I am really suprised at the supposed super-libs in this thread who are okay with Bin Laden being assassinated, rather than stand trial. It is obvious that apprehension was never the goal of this mission, the US government obviously had no intention of having him 'brought to justice' in a court of law. Likely because it would mean drawning attention to their other embarrasment over those they've held in Guantanamo Bay.

America is supposed to be the shining light on the hill. That no matter what, those who commit crimes would be fairly examined by the evidence and their guilt or innocence decided by the court. All this killing will do is allow Americas detractors to yet again point and say, "Look, they don't even follow their own laws".

>> ^Crunchy:
If you can watch through this without feeling embarrased for them, you've got some serious problems


I'd feel embarrased for them if I felt sorry for them. Given how they acted, I don't feel sorry for them in the slightest. They had no idea how to act in front of an audience.

>> ^Crunchy:

If you can watch through this without feeling embarrased for them, you've got some serious problems

I think if you can feel any sort of empathy for them then you've got serious problems

If you can watch through this without feeling embarrased for them, you've got some serious problems

Duckman:
While your statistic is accurate according to the CDC, that is in reference to Autism Spectrum Disorder; there are varying degrees of the disorder, and not every child diagnosed has that severe Autism that everyone is so on edge about. Yes, having the disorder is bad in and of itself, but there are varying levels of the disorder. Here's a list of statistics on the prevalence of types of PDDs from the Autism Society of Canada's website:

"Prevalence of specific PDDs

* CDD Rare: ~ 0.2 in 10,000= ~ 500 Canadians
* Rett's Rare: ~ 1 in 10,000= ~ 3,150 Canadians
* Autistic Disorder: ~ 20 in 10,000= ~ 73,000 Canadians
* PDD-NOS: ~ 15 in 10,000= ~ 47,000 Canadians
* Asperger's: ~ 5 in 10,000= ~ 15,000 Canadians

Reference:
Fombonne, E., 2003: Modern Views of Autism, Can. J. Psychiatry, 48:503-505.
Fombonne, E., 2003: Epidemiology of autism and other pervasive developmental disorders: an update. J. Autism.Dev. Disord. 33:365-381\"

http://www.autismsocietycanada.ca/asd_research/research_prevalence/index_e.html

Why are the levels of Autism increasing? A very good explanation could be the same reason the levels of diagnosis on other diseases seems to spike with the progression of medical science: We get better at diagnosing illnesses.

If something is causing the disorders to become more common in children, and the public at large, it will be discovered, but at this point there is not sufficient evidence to suggest that anything in our vaccines or our drinking water is creating a neurological disorder epidemic. The burden of proof lies on those who claim it is "not natural", just like those who say God created the Cosmos. For all we know right now it could be natural, and we have just never realized it before.

But, to paraphrase Tim Minchin: "If you can show me how it works and why it works I will spin on a fucking dime, and I'll be embarrased as all hell, but I will admit it with evidence, and I will take a compass and carve "fancy that" on the side of my cock."

NordlichReiter:
I completely agree with you that it doesn't appear that way with our politicians, nor does the mass media help in anyway with the preponderance of getting celebrities to pitch in their own "opinions" on the current state of affairs within our societies. To go back to the Anti-Vax nonsense, Jenny McCarthy is a perfect example; she believes her "mommy instinct" trumps all known medical science and evidence, and now it appears her kid never even had Autism in the first place, but an entirely different neurological disorder:
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1967796-1,00.html


>> ^Duckman33:
Whether this video is bullshit or not. The fact remains that 1 out of every 110 children born has autism. That is unacceptable. So what is the cause if not fluoride in the drinking or vaccines?? I find it hard to believe this is natural. Anyone of you geniuses disputing the video have an answer?

Lol, the TYT team are bang on (I'm an Australian) and yeah, American's would probably instantly recognise the stereotype and get offended.

The Australian's that decided to flame them... Jesus, we typically have thicker skins than this even if the claim of racism was aimed at us and not KFC. It's more embarrasing that people got worked up over it than the fact that the ad was released in the first place.

I would've been more embarrased that I was sending my loved ones shit that I bought at "dollar mania".

And here I thought they were such a reputable institution...

I wonder if she'll ever think about the fact that the paper itself was probably made by children and that's the reason she's saving a freakin' buck. Jesus.

I for one would like to see all the creepy shit you've got on me.

I hate you, your person, your attitude. And by orders of almighty dag, I'm keeping it in the profile. Repeating lies in the corners don't make them true.

As for your mass support - chances are good those people didn't like me to begin with.

I think Rachel (uh-oh, evil_disco_man might come-a-knocking again) should have acted like an adult and confronted me about any issue she had other than this rumor-mongering. We had plenty of private conversations, showing them to edm is one thing, I knew that, but showing them to a scumbag like you is outrageous. If you saw the full logs, you'd see that there's as much "creepy shit" from her as there is from me. Showing that stuff partially is a wicked move by her and I am disappointed in her.

"AC: yeah, and that's fine, but enough people know the real deal"

How many people have you bastards poisoned against me huh? Miserable fucks.

>> ^UsesProzac:
Not sure why you sent that as private.
I'm really interested to see what you "have" on Gwiz. Anything taken out of context sounds much worse for it. AC and peggedbea and inflatablevagina can all be very perverse. And if you cut bits out of the conversation, I'm sure parts can sound pretty bad without the contextual leading up, if you will.
AC doesn't want to hurt his feelings by showing him logs of their own conversations?? That just doesn't make sense to me.
Fuck your "pity", Rasch. I'm sure you must feel so high and mighty, self-righteous. Fuck your invisible masses of "private" support.
I support Gwiz because he's been my friend for well over two years. It's not a maternal instinct. How dare you say having a child is the only reason for me being behind a friend of mine.
You insulted him and continue to harass him, going so far as to discarding a video of his. How can you possibly think that is a solution to anything?
And by the way, I hate Bob Dylan! There. I said it. Feels so cathartic to finally admit.
In reply to this comment by rasch187:
The problem with this conversation is that we've both made up our minds about certain things. You think I'm a total bastard who makes stuff up and wants to hurt other people, while I think I did the right thing all things considered, though maybe a bit cruel.
Another thing you've got to remember is that if you look at the thread that started this whole thing, I called attention to the reason why AC left the sift very early on in the thread and from thereon out different people started voicing their personal opinion as well. Am I responsible for what they said?
To me it seems like gwiz and the few people who support him on vs found it much easier to label me as the reason why this all happened. And while I can agree to getting the snowball rolling, the reason for it was his behaviour over a very long time. And saying that people should have sorted it out in private pm's is besides the point. You should see some of the shit AC has showed me, creepy shit. She doesn't want to hurt his feelings by showing them and I didn't show ANY of the disturbing stuff I've got on the guy, mainly because it didn't feel right towards my vs friends and partly, believe it or not, to spare gwiz the embarrasment. Despite what you may think, I don't hate the guy, I feel immense pity on him and hopes he can turn his life/behaviour around.
I don't feel I've got anything to apologise for, but if I did, of course I would apologise. I've done nothing but apologise to people ever since joining the sift. And if you could see the number of sifters who have sent me private pm's thanking me for bringing attention to this, you'd be amazed. Here's something that sums up out situation nicely imho:
AC: fuck what he or anyone else think they know about what you have done
AC: as far as i'm concerned, it is your business, because i made it your business
Rasch: every story needs a bad guy I guess
Rasch: and to most of these people gwiz is a cute dork who I tried to make a fool of
AC: yeah, and that's fine, but enough people know the real deal
Rasch: I guess prozac's feeling all maternal for him these days as well and supports him in everything
AC: oh yeah she always did
In reply to this comment by UsesProzac:
At least I had the decency to apologize and mend the relationship. You're a coward. I'm sure you know how wrong you are and how far you jumped with your conclusions and misplaced ire. Do yourself a favor and be a man.
In reply to this comment by rasch187:
I have no intention of starting a fight with you. I've answered your question and I'll leave it at that.
In reply to this comment by UsesProzac:
You involved yourself in a situation that didn't concern you, why can't I do the same? Silly bear. Defensive, much?

Quoted here for posterity:

>> ^UsesProzac:
Not sure why you sent that as private.
I'm really interested to see what you "have" on Gwiz. Anything taken out of context sounds much worse for it. AC and peggedbea and inflatablevagina can all be very perverse. And if you cut bits out of the conversation, I'm sure parts can sound pretty bad without the contextual leading up, if you will.
AC doesn't want to hurt his feelings by showing him logs of their own conversations?? That just doesn't make sense to me.
Fuck your "pity", Rasch. I'm sure you must feel so high and mighty, self-righteous. Fuck your invisible masses of "private" support.
I support Gwiz because he's been my friend for well over two years. It's not a maternal instinct. How dare you say having a child is the only reason for me being behind a friend of mine.
You insulted him and continue to harass him, going so far as to discarding a video of his. How can you possibly think that is a solution to anything?
And by the way, I hate Bob Dylan! There. I said it. Feels so cathartic to finally admit.
In reply to this comment by rasch187:
The problem with this conversation is that we've both made up our minds about certain things. You think I'm a total bastard who makes stuff up and wants to hurt other people, while I think I did the right thing all things considered, though maybe a bit cruel.
Another thing you've got to remember is that if you look at the thread that started this whole thing, I called attention to the reason why AC left the sift very early on in the thread and from thereon out different people started voicing their personal opinion as well. Am I responsible for what they said?
To me it seems like gwiz and the few people who support him on vs found it much easier to label me as the reason why this all happened. And while I can agree to getting the snowball rolling, the reason for it was his behaviour over a very long time. And saying that people should have sorted it out in private pm's is besides the point. You should see some of the shit AC has showed me, creepy shit. She doesn't want to hurt his feelings by showing them and I didn't show ANY of the disturbing stuff I've got on the guy, mainly because it didn't feel right towards my vs friends and partly, believe it or not, to spare gwiz the embarrasment. Despite what you may think, I don't hate the guy, I feel immense pity on him and hopes he can turn his life/behaviour around.
I don't feel I've got anything to apologise for, but if I did, of course I would apologise. I've done nothing but apologise to people ever since joining the sift. And if you could see the number of sifters who have sent me private pm's thanking me for bringing attention to this, you'd be amazed. Here's something that sums up out situation nicely imho:
AC: fuck what he or anyone else think they know about what you have done
AC: as far as i'm concerned, it is your business, because i made it your business
Rasch: every story needs a bad guy I guess
Rasch: and to most of these people gwiz is a cute dork who I tried to make a fool of
AC: yeah, and that's fine, but enough people know the real deal
Rasch: I guess prozac's feeling all maternal for him these days as well and supports him in everything
AC: oh yeah she always did
In reply to this comment by UsesProzac:
At least I had the decency to apologize and mend the relationship. You're a coward. I'm sure you know how wrong you are and how far you jumped with your conclusions and misplaced ire. Do yourself a favor and be a man.
In reply to this comment by rasch187:
I have no intention of starting a fight with you. I've answered your question and I'll leave it at that.
In reply to this comment by UsesProzac:
You involved yourself in a situation that didn't concern you, why can't I do the same? Silly bear. Defensive, much?

My Youtube Comments on this video.
1
Great, but where is the end game? Your film, while a short film, seems to me a cop out, ignorant of any actual ramifications of pervasive invasions of privacy. I could always just stop going online, and stop doing embarrasing things outside for all the cameras in the world to see. Where are the real world hurtful consequences of the issues raised herein? Thanks for reading.
2
Pretty much, my question is, what is the danger of Data, and how can an organization use data which can be easily falsified by the user, when that user feels that the data is being used against them? Then how does the entity sift through relevant data to find the truth? Guess what? I'm a Christian. I'm an a
Atheist. I'm a 28 year old black man. I live in California. <---- All things posted to the net on youtube comments, only 25% correct. Use it against me?

i feel embarrased for this video
it comes across as equally retarded as all the creationist confrontation videos

OMFG! Never would I think I'd been Rick Rolled using bad Swedish. This is just embarrasing... in a good way.

That being said, he was raised as an anglican Christian, So he tends to stick with that when he challenges specific religious claims. What he mainly does speak against, however, is Gods, any and all gods, the abrahamic, hindu, norse or greek gods, or the more deistic god of the enlightenment, and most certainly the creationist God that people try combating science with.

Speaking of Creationist loonies, Heard the recent exchange between Ray "The banana Man" Comfort and Blogger and Biology Professor PZ Myers? Its hilarious.


Ray Comfort:"I simply expose atheistic evolution for the unscientific fairy tale that it is, and I do it with common logic. I ask questions about where the female came from for each species. Every male dog, cat, horse, elephant, giraffe, fish and bird had to have coincidentally evolved with a female alongside it (over billions of years) with fully evolved compatible reproductive parts and a desire to mate, otherwise the species couldn't keep going. Evolution has no explanation for the female for every species in creation,"

PZ Myers response:"I know Ray is rather stupid, but who knew he could be that stupid. This has been explained to him multiple times: evolution does explain this stuff trivially. Populations evolve, not individuals, and male and female elephants evolved from populations of pre-elephants that contained males and females. Species do not arise from single new mutant males that then have to find a corresponding mutant female – they arise by the diffusion of variation through a whole population, male and female."

Comfort counters...At what point of time in evolutionary history did the female evolve alongside the male? And why did she evolve? Then explain, if you would professor, why horses, giraffes, cattle, zebras, leopards, primates, antelopes, pigs, dogs, sheep, fish, goats, mice, squirrels, whales, chickens, dinosaurs, beavers, cats, human beings and rats also evolved with a female, at some point of time in evolutionary history.

At this appalling ignorance, most of us would just give up, But not PZ, instead he lashes out the most embarrasing (for Comfort) putdowns in the history of ass-whopping:
Elephantine errors from Ray Comfort

would surely work better without music, more embarrasing. could shove music on nearer the end whilst doing some slow-mo bit , hehe

the "accident" bit is painful, and embarrasing.