Always have said that this cat's particular early sensation on youtube (..."for more information on the Crack Spider's Bitch, contact the Canadian Wildlife Service, in Ottawa.") was one of the best that has ever been produced-Cheers to the plastiquemonkey whose own sense of high art and eye for the incredible super ultra unmundane, was one of the reasons I joined this sideshow in the first place...

Then, as the site became more and more filled with farts, cats, newsclips, and all manner of Hieronymus Bleggh, she and he disassociated, got hornier once they dragged themselves away from the puter went and had a cute little Japanadian baby, and the rest is history...cute history.

She's still around, but that bundle of volcanic island cuteness has her being more of a mommer than a sifter...thak god she still finds time to paint and draw!!

Thank you Ms. Yamaguchi. You are one twisted, fineart, puppy!...and I would love for you to introduce me to all your single Japanese girlfriends-I hear the ladies of Japan love us sensitive American boys-who treat them like queens instead of servants and chattel....and who enjoy cunnilingus and tip good at restaurants and can sing karaoke and play electric guitar and who ride Harleys' and love tube amplification and tiny electronics and ....(man I need to get my ass to Japan before it sinks!)

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From the BBC article: "Stefan Gulas has developed a system that amplifies the effort you put in by a factor of 50, meaning you can accelerate quickly and maintain high speeds with very little effort"

I get the sense the "effort amplification" bit is intentionally worded to be utterly misleading. He's more likely saying "2% of the energy used by the bike is coming from you, 98% is coming from the battery." So the pedaling charges the battery slightly, but it's almost negligible.

In fact, this sort of thing already exists and there's a name for it, it's an electric moped. (only not a street legal moped since it's speed is similar to middle range electric motorcycles) You can pick up an electric moped now for under $1000, if that's the sort of thing you think you might be into.

http://www.metaefficient.com/electric-bikes/the-best-electric-scooters-of-2008-a-review.html

Now let's see - Deltron Z
Art avenger, let's start the adventure
Hit ya with nerve gas, absurd blasts
Crashin space craft, I'm bio-enhanced
Hiero advanced series, monstrous evolution
Headed, tooth and nail, scoop the trail
Super-sleuth, a new race
Mad creator, savage nature
World Wide Web, the ebb and flow
Light years from watchful eyes while my thoughts provide
objectives to ostracize the pompous prophecies
Underground societies are hard to lead
Asteroid surfing, castor-oil burping
The darkest side of humanity animated
The grand awakening, plan to take it in
I demand your patronage, mobilize my battletanks
With clusters small, NTR's to empty Mars
Many MC's cruise low earth orbit
Easier for me to use my search warrant
Drift by a star, absorb it, and store it
Leave tourists pourous, my galaxy's gorgeous
Quantum jump - I'm right at your doorstep

Now I catch more wreck with fast ignition
My last decision, pulse amplification
Terror with napalm, I want y'all to stay calm
Alien annihilation, I stay armed to the grill piece and kill beef
20 percent matter, 30 percent is energy
Assimilating to become a living being
Evaporative radiation fades your station
I get high as aviation

I rise like helium, you're falling rapidly
Trapped in apathy, while I track your speed
I'm what you call a legend, dominance with armageddon
Gives me a warm reception
Verbal war with weapons, installation
Blowin the star dust, distance twelve parsecs
Enthuse your phalanx with my literary talents
Just a bit of balance, rip the silence
in space, all-star systems are our victims
Atomics, anonymous with ominous
implications of information, or information, and entertainment
Cyber-tech dialect, you gotta earn my respect
I'm like Gamera to amateurs, hit em with a cannonball
And in all this confusion
The fusion of music and mind precipitates translucent illusions
Search the ruins with Automator
Hit the walls with a carbonator
Hit-or-missiles, just regenerate
The sonic soldiers allow us to demonstrate
Emergency dispatch, skyscrapers ripped back
from the impact, their flow is mismatched
My style's protected by heat shields and ceramics
Don't panic, I landed on planet Mercury
Gave it atmosphere, set up my headquarters
I'll never get captured here
Rap your tear clap your ear with Soulsonic Mantronik phonics
Turn your brain to an omelette
I'll hold a comet in bondage, with my dominance
Take a space shuttle to escape trouble
Bounce through the Milky Way
Not many MC's feel this way

I think technology that improves physical performance will become more widely accepted as people with disabilities start surpassing the abilities of "normal" people.

Eventually prosthetic legs will be faster than natural legs, an cochlear implants will provide better hearing than a normal person without them. People with "moral" objection to body amplification will have a hard time arguing that people with disabilities shouldn't have access to such performance, and normal people will want access to a "level playing field".

By the time it is available it will seem fairly natural.

The problem with the standing wave amplification theory is that it would require the kernel to be at a point where the waves are interfering constructively... and they seem to be all scattered about randomly. With interfering waves you create points where the waves interfere constructively (add to eachother) but you will also end up with points where they are interfering destructively (canceling each other out) so even though the energy at a specific point may be amplified the energy at an adjacent node will be diminished (relative to one phone).


You have the same problem in a microwave ( ever end up with cold spots in your burrito? ).

In short, the net energy of the system is not increased by wave interference (luckily, otherwise it would violate known physical laws )... so we're still dealing with 8W of undirected microwave energy in the system. Considering that the energy diminishes at a rate of 1/(4pi r^2) for a unidirectional antennae... you're probably looking at less than 1000th of that energy being transferred to the kernel. Considering that most cellphones have a dipole antenna which is nowhere near unidirectional (think about how you hold a cellphone when you use it, and where you want the signal energy to go... it's generally not straight up or straight down) I'd be confident saying they're effectively receiving no energy.

I call BS

yeah, its still exceedingly garbled.

So I'd argue for a 'soulmate' kind of thing, a transcending connection that would be stronger if they were only from similar times and worlds.

We're left with a beautiful ending where they recognize how much they mean to each other and leave each other knowing the other person feels the same. Having had relationships myself where this moment should have come but never did, I found it a very moving ending. So, upvote for the movie ending, not the bandpassed amplification.

This is what happens when centuries of sexual repression is abruptly lifted, and expression is released from a box from Pandora's Playland...thank god for Japan. For tube amplification, for Fender Stratocaster and Harley Davidson, for Shonen Knife, and Tamagotchi, Tamari, Toyotas, The Most Extreme Elimination Nation!!

I've been using favourites as an amplifed upvote. If I like something, I vote for it. If I REALLY like something, I favourite it. When you look at members' rankings, you can see (I think) how many times their submissions have been favourited, so it just seems like one small extra gesture of appreciation for a good sift.

But if favourites are now being used by many as a watch list function, can we consider maintaining favourites as favourites, removing the notification function from it, and adding new watchlist functionality in v.3? I know -- it means more coding and another icon, but it would keep the two concepts clearly separated.

Sign me the fuck up!...implants, heads-up, walking breathing and connected!!


The horrible fact of the contenet here produced, is that the groundwork laid for the past 50 years for the meat of this leap, has never been open to public consumption....i.e.,

this is dinosaur work, rats with cameras bein' the tube amplification stage, of the real picture....if we only knew, what they now can do, your petty concerns of global warming and heatlh care, would die like 4 day old files. Need we ever approach politics??

Glam-doo+exotic name+hummingbird fingers/voltage+tube amplification-efficient marketing equals >or= where is he now?
Knitting furiously?

Here's a tip for anyone caught exercising your civil rights.

STAY ON THE SIDEWALK. And don't block any pedestrian traffic. Cops now a days are riding bikes or horses though the march or protest, to push people into the street, where like this woman, you might be wrestled to the ground and maced, tasered, or worse. Many cities now have "mask" laws re-enacted to prevent protesters like this from wearing face coverings. (Harkens back to Klansmen days of hoods, etc.) Also, some cities it is illegal to use electronic voice amplification. And if your signs have wood handles or PVC, you are finished. All cardboard is the only way to go. (Never-ever surround the cops.. like in this video, they go nuts and can start shooting people.)

It's hard for people who know they are in the wrong and being stupid asses, like cops breaking up teenage protesters, to not take things to the next level.

Just seen the appearance @ Eurovision Song Contest... Good song, but the amplification was definitely not loud enough for metal.