It better be up and working after 2:30 PM PDT while I am on my hour lunch break. I want to watch streaming videos! I need my VS (think of MTV slogan))!

>> ^viewer_999:
I don't even see this as NSFW, unless you work for a ministry. And anyway, why are you watching videos at work?


lunch break

States and local governments can run schools without any federal help, and they did in the past. Most public schools get only a small percentage of their funding from the federal government. Local boards of education are elected locally without much interference by the federal government.

As soon as any school takes so much as a penny from the federal mafia, they are forced to play by the feds' rules. And even if they don't, they are weighted down by edicts from on high, including the NCLB baloney. Local schools boards with electable positions? Sounds like more of the same-o. Compulsory state education means no ingenuity or merit for finding better ways to teach and learn; making sure everyone is doing the exact same thing even when it doesn't work. Schools should be like restaurants...with many trying to make it and the most successful doing so by offering something of measurable quality.

Show me competitive private services that can deliver your letters anywhere in the USA for 41 cents and I'll support your plan to scrap the USPS. There's nothing preventing Fedex and UPS from trying that right now, except that they can't do it that cheap.

Actually, the post office monopoly prevents FedEx and UPS from delivering any letter-sized envelope for the present rate or less; one of postal inspectors' major tasks is to make sure their monopoly is protected by spying on UPS and FedEx. You wouldn't have to disband the post office, just by ridding its artificial barrier I think it would die out on its own.

Your argument against the infrastructure and such has some merit, I'm sure it was used when FedEx got started. Yet here they are, competing with one of the world's largest government boondoggles. FedEx and UPS either turn a profit or die. The USPS, without any incentive to do better, loses BILLIONS of dollars every year. They would not last a year without the law.

This is the same congress that pays a chaplain tens of thousands of dollars a year to lead a prayer every time Congress is called in to session. This is the same congress that almost unanimously passed a condemnation of Newdow's legal attempt to restore the Pledge of Allegiance to its pre-1954 version (the Pledge didn't say "under God" before 1954). This is the same congress that funds Bush's OFBCI. The supreme court has been very clear that students can pray by themselves as much as they want on their own lunch break but official prayer-times when taxpayer-funded teachers entice students to pray are unconstitutional.

And these are things that truly offend you and depreciate the quality of your life? Freedom FROM religion is a gross distortion of the Founders' intent. Tyranny of the minority. I hate to say it like this, but atheism does not represent something "better" than religion. It doesn't offer any moral foundation or transmit societal values. That's why IMAO, there's never been a successful majority atheist society (I'm aware of). I write this as a former atheist. I know what is to be gained by being free of superstition, but I also know society is extremely fragile, and will die without its delusions. If atheists succeed in "getting rid" of religion, life will be worse for them as well.

We're in far more danger of becoming a socialist state than a theocracy. It may happen peacefully and even "legally" if enough people are convinced (to their detriment) that socialism is the way to go.

Those aren't even mutually exclusive. Jesus Christ was a socialist. Jesus Christ gave all kinds of handouts to the poor and asked something in return. He asked people to give all they could to the church and the poor. That's a taxing-and-spending entitlement system. Huckabee, the Christian fundamentalist, was also in agreement with the Democrats on most economic issues. Iran, which is officially a Theocracy ruled by the Ayatollah, also heavily subsidizes the cost of food, which you might call Socialist.

Jesus gave handouts but did not take them from others by force beforehand. He asked people to give, but did not threaten or curse them for not doing so. Most importantly, Jesus did not ever say that government's role is providing the means to help the poor.

Despite its failures due to humans being imperfect, (moderately regulated) free market capitalism has done more to lift the poor out of poverty than any other system. And I'm speaking from near the bottom of the ladder, my friend. I know times is tight for you too right now...

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She's another person who doesn't understand what an atheist is, or what school prayer is.

An atheist is anybody who does not believe in a supernatural overlord. We're all atheists w.r.t. some kind of deity e.g. Zeus or Thor.

School Prayer is an *official act* of the school to set aside a time exclusively for prayer and entice students to pray during that time. This is very different from just allowing students to pray individually during their lunch break. The former is banned by SCOTUS, and the latter is (of course) still allowed and always will be allowed even if atheists become the majority in the US.

Japan, Norway, Sweden, and lots of other free, democratic, and prosperous countries have atheist majorities. Yet she, being ignorant of that, goes on as if atheists are some kind of cult bent on destroying the world. That kind of resembles Hitler's delusions about the Jews.

Ha - the scavenger during the lunch break.
...and he totally destroyed that tree with malice aforethought.

Hah, the lunch break.

MINK- I think that a lot of times what kills videos like this are their length, not to mention the serious nature of the subject matter... as you are right, cute kitten vids will always rock the queue as the majority of visitors to this site are looking for short little sound bites and laughs on their lunch breaks, fortunately there are dedicated and intelligent folks on here as well, who will continue to recognize quality material such as this.

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GITECH Z-5500 Digital and I am quite happy with them.
They have a computer speakery look to them but the sound is great.

If you dont like the look, try modding them like this guy.
Nothing you´d be able to do during your lunch break though.

Well, I've found what I'm watching over my lunch break.

He seems like a stupendously nice guy... I feel so, so sorry for his family, in particular his kids, to lose your father that young would be utterly heartbreaking. But it would seem he's left a pretty damn good legacy.

Looks like a lunch break project at the office. They should go back to work.

Yea, I'm with you on that Raven. People come to this site on their lunch breaks or whatever and they're probably not looking to learn about Islam or watch a documentary, they're just looking to be entertained, so it makes sense that those collectives are at the top.

in some respects I agree with you... and personally I don't post clips like that... probably why my vote average per vid is around 17 ... but I think they have a place here... and besides, you have to realize that probably the majority of casual users are just here to watch funny little soundbites on their lunch breaks... it's harmless really, let them enjoy it.

I agree with DD, please do not limit the number of collectives we may join, I like it when I come across something on YouTube on accident and its like, "hey, this would go great in X...." even if I've never posted to that collective before it's nice to be able to file things appropriately, and give my support (no matter how small) to each and every one if possible.

I also like the idea of a collective admin being able to decide whether their collective is open membership or not... in some instances a collective might be better served if kept a private community, however, in the interest of filing again, if some collectives are open membership then that would encourage popular type sifts (I'm thinking Daily Show) to go in the right drawer.

One thing I have a question about: Am I to understand that videos will be able to be applied to multiple collectives? I may have read that wrong.

One other suggestion of the top of my head:
Many people have suggested in the past that there be a way to associate older posts with collectives, is that what you mean by a collective owner being able to 'grab' posts? If that is the intent then I think for these vids there should not be a limit as to how many collectives can grab an old post- that would cut down on the possibility of owners squabbling over posts. New posts should have a limit on collective associations, but old ones that have been around for a while are kind of like community property, and should be shared.

Conversely, you might also consider leaving it up to the original poster to designate a collective for an older post of theirs... like an *amnesty command or something... this would put that choice into the hands of the original sifter, thus avoiding problems from those who might not want their sifts grabbed. It would make us Collective owners work harder, but frankly, I like to have control over my sifts and where they are displayed and I'm sure others do as well.

Anyway, that's all I can think of at the moment and as I'm on my lunch break I don't have time to reflect further... look for more from me in a few hours, as y'all know, this is one of my distinct areas of siftinterest!

Well, I'm messed up for the day. This cures me of sifting for at least 5 hours.... Lunch break over

Oy, lots of videos again today but not bad as yesterday. Time to catch up during my hour lunch break!