Right, because otherwise any ol' amateur could pull that off in two strokes or less. </sarcasm>>> ^Retroboy:

They made it artificially hard by doing it on a choppy lake. One wrong ripple and your ball changes course.
Still, was one heck of a shot and a nice sift.

They made it artificially hard by doing it on a choppy lake. One wrong ripple and your ball changes course.

Still, was one heck of a shot and a nice sift.

Ha, don't have the time to watch that now, but watched up to him talking about disturbances and flutters and ripples in the force, and the guy's hand movements for 'ripple' made me laugh, so this looks good... upvote

I also marveled at the ripples emanating from the but spank. Look again, they took almost as long to travel up as it took the girl to react to the spank.
Did I just write this? [8]

This is incredible!
I love how the ripples from her tush translated across her body into a head toss.

>> ^ponceleon:

Actually, I'm going to throw this into the discuss pile because I just had a very interesting thought:
The last time we had this debate it was that video of the attractive woman in the car, smoking and fondling her own breasts. In the end I feel like we missed the point of both that video and this one.
I actually find this video both more artful AND more pornographic than the chick in car with tits video which brings me to the conclusion that "art" and "pornography" are NOT necessarily mutually exclusive.
This brings me to my next question: The sift rule on porn seem to imply that as long as it has some artistic or educational merit, it is okay. By that logic, I'm kind of the mind that this should be okay, but on the other hand it does seem to open up a potential barrel of porn monkeys if we say out loud that artful porn is a-ok...
... so what do people think? I'm kinda on the fence leaning towards saying yes, because frankly this video is just full of awesome.


You make an interesting point. As it stands in the US now, pornography is illegal because of obscenity laws. That is the reason for porn plot, because a video of nothing but sex could be brought up on obscenity charges. Porn is still made on the basis it is an "Art" movie that has sex in it. And as you point out, are and pron aren't mutually exclusive. However, you could just have an understanding that pron, without any artistic merit, isn't allowed. This creates a gray area and becomes very arbitrary, but might be one of the only solutions that doesn't involve over censoring, or opening the flood gates of pron trolling.

On that note, I thought the video was kind of neat, mainly because of the slow motion shock waves rippling across the buttock. Hard to show that without some kind of nudity. I know there exists a sexual fetish based around spankings, but this didn't seem to fit in that category of video.

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Whilst i respect your right to an opinion, i think you're trying to save face.

He clearly tried to snatch the phone - like it or not, that's not legal. It sets a really bad example as well, because if police try to snatch something off you and they're not allowed to, how do you know next time if they're allowed to or not? If you resist, you can get into more trouble or potentially badly hurt - and this guy is promoting resistance by attempting to do things that he's not allowed to do.

Same goes for the order to turn the camera off.

You've spent a lot of time trying to show how you can mitigate what he did, but i refute you on all points, however i won't get into a wall of text. Being unsuccessful at your attempt to snatch a phone illegally or trick someone into doing something they don't have to may mitigate your actions in the view of the law (attempted murder, '..with intent', etc.) but it flat out does not change whether or not this officer is doing his job/harassing people/abusing his power, nor does it mitigate the ripple effect that his actions could have on anyone's future encounters with police.

Alright @enoch, I'll take up your challenge.

I have many questions that I would like answered, that nothing answers yet. I am not very interested in why I exist, because I don't think there is any particular meaning in that - I can read meaning in to my existence, sure, but there's no outside meaning to my existence or anything's existence. Some may view this as cynical, I see it as reasonable.

I am very interested in how. How does my brain work, how do I have a consciousness, how does my body influence my mind, and vice versa.

Why does regular physics break down at sub-atomic levels? Does this fact ripple up throughout the scales, so a quantum fluctuation affects my mood in the end?

Are dreams just random firings of neurons? Are they something else? We often see some sort of meaning in our dreams (and sometimes none at all), why is that? Do we make up the meaning as we go along, or do we project meaning into our dreams for ourselves to interpret? After all, if dreams are in fact created by ourselves, instead of just random, there must (or might) be some underlying meaning in it.

Our psyche is interesting, because our entire view of the world depends on it. A madman may see the world different than me, everyone may see the world different than me, why is that? Is it merely a physiological difference, is it something else? I don't know at this point.

Just because I am an atheist, a militant, rabid one at that, doesn't mean there is nothing that I believe. I believe a lot of things, that I have not had demonstrated. Many things just make sense to me, so I don't question them further. It's hard to list these things without being inane; stuff like gravity, physical laws, the properties of objects so on.

I have my own theories on more advanced stuff, which is completely open to ridicule, but they are things I believe based on my own observations and what I have seen from others more learned in the respected fields. Obviously, when I journey on to guesswork like this, I keep in mind that it might not be like this at all, but so far I think so.

An example: gwiz665's theory of consciousness.

The consciousness is an emergent property of our complex brain structure. It is a very mechanistic thing, which runs like software on our brain hardware. Obviously, I don't know much about our hardware, but this is a very interesting subject. I think that given enough computer power, we can simulate it in a turing machine, but I've grown uncertain as to how this can be accomplished. Hopefully neuroscience will get some insight into this, they're certainly working on it.

I think we can physically see our consciousness, but it's just really, really hard. We can theoretically see which programs run on a computer too, by looking at the electrical currents in the computer, but without knowing how exactly the computer interprets those data, we're pretty much in the dark. It's the same with the mind vs. brain.

I believe that our perception of our consciousness is different from what it actually is. We have very little privileged knowledge about our consciousness, because our brain, basically, makes it up as it goes along. I think there's significant ret-conning going on at all times as well, because our consciousness does not pick up all senses at all times, but our brain does - when something is important enough, it is written into our conscious narrative. How this weighing of importance happens is extremely important to me, how do we value things? We obviously have a way in our consciousness, where we associate meaning, value etc. to things, but what happens at a lower level? How is memory distributed in the brain, how is consciousness, how is deduction etc.

I basically make the assumption that the brain is a computer. A massively parallel computer, which processes a nearly infinite number of threads at once (~1 per neuron). How this is organized is beyond me, I black box it - it just makes sense at this point. It may be very wrong, but it seems to work and answer some questions.

I also assume that I'm right until something tells me otherwise - I think it's the only way to live. I can't doubt everything all the time.

Your Icon is of a my favorite cartoon strip. I dont even know what its called I would have to look at the strip I have in my scrap book. it is that character but he says some fucked up stuff. the strip is about him asking for time off, and being told no because he has been late 30 times that year so far and he wont give up drinking cough medicine and watching the road ripple and vibrate in chartreuse colours. something to that effect. hilarious stuff. Thank YOU for the icon reminder of that cartoon.

The roar of the rocket made secondary ripples. Cool.

>> ^xxovercastxx:
>> ^ghark:
So the sonic boom caused ice crystals to form in circular patterns causing the sun dog?

The ice crystals and sundog were already there as visible by the prismatic effect that becomes visible on the right at 1:51. The sonic boom created the ripples through those crystal clouds.


ahh, thanks

>> ^ghark:
So the sonic boom caused ice crystals to form in circular patterns causing the sun dog?


The ice crystals and sundog were already there as visible by the prismatic effect that becomes visible on the right at 1:51. The sonic boom created the ripples through those crystal clouds.

thank you so much for the promote..it is a great song...:)

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*promote

I just bought "American Beauty" This song was so perfect for the closing scene in Freaks and Geeks.

Ripple Rock by Michael Bay Sr.