The problem isn't me eating bacon, the problem is that my bacon is produced intertnationally. It's the industrial globalisation of of our food that's causing the biggest problems. Why do I see south african strawberries and argentinian beef in my supermarket? I live in middle europe, strawberries and cows have an awesome time here. Because it's cheaper, it costs the corporations less money to ship their product around the globe than producing it locally. There are less regulastions to follow. The local farmer takes too much money for his cow and strawberries don't grow here in January. We can't have the customer pay a Euro or two more for for his steak. We can't have the customers wait until April for strawberries. We want it now and as cheaply as possible. That's why we eat more meat than ever, that's why my steak damages the environment more than ever.
Globalisation is a wonderful thing but it isn't without consequences.

Throwing a disc all day (more like days) actually sounds like an awesome time.

No sarcasm tag.

Also, I can attest that by the way those discs fly he's got magnificent technique. Tons of effortless wrist snap.

Geez, looks like they had a really awesome time..

I hated Marineland.

>> ^mxxcon:

>> ^MaxWilder:
... and now for some footage of a passing train.

but you gotta admit, that was an awesome timing.
i wonder if that was their only take or if they had to stay there the whole day to time with passing trains


If they spent time setting up that timing, that would make it even more bizarre.

>> ^MaxWilder:

... and now for some footage of a passing train.

but you gotta admit, that was an awesome timing.
i wonder if that was their only take or if they had to stay there the whole day to time with passing trains

@chtierna

I would imagine he was in the same situation I was in. It was more convenient to let it happen for the school, for the people cheating, for the teachers and the only people hurt were the ones who didn't participate and got punished for it with lower scores than the cheaters. If the house of cards ever did come down, it'd probably result in all the higher ups being replaced and all the profs being re-assessed. I can safely say it ran all the way up to the Dean in my school of study within the university. Otherwise he wouldn't have been changing my evaluation scores like I was agreeing with his point of view.....right in front of me. I mean who else do you complain to if you can't complain to the dean? And is it going to result in something that means the last 4 years of time and money investment aren't worth complete shit at the end? It's a slowly spiraling situation with most of the state funded universities I suspect, they expect certain numbers of passing students/etc and they do what it takes or ignore whatever it takes to get those numbers and a nice padding on top of it.

This is where businesses go "That new batch of hires we just got really suck compared to the ones we hired 10 years ago, maybe we should make sure they have 5-10 years experience from now on." And we end up in this cycle where you need a degree, high marks, and 5-10 years experience to land an entry level job or a whole load of luck and a big dose of bending the truth (making shit up) on your resume.

I have to say I got stuck there, the company I co-oped for didn't offer me a job when I finished even though they had said repeatedly they'd have something and never indicated dissatisfaction with my work. Plus I didn't see how my experience at that particular job could apply to others because they didn't want co-ops being involved in the core code due to patents/theft/whatever, so I was left with hands on testing, GUI work, and hardware tests if the software was throwing up on it for some reason. And I didn't feel it was right to embellish my resume because it'd cause me a lot of grief if someone wanted me and I couldn't produce at their expectations.

And then the dotcom bubble burst, man that was an awesome time. People with 15 and 20 years experience taking the entry level positions in my area for the next 3-4 years. I never recovered from it, I worked where I could keep a job and work off paying my loans. And now it's even worse, job market is still declining in my area..across the board.

I will say this, there was a teacher at my university who literally didn't show up for class half a quarter. Never returned assignments or tests until the end of the quarter. No one knew if they were doing anything satisfactory. At the end most of the students were screwed, they petitioned and they all got a passing grade in the class due to this. But that means they potentially learned nothing. This teacher went on later to teach the same class...that I was in. He was horrible, I skipped his class....I mean he literally acted like he was on something. And he drove a car with no top in the winter...it snowed into his car. This guy was still working there when I graduated. And he spoke understandable English...I had lecturers that were using words I didn't understand because their accent was so heavy. Finally after class I'd get to ask someone else if they understood the words I didnt, and they ask me some words they didn't understands...and we deciphered the code. This happened more and more as I progressed toward my degree, more heavy accents. At some point you gotta laugh at how crazy it was just trying to take a class you're paying a hefty sum of cash for.


>> ^chtierna:

Wasn't there any way you could tip the teachers off as to what was happening?
>> ^ShakyJake:
I just graduated recently with a Mechanical Engineering degree, and I have to say that I just WISH this had happened in some of my classes. There were communities in some of my classes that I was never part of that had copies of everything, each semester. All the homework problems out of the textbooks, old exams from previous semesters where the professor just used the same exam year after year, these guys had it all. And no matter how hard I studied, I could never match that kind of advantage. Even more frustrating was that in most cases the classes would be based on "the curve", and these people threw that off. I never actually stooped to cheating, but there were certainly times I wished I had been.

you might be able to tell I am running for gold right now. You must have me on a RSS feed or something. Always number one to upvote my fantastic awesome time worthy videos submissions.

Thanks, buddy!

In reply to this comment by Fusionaut:
*promote

Thanks! Post edited

In reply to this comment by Ornthoron:
Certainly It's a recurrent theme in the ballet Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky, if I recall correctly. I don't know where in the ballet this one is taken from, but here is the opening movement of the ballet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u4JxtIGGMk

In reply to this comment by cybrbeast:
This guy I subscribed to on YouTube just keeps posting awesome time lapses, but doesn't post the artist of the music.
Can you help again?
http://www.videosift.com/video/Beautiful-Hippeastrum-Flower-Time-Lapse

Certainly It's a recurrent theme in the ballet Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky, if I recall correctly. I don't know where in the ballet this one is taken from, but here is the opening movement of the ballet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u4JxtIGGMk

In reply to this comment by cybrbeast:
This guy I subscribed to on YouTube just keeps posting awesome time lapses, but doesn't post the artist of the music.
Can you help again?
http://www.videosift.com/video/Beautiful-Hippeastrum-Flower-Time-Lapse

This guy I subscribed to on YouTube just keeps posting awesome time lapses, but doesn't post the artist of the music.
Can you help again?
http://www.videosift.com/video/Beautiful-Hippeastrum-Flower-Time-Lapse

In reply to this comment by Ornthoron:
It is not Air on a G string either; that one is an adaption for solo violin and piano. The music in the video is the real thing, by Bach himself.

Edit: Although it should be mentioned that the title "Air on a G string" is often misattributed to any version of this tune.

In reply to this comment by cybrbeast:
I think it might be Bach after all.

Bach - Air on a G String
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MYzkBiJn5Y

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

*edited again

Beat me by 7 minutes, awesome time lapse!

I don't know what happened there, you just happened to have responded right before I checked my email or something. Maybe you just have awesome timing, because while I waste a TON of time on the internets, I definitely sort of maybe have a life.




...BAWL OH GOD I'M SO RONERY

In reply to this comment by legacy0100:
Dude, get off the internets! SLEEP or something!!

You reply too fast!!

In reply to this comment by JAPR:
Nah I totally understand what you mean. I'm not talking about my personal tastes per say, I'm saying I could understand people thinking that they were cute at first. I find both to be rather plain, though I wouldn't go so far as to say that they were fugly. It's about the overall package imo, but if the face isn't cute, it's a no-go.

In reply to this comment by legacy0100:
To be honest, I never thought they were hot or cute. NEVER. Aguilera was close, but no.

I'm more into pretty faces. Spears and Cyrus are fugly as hell. I don't know what you Americans see in them... or any of my other Asian friends...

People say I have a weird taste in girls

In reply to this comment by JAPR:
No, no, I'm saying they WERE cute at first, at least compared to the monsters they've become. D:

Very jealous of that meal Looks like an awesome time.

I was just thinking of this scene last week. Awesome timing.