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The Greatest Shortcoming of the Human Race

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Posted on 04-12-2014 10:01
Al Bartlett - Arithmetic, Population, and Energy




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Ingeniøren om Storebælts- og Øresundsbro i 1936

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Posted on 03-02-2015 16:16
Ingeniøren om Storebælts- og Øresundsbro i 1936

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RE: Up and Then Down The lives of elevators.

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Posted on 13-02-2015 21:00

Smart elevators are strange elevators, because there is no control panel in the car; the elevator knows where you are going. People tend to find it unnerving to ride in an elevator with no buttons; they feel as if they had been kidnapped by a Bond villain. Helplessness may exacerbate claustrophobia. In the old system—board elevator, press button—you have an illusion of control; elevator manufacturers have sought to trick the passengers into thinking they’re driving the conveyance. In most elevators, at least in any built or installed since the early nineties, the door-close button doesn’t work. It is there mainly to make you think it works. (It does work if, say, a fireman needs to take control. But you need a key, and a fire, to do that.) Once you know this, it can be illuminating to watch people compulsively press the door-close button. That the door eventually closes reinforces their belief in the button’s power. It’s a little like prayer. Elevator design is rooted in deception—to disguise not only the bare fact of the box hanging by ropes but also the tethering of tenants to a system over which they have no command. The biggest drawback of destination dispatch, besides the anxiety of novelty, is that once you are in an elevator you cannot change your mind. To amend your floor choice, you must disembark, and start again. Elevator mind-changing—the sudden lunge for the unlit button—is rare enough; still, the option is nice. Also, when you get used to this system, you get into an elevator with buttons and forget to press one. But sometimes that happens anyway.


Up and Then Down
The lives of elevators.
By Nick Paumgarten




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RE: Hollywood Accounting

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Posted on 01-05-2015 09:41
According to Lucasfilm, Return of the Jedi, despite having earned $475 million at the box office against a budget of $32.5 million, "has never gone into profit".

Art Buchwald received a settlement from Paramount after his lawsuit Buchwald v. Paramount. The court found Paramount's actions "unconscionable", noting that it was impossible to believe that 1988's Eddie Murphy comedy Coming to America, which grossed US$350 million, failed to make a profit, especially since the actual production costs were less than a tenth of that. Paramount settled for $900,000, rather than have its accounting methods closely scrutinized.


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Kubrick // One-Point Perspective

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The Fallen of World War II

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Posted on 01-06-2015 11:08
The Fallen of World War II



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The Umbrella Man

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Posted on 10-06-2015 14:11
The Umbrella Man




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The Varieties of Beer

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Traveltalks Copenhagen 1937

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Posted on 25-01-2016 14:23
Traveltalks Copenhagen 1937




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Rosanna Breakdown

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Posted on 02-03-2016 16:48
Listen to this radio broadcast - where they isolate all tracks from TOTO's Rosanna - as you never heard before!!!

This million-selling Gold-certified hit single "Rosanna" - written by David Paich - was the opening track and the first single from their 1982 album Toto IV. Rosanna won the Record of the Year Grammy Award in the 1983 presentations and was also nominated for the Song of the Year award.
In musician circles, the song is known for its highly influential namesake half-time shuffle, as well as the ending guitar solo played by guitarist Steve Lukather.

The drum pattern is known as a "half-time shuffle", and shows "definite jazz influence". Featuring ghost notes and derived from the combination of what Jeff Porcaro called the "Bernard Purdie half-time shuffle" (Purdie shuffle) as well as the variation thereof John Bonham played on "Fool in the Rain" with the well-known Bo Diddley beat.

Our brother Mike Porcaro appears in this video, as original Toto bass player David Hungate left before the video was made.

MUSICIANS ON THIS TRACK:
David Paich – synthesizer, piano, Hammond, backing vocal, horn arrangements
Steve Lukather – lead and backing vocals, guitar
Bobby Kimball – lead and backing vocals
Jeff Porcaro – drums
Steve Porcaro – synthesizer
David Hungate – bass

Lenny Castro – percussion, conga
Tom Scott – saxophone
Jim Horn – saxophone
Gary Grant – trumpet
Jerry Hey – trumpet and horn arrangements
James Pankow – trombone
Tom Kelly – backing vocal





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RE: Rosanna Breakdown

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Posted on 02-03-2016 17:32


Their Absolutely Live is still the record I use to test speakers, ever since Lennart showed us why Toto was the sound technicians band (by doing a very basic version of this), when we were shopping for a proper PA system back in 1994.


Will be a great day when the hipsters flock to Toto and it fills the airwaves again, I can only hope it will be this generations CCR.


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RE: Interesting stuff

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Posted on 31-03-2016 16:45
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9pgQfOXRsp4UKrI8q0zjXQ

Ein áhugaverd Youtube kanal, har ein fýrur tosar um alt millum himmal og jørð smiley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9QtdiRJYro&list=PL0Y9n5uBJuXxjSe6lJEHRZICCHym3e-aS

Link til Tabletop hjá Will Wheaton, eftir umbøn frá Norlander smiley


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No consequence is so unexpected as to absolve us of our decisions.
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RE: Interesting stuff

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I know a married man and father of two who bought a twenty-one-room motel near Denver many years ago in order to become its resident voyeur. With the assistance of his wife, he cut rectangular holes measuring six by fourteen inches in the ceilings of more than a dozen rooms. Then he covered the openings with louvred aluminum screens that looked like ventilation grilles but were actually observation vents that allowed him, while he knelt in the attic, to see his guests in the rooms below. He watched them for decades, while keeping an exhaustive written record of what he saw and heard. Never once, during all those years, was he caught.

He then described the motel he had owned for more than ten years.

"The reason for purchasing this motel was to satisfy my voyeuristic tendencies and compelling interest in all phases of how people conduct their lives, both socially and sexually. . . . I did this purely out of my unlimited curiosity about people and not as just a deranged voyeur."

He explained that he had “logged an accurate record of the majority of the individuals that I watched”

"...and compiled interesting statistics on each, i.e., what was done; what was said; their individual characteristics; age & body type; part of the country from where they came; and their sexual behavior. These individuals were from every walk of life. The businessman who takes his secretary to a motel during the noon hour, which is generally classified as “hot sheet” trade in the motel business. Married couples traveling from state to state, either on business or vacation. Couples who aren’t married, but live together. Wives who cheat on their husbands and visa versa. Lesbianism, of which I made a particular study. . . . Homosexuality, of which I had little interest, but still watched to determine motivation and procedure. The Seventies, later part, brought another sexual deviation forward, namely, group sex, which I took great interest in watching . . . .

I have seen most human emotions in all their humor and tragedy carried to completion. Sexually, I have witnessed, observed and studied the best first hand, unrehearsed, non-laboratory sex between couples, and most other conceivable sex deviations during these past 15 years.

My main objective in wanting to provide you with this confidential information is the belief that it could be valuable to people in general and sex researchers in particular."

From The New Yorker magazine


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RE: Interesting stuff

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Posted on 07-07-2016 13:10
Talked about this 4½ hour long interview Joe Rogan did with Sam Harris. Interesting for those who like podcasts, and love to hear Sam's point of view on a variety of topics, including vegetarianism, AI, genetic engineering, and Trump... - not recommended to conquer this in one sitting though smiley




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Posted on 09-07-2016 09:41
A billion degrees of separation



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Posted on 18-08-2016 19:16
Dr. Rhonda Patrick (biomedical science and nutritional health) on the Joe Rogan Podcast, discussing why you should eat kale and other plants of the Cruciferous vegetables (Brassicaceae). It only lasts a few minutes, and the video is set to start at the beginning of that discussion.





The whole podcast is well worth it though, among other things she explains why the same compound can be cancer suppressant for some people, while it's causing cancer in other people, such as folic acid and telomerase.

Edit: Doesn't seem to work to use the YouTube tag to set the video to begin at a certain point, so here is the link to it: https://youtu.be/DgSLkakMDfE?t=1h11m36s

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RE: Interesting stuff

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Posted on 19-08-2016 10:04
Fixed the embed in the post above.

Because of our embedding technique the additional parameter (the time) must be added with an ampersand, i.e. DgSLkakMDfE&t=1h11m36s instead of DgSLkakMDfE?t=1h11m36s


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RE: Interesting stuff

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Posted on 31-10-2016 09:24
I don't know how interesting this is but I couldn't be bothered finding a better suited forum.

Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.
Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.
The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters.
Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.
Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.
Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
Both Presidents were shot in the head.
Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.
Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln.
Both were assassinated by Southerners.
Both were succeeded by Southerners.
Both successors were named Johnson.
Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.
Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.
John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839.
Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.
Both assassins were known by their three names.
Both names are comprised of fifteen letters.
Lincoln was shot at the theatre named 'Ford'.
Kennedy was shot in a car called 'Lincoln' automobile, made by Ford.
Booth ran from the theatre and was caught in a warehouse.
Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught in a theatre.
Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.
And here's the kicker...
A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland.
A week before Kennedy was shot, he was in Marilyn Monroe.



Why would I want to end every post the same way?

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Tribesmen in the Amazon react to images of our world

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Posted on 06-12-2016 15:08
Turn on subtitles




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RE: Interesting stuff

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Posted on 10-12-2016 20:17
Islamism vs Secularism

Sam Harris and Shadi Hamid talk about Islamism, Secularism, left wing policy, right wing policy.




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