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Mind_Virus · 2012-05-26T23:01:35.215238+00:00

Not as in physical pain, but they do damage genitals in both men and women. Switching to specially-designed no-nose bicycle seats reduces erectile dysfunction in men -- bicyclists having increased rates of impotence due to the effects of bicycling on the groin. Women experience even more severe effects, with women who bicycle frequently commonly having a medium to high degree of genital numbness by middle age.

Zuch · 2012-05-26T20:26:55.480155+00:00

While this may be true now, this will not be the case in 40 yrs at the current population growth rate and rate of overfishing. Just sayin'.

Remember to take advances in agricultural technology into account too. With some fairly simple agricultural advances led by Borlaug and the likes, wheat production more than doubled in South America and East Asia from the 50s through the 70s. Prior to that, it was widely assumed that the globe couldn't sustain more than 3 or 4 billion people.

We have to get people to accept genetically-modified foods. There are a lot of myths about it, and lots of scare tactics going around, and yes, legitimate concerns too; but it's hardly the boogeyman many Westerners see it as, and it will become a necessity soon enough. If we continue our agricultural advances at our current rate, and start pushing GMO through, we can easily support 10 billion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution

Zuch · 2012-05-26T20:21:28.042706+00:00

Dismissing it with "people will always have sex" is highly disingenuous. What is being described in this lecture is something that's already happening in many places; as nations become more and more developed, and particularly as women's rights grow, people have fewer and fewer children. In Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Singapore, Germany, Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands, Norway, etc the birth rate is well below 2 -- meaning that each woman has below 2 children in her lifetime, and the population shrinks with each generation. You need a birthrate of about 2.2 to keep the population completely flat and steady; any higher and population grows, any lower and it shrinks. The nations with the highest birth rates at present are Niger (7.5 children per woman), Uganda, Mali, Burundi, the Congo -- the least developed places. But as nations continue to develop over time, their fertility rates drop too.

The 10 billion figure takes into account the rate at which nations develop and birth rates drop, in addition to the current birth rate. Saying we'll level off at 9-12 billion seems quite likely and it's a popular belief.

colewyattbecker · 2012-05-26T20:10:22.936110+00:00

The most blatant example was the surprise hit My Big Fat Greek Wedding. It had a budget of US $5 million, and grossed $369 million at the box office, yet it officially never made a profit, and so the writer and cast didn't get paid until they sued. The crew's payment, after the lawsuit was settled, added up to 0.18% of the movie's profit -- that's divided among them all.

Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter also never made a profit according to the studios, and lots of people never got paid. Francis Ford Coppola pissed off some studio heads in the 70s after he gave an interview discussing this, and how The Godfather was, on paper, a colossal financial failure due to shady accounting practices.

RyanSandwich · 2012-05-26T18:35:47.936028+00:00

I like my women how I like my coffee: hot and sweet.

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riverduck · 2012-05-26T17:48:16.553768+00:00

Thanks, this works great.

alittlefilm · 2012-05-26T13:55:55.458117+00:00

Which Avid features make narrative editing easier, out of curiosity?

Chodewick · 2012-05-26T13:14:58.411509+00:00

I actually checked, because I was curious.

The Roland/Eddie/Susannah story -- Starkblast -- is 10.4% of the book.

The Roland/Jamie story -- The Skin-Man -- is 35.6% of the book.

The Tim Stoutheart story -- The Wind Through the Keyhole -- is is 54% of the book.

TheChrizby · 1 day

Is that the episode where Travis speaks in the professor's voice for a moment, then clears his throat and speaks normally?

Leuffen · 2 days

He probably cares for you and wants to see you safe, so he doesn't want you to know that Danger is his middle name.

Leuffen · 2 days

The TV show "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" features an opening credits sequence shot entirely at night.

bthoman2 · 2 days

Your hard drive is one very very very long stream of 1s and 0s. Just like dashes and dots in morse code represent letters and numbers, 1s and 0s represent everything digital, from code to music to photos. This long stream is divided into millions of individual sectors, just to make it easier to keep track of things.

Your computer has what's called a "filesystem". It's just what it sounds like; a system for managing files on the hard drive. The filesystem's main job is to serve like a directory of what parts of your hard drive represent what files. Imagine that your hard drive is a hotel, full of empty sectors (rooms). Guests (files) stay in those rooms, and the receptionist (filesystem) keeps a logbook of who's in what room.

So when you say "Computer, open HeyJude.mp3!", iTunes is ringing up the hotel and saying "I want to speak to Mr. Hey Jude". The receptionist/filesystem looks up what room/sector he's in and saying "Oh, he's on parts #230583 to #240222 of the hard drive!" -- "He's in Room 16!" -- so the file can be played.

Got all that?

Now, when you delete a file, what you're actually doing is telling the receptionist to erase his name from the logbook. The guest/file is still in that room, but now that he's not on the logbook/filesystem, anyone who asks for Hey Jude is going to be met with a confused shrug and "Never heard of it."

When it comes time to save a new file -- for a new guest to enter the hotel -- the receptionist is just going to give them the first empty room in the logbook. When it turns out there's already a guest (some data) sleeping there, the new guest just drowns the existing guest in the bathtub and throws him out the window (overwrites the data). Now the deleted file/old guest is actually gone and you can't get him back. Prior to this, you could use special tools -- undelete tools, or computer forensics software -- to scour the hotel door-to-door looking for hidden guests in empty rooms. This is how some skilled people can recover deleted files.

So that's what actually happens when you delete a file; the file isn't erased, its entry in the filesystem directory is removed (so no programs on your computer can see it as a file) and it's marked as "this data expendable, save here, new files!"

TheChrizby · 2 days

The professor twist was so heavily foreshadowed it can't even be called a twist. Everyone knew what was going on by the second or third episode, and they keep shoving huge obvious clues (voice lapse, recurrence of Brian) in your face right up until the 'surprise'. That wouldn't have been so bad if half the season didn't built up to something you already knew about.

Dropbear81 · 2 days

Are people born right or left handed?

Yes, that's the popular belief. You can even observe it in fetuses, where left-handed people are almost universally holding their left hand to their face in ultrasounds and right-handed people almost universally holding up their right.

Left-handed kids who are made to learn to use their right hand never get very fine motor control with it, even if it improves.

relik1 · 2 days

It's like New Zealand, but hotter and with more shit out to get you.

If you're talking about the sheep, I think the New Zealanders are just enthusiastic about taming them.

relik1 · 2 days

But I wouldn't choose to live in Australia now considering its ultra conservative government.

Uh, the governing party in Australia is a part of the Socialist International, and the Prime Minister is a former union leader and secretary to Socialist Forum. She helped found EMILY's List, a left-wing pro-choice women's-rights organisation, and is lobbying to make Australia a republic (traditionally a left-wing issue). The government is known for increasing funding to public mental-health initiatives and their biggest issue this ministry has been successfully bringing in a carbon tax to fund green initiatives while penalising polluters. The Victorian Left is playing a prominent role. It's a very left-wing government, both economically and socially.

Appointing immigrant lesbians as Minister for Finance isn't usually a hallmark of "ultra conservative" governments.

relik1 · 2 days

It's actually really safe wildlife-wise. There are 2-5 snake deaths per decade, and hasn't been a spider death since 1982. The spiders are far less dangerous and less prevalent than those in Southern and Central America (loxosceles, yow!). There are no large predators on the land (compared to Canada/USA, which have bears as well as wolves, mountain lions, etc). The shark attack rate is lower than that of Florida and Cuba, the sharkiest areas in the world. And rabies doesn't exist in Australia, so things like possums, rodents and wild dogs don't pose the threat they do in Asia or the Americas.

The deadliest animal in Australia is actually... the kangaroo. Not because they attack but because they're big 6-foot-tall 200-kilo pests that wander onto the outback highways, where people drive at 150km/h in lines so straight and long they space out. Kangaroos are Australia's deer.

palanoid · 2 days

He obviously doesn't know that when a girl wants to be naked in front of you

And the 40 other people on an active film set

melonballer · 2 days

He was joking -- the way OP phrased his question, it sounds like he's not downloading some individual Youtube clips but Youtube in its entirety.

palanoid · 3 days

That's just a sensationalised headline to attract views. She clarifies it in an interview: there's a shot where she's in bed with a bra on. She suggested taking the bra off and covering herself with blankets instead, because nobody sleeps in their bra. Bay declined the suggestion because it was possible that even without exposing breasts, that would raise the rating in some markets.

Then it got posted online as SCARLETT JOHANNSEN WANTS TO BE NAKED BUT MICHAEL BAY SAID NO BECAUSE HE'S A DICK.

danger_mcboom · 3 days

It's like Tinkerbell. You have to believe.

danger_mcboom · 3 days

Well, maybe you should.

danger_mcboom · 3 days

By all means do. There's a ton of amazing stuff around us, let's take a moment to stop and appreciate it with a hearty clap.

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