@rottenseed
"silly" is kinda subjective.
the lightbulb wasn't an extension of the candle, it was a completely different approach.
To find a different approach, you are always treading against the norm.

I think what makes this idea somewhat attractive is that the roadways already exist, they are typically unshaded, and they are always being closed for maintenance as it is.

the over-arching question as usual is whether or not you would use more energy in production than you would recoup in use, over the long-term, calculating in maintenance costs.

Isn't this a cartoon from the 90s? Wouldn't that make it Bioshock ripped off Batman the Animated Series?

Either way, the similarities are undeniable. It's always a close call between "ripped off" and "homage" isn't it?

ABC...Always Be Closing.>> ^Ryjkyj:
Oh great, since somebody sent this to the front, I would just like to say that I always practice chivalry:
Because women are the superior sex and they deserve to be treated like queens every second of every day.

Am still amazed Americans need to have this discussion, the "is it or is it not torture?" I think it detracts from the more important facts that came out from all this. The case for that has always been closed, its pretty clear from day 1 it was torture.

- the administration put torture forward as a policy
- the OLC wrote laws and legislation allowing torture to occur
- torture was renamed and regulated in an effort to legalize its application
- it was carried out in 3 US military complexes in Abu Ghraib, Gitmo and Bagram airbase
- it was actively applied by forward intelligence agents with the US military and was encouraged
- it was used as well through US cooperation with states that torture (egypt, syria, uzbekistan and etc)
- the administration lied about torture being 'isolated bad apples' post Abu Ghraib
- private military contractors were involved in its application and administration
- the military and intelligence apparatus was forced into producing results and green light into using torture techniques.
- far worse techniques were used other then water boarding which are still being blacklisted
- they did everything to cover it up, then spin the argument around one technique, then make it seem necessary, remember that once the scandal broke the KSM argument was put forward
- its been shown not to work at all no single intelligence agency has put forward any actionable intelligence produced through torture
- there has been no ticking time bomb scenarios a la 24
- there will be no persecutions of those who were responsible for these policies
- massive international damage to american standing

Tags for this video have been changed from 'baldwin, glengarry, mamet, brass balls' to 'baldwin, glengarry, mamet, brass balls, always be closing' - edited by calvados

I've checked into this a few times and in v3 ranks are calculated by all votes for published and queued videos. On the old site it was just by published video votes.

It is definitely including videos discarded prior to 3.0. I've added up the totals for several users and it's always the same - # published + # queued + # discarded up to the date of the switch. At least, it always very close to that - some discarded vids don't list who voted for them. But it is always greater than # of published + # queued.

RIP. His songs always hit close to home.