Some of you people seem to really have it out for the guy on the left when you don't even understand the question to begin with. He seems to be the only person on the panel who understands the crux of the question... ultimately it comes down to "What definition of sound do you go by?"

If you define sound as vibrations in the air, then you'd say yes, the tree makes a sound.

If you define sound as the sensory experience of those vibrations, you'd say no, it makes no sound unless someone hears it.

They are both valid definitions of sound. See definitions 1 and 2 here: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sound

It doesn't mean the tree doesn't fall if nobody witnesses it.

By the way, light is invisible. You can't see it, only its effect on objects it strikes.

Also, that idiotic tool's name is John Lloyd. He's the creator of the show.

Ah well, Chopin...Beethoven...what's important is that Jake Lloyd was horrible in Phantom Menace.

In reply to this comment by chicchorea:
Thank you so much for the quality. I'm glad you liked the vid.

Taxi had an incredible cast. Judd Hirsch, Danny DeVito, Carol, Kane, Andy Kaufman,...

While I haven't been much for Network TV for decades, this show, Night Court, Northern Exposure, ...there have been a few that were just too funny.

Good luck to you and thank you again.
In reply to this comment by Tymbrwulf:
Hahahahha, I have never seen this show and this makes me want to watch all the old episodes involving Jim. *quality humor from Christopher Lloyd
Yeah well I ended up watching a whole bunch of episodes on youtube. Jim is definitely my favorite character.

I went back to YT and found that segment as it had been too long to remember. You're right...great.

Good luck to you.

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This is the single most classic Christopher Lloyd scene from the entire series. Another good one was the flashback to the moment he first tried pot brownies. Hahaha! So good!

Thank you so much for the quality. I'm glad you liked the vid.

Taxi had an incredible cast. Judd Hirsch, Danny DeVito, Carol, Kane, Andy Kaufman,...

While I haven't been much for Network TV for decades, this show, Night Court, Northern Exposure, ...there have been a few that were just too funny.

Good luck to you and thank you again.
In reply to this comment by Tymbrwulf:
Hahahahha, I have never seen this show and this makes me want to watch all the old episodes involving Jim. *quality humor from Christopher Lloyd

Hahahahha, I have never seen this show and this makes me want to watch all the old episodes involving Jim. *quality humor from Christopher Lloyd

This is the single most classic Christopher Lloyd scene from the entire series. Another good one was the flashback to the moment he first tried pot brownies. Hahaha! So good!

Jim has always been the best of Lloyd's performances. I used to watch this show for only two reasons: Jim, and Elaine (okay, three reasons...Elaine had two of them).

But this role cemented Lloyd's standing in my mind as one of the comedy greats.

Andrew Lloyd Weber is plotting to kidnap her as we speak.

Hell, I am plotting to kidnap her as we speak.

Wait, that's creepy. Okay, in nine years, I will plot to kidnap her...

oh geez never mind

"Lloyd-Webber's awful stuff
Runs for years and years and years
An earthquake hits the theatre
But the operetta lingers
Then the piano lids comes down
And break his fucking fingers"

Oh Roger, no one does bitter like you!

Yay, thanks for the promote!

In reply to this comment by moodonia:
Great I love this guy!

BBC used to show his stuff on a Friday evening when I was a kid, it had a voiceover too, and theme music like a regular TV show, unless I dreamed it...

*promote

From Wiki

Lloyd kept copyright control of most of his films and re-released them infrequently after his retirement. Lloyd did not grant cinematic release because in the main most theaters could not accommodate an organist, and Lloyd did not wish his work to be accompanied by a pianist: "I just don't like pictures played with pianos. We never intended them to be played with pianos". Similarly, his features were never shown on television as Lloyd's price was high: "I want $300,000 per picture for two showings. That's a high price, but if I don't get it, I'm not going to show it. They've come close to it, but they haven't come all the way up". As a consequence, his reputation and public recognition suffered in comparison with Chaplin and Keaton, whose work has generally been more available.

Oh dear, something tells me he would not approve of this version Thankfully his work has gotten more recognition as of recently.

Now if only someone could stumble across that elusive copy of Cleopatra...

I had a cheapo low quality VHS of Laurel and Hardy when I was little my parents would let me watch and recently the same short got a restoration, the difference was night and day. Preserve the classics!

@Winstonfield_Pennypacker I'd go another round with you, but it's clear you just wanna flap your gums about fictitious versions of me and liberals and Obama, and are so utterly disconnected from reality that you aren't even responding to things I actually said.

I mean seriously, you literally snipped out the phrase "I'm sure there will be congressional oversight", and cut off the part where I said why I thought that, and acted as though there is a series of facts and history in which congressional oversight is never applied when a political food fight breaks out over something.

There's part of your fever dream I agree with -- namely, the rich and the powerful never get held accountable for anything. Tony Hayward is back to racing yachts, Lloyd Blankfein didn't even lose his job, and is already paying himself huge bonuses again, and Bush and Cheney are free men.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

We should keep it simple. I suggest the going after military spending, which is probably the one thing we all agree on most.

I guess I was trying to think of some way to unify us on anti-corporatism.

Military spending cuts will be a monumentally hard sell when we are still engaged in combat in 2-3 countries, with conservative media still fearmongering 24/7, and Democrats afraid to appear "soft on terror", and members of both parties in love with the military pork.

I think one libertarian idea I can really get behind as a solution to corporate recklessness is a campaign to eliminate all statutory liability limits. We can sell it to the right-leaning amongst us as a chance to see if that alone makes regulation superfluous, and lets them show us hippies that our meddling isn't needed, while telling our left-leaners that it's a great way to make Lloyd Blankfein penniless, and erase BP from the face of the earth.

It seems to me that might be a legislative proposal populists from both ends of the spectrum could support.

^I agree, shole. If I start to ask why, I end up with "what about the passengers of the plane?" or "why would our government go to great lengths to fake 911?" I think the asking those sorts of questions are important, but regardless the facts these truthers come up with is pretty interesting and worth entertaining, I think.

If your brother was dead, the police said he died of a drug overdose, but your neighbor said he saw the body and there was a knife sticking out of his body, would you not ask tough questions to ensure he wasn't in fact stabbed to death. And certainly the first question you'd ask yourself is "why would the police go to great lengths to fake an overdose?"

I want to know more about Lloyd's story. To me, that was the most damning piece of information.