I guess I wasnt the only one scratching my head over "Mr Falcon" when I saw that movie on TV.

Also lucky they were on the load end of the lines rather than the source. The opposite might not have been as pretty for them

(Or better yet, high tension lines that typically come out of a power station)

Edit: http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/dayton-news/many-flee-as-tower-demo-fails-falls-wrong-way-999527.html

Reverse angle makes it look like they *barely* escaped much worse destruction.

I don't think it should be abolished, however the current limits are getting absurd. People who had no involvement of the original copyright are now handling estates. 95 years now? Oh right... Disney...

The original limits seemed quite fair. Longer than an average lifespan seems just silly.

What really troubled me is that public domain hit a dead stop at 1923 with the new laws. It won't move again for a good while still. I bet you when that time comes it gets extended to 125 years or something equally stupid then.

How the hell do they manage to not lose the damn thing? Half the video is "Where the hell did it go?"

Six Flags was in no financial condition to try to fix the park though. Nobody really wanted to touch it anyways as it literally would entail rebuilding the entire park. The majority of of it was under a good 6'+ of water or so and all the buildings would have had to been torn down.

It likely would have cost double or even triple for what the park was worth to get it worthy again. Business decision.

On top of that, whatever they put up without redoing the entire lot of land would have been in the inevitable flood plane for the next hurricane that comes around. Nobody wants to be responsible for that.

Apart from the whole Keynote thing meaning you only really have one option...

To me there is really only one "travel" laptop. I really like mine (even if its a 5-6 year old model now) http://www.panasonic.com/business/toughbook/laptop-computers.asp

Panasonic also still makes the laptops themselves. Not foxconn, not some outsourced company in china. Still ALL made in Japan. And this is why they are more expensive.

This comment here pretty much sums up why Linux is still having difficulty even treading water as a desktop.

http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1826490&cid=33931876

Or here for your reading pleasure

1. Confusing distros Just thinking about all the different distros and configurations still gives me a headache. Ubuntu has blunted this somewhat, but even with that you have to get into the Gnome vs. KDE thing, which is damned confusing to a layperson. The worst part of this is trying to download software for Linux off of some website and running into multiple versions with odd notations regarding different distros.
2. Poor documentation Again, Ubuntu helps. But even that is spotty compared to Windows. And the "documentation" website of many distros (and Linux software apps) is little more than a bugfix list.
3. Software, Software, Software this is the biggest problem, and not so easily dismissed as some fans would pretend. My mom, for example, uses special software to interface with her high-end sewing machine. Is it available for Linux? Probably not. Can I just direct her to a clone of equal quality? Probably not.
4. Little support (if not openly hostile) There aren't a lot of places to call for Linux support. And a lot of the places you can go for support on the net are filled with Linuix fanatics who are openly hostile to Windows switchers and newbies. The level of "you don't belong here" attitude towards newbies in Linux circles makes Apple fans look civil.
5. Ways of doing things that are confusing to a Windows user with windows, I can go to a website, download an installer and install my software. with Linux I can install it via the built-in installer. but that only works if said software is in the repository. If not, getting it installed is often a lot more complex than just downloading a file and double clicking on it to install. Which brings me to:
6. Still too much reliance on the command line interface Telling someone to break out a command line and type "sudo apt-get whateverthefuck" is like telling a Windows user to reinstall DOS and learn its syntax.

It's obscured at 6:50 at the bottom, but thermite rail welding

Tamper comes in at 8:34

Holy flashback batman. I was just looking this guy up the other day and now he shows up here. I watched the hell out of this show when it was on

>> ^NetRunner:
The left needs to start getting angry, and demanding that their voices get heard.


This sums things up the way I look at it. Conservatives have been having a field day lately with the left getting buried under the steamroller that is Fox News. The problem is, there is nothing stopping the left from doing the same in return but the result is always a "meh"

These are the people who will be first to not bother voting come November because they think that its a waste of time doing so. I still think its more important to just vote rather than sit there and 6 months later complain about (elected candidate) because you did not do anything about it!

Democrats/liberals are being (relatively) far too polite lately, and really need to fight back if they want to stop Repbulicans/conservatives from stomping all over them.

Same. I would have probably not wanted to figure out the first night by experimentation. There is plenty left to do that is not in this video

He may have been able to survive in the dark though, someone had been working out mob spawning methods in the game and in a small hole like that even if it was pitch black, nothing would have spawned. A monster must be at least 25 blocks away to spawn in darkness.

(Keep this in mind if your first game you cant find coal the first day)

How to use TNT to your advantage http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?t=34088

I use the textures and clouds from this, the July version... http://www.retributiongames.com/quandary/

This items.png is rather nice http://www.agonyart.com/file/items.png

The nice sun/moon is from Mixcraft http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=31331

I would not recommend any HD pack to start with as it requires some extra fiddling to make them work. Kind of takes away the 16-bit look anyways.

The texture pack I use is a bastarization between MixCraft and a few other texture packs. To me there is not one "perfect" texture mod as one with good landscape has crummy inventory icons and others being vice-versa. You have to do a bit of dicking around with the minecraft.jar file since there is no "easy" modding method at the moment... for textures at least. (Edit: Oops, hah I didnt notice it before thats the same sun/moon I use... ill have to give links to various texture packs later)

Shameless plug for my own mod http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=47596

They have some big shoes to fill (John Wayne) but Jeff Bridges & Josh Brolin & Coen Brothers? Sign me up!