I was raised not to hit women. In my core I think it's wrong, though I think it's a terribly biased and arcane belief. Once in high school during a breakup my ex-girlfriend started wailing on me and trying desperately to kick me in the nuts. I wanted to defend myself, but felt I couldn't outside of trying to catch her arms before they hit me.

I think in the deep recesses of my mind, I watch this and feel some sense of perverted justice for all the times a girl was violent against me and I felt I couldn't retaliate.

Also, how many times has a woman put your ass in danger by mouthing off to some dude? And all of a sudden you have to fight to defend her honor or some crazy archaic primal bullshit like that.

downvote as laws of thermodynamics were recently cited during breakup by my x-gf

I've always found this facinating - the idea that North America is divided into 9 subcultures already:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Nations_of_North_America

I think we'd all be much happier if we split along cultural lines... conservatives could try it their way in the south (and I'd move north), liberals could try it their way, and we'd all learn the lessons from each instead of this constant 2 party stalemate.

Makes sense Russia thinks a breakup is imminant because it's pretty much exactly what happened to them in 1990 minus the Glasnost. Failed war in Afganistan, economy crashed then break up... few would've believed it just a few years beforehand.

This is fake!
MTV without half of the screen covered up by useless, pointless and completly random find out if _____[insert any kind of inane thing here such as: Are you going to breakup/how hot are you as a couple and so on...]

And it is a music video on MTV, that is also a classic telltale of fake as MTV only has reality shows and "Watch-me-I'm-Stoopid-shows" now.

I'm not bitter at all...

The album itself is very evocative of imagery like that. This song comes in the second half, but the entire album very much inspires the kind of images you would expect from the title. Contrasting the bright atmospherics, the lyrical material is your typical breakup album, which fascinates me. It's always hard to know just where you are emotionally as you listen.

This would be one of those videos I'd watch over and over and get angrier and angrier leading up to the inevitable breakup.

Thanks for the promote! And I'm glad I could help out with your video.

In reply to this comment by EDD:
*promote

No, really, Texas, it's not me, it's you. I think this breakup is for the best. Umm...only thing, I'm gonna need that walled border to your south back. I gotta use it for your north border now. Nothing personal.

P.S. I'm blocking you on Facebook...cuz you're fruity loops.

Intense, that’s the best word to describe the character of the music that took hold at the outset of the 70’s. Powered by stacks of amplifiers, propelled by rock backbeats, fueled with unbridled passion, and full of the spirit of jazz improvisation, this so-called fusion music coalesced into a full blown movement with the arrival of John McLaughlin’s Mahavishnu Orchestra, Larry Coryell’s Eleventh House, and Chick Corea’s Return to Forever.

With impressive credits, Al was instantly inducted into Guitar Player’s Gallery of the Greats, becoming the youngest player in the magazine’s history ever accorded that honor.

At the outset of the 80’s, Di Meola put his Les Paul on the shelf and turned to the acoustic guitar, touring and recorded with a superstar trio including McLaughlin and Spain’s flamenco master, Paco de Lucia. He returned to his old electrified ways briefly with 1982’s «Electric Rendez-vous» and its follow-up, «Tour De Force Live». In 1983, the same year he recorded the bravado studio album «Passion, Grace & Fire» with the acoustic trio, De Meola had a brief reunion tour with his old RTF mates, Corea, drummer Lenny White, and bassist Stanley Clarke. Though the tour proved that the intensity was still very much alive, no record was released of this powerhouse fusion unit, together again for the first time since the 1976 breakup…

As far as digital goes, seeing as so many of you in the States use cable, then I would imagine the switch wouldn't mean as much.

Here in Australia, we still aren't up to the full switch over date, but I've been using digital set top boxes/pvrs for the past few years and am UTTERLY sold on digital transmission vs Analogue. Why?

Upsides
* Reception: Much better reception. With the same signal strength that would provide fuzzy, ghosting images in analogue, the digital signal is crystal clear. A friend's moved into a house and was getting only a couple of channels, and those poorly. When I went over I discovered that there was no aerial cable, just the cord going into the wall which would end in an open termination. I gave her an old set top box... voila, all stations in great quality... using NO AERIAL, just the aerial cable connected to nothing!

* Clarity: Over and above the better reception, the image, whether SD or HD, is just clearer and more vibrant... very nice to watch.

* EPG: The channels transmit up to a week's worth of program information, so you can bring that up, find the shows you want and set them to tape automatically on your....

* PVR: Having a digital signal means it's far easier to record to a digital media... hence PVRs, hence no more tapes, hence having a nicely catalogued set of recordings... hence, we pretty much never watch anything 'live' on TV anymore... record everything and watch it when we have free time.

* More channels: Sort of... here in Australia we only have 5 main stations (ABC (government run), SBS (multicultural etc.), 7,9,10 (commercial stations)). Now, the ABC has ABC2 with extra shows, many great, and the other stations sometimes actually show different things on their HD channels vs their SD channels (although things are about to change). The much heralded ability to have multiple views of sports etc. has never eventuated... could have been used to GREAT effect during the Beijing Olympics, but noooo, one channel, forced to watch what they want you to... so this plus point is only minor. (Although ABC2 is great)

Downsides?
* Rather than having a slow degradation of image quality if you don't have signal strength, you instead get digital breakup, which is far worse.

I love digital tv, and only wish the stations would use it better than they do.

Hey sport, here's a thought from the old school crew
A serious situation we all go through
It deals with your feelins, so hear what I say
It's like a day when nothing seems to go your way
Bust this, two people, they really like each other
He says their's no one else
And she claims there is no other
The feelins the same, and you receive a notion
To reveal your inner thoughts and deeply hidden emotions

Precious times, hopin they won't end
Tell your mother bout your lover
also your best friend
Ya mighty proud while your holdin their hand
Boys, yea that's my woman, and girls, yeah that's my man
This person brings a certain warmth to your heart
And everything seems so great at the start
For she loves him, and he also loves her
And it's hard to turn back to who the person you were
But later on, problems start to occur
And the bond, which combines, y'all turns into a blur
For the feelins were the same, now here's the score
You love them to much, and they don't love you anymore
Is your attitude a number
Or because your not bein true
Or maybe they're just plain sick of seein you
Word, now it might seem strange
You better take hints quick, and make the right change

See just when you swore the ball was rollin
They're gone and part of your hearts been stolen
get back on your feet with a hop and a skip
but no you'd rather go with this dead relationship
hangin around and buyin them stuff
you see them every darn day yet don't see them enoug
you follow them around and they claim your hawkin
when conversation comes you do all the talkin
not to mention attention, we all need a bit
beind your back their say yea he's all up in my
they're gtin sick of you and quite annonyed
and if you had plans for the future they're now destroyed
you saw what was happenin and you still let it
and if you ever let him make love to you girls you can forget it
sweetheart you been caught
an it'll spread around town faster then you thought
then breakup time an you receve the word
yo this is from the heart and I know that part hurts
get over it from now on don't take short slick
if its not true love you shouldn't deal with it
just think of your future and what is to come
and pay attention to the words in this song
they go

After reviewing comments from this site and many others over the past few days bashing Sarah Palin for her "anti-science" stance, I must say that I am truly impressed with the realization among our citizens of the importance of scientific research and progress, especially from those of the far-left political persuasion. I have just one question for these individuals, however. WHERE WAS YOUR OUTCRY AGAINST ANTI-SCIENCE POLITICIANS AT THE TIME MY SCIENTIFIC CAREER WAS DESTROYED? I am (or should I say WAS) a scientist during the days of Ronald Reagan and SDI. I received a Ph.D. in physics in 1984 with an extensive background in mathematics, and was laid-off in 1992 despite an excellent performance rating for "lack of contract support". My career as a scientist began and ended with SDI.

During this "outbreak of peace", I went to extremes to find work in technology transfer efforts and other non-defense related areas, oftentimes volunteering my time with groups or start-up companies willing to let me work with them in the hopes of securing some grant money someday. These efforts were all in vain, however. Why? Because scientific funding was waning everywhere, not just in defense. Competition for grant money was absolutely fierce and in some cases, merely a lottery. Only those with decades of experience in their special fields had a chance of winning. Our government had taken the "peace dividend" (which resulted in part from my career demise) and used it to prop up the new "social democracies" that resulted from the breakup of the Soviet Union. Once again, WHERE WAS THE OUTCRY AGAINST ANTI-SCIENCE POLITICIANS when all this was happening? Instead, what I saw on the news was euphoria over the "end of the cold war" (euphemism for the greatest one-sided disarmament in history).

From what has happened to other scientists as well as myself, I'm afraid you would have an extremely difficult time convincing me that there ever was much concern about scientific research among our politicians, especially over the last two decades. So why all of this bashing of Sarah Palin for being "anti-science"?

I'm in the same boat with Goofball. Was going through a bad breakup when this came out. Every time I hear this song the memories come right back again. Still a great song though. Still love hearing it.

The only thing he skipped on in this *dark *femme video is that she ruptured her spinal chord, leading to the drugs. Well the current president is a drug user from the 70s according to records, and now we know the Republican candidate also is. I find it interesting that, "in her defense", the balanced Wikipedia entry points out that McCain was guilty of infidelity in the past with others well. Not exactly heartening.

Definitely an *election08 and *politics and a blowing the whistles *lies vid, but this is misuse of the terrible channel, hence I invoke *nochannel for that.

Wiki links:
Subject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_Hensley_McCain
Husband: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain
Cheated crippled first wife: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_McCain

And incredibly forgiving too:

The McCains separated in late 1979;[13] Carol McCain accepted a divorce in February of 1980,[13] and John McCain filed for and obtained the uncontested divorce in Florida on April 2, 1980.[21] John McCain would later say, "My marriage's collapse was attributable to my own selfishness and immaturity more than it was to Vietnam, and I cannot escape blame by pointing a finger at the war. The blame was entirely mine."[18] Carol McCain would later echo those sentiments, saying the failure was not due to her accident[1] and that "I attribute [the breakup of our marriage] more to John turning 40 and wanting to be 25 again than I do to anything else."[18] He gave her a settlement that included alimony, child support, houses in Virginia and Florida, and lifelong financial support for her ongoing medical treatments resulting from the 1969 automobile accident.[1] John McCain and Hensley were married the month following the divorce.[18]

Carol McCain became a personal assistant to Nancy Reagan in fall 1979,[2] working with her on Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign, and then worked on the 1980 Republican National Convention and the 1981 Reagan inaugural.[2] In 1981, she became head of the White House Visitors Center, where she planned tours and dealt with special pleas of Washington officials.[2]

Despite the divorce, Carol McCain remained on good terms with John McCain,[18] and supported him in all his subsequent political campaigns.[1] She refused to discuss her marriage with an opponent of McCain's in 1982 who was seeking negative information about him.[22]

In 2003, Carol McCain moved to a bungalow in Virginia Beach, Virginia.[1] She continues to have difficulty walking, as a result of her accident.[1] She supports her ex-husband's 2008 presidential campaign, and told The Mail on Sunday in June 2008 that she was not bitter and that, "He’s a good guy. We are still good friends. He is the best man for president."[1]


(If you're going to be harsh, you'll point out that she too got divorced before marrying McCain, albeit under very different circumstances.)

I'm not going to call bullshit on this at all, especially with the other followup angle, the reactions of everyone, the general behaviour, this does indeed scream of someone really having a serious mental break. It would be fascinating to know the story behind this. More than likely there's something personal going on, a breakup is a common catalyst.

I hope he gets the care he needs, and I hope when the office puts itself back together they all get LCD screens... those ones were horrid.

Also

The thing that makes me think this is fake is when the security guy catches whatever's being wielded as a weapon on the downswing. Looks like a long-handled axe or something. Anyhow, it looks like a pretty slow swing, like he was giving the guy a chance to catch it.

Oh bull, he's tired, half crazed and just lunging around, there's no reason to expect him to be violently swinging the thing at full speed. As for catching it on the downswing, well he does it early in the swing, which is when the least amount of energy is in it... seriously, if you're being attacked by long arm swinging punches or weapons being swung around, the BEST thing to do is get in close, far less power in swings and objects in close, it's if you move back and get clobbered with the END of the item that you'll get seriously hurt.

I really find this completely believable. If I'm proved wrong then it was one of the best fake setups ever, but I pretty much guarantee we'll see the confirmation of what happened in 'real' news outlets soon.