"I prefer a unitarist approach, that both employers and employees have a stake or vested value in the success or at least continual survival of a corporation."

No argument there. Surely you can see the disparity between a worker who might get a 5% raise and feel lucky to keep his job, and an invester or board member who feels cheated if they didn't get a 10% to 20% return on their capital - which is taxed at a lower rate than the workers wages.

"...ripples through the whole economy through an unexpected fall in consumption levels and consumer/business confidence followed by secondary effects upon interest/exchange rates and inflation levels."

Which is another way of saying that the system is inherently flawed and tends to support my claim that economic gluttony is a criminal act.

When you speak of consumption levels and consumers, you are talking about the workers and their ability to buy product.

They can't buy product when they're underpaid or unemployed.

That seems like an overly Marxist approach, that employers are inevitably screwing over employees by paying them less than the input they add to production. Which is true, although I prefer a unitarist approach, that both employers and employees have a stake or vested value in the success or at least continual survival of a corporation.

My point is layoffs and redundancies are inevitable and are a part of running an effective corporation, one that can compete against highly competitive domestic and particularly international players, all the while attempting to keep up with technological change. So is the liquidation of minor companies that fail to capture a niche market. The combined effect of several corporations crumbling at the same time instead would create ripples through the whole economy through an unexpected fall in consumption levels and consumer/business confidence followed by secondary effects upon interest/exchange rates and inflation levels.

Ha, nice analogy.

mormonism = ripple

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripple_(wine)

AN old tv sitcom here in the states was Sanford and Son. Fred Sanford's favorite drink was Ripple. Fred would often combine Ripple with other drinks, for example, Beaujolais Ripple = "Beaujolipple" or Cream soda Ripple = "Cripple" or Champagne Ripple = "Champipple."

scientology = night train = yuck !

Ha, nice analogy.

mormonism = ripple

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripple_%28wine%29

AN old tv sitcom here in the states was Sanford and Son. Fred Sanford's favorite drink was Ripple. Fred would often combine Ripple with other drinks, for example, Beaujolais + Ripple = "Beaujolipple" or Cream soda + Ripple = "Cripple" or Champagne + Ripple = "Champipple."

scientology = night train = yuck !

In reply to this comment by dag:
I agree with the point that the only thing that separates a cult from an established religion is time. It's like a wine that matures- it tastes harsh when it's young but gets more palatable with time.

Mormonism is like the $10 bottle that you wouldn't be embarrassed to bring to a dinner- but it might have screw-on top.

Scientology is a $2 bottle of Night Train.

Ha! You're right - you can see the ripples in the water after she falls through. Insult to injury.

The visible pressure wave extending outwards is very low and very high pressured air, born of the rapid displacement of atmosphere occurring as the cloud of explosive propellant is ignited. The rapid displacement of air molecules 'ripples' through the atmosphere in three dimensions, with this pressurized-air wave ramming into and reflecting off of things as the energy is disbursed outwards. It might be conceptually helpful to think of the atmosphere as a fluid, and continue with that 'ripple' and 'wave crashing' analogy, but in three dimensions.

I'm not exactly sure, though, how much atmospheric oxygen these beasts would eat up, as I don't know their size or what the explosive is (though that first cloud before it blows looks pretty huge). Suffocation could conceivably occur relatively close to the explosion, by the explosive robbing nearby O2 (CH4 + 2O2 → heat + CO2 + 2H2O), but I imagine it would be much more likely that your chest cavity would expand/crush under the pressure at that kind of distance anyhow, and then you'd be buried in rubble. Your ears might ring a bit afterwards, too.

... at least, thats my understanding. ... so remember, never use vacuums!

I'm all for obscure references and leaving interpretation up to the viewer, but I resent Gravel's (and others') implication that because I'm not floored by his new art house film, I lack metaphoric comprehension. Please. Ripples in a pond, how original and provoking! The two minutes of staring indeed provoked something in me, but I doubt to the filmmakers' desired effect.

Hey if you like it, great, but don't insult my taste by saying I can't handle it or appreciate the "vision". I might have actually enjoyed the clip for its subtle tone had I not been confronted with the man's grill for ten times longer than necessary. I can't wait for some kid to remix it with a jerky zooming effect and creepy droning sounds, and maybe some fire surrounding the frame for good measure. It's quite ripe for reinterpretation!

This, coming from a Gravel fan. He's clearly a nut, but not crazy... the eccentric grandfather kind. I worry that the piece will do him more harm than good, but I can only hope it will spark discussion and increase his reach.

I remember the documentary on the guy who invented this concept of micro-loans several years ago - making real Loans (not handouts, the loans are paid back with interest) of a few dozen dollars to real people who run real businesses for real profit, but who are too small to be taken seriously by large banking institutions.

It works.

The positive effects of successful small business ripples thru the community and improves the lives of everyone.

Great clip! The comic quantum-probability waves generated from this endlessly creative clip (process) has caused states of laughability well beyond the perplexities of "Schrodinger's Cat" uncovering the eternally amusing ambiguities of the "Vedantic Net" of the Unitary Quantum Sea we swim in as the non-local beautiful wave-functions collapse into local high-resolution Actuality due to "Mind's Eye" "observation" generated in ripples from the Universal Vacuum State (fluxuations) or the Super-Implicate Order (not chaos) Ground Of Being of the Majesty/Mystery of GOD.

yes. the explosion shockwave is seen nearly immediately (the ripple like effect over the surface and the dust shaken up). The explosion causes the formation of a cavity void with a puddle of liquid/molten radioactive glass made of former solid rock at the bomb depth then the ceiling of the cavity collapses and forms a 'chimney' which continues a succesive collapse right up to the surface. here's a diagram.

Wow, that's creepy. What few don't realize is that if terrorists REALLY wanted to do some damage to New York, they could fly a plane into the Citicorp building (the one with the diagonal rooftop)... its foundation corners were moved to its center points as a snazzy architectural feat from protecting a landmark Church on the block's corner. Using a series of chevrons spreading across multiple floors WITHOUT welding the chevrons to each floors, the shifting of foundation weakened the building and made it terrifyingly susceptible to falling over during hurricane winds. At one point, Citicorp employees masquaraded as first aid employees to do a census of the surrounding buildings -- if the Citicorp building fell, its sheer weight could cause a domino effect that could topple tens of skyscrapers and kill tens of thousands, not to mention the economic ripple effect for years afterward...

[in response to your response to my response on Narcissism....] Thats what I mean, here's one we can all be complicit in indulging....even those who don't emit sparks from the keyboard, in verbal ejack, they have their silence as a mirror of mystery, ooooooooh they must be above it all!!! Or illiterate, or non-englitch spraken.

Me??/ I use the sift as a self-therapy probe, a journal, a tease, a wish-list for the masses???
My favorite targets are all the sacred cow-like causes, true, false, or meaningless-All make ripples in this pond and we love the ripples don't we all?? They make the still-waters so lovely after their own lovely dance subsides!!!

It's amazing to see the metal rippling like cloth under such high stress with the slow motion video.

Still, I don't like to sit in the rows next to the engines.

I read about the Battle of Messines. The last mine sounds inviting! Here's a link to Ripple Rock. They say that this explosion was the largest non-nuclear peacetime explosion:

archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-75-657-3654-20/that_was_then/science_technology/ripple_rock_blasted

(type http:// before the addy).

Here's how to f..k with all the oil companies at once-For
one week, nobody buy plastic from the east, (no shop at walmart) and don't buy gas-If you live in say, San Francisco or London, this is easy. If you live in sayyyyy Kansas or Texas, it will be a bit harder.
But, if everyone pulled a Parmar at once, maybe. Gauranteed-the ripples created would send a clear message..(The monkeys can throw shit, the robots can rest, and the sheep need their coats back.