced and wake up somewhere you don't know where, and didn't cause a car crash, get impregnated, start a fight, stab someone, rape someone/get raped, kill someone (I'm not saying every drunken night ends in murder), that it wasn't a great night, you just got lucky.

On marjuana, the jury is still out for me, but since I'm not under any motivation to smoke it, I don't.

>> ^jwray:
Why not privatize the fire department while you're at it?

Garrison Keillor talks bout such a thing in the suburbs of St. Paul, Minnesota in his book, Homegrown Democrat. In it he talks about the response time for the private emergency services in the suburbs compared to that of the public ones within the city limits. The private companys sometimes take upwards of 20 minutes to respond, while the public ones are there within 4 minutes on average.

And the thing we have to remember, privatized services like security, fire, and emergency medical, provide the service prior to ever discussing pricing then charge you afterwards.

>> ^imstellar28:
1. the fire department functions in the same role as the police department: to protect against the destruction of private property and loss of life. you cannot compare the police force or fire department to a school. if i burn down your house, i am committing a criminal act. if i don't teach your son algebra, i am not doing anything wrong. it is an invalid comparison because one enforces law, while the other merely provides a service.

I think you've got your analogy mixed up there. Committing arson is quite a bit different than not teaching a child. Though, if we were to correct your analogy, and say that if you were to let someones house burn to the ground instead of doing your job as a firefighter to attempt to put it out, then you would be subject to the same punishment, that of being terminated from your job, as you would should you as a math teacher refuse to do your job.
>> ^imstellar28:
2. so if i find a cure to cancer, i'm guessing you are going to force me to sell it to you? by your logic, if i didn't sell it to you i would be using "coercion" if you were dying from cancer. inaction is not, and cannot be, a method of coercion unless you initially set into motion the cause of distress--at which point, it cannot be considered inaction.

How did you find your cure for cancer? Do you work for a medical research company Did you fund all your research privately or receive government subsidies? Did you alone do all the research, or did you base your research on the work of others? Did they receive and government funding? Do you have a degree? Was your education paid for with loans? Are you simply a greedy asshole? All questions that would need to answered in order to determine the ownership of your cure. Some people finding such a cure would be content to give it to the world.
>> ^imstellar28:
3. healthcare is a service. healthcare providers have to go to school to develop their skills. you don't have a right to healthcare if nobody is willing to sell it to you. it is a man-made product which means a man has to choose to share it. you don't walk into a supermarket and demand that you have a right to free (or cheap) food because you need it to survive, so why do you think its okay to walk into a clinic and demand free (or cheap) healthcare?

Do you know that the vast majority of doctors get their degrees through the used of federally funded loans, scholarships, and grants? Which is then reimbursed by the money they receive from their patients. Now if they are able to have their education paid for by tax payers and their patients, why isn't it fair to expect them to work as a service to their community? No one is saying they shouldn't receive compensation, but rather that their compensation far outweighs their investment.
>> ^imstellar28:
4. if a firefighter (legally contracted by the government or otherwise) fails to put out your house fire, that is a breech of contract (fraud) not coercion. if in uncontracted firefighter walks by, he has every right to charge you a million dollars or let your house burn to the ground. if you could force others to work for you, you would be a slaveowner.

Again, like your "cancer cure" argument, you're assuming that a person would only do something for monetary gain, firefighters don't eat smoke because they get paid well, many small communities only have volunteer fire departments, a firefighter walking by would do what they could to help, regardless of their reward. Now let's look at your "slaveowner" statement, if I own a business and employ a dozen people, in a job market where if any one of them were to lose their job it could be months before they are rehired, and I know that none of them can afford to live without the income they receive from me. I as their employer can insist they do what ever I choose, be it mow my lawn, wash my car, or empty my septic tank, certain in knowing that although they have the option to tell me to fuck off, they won't because they can't risk losing their job. I, in essence, am then able to force them to do my bidding, yet I am not technically a slave owner. We are all slaves so long as we cannot change jobs at will.

>> ^imstellar28:
5. free markets don't reward "cranks, liars, or frauds" they punish them with bankruptcy. that is, unless you attempt to intervene with a "bailout" or other regulation which keeps them in business. consumers don't lobby for regulation, corporations do because competition is not good for business, pure and simple. people don't buy products which aren't useful, and people are free to buy whatever products they chose, as are they free to seek legal compensation for fraudulent claims.

I beg to differ, free markets do what they can to discourage educated consumption, thereby rewarding those who can make sales through any and all means, including lies, and fraud. More over, a depressed economy encourages this behavior, advertising get rich quick scams, that only make the person selling the scam rich. Regulation is designed to prevent unfair business practices, such as oil speculation by people who own oil commodities that results in unrealistically inflated prices, or mortgage lenders offering mortgages at an affordable rate then jacking the interest up in order to force unreasonable payments or foreclosures. When you have massive corporate juggernauts like we have now, with a constant influx of advertising, and a culture based on ignorant consumerism, competition is an illusion, and the free market is a myth.

>> ^imstellar28:
6. central government is inherently more inefficient than local organization. the more hands you have to pass information through, the more confusing and costly it becomes. there is no escaping that. a third party who has never met you will never better understand your needs, especially when they are not compensated based on how well they serve you. a government official does not know what is best for your family, nor do they know the best way to achieve it--only you do.

Bureaucracy is present no matter if it be governmental or corporate. It's going to be inefficient regardless, nothing is dealt with on a local level. If you have surgery, your claim will go over the desk of a dozen people at your insurance company just as it would a federal agency. The difference, the insurance company is working for profit, they will do everything they can to deny your claim/service, where as the most a government agency might do would be delay your service.

Too many people in this country have been led to believe that centralized government is bad, that socialized services are bad, that the free market can solve everything. Well take a good look around, millions out of work, millions without health care, millions of families losing their homes due to predatory lenders, and an economy on the verge of becoming the next great depression.

And what do we have to thank for this? A history of corporate greed, government collusion, and a populace too stupid to realize they've been used.

^

1. the fire department functions in the same role as the police department: to protect against the destruction of private property and loss of life. you cannot compare the police force or fire department to a school. if i burn down your house, i am committing a criminal act. if i don't teach your son algebra, i am not doing anything wrong. it is an invalid comparison because one enforces law, while the other merely provides a service.

2. so if i find a cure to cancer, i'm guessing you are going to force me to sell it to you? by your logic, if i didn't sell it to you i would be using "coercion" if you were dying from cancer. inaction is not, and cannot be, a method of coercion unless you initially set into motion the cause of distress--at which point, it cannot be considered inaction.

3. healthcare is a service. healthcare providers have to go to school to develop their skills. you don't have a right to healthcare if nobody is willing to sell it to you. it is a man-made product which means a man has to choose to share it. you don't walk into a supermarket and demand that you have a right to free (or cheap) food because you need it to survive, so why do you think its okay to walk into a clinic and demand free (or cheap) healthcare?

4. if a firefighter (legally contracted by the government or otherwise) fails to put out your house fire, that is a breech of contract (fraud) not coercion. if in uncontracted firefighter walks by, he has every right to charge you a million dollars or let your house burn to the ground. if you could force others to work for you, you would be a slaveowner.

5. free markets don't reward "cranks, liars, or frauds" they punish them with bankruptcy. that is, unless you attempt to intervene with a "bailout" or other regulation which keeps them in business. consumers don't lobby for regulation, corporations do because competition is not good for business, pure and simple. people don't buy products which aren't useful, and people are free to buy whatever products they chose, as are they free to seek legal compensation for fraudulent claims.

6. central government is inherently more inefficient than local organization. the more hands you have to pass information through, the more confusing and costly it becomes. there is no escaping that. a third party who has never met you will never better understand your needs, especially when they are not compensated based on how well they serve you. a government official does not know what is best for your family, nor do they know the best way to achieve it--only you do.

Wow, I'd forgotten how much John Landis chopped up the song to make it work with the mini-movie he wrote.

Original song:
Verse 1
Chorus 1
Verse 2
Chorus 2
Bridge
Verse 3
Chorus 3
Chorus 4
Vincent Price

Video:
Verse 1
Verse 2
Verse 3
Vincent Price
Chorus 1
Chorus 3
Chorus 4

The bridge ("there's no escaping the jaws of the alien") and chorus 2 ("the thing with forty eyes") are completely missing. You'd think with a video that long, they'd find room for all the lyrics.

Expect a roundhouse kick to the face, DFT. There is no escape.

Wow, I still remember when I first heard these guys right around that time. A sort-of punker friend came by with a mysterious black and white video cassette she had found somewhere (we thought it was a demo, but it probably wasn't) featuring "Mountain Song" among others and we watched it over and over. Growing up in the cultural wasteland of the 80s, this was a sudden an unexpected breath of fresh air. Heavy, psychedelic, subversive, exciting music that was actually new! Whoda thought that the death of GnR, BonJovie and the like was only just around the corner and that these guys represented the near future of popular music. Why ANYBODY would voluntarily go to "80's night" is beyond me. That night lasted 10 years; I was there, there was no escape, and it sucked. Well, maybe just 8 years, as this vid shows, but you're still not gonna hear Janes Addiction at 80s night.

It is unfortunate that people like to excerpt the parts of speech they like and don't give the whole story. Kennedy may well want to say such words to our current president, and they are good words, but there is lot more to this speech, and what Kennedy was really trying to do was to get the press to voluntarily not print things that the government felt should be kept secret. The excerpt was taken from a speech to The American Newspaper Publishers Association following the botched Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. The sentences immediately proceeding the clip are:

"I want to talk about our common responsibilities in the face of a common danger. The events of recent weeks may have helped to illuminate that challenge for some; but the dimensions of its threat have loomed large on the horizon for many years. Whatever our hopes may be for the future--for reducing this threat or living with it--there is no escaping either the gravity or the totality of its challenge to our survival and to our security--a challenge that confronts us in unaccustomed ways in every sphere of human activity."

"This deadly challenge imposes upon our society two requirements of direct concern both to the press and to the President--two requirements that may seem almost contradictory in tone, but which must be reconciled and fulfilled if we are to meet this national peril. I refer, first, to the need for a far greater public information; and, second, to the need for far greater official secrecy."

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA! You ARE SO STUPID AMERICA, YOU FELL FOR THAT!


And you think your the superpower.... Well Mccain is rich, but atleast he is not a neo-con, McCains, is just kind of gotten to the point where he is like, fuck it...

Barak will be your next president, its exactly what they want. You all think 'they' want a right world..... Nooooo, 'they' want a bi-polar world, a world that doesn't know whats good for itself, and will sell its soul to heal wounds that don't exist.

I give it about 2 presidents, till weed is legal and everybody is smoking it, simply because its NOT unhealthy for you, never mind all the paranoid dog turned sheep. Trust me they know the power behind the stuff (not just weed, but anything you put in your body). And they know the BEST way to harness it.

You all are so stupid. Prove me wrong, stop pressing the feeder bar for another food pellet, and climb out of rat cage. Hurry up there Isn't much time left until they start using you for extensive testing, and once the 'scientists', have your little rat bodies between their fingers, their aint no escape. Ill see you when you get to the other side, good luck.

Republicans do that now too Davido, there's no escape.

Heh, no escaping the Japanophiles man

I'd love to have the narrator of funniest videos overdub his own shows with very depressing or inappropriate blurbs...

"...the darkness, it follows you, child. there is no escaping. and one day it will consume you, much as it consumes us all." (laugh-track)