While I do get your point, I think perhaps you miss the point that a real live singing/playing concert is different from a 'pop star concert' (although I do think they should be billed as 'pop star performances', not 'concerts').
If I go to the opera, I am expecting to hear people sing live while performing a play.
If I go to a 'concert', I expect to see a singer or band singing or playing live, but not doing much else (old Van Halen and GWAR being the exceptions).
If I go to a pop star performance, I usually expect to see flashing lights, smoke, sparks, special effects, stunts, and crazy dancing while you hear a track of the performer.
It's not possible to do the stage performance AND sing competently at the same time. If I expect to see dancing, I should not expect the dancer to also sing live, that's not realistic to me.

Yep. If your car doesn't have blue and red flashing lights on the roof. Don't do this.

newslink: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/canadian-woman-who-stopped-to-save-ducks-on-highway-faces-jail-over-crash-9554721.html

My 10 year old nephew heard that cactus were edible. So he went ahead and picked one up, and stuck it in his mouth. I spent the next hour with a tweezers and a flash light picking glochids out from his tongue, under his tongue, the roof of his mouth, all along his gum lines, lips, etc. I rather enjoyed it, but he did not. I figured I pulled out at least 100 of the suckers.

Actually, most people don't know much about bike laws. You don't have to go through a course to get a license, and hence, most people honestly don't care or simply never think of it.

Taxes are paid for the police to create a safe environment for everyone. If this is a the quickest, easiest, and most cost effective way, then your taxes are doing their job. Furthermore, in most cases like this, when outside programs are involved, the outside program is the one raising the funds to do these programs. Here in Orlando we had to raise $30,000 to hire the police to issue citations/warnings to motorists who don't yield to pedestrians in crosswalks. We have the highest pedestrian fatality rate in the country. We paid for it, privately, not through taxpayer money, to enforce the law because it's not considered a money maker. Otherwise, someone will bitch and complain their tax money isn't being used the way *they* think it should be.

The ironic part though, is they're giving out front lights, not rear lights. The rear is most important, in most cases. Additionally, he actually let a girl go with her light flashing. In some states that's actually illegal, although much safer. (For instance, here in Florida having a flashing light on a bicycle is illegal because it resembles an emergency response vehicle, which is the same law for motor vehicles.)

How do you get so many people this dumb?
It has warning signs all over the freaking thing, and flashing lights....

heavy makeup - check
hair extensions - check
tight dress - check
high heels - check
multiple wardrobe changes - check
flashing lights - check
sexy wiggling - check

Good enough - we'll work on the voice and dance ability later

There's a great theme park ride at Alton Towers in the UK called "Hex" which uses the box-within-a-box principle to really freak you out.

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The queue for the ride gives you some bunkum about a cursed tree. You file into a room with rows of benches either side of part of the tree. The lap bars come down and after some flashing lights and more story telling, you start to feel really strange, like you're being pulled towards to branch of the tree. Things then get really weird as you do indeed start to swing in your seat (a bit like a pirate ship ride) until you are given the illusion that you actually loop right over.

It's a very clever ride as it takes you a minute or two to figure out what's actually going on!

Where I live there is a 9ft 6in clearance under a railway line bridge. The warning signs, the sensors, flashing lights etc. still do not stop drivers colliding with it. It gets hit about once a week and the local police have stopped treating it as an accident, it is now a careless driving charge. Every time the bridge is hit the rail company shut the line. It causes chaos. High vehicles use a 'level crossing' to cross the tracks and they they regularly drive through the barriers. Once again, the line gets closed. Google Ely Cambridgeshire UK streetview and see for yourself.

William

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I down-voted this video because there is no justice in it. It's ridiculous that you can't pass this bus when clearly the child is not living on that side of the street (no homes). The fact that you would have to sit at that bus and wait for 5 minutes every morning is ludicrous.

One day when I was about 12, I was on a city bus on the way back from school. The bus stopped in what would seem a high visibility area, and a man got off. He walked in front of the bus to cross the street and was killed by a Honda.

Of course, city buses don't have stop signs or flashing lights, and maybe people are more likely to be cautious around a school bus. ...and maybe, most of the time, the bus driver knows whether a child exiting the bus is going to cross the street or not, Still, I feel just fine about waiting for the lights on a school bus to stop flashing before I pass it.

>> ^FlowersInHisHair:

>> ^Fantomas:
Looking at the cabling connecting it to the laptop, I doubt this will be a retail product.
Or if it is, it's going to have some expensive electronics inside.

Expensive? Motors, motion sensors, flashing lights and a voicebox? They could definitely make this affordable.
For some reason I thought it had a motion tracker that told the servos to aim the guns directly at you. But it doesn't which makes much less impressive.

>> ^Fantomas:

Looking at the cabling connecting it to the laptop, I doubt this will be a retail product.
Or if it is, it's going to have some expensive electronics inside.

Expensive? Motors, motion sensors, flashing lights and a voicebox? They could definitely make this affordable.

And maybe some rooms off the central bridge that can double as beaming pods and alternate planets with hot green (read: alien) women in skintight outfits.>> ^Deano:

Next step add a room that can move and shudder, flashing lights and smoke effects. You could charge for that experience!

>> ^Deano:

Next step add a room that can move and shudder, flashing lights and smoke effects. You could charge for that experience!


I have a torch and a carton of kools. If you have yourself a industrial strength subwoofer, we have ourselves a business.

Next step add a room that can move and shudder, flashing lights and smoke effects. You could charge for that experience!

like powered by soy observed... there are flashing lights at the end of the video, as well as a significant decrease in aggression... from claiming they will "fuck the driver up"... to politely putting their helmets on their bikes and standing around... + flashing lights = AUTHORITY has deflated their egos.