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Lego Matrix Trinity Help!
Howard Stern Hates Kirk Cameron
He sounds like a young and angry Alan Alda.
I was thinking "Why does this remind me of MASH?"
Kids in the Hall - The Day It Happened
Skydiving with a Peregrine Falcon
It's called parahawking: http://www.videosift.com/video/Skydiving-With-Hawks-In-Nepal
I'm not sure it is, since you linked to paragliding and hawks and that's not what this is about.
Regardless, I'm curious whether they had the bird follow the plane during the entire climb (tiring), or whether they threw the bird out of a moving aircraft (potentially terrifying).
Also, let's continue this trend with other animals. I nominate Octopuses.
Visualizing Empires Decline
Bizarre "Trick" Touchdown Pass on the Goal Line
Reminds me of the Boise State Statue of Liberty play. That entire game was epic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6fMU1UCYKA
FLAIRS - TRUCKERS DELIGHT
Don't understand how when the characters shrink back to normal size they are caught in mid-air.
Why not? If a character is represented by a center of gravity and a scaling factor, reducing the scaling factor will cause them to be in mid air. That would be the most reasonable (physically plausible) representation, as well. If you pop a balloon the center of gravity doesn't change. The contracted pieces will, on average, be near the center of the balloon and not at the bottom.
Couple Arrested for Not Paying Tip
Quoting this NYT article: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/15/nyregion/15tipper.html
"As it turns out, a tip is just a tip, even if you put "mandatory" in front of it.
Charges were dropped yesterday against a Long Island man who was arrested last week for failing to leave a required 18 percent gratuity at Soprano's Italian and American Grill in Lake George, N.Y.
The Warren County district attorney, Kathleen B. Hogan, said that she had determined that the man, Humberto A. Taveras, could not be forced to pay a gratuity.
Ms. Hogan said, "A tip or gratuity is discretionary, and that's what the courts have found."
It really chaps me when apologists condone this weasel behavior (mandatory tips) by pretending it's some sort of "contract" because of fine print on a menu. Yay for Internet lawyers who have no idea what a contract is. Here's a tip: the corporations want you to believe that anything they put in fine print or post on a sign is a "contract", but it's not.
France cheats its way into World Cup
Use instant replay. Suspend and fine players for diving (after the fact, even).
GTA IV: Fat Man Parkour Fail
I think the physics engine does exceptionally well for fat people. For normal characters, the animation seems too unresponsive or rag-dollish. But for a very obese person, that unresponsiveness seems right. They couldn't be as agile.
Girl vs. Closet
I think it's odd how quickly she screams. But maybe female's really do have a reflex to do that quickly. When I get hurt it's usually more of a several second pause and then a long string of expletives through clenched teeth.
Girl vs. Closet
SIberian Husky Gets Friendly with an Elk
NEW- CLASH of the TITANS preview (awesome)
Maddow Destroys Congressman Hoekstra!
But it does seem as if Maddow has just now leaked that information and confirmed it with Hoekstra's spokesman. Am I wrong? That makes Maddow quite the hypocrite.
Rock slide almost takes out highway crew
Rachel Maddow: Health Reform Bill Restricts Abortion Cover
Oh, good example of a misguided slippery slope argument. Let me make another for you. What's next, introduce a bill that doesn't allow government workers to be paid on Saturday because it's the Jewish Shabbat?
Blood transfusions are medically vital. Abortions typically are not (in the 1 or 2% where they are, then only a whack-job is against them).
Also, abortion isn't just a religious issue. A secular person can be offended that federal money is terminating a second trimester fetus in a healthy mother. A religious person (e.g., many Catholic Democrats) can support the right for women to choose to end their pregnancies. About half of the country is against abortions for everyone. About 2% of the country against blood transfusions for themselves.
But anyway, to answer your question, I don't think that federal funding of a medically vital procedure which some fraction of members of some backwards cult don't want performed on themselves is equivalent to federal funding of medically unnecessary termination of viable fetuses in health mothers. So no, I don't expect your proposal will be in a follow-up bill.
Clash of the Titans Movie Trailer
Rachel Maddow: Health Reform Bill Restricts Abortion Cover
Actually access to cheap contraception and abortion is one of the most effective ways to reduce poverty everywhere on earth.
Same resources divided among more people = poverty.
Mostly false. More people = better economies of scale = better standards of living for everyone.
Do you think a company like Intel could exist without a first world economy with billions of people? How can they afford to invest 10's of billions of dollars and millions of man hours into infrastructure and research to create a next generation CPU? Because the world economy is big enough for them to make up their investments.
Do you think the NIH could distribute 10's of billions of dollars for medical research to extend and improve your life if we didn't have hundreds of millions of taxpayers?
The larger the world economy, the more specialists such as scientists and researchers you can support to benefit the entire world. The more amazing engineering projects you can undertake because the return on investment is higher. GPS, the Internet, etc etc... You could not enjoy the quality of life that you have now if the world population were 1 million people, regardless of how educated they might be and how trivial food and energy production might be (hint: neither would be trivial, because both enjoy economies of scale and both benefit from modern science).
Rachel Maddow: Health Reform Bill Restricts Abortion Cover
Abortion is still legal (although quite rare). Abortion is not that expensive, but even if it were, so what? Access to cheap abortions is hardly an important issue to me. Passing this bill is 1000 times more important. This is exactly the right thing to compromise on.