It's a TV serie, not a movie, and it's on HBO, which usually means quality.

As far as i know, the first season will be based on the first book only. That gives quite enough time to tell the story and introduce most of the cast without rushing things.

>> ^Stormsinger:

George R. R. Martin's books? Are they really making this story into a movie?
Much as I'd love to think otherwise, I don't see how it can be done...at least not without slashing the story to ribbons. There's just way too much content in any -one- of the books for a movie.

A raven is a type of crow. Crows in general are pretty amazing birds, from the Jackdaw that can be taught to "speak" like a parrot to crows in Wales that go sledding in winter for fun. In cities, I'd rather have crows around than pigeons.

You have to watch out for that ravenous Rick Sanchez guy, thank goodness Wolf found her first.

Yup, @siftbot totally failed at making the dupe connection with RC Plane and Raven. He's got really bad at his job.

In reply to this comment by Hybrid:
Your video is longer, but the raven vs the plane part is basically a dupe of: http://videosift.com/video/Raven-Vs-RC-Plane

Your video is longer, but the raven vs the plane part is basically a dupe of: http://videosift.com/video/Raven-Vs-RC-Plane

Seems like a standard mobbing attack. You'll often see ravens and crows doing this to hawks and other birds that enter their nesting territory. The best way I would describe it is an escort flight out of the perimeter of their nesting area. Sometimes however they will gang up and kill other birds(especially owls and hawks) that are in their territory. Though it is mostly a corvid behavior you will also see sparrows and other LBB(little brown birds) do this to larger birds to try to keep them from their eggs and chicks.

The other explanation which doesn't seem to fit is a mating routine which usually involves a male and female raven or crow locking talons and free falling together quite spectacularly towards the ground only to separate at the last minute(or height) and fly to an altitude and do it again to enforce a bond before mating....

Great Video!!!

>> ^ponceleon:

Hmm I don't know enough about ravens/hooded crows to understand the motivation behind the attack? Does the crow think it is another bird, or is he just playing with it the way a cat plays with a toy mouse?

Hmm I don't know enough about ravens/hooded crows to understand the motivation behind the attack? Does the crow think it is another bird, or is he just playing with it the way a cat plays with a toy mouse?

>> ^atara:

Most definitely not a raven. Most likely a Hooded Crow.


I was going to ask, seeing as no ravens have a white belly
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven

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Most definitely not a raven. Most likely a Hooded Crow.

They're dropped by a Raven, so there's a little teching up to do

>> ^ponceleon:

SCV RUSH!!

Where do I send the sunglasses to

In reply to this comment by enoch:
In reply to this comment by Sagemind:
I’m just not about politics.

I don’t want anyone to tell me what I can and can’t do.
I also don’t think it’s anyone’s place to tell someone what they can and can’t do.
A democracy as well as communism tells others what they can and cannot do.

-I am liberal in my ideas. I allow everyone to be what and who they are.
-I am conservative because I choose a simple low-key lifestyle.
-I am democratic only because I have to be to get along with others publicly so as not to step on their rights and privileges.
-I am communist because I dictate what I want and feel I deserve it to be that way.
-I am anti-government because of their need to suck us dry and spend our money ravenously.
-I am for government because they help to establish roads and provide a police force to protect those who cannot protect themselves.
-I am anti-military because in my world, we should never have need for one.
-I am scientific in my thinking and believe the best way to do things is what ever works best and most efficiently.
-I do not believe in worship.
-I do not believe in hierarchies, I never put one person above the next.
-I believe we all have the right to our own personal mythologies
-I am an anarchist because I think we should be left with our own devices unless we require more.
-I am anti-law because the laws that are in effect are not there to protect society as a whole. Law and lawyers cater to interest groups.
-I am against big business which only answers to its monetary share-holders.
-I am against public owned companies, which do not have to comply with community values, yet still want to exist within every community they can find.

I see everything around me as one big constant entity.
I see everything within me as a spark which thrives on chaos always seeking order.


your awesomeness blinds me...

I’m just not about politics.

I don’t want anyone to tell me what I can and can’t do.
I also don’t think it’s anyone’s place to tell someone what they can and can’t do.
A democracy as well as communism tells others what they can and cannot do.

-I am liberal in my ideas. I allow everyone to be what and who they are.
-I am conservative because I choose a simple low-key lifestyle.
-I am democratic only because I have to be to get along with others publicly so as not to step on their rights and privileges.
-I am communist because I dictate what I want and feel I deserve it to be that way.
-I am anti-government because of their need to suck us dry and spend our money ravenously.
-I am for government because they help to establish roads and provide a police force to protect those who cannot protect themselves.
-I am anti-military because in my world, we should never have need for one.
-I am scientific in my thinking and believe the best way to do things is what ever works best and most efficiently.
-I do not believe in worship.
-I do not believe in hierarchies, I never put one person above the next.
-I believe we all have the right to our own personal mythologies
-I am an anarchist because I think we should be left with our own devices unless we require more.
-I am anti-law because the laws that are in effect are not there to protect society as a whole. Law and lawyers cater to interest groups.
-I am against big business which only answers to its monetary share-holders.
-I am against public owned companies, which do not have to comply with community values, yet still want to exist within every community they can find.

I see everything around me as one big constant entity.
I see everything within me as a spark which thrives on chaos always seeking order.

Thanks!

In reply to this comment by NicoleBee:
*doublepromote

I gave that channel back to the site when I had the power to do so-I created the channel but can't do anything with it-it's Videosift's....but yeah, fuck yeah-anything that speaks to less "pussified" times..folks, can go there-
There was a user here a couple years ago (raven....female) who I was pretty tight with...we chatted one night and she convinced me to create a channel for some shits and giggles-her's was the Horrorshow-now that she's gone, that channel too, has no owner...I think-I don't look at channels anymore.Never did really-

My first channel was EIA, then Jazz/Blues (gave that one up to kulpims i think), then wildwestshow -surrendered that one to start another, Videodrome, which never came to be because dag unilaterally decided that I had had created too many channels already-Bout that time, I got double-teamed by a couple of popular users, and then I decided, "fuck this" and summarily broke every rule stated in the FAQs in a span of 20 mins, got banned, the rest is Siftstory-

For a year, off and on, I created about 10 other accounts, (never wanting to be back if I could not have my old account back) and it was like a game for these two douchebags to find me out (made it pretty obvious)and instaban me.

It was a fluke that gwhiz665 posted a poll to allow me back, and dag decided at that time to allow me to return conditionally.....the only power i don;t have anymore is making a new channel and leaving private profile comments. That last caveat is because certain pussified individuals could not stand their own fucking medicine, when served cold. One bailed (kronosposiden) and one refuses to enter into any meaningful discourse with me, well, because he's Blankfist. I had issue when he came with his asshole showing and a cat fart video evoking my handle here.
http://videosift.com/video/A-Special-Highbrow-Video-For-Choggie

In reply to this comment by geo321:
I had a great time out of that. Especially the Betty Page one...such a brilliant video. A question for you though, since the wild west show is your channel... does a video like this apply...http://videosift.com/video/Guy-Wrestles-an-Anaconda-Underwater
In reply to this comment by choggie:
http://videosift.com/video/She-Lives-feat-Betty-Page
http://videosift.com/video/Gunslinger-Model-404-or-406
http://videosift.com/video/Big-IronCowboy-Bebop

http://videosift.com/video/Amboy-Dukes-Journey-To-The-Center-Of-The-Mind-1969
http://videosift.com/video/Janet-Klein-and-Her-Parlor-Boys


A few favorites from the VS wayback machine-I think we need a mash-up channel m'self(3 of my favs here)

(that last one is Janet Klein whom I have a particularly hardcore crush upon )

I don't know what is is about Jewish chicks I dig so much-
http://image3.examiner.com/images/blog/EXID12090/slideshows/israel1.jpg