I knew this would happen, I knew it. This is possibly the last nail in the coffin for what's left of the real media here on American TV.

Hahahahaa, you read my mind! Oh wait, did you go into the Source Code and run a Decompiler on the Dynamics Matrix so you could read my mind? Oh no! I have to invert my Internets now!

Seriously though, best comment on the sift!

>> ^solecist:

i was honestly surprised to see people in the comments saying they thought this was going to be good. this is about as nonsensical as a science fiction concept can get and the fact that they're throwing romance in there is the nail in the coffin. i especially like how he is experiencing something impossible and is just blurting out everything he is thinking. IM CAPTAIN COLTER STEVENS WHAT AM I DOING ON A TRAIN? I HAVE NO INTERNAL MONOLOGUE GUH UGH GUH WHY DO I LOOK DIFFERENT IN THE MIRROR, GIRLIDONTKNOW?
then he dies and pops into his own body and they explain the whole thing to him...they send him back to the train and the first thing he says is IM ON THE SAME TRAIN BUT NOT THE SAME TRAIN. HEY YOURE THAT GIRL I SAW THE FIRST TIME I DIED WHEN I WAS HERE EARLIER DID YOU KNOW YOURE GOING TO DIE????
"what is the source code?"
"it's a computer program, captain."
geez, i bet the captain was all like, "isn't source code actually the written language of a program before compilation? were you just looking for a confusing name or did you somehow create the most incredible technology ever without realizing what source code is?"
what a dummy!

i was honestly surprised to see people in the comments saying they thought this was going to be good. this is about as nonsensical as a science fiction concept can get and the fact that they're throwing romance in there is the nail in the coffin. i especially like how he is experiencing something impossible and is just blurting out everything he is thinking. IM CAPTAIN COLTER STEVENS WHAT AM I DOING ON A TRAIN? I HAVE NO INTERNAL MONOLOGUE GUH UGH GUH WHY DO I LOOK DIFFERENT IN THE MIRROR, GIRLIDONTKNOW?

then he dies and pops into his own body and they explain the whole thing to him...they send him back to the train and the first thing he says is IM ON THE SAME TRAIN BUT NOT THE SAME TRAIN. HEY YOURE THAT GIRL I SAW THE FIRST TIME I DIED WHEN I WAS HERE EARLIER DID YOU KNOW YOURE GOING TO DIE????

"what is the source code?"
"it's a computer program, captain."

geez, i bet the captain was all like, "isn't source code actually the written language of a program before compilation? were you just looking for a confusing name or did you somehow create the most incredible technology ever without realizing what source code is?"

what a dummy!

It looks like a coffin for the ferret.

i love the "its not a hurst (sic), its a pickup truck with a frickin coffin in the back... HELLO!"

apparently someone doesn't know what a hearse is.

>> ^xxovercastxx:

>> ^rychan:
So, it's basically an ant coffin that they get to personalize.

More of a mass-grave, really.


This isn't a mine... it's a tomb.

>> ^rychan:

So, it's basically an ant coffin that they get to personalize.


More of a mass-grave, really.

So, it's basically an ant coffin that they get to personalize.

Catarina Coffin?! Talk about uninspired names.

Rather have this than a finned water coffin.

100 years from now they'll be learning in history class about how this device was the final nail in the coffin of American civilization. "... After that the population got so fat and so lazy that they no longer cared about anything except eating and sitting around with their TV hats, and soon the countryside was completely transformed into the lifeless desert we know today."

>> ^NetRunner:

I've got plenty of anger to go around. I'm mad about the fact that there is an entire political party whose purpose is to eliminate responsibility for the rich, and eliminate rights for the poor. I'm mad that their opposition party can often be bribed by corporations to water down any attempts to fix things into near meaninglessness, and that a media-led populace of morons will condemn them all the way up one side and down the other for daring imply that corporations do evil things because, well, the corporate owned media doesn't like it when anti-corporate sentiments break out.
Even after all that, I've still got more than enough anger left over to direct at the people who actually inflicted this particular wound on us, and who're whining about how it's really made them have to put in a lot of long hours.
As for why the government hasn't "stepped in", this is actually part of the rub. See, we don't have a government-run oil company in America (even though virtually all other oil producing nations do), so we have to rely on private expertise in fixing the damn thing. Even as it is, I don't think people grasp this, but if there were easy ways to plug the leak, or even expensive ones, I guarantee it would've been done by now. We're looking, I believe, at the limits of what man can do, and apparently we can't plug a damaged well under water of this depth.
Maybe this will change people's opinion about the risks involved, and our need to get off oil. My read on how the media and the right is talking about this is that it hasn't really had that effect. Other than partially strengthening the left's resolve on the topic, I mostly see people who once proudly chanted "drill baby, drill" still saying the same thing, just slightly less brazenly.


I'm kinda glad to hear you don't buy into the whole "Democrats are saints, Repubs are sinners" bullshit, because enough people on here do. Like Seric said in the post above yours, many different companies were involved on and around the offshore drilling platform, so it will take a while to figure out whose fault it was. In any case, accidents happen, and those are the risks we take in echange for a steady oil supply.

I believe the government hasn't stepped in, because they don't want any blame to be directed at them. Right now the general public are aiming at BP and their incapability to secure the leak. You might be right when you say that BP may very well be doing everything humanly possible to stop the leak, but there might just as well be more capable people outside of BP who could do a better job. However the government would rather keep their hands relatively clean and instead scrutinize BP for their failing efforts. Typical behavior of politicians.

It would be great if this would indeed get people thinking about our oil dependency, especially since it is becoming more of a coffin nail every day. Unfortunately that goes way beyond the grasp of the general public and would first and foremost require people to look at their own squandering of resources and how it creates such an enormous demand for oil, which corporations will always look to profit from.

Nah, too complicated. They'll just blame BP's CEO for everything.

What a whiner.

I dunno about "thoughtful" dystopian. He doesn't give pre-packaged answers in little soundbites, sure, but Libertarianism is not a thoughtful philosophy. BP should be the final nail in their coffin but somehow they think that things like that wouldn't happen if there were only LESS regulation (never mind that it was an exemption granted to them from STANDARD regulations that turned this from a one day tragic news story to a months long ecological crisis).

Libertarianism is patently false, anyone with a lick of sense and the determination to come up with the honest answer can figure that out.

On a serious note though, my dad left when I was 5.

We went to a plan where my sister and I would go see him every weekend, saturday afternoon-sunday night.

Now, he didn't get much time to see us and he liked to sleep in, so we basically didn't go to church.
From there, my mom raised us on the notion "You don't have to be in church to believe in god." So I was never truly hardcore religious.

Having never really been read anything from the bible, I guess I just decided to start using my own head about how things worked.

The nail in the coffin for me was prettymuch the same as him, one day, I started thinking about the premise of hell.

The point he made was one I was thinking of, If I make it in to heaven, but my family doesn't, I'll be in my own version of hell. Would a kind forgiving god allow that? Would he allow any of his followers/creatures to suffer in the first place?

Then.. What happens if you marry someone when you're in your 20s.. they die in your 30s, and you re-marry when you're in your 40s?

When you get to heaven.. what happens? Bigamy isn't allowed, so do you have to choose? what if you don't want to break one of your wives hearts, do you get kicked out of heaven?

There's just too much that has no answers, and never will.

Rules of engagement now have gotten so strict that apparently if the bad guys throw down their guns and run away you can no longer shoot at them. So they run away and jump into another weapons stash to kill someone another day.

So why would you fire a warning shot?

Of course in 2007 the rules of engagement would apparently have been a little more "loose" for something like this to have happened. I'm not trained military personnel but I would have mistaken the camera for an RPG peeking around the corner. Plus we (You and I) most likely don't have to deal with the daily grind of being in a war zone and watching a parade of coffins with our friends - or bits of your friends - go back home.
With that in your mind, if you see something that looks even remotely like an RPG you would probably have your finger itching on the trigger too. EOD aren't the only guys that get stressed. Don't know what I'm talking about? Watch "The Hurt Locker".
I'm not saying I condone or agree with what happened, only that I'm not one to judge. My guess is that most people commenting in here aren't either. Certainly without ever having been in combat or in Iraq.