I love good stand-up, thanks.

"is a video of an animal being killed acceptable?"

Why not? Ever watch Discovery Channel's PLANET EARTH series? Or any nature documentary for that matter? Life is a terminal condition. Anything and everything that is alive will die. You included. It's nothing to be ashamed or afraid of. The conditions and circumstances surrounding and including death can be interesting, dare I say amusing. Many things can be sad and amusing at the same time.

It's sad that Cheney shot his friend in the face, but it's funny as hell. Call me insensitive if you like.

This video was tagged appropriately, if you read the tags you'd know what to expect.

I hear ya. I often find the best stuff on the most oddball hosts. So much of the good stuff is copyrighted and the mainstream hosts pull it in a matter of days.

+1 For Historical significance. Edison was an ass. Tesla rocked.
+1 For the "Comedy for some others not so much." comment. I personally didn't find the video amusing, just interesting. I laughed out load over the comment though.

// not politically correct

There was an interesting discussion over at:
http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=67401

I'm still a bit skeptical. I mean come on, a regular old lead round has a similar toxic effect if it enters your body. Maybe we should contract Nerf to make our weapons.

Depleted uranium is not a significant health hazard unless it is taken into the body. External exposure to radiation from depleted uranium is generally not a major concern because the alpha particles emitted by its isotopes travel only a few centimeters in air or can be stopped by a sheet of paper. Also, the uranium-235 that remains in depleted uranium emits only a small amount of low-energy gamma radiation. However, if allowed to enter the body, depleted uranium, like natural uranium, has the potential for both chemical and radiological toxicity with the two important target organs being the kidneys and the lungs.
http://web.ead.anl.gov/uranium/guide/depletedu/health/index.cfm

Now look at lead:

Lead is a very strong poison. When a person swallows a lead object or inhales lead dust, some of the poison can stay in the body and cause serious health problems. A single high, toxic dose of lead can cause severe emergency symptoms. However, it is more common for lead poisoning to build up slowly over time. This occurs from repeated exposure to small amounts of lead. In this case, there may not be any obvious symptoms, but the lead can still cause serious health problems over time, such as difficulty sleeping or lowered IQ in children.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002473.htm

Maybe we should just think a little harder about not going to war in the first place.

From an Australian Parlimentary proceeding regarding the Lancelin Defence Training Area. It's kinda funny Rokke gets hit pretty hard.
http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/hansard/hans35.nsf/451a59fb51257dd248256c85002bc738/d5a84c09a211cadd48256d8600336c20?OpenDocument

Leuren Moret "says she specializes in "the study of the damaging effects of low level radiation" - 3:35 min
- Look again at her education and ask if that makes any sense what so ever?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leuren_Moret
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Rokke

Part 1b
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymEn_YxZqZw


Here's part 2 filmed 13 years later.
2a
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu9UY8Zqg-Q
2b
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCyvzI2aVUo
2c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BrCBq2FY_U
2d
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKxr08GEE54

One of the most interesting parts is in the later half of 2c where his wife contrasts the differences in episodic vs semantic memory.

Good post antiuser, you might also like "The Man Who Slept for 19 Years"(not posted online) about a car accident victim, additionally, Mindshock's "Sex on the Brain" episode http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbFkz1_C5SU The first one is amnesic(still thinks it's 1984) both exemplify the the effects of temporal lobe damage to emotional constraint.

Some the most interesting videos I've seen was over at Princeton's webmedia site:
http://www.princeton.edu/WebMedia/lectures/
Like Michael S. Gazzaniga, Dartmouth University: "Personal Identity, Neuroethics and the Human Brain"
http://www.princeton.edu/WebMedia/lectures/20050414gazzanigaVN350K.asx
This was, by far, one of my favorites. He cites some fascinating studies.

I saw "The Super Human Beast of the East" livin' it up in a strip club in Anaheim with his entourage about 5 years ago. LOL, Bolo rocks!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolo_Yeung

Yes, the following can contribute to orbital decay.
Perturbations due to Non-spherical Earth (including tidal drag)
Third-Body Perturbations (moon, planets, etc.)
Perturbations from Atmospheric Drag
Perturbations from Solar Radiation (Intense solar activity causes our atmosphere to expand outward in addition to the effects of solar wind itself)

"The space shuttle and the ISS both orbit within the thermosphere. The thermosphere is about a million times less dense than the atmosphere at sea level, but that's enough to affect the orbits of these satellites."

http://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/faqs.html
12). How long will orbital debris remain in Earth orbit?
The higher the altitude, the longer the orbital debris will typically remain in Earth orbit. Debris left in orbits below 600 km normally fall back to Earth within several years. At altitudes of 800 km, the time for orbital decay is often measured in decades. Above 1,000 km, orbital debris will normally continue circling the Earth for a century or more.

IIS altitude: roughly 350 km
Hubble altitude: roughly 600 km
"The ISS will sink a couple of kilometers per year in the future because of atmospheric drag - in its current configuration"

Over a thousand more pieces of junk just added:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6398513.stm

Thanks for posting this I'd only seen parts. His mother was a remarkable woman. Sadly, some still don't understand his message, ahem...New York, cough...Texas.

Funny how Bruce was posthumously pardoned by New York Republican Governor Pataki (2003), and now 4 years later NY has banned one of the same words that originally got him convicted. New York simply doesn't get it. Pataki called his decision "a declaration of New York's commitment to upholding the First Amendment."

NY now apparently says fuck the First Amendment.

"Had (Bruce) lived, he would have become a political satirist for sure,..He would be talking about the hypocrisy going on in this country right now." - Tom Smothers

I think it's fair to say that CAGW is at the very least...suspect.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Citizens_Against_Government_Waste

What this video is most asking for is accountability, period. What CAGW asks for amount to policy changes that influnce business policy. Accountability simply says show me where the money already allocated is being spent. Policy changes affecting business means redirecting moneys and spending.

I remain unconvinced that CAGW doen't have ulterior motives. If only based on their funding sources.

Regardless of my feeling about CAGW, this video highlights a very real problem.

Nice find chorlton.

How I originally learned of the above events:
http://www.amazon.com/They-Dare-Speak-Out-Institutions/dp/155652482X
The USS Liberty Veterans Association. (interesting comments from some notable people):
http://www.ussliberty.org/

49 nations to press for cluster weapons ban:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/49_nations_to_press_for_cluster_weapons_ban/articleshow/1672149.cms

Britain has already banned "dumb" cluster munitions, which wouldn't apply to the above.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,,2037264,00.html

I personally, don't agree with the ban. The problem is the munitions that have deployed, armed, and yet don't detonate. The "dumb" cluster bomblets typically arm by centrifugal force, flutes around the bomblets spin them in flight arming them. Failure to subsequently detonate on impact points to a problem with the design of the detonating mechanism. The solution is simple, redesign the detonators.

Carl Wunsch:
An expert cited in the documentary has responded to the film stating that he was misrepresented, saying the documentary was "grossly distorted" and "as close to pure propaganda as anything since World War Two".
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2031455,00.html
From his own site:
"...Channel 4 now says they were making a film in a series of "polemics". There is nothing in the communication we had (much of it on the telephone or with the film crew on the day they were in Boston) that suggested they were making a film that was one-sided, anti-educational, and misleading. I took them at face value---clearly a great error. I knew I had no control over the actual content, but it never occurred to me that I was dealing with people who already had a reputation for distortion and exaggeration."
http://ocean.mit.edu/~cwunsch/papersonline/responseto_channel4.htm

LOL, from the review,
"If the goal was to create the world's most broken trucking game, then Big Rigs is a resounding success."
"However, it really takes a special kind of awful to be considered one of the worst games ever made."

Fortunately, Stellar Stone, the developers, are no longer in business.

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/driving/bigrigsotrr/review.html

Pretty original routine , nice find.