Wired piece on Snowden, page 5:

By the time he went to work for Booz Allen in the spring of 2013, Snowden was thoroughly disillusioned, yet he had not lost his capacity for shock. One day an intelligence officer told him that TAO—a division of NSA hackers—had attempted in 2012 to remotely install an exploit in one of the core routers at a major Internet service provider in Syria, which was in the midst of a prolonged civil war. This would have given the NSA access to email and other Internet traffic from much of the country. But something went wrong, and the router was bricked instead—rendered totally inoperable. The failure of this router caused Syria to suddenly lose all connection to the Internet—although the public didn't know that the US government was responsible.

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Mmmmm, unwrap me another artificially-flavored congealed polysaccharide shit-brick honey, I can't stop eating them!

Well, if you just HAVE to stand on the outside of a high-speed curve, do it on a giant pile of heavy bricks.

I would fail. I couldn't bring myself to hit a woman. In any circumstance. (especially not the blonde in the TN, rowr!)

In the course of my business, I got involved with an employee's problem with a drunk. He was much smaller than me, but got in a sucker punch while I was turned away from him. He was obviously hoping for a glass jaw, but mine is more like a cinder brick, only heavier. Anyways, he just pissed me off. He was flitting around, connecting, breaking skin a couple times, but no real power so it was just annoying. I finally connected -once- and he went down. Then two girls from his group grabbed onto me (ugly skanks so it wasn't remotely fun) and he ran off. They were scratching at me, kicking, and then one started to -without one word of a lie- try to burn me with her cigarette lighter. I still didn't hit either one. I wasn't brought up that way. I was finally able to push them far enough away and threatening to pound them kept them away.

It might be different if the female in question had a weapon, knife or club, and was intent on killing me, but anyplace where I could handle the damage, and knowing I could do seriously outclassed damage to them? No, I'd just take it.

Because everyone needs a levitating pillow with a brick on it.

Ahh your right, its a new video, they just copied the intro as a method of introduction, a bad one as you can see as I am sure I am not the only one who hit play and said "seen it".

Unfortunately going back to dates again, an armchair hosted youtube commentary with at maximum 12 days of research. One of the first things he does is question the traction properties. With no.. scientific data what so ever to backup his side, continuous calling them glass bricks.

And, everything I said was wrong according to Iowa State. The truck is a bad idea (though again, this is assuming close proximity to the tornado). The thing to do is to get in a ditch. Prayer probably couldn't hurt either. You never know.

Then again, a tornado can pick up a person at least as easily as it can pick up a car, ditch or no ditch. I suppose people prone in a ditch have far less drag than a car though.

http://www.public.iastate.edu/~atmos/tornado_safety_rules.html

Interesting article. The bit about basements in brick houses is interesting (possibility the house will collapse in on you, which would suck). I'll keep that in mind because I live in a brick house. Of course, there has also never been a tornado here in recorded history.

Needs http://soundfxnow.com/sound-fx/super-mario-brick-break/ for the first 30 seconds.

we *can* work together, the problem is that most of the time we don't *want* to work together. Humanity is still very much ego driven and selfish. We'd still rather compete than cooperate

How do you convince someone who has "made it" that in all probability, they were merely lucky. How many success stories can be boiled down to basically right place, right time. I'm not saying don't work hard..quite the opposite....hard work/skill combined with luck is what usually equals success. If you only have one or the other, things won't move forward.

most of the atrocities committed by humans in our history have usually been committed by people who thought they were "deserving" or thought the universe was on their side" when bzzt...wrong...please try again. The fact that they were defeated kinda proves that they weren't

but yet..try to convince someone that they are not "the chosen" "the pre-ordained" and you'll likely have better success talking to a brick wall.

Just the other day I had to work with a programmer who thought his coding was "divine providence" (his words)

When the day comes when we can successfully and consistently compartmentalize and/or shut off our ego when needed, humanity is going to leap forward.