The name of the guy is Isao Machii, he holds the Guinness World record for...I think number of cuts on a free standing tatami mat or something like that? He did a bunch of segments for this show ("Best123"), including slicing a BB in midair. See
http://videosift.com/video/In-which-many-things-are-cut-in-slow-motion-by-a-katana

Also, slicing an arrow in half in-flight: http://videosift.com/video/More-Amazing-Precision-Cutting-an-Arrow-mid-flight

>> ^westy:

I see one of the issues with this is that it dose not follow the contour of the ground , u need something that to an exstent follows th elasy of the land , otherwize u are going to have do buld very flat foundatoins for it.


Actually i see that as a positive thing, sure it has to be flexible enough to bend a little, but seeing as where i live roads tend to get cracks, bumps and holes in them even after a year since re-pavement having something that resists that a little can only be good.

In order for this to be viable it essentially has to be manufactured on site, the panels and electronics could be printed onto large mats and then rolled out on the foundation while the actual road surface get put on top of this, though how this is done without setting tings on fire is a whole other deal.

"Hell prepares welcome mat for Cheney." Awesome.

Be afraid, America: they started by manufacturing plastic flowers, today they're making your high-end laptops, tomorrow they'll take over your fake real news shows too!

I must be getting older.

20% of me says: "Cool! Break stuff! hehhehhhehehehheheheh"

But 80% of me says a combination of: "You'll shoot your eye out", "Now they have to vacuum all of the glass fragments out of the keyboard, desk, and floor", "Be careful of ricochets" or "I wonder if the wall past the target has appropriate matting and safety layers to collect the cannonballs".

"Can I get one that doesn't make me look all retarded?"
Don't worry, you will only look retarded if you are fat and/or out of shape.

"I'm just laughing at the first guy's trying to cut the standing tatami mat. If the thing leans over like that, you're doing it wrong. The guy clearly doesn't know how to handle that sword."
Who cares, Einstein! That's the whole point. You can be a sword noob and still own with it. When some psycho will slash you with it, I don't think there will be any importance in which way he is leaning.

All in all, nice stuff. I would buy this for my farm and chop pigs/chickens with it.

I'm just laughing at the first guy's trying to cut the standing tatami mat. If the thing leans over like that, you're doing it wrong. The guy clearly doesn't know how to handle that sword.

I've lusted after a Coldsteel katana for maybe a decade. Maybe I'll have the money to burn when I'm as old and rotund as those dudes demonstrating
That pig head was really nap, but going through nine rolled tatami mats in one strike is really impressive. Oh well, back to Mount and Blade
Also - did they fill those boots at about 3:00 with meat? These dudes creep me right out

>> ^ponceleon:

I have seen the face of God... the bacon God...


Someone has that domain name but is not using it....bet you could get it cheap...

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

No gravy?


Ass Gravy?

The Prius that was in the news recently, here in San Diego, the conventional brakes were useless, and shifting to neutral wouldn't work, as it wouldn't allow it. What was successful, according to the CHP, was a very zealous tug on the hand brake (definitely an "emergency" brake in this case) as well as the foot pedal. The officer positioned his car in front, not to slow it down, but to prevent it from shooting forward after the driver finally got the car to a stop, despite it still wanting to move forward. Essentially the squad car was acting as a brick wall, but not a brake assist.

In this case, the car would not shift into neutral, nor did foot braking alone make a difference. It was muscle on the hand brake that ever so slowly dropped the speed.

You are correct about the first casualty. It was a Lexus and it happened in Santee, CA (part of San Diego County). The brake and neutral attempt were useless. The situation is described thus:

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California Highway Patrol Officer Mark Saylor, 45, his wife, Cleofe, 45, their daughter Mahala, 13, and Cleofe's brother Chris Lastrella, 39, were traveling on a freeway near Santee on Aug. 28 when their vehicle reached speeds of more than 120 mph, hit a sport utility vehicle, launched off an embankment, rolled several times and burst into flames.

Investigators found that a wrong-sized floor mat that trapped the accelerator was the cause of the crash. (Note, this has not been forensically proven, and is in dispute at the moment.)

A haunting 911 call captured Lastrella telling the others to pray before the car launched off the embankment.

...the Lexus ES350 "began to accelerate on its own." Saylor attempted to apply the brakes and do everything possible to stop the car, but he was unable to do so...
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The video demonstrated the "technique" on a relatively low horse power (and low torque) four cylinder engine. A Lexus ES350 has a 272HP V6 (at full throttle) and the Prius has a high torque electric motor. Good luck with that braking.

>> ^silvercord:
>> ^supersparky:
What this article fails to include are the unique issues with the hybrid cars. Oddly enough, two have gone out of control in my home city, San Diego. The first being a death, which started the publicity. This one was driven by an off duty cop! I would think his training would have given him these skills to stop the car. However, as more and more facts have come out, the brakes it seems are useless. The Prius uses a combination of electrical and mechanical braking. Unfortunately the mechanical only kicks in under a certain speed.
Many people have reported burying the brake pedal to the floor and it having little effect. They also seem to not be able to shift into neutral, as it's a drive by wire system. Many cars don't let you shut off the engine if it's in gear too.
The Prius, while being a butt ugly eye sore and gutless wonder, also has an electric motor. These have 100% of their torque at any RPM. This means a gas engine can be fought and stalled with functional brakes, but you fight the full torgue of an electric motor all the way down to stopping, if you're lucky.
No, a fail-safe override needs to be considered for all drive by wire vehicles. Something that actually physically disconnects power from the system as a last resort.

My understanding is that the car driven by the off duty officer was a 2009 Lexus ES 350. That is not a hybrid. That said, I tried the 'move the shift to neutral' trick yesterday in my Windstar and it worked just fine.
However, the link I provided also noted: Last month, Consumer Reports found that models that don't have so-called smart-throttle technology, which allows the brake to take precedence over the throttle, a vehicle might not have adequate brakes to overcome a stuck throttle at 60 mph.
So, jam your foot down on the brake and kick it into neutral, pray like hell that you hit a truckload of Snuggies.
As for the electric cars, maybe a nuclear air burst that issues an effective electromagnetic pulse would do the trick.

>> ^supersparky:
What this article fails to include are the unique issues with the hybrid cars. Oddly enough, two have gone out of control in my home city, San Diego. The first being a death, which started the publicity. This one was driven by an off duty cop! I would think his training would have given him these skills to stop the car. However, as more and more facts have come out, the brakes it seems are useless. The Prius uses a combination of electrical and mechanical braking. Unfortunately the mechanical only kicks in under a certain speed.
Many people have reported burying the brake pedal to the floor and it having little effect. They also seem to not be able to shift into neutral, as it's a drive by wire system. Many cars don't let you shut off the engine if it's in gear too.
The Prius, while being a butt ugly eye sore and gutless wonder, also has an electric motor. These have 100% of their torque at any RPM. This means a gas engine can be fought and stalled with functional brakes, but you fight the full torgue of an electric motor all the way down to stopping, if you're lucky.
No, a fail-safe override needs to be considered for all drive by wire vehicles. Something that actually physically disconnects power from the system as a last resort.


My understanding is that the car driven by the off duty officer was a 2009 Lexus ES 350. That is not a hybrid. That said, I tried the 'move the shift to neutral' trick yesterday in my Windstar and it worked just fine.

However, the link I provided also noted: Last month, Consumer Reports found that models that don't have so-called smart-throttle technology, which allows the brake to take precedence over the throttle, a vehicle might not have adequate brakes to overcome a stuck throttle at 60 mph.

So, jam your foot down on the brake and kick it into neutral, pray like hell that you hit a truckload of Snuggies.

As for the electric cars, maybe a nuclear air burst that issues an effective electromagnetic pulse would do the trick.

and when he's not looking, the doggy that on the mat he was laying on

My family isn't big on Christmas so I just got an amazon gift certificate and some cash which I used to buy a french press and a few more lbs of maté.

So should we start and investigation into Fox News and they're illicit brain alterations on their employees? The way I see it Gretchen and Glenn are two obvious examples of people who were not moronic, bat-shit crazy people prior to getting their jobs with Fox, yet now would have severe difficulties staying within the lines of a Denny's place mat.

Oh heck yes. I downloaded Sumotori Dreams a couple of years ago. I can't play it for more than a few minutes without losing it. It's so freaking hilarious.

A little more info on what's happening in the video. The round itself is decided after the first few seconds when the blue wrestler hits the mat. After that, the two wrestlers autonomously stand, turn to face each other, and bow. It's typical for the post-round bow to take considerably longer than the round. One very funny thing that happened to me a couple of times was when the two wrestlers ended up facing each other very closely - when they went to bow, they knocked heads and both fell backwards onto their asses, starting the whole silly affair over again.

There's a hidden mode where you throw blocks at one of the figures. He'll stagger and stumble, then right when he's about to get up again, BAM - right in the noggin and down he goes again.

The incredible thing is the size of the executable. This is one of those products of the demo scene that produces amazing things using procedurally-generated content and high-level compression techniques, so that the distributed package is mere kilobytes in size. Sumotori Dreams is only 96k. 96k!

The video above probably streams more data than that in a few seconds.

I recommend you download it immediately and try it out.