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I think you need to substitute "loses" for "uses to provide a valuable service"

>> ^lantern53:

Medicare is efficient? it loses $60B a year.
If socialism worked, the US would be hip-deep in gold toilet seats.

David Elliot is one of the best internet celebrities alive today. This video is proof, no one can deny it.

That sounds like Jonathan Pryce (Elliot Carver from Tomorrow Never Dies) narrating. Is it?

>> ^kceaton1:

promote He reminds me of a band I knew called Unified Theory. They sound much alike except Jack's is slightly darker and his is nearly a one man show.


I thought of Elliot Smith myself.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'animation, zoetrope, turntable, phenakistoscope, stop motion' to 'animation, zoetrope, turntable, phenakistoscope, stop motion, elliot smith' - edited by chilaxe

>> ^blankfist:

Let me try my top 21 predictions for the next decade! A lot of this will be US centric.
1. HDTV dimensions will increased from 1920x1080 to 3840x2160.
2. Screens will be increased to print pixel depths. 300dpi is only the beginning.
3. An affordable, flexible LCD material will change the tech and advertising world. Maybe the material can be cut to fit any size?
4. The war in Iraq will be over. But the occupation will last for decades. Other wars in the Middle East will continue.
5. Sarah Palin will never be President.
6. The US Deficit will grow to a historical high. As the Dollar and the Renminbi compete for world currency a new Cold War will be declared.
7. Top 40 music will suck.
8. The browser will be integrated as part of the OS and no longer treated as just software. Your work software (IDEs, Microsoft Word, Excel, etc.) will be treated as online plug-ins, savable (with versioning) in the cloud.
9. Electricity will be wireless.
10. Reality Shows will be the new sitcom. Again.
11. China's working class will stage small worker union revolts, but the scale and number will be dramatically inflated by the media.
12. Tommy Lee Jones, Adam Ant, Joel Coen, Matt Groening, Bill Clinton, Lorne Michaels, Sam Elliot, Rudolph W. Giuliani, Steve Jobs and Roy Scheider. One of them will probably pass away.
13. Google will acquire Facebook.
14. Apple's stock will drop if Jobs passes away. They'll try to embody the innovate spirit of Jobs, but they'll miss the mark and stick to just updating the current products like iPod, iPhone, Macbooks, etc.
15. There will be an assassination attempt on a Congressman. Congress will pass into law the Vigilant Act that declares DC to "be at war". As a result no civilians except current residents are permitted to enter. Under the Act any type of search and seizure in DC is legal. To counteract the bad press, the America Museum is opened in Virginia.
16. GM will file for bankruptcy.
17. Like the huge increase in gas prices as become part of day for the US, the people will grow accustomed to the high rate of unemployment. Politicians will no longer talk about gas prices or unemployment.
18. Marijuana is legalized in three states. It's legalized for medicinal use in seventeen states.
19. Autism is linked to the artificial sweetener, Aspartame.
20. Most internet enabled TVs and projectors become equipped with a'la carte system of channel ordering. So you only buy what channels you want streamed to your tv.
21. A new phone technology is developed that works a lot like bit torrent. The phone's signal piggy backs off other phones in the area, and the more phones in an area the better the signal. Most people, however, turn this feature off because it's rumored to be a security weakness.


To answer a select few points:

1. I thought 4k displays would be up next? (4096×3072; as a coder I hate widescreens. I need horizontal screen real estate).
3. This will happen sooner than we'd like
7. When did it not?
9. See 3.
Addendum to 21: We will see a surge of private networks, linked by VPNs and shared by friends; mostly done by people trying to run away from all the crass advertisements and data gathering schemes in the net today.

Let me try my top 21 predictions for the next decade! A lot of this will be US centric.

1. HDTV dimensions will increased from 1920x1080 to 3840x2160.

2. Screens will be increased to print pixel depths. 300dpi is only the beginning.

3. An affordable, flexible LCD material will change the tech and advertising world. Maybe the material can be cut to fit any size?

4. The war in Iraq will be over. But the occupation will last for decades. Other wars in the Middle East will continue.

5. Sarah Palin will never be President.

6. The US Deficit will grow to a historical high. As the Dollar and the Renminbi compete for world currency a new Cold War will be declared.

7. Top 40 music will suck.

8. The browser will be integrated as part of the OS and no longer treated as just software. Your work software (IDEs, Microsoft Word, Excel, etc.) will be treated as online plug-ins, savable (with versioning) in the cloud.

9. Electricity will be wireless.

10. Reality Shows will be the new sitcom. Again.

11. China's working class will stage small worker union revolts, but the scale and number will be dramatically inflated by the media.

12. Tommy Lee Jones, Adam Ant, Joel Coen, Matt Groening, Bill Clinton, Lorne Michaels, Sam Elliot, Rudolph W. Giuliani, Steve Jobs and Roy Scheider. One of them will probably pass away.

13. Google will acquire Facebook.

14. Apple's stock will drop if Jobs passes away. They'll try to embody the innovate spirit of Jobs, but they'll miss the mark and stick to just updating the current products like iPod, iPhone, Macbooks, etc.

15. There will be an assassination attempt on a Congressman. Congress will pass into law the Vigilant Act that declares DC to "be at war". As a result no civilians except current residents are permitted to enter. Under the Act any type of search and seizure in DC is legal. To counteract the bad press, the America Museum is opened in Virginia.

16. GM will file for bankruptcy.

17. Like the huge increase in gas prices as become part of day for the US, the people will grow accustomed to the high rate of unemployment. Politicians will no longer talk about gas prices or unemployment.

18. Marijuana is legalized in three states. It's legalized for medicinal use in seventeen states.

19. Autism is linked to the artificial sweetener, Aspartame.

20. Most internet enabled TVs and projectors become equipped with a'la carte system of channel ordering. So you only buy what channels you want streamed to your tv.

21. A new phone technology is developed that works a lot like bit torrent. The phone's signal piggy backs off other phones in the area, and the more phones in an area the better the signal. Most people, however, turn this feature off because it's rumored to be a security weakness.

You are so good to me!!!! Thanks for the thumbnail. And presumably the vote?

Everybody was busy the past week or so with the holidays. I think that is the reason that I had THREE top 15 videos at one time -- it didn't take many votes to make it in.

Thanks for your assistance in getting me started and educated.



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OH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Man, a "quality" beats out a thumbnail any day!

Thanks!

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Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by kasinator.

Oh look! You just got a thumbnailer badge! Just as I tracked you down to ask you if you would thumbnail something for me....

http://videosift.com/video/Elliot-s-Shoes-Do-The-Dancing-1

I really want to get this published -- after the hokey crap at the beginning, the dancing is amazing. I know a thumbnail will help.

I asked someone else to help, but they didn't seem to know how.

Once I get enough stars (ha!!), perhaps you can teach me how to thumbnail? So I won't bug you?

If you don't have time, that's fine....

Happy new annee.

I haven't clue how to do that. Thumbnails are a mystery to me. They have just magically appeared.

Thanks though.

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>> ^bareboards2:

I'm hoping to get this "published" -- can you help me out with a thumbnail? I'm not empowered to do it. Plus I don't know how.....
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shortfilms


how would i do that?

Better idea, provide me a thumbnail and i will.

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>> ^bareboards2:

I'm hoping to get this "published" -- can you help me out with a thumbnail? I'm not empowered to do it. Plus I don't know how.....
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shortfilms


how would i do that?

Better idea, provide me a thumbnail and i will.

Ah. I don't know. I just know that others have "thumbnailed" me in the past.

I thought as a Silver Star, you would know how.

Thanks for considering it.

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>> ^bareboards2:

I'm hoping to get this "published" -- can you help me out with a thumbnail? I'm not empowered to do it. Plus I don't know how.....
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shortfilms


how would i do that?

>> ^bareboards2:

I'm hoping to get this "published" -- can you help me out with a thumbnail? I'm not empowered to do it. Plus I don't know how.....
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shortfilms


how would i do that?

I'm hoping to get this "published" -- can you help me out with a thumbnail? I'm not empowered to do it. Plus I don't know how.....

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*shortfilms