>> ^timtoner:

I'm pretty sure that this is viral for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadows of Chernobyl.


agreed

Fennec Fox
A small nocturnal fox found along the northern rim of the Sahara Desert of North Africa and across the Arabian peninsula. Its most distinctive feature is its unusually large ears.

Although mainly a wild breed, the Fennec Fox is bred commercially as an alternative house pet. Breeders tend to remove the young kits from the mother to hand-rear, as tamer and more handleable foxes make better pets and are therefore considered more valuable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fennec_Fox

This music does nothing for me.. I love Chopin's Nocturne op. 9 no. 2, but the Muse contribution sounds like a revamped reminiscence of Wagner's Das Rhingold, only with fewer Nazis.

>> ^laura:
I know what you're talking about, nomino...in fact coca cola was originally just carbonated sweetened coca tea...but I am 99% sure AC is right. I saw a friend do it.


It also had some kola nut for that extra hit of caffeine. . . and cancer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_nut#Safety_issues

But if you read on in that article the "wild nocturnal freaks" sound worth it.

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The idea that banning guns to make the country safer is NOT laughable when you have a civil society that enjoys its freedoms and doesn't have guerilla forces as part of a rebellion. The reason those people exist is basically to "Fight the Man" and last time I checked, the U.S.A. doesn't exactly have that problem.

Hi Shepppard! Thanks for completely ignoring the factual basis of my post. Here it is for you AGAIN, stated more simply for you:

1: Firearms have been smuggled into prisons. They can be smuggled into a country. If they are illegal then by definition the only private citizens that can get their hands on them are criminals.

(hurp hurp, it's the old "if guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns" bit.)

2: Weapons are assembled in the middle of nowhere (jungle camps, Pakistani villages, etc) and do not require extremely specialized machinery to make. Even if they could not be manufactured openly, and even if they could not be smuggled in, criminals would still have no trouble manufacturing firearms and ammunition. To put a stop to this, you'd have to ban or regulate a lot of tools and materials that have many constructive uses.

This is why it's vital that private citizens retain the right to carry firearms. Because you can't stop them from getting them.

Private citizens require firearms to make sure they can defend themselves against criminals? Seriously? you don't think people carry guns when they break into peoples houses? That's just naive.

Where did you get the idea that most break-ins are committed by people packing heat? I don't doubt it happens that some do have guns, but from all the break-in cases I've heard, the usual burlger/rapist is armed with something that's less obviously a weapon (and not as expensive as a gun), like a heavy pipe, wrench, or a knife.

If you're that worried that someone's gonna break into your house, sleep next to a bat. If neither side has a gun, it's basically which ever one has the bigger melee weapon wins, and last time I checked, if you're breaking into someones house, you don't take a claymore, They draw a knife, you pick up the bat. Problem solved.

Well, I guess we'll all have to yield to your vast experience and/or research in the field of "home defense melee combat".

1: Failing that, saner people will realize that someone breaking into your house is going to have the advantage of surprise and will probably be stronger than you (as an expert in this field I'm surprised you didn't mention strength as a deciding factor in melee combat). Making you SOL.

It's much less of a problem if you have a gun though. You might be terrible at baseball bat fencing after being woken up midway through your sleep cycle and fighting someone on nocturnal sleep cycle, but that is less of an issue with a gun, nor do guns care how strong you are.

2. If he brings friends, then you're almost certainly SOL.

A gun solves the issue of being outnumbered nicely, since fights end sooner it's less likely you'll end up fighting two people at the same instant, and makes you more or less immune to being immobilized by one while the other attacks (because you can kill them before they get that close).

Last but not least this has nothing to do with someone "breaking into our house". The chances of someone being a victim of any kind of robbery are very low, and in any case it's not robbery that's the problem.

This has to do with your personal safety wherever you are. If there was a way to tell a burglar from a rapist or murderer, I'd be all for letting them take whatever they want and letting the police sort things out, or not. Even if I don't get my stuff back, it's not worth killing someone over. Unfortunately, the only way to tell ahead of time is let them rape or murder you.

In addition to all the other terrible flaws with your "baseball bat" idea, it's utterly useless when you're anywhere other than at home or home base. Last I checked, people also get mugged, and you'll get funny looks carrying a baseball bat around, in addition to it being completely ineffective against a decent mugger/rapist/murder/gang, which again will have the advantage of surprise.

Again, this has nothing to do with my personal worries. The chances that any of this happens to anyone are very low, but should it happen you're completely utterly fucked without a gun.

I contend that passing a law forbidding private citizens from carrying firearms leads to situations where one person can kill many, with the many helpless. This is unconscionable.

oh, and as for your "Extra lols", Really? Do you think that the secret service doesn't care that there's loaded firearms at a rally for the president?
are you THAT naive? your country has a bit of a track record for assassinations and attempted assassinations. If there's ANY person carrying a weapon at a rally, you can bet your ass they're being watched like a hawk.

Yeah, except if you read the article you'd know the secret service wasn't worried because
A) the rallies took place well away from where the president was and they of course had that area secured (no firearms are allowed in a federal venue). As for our track record for assassinations, I can't recall one that had the assassin carrying openly while loudly demonstrating. Assassins like to keep a low profile, but I guess you wouldn't know that since you majored in "home defense melee combat" and not "underhanded techniques of murder for hire".

"There's a reason that the police force was invented, and contrary to common belief, no, it was not to go around tazing people."

Not relevant, even if true.

The police can't protect you unless they're aware that you're in danger, and they're near enough to help. Those two facts mean there would have be many, many more police to make them an effective means of self defense. As it is, they are not an effective means for the defense of your person.

Fun fact: retired police officers and military love carrying and owning firearms. I wonder why?

Really, your post shows that you're about as in touch with reality as the right wing idiots that watch fox news.

last I checked, Chopin's Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2 was *music

*poke* *poke*>> ^calvados:
I had a couple of hamsters as pets when I was a little boy (since the folks wouldn't let me get a dog, which is what I really wanted) and I was always fed up with the fact that they were nocturnal and slept all day when I was awake.
I used to jab them through the bars of their cage with the (eraser) end of a pencil so they would wake up and entertain me. Being 7, it never occurred to me that it must've been like being woken up by a punch to the ribs. I regret it now.


*poke* *poke*

I had a couple of hamsters as pets when I was a little boy (since the folks wouldn't let me get a dog, which is what I really wanted) and I was always fed up with the fact that they were nocturnal and slept all day when *I* was awake.

I used to jab them through the bars of their cage with the (eraser) end of a pencil so they would wake up and entertain me. Being 7, it never occurred to me that it must've been like being woken up by a punch to the ribs. I regret it now.

Lucky said he fixed it:

http://www.videosift.com/talk/MySpace-videos-wont-embed-for-members-below-gold-star-level#comment-464002

So give it a whirl again. If it doesn't work post a comment in my Sift Talk post or tell lucky or dag directly. Good luck!

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I tried submitting this but the embed code was invalid

The Verve - Love Is Noise


Haven't tried ifilm though.

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You're welcome and thanks.

Hey, as long as I'm talking to you, are you able to embed videos from MySpace or iFilm? Both if those sites recently changed their players, so I think anyone below gold is unable to embed them because Siftbot "thinks" they're not approved. Let me know, if you could.

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gracias. I like the new avatar.

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*promote

That's what I figured. Thanks for checking. I'll write a Sift Talk post about this problem.

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I tried submitting this but the embed code was invalid

The Verve - Love Is Noise


Haven't tried ifilm though.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
You're welcome and thanks.

Hey, as long as I'm talking to you, are you able to embed videos from MySpace or iFilm? Both if those sites recently changed their players, so I think anyone below gold is unable to embed them because Siftbot "thinks" they're not approved. Let me know, if you could.

In reply to this comment by guessandcheck:
gracias. I like the new avatar.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
*promote

I tried submitting this but the embed code was invalid

The Verve - Love Is Noise


Haven't tried ifilm though.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
You're welcome and thanks.

Hey, as long as I'm talking to you, are you able to embed videos from MySpace or iFilm? Both if those sites recently changed their players, so I think anyone below gold is unable to embed them because Siftbot "thinks" they're not approved. Let me know, if you could.

In reply to this comment by guessandcheck:
gracias. I like the new avatar.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
*promote

You're welcome and thanks.

Hey, as long as I'm talking to you, are you able to embed videos from MySpace or iFilm? Both if those sites recently changed their players, so I think anyone below gold is unable to embed them because Siftbot "thinks" they're not approved. Let me know, if you could.

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gracias. I like the new avatar.

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*promote

gracias. I like the new avatar. you may enjoy this:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Depeche-Mode-Everything-Co
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Groove Armada - I See You Baby
Peter Gabriel - Don't Give Up
Blues Traveler - The Mountains Win Again
Mad Season - River of Deceit
Barenaked Ladies - Call & Answer

R.E.M. - Imitation of Life
Elliot Smith - The Morning After
Frederic Chopin - Nocturne, E flat Major
Ben Lee - Cigarettes Will Kill You
Deftones - Change