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i checked out your re-posting.
much better,clearer and far more concise.
you gave a much fuller context on the situation,and that video is a very powerful video.i just hope your first post does not taint the excellent work you followed up on.
i still stand behind my words,i was angry,and you obviously were seeking a visceral response,so i gave you one.
but i also can recognize when someone is truly attempting to get something across that is important to them,and has the where-with-all to change tactics to get that point across.
good job.
through the years i have been popped in the nose for jumping in without much thought,and i am the better for it.even here on the sift people have called me out,while uncomfortable at the moment,a bruised ego heals pretty quickly.
in the end it is about communication,sharing not just ideas but experiences and knowledge.
here are two of my favorite videos by people i admire greatly:
noam chomsky
http://www.videosift.com/video/Noam-Chomsky-on-Freedom-and-Future
arundhati roy
http://www.videosift.com/video/We-Featuring-the-Words-of-Arundhati-Roy

while you may not agree with their words,you have to admire their ability to bring to light very important issues without romancing our most base of emotions.words are a means to creation and illiteration,they are MINDED things.
please,
never lose that passion you have,i greatly admire that,just temper it with the understanding that the people you are trying to reach may not have the same knowledge,understanding or perception that you may have.
use an open hand,not a 200 lb sledgehammer.
sound fair?
i look forward to your posts my friend,
till next time.
namaste.

a perfect example of bad doctrine and even worse theology.
to infer that the doctor was even REMOTELY responsible for his own execution is morally and ethically reprehensible.
i find it most interesting how zealot pastors sift through dogma and doctrine and only use what they deem necessary to manipulate their parishoners.behind many a religious zealot is an even more rabid preacher pulling the strings..disgusting.they hide in cowardice behind the cloak of biblical doctrine
like a leech and propound dogma like it was a holy secret,to be doled out in small doses.keeping their flock dimwitted and dull.
many of these fundamentalists use old covenant text,which i find VERY ironic due to the fact of how many of gods "laws" in that text are utterly ignored,yet others are used like a sledgehammer to pound into the religious followers the idea of "righteousness".
if this doctor had actually "reaped what he had sown" according to biblical doctrine,then why are they not stoning the adultress to death?or giving up all that is "worldly" and extoll the money changers?hanging the bankers for usury?why is it that so many people listen to preachers such as this man?
did not jesus bespeak "in the times before my return,there will be many who sayeth they speak in my name,but they will be false yet they will hold sway over my house,and over all nations".
how come i never hear these televangelists or money preachers ever say this quote?
how come supposed "christians" do everything BUT act like a "christian" would,and should?
and how could this hypocrisy be so lost on them?
DD=dumbfounded and deer-eyed,ignorance is curable but stupid is forever.
jesus wept.....

/agreed netrunner
MCA of 2006 anyone?
now THAT piece of legislation was an abomination.
as for all the hoopla about DHS director's mention of the possibility of returning veterans becoming extremists,she was just doing her job.
defining all possible threats,foreign and domestic,and possible outcomes,is her job.the report taken in context is not offensive.
cherry-pick this little nugget and BOOM...its news.
no...its not.
it's being used as a political sledgehammer to push a narrative that if looked at closely...does not exist.
once again the media fails to give the public contextual reporting and politicians jump on the bandwagon to further their own political agenda.
in the end,its always the common man who pays the price for this kind of
gross,manipulative pandering.

When I first joined the military eleven years ago, things were still fairly old school (there were a couple years left to go before the Canadian Forces made a conscious turn towards a "kinder, gentler" M.O.) In my unit, at least, there was a lot of sledgehammer leadership -- lots of yelling and verbal disrespect from the Sergeants / Master Corporals / senior Corporals etc towards those of us lower on the food chain. That was the way things were done; to get the troops doing something, yell, and if they're not doing it fast enough or properly, yell louder and start swearing and call people "numbnuts" and so on. I wouldn't say any of it was actually abusive (you'd have to go back before my time for that), but the model basically was "to get troops to get the job done, apply unpleasantness".

Anyway, when I was in positions of leadership for the first several years I was loud and snarky (just like everybody else) and I never had been like that before. I wasn't power-tripping either -- I didn't enjoy it, although after awhile I did get good at it. But after those first years I realized that I didn't like doing it that way, which was also about the time I slowly cottoned on to the fact that there were other, less adversarial ways of motivating people. Also around then we had a large turnover of senior NCO's (Sergeants etc.) and the ones who replaced them were less old school and less irascible, so the entire tone of the unit mellowed noticeably in the space of less than a year.

So yes, I was more assoholic for those first few years, but that's past. I'll still deliver a blast if I have to sort out some troopie, but it's rare that it gets to that point -- they usually just listen pretty well.

EDIT: I now realize I didn't answer your question -- let me think about that one.

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^But I just got my baby-killing device all ready? Who am I supposed to kill now??

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This is not as impressive as old archive video of bridges being built. Early on, they used rivets instead of bolts, and rivets have to be glowing hot when they are inserted, then as they cool it holds the beam together.

Well, they couldn't bring the oven up to the work area (too heavy), so they would heat the rivets on the ground, then throw them up to the point where they are working. The rivet pitcher pulled one rivet out of the oven with metal tongs and tossed it up to the catcher, wearing some kind of heat shielding gloves (likely asbestos) who would then place it in the hole, and a 3rd guy with a sledgehammer would pound it in, usually 1 swing. This whole process took about 1 second. Was pretty amazing to watch, and to think how many rivets went into a whole bridge...(my guess is several hundred thousand rivets)

I couldn't find a similar video on youtube, I saw it on PBS a few years back.

(oh, for those that haven't seen an iron/steel bridge up close... these are big heavy rivets, probably 1" diameter and several inches long.)

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>> ^calvados:
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