This video has been nominated as a duplicate of this video by mintbbb. If this nomination is seconded with *isdupe, the video will be killed and its votes transferred to the original.

sit, stay, fetch, *beg , roll over

So far he has worked throughout his life to bring the country down so why stop now?>> ^Retroboy:

This video makes me wonder if why Romney is doing anything and everything he can, regardless of personal integrity, to become President, is because he's on a Mormon mission to get revenge on the United States of America.
Naah. Can't be. Too far-fetched.
yeahhh...

This video makes me wonder if why Romney is doing anything and everything he can, regardless of personal integrity, to become President, is because he's on a Mormon mission to get revenge on the United States of America.

Naah. Can't be. Too far-fetched.

yeahhh...

Here's the code:

<embed wmode="transparent" allowscriptaccess="always" allowscriptaccess="always" allowscriptaccess="always" style='display:block' src='http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:arc:video:southparkstudios.com:9afcec46-293f-492d-8b8f-08a29aa7ba15' width='500' height='281' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='window' allowFullscreen='true' flashvars='autoPlay=false' allowscriptaccess='always' allownetworking='all' bgcolor='#000000'></embed>

Fuck me sideways, this one's annoying. Embed within this comment doesn't work, but a regular submission doesn't throw any exceptions and the player is loaded properly, so I'd say give this code a shot.

For a different South Park clip, just replace "9afcec46-293f-492d-8b8f-08a29aa7ba15" with the respective ID. In case of your second clip, that ID is "4c756450-99e2-469c-b97a-e7ddceff54aa".

Code for second embed:

<embed wmode="transparent" allowscriptaccess="always" allowscriptaccess="always" allowscriptaccess="always" style='display:block' src='http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:arc:video:southparkstudios.com:4c756450-99e2-469c-b97a-e7ddceff54aa' width='500' height='281' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='window' allowFullscreen='true' flashvars='autoPlay=false' allowscriptaccess='always' allownetworking='all' bgcolor='#000000'></embed>


Tutorial: Either pick this code as a template and replace the ID or fetch a regular embed code for another MTVNServices video, for example TDS, and simply replace the video url with that of the South Park video, but only after you ran the original code through VideoSifts own submission system.

Random DailyShow embed, after I ran it through the system:

<embed wmode="transparent" allowscriptaccess="always" style='display:block' src='http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:419809' width='500' height='281' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='window' allowFullscreen='true' flashvars='autoPlay=false' allowscriptaccess='always' allownetworking='all' bgcolor='#000000'></embed>

Replace the part in bold font with the respective South Park code, then run it again.

Ahh. Gotcha.

Almost all TYT content is just "talking heads" and the odd graphic, so they use topical thumbnails to make them different and easier to search through.>> ^bareboards2:

I've never noticed that about TYT before. Interesting.
Siftie wouldn't kill the vid, Siftie would take away your ability to fix thumbnails. And since you aren't choosing the thumbnail, then there is no violation.
The rule, I think, is to prevent luring in viewers with a bait and switch. Which I think is why I have never noticed before -- there may have been bait, but there was no switch.
>> ^messenger:
If that's a rule, then most TYT videos should be removed from the Sift because almost none of their thumbnails are part of the content. The thumbs, FWIW, are somehow encoded in the video itself or are part of the embed when fetched from YouTube. Either way, they're chosen and placed by TYT. Think of them as dust jackets. I'd call that part of the original content. I don't add them later.
If Sifty still thinks that's a violation, then I guess he can go around killing them all. I'm not going to fix them. I've sifted so many.>> ^bareboards2:
PS your thumbnail doesn't appear anywhere in the vid. Siftbot says it must....

I've never noticed that about TYT before. Interesting.

Siftie wouldn't kill the vid, Siftie would take away your ability to fix thumbnails. And since you aren't choosing the thumbnail, then there is no violation.

The rule, I think, is to prevent luring in viewers with a bait and switch. Which I think is why I have never noticed before -- there may have been bait, but there was no switch.

>> ^messenger:

If that's a rule, then most TYT videos should be removed from the Sift because almost none of their thumbnails are part of the content. The thumbs, FWIW, are somehow encoded in the video itself or are part of the embed when fetched from YouTube. Either way, they're chosen and placed by TYT. Think of them as dust jackets. I'd call that part of the original content. I don't add them later.
If Sifty still thinks that's a violation, then I guess he can go around killing them all. I'm not going to fix them. I've sifted so many.>> ^bareboards2:
PS your thumbnail doesn't appear anywhere in the vid. Siftbot says it must....

If that's a rule, then most TYT videos should be removed from the Sift because almost none of their thumbnails are part of the content. The thumbs, FWIW, are somehow encoded in the video itself or are part of the embed when fetched from YouTube. Either way, they're chosen and placed by TYT. Think of them as dust jackets. I'd call that part of the original content. I don't add them later.

If Sifty still thinks that's a violation, then I guess he can go around killing them all. I'm not going to fix them. I've sifted so many.>> ^bareboards2:
PS your thumbnail doesn't appear anywhere in the vid. Siftbot says it must....

@BicycleRepairMan

That scientist gave his reason for the impossibility this way: "Paabo said because the Neanderthal DNA was scattered in imperfect fossils, the notion of cloning a Neanderthal was far-fetched." (Source.)


It sounds like he's talking about cloning one individual Neanderthal, rather than synthesizing a Neanderthal genome from many incomplete fossils.

Genomes are just a series of 4 letters... so future tech will only need the complete sequence of those 4 letters. Degradation like a video recorded in low quality doesn't apply... you either can determine which of the 4 letters is in that spot, or you have to get another fossil sample that has that location intact.


Yeah, Naku's value seems to be that he's a nice guy that the public can relate to.

Hey Cleatus, come fetch the shovel! We've got us a roadkill feast tonight!

It's not all that unlikely, it's really only the last one that is a bit far-fetched, for now.

>> ^charliem:

The finger print scanner on a touch screen display? So how the hell is it doing that?

>> ^bobknight33:

Sounds like the current Administration / DOJ protects the bankers more that the last bank loving President.
Bush prosecuted I believe around 1 thousand Banker type crooks. Obama rate is near zero.


Oh boy... someone's been ringing the imaginary unicorn bells... Even ignoring that you pulled your númbers out of your arse and establishing that I'm fine with stating that Obama is a tool of kinds...
... but trying to use that to white-wash the guys involved in the blackwater (now "Academi"-) scandal, the iraq/post-katherina reconstruction "inconsistencies", not to mention the establishment of the biggest and most "public" political prison in the western hemisphere is a tad far-fetched of an effort.

Let's just settle with both parties are made of similar material when it comes to employing the judicial apparatus and leave it at that, ok?

"Imagine having to make a decision to put down your 19 year old son or daughter. That's probably pretty close to how the guy feels about his dog"

No. It. Is. Not.

As for the other responses, the "will to live/eat" argument, I call bullshit. Every living thing has survival instincts, thats why they exist in the first place. But dogs do not on a human level understand the connection between eating and surviving, they do not stop eating because they've "lost the will to live". That is us, humans, antropomorphising the dogs brain. They dont have that same cognitive future-predicting brain we do. They dont make that kind of connection. Whatever triggers the "i'm gonna stop eating and go die" behaviour is probably connected with dogs and wolves pack behaviour, which would be triggered because the dog "knows" that its would slow down the pack, and thus decides to leave. This would however not be knowledge, but evolved pack behaviour, and is unreliable to determine whether the dog has a worthy life. This behaviour could also be triggered in false alarm cases, such as hormones during or after mating seasons and so forth, one week later and the dog is happy as ever.

What is clear, is that this dog, in the video, cannot run anymore, it cannot fetch, search or do anything that stimulates its brain anymore. A dog thats being fed by an owner every day do not have the evolutionary history, nor the brains, to decide that this isnt a life worth living. Which is excactly were the dogs owners brain is supposed to come in: The dog eats because its hungry, it drinks because its thirsty. In more aspects than ever, its being artificially kept alive , as most dogs are most of their life, because they are domesticated and are thus useless hunters/scavengers, but they can still be happy and pain free, but in cases like this, it is literally being kept alive in pain, which is due to the owners emotional commitment.

And thats really all there is to it, if the living creature in front of you is in constant pain, constant agonizing pain, and you are keeping it alive on the basis of your personal feelings, you are hurting that animal. Every day. And those are sad, painful days for that animal. We do the same thing to some humans, even when they express their desire to die, which is a separate issue, but also sad, but atleast most humans can express such desires, and understand what it means to die and escape the pain, but dogs cant. Which is why we should make the hard decision and let them go, even if that hurts so, so much (again, yes I DO know, and yes I have had enough dogs in my life to know).