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The Expert (Short Comedy Sketch)
alcom says...OMG I feel for this guy.
Filming and Laughing at School Kids Falling on Ice
alcom says...What a dadhole.
Hyper Kid Is Musical Genius - When Ellen Met Elias
alcom says...He's like a tiny, hyper, classically trained Kid Rock. Or Joe Dirte.
TrackingPoint system makes you a deadly sniper sharpshooter
alcom says...As a nature lover, I am disgusted by the advantage this gives the unskilled hunter. As if one was needed.
As a hunter, I want one, dammit!
Russian Truckers - Expertise, experience, and luck
alcom says...Sick drift at 2:25!
How to behave in traffic
alcom says...@shatterdrose
Agreed, don't film while driving and the free market is very much like a highway.
At times things zip along quickly, but the selfish motives and aggressive acceleration and deceleration of the typical commuter are the main causes of both volume-related and collision based traffic jams. In much the same way, the risky bets in a Wall Street boom result in a painful economic correction or financial traffic jam.
In fact, there's now a mathematical model that demonstrates the cause of traffic jams (the bilateral-control algorithm.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk87bwAL6PI
Absurd Method To Stabilize a Downed Fighter
alcom says...WTF indeed. Did he know they would do this after a KO? Must have been in the fine, FINE print.
Brilliant display by a sheep herding dog
alcom says...My dog just looks dumb now...
Animatronic Band Programed to Perform 'Pop, Lock and Drop It
alcom says...Straight up gangsta! This is just well done
The Problem With Time and Time Zones- Computerphile
alcom says...It always makes me cringe when I hear, "Can you take account of X special circumstance?"
This is what makes a programmer drink coffee to get through the day and alcohol to forget it all at night. Make it a double if they add, "That shouldn't be too hard."
It's nice to hear I'm not the only one!
How to Fix Christmas Lights Fast and Easy
alcom says...Uh, yes it works. I tested it on some old outdoor mini lights and attempted to create one good string of good lights out of 3 partially-working strings. Unfortunately, one of the lights exploded and a piece hit my ceiling really hard! Fearing for my eyes, I abandoned the project.
I recommend just buying a new string of led lights
Put me on that list also. I have some lights that could use a fixin.
WELCOME TO YOUR DOOM - Altered Beast
alcom says...I had that game when I was... sheesh, never mind.
How to Fix Christmas Lights Fast and Easy
alcom says...Mind... blown. I'll try this after work and report back, overdude.
Rich Teen Kills 4, Avoids Prison Thanks To 'Affluenza'
alcom says...Oops, double dupe.
Save your upvotes for:
http://videosift.com/video/Affluenza-caused-by-affluence-symptoms-include-murder
GOP Rep: Republicans Act Like Knuckle-Dragging Neanderthals
alcom says...True, you can make a non-tea party case for fiscal conservatism. And true, there is a sharp ideological division between the moderate and Tea Party sects within the GOP.
This rift helped the GOP lose in the last election and the Government Shutdown only made things worse by trying to make a political point at the expense of many of their own constituents. They tried to ride the wave of popular dissatisfaction with "Obamacare" and even after its dismal Website launch, polls still had Republican popularity at all-time lows.
"How does our conservative ideology and philosophy actually help lift them out of the place that they're in today and move them up the economic ladder? We don't do a good job of presenting that message and we have to change how we're doing it."
It's going to be hard for a moderate to make that case when his party is polluted with members that don't think it's the government's job to do that in the first place.
you can make a non-tea party case for fiscal conservatism.
but you really can't make a huge case these days for social conservatism and that's where they really lose. You can't tell gays to go back into the closet, you can't tell minorities to be quiet, you can't tell women to accept lower pay and forfeit reproductive rights and health. You can't tell poor people to fuck off and die in an alley.
I don't know this guy, so I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt and suggest that he might even agree with all these things. This illustrates the problem with using vague binary terms like liberal and conservative to describe political views. Depending on the person "conservative" can mean completely different things.
This is the problem with the two party system. You can't sum up nuanced , complex political views into two parties. It's stupid.
Republicans have a huge perception problem they need to solve. Many people view them as old, white, racist, plutocrats. I know for a fact that they are not all this way. But the problem is, there are plenty of people who identify as Republican who DO fall completely into that view.
Fortunately, old people do have a habit of dying. so that solves part of the problem. But some people have to be dragged into the future kicking and screaming the entire way. If the Republican party wishes to survive, they need to decide pretty quick how they're going to deal with that.
I think there are too many people who identify as Republican for romantic reasons only. They're obsessed with the idea that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican even though the Republican party of then is completely different from the way it is now and it is due largely to racism. (google Southern Strategy)
As i've said before. All parties and lobbying need to be abolished. You can't stop people from assembling into voting blocs, but at the very least we can refuse to officially acknowledge them and do away with the RNC and DNC and remove money from our elections and force the person, not the party to run for office.