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Was that epic sarcasm or did you miss the whole idea that it was a video of masterful use of miniature-faking (filming life-sized objects and making them look like they were miniatures)?
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Abuse of the wide angle blur effect, especially when things that were closer were more out of focus than things that were further away.
Excellent realistic full-scale water effects. Can't imagine how that was done.
Lame music.
He didn't disagree necessarily with Gladwell's overall premise, but with the factual mistakes that he made in describing the accident, it called into question Gladwell's veracity.
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Have you got a link to that analysis? I'd like to read it too.
In reply to this comment by ShakaUVM:
It's an interesting argument, but I read an analysis of Outliers which showed that Gladwell completely botched the story of the Korean Airlines flight.
So I don't trust anything he says on the topic.
i usually post music videos that creep up to 14 votes total... i snuck a super-boring post of a guy shooting a gun in a wheelchair into the top 15 recently, and almost felt bad about... it was super fucking boring, but 'guy in wheelchair firing a shotgun'... hard not to take a look at that.
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Without the sensationalist vote-grubbing title, sadly, this much more informative sift isn't even going to approach the top 15.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Crayon-Physics-Deluxe-Trailer-2
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Crayon Physics Deluxe is available for the PC as of Jan 7. Can I *promote? Let's find out.
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I can't see that vid. Is it from YouTube? I live in Turkey now, and YouTube is blocked nation-wide because apparently there's a video somewhere there saying bad things about Atatürk, which is illegal here.
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New world record, same guy, a Canadian, 'Eh?
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-fastest-human-on-the-face-of-the-earth-is-Canadian-Eh
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Back in the day, they used to tow them up to about 50 mph with a car, then let them go to do the rest on their own. The gear ratio was so high that they wouldn't have been able to get the bike moving at all without the initial tow. Dunno if that's still true.
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-fastest-human-on-the-face-of-the-earth-is-Canadian-Eh
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Back in the day, they used to tow them up to about 50 mph with a car, then let them go to do the rest on their own. The gear ratio was so high that they wouldn't have been able to get the bike moving at all without the initial tow. Dunno if that's still true.
It's roughly a 3.5 day cut, it's at 3/19 unfortunately.
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It's been 3 days, 18 hours, and has the same number of votes as # 12 on the top 15 list. Why isn't it there??
In reply to this comment by Krupo:
I predict instant top 15. Go!
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I like how he put "how safe these cars are," and "the dangers involved in top class motor sport" in the same sentence. It's like how totally harmless and !!!BRUTALLY DANGEROUS!!! a tiger cub is.
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These people don't have the worst lot in life, and none of them are complaining. They've been invited to talk about their reality. This angle is something most people haven't thought about. And any art that makes your mind move in a different way is worth making.
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Let's just say I didn't last the full 7 minutes of my song.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/oldboy/news/1648167/
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Oh, please God, don't let Americans remake this movie, oh please, oh please, God, I'm begging you...
What's going on in Chechnya and other provinces of Russia is a necessary evil. You may argue that Russia doesn't have to resolve to torture and oppression. But how else would you fight against a militarily active independence movement that outright refuses to abide by Russian rules? If they don't want to play by the rules, then the rules don't apply to them either.
You may say this is cruel, but we had a similar history of our own. We had Confederate States of America declaring independence, forcing USA to declare war, killing total 3% of United States population. These guys wanted to secede from United States and wanted to keep slavery (violation of human rights). It came from a very distinct political stance and desire to protect local economy (also influence of Texas, who wanted a country of their own as well), as seeing end of slavery would mean collapse of already dwindling southern economy.
You could argue that United States would've been better off granting independence to CSA without a declaring war. Well then I don't see why US should keep Texas or California or New Mexico or Vermont. And with CSA continuing to have slave trade, and Texas continuing to raid local Indian settlements to gain territory?
Would we have been better off as a divided nation? That is a very serious question.
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More civic power in certain culturally different areas of a country leads to demands for rights and independence, which either leads to actual independence, or to violent oppression. In these cases, it was violent oppression, and that's what I don't like. When I say that it's human rights violations that are holding those two countries together, I mean that human rights violations are forcing Chechnya and Taiwan to remain part of the country, not that the whole country would fall apart.