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Bowie performing Moonage Daydream at the Ziggy farewell concert at the Hammersmith Odeon 1973 with the late great Mick Ronson once again owning the stage with an unsurpassed guitar solo.

Easy to write off as "NU-Metal" but their talent in heaviness/minimalism is unsurpassed; visionary artwork, strange 4/4 signatures & with a message about something that is less than three tokes away to boot

Not so, slavery in the U.S. was historically unique in it's brutality and scope and the descendants of slaves live in another form of subjugation under the guise of rights under the law and equality. The system in place now insures that black people in the U.S. will be treated to inordinate scrutiny as citizens and extraordinary rendition in the form of profiling, imprisonment both physically or economically, and an unsurpassed recidivism in the Petri dish of criminals which is, the U.S. Prison Corporation, ltd., which only serves to justify more prisons to warehouse undesirables.

Except for perhaps Chinese dynasties during the construction of the wall other examples of slavery in history, even biblical slavery...Rome, Greece, these societies did not treat their slaves to the hopelessness we in America treated the Africans to.

If you consider slavery 'wrong' you might want to look at how well maintained your own existence has become-Slavery has simply become your indentured duty to invisible masters as you pay-to-play the game of life.
The slave masters of today do not carry whips or pistols but he still works you for long, unending hours and enjoys the fruits of your labor at day's end.

@yellowc I think we're on the same track really. I do think a case of comparing devices based purely on specs is a bit infantile. But it's something that Apple invites with their hyperbolic presentations and marketing. If they didn't describe every part of their devices as 'Revolutionary' or 'Unsurpassed' or 'Magic', then there'd be no need to pick them apart. Google didn't do that with the Nexus 7, they went with the 'experience' angle, and from what I've heard it hits those marks (as you've said too). AND it's stupendously cheap. It almost made me want a tablet (I really see little use in tablets for tablet's sake... which is why the Surface excites me, it's a tablet and a laptop without lugging around a keyboard/mouse as a separate thing... but I digress).

Yes, I think we both agree that Apple do something just 'right' that hits a chord with so many people.

What gets me more than anything is their horrendously self important marketing (it started with the Mac vs PC pushing untruths about how Macs never crashed and Windows PCs always did), and how people just believe it to be true, how I hear people mindlessly regurgitating the Apple marketing spiel about how iDevice X has the best Y ever... and how Apple invented feature Q.

I don't think anyone can deny that Apple created this smartphone world we live in, the iPhone was a landmark device, but that doesn't mean that everything they do is the best.

I loved the original Tex Murphy games, they were so unique and still unsurpassed in terms of story telling IMO. I just bought the Pandora Directive from GOG, it still holds up pretty well. I hope their Kickstarter makes it, I'd really love another adventure.

*promote

>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:

I'd fuck it.
[you mean like that @<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/spoco2" title="member since August 21st, 2006" class="profilelink">spoco2?]


You're a man amongst men sir, your eloquence is unsurpassed, and you have started proceedings off on a high note indeed.

@Nithern

Thesaurus is the best, top-quality, top-grade, first, foremost, world-class,
optimum, primo, unexcelled, unexceeded, unsurpassed dinosaur there is.

A fantastic interview with an incredible man, just, the best talk I've ever seen. It is simply superb how his words are recorded here forever. Incredible, beautiful videography. Superlative turtle neck in an unsurpassed color choice. His optical wear is unlike any I've seen before, it is completely amazing.

>> ^Xaielao:
I can see Westy is already in the 'calling Avatar crap makes me cool' phase. That didn't take very long.

Avatar is quite ground breaking and in 3D it really puts you into the world. I saw it again in 3D last night and with 5 movies coming out yesterday I expected there to be a decent crowd at best, but the theater was so packed there weren't enough seats for all the viewers. I couldn't believe that a month in the movie is still selling out at $13.50 a ticket for the 3D showing. And from what I heard the 2 theaters showing it in 2d were the same way.
It's an awe inspiring movie. Sure the plot is obvious and the acting isn't entirely Oscar Worthy but the CG is groundbreaking and they successfully surpassed what was considered unsurpassable, the Uncanny Valley. Anyone that finds themselves depressed and see's our own world as gray is weak of will in the first place. Our own world is thick with awe inspiring places and vistas as well. But since most people live in forests of concrete and glass and barely see any wildlife besides pidgeons and their entire lives are passed simply eking out an existence, I can see where such a life would be empty. And it's why I will always be a country boy.

"I can see Westy is already in the 'calling Avatar crap makes me cool' phase. That didn't take very long." can you see how moronic that statement is ?

I went to see avatar thinking it might be good film , i left it thinking omg everyone is going to be slagging this off all that mony invested in it was a total waist, and that the people that did the back drops and cgi would be pissed off at a film that had the plot and delivery of something designed for a 8 year old to understand. ( and not in a good way)

I mean compare avatar to something like Jurassic park. CGI in jurassic park was ground braking and not just technically but interms of its implementation. also the story in Jurassic park and the pacing of the film and all the characters is fantastic. Avatar just feals Dead.

Then again avatar has made alot of money so there is obviously a market for it maby people just want simple films that require no thinking and that you can predict the outcome and pretty much the entirety of each sceen and the out come of the film instantly.



The only thing they did better than other films was some of the character cgi in a cupple of sceens. but you could still tell what was cg and what wasn't from the animation.

Granted if you havent watched allot of cgi then maby you would be highly impressed , but there has for a long time been alot of art work of photo real cgi outside of films , and you have Manny scenes in real films where they use photo real cgi on characters faces or various aspects and u would probably never notice it , in avatar you can tell when its cg or not.

I can see Westy is already in the 'calling Avatar crap makes me cool' phase. That didn't take very long.


Avatar is quite ground breaking and in 3D it really puts you into the world. I saw it again in 3D last night and with 5 movies coming out yesterday I expected there to be a decent crowd at best, but the theater was so packed there weren't enough seats for all the viewers. I couldn't believe that a month in the movie is still selling out at $13.50 a ticket for the 3D showing. And from what I heard the 2 theaters showing it in 2d were the same way.

It's an awe inspiring movie. Sure the plot is obvious and the acting isn't entirely Oscar Worthy but the CG is groundbreaking and they successfully surpassed what was considered unsurpassable, the Uncanny Valley. Anyone that finds themselves depressed and see's our own world as gray is weak of will in the first place. Our own world is thick with awe inspiring places and vistas as well. But since most people live in forests of concrete and glass and barely see any wildlife besides pidgeons and their entire lives are passed simply eking out an existence, I can see where such a life would be empty. And it's why I will always be a country boy.

the reason for the sound is that the snes's soundchip was based on yamaha if memory serves me correctly and it was insanely powerful for it's day even to the point of allowing some small surround sounds if you had a hifi system with rear speakers plus the music format is still unsurpassed with it's compression tech.


That Yamaha FM sound was shit even for it's time. GF1 wavetable was where it was at. You need to hear Doom on the Gravis Ultrasound to appreciate the difference.

the reason for the sound is that the snes's soundchip was based on yamaha if memory serves me correctly and it was insanely powerful for it's day even to the point of allowing some small surround sounds if you had a hifi system with rear speakers plus the music format is still unsurpassed with it's compression tech.

After ten years, the sound mix on this movie is still unsurpassed in my opinion. There is no music during any of the action scenes. Instead the sound mix becomes hyper detailed and positional. Most immersive sound mix ever created.

Too bad it immerses you into horrible carnage and destruction. When I watched this movie for the second time, on video in 2000, I found myself weeping silently by the end, and that time I had shitty sound.

hp_qp... yeah, that's it alright, but I certainly didn't see it on first time through, and only with your help. The man is utterly brilliant, not only does he do that hugely long routine with so many placements and reveals, but he has that complicated script to deliver too.

He is just simply not one of us, he's slight of hand (in particular his ability with cards) is unsurpassed.

The American Health Care system is bloated. Why? Because it has to take care of an overweight and unhealthy populace. It services a society that considers dying to be unnatural and unacceptable. It strives to meet the expectation of immediate service for non-emergent problems. It labors under threat of tort law and the resultant substitution of unnecessary tests for sound medical judgment. It reels from a pharmaceutical burden, in which a drug company must invest almost $1 billion to get a drug from test tube to the U.S. market. It's heavily encumbered with the profit motives of the health-care administrators, whose services evolved from a belief that employers must provide health-care benefits.

Nutrition is more essential to an individual's health than medicine. Those who can pay for food are required to do so. The food market is a business, not a service. Until you have a national health-care system entirely staffed by volunteers, medicine will continue to be a business as well, and be thankful it is.

The US health-care system has unsurpassed quality and unsustainable quantity. It has a cumbersome, expensive, and arbitrary interface. Americans want, and deserve, health-care choices. Personal health-care savings accounts, deregulated catastrophic illness insurance, and government assistance, (for those who can't afford either), are better alternatives for the U.S. system than is a national health care plan.

And lastly, U.S. society has to make hard choices about where the finite health care resources go. Simply put, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.