As much as these are mostly true, all of the mentioned facts have a pretty wide range across the country as well, so take them with a grain of salt and don't expect them to be 100% accurate with every American you meet or everywhere you show up. The diversity of the individuals, communities, landscape and influences makes generalizing like this virtually impossible.

Southern California is almost like a different nation compared to Vermont or Wisconsin. Dallas or Houston are nothing like Austin even though they are in the same state, much like Seattle, Washington is nothin like Washington D.C.
Meanwhile, many small local places only accept cash, no credit cards. In some areas kids never really move out, just move into a different room, floor or trailer on the same property etc.

So remember that this list is written from an average middle-class person's bubble. The country is in constant change everywhere. The bigness of everything is probably the most reliable constant fact. But in the end, Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, Bill O'Reilly, Bill Burr, the newborn child of an illegal immigrant parent inside U.S. borders - they all are just as American as a redneck farm boy who thinks Europe is a country.

And please for the love of Hitchens appreciate the friendliness instead of calling it fake and being annoyed by it. It's just the good people trying to balance out for the seemingly infinite amount of assholes everywhere else in order to make life just a little bit more pleasant and enjoyable.

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It's like they were trying to recreate this video game cover image:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/03/Destruction_Derby_2_Coverart.png

Seriously though, NASCAR is so fucking stupid... even I as a first degree 'Murica fanboy cannot stand up for it. It's the Meth of motor racing: High risk, low reward and a lot of white trash. WRC and Rally Cross are more like Acid or Ecstasy, where at least the risk is proportional to the reward of the experience you get out of it.

Agree with #4 in general - BUT people regularly see multiple deaths happen in those Russian dashcam compilations and nobody has a problem with those being posted here, because we don't see bodies getting crushed out in the open. So we do have a little bit of a double standard here.

Beware of the Youtube "first" comments effect

Imagine being a tourist flying in from the other side of the planet to visit Uppsala, Sweden (which btw. hilariously translates to "Whoops!, Sweden" in German) and just having watched some kind of zombie apocalypse flick while in the air. You arrive at the hotel at, let's say, 8:30pm. You then get something to eat and by 9:45pm decide to go for a walk back to the hotel - only to encounter this. I would probably shit myself.

It's amazing how many people here are still unfamiliar with the concept of a joke. Simply hop on the "stupid 'muricans and their attorneys" bandwagon and feel like a hero.

And despite the fact that the coupon is obviously not meant for your own sandwiches and the guy is clearly being a douche on purpose for comic effect, he is completely right legally speaking (unless the small print says something else) - for good reason as #5 has already pointed out. If common sense was the law, slavery and denying service to certain races would still be legal. In fact we still see aftereffects of that kind of common sense in the South - because slavery, racism and segregation was so common until those damn constitutional lawyers and human/civil rights activists started causing trouble.
Common sense is absolutely not the best thing since sliced bread. In fact, in it's worst forms, it can undo much more progress than has been accomplished because of it. That's why we have a legal system that ideally balances the playing field between the small individuals and big institutions.
Without that, you basically get Russia: majority opinion = common sense = the law, unless a big government-friendly business disagrees

Being critical of the over-medication culture and for-profit corruption of the business side of private healthcare in the U.S. is one thing. Being critical of vaccinations in general, because there is a microscopically higher autism rate among vaccinated kids is on a whole different level. This is the macro version of the housewife being worried about cellphone radiation while the kids are just one poorly shut door or gate away from drowning in the pool on your watch. Yes, there is a risk. Nothing comes without any risk whatsoever. That's called life. There are no free lunches in nature. The key is trading risks with a positive outcome. Cleanliness and higher standards of living brought us more allergies and cancer rates. But that's okay, because we also get to live much better lives in the big picture and we are getting close to curing cancer and allergies can be avoided by simply allowing your kids to play in the dirt more often to naturally boost their immune system.
It's a balance you have to hold, nothing more nothing less. We have to get better at seeing through bullshit in order to know where the truth is most likely to be found, even when mixed with propaganda. Understand motivations - that means being willing to look for clues that do not confirm your views.

It basically comes down to: Would you rather suffer and possibly die because your appendix ruptured inside your stomach or would you instead accept the .2% risk (I'm making up numbers because I'm lazy) of dying from general anesthesia to get the surgery?

I love how in the end, she claims our glasses are now no longer foggy, when you can take her argument ad absurdum with that logic. What if her questioning of the questioners of the questioning of authority is also astroturfing, but without the inflammatory language? Wouldn't that be the ultimate conspiracy? And then we just keep going into outer space with this until nobody believes anything anymore and we go back into the stoneage.

Someone called her the p-word and she did not appreciate that.

I was expecting it to go somewhere else. Good set up, bad punchline.

This is the reason you never prank call the emergency line. And also the reason why operators must never assume it is a prank call. If the caller says he has been shot in the face and can only talk from his asshole, you take his word for it. People can't always think straight in life or death situations.

Brilliant commercial. I read somewhere a while ago, that this technique at a slightly slower speed actually allows people to read about 10-12 times faster on average without their eyes getting tired at all.

Zlatan should replace narcissist in every dictionary. Get a tattoo that says: Stop having half a dozen kids per capita and the problem of world hunger could be solved tomorrow.

Rated MF (mildly funny)

"I could take both of you" - of course she can. Threesome with grandpa incoming.

The truth is always good!

#1 The concept of going to school to learn about the world is now completely covered by what the internet can deliver - that is if you know how to use it efficiently and not end up on a porn site every 20 minutes.
Before, we needed schools and other physical spaces to gather, share and process information and get value out of it. Today, you can get everything ever taught in schools for centuries across multiple continents with just a few mouse clicks and save it to a tiny thumb drive that has 100 to 1000 times more storage than an entire government office with desktop computers 20 years ago. Access to information has evolved almost as much as the computing power and storage that carry it. Going to (old-)school is really only needed for social development nowadays - although even that could be argued with, since social systems on the internet are exploding, creating new forms of social interactions across physical borders, for better or for worse.
Thinking back, the only thing I really learned from going to school in the late 90s to early 2000s was how to deal with frustration, incompetence and massive lack of interest. And I realize now how much that fueled my obsession to learn and understand new things independently the moment I dropped out and was able to pursue everything I wanted, surfing this magical and exciting, new place called the world wide web.

Nothing kills interest and creativity like being forced to have it. And nothing kills engagement and productivity like a bell going off in the middle of an interesting experiment, which took a little longer to set up than expected, telling everyone to leave now and come back next week.

#2 I believe the left engine failed completely, which is very bad news on a propeller plane that just left the ground. Saw it zoomed in somewhere, it was barely rotating at all compared to the right engine. Shortly after take-off the pilot called "Mayday, mayday - we have an engine flame out!" to the radio control tower.
The last second turn/pull/swerve is intended to create drag in order to break the fall as well as to avoid taking out the bridge with the whole body of the plane, thus increasing chances of survival significantly. This is every pilots worst nightmare and he did an excellent job to the very last second, limiting the damage caused by the crash and probably saving quite a few lives.

#(removed comment) What the fuck? Are you high or something? Have you ever seen a plane that close right after the start? You always feel like it is about to shave the top of your head, even when it's still a hundred meters away, simply because you have no point of reference. How is the cab driver supposed to expect that plane to crash right into him? He doesn't have air control radio. Even without that last second move, it is near impossible to see that coming. Ever notice how hard it is sometimes to see one of those high traffic lights when you are standing at the front of an intersection? Or see a deer about to cross the road out of nowhere? Now try spotting a plane falling down from the sky next to you. I would have loved to see you steering that cab.

Holy shit! It even clipped another vehicle.. what are the chances of that? And what's up with Asian airlines being involved in every plane incident lately?

That might be a tumor or something. He should really see a neurologist to make sure it isn't.

Pepsi - the soap flavored Coke

I love the looks of that car, but that's a pretty lame commercial - especially if it's for the Superbowl.

I'm pretty sure it is rocket science, because I know what isn't.

#4 You only really need launch control with gasoline engines, because the way the clutch is engaged decides how good of a launch you get. Electric motors stand completely still at launch and deliver instant torque from 0 rpm all the way up. Based on the tire specifications, the computer pretty much knows how much traction there is in dry conditions and uses that to calculate the maximum torque/power output before getting wheel spin.

#4 My mistake, thank you. My point still stands though. I just assumed this was a Ukrainian military attack since the person in the car seemed to be speaking Russian and these videos are then often used as propaganda by the separatists to recruit more people against the "genocidal Ukraine", who sadly has no other option but to attack the separatists where they intentionally hide - in civilian areas. I did not check on this specific example though, so that's on me.
Russia essentially projects what it has done historically (as the USSR of course) and would happily do again, on the Ukrainians in order to justify extending its power grab into Ukrainian borders. It is terrifyingly similar to what Hitler did... pretending to save ethnic Germans from genocide by invading another country. Classic excuse for aggression by (borderline) tyrannical, authoritarian regimes.

Before the "You kill civilians! Bad Ukraine!" idiots show up:
What does everyone expect the Ukrainian military to do when Russia is sending in unmarked tank brigades and other heavy weapons to support an extremist minority that wants to start trouble and rejects an elected representative government? Just surrender hundreds of kilometers of their border with Russia to Adolf Putin and his blind followers, because they hide in civilian areas to get more support when civilians are harmed in inevitable government responses? People make the same retarded argument against Israel, who really has no choice anymore but to attack civilian areas in Palestine to defend itself against a more and more extreme Hamas, because the civilian population supports this extremist fraction to a large degree and this is the only thing you can do to protect your citizens, faced with an enemy that ignores the rules of war and does not want peaceful coexistence either, but will only accept total destruction of the one democratic, progressive, diverse society in the region.
People think they are heroes for being so outraged about civilian casualties, as if everyone else loves to see innocent children die. Fuck all of you for implying that sick idea. What is the alternative? Just let all the evil maniacs rule entire continents again, like most of human history? Or do we make the painful sacrifice for the chance to live in a better world after the war. It is so much harder for a moral person to make these kinds of calls and live with them, knowing a lot of people will die or hate you, than not making them and folding to every historic act of aggression, which would quickly lead to the next Soviet Union or 3rd Reich.
Not choosing a small defensive war is all it takes for a much bigger one to brew and follow.

Tony Romo's face alone makes me laugh. Great as always.

I think he tried to reach for the steering wheel to get the car to turn left into the sidewall.

#1 Forget other cars... imagine there was no guardrail and it crashed down into someone's house while they were having dinner or something and started an even bigger fire.

That was exceptionally well shot and edited. Much better than what I expected.

Did not expect Street Tennis to become a thing. What's next? Street Golf? Street Snooker?

Nothing like a good old "Let's be a kid for a day again" prank.

And definitely better than his usual "Doing crazy shit in the hood, because you know how black people are" stunt videos of him and Vitaly, which seriously border on mean-spirited at times and invite the race war crowds in the comment section.

But this one everybody can get behind with. Well done!

Well, it is a little funny exactly because it is so unlike in the movies (although real good movies do show non-superhuman moments like these) and because the first guy of all of them is struggling the most while the others behind him are like "Dude, time to roll... no time for backup!"

If tragic events like these are the end of situational comedy, the terrorists have officially won. Suffering creates a desire for humor. It's the most human thing about us. And it might be the most powerful tool we have along with music when confronted with discrimination, persecution and misery. Don't take my word for it, just ask the Jews. Why else would so many of the great comedians, musicians, filmmakers and artists be Jewish while they are such a relatively small group on a global scale. And don't give me that anti-Semitic propaganda like "Well they have all the money, so..."
It's a historically driven desire to deal with the most unbearable of all pasts, allowing the healing process to take place by humoring (or otherwise entertaining) one another. Even my own sense of humor took off to a whole new level since I had suicidal thoughts during a bad depression episode years ago. Nothing compares to it in my life so far and I would not trade that experience for a different one looking back now.

I don't think it is tasteless to see something funny in almost everything. We make jokes about being in prison all the time. Nothing funny about that either, in theory. Making fun of things we fear is a natural survival instinct, otherwise we would all be hurting or killing ourselves or others in a paranoid/panic attack every other day - which is essentially what humorless Islamists or other extremists do, because their religion/ideology/whatever does not allow for any form of joking around.

Alright, that was enough blow-hardy comment for me today.

#12 No difference between male and female actors? Hmmm... sounds familiar
So is that like a double negative mind trick on that issue? Or is it Hollywood actors all wanting to be number one by removing actress from their vocabulary?
Either way, I'm for using the female variations of words with the intent of specifying to avoid confusion. That's why we came up with most of them. We use man and woman instead of just human, don't we? Only the ones that do not make sense whatsoever and were just created out of political correctness are annoying to me.

#2 #4 #5 #7 All of you are wrong even though you get at the right principle.
This doesn't work live without a special setup. Not only is the human eye easily able to differentiate up to some 80-120+ frames per second and then some - I know I am, you just have to know how (24/25 frames is just what we decided to be the minimum and what makes movies look like movies for various technical reasons). But no frequency can ever truly replace constant information like a real life scene provides us with. It's always a percentage, which leads to the creation of this effect in the first place. It's the same with spinning car wheels or the droplets in front of a speaker experiment. It's just a blur in real life unless you introduce artificial AC lighting, a shutter, or something else that can provide a frequency to work with. If you could blink fast and steady enough, that would work as well. Apart from that effect, the human eye and brain work in a more analogue way, processing a constant stream of a changing image (like a DC power supply) not single picture sequences (sort of like AC power out of your wall sockets). Only when moving/blinking your eyes or being in a threatening/stressful situations, you can momentarily notice somewhat of a still image of reality. What we consider smooth motion in film just has to be enough for our brains to accept and interpolate the missing information in between each frame. Our eyes themselves work like a film or sensor that captures whatever information is available over time, continuous or not. If the information is infinitely accurate, there is no room for this effect to show, because the frequency is essentially only limited by the speed of light.
At some point though our brains just cannot process the change in time anymore to recognize it, but that's way past what we consider motion picture. The more aware you are, the higher that threshold where stuttering becomes fluent motion. This however starts out as fluent.

Covered quite a distance, but that weird chirping sound at the end was the real payoff

I wish every part of my life was narrated by a guy with that voice. It just seems appropriate for everything.

#7 Yes. 50/50 chance of either that, or a perfect sinus graph / S-curve.

Annoying soccer fans are going down! Bye bye

The ultimate winning of all wins. You couldn't even stage this if you tried. Unless it is completely CGI, it has to be real.

Seems perfectly safe.

Inb4 accidental shooting of camera man

Quite surprised 20+ years of soccer resulted in almost a dozen decent goals. And what would it all be without the mandatory horrible techno music to go along with it.

And wasted on some of the most horrible music I have ever heard. The ESC is such a joke.

We all know what's going on the condom next time...

Never given a shit about coffee, never will. I literally don't understand what people like about it. It tastes like wood - or a nut gone bad.

And no, I don't care about tea either - unless I have a cold, then I will enjoy a cup of tea.

Nothing funnier than an ice-cold slap of reality.

Pretty cool idea, but I don't think people will enjoy having to recharge their umbrella.

#1 to be fair, that looks ridiculously stupid - but it worked

mighty accurate driving, I wonder if that was ESC/ESP helping from behind the scenes

instant justice

Can't wait for the 20s and 30s to make a comeback - wait a minute...

Sounds like elephant rape.

When the sun farts, you don't wanna be the one smelling it.

Travis really carried this band on an instrumental level. Tom later almost dragged it to a complete stop with his emo/spiritual bullshit, whiny vocals and non-existent guitar skills. Mark just kept entertaining the entire way on every medium that comes along.

A good save can be more rewarding than a thousand overtakes.

Why would they use a tiny rag to attempt to choke an engine this big? At least have a restrictor plate or something like that ready... not a wood bar

That was the cutest thing I have ever seen.

That went on for much longer than I expected.

#12 There's still Pikes Peak, which is about as nuts as Groub B was. The 80s were right at the intersection of almost no safety measures and skyrocketing turbo technology. Something like Group B would be totally fine today, as safety technology and regulation has come a long way, catching up with engine component development.

The guy on Glenn Beck's old show is killing me every single time. Perfect step-by-step commentary.

Happened to me as a kid at a sleepover after taking a huge morning dump and getting up quickly to get breakfast with everyone else. Collapsed like a domino tower in mid-walk, slamming my head hard on the tile/concrete floor. Got a nice scar on my chin and a few chipped corners of my teeth. Fortunately my jaw held up and head trauma was only minor - those can really fuck your shit up later in life (dementia, alzheimer's, parkinson's etc.)

My advice for when you start feeling light-headed: Stop and squat, sit or get down on your arms and legs - anything but standing freely. Another way is to contract your stomach or anus (yes, you read correctly), but be careful as you sometimes get even more light-headed after then letting go again.

Or just drive on Soviet era roads for one week - no need for an expensive test course

Just wait until these things get hacked and start taking pictures of your daughters and wives while everyone is asleep. If anyone uses this, I'm not coming to your house - ever. What a waste of awesome technology. Remember the stupid Furby things? They turned into possessed demons when the batteries were running low. Now imagine that + 10 years of AI progress - the damage these things can do within split-seconds... it's mind blowing anyone would even want this crap.

1:03 It's all fun and games until there is a broken neck or back.

What a great moment of moral character!

And of course, he is Asian. They even clean up after themselves after watching a game.

250kg is roughly the weight of 3 grown men, so there should be about 4G total on the spine, constantly. As long as you are perfectly balanced, it should be okay - however not very comfortable for your head and neck. You do not wanna try to catch it falling though. Just let it slide off and crash to the ground if you loose balance. You can buy a new bike cheaper than herniated disc or broken neck treatment will cost you, not just in cash but also in invaluable life quality.

"Was a bit close, wasn't it?" - Sir Obvious strikes again

The rotating shots are just epic! Yeah, it is that one time of the year I am going to use that word.

Next mission: Find a super storm and capture sprites in HD with a top-mounted camera
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_lightning

Would have been more dramatic if the emergency stop wasn't announced and they had someone cutting off the convoy without any warning and brake checking them, like the video a few weeks ago. But still a good commercial.

I am a little worried though that people will not give a shit about learning to drive safely anymore, because we just expect the car to take care of that in the future.

#5 That's such a meaningless broad statement. If they solve a puzzle with 3+ objectives like crows, I'll be all ears. This is just one simple action and reaction system. No interlinked objects or tasks with multiple qualifiers etc.

Love the tiny mistake at 2:20 making both of them laugh, but they just keep going - like true musicians. Awesome duo!

A painting is not about smell or materials... that just hipster bullshit. It is about what it depicts (hence picture). Just add a bump map to the image and you have a 1:1 copy. Listening to music on a CD does not make it any less music, just because the delivery method is digital. Sure, it feels a little warmer with some analogue noise, but if the resolution is fine enough, our senses do not care about the theoretical difference. A speaker is still physically moving air and a digital picture still sends photons/lightwaves to your eye.

Exhaust sound from under the hood? FAKE!

7 was 1 too many for their hands, I guess

#8 It's actually a symptom of racism, not political correctness. Because they assume everyone will already think they are black, while somehow being white would make it more special. The white majority only commits less crime in proportion, because they have not been kept in a vicious circle of poverty for centuries. It is all about economic equality and opportunity. There should have been serious reparations to even the playing field decades ago. Now we see the results of continuing profitable injustice year after year and it will likely get worse. Affirmative Action will not be enough, and even that might be history.
But reading your statement, I'm pretty sure you know all that and would just prefer not sounding like a racists while implying racist conclusions.

#9 But if the ramp/suspension setup was the problem, he would not be perfectly horizontal at the zenith point (the theoretical optimum case), right? And all of a sudden go way off towards the landing. You can clearly see the nose tipping over much faster at the exact moment of the revs dropping. May be that's coincidence and the aerodynamics also reaching a tipping point or something else also had a bigger impact at that point, but to me it seems like he was in perfect shape, grinding away at the rev limiter up to the zenith point. That's usually when you get scared, not being able to see the ramp yet, because it feels like days have gone by already, and lift off prematurely to be able to see something.

#22 No shit again, genius. But that's only true for a certain engine setup. With a big turbo, the max power might even be past the rev-limiter, which is why hitting the limiter makes sense there in some cases. It is easier than trying to moderate the throttle in a situation like that (pretty much impossible anyway in 1st gear at high revs with a big turbo). That is a relatively common thing in overpowered sleeper cars - if you know a little bit about drag racing. Apparently that is too hard to understand for some people, even after a lengthy explanation.

What's crazier?
Teens cannot drive a stick.
Teens can just get access to a gun.

Pretty sure that's not the right order of priorities. I love that the second one is not even worth a discussion in U.S. local news anymore.

My understanding is that this happens because he lifts off the throttle half way into clearing the distance. It has something to do with energy stored in the rotation of the wheels/gearbox/engine, which transfers into rotation of the car. It is in part the same effect that makes a helicopter crash immediately without a second rotor, although not quite the same. I forgot where I learned about that, may be someone else knows a little more.
You can see it starting to happen at the 80 meter test jump, where the car is already beginning to tip over towards the end as he lifts off. At the shorter tests, the air time is too short for this effect to show and he only lifts off at the landing. At the final jump, he is absolutely fine, hitting the rev limiter, until reaching the top of the curve, when you can hear the revs dropping off and the car goes totally out of shape immediately. It seems like he is not even clutching out for the jump, because you also see snow flying backwards on a few of the shorter jumps.
Put in simple terms: Even when in the middle of a jump, floor the throttle to raise/stabilize the front of the car, lift off/brake if you need to lower the front significantly - like Tanner Foust had to in his world record jump with Hot Wheels, where the ramp almost caused an opposite scenario.

The entitlement of these assholes is even worse than the people they are trying to teach a lesson. Together, they make a perfect storm of endangering traffic for everyone else.

1:07 was awesome, like a duet. The confused face of the huge dog was my favorite.

Still making no effort to understand my comments. The skidmarks are irrelevant by that point. Get it in your thick head and read up on brake failure.

#5 I hate when people don't even make an effort to comprehend a fairly simple explanation to a complicated problem. Late "desperation" lock-ups are characteristic for cases of brake failure. The lock-up happens at the very end before totally losing control, when he is already way off the racing line, and most importantly, way past the normal braking point, trying to do damage control, knowing his brakes are basically gone - unless he floors them. Even you should be able to see that part. He simply would not be going that direction and then proceed to lock up the brakes, if it was a simple driver error. "No brakes" is just a figure of speech for limited or no brake function, the degree of which often depends on a variety of factors - not just a simple broken wire/line. The ability to moderate brake friction to get effective deceleration is usually the first one to go - which is not the drivers fault, it's physics. Come back when you understand how brake failure and overheating works in racing conditions, before basically calling this guy a liar. You may also want to do some research on the different types of friction while you're at it.

You are both wrong. What happens with brake failure is that the initial brake force does not come on as you would expect it to and need it to, in order to make the corner at all. The split-second moment when you think "Shit, no brakes" is when you have to take a chance and overcompensate for the failure, meaning you often immediately lock up the brakes once you step on the pedal as hard as you can, hoping to get the brakes to do anything. You simply cannot diagnose the reason for brake failure within half a second and have to take a gamble. That's why he is already on a weird line, aiming for the car in front of him instead of staying on the racing line. It happened to Louis Hamilton at Montreal this year. Luckily his brake failure occurred at the slowest corner with a big run-off area and did not cause a crash. It is not driver error. It is mechanical/material failure, which causes something that usually looks like driver error under normal circumstances, because of its very nature.

#4 and letting your kids play outside is a good way to have them suffer a broken neck...
so we should all lock our kids in the basement, hooked up to a feeding tube, respirator and emergency pacemaker - just to be safe, right?

your kid is more likely to choke on something or drown in the pool/lake than anything else. we really need to go back to having common sense priorities.

All I heard was "I hate people"

Loving all the 'no shit' comments here.

He is obviously running a high-rpm turbo with a big power spike right before the revlimiter and doesn't want boost to drop into a hole by shifting early. That's harder than you might think, because your speedometer will show the speed of the wheels spinning at the limiter (unless you have a GPS tracker) and not the actual speed of the car, which you then have to guess. That means you have to make a quick call how long to hit the limiter, before you start loosing acceleration. The perfect shift isn't always right before the red line or limiter, because it depends on the amount of traction you get at launch and over the course of the run. 2nd to 3rd he apparently didn't need to hit the limiter as it seemed like he lost a little bit of time there.

In 1957, $2.200 was the equivalent of about $18.000 today, adjusted for inflation. It is easily worth 20.000+ now. Can you imagine like a Chevrolet Cruze being worth a whopping 150 grand in about 50 years? Makes you appreciate why only a few were kept in good condition. Curious to know if there is something like that available for sale now. I doubt any mainstream production car since the 1980s will even keep up with inflation for at least 100 years. May be something like the Tesla Model S or an original Toyota Prius would be a logical choice? Electric drive and electronic range management could be what power steering and power brakes were back then.

#4 I guess you have use the curb with a car of that size, not to block half of the parking ways behind you.
It's one of the most beautiful cars of that era - or any era to be perfectly honest. They should have extra large designated "automotive history treasure" parking spots next to the handicapped parking spots.

Okay, that was insane. But the boy was impressive as well, because those moves don't get easier with longer limbs.

You know your government has done a bad job on bridges when you see them floating away.

I have a good sequel coming up: Watch me drive to work every day.

Wait - did he even use this song in his "Commercial actors mingle" commercial? Hmmm.

1:50 - the mother ship is landing... so beautiful, you for get how destructive these weather events are

Fake - nobody is flopping

No idea what he just said, but I was totally digging it. By the end I was ready to jump out of my chair and yell "Hell yeah, that's what I'm talkin about!"

I love the Mid-west
You don't just get excited there - you get everyone else excited as well.

#11 & #13

Hopefully not. We could use a female Sinatra that survives this generation of mind-numbing pop music zombies. I can't even comprehend the fact, that the hysteric teen girl masses that today come with any Justin Bieber concert, used to show up for The Beatles not too long ago - less than 50 years actually. How times have changed.

#8 The definition of an ad film campaign is that the commercial copyright holder is also the author of the product that is (one of) the subject(s) of the film.
The copyright holder is Microsoft. The subject is a core recognition factor of one of their Windows operating systems (the product).

Is a Chevrolet brand commercial not considered a commercial if it only shows the history of cars they no longer produce or supply spare parts for? My guess is you would not enforce the same standard there. What you think an ad should do in your book has nothing to do with the technical definition. The creator of a film cannot have a conflict of interest with the actual content of the documentation for it to be a legitimate documentary rather than a documentary-style ad campaign.

It is not at all comparable to Red Bull videos, which are just sponsored by the company - not actually about demonstrating their product. They would not be considered documentaries, but also not ads. Once people get a Red Bull in their hand and start drinking it with great pleasure, it becomes an obvious ad. But people are not riding Red Bull cans down a steep hill and landing in a pool of the actual beverage content.

The category takes nothing away from the quality of the piece - that's not the point. I like the video regardless of the category - because it is well done and interesting. It just is what it is: A good advert that tells the story behind the image we all see in our head when remembering one of their most historic products.

No, it's definitely a smart car.

0:09 The face of a plan being hatched

#5 Same here in Germany.

I actually had a case almost exactly like the one demonstrated in this video happen right in front of me one night in downtown San Diego last year.
A guy was clearly having a rough night with too much of .. something. He went down to the ground, was just lying there, drooling, barely breathing, looking into the sky, no eye movement. Me being from Germany, where in driving school they teach you, not responding to a medical emergency or accident is punishable by law unless you have an exonerating reason (I guess my excuse could have been that it was my first night out in a foreign city I barely knew, with friends of friends I met only a few days ago), it wasn't even a question in my mind to do something. So I pulled out my phone and was about to dial 911, when someone stopped me, pointing at someone else on the corner already on the phone with 911 and said he got word back that an ambulance is already on its way. Half a minute later, I heard the sirens approaching and was relieved that I didn't have to deal with all the questioning and stuff that could have come along with events like this if things went south at some point.

The one thing that stuck with me - apart from the chilling image of that guy's blank face - was that every single one of the three emergency response units arrived - police, ambulance, and a firetruck. I guess it's a precaution to be prepared for everything if people are not judging a dangerous situation correctly. Seemed overly dramatic, but actually makes a lot of sense - what if the guy was some place hard to reach.
Anyways, the lesson is: A wasted emergency call on someone, who's faking every once in a while, is a perfectly fine price to pay to avoid finding out later, that someone died because your inaction hesitated to do the right thing.

#3 Almost exactly my thoughts. These things are much more nuanced than examples like this make it seem like. Also, the acting seemed pretty bad if you asked me. You don't expect bad acting and a fake stroke/attack from a guy in a suit, so you are more likely to overlook the bad acting job. You do expect it from someone, who could very well be a broke drug addict looking for a fix. Rich addicts don't have to beg for money, they got that covered and overdose in private - which actually makes them more likely to die unnoticed (many examples from Hollywood come to mind).

It's simple math:

People are hesitant to help someone who looks like a drug addict or homeless person for the same reasons they would not stop to help someone in a dark Porsche Cayenne with tinted windows and a custom license plate, parked in a sketchy neighborhood or in front of a mansion in a cocaine growing region. It has nothing to do with how wealthy someone looks or lack of empathy, but a rational judgment call weighing your own safety against the safety of someone you don't know. It is the public road version of "making sure your own oxygen mask is on and working properly before worrying about other people's masks". But on the other hand, there are also many different, safe, indirect ways you can help. This definitely says something about what we expect from society, or about our trust in societal responses - or rather lack thereof. I do feel like paying that much in taxes, while the people in obvious need get so little in return (basically a small IV line to keep you alive - not actual help), has a lot to do with it. We do feel obligated to help, but we should know - not worry in the back of our heads - that if it blows up in our face, other people will jump to our defense just as quickly.

Best use of the Oculus.... SO FAR!

Just wait for the XXX virtual reality industry to get a hold of it.
Watching porn while having sex? That's so 2010. Just convince your girlfriend it's a therapeutic/neurological helmet that helps you last longer. Meanwhile you are looking at all your favorite porn stars on top of you... bustin all kindsa nuts!
Not only will it allow you to go for a second and third round - it will make you want to

Almost all of these in action:
http://youtu.be/OPVXU3N-Bao?t=4m54s

40s, 50s and 60s really were the golden age of animation. Nothing requires more creativity than a limited, flat medium.
I'm glad those cartoons were all over public broadcast TV in Germany in the 80s and 90s when I was a little kid.

The deepest hole on earth - also known as your... okaaaay I'll just stay over here in the obvious corner

This video deserves a big, fat

WAIT FOR IT...

The guy was so drunk or high - or both... he's gonna do a lot of facepalms watching this afterwards

0:40 literally looks like a heavenly experience

#3 Why would you be offended unless it was somewhat true? So, yes. You are the only one offended by this.

Men are dogs, women are cats. It's just good science, look it up.

I wish women were dogs as well - life would be so much easier.

#12 Exactly - although I feel like Don Rickles was the one who came up with that. I guess great minds think alike. Quotes like that would likely be considered hate speech over here.

The kind of humor in this video however, is basically the light/animal version of the southern U.S. racists laughing at blacks being lynched and killed for entertainment. It is actually a little disturbing to see such low-level comedy genuinely making people laugh... like watching a child torturing small animals with creativity and getting a kick out of it. Russians have a similar thing going on with all sorts of minorities - mostly gays though. Just dehumanize them and watch basic societal empathy disappear.
That's why all those super fucked up news storied are always out of Germany or Florida - or nowadays Russian dash-cam videos.

Considering how ethnically homogenous most communities are over here, Europe is actually more racist in context and less socially progressive than most communities in the U.S. when you just dig below the surface a little. Regional soccer is the best example - or even upper league - where black players are to this day sometimes greeted with bananas thrown onto the field.
The cultural diversity of the American population just leads to racism appearing more blatantly than the systemic, low-key racism in Europe, which can easily give rural areas in the South a run for their money.

That's why popular comedy is such a good indicator for the state of social issues and morality, because laughing at something is such a visceral response.

This is pretty much the 'best' original comedy Germany has to offer. Real comedy died in the early 2000s over here, right when they stopped doing the American formats (SNL used to be "RTL Samstag Nacht", "Die Wochenshow" & "Freitag Nacht News" - The Late Show with David Letterman/Conan O'Brien/etc. was represented by "Die Harald Schmidt Show" ).

We had a good run of copying the real thing in the 90s. Thanks to the internet, we can all watch the originals now - Stewart, Colbert, Letterman, Fallon, Kimmel, Ferguson, Conan, Arsenio. Even Carson bits, old SNL and MADtv episodes can be found out there.. HALLELUJAH

I never got this part of the modern military. I get that formation and synchronized communication was critical in historic battles with several armies clashing at the same time - it's 2014 though. We have super-sonic jets, smart bombs, heat-seeking missiles, automatic high frequency machine guns. At this point, all this is, is just semi-retarded ballet for dudes with a buzz-cut juggling ancient guns.

Right now, there is also only some Formula 1 in Renault-powered Formula 1 cars, so they definitely do need a killer pit crew to make up for that. Those Mercedes just take off on the straights and run like a swiss watch.

Survival of the fittest in progress.

Well, there was definitely a Light Plane Crash in Lawson, Australia.

What happens if you have to abort? Just bail out of the plane and let it crash?

So much passion - I love it!

Tax the rich comes to mind.

Dat momentum! Dog doesn't even realize what hit him.

Awesome design from an engineering point of view - BUT:
Who is making an effort to pick locks like this anyway? Bicycle thieves who forgot their bolt cutters?

Still, I guess it is in fact great for locking things that people might be interested in opening and closing again, without anyone else being able to tell afterwards.

#5 Cosmetics... doesn't change anything about my point. We are always just racing after, building and preparing for what we expect plus about 10-20%... or may be 50% if there is good regulation in place - and then something twice or three times the size of anything we've ever seen before happens.
How about building those things to withstand 200-300% before the MCA, so when shit goes down, we can be like "Geez, that was close - saved us billions in emergency management and environmental clean up costs, good call! We better keep stepping it up at the same rate for the next one like this."

The ancient technology we still use today is fundamentally flawed. It is like trying to cook with gun powder instead of natural gas. The source of energy is relatively rare, the reaction is highly energetic and dangerously uncontrollable, and the final output is laughable compared to the total release of energy.
What we need is low temperature, low pressure, passively fail-safe nuclear power, not the same old highly inefficient reactors with a feel-good safety refresh, leaving us with piles of nuclear waste that needs to be looked after for centuries.

You would probably have to completely start over from scratch (something like LFTR) and decentralize the energy market to an actual "free market" (appropriately regulated of course) - which would ruin the very lucrative crony energy/government deals, especially since the nuclear arms race ended as well. Meanwhile the current quasi-monopoly is still making energy giants more profitable every day, the longer they run and the less they maintain plants. And when things eventually go south, the taxpayer/environment will bleed instead of them.
You can't seriously think telling them to put their generators on stilts would solve all these problems of traditional nuclear power.

I was laughing tears towards the end... 3:45 got me hard

Btw. the title is a little confusing - a gun hooked up to a speech jammer sounds dangerous. Needs a "while" after "gun"

I like these guys and their obsession with extreme precision, but if something goes wrong... the only question that needs to be asked when the investigators show up:
What did you think was going to happen? Jesus returns to stop physics from happening?

Not sure if I agree with the family releasing this video to the public. I mean, how would you feel if the entire world could watch you in your darkest moments, hitting yourself repeatedly, because your parents decided so? I have had my share of late teens/early 20s depression, and there is no reason people with autism cannot have it, and have symptoms show up in a more graphic way. If you think about it, how much more depressed and angry at the world and yourself would you be, if you had autism on top of everything else? It does not need much more than common sense sometimes, even if the subject is very special and the condition would seem to suggests more than that. Of course, it could be side effects of medication, a change in his condition, even things like the weather, whatever - but you should really consider the most obvious explanation first. At least that's what seems the most logical to me as a relatively neutral observer.

This is one of those monumentally gigantic disasters, that no matter how often you revisit it, you still cannot fully comprehend the sheer magnitude of all the forces in action causing this kind of - for lack of a better word - biblical destruction. It makes you understand how people believed in the wrath of the supernatural before science was established.
And all that is still before the imminent nuclear meltdown incident even comes into play, which adds a whole new level to the long-lasting devastation effects on the region.

We can handle mother nature/earth. We can handle man-made risks.
We cannot handle both at the same place and time.

Building nuclear power plants on geologically active land was about as smart as building skyscrapers on top of swamps would be.
I hope California is watching and stepping up preparation efforts. A big one is due to happen there in withing the next 10 years and with every year past its due, it will become more and more powerful than expected.

#4 Overthinking much?

0:07 By Ben Gazsi? What is this, Fox News?

#6 Morally bankrupt weaklings like you are the root of all evil happening in this world. The most horrible crimes against humanity are allowed to happen because of exactly that authoritarian sucker ideology. Never intervene, never show up and stand for the rights of others. Who are we to question the great superior's knowledge of what is good for others and what must be done. Please, don't have kids.... because we as a society will have to deal with them growing up not knowing right from wrong - or deal with them in politics trying to force their screwed up, traumatic beliefs on others.

Advertising done the American way. Fuck that was awesome.

I love the "What did you just say? Oh no you didn't" look the birds always have.

You don't leave me a space? Fine, I'll just sleep on top of all of you then.

For a moment I thought this was for real. There really is nothing too ridiculous to believe anymore.

Awful lot of honkies in here.
- The Family Guy

#4 The end is pretty clear about this being a Windows brand ad campaign. Even the voice-over sounds like the narrator of the Windows installation/introduction presentation that you could sit through while your system is being set up

The evangelical pastor/megachurch comparison was spot on. Exactly what I picked up on when the whole Kony2012 thing was going on.
It seemed like a self-serving publicity stunt, designed to shift attention away from gigantic problems, which seem unsolvable and need real innovators and pioneers, and towards an emotional justice effort where we can all be the great savior by doing almost nothing at all. Now everybody can feel like Jesus/Liam Neeson simply by retweeting/reposting a campaign that was never going to change anything - nor did anyone really care about it working anyway. Meanwhile, political inaction caused a hundred times more death and destruction all over the world. Literally, just the other day, I was wondering whatever happened to Kony2012. I just remembered that the guy running the campaign went completely nuts and then there was silence.

Unfortunately, TED has become the atheist/scientist hipster version of "spreading the gospel". We don't need gospel though, we need political actions. Though I have to admit, I still love at least half of the TED talks. And to be fair, many of them are still truly inspiring and making a difference especially to entrepreneurs in poor countries.

But if I had to choose one speech to replace all TED talks, it would be Neil DeGrasse Tyson on space/science as culture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNxnCzz5oQE

This takes almost no skill except a little accuracy in assembling the thing. Pixelate a photo to a certain low resolution with something like Photoshop, then analyze each pixel for brightness level and done.
It looks cool, but it's nothing compared to what real artists can do with a pen or a brush.

Clever. However, this is totally to be expected and the solution is not treating the symptom (begging harder for those in need) unless you also deal with the root of the problem. We pay a shit-load in taxes, so we feel like we are already done helping the poor. That makes some sense. But when our governments then waste the money on paying themselves and their corporate buddies and fucking over the poor, we cannot be bothered to address that, as long as most of us are still above the poverty line. So the powerful just have to make sure enough people are not desperately poor to keep the status quo intact and keep leeching off of our collective hard work, which is supposed to benefit those in need, not those already in excessive wealth.
This is the weirdly hypocritical society modern socialism does come with when combined with badly regulated capitalism, unfortunately. We put our elderly, disabled and otherwise troubled in dedicated facilities and pay for it so we don't have to deal with the emotional baggage or see the struggle. It makes it easy to avoid actually caring, while also not feeling like a totally apathetic asshole. It is barely one step better than community churches helping the poor, if at all - and that's coming from someone who is outspokenly not a fan of religion.
That also explains why the U.S. are constantly at the top of charity donation lists, because the social safety-net over there is such a disaster and hence the emotional desire to help is much healthier, so people are much more involved in actually fixing injustices - even though they are of course hopelessly outmatched in the face of hundreds of failed policies, endless corruption and growing income inequality.
I'll stop here before I fill up the entire comment page. Can you tell I almost can't stop once I get going on this issue?

Make sure you teach them that teeth will only grow back once.

Holy fucking shit! Not a single note off key... how is that possible at that age?

Americans just know how to do sports events. If you can make NASCAR and MLB entertaining, you can do anything. None of this awesomeness would ever be allowed to happen here in Europe.

#2 He probably thought he was coming in too hot, but in the end it didn't seem like the landing was that bad.

Saw a display like that at the San Diego Air & Space Museum about a year ago. The aircraft technology of that era still impresses me today, even though it is child's play compared to turbine and jet technology of the present.

Always wonder who or what companies all these ads are working for...
Pretty sure I've only clicked on three ads in my entire life - and two of them were accidental.

The only ads that regularly have a distracting effect on me are porn ads, as they immediately make me think: "How long since I last rubbed one out... am I good for a quick session?"
But who are the idiots who then go ahead and actually pull out their credit cards and pay for stuff that is out there for free in virtually infinite amounts?

I like the idea, but... lightning strike = guaranteed power outage?

At least it's filled with helium instead of hydrogen
And still better than no electricity at all.

Wheel-to-wheel crashes are the best. A little faster and the idiot would have flipped over.

This is what you get though for speeding across downtown in a car nobody can see coming... and for driving on the wrong side of the road with a standard car.

#5 Unlikely, but the bullet could come back at you or go somewhere totally unexpected. Notice that the bullet ends up right next to them even though they fired at an angle away from them. Thick ice can act like an unpredictable lubricant under the right conditions, especially around that 45° angle. It's basically the same reason you slip and hit your head on the ground jumping on a slope covered in ice instead of spraining an ankle on impact or nothing happening at all.

Goofy - Gymnastics anyone?

http://youtu.be/OPVXU3N-Bao?t=5m

The knock-down force can physically not be greater than (or even as great as) the force it takes to keep yourself from falling over while shooting the weapon. You would have to fire that crazy elephant rifle that knocks you straight off your feet to have the same effect on the target.

This is what happens when you get your license at 15 with just basic instructions and only drive modern automatics. You have no sense of being involved with the act of driving and the risks that need to be managed.

Someone finally captured the voice I hear whenever I'm forced to watch commercials.

Trolling level: Ultimate

Believe it or not, I actually like the new sound... mostly because I hated the one million RPM ear-piercing sound of the NA V8 (even though I am a sucker for muscle V8 cars). Watching an F1 race was as much fun noise-wise as watching a room full of crying babies.
Obviously the more heat energy is converted into kinetic/electric energy, the less sound you will get.
This is literally the first time in two decades that I'm excited for F1 and watched a full race. Loving the new dynamics and challenges these new regulations bring to the table. Looking forward to Malaysia.

Lame, sorry. #JKL

Expected another one of those annoying "Look how awesome my kid's life is.." videos and was totally hit in the face by how powerful this was.

Most of us really have no legitimate reason to be depressed or sad considering what other parts of the world are going through.

I appreciate the effort, but there has been too many times where I was almost hit by an old person behind the wheel at a crosswalk. If that hadn't been me but someone who was unable to jump out of the way at the last second, things would have ended much worse.
You don't notice how often this happens unless you have a crosswalk right at your doorstep, like I did growing up at my parents house.

If you barely have the strength to raise your arms high enough to hold the steering wheel, you should not be operating a motor vehicle - end of discussion. You are basically operating something as dangerous as an automatic machine gun in terms of the ability to hurt or end human life. At least irresponsible teens usually only kill themselves and their passengers. Seniors run their cars into crowds of people, hit pedestrians, cyclists (happened with my grandma a few years ago) and run red lights without even noticing.

Sad that we need PSAs for something as common sense as this...

Disclaimer: Evolution ends at 2:00 and turns into degeneration (except for the "The Carlton" of course)

I never thought I would enjoy watching The Tonight Show ever again. I like Jay as a car guy and watch Jay Leno's Garage religiously, but he was just horrible at late night. Since Letterman, they could not have found a better guy to replace him than Fallon.

The sound effects were amazing. I'm a little tired of the song, but interesting nonetheless.

The girl instantly picking up "Oh shit!" made me laugh so hard... I'm glad nobody was hurt.

Reality version: Homeless guy looks nothing like a fashion model that just grew crazy hair and a beard. Girl doesn't even look walking out the door and takes off with ex who also cheated on her but promises to be faithful this time. Guy calls police on homeless dude for stealing his clothes. Police taze him, then beat him up for good sport. Dies in hospital from internal bleeding a few days later. - The end

But I guess that would not have made for a very enjoyable feel-good short, which it was.

The "simple" left hand is much harder to play, because of the distance he has to cover. It's about long range precision. Hitting 10 free throws in a row is much easier than hitting 10 in a row from downtown. Just look at where HE is looking and you get a feel for it. The stuff on the right hand he can pretty much play while talking to his wife and feeding the kids at the same time - even though it sounds more impressive.

Man, she has a great set of... I mean that's a very creative set for a video shoot.

Pretty sure this has been posted here before, but I can't find it and it's worth the double post anyway.

I love how there is so much down-force from the landing ramp, the tiniest steering correction turned into a full 180.

I'm pretty sure he thinks he's about to score two super hot penguiness in white dresses.

I absolutely disagree with the author's disagreement. It feels exactly like robot music - cold and super/sub-human. It is an impressive work of art and could theoretically be considered great music, but the tiny human imperfections and our motoric limits are what makes music great in an emotional way - for most people anyway, even in Jazz/Funk/Progressive. It's the same reason why computer-generated, perfectly symmetric faces don't look nearly as beautiful as real faces, which are just very close to the theoretical ideal. That individual emotional connection is the one thing pop-rock/pop-soul music gets right - even though most of it is complete commercial horse shit these days, because it's the worst of both worlds: Every song written by a group of a dozen people, then programmed, synthesized, auto-tuned/melodined to hide all imperfections, and trying very hard to be emotional at the same time. It doesn't work. Pop music today is the antithesis to what pop music once was. But robot music is not the answer. Neither is all the hipster pseudo-indie pop with incoherent lyrics and simplistic instrumentation.
I can't believe I sound like a grumpy grandpa.. and I'm not even 27

See that big-ass skyscraper under construction over there? Let's climb all the way up... Russian way of life.

Man, that pig is going to town on that camera!

Fake! This is not Russia.

He's going to regret doing this when she is a teenager and starts dating an endless line of douches trying to outdo the old man in terms of dangerous driving

Nailed it.

Early contender for "Troll Of The Year"

This is some 2002 web 1.0 shit! I feel old now.

Impressive.

The element of surprise-entertainment.

Our cat has done something similar to this, but it was... let's say a lot less controlled

Well, you're not exactly delivering the point if you start out with what seems like a beautiful girl with no makeup in bad lighting (like in those before/after infomercials) and end up with the same girl with what looks like basically better lighting, different hair and professional make-up. There are much more devastating things that can be done with Photoshop.

Not even a super-human reaction time can make up for zero.

0:52 - I accept your challenge

#2 I was just about to ask if anyone else noticed the optical illusion that leaves us with a neat "surprise" ending.

How did we get to 7 comments without a single "burnout" joke?

Runway? Well... we have a lake

Lighting off fireworks in the middle of a huge crowd - seems safe, let's party!

You've been taught.

1:20 was awesome

#5 the "pre-" part does not make a whole lot of sense, just saying

#3 Probably been playing with a little more than just the balls then

LOL at the guy not flinching at all

Hahahahaha, last one is straight out of a Goofy short:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a1z26twsoY

Was missing a few snaps from the Lions/Eagles snow storm game though... hilarious facial expressions by the quarterbacks

1:10 reminds me of comic characters trying to avoid flying bullets

#19 It's hopeless. People don't want to get that these numbers are just relative labels, because they have an aversion to change. That's why both my comments got voted down immediately, even though they make perfect sense, and even on a reasonable video like this. This is how nationalism/regionalism and politics of the masses keeps us from making any progress on this issue... "Well, I want my own timezone and you can't stop me from doing it. I don't want to follow the rest of the world, so fuck everyone and enjoy the extra work."

#3 Obviously things would have to change around our habits. You have to look at what was the point of deadlines being set to midnight originally: It's to ensure everything gets handed in on time, so the reviewing process can start the next day. All you have to do, is add an hour of the day to your deadline that makes sense. We already do this for special tasks, and it would further prevent people from missing them because they forgot about being in a different timezone. No change ever comes without adjustment. But I'm fine with that, because it will have huge advantages. The effort and energy that is wasted every day dealing with these timezone issues is far greater than the effort investment it would take ONCE to change to a new system for good. Everyone after us would grow up with it and be confused that people used to have different timezones and DST... like it was something left over from medieval times.

TRAIN!

That is about all it takes to describe the reaction to seeing one like this.

I wondered why I always felt like they were not really looking at each other, just watching random scenes from the movie. I never actually saw the entire film, so the fact that I had no emotional connection to it allowed me to notice that very easily and now I finally know what it was. Awesome solution to a very fundamental conflict.

the arab commentary one was actually much more fun to watch - even though I had no idea what was being said

One hell of a Hail Mary block

The lovely chime of turbine disaster.

#2 more reliable and better on paper... but in a lottery of the top 10 most expensive and praised models they ever produced - I'd take my chances with Jaguar any day of the year.

“I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work … progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready and then it is inevitable.” — Henry Ford

Apple is the Ford Motor Company of smart phones - eventually, you have to compete with others, who build on your work and likely do it better than you ever imagined was possible.

If the name Killer Mike is news to anyone, just watch this and enjoy the work of one of the greatest rap artists of the post-Reagan era:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lIqNjC1RKU

#4 He's not giving advice to spoiled white kids with first world problems. He is absolutely spot on and I'm glad there are common sense people like him, who continue the work of all the great civil rights leaders, who paved the way for our generation to live in a better world than our parents.

There is nothing that will make me overlook how bad this series has gotten since GT3 came out and blew everyone away at the time. GT4 in some respects went a step backwards, locked exterior angle being the most annoying "feature", but it was still a solid game. GT5 was such a colossal disappointment, I literally sold my PS3 because of it - so dry and unexciting. There was just no point in keeping it. Seems like a good decision looking back and looking at GT6 now.

Just imagining how devastated the people helping him would be if something went wrong and he snapped his neck or something... I could never live with that, so I would be like "You're on your own on this one, buddy!"

#5 That's not really a fair statement, because video games have taken so many cues from blockbuster movie FX that now movies begin to look video-game-ish. I get your point, but this is beyond anything that we will (probably ever) see in games, at least anytime soon. Computers just don't get that much faster at some point because of nano-chip production yield limits and upscaling is not a viable option. Nobody wants a dedicated hardware room at home just to play high end games... or even just a big desktop tower.

So these people are the "The Top 1%", huh?
And "We are the 99%" who get screwed trying

At least in the online video world "fails" always trump "wins"

#1 It doesn't matter how old your phone is. 7 years ago, this production process was exactly the same.
This documentary for example is from 2004, which could be right around when the materials for your 7 year old phone were mined - enjoy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgpf0ZNUO_Y

And it doesn't matter what electronics you use (TVs, computers, consoles, toys, household electronics). Unless you're Amish, homeless or still use a phone and TV from the 60s, you are a part of this - we all are, because we don't see the consequences.

An old phone doesn't make you a hero.

How come cats are at the same time the most easily frightened and also the most fearless animals on this planet?

Dogs, alligators, what's next... rhinos?

The entire time watching the video, this is all I heard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e--nitVjLoQ


Everyone is just the star of their very own TV show now. The narcissism it takes to do these kinds of videos... a perfect snapshot of where our society is heading.
Just put away the camera and enjoy the damn show, would you douche? Of course you need to join the adventure by subscribing to this clown - not by actually experiencing something yourself. Can you tell I can't stand people like this?

It sounds like someone splashing with water towards the end, hahaha

Reminds me of this: http://www.snotr.com/video/4199/My_voice_is_higher_than_your_voice

I love that the planetary orbits are basically evolution of motion - survival of the fittest direction. And that it actually works so well in this visualization.

American physics teachers are not appreciated enough. They just know how to get you interested, which is what teaching is all about.

#3 You have a lot of catching up to do on nuclear physics, radiation and radio-toxicity.

The radioactive decay products with a short half-life are the most dangerous ones in the short term, which make a bunker and food supply necessary - other than the blast itself. After their decay, all you really have to do is avoid long periods of exposure and direct contact with or intake of other radio-toxic decay products. That's enough to leave the bunker and escape the blast site and get to safer grounds. Old-school solid fuel fission reactors are a completely different beast. Compare Nagasaki and Hiroshima today to Chernobyl and Fukushima - you'll see the difference.

Talk about scoring women...

Hahahahahahahaha - and 1:50 earplugs... CHEATER!

The "Brute Force" method of microbiology. Amazing!

Holy shit! For a second I thought it was an effect added to the video - and I'm a trained audio engineer.

It does look fake, but I don't think it is. Zoom of the shot seems consistent with the time it takes for the round to travel. It should be crystal-clear because the projectile really only moves towards the camera and down a little bit. It basically is stationary object relative to the POV of the camera.
However, it is still most likely staged or at least a decoy setup. But either way, it is a good reminder to all of us, what war feels like to those who live it every day.

Holy fuck that was beautiful.

This is like the tinfoil wrapped frisbee people screaming UFO.
So is this an UUWO?

Another future organ donor.

#8 I agree, 1:25 was neat and I personally have not seen that before. Other than that, this pretty much happens at Domino Day every 10 seconds.

When three people quarrel, a fourth rejoices.

Wow, you could not have staged that any better.

Beautiful, but you are better off living in a coffin when the slightest earthquake hits.

Awesome visuals!
Makes you wanna move to Singapore, until you learn about their drug laws

Incorrect title: fusion != fission

fo shizzle my nizzle

I love that a previous step in evolution is considered superhuman

How is it that humanity has become so brilliant in many ways... yet we are still obese, we smoke, burn fossil fuels, dispose chemical waste into the atmosphere, kill each other over religion and other bullshit, use dangerous outdated nuclear technology from the 70s instead of developing smarter and more efficient low-risk reactors not including side products for military purpose, and are just generally dumb and shortsighted all over the place...

Is it just me or does the 4th generation setup not look like fun at all?

1st generation was AWESOME! Hearing the sounds make me want to play.
2nd generation still delivered most of what it promised.
3rd generation was underwhelming and chaotic at best.
4th generation looks like it will be the stereotypical futuristic crap although it sounded promising - until the press conference.

And they changed the controller to the brand new Ugly-As-Fuck-Design...
Now it's just specialized PC-Hardware with a PlayStation inspired controller and exclusive titles. Sony - what did you do to my favorite console? I even sold my PS3 because it was still basically new and I was already bored with it.

#6 It is, actually - however you can barely see it starting at about 0:55.

And yes, if you got out and tried to "touch" it, you would need someone else to do it since it moves with your POV.

This is a level of insane that our brains simply cannot process. Just the view from the top.... holy shit!

Only in America does farming and creativity mix

Awesome - but sounds weird since the strings are slightly out of tune all the time. I prefer regular playing

1:40 the other girl on the left is my favorite... that look expecting the cheesy line and then LOL straight to the guy's face

#2 haha yeah, probably both of them

#7 and you're missing the point of his comment. This is a flawed experiment. You cannot possibly scale up to compensate for infinity or randomness. That's why the masses are in fact not wise and just seem to be, and also why #2 wouldn't work at all - even if you asked enough people that chances are one of them would actually be right. You cannot average out complete ignorance, you need a minimum amount of knowledge in every participant.

#5 is right. The success of this is highly selective and still very random. It relies on mathematical/logical education and experience more than group size, which is just a moderating or refining factor. The task also has to be a very basic one, scaled up for effect. It is however much more likely to be right than any random individual guess. But in 99% of the cases, you would still be much better off asking an expert of that particular field (in this case probably a savant) than asking 99 random people and averaging them. Not only are you more likely to get a good answer that way, it is also MUCH more efficient.

Science and democracy would not exist today if a few people did not decide to resist and fight the wisdom/ignorance of the masses.
Remember that this also works for propaganda, myths and totally incorrect facts, as long as they resonate with either our individual experience, intuition or primal instincts.
That's why modern democracy was "invented" in America and had to spread back to Europe, Asia and Africa, and not the other way around. It is almost impossible for a few wise people with knowledge and a progressive idea to change an opposing system. It had to be a new place and it still took several, brutal wars to succeed. It's also why today, democracy works even better in places that got another "fresh start" after WW2 compared to the now old U.S. system, which has turned into a corporate-ruled democracy play.

Like pretty much everything else, this is a double-edged sword. And it has to in order to be even remotely scientific.

The "Russian Roads" of amusement parks... good old days before lawyers took over the U.S.

Sadly people will always (eventually) choose safety and routine over liberty and adventure. But then again, a lot of people - especially kids - are dangerous morons with no sense of responsibility for the safety of others. So this was inevitable to become a thing of the past.

#2 That's because we're talking about the additive color system where red and green also produce yellow and not one mixed with the other.

In the subtractive (paint) system, you get pink by mixing red with a little bit of blue. Too much and you end up with violet. I guess you can compensate for that with a little yellow to brighten the final color.

In the additive (light) system, you can mix them equally and get a perfect pink.

#6 Looking at the speed of the cloud spread, I'm guessing a week or two. You can also see the cloud source die off 3/4 into the video. That should be when most of the fire was contained and radioactive dust was no longer emitted way up into the atmosphere at extremely high rates. But a little more information about the video would indeed be helpful.

Asthma is more likely a result of the insane pollution levels until the early 90s. Health effects of radiation and radioactive poisoning mostly show up in higher cancer rates, birth defects and other illnesses related to cell mutation.

7:00 was beautiful

#2 more like all the folks who lost their license driving like assholes

Right next to a public road... idiots

He sounds like a smarter Regis Philbin

Halloween LEDetris

I was waiting for the mandatory landing slow-mo that never came. So #1 is probably right.

#1 This one?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu4iQuSb0Ig (at 4:28)

In my opinion one of the most beautiful/artistic and most powerful songs ever written - and 99% of the population has probably never heard of it, let alone understands why it is so popular among good musicians.
I first heard it when I was about 15... it took me 10 years to fully appreciate the complexity.
If you're interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS7CZIJVxFY

Playing just the rhythm or melody of this song without screwing up at some point is hard enough... doing all of it at one: Absolutely unreal!

0:49 was also the speech given by the director at the production wrap

I was expecting a reverse bump at the end.. oh well, no icing on this cake

Even after more than 2 years, it is still close to impossible to process how gigantic that tsunami was...

Don't let your kids play with a toy like that or someone will lose a leg eventually.

I remember having toy cars like that... totally forgot that there is paint that can do this. Awesome effect!

So evil, but so entertaining to watch

This sounds better than the original.

WTF count in this video is over 9000

Eventually, the GoPro slogan is going to get a lot of people killed.

Should be "Don't be a hero - unless you know what you're doing."

"No electricity was used in the making of this chair."

So heat is basically the white noise of mass. Good stuff.

#3 nailed it

... or as the rest of the world knows it: The dictator's choice.

That look hahahahaha

"Oh no.... the humans brought a cat"

That's it, I never have to take any drugs - I've seen it all

Achievement unlocked: Get the internet on your side

Sounds about right for one leg.

Singapore is one of the most interesting advanced industry places of this time we live in. I'm too scared to go though because everyone (including the police) tells me I look like a stoner and drugs will get you the death penalty over there.

This might just be the most awesome GoPro footage ever.

less than half a minute of entertainment followed/preceded by 93 minutes of boredom and diving - soccer in a nutshell

8:10 just horribly tragic, but I was on the floor laughing

This is the definition of a good parody.

#9 Exactly, this is a dynamic version of it and on a completely different level of complexity

Somehow the most amazing part to me was the wireframe models in the end.. like a virtual xray. And I know it was probably the easiest to do.

I'm guessing the "Brute Force" method was not an option with a mechanical system like this... unless you actually break it with a hammer

Answer: One day on Russian roads

If my cat was the size of a large dog, it would have killed me by mistake a thousand times. They're not that smart... I have the scars to prove it.

#5 I hope you don't drive or cross the street every once in a while - or even just step outside the front door. At least the chances of being taken out by a drunk driver with a revoked license and no insurance are zero in the air.
Statistically, flying is and will probably always be safer than staying or traveling on earth.

Who advertises swimming pool gadgets with 12 year-old kids and middle-aged out of shape white dudes?

This is begging for a climbing challenge promo with lots of hot bikini chicks...

#6 The problem with industry tools like you is, that you pretend that these "safe" methods last forever and that continuing scientific studies don't matter, once something is deemed "safe" after intense lobbying efforts. The reality is, in the long term, the danger to the environment is much higher than any other energy source. Even nuclear power is more controllable, because plants can be maintained and improved through technological progress and the energy return rate is MUCH higher. I'm not a fan of nuclear energy, but considering climate change, it's the lesser of the evils. Fracking is even worse than coal. Nobody can fix the damage caused by hundreds if not thousands of deep underground chemical leaks. Some of the casings are failing already, even though they are supposed to last at least many decades. And even if they do, what happens then? At least stored nuclear waste can be relocated and reprocessed.
The fact that U.S. oil giants managed to even get their fangs on environmentally aware nations in Europe is not a pro argument. People here in Germany have been intentionally kept in the dark and there is no legal way to fight back, because almost everything is kept secret in terms of the health risks, ecological risks, etc. so there is no case to be made until the first disasters start unfolding and the chemicals start showing up in places they don't belong.

#2 They look like they are about 15-18 and 22-26. So I doubt they are father and son.

#3 His logic is just fine. He said up to 32 tons and that would be considered "far more". Having a hook rated for 3 times the weight you are holding seems about right for video production safety standards.

I remember those from Red Alert 2... scary

You must be a genius #1. It's still an honest moment even if it was all set up from the beginning. Don't tell me you wouldn't do it...

To be honest, while I don't agree with it, I do understand serious charges against people doing this kind of thing because it is hard to determine what the person's intentions are going in or up there and the company or city in charge is liable for anything going wrong as a result of an unauthorized person having access. You should have to and be able to get a permit though, to go in and up there safely but at your own risk as a journalist/documentarian.

Loving the muted/touch harmonics he worked in there, sounds beautiful! And this is coming from someone who isn't exactly a fan of Adele's original music.

Sounds just like the little guy from Iceage

We all know what's on the screen at the end... fap fap fap

#4 That was the point of this speech. It is supposed to make you think for yourself. TED is sometimes overdoing it in that regard, but here it actually makes sense. Being aware of our psychological and observational weaknesses is essential to avoid being exploited by someone, for example in a position of power.
Women should be especially aware of this, because there is so much esoteric bullshit and emotional heroin out there, that is specifically aimed at them to fall for. At the same time, women can also use this advanced knowledge to even the imbalance of power between sexes.

#7 Of course they all got in trouble towards the end of the war and had to recover slowly in a global market economy. That's what war does. It eventually drains resources, unless you are the winning party. The point is, at the time, pretty much all German car makers were part of the military industrial complex of the 3rd Reich, and in some cases even exploited slave labor, i.e. people who were bussed in from concentration camps, or eventually going there. I guess you would be surprised, how much evidence was destroyed after the war - I am not. It's the economic version of telling (yourself) pretty little lies, so you can't be held responsible (justly or unjustly) for obvious wrongdoing in the past. Companies do it, individuals do it. It is wishful thinking though, just like your VW Beetle production facts.

Since you already mentioned BMW as an example:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2042405/Family-dynasty-BMW-admits-using-50-000-slave-labourers-Nazi-era.html

"The dynasty behind the BMW luxury car marker has admitted, after decades of silence, using slave labour, taking over Jewish firms and doing business with the highest echelons of the Nazi party during World War Two."

I highly doubt they were the only ones. Why? Even in my family (very left leaning and anti-authoritarian), the records and stories of that time have holes and room for interpretation - despite being from Northern Germany, where people were much more liberal and more likely to oppose Hitler and the war. That doesn't mean nobody looked the other way when these things were happening in the background.
All I'm saying is, the line between guilty/complicit and innocent is often conveniently placed exactly where it needs to be in order to avoid dealing with history.

And now, let's return to watching cat videos, as the internet requires us to do.

I think I've watched enough Penn & Teller to pretty much know how most of them work... except for that last one. That was impressive! There are so many ways to possibly reverse engineer the sequence of actions and the setup while it could also be based purely on chance and psychology - which would be my guess.

But something tells me there are more layers to it - for example: Remember how it had to be a male victim? Does anyone know if that's the key or at least a factor? Or may be part of a backup plan, or a way out in case the trick doesn't go the usual / most likely route? Or is that just a practical way of avoiding unnecessary hysteria?

If you do know, please don't reveal the complete solution yet. I wanna see a few more people approach it their way.

Pause at 0:53 at the exact moment of the crash if you need the message to hit you over the head. Amazingly well done spoof, looks just like a real commercial.
Love how the kid has the shape of a swastika after being run over.

I wish German car makers actually had the balls to do a spot like this. Sadly, they all pretty much profited from that era and now have to pretend nothing happened 70-80 years ago.

Crow is like: Hey idiots stop fighting! I need you to hunt some mice that you never finish eating...

Holy shit... Neo would be proud

I feel like this has been posted here before... or is this a new one?

One word: Moderation.

The Nobelprize/tombstone line was great. It perfectly relates to what we desperately need in every dimension to fuel our drive for progress and evolution - resistance.
Because it's what we have to create artificially when we live in unnatural conditions like space, and without it, we collapse in every imaginable context, not just our bodies. It also explains why so many great inventors and pioneers come from humble backgrounds and often manage to overcome even the most bleak prospects.

#1 until in 10 years we will probably have studies showing how nano particles are dangerous when ingested by infants and toddlers - or something like that

Nano technology is great and important, but lessons learned from asbestos and lead paint...

Is that a turbo diesel engine? It sounds different from what I expected.

Look, it's Enrico Palazzo in 3D!!!

#3 You know some people actually like multiple things that are different... I know, it's a crazy world we live in

I spottet her immediately, but only because the title said it was going to happen. I thought I heard "help" earlier in the video but couldn't find anything. Being a lifeguard has to be insanely stressful... I couldn't do that for more than 5 minutes.

And who lets their kid go in a wave pool without being able to swim? I was afraid of those even when I already knew how to swim and dive.

Anyone else tired of these LOOK WE'RE SUPER AWESOME compilations featuring a shitload of "got it on the 1563th try" tricks that involve no real talent except repeating the same damn thing over and over, often for several hours?
What fun is a hole-in-one when all you do all day is the first shot until you get one? The only reason these things were fun in the first place, is because they were rare. Thanks to now unlimited recording time, they will never be rare again.

.. or least manliest if you sit just a tiny bit too close

I love that they just now took the very first progressive step: Gender equality

2:10 was my favorite

Thought he was going to hit the wall...

Is it 4th of July in Japan?

Fireworks level: Asian

At 3:18 you can see one of the gas cylinder tanks going airborne to the right of the fire.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you start a wildfire.

Hands down best cat video ever!

Watched the whole thing. Entertaining - but still don't give a shit about golf.

The car the XJ 220 wanted to be.

I'm surprised nobody noticed the Mercedes got hit during the parking job...

Still, one of the best commercials ever in terms of a spot-on message.

Funny, the time I started being more dog was when I stopped using O2.

#4 That would miss the point though. If you consider bringing a piece of wood to the bar in this scenario, the last thing you're worried about is social stigma.

In that case, for all I care you might as well bring your own glass - or even better, bring your own beer.

Who wants to bet that people will start bringing a backup phone to cheat with on the bathroom if this turns into a bar standard... guaranteed

The Russians certainly don't lack creativity.

Not as good as the squirrel swing that tips over whenever it gets close to the goodies, but still funny.

Beautiful - but now my ears hurt.

Clever and simple concept: Investor sets up billboards, rents out the advertising space to clients, people get free water, advertisers reach a guaranteed audience, people don't have to waste time/money finding drinking water, hence they are more likely to be able to afford the advertized products/services.
Everybody wins.

I wonder if they are efficient enough to remain profitable with rising energy costs or if they could be powered by local solar alone.

Let's face it, the universe is so much more awesome than anything anyone could have ever imagined and put in a religious book.

At those heights, opening your chute just half a second too late can make the difference between life and death - or at least life and life in a wheel chair.
You need to have time to react if the main chute fails and deploy the backup.

He's just looking for chicks.

She is going to get killed by a bear eventually, just like this other dude was killed by a crocodile or alligator (can't remember exactly).

Not really a helpful video, because who wants to go to bed at 10 on the weekends. That is more depressing than having a bad night a few times a week. Setting your alarm is mostly a gamble. Our biological clock is not nearly as predictable as we wish it was.

I'm pretty sure that dyno is destroyed. No need to be a rocket scientist to recognize that.

That was very impressive and all, but equally predictable. None of this could not have been done with a lighter or a magnifying glass.
Put a big block of lead or wax in front of it, so the laser has some progressive work to do that nothing else could do in that way - be creative.

After seeing how much they care about fertilizer plant and bridge safety in Texas, I'm sure the authorities do an equally fine job enforcing safety regulation in amusement parks.

Well, at least he got the dishes done.

Only in ancient Texas would there even be a railroad bridge made out of wood at this point in time.

Get ready for a copyright lawsuit... courtesy of the scumbags at the Formula One association.

The symbolism of internet servers taking over a church - so awesome.

White hippie girl actress trying to dance along is the best part of this video. Alfonso Ribeiro a close second. Will Smith - bro, you lost me.

I wonder if speed wobbles would be audible at that kind of speed. Usually they are lower than the lowest frequency the human ear can detect as sound.

Then again, gyroscopic forces are probably so strong at that point, that the wheels stabilize themselves the more speed they pick up - until they reach their structural limits and blow up.

Exactly, a sphere is the easiest geometric shape to sustain and work with, because of the fact that it is self-stabilizing. Planets are good examples for that. Even though they are made of all kinds of different solids and fluids as well as gases, they are still very close to a perfect mathematical sphere. They are also easier to measure, because you can just spin a sphere and look for relative differences with a single laser reflection setup.

If you wanted to grind a perfect cube, you would have to get it down to a single atom edge, which is virtually impossible because of how fragile the material woud be at that point.

This is a pretty awesome thing to happen in our lifetime. I remember wondering in school years ago, why they haven't found a better way to define a kilogram yet. The idea of basically a block of material in a room seemed very outdated to me, even at the time when I barely knew anything about physics.
We need to bury one of those things in a nuclear bunker for future generations of intelligence to find, before we blow ourselves up over religion and resources, destroying all written and digital records in the process.

#1 probably silicon or carbon
I would put my money on silicon, if I had to... I believe that's what scientists are using right now to create an "absolute kilogram" ball, down to the last single atom.

Edit: Nevermind, should have read the other comments since #4 has the answer.

People who say this was caused by braking don't know anything about traction, steering and motorized vehicle dynamics in general. You should not own a license and drive a car if you think this was brake related. Or at the very least you should not drive faster than 30 unless the streets are dry. Your car can kill people, so just like gun safety, you need to know how to handle it right.

Braking would have caused relatively harmless understeer, which is why the cars in front of him did not spin out despite braking (they probably had better tires as well). Almost all non-racing vehicles have stronger front brakes or an ESP/ESC system with a front brake bias and ABS in order to prevent this from happening everytime you brake in a corner.

This is a textbook example of lift-off oversteer, going too fast in the rain and hydroplaning. The idiot was lucky he walked away from it.

Actually, both #3 and #4 are right. The shape of the pattern is caused by the hose vibrating and the visual effect itself is caused by the framerate being (close to, or a multiple of, or a fraction of) the framerate of the recorded video.

So, is there going to be a bitcoin rush with countries adapting it as their standard until some day, another great depression will hit and nations will get off the bitcoin standard back to a fiat currency to stimulate economic recovery?

They should do this for real and have them describe themselves to a super attractive blind woman, while the artist just draws what they describe.

Looks like the opening of a giant sinkhole. If I saw that, I would get the hell away from there as quickly as possible. With all that water rushing down there, there certainly was a chance of a large surface area collapsing at some point.

Even hit the left goal post a second time after having bounced off once in every single direction already! That's just hilarious..

Now I'm hungry.. off to McDonalds!

Tomb Raider, MGS and Portal were funny. Quality over quantitties.

I was expecting the number of a suicide line to pop up when he headed for the roof.

the bukkake of dog videos

It sounds like someone making weird noises in a large, empty tank. Sometimes these things are caused by underground movement of the earth, resuling in noises coming from cavities in the ground, which resonate at certain frequencies.

This does not suprise me seeing how "regular" Russians drive.

#2 It is probably a special disintegrating round as it seems a little hard to predict where that round might end up hitting the ground.

Looks like they could use a rake instead of a fishing rod right now.


Remember kids, always bring some extra tools. You never know what you might need out in the woods - or rather on the ice.

Looks like at around 0:41 unexpected wind caught the right/upper wing of the plane from behind/below.
No pilot in their right mind would intentionally bank past 90 degrees during a maneuver like that. I still think the pilot is to blame though. You just can't risk doing such an intense maneuver at that kind of angle, with that kind of load, in an aircraft the size of multiple houses.
But then again, the whole thing might have been caused by engine failure in the first place and the pilot may have done nothing wrong.

Yep, that explains why it is mandatory now. I believe it had been done with this kind of live footage even before that incident though.
It doesn't seem to be 100% mandatory everywhere either, because we still get the occasional cursing slip-up on morning TV for example (Tom Hanks was the latest one I remember).

#6 Unlikely that his boss even noticed considering he was looking down the barrel of a loaded AK-47.. not a particularly good time to stand up and yell at your employee haha

Nicely caught though.

#3 I doubt that would be safe enough. The entire bottom of the windshield fell off after 3 bullets and it was obviously no accident that none of the bullets hit the glass at the same spot

#12 That would be called an optical illusion. Because the camera stays pointed at the truck, which is coming to a standstill, and the car keeps moving at the exact same slow speed, it looks like it is accelerating even when it isn't. Compare its speed relative to the background - it only changes a tiny bit because the angle of the camera increases relative to the test track (cars in the distance look slower). There is no physical contact either, because you would hear a very recognizable plastic-crunching noise.

#6 Actually doesn't have anything to do with lag, although that adds a little to it. Most of it is just a calculated delay in case something horribly graphic happens. The director/producer/host needs a few seconds to respond and tell the engineer to get off the live feed (Remember the famous "GET OFF GET OFF GETOFF IT GET OFF IT! GET OFF IT!!!!" video, where that exact worst case scenario happened and somebody screwed up)

#5 You can see the car driving towards the upper right corner of the screen in the end of the video when he pans back to the TV. It was driving towards the upper left corner before, so it matches the right-hand turn we see happen outside.

How about showing the most interesting part? Like say right between 1:03 and 1:04?
Instead, the video fades out immediately right after things start happening, multiple times... director/producer/editor fail.

#5 These guys leave after like 10 minutes at the very most. They wanna entertain, not annoy people. Only when people enjoy your act, you start making a little money as a street artist.

2:50 made me laugh so hard, I would have made it there from the other side of the train, just to give this guy a high-five - and a twenty.
Newyorkers are so jaded.. I have paid for stand-up comedians much worse than that.

seems fake, but still fun to watch

Full video for those interested:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EHEoc2QsvM

Years and years of practice... and still managed to fail at creating a viral video. Damn you, professionals.

May have just prevented a wildfire, good job.

At first my fake radar went off as well, but it could actually be false alarm.

Could be the oil, but I'd expect darker blueish smoke as well. May be these things run on alcohol and this is how it looks if it makes its way through the exhaust without being fully combusted?
Either way, it looks damn awesome.

Sidewalks must be allergic to umbrellas. From under ground or above ground - either way, you are going down.

That is one well-behaved dog. Reminds me of my childhood, except dogs scared the living crap out of me and I ended up with a little more than just wet boots.

All I can take away from this is that I watched way too much Penn & Teller for my own good and now I am unable to enjoy 90% of magic tricks.

I am intrigued yet hesitant to try this on a 2L Coke since I don't have a can around.

I love that he stops every couple of seconds to tilt his head so he can analyze where he is going. Must be weird to have eyes on the side of your head instead of being able to just look straight forward.

Am I the only one here who's getting tired of drive-through songs?

#1 & #2 You need to learn a little something about Jimmy Kimmel and his relationships with his co-workers. He is one of the nicest human beings in showbiz. So #4 is right. They do pranks and pointless stuff like this ALL THE TIME and often he himself is the victim.
But I agree, this is not their finest piece of work.

Damn religious nutjobs... can't they stick to lighting themselves on fire and leaving others alone?

Well, I guess now we know how men wearing make-up settle their arguments.

Would be a great commercial for Djihadists as well. These are the same kind of nutjobs who sacrifice their sons and daughters for any holy cause, which is often just some fantasy that some idiots made up hundreds of years ago. The people who don't give a shit today, most likely won't give a shit tomorrow and the junkies will most likely still be junkies later. That doesn't mean they don't deserve help, but it should set obvious priorities and there is something seriously wrong with you if you put strangers lives above the life of your own offspring. How could you even be happy for a second that someone else's life benefited from you actively killing your own son, who had no choice at all and was simply born to a father with a hero complex. How is this even up for discussion? I'm confused.
This would be a real dilemma the other way around: Lots of people under the bridge and his family on the train. Would you choose to kill innocent strangers to save your family, not by mere inaction, but by pulling a lever? That would be much more interesting, because I would bet many people would still choose their family, even if they had forever to think about it.

#9 or iDiots

You could not have staged it any better.

holy shit balls, we gonna die

female voice in the car... of cooooourse

#2 more like on the wrong side of the sky... holy fuck I didn't expect this to be real

Imagine if there had been more unstable bombs in that area that were still undiscovered. That shock wave could have easily set them off as well...

#8 You should look closer and think for a second.
This is an old and extremely light-weight Fiat Panda/Uno, probably around 700kg empty + 100kg driver/fuel, engine in the front, almost no weight in the back.
The front left wheel never actually leaves the ground (just one person there) and when visible, the front right wheel seems to be in contact with the road as well (despite being lifted by four men there). The entire car is slightly tilted to the front left (away from the camera) and as a result at least 50% of the weight was probably still on that front left wheel. And 400kg is definitely possible for a group of 8 men.

So the video itself seems to be real to me, but the event is most likely staged - meaning the person in the car is one of them.. or they got lucky that the person was too confused to step on the brake.

American cartoons from the 1930s, 40s, 50s and 60s are just the best. They were constantly on TV here in Germany up until the late 90s, so I grew up with them and I still enjoy watching them more than any modern animation out there.

Family Guy, The Simpsons & South Park are all great but never give me anything like the warm feeling I get when watching these kinds of old cartoons. And even today, they are still pretty funny and all those hand made sound effects are just perfect.

Put on shiny sunglasses, tight shirt and tight jeans - check, check, check.
Grease up your hair - check.
Have the build of typical club douchebag - check.
Put on fake semi-arrogant but cute smile - check.
Get hot girls to believe you're important or rich - CHECK, CHECK, CHECK, CHECK, CHECK, CHECK, CHECK, CHECK, CHECK, CHECK, CHECK...

And men are superficial?

This guy is a hero. Actually doing what probably everyone of us thought about doing at some point.. genius!

I wonder if this would work in Hollywood.
They might think he's from Jersey Shore or something, but it would probably be harder to pull off. They should try it with him leaving the Jimmy Kimmel Live studio.

That ending was... underwhelming, I guess?

According to Malcolm Gladwell's 10,000-hour-theory a normal kid his age must have played an average of about 7 hours per day after his first birthday (10,000 hrs / 4 yrs = 6.85 hrs / day).
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and suggest that this kid probably not in the genetic "normal" spectrum

I hate when they pretend this is the first time a musician has ever made a funny song like this. It was okay, but absolutely not that special. If she has success with this, good for her, but it certainly doesn't deserve this kind of a freak out reaction from the crowd and/or judges. It just shows how degenerated and dull our mainstream entertainment industry and their target audience has become and I realize once again why I never bother to watch these kinds of shows. You just have to look at the people in the audience and suddenly you feel like the most sophisticated person on the planet.
There are many people out there, who are MUCH better at this. Jon Lajoie is one of them for example. In fact, he might be the uncrowned king of satirical/comedic music - at least for our generation.

He should have just taken the keys out of the ignition and lock the car, then record their reaction with his iPhone or something
But still ballsy and smart decision!

This describes perfectly why I have been thinking what I have been thinking basically all my life and I always wondered why people refused to see it that way, especially smart people in the creative business, even artists themselves. Finally, everyone can see, there is scientific reasoning behind it and it makes perfect sense.

Btw. I wonder if the author of this film would sue if everybody just started posting this brilliant piece of analysis on their own YouTube channels for their own profit, even though it would also greatly benefit the public by becoming that much more popular

that is one sharp ass knife.. and whats up with the creepy looking dude at the end?

add that to the list of things the world would not miss if it was banned tomorrow

#3 lightnings are just short power spikes that over time only generate very little usable energy. even if we were able to convert them at near 100% efficiency, which in itself is almost impossible, they would still not make up a significant share in the power grid because they are so relatively rare and unpredictable.

Look, no hands!

#3 You obviously misinterpreted what I meant by "on paper" which I didn't accidentally put in quotes. Same DNA means same blueprint, hence they are in many respects the same person, just like an artificial clone would be, only made of logically different molecules of the same kind in almost the exact same order (mutation can still plays a role). Do you get my point now? If not, tell me: Where is the difference between splitting a fertilized egg with the same DNA in two and splitting the brain in two (except for the fact that the two hemispheres don't have the exact same functions)? Exactly, there is none for this matter. We are as we think. If two parts of your DNA can think without a physical connection, you are no longer one person, but two persons with a consciousness each. That is essentially what twins are, except they both have a complete brain of the same kind and that explains why they are closer with each other than normal siblings. So, separating a working brain is basically the same thing as splitting the rain worm, only they don't have a consciousness. I hope I made my point more clear now.

#3 I think this is a good thing, because people are more aware of how much taxes they actually pay in everyday life. Sales tax is a tax that affects the poor the most since a great share of their income is spent on groceries and household goods rather than capital investment, so you are more likely to be aware of the taxes you pay, much like you are more aware of your income/payroll taxes due to the fact that you have to file your returns rather than have the government take it away automatically without you even noticing.

This is why so many internet/telephone consumer scams are based on subscriptions, because people are less likely to notice and do something about it. In the U.S. people would go nuts if they realized they are paying 19% sales tax. Here in Germany, there was a little bit of a discussion in the beginning when it increased from 16% to 19%, now everyone just goes along with it. Nobody ever says "wait a minute, that is a shitload of money and it is mostly coming from the lower and middle class". Nobody ever looks at the receipt.

Interesting questions and the behavior and feelings of identical twins do somewhat answer them. They both have a separate consciousness even though they are the same person "on paper" and whatever differences they show are the results of the environment they grew up in. The stories of identical twins separated at birth are always amazing to me and show how much of us is genetically defined and how little we can actually choose to change about ourselves.

This is exactly why at some point in the night, I stop thinking about the universe and physics, put on some porn, beat off, go to bed and enjoy the next day without even thinking about it for one more second - until I get bored again. Knowledge and the desire for knowledge can become an addiction dragging you down while, to a certain degree, ignorance makes life a shitload of a lot easier. I wish my parents had made me realize that earlier in life, so I would be able to embraced it more often instead of starting to think in these dimensions at the age of 8 or less.

They were better on MadTV. Key's "ho nutha lebou"-guy and the coach were my favorite.

Viral commercial... completely fake, unfortunately. All you have to do, is look for excessive zooming at key transitions between wide and close-up shots or during angle changes. You have to do better than that these days, Samsung.
Besides, the motions look way too human and if that was a real elephant trunk, the screen would be full of dirt and smudge.

Holy shit.. this is like walking around with a machine gun, firing in all directions. At some point, someone is going to get killed. People like her need to be locked away for a long time. If I had kids, I would say forever - or give her a choice to kill herself to save us tax money.
So tired of our society being so ridiculously tolerant towards extreme cases like this while you're being locked away in a second if you get caught with a little bit of weed.

With that music playing, the enemy will surrender or kill himself before the battle even begins. Of course it's in eastern Europe.

What do we learn from this? You can't really blame the U.S. for depending so much on warfare as a driver of the economy as the shit the rest of the world (especially us Germans) had been doing wasn't exactly minding our own business either...

We have to realize: Law based on personal liberty and rights, justice and due process are fragile and historically young ideas. They can be destroyed by foreign power just as quickly as they can be taken away from powers within. Never give up freedom for security as you will end up losing both. This applies to the internet just as much as it applies to the rest of society. Give us freedom and you will get the best of us. Take it away and you will get the worst of us. Unfortunately, the best of us have not been very politically active over the last few decades. Fortunately, that seems to be changing many places around the world.

Wait, I didn't quite get that.. which kind of shit was that again?

0:57 was hilarious.. like out of a Pixar movie

Russia - making the rest of the world seem infinitely smarter since 1989. It's probably the only place in the world where insurance companies are not profitable... haha

I wonder how enormous the flywheel must be in that thing..

Listening to this is so painfully embarrassing.. "Monitored by human ice" - Really?
Yep, those are my fellow countrymen.. after almost 70 years, still unable to pronounce the English language. Germany: Awesome at engineering and brewing, a joke at everything else.
Fortunately, cars and technology as well as beer can be imported, so.. time to get the hell out of here!

Can you imagine talking about LULZ and OVER 9000 when we are 80? How ridiculous is that..

Louis C.K. is such an underrated comedian.

The Westboro Baptist Church is FUCKING HILARIOUS! I LOVE THESE GUYS HAHAHAHAHA. GOD BLESS AMERICA FOR FREEDOM OF SPEECH SO WE CAN LAUGH OUR ASSES OFF.

a little off key, but sick nevertheless

"You wanna text but you keep getting green lights" was funny but most of them were not that creative or entertaining.
My all time No. 1 first world problem is "Obesity". Always pisses me off when people complain about how hard it is to lose weight when it is the logical opposite of hard, since all you have to do is literally NOTHING. Just eat nothing every second time you feel like eating and eat less in general. Problem solved.

Am I the only one who was expecting the false assumption to be free will?

May be that's already considered a given in brain science, but to me it seems much more important for a brain theory than the whole memory/prediction thing, which I always thought was totally obvious, since I learned very early, that what made us intelligent, is the prediction of events, rather than complex behavior itself, and I never thought that would be a groundbreaking idea. A key moment for that realization was when I was observing the behavior of my cat and I noticed his inability to sense "modern" danger, unless it directly stimulates one of the environmental senses (touch, noise, visuals). For example, one day when our heavy but very quiet front door was shutting, it caught one of his paws and he was screaming like hell, yet he still didn't care the next time you opened it for him, meaning you had to hold it open in order to avoid it catching him again. It would be like a baby reaching for the hotplate and getting burned over and over again.

So, our ability to learn and adjust behavior based on experience and expectation seems very clear to me. But the part where we have to recognize that from a scientific standpoint, there cannot be such a thing as free will, that is where we run into trouble socially as well as philosophically which then leads to us having to question our own scientific abilities in the first place, if there really is no such thing as free will.
May be I am completely off here, but to me, this is what seems to be the real problem for a brain theory.

Pretty good parody, it's just been done too many times.

I liked the idea behind this, but the way it was presented, it sends the wrong message: EA doesn't care about how this game might affect kids who should not play it. Or may be that is actually the right message and we all just need to stop buying EA's games. I'm with The Escapist magazine. This game is for adults and should not be marketed as childish rebellion.

0:52 Did he seriously get an actual burp in there? Insane!

Wow, this video is almost antique. I remember downloading this video at a time when people were still using KaZaA to share videos (long before Youtube).

It's the same thing that happens when you spin a coin on a glass/mirror surface, just slower due to the larger mass and size of the disk.

Happy Forestfires!

#17 I appreciate this open discussion, but you should see the some of the second/third/junior league (or tier? not sure about that one) stuff going on here (I assume you're not living in Germany). You will understand why one can get the impression, that the people I described are in fact the majority even though they are probably not if you look at the bigger picture. Either way, it's more than enough for me to dislike the whole cultural event of football/soccer over here (especially annoying during the world cup) and the sport itself is not interesting enough to make up for it. It has not evolved at all, you see more and more pathetic dives resulting in undeserved penalties (which is essentially enabling cheating) while extremely bad game-making fouls can easily go unnoticed so that important moments/decisions can be ruined by unnecessary human error while video replays will just not be allowed. I don't know.. it's just lost on me.

#18 No doubt about that. But even they get old very quickly from an entertainment standpoint. I mean you can only shoot through a bunch of people into the same goal so many times. It's the actions leading up to it that are most rewarding and they are rarely that mindblowing/creative or at least the number of key moments compared to the lenght of a game is not very high.
There are some exceptions and funny moments but nowhere near enough.

#14 That's actually a better point than you might have realized or intended it to be.
In one way or another, every person is responsible for their position in life, we have to be, how ever unfortunate it may be. We base our whole society and judicial system on that, so the act of interfering in either one of the examples has to be morally wrong, as long as harm to a previously uninvolved person is the imminent result of your action. It sucks, but it has to be that way.

Moral dilemmas always lose my interest when I hear the line "if all you really care about is.."
People can't just only care about one issue isolated from everything else, we always look at the entire picture, personal consequences and we have emotions.

If the position of the leaver is in fact random and the single worker does not believe he is completely safe from traffic because of its position, then every single worker on any track is completely equal and the first example is the right choice. If not, I would not do it in the first example either.
As soon as one of the persons involved has a different status of exposure, everything changes, so in the second one it is obviously the wrong choice to push the afraid bystanding man. So, it is not really a dilemma if you look at the big picture. It becomes obvious when you replace the fat guy example with pulling the same leaver to an unfinished track that ends in front of a house with an innocent person living in it. Would you do it there? No, because the workers accept a certain risk at their workplace and have to look out for themselves for some degree, while the person living in the house would essentially be manslaughtered as a result of your action. 4 lives would saved in the process, but that does not make it right.

Also, for all of that to be even relevant, you would have to know the absolute worth of each one of the persons, because what if the fat guy was a child molester and so on and so forth. It's just a pointless messing around with our mind. Good judgement can never be reduced to a perfect decision based on complete knowledge, that nobody has anyway.

Fake or not, that was hilarious.

Seriously, did anyone think this was real? Stop acting like you were the smartest kids in the world for being the first one to call "fake".

Honestly, I don't get what everyone thinks is so great about this. If you want to go somewhere around the corner, you can walk. If you want to be there a little faster or need to go a little further, get a bicycle. If you still need to go faster or much further, take the car or motorcycle. What else do we need? Are we really this lazy and out of shape, that we need something to drive EVERYWHERE by motor, even INTO another form of transportation (the elevator)..?
Sure, it is probably fun to drive like a quad or a segway (or whatever that thing was called), but it is certainly not this huge transportation breakthrough. And I'm sorry, not in a million years will it look cool. It has always and most likely will always look like an over-sized toy, because (apart from perhaps a few exceptions and the funfactor) it is effectively useless.

I have never understood this argument ever. People here in Germany got so upset over that Black Ops map which takes place at the Checkpoint Charlie, because it's been the scene of so much tragedy. Seriously? Has there ever been a war without tragedy? It's so ridiculous.

But I guess it's some kind of "too soon" of games instead of comedy, which nobody can figure out.

Sounds like they are drawing on a mouse's ass. Great idea though, modulating the pitch with electrical resistance. Where were toys like that when I was in school?

It's funny, I have a similar dent in the wheel arch edge of my front left fender (thanks to some hit-and-run asshole and insurance is not paying) and this is exactly what I had in mind to try and fix it.

What do you guys think, should I give it a shot and record it as well?

I am a bit worried though that the paint will come off, because there is a slight scratch in the top coating and the rapid cooling process certainly doesn't benefit the resilience.

She was mad at him for earning all the money to pay for the stuff and the house?

#19 is right. Apart from the pronunciation/spelling inaccuracies, English is relatively easy to learn and understand, which is why I find it easier to write in English than in German. But this guy still has a point and it was presented in a great way. I enjoyed it to the very end.

Funny, but the end should've been: He stops perfectly in front of the house and as he exits the car, gets hit by a lightning.

#9 or may be you just never had sex in a car like the the person who made this commercial. But I have to agree, that the prints don't look like a comfortable or even possible position.

So.... sweet...must lick... if I could just ... GET A HOLD OF ONE GOD DAMMIT

I guess what we learn from this is: Don't buy a used Volkswagen because no matter how innocent the previous owner looks, it probably suffered a lot.

Of course you had to ruin a perfectly fine video with some retarded techno music.

What the hell is going on? Do we really need something like this for entertainment?

The fine line between genius and crazy has just been crossed. This is seriously insane.

World of what?

It's funny when you play the Red Alert music to it, but it's just sad when you realize this is real in our time. The guy is clearly delusional if he really thinks that this is going to impress the world. A few precise strikes from the US, Europe, Russia and their allies and this army of marching puppets will be nothing but a headless chicken. I think he's just showing off to keep his regime alive and stay in control of his own population.
But I hope they get their shit together and start a revolution over there before someone gets the wrong idea and starts a war over some stupid tree on a border or something.

Not even slightly similar. If you accuse someone of stealing, at least go for something that has the same harmonies or sequences.
Pretty sad that this actually made it to the front page.

".. it's hard not to.."

Yeah, you have to be one amazing genius to come up with the idea of wearing gloves, haha.

The worst thing is when you are in one of these and you see someone else struggling with the same situation. Then you start building up each other as well and it almost becomes impossible to stop.

#8 Actually you do, tard. The fluid commonly used for firebreathing is non-flammable until it's sprayed. You don't use easily flammable fluids because this is what happens.

The one thing that bureaucracy does extraordinary well: Displaying its own incapacity and stupidity.

When I read the "with good ending", I was expecting it to do the Mr.Bean move: Push one of those three-wheeled things out of its parking spot.

#5 or a realistic scenario: 1 racoon who tears the whole place apart

Funny idea. The slow-motion shot of the cat landing on a glass table was awesome!

What's so hard to understand? A bunch of stupid, probably bored kids think it would be fun to test their anti-lock brakes on a busy intersection for no good reason and record it.

One of the first things I was taught in driving school: Always expect the other drivers to be complete idiots, distracted and/or incapable of controlling their vehicle properly, so do not act unpredictable unless it is absolutely necessary. If it was not in fact an emergency stop, they are obviously both at fault.

All those brain-dead morons are the reason why insurance rates are going through the roof and all the sane, responsible drivers have no choice but to take it or ride the bike/bus.

One of the funniest movies of the decade.

The dancing dog from Letterman!

Never underestimate the power of music. The pen might be more powerful than the sword, but nothing is stronger than what gets us in touch with our true feelings.

We like to see things in black and white, because it makes life easier most of the time. But the truth is, in one way or another we all live in that huge grey area and we could fall off the wagon at any time. It is the ability to realize that and the ability to think about it, which saves us in our darkest moments.

I have the greatest respect for this man. It takes incredible strenght to be able to see a potential friend instead of an enemy, especially in his position. This is how you truly win against hatred: Get these people in touch with their human side and help them escape from their extremist beliefs instead of fueling them with unnecessary wars. The best way to win a war is not starting it and help people get what they need (food, water, medical aid, technology, purpose) instead of what the extremists want (conflict).

Always remember: Wars only work because we are afraid of the unknown and because we forget that every offender could be a victim himself, no matter how hard it is to imagine.

#5 The tree is in the front (you can also see rocks or something if you look closely) and it only seems to be moving with the sky because the camera is also moving slightly as you can see in the following shots.

Turbo Boost!

Wow, these videos are like a videogame come true.. if not more than that. Gotta love how the car gets pulled down right before he takes off and then how he always just barely kisses the walls/cones and instead of braking into a corner, just does a 180 and accelerates in the opposite direction. The almost vertical drifting on the steep turn was my favorite though. So incredibly creative!

Now just fit the camera inside the car body, make the cars drivable on both sides, upgrade the track to a tube and there you are: Rollcage IRL (minus the power-ups of course).

Very funny to watch!
But someone should kick the blonde in the face and tell her SHE has to finish now.
Unbelievable... she could have a serious concussion or even cerebral bleeding or a skull fracture. The fact that she didn't lose consciousness doesn't mean she's okay.

Let's rephrase the old knife-to-gunfight figure of speech: Don't bring a human body to a gunfight. Best idea ever!

Too bad the one on the right is wearing pants...

Looks almost like a reverse nuke. Very cool!

That laugh was the most annoying thing I've heard in days. Good idea, bad realization.

Daddy's home prison

#19 Please don't have kids.

"Is it me or is my hand like burning."

Well guess what, there is probably a reason why this stuff is contained in a stick and not in a bottle or spray can. Phosphor is very aggresive and toxic, especially when mixed with water. I don't want to see this guys hands a few days after.

Lucky guy, but these kind of documentaries/reports are so bad.

"With all the thrashing Jimmy was doing in the water, the shark most likely felt threatened."

Exactly.. when you're a shark with a damn hook stuck in your jaw, the one thing that you really care about is some idiot jerking around in the water above you.

Advertising at its best! Nobody would ever switch to another channel if five minutes of this is what you would be missing.

Listen up commercial producers all over the world: If it's not fun to watch, it's not a good commercial! Just take this as the perfect example of how to do it right.

The last one was golden!

I think this is going way too far with the whole morality issue. Games are for fun and creativity and usually just allow you to do things that you could not do in real life or that would have unwanted consequences or something like that. This idea that games should be more than that seems over the top to me, if you compare that to other problems we have.
Besides, I don't want to live in a society where people use videogames for moral education instead of teaching real first hand social interaction.

Behaving morally wrong in videogames is fun, simply because it is not what you would do in real life and that kind of variety is what makes games like GTA flourish. Nothing wrong with that except that so many people let their kids play these games before they have even developed full moral awareness.
Other than that, there is really no need to create this illusion of moral meaningfulness for every action inside a game. At the end of the day, it's still just a game and that's what it should be.

Haha! But hey, at least he got to sell another one that way.

I'm surprised he is alive to do this. Those people usually die as soon as they get out of the shower one too many times.

Jumping off the ladder would have been harder without the car smashing it away. And what's up with posting 5 year old videos from Break/BigBoys?