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I don't know WTF is going on with the sift today, but there are fireworks graphics on the sides that are wrecking the width, such that I cannot watch the video, even those I have the width set to loose.

http://www.cracked.com/video_18398_why-star-trek-universe-secretly-horrifying.html

For those of you in my same predicament.

>> ^CrushBug:

I don't know WTF is going on with the sift today, but there are fireworks graphics on the sides that are wrecking the width, such that I cannot watch the video, even those I have the width set to loose.
http://www.cracked.com/video_18398_why-star-trek-universe-se
cretly-horrifying.html
For those of you in my same predicament.


Weird. What browser are you using?

Chrome. It is some sort of Facebook takeover, because if I click on either of the border images, it takes me to Facebook. It is pretty messed up.

>> ^CrushBug:

Chrome. It is some sort of Facebook takeover, because if I click on either of the border images, it takes me to Facebook. It is pretty messed up.


That sucks man.

Do you get the same result if you switch browsers?

I'm certainly not seeing any of that with Firefox.

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>> ^CrushBug:

I don't know WTF is going on with the sift today, but there are fireworks graphics on the sides that are wrecking the width, such that I cannot watch the video, even those I have the width set to loose.
http://www.cracked.com/video_18398_why-star-trek-universe-se
cretly-horrifying.html
For those of you in my same predicament.


Try deleting all your youtube.com cookies or all your cookies in general. I think the newest flash player update borked the cookies on mine and when I did that things started acting right again.

>> ^CrushBug:

Chrome. It is some sort of Facebook takeover, because if I click on either of the border images, it takes me to Facebook. It is pretty messed up.


I'm getting it on IE too. It's something on the front page. "Unsifted" or another tab doesn't have it. or the comment edit screen.
Looking at it quickly, it's Molson Canadian's Facebook page. As I do not have Facebook in any form, maybe that's why it's fubar.

Gene Roddenberry and L.Ron Hubbard were secret lovers.

I love how everyone else has a plate of food and Michael Swaim just has a mess. Is it always like that?

P.S.: Does the "Cracked" player always have screwed-up, lagging audio or is it just me?

>> ^Ryjkyj:

I love how everyone else has a plate of food and Michael Swaim just has a mess. Is it always like that?
P.S.: Does the "Cracked" player always have screwed-up, lagging audio or is it just me?


No lagging audio for me, but really slow buffering.

>> ^Ryjkyj:

I love how everyone else has a plate of food and Michael Swaim just has a mess. Is it always like that?
P.S.: Does the "Cracked" player always have screwed-up, lagging audio or is it just me?


Works perfectly for me.

I find it funny that they believe, what is an essentially a military/scientific endeavor, some how represents everything that humanity has done/is doing at the time startrek is set in. Sure everyone wears the same uniform, because the only thing we see of startrek is the federation. It would be the same as filming everything a military unit does on a daily basis, and then saying that's and accurate representation of life for everyone in the united states.

Ok just went way to deep into this one, ending this nerd rant prematurely.

I can't see the value in the prime directive. It only serves to keep inferior races down.

<3 Swaim

I think both sides are pretty much full of crap in this video, but I will agree that the invention of holodecks would be the end of society as we know it, I can barely drag myself away from video games as it is.

I never really got the whole having families and kids and stuff on the Enterprise. At least once a week the ship almost blows up, get assimilated by robodemons, or sucked into a subspace rift or something, only barely making it out intact at the last second when Jordy finally gets around to reversing the polarity on whatever. I'd leave my family at home.

>> ^00Scud00:

I think both sides are pretty much full of crap in this video, but I will agree that the invention of holodecks would be the end of society as we know it, I can barely drag myself away from video games as it is.


I thought it was insightful the way TNG anticipated and addressed holo addiction in multiple episodes before things like MMO addiction existed. It seems on a Federation ship you are given strict holodeck rations and excessive use is quickly flagged and a super hot therapist dispatched to cure you. Beyond that I'd imagine that the average earth citizen is neither needed or expected to do much work. But the Federation attracts particularly ambitious people who care about real life.

Actually, with Holodecks and replicators, you could live perfectly happily in little rooms, always have enough to eat and drink, live out every fantasy, borrow other people's fantasies, the human population would basically have no need for anything but a single small planet with billions of little rooms covering it, and effectively you'd have the matrix.

However, having been watching TNG on Netflix off and on for the last several weeks the point about there being no new creative works in the future is just plain false. It seems anytime they spout off a list of great works of history they always mention at least one or two works that haven't been 'created' yet. And they regularly would take poets and artists on board.. they play classical music and Dr Crusher leads dance classes and a small theater troupe.

Still, the Matrix thing really would be the end of civilization.

The entire crux of their argument is that people would loose all motivation if everything was provided, as if fear, hunger, and jealousy are the only things that motivate people...

This is patently a false assumption. I mean, think about going to Africa and arguing that the people there are more "motivated" or "creative" because they face starvation. Sometimes these cracked debates are ok, but this one really bugged me.