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#5. John McCain is a Washington outsider.

I think this is a double-edged sword. How can you be an effective politician if you don't know how the inside works? The same can be said about Palin, who's truly an outsider but has no concept of the inside. In essence, the only way McCain can be an outsider again is by having someone like Palin advise him on her perspective of Washington affairs. Makes sense now doesn't it? Also makes sense why Palin's had such limited press coverage. Considering that ALL major broadcast news is slanted to certain degrees, would it not be obvious that they would try to mold Palin's thinking? Knowing she's a blank slate? But I digress, McCain's making an effort to show that he's on the outside. He's acknowledging that after all these years in Washington, "this pen is old" and a new pen needs to be introduced.

#4. McCain was a "top gun" pilot.

Yes, the word "Maverick" has been used relentlessly but Dickenson uses it again to describe that McCain isn't the "Top Gun" maverick that he enjoys being called. He starts referring to his academic standing at Annapolis (Naval Academy), graduating 5th from the bottom of a class of 900 students (for the record, Jimmy Carter is the only Naval Acedmy graduate who became president - his rank was 59 out of 820, draw your own conclusions), his antics as a naval pilot (drinking, playing poker, craps, dog track, etc.) and crashing planes deeming him more of a fly boy than a top gun. I laughed when I heard him say all of this with a straight face. Rolling Stone Magazine is telling me that McCain is against the grain, rebellious, outspoken, and marches to the beat of his own drum? OMG, tell me this is not happening! Kinda reminds me of a great Hollywood flick with John Candy.

#3. McCain was the central hero of P.O.W. camps.

Who said he was the central hero? My history books spoke of many tortured P.O.W.'s. I have a brain and know this. Who are you talking to that's gullible enough to believe this? Of course, by summarizing the facts as it is clearly being done by Dickenson only reaffirms McCain's allegiance to country first. Where most soldiers went home to live quiet lives after the war, McCain decided to make an impact in politics. This myth is a little far fetched to me.

#2. John McCain is a straight-talking reformer.

I thought Dickenson would spend some time talking about this more than any other of the points. Of course, I had to dig this information because the mainstream media hasn't elaborated on this point. Is there a reason why? Click here and here to read about The Reformers Institute. What I personally make of this is McCain once again tries to innovate and infuse reform but ends up abandoning the RI because there are too many other influences that would allow this to run squeaky clean. Guilty by association. Sounds like another Keating 5 to me.

#1. John McCain always puts "country first".

Sounds like most of the failures that have occurred in John McCain's life has been when he puts his personal interests first. His first marriage, drug abuse past, his attempt to suspend his campaign and work on bailout bill for Wall Street. His attempts to put "country first" fail due to lack of cooperation from team players or just not enough background checks by himself or his supporters. Will he able able to wield enough influence to cause the reform he's promising? Will his supporters jump ship on him again when he desperately needs them in the critical hour? He can't even count on the current party's administration to back him up because everyone's trying to distance themselves from Bush. On the other hand, is Obama's playing on the fears of this country to his advantage by selling the same old politics, different day talk? This country is guilty and gunshy of allowing politicians take advatange of our fears.

Someone tell me otherwise. It's easy to get caught up in defending a candidate but it's downright annoying to watch journalists take sides and not just endorse candidates but start discrediting the opponent. Again, we know that all these candidates have had a checkered past. That's been more than obvious. Discuss who's more qualified, who can follow through, and who can be held accountable. It used to be a parent's desire to see their child grow up and be President of the US but nowadays, it's better to be an athlete or entertainer - no accountability to anyone but yourself!

So I can listen to it, but can't see the picture. Just as well I have a copy of it on DVD.

And I added a few new ones here and there.

Official Iranian Government "Presidential Pleasure" Bra: Unlike your country, there are no bosoms in Iran; we don't have any.

Zoroastrian "Dynamic Dual" The white side is designed for maximum uplift and the black side is not.

Hare Krishna  "Midnight Mantra" In beautiful saffron coloured material, our masterpiece channels a special "airport uplift" energy for true bosom consciousness.

Zen Buddhist "Enigma" If a bosom should fall in our bra, is there any refund?

Zen Buddhist "Enigma Deluxe" What is the sound of one breast flapping? Whatever it is, cover it up with our asymetrically custum fit,  harmonically balanced and acoustically insulated Enigma Deluxe, and get the peace and quiet you deserve!

Roman Catholic "Holy Mother Imaculate Contraption" Stain resistant,  for nursing women, our new high tech miracle will hold 'em till you need 'em.

Christian Literalist "Intelligently Designed Divine Image Science Bra".  Our most high-tech line reconciles pure science, human biology, and true faith. It takes the bra to a new level of complete practicality, comfort and ergonomic efficiency and is based on BIBLICAL principles! With three cups, our bra is unashamedly  trinitarian in a world that has sold its soul to "if it feels good,  wear it" godlessness!  

Orthodox Jewish "Red Sea Bra" Excellent lift and separation for 6 days, but of course, no lifting or separating on the Sabbath.

Reform Jewish "Red Sea Freedom Bra". Excellent lift and separation all week long.

Conservative Jewish "Red Sea Consensus Bra" Excellent lift and separation for 6 days, but only if there is a general agreement that it is necessary.

Orthodox Jewish "Talmud Teaser" Rabbi Joshua said, "It is written, 'Do  two walk together without them having met?' so bras should hold the  bosom together." Rabbi Judah said, "The Holy One-blessed by He-separated the waters to reveal the dry land when He created the  universe." Rabbi Hannaniah said in the name of Rabbi Nehemiah, "He separated the waters of the Sea and then divided the River Jordan,  piling the waters up on the right and the left to let the Sons of Israel make their way to the promised land, a land 'flowing with milk and honey', and so bras should lift and separate and give room for the discovery of honey." The sages said, "It is written, 'My tongue cleaves to the roof of my mouth' and therefore cleavage is a good thing," but Rabbi Baruchiah said, "Is the cleaving of the tongue to the roof of the mouth the same as a bosom's cleaving? One is from a dry mouth and the other makes the mouth water." Hillel said, "Women are free from the commandment of binding on Teffilin, so should they not be required to bind their bosoms". Shammai said, "I'm more of a leg-man myself" but Rabbi Herschel said... (goes on for 5 more pages with a long digression into the question of how big a "cup" can be before it is a "basin").

Fundamentalist Christian "Original Sin Bra" "The Fall" came when Eve ate the apple and so there isn't anything to be done about it since bosoms are evil, wicked, satanic, vile, and are against biblical family values, but our bra is richly padded and embroidered with biblical passages to make you look more upright and smug and yet pleasing to the eyes of the men God has sent to bless your life.

Pentecostal Televangelist "Miracle Lift Faith Bra" Don't let the Devil drag you down! Sew a Seed of Faith of only $1000 by ordering our Miracle Lift Faith Bra, and you will reap a harvest! Don't forget the parable of the Faithful Wife in the Book of Egomaniciah who sewed only ONE seed and reaped a great harvest of produce and brought great joy to her poor husband! Yes, your own $1000 Faith Seed will grow as you wear our Miracle Lift Faith Bra-sent to you free of charge out of Christian Love- and you too will be lifted up in the Spirit, and your husband will enjoy a harvest of melons!

Mormon "Nights on Zion" An exact copy of the bra Joseph Smith used to wear on Saturday nights.

Fundamentalist Mormon "Easy-Sorting Polyg-rasier" One size fits every woman in the house, so there's no point to wondering which is whose!

Mennonite Bra. Designed to keep the world from knowing a woman has any need for a bra under the plain dress designed, as much as possible, to look as though a woman doesn't have breasts.

Fundamentalist Islamist "Discrete Desires Bra" Full support head to toe, to give you that appealing lack of feminine shape.

Hindu "Devi Deluxe" Realize your personal goddess; with as many complementary shoulder straps as you think you have arms.

Buddhist "Not Quite Nirvana" Accentuates natural sag, deflation and impermanence.

Hutterite "Bra" Only in black, and handmade of the finest economy-grade canvas. Available at Canadian Tire stores from coast to coast.

Scientology "Spiritual Technology Bra" Available only to the initiated for the low price of $50,000. Athletic-level of support and comfort even when jumping up and down on couches like an idiot. It comes with various books, pamphlets, built in flashing lights, a whistle, and a small propeller on each cup. Great support for the AUTHORIZED wearer from our legal team.

Confucian "Mandate of Heaven Bra" The Master said, "Heaven smiles upon the emperor who justly governs and supports the people so that they are not even aware that they are being ruled. So too, do men smile when they see the bosom that is naturally governed by our invisible underwire and seamless technology."

Taoist "Wooo-weeee!" The bosom that can be tamed is not a real bosom.

Pascal's "Wager Wonder Econo-Bra" For both women and men: in fact anyone who looks at themselves and says "there is no bosom". But what if you find one there one day? At this low price, everyone can afford be prepared!

OK, THAT WAS FUN. NOW, JUST TO SHOW THAT US HEATHENS CAN TAKE A JOKE...

Some new ones.

James Randi "Booby-Prize" Challenge Bra,  Wear it to humor the True Believers™  in the full knowledge that you can have a greater "miracle" via wires and a good bit of padding.

Center for Inquiry "Critical Mass(terpiece)"  Free with a paid membership and personally signed by Justin Trottier, this fashion statement will get everyone around asking difficult questions!

Mythbusters "Pun Intended Bra". RECALLED due to a proclivity to spontaneously explode. 

Richard Dawkins "Goddess Delusion Bra" Bright red, available only in 'A' cup sizes and to be worn on the outside to show the world that you prefer men who appreciate you for your brains and not your ability to make them say "Oh God...".

PZ Myers' "Phar-Angular Provocateur" This mercilessly sharp cone-bra is likely to upset some, and may even get you "expelled" as you drive your points home.

Because at the end of a hard day, there's nothing like spewing vitriol at a television screen, "You're an anal retentive moron, Kate!  Can't you see that your husband's eyes have glazed over, and he's just praying for the sweet release of death?  For christ's sakes, the human vagina is not a clown car!", and so on.

But the other day, Rassles reminded me that NOTHING beats an afternoon devoted solely to Mythbusters.  And if she didn't convince me, this commercial finished me off.  Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, the "I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing" of this generation.

Have a great weekend, folks!

Mythbusters - Fun With Sulfur Hexafluoride

Ah, the Discovery Channel

Boom De Ah Dah

I'll be writing another post on Wednesday's FUSE service, tomorrow, as I have been busy with schoolwork. Enjoy!

A little background, generating traffic, tag clouds and popular websites.

The matrix that StumbleUpon uses favors new sites so that you don't see the same site more than once. This can also be really great if you have a new site just starting out and want to generate traffic.

Once you have the stumble toolbar, just go to the site you want to share and click the blue thumbs up "I like it" to submit it. You have to do a quick tag (explained later on) to categorize the link.

Here's a good comprehensive guide for bloggers who want to increase traffic using S.U. Has anyone been involved in the user network on StumbleUpon? I've never dug into it but it looks like it's growing. I read that it gives your stumbles more weight on the site. I don't know that for sure.

Here's the first link I stumbled upon 10/2/08.

StumbleUpon is a little like Digg because users can vote on content but people generally like S.U. more even though it's a huge time suck. It's a beautiful feedback loop of user to user love. Since you like the service, users submit more content, bloggers like they stumble upon brings traffic and then get stuck in the time suck too, submit sites, end up distracted stumbling Mythbusters Myths.

Get to stumbling.

When you add new sites to your interests, there's more for others with the same interests and motivate them to submit too. which feeds traffic. And so on. Also, when you have a popular site on Digg, the traffic is fleeting (thank God for these guys). You make the Digg homepage for a little while or pop-up for a second on user's screens. Since S.U. is more interactive, the more you give the more you get.

Tag clouds on Stumble and Twitter

Here is the tag cloud for S.U. and for Twitter. Blogs offer them too, but usually one tag takes up the entire page when there's only one person. A tag is a popular keyword/trendy topic. It's a way of keeping in touch with what's happening at the moment.

Right now, there's not much on Twitter (hence the Nintendo trends) but for the election and other nights, it's fun to see how people are connected. #Ocsober was a tag that people added to their tweets a little bit ago. It's a way to talk with each other and meet other followers with similar interests and sense of humor.

The S.U. tag cloud features popular website tags (or categories). You can also subscribe to StumbleUpon Buzz, a version of the Digg homepage with recently popular websites.

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What I like about mad experimentation is it's raw unbridled curiosity. What does it matter if some experiments go wrong or if others are completely useless and outright wacky? What counts is that humans have a desire to understand the world. Thomas Edison was a mad inventor; he wasted ten years of his life on devising a new mining technique, which failed miserably. He also designed furniture and homes made out of that comfortable substance know as concrete. Not big sellers.

The lesson here is that in a complex world, curiosity saves the cat, it doesn't kill it. But still there is an intellectual divide in society. There are those who care to know the world, and those who don't care to have their world views tarnished by reality. I'm talking about creationists here. To them a mad scientist is someone to be feared.

the good news is that the various pills and potions prescribed by my doctor are doing the trick: I can breathe! the bad news is that my company got bought out by one of its bigger, badder competitors on Monday, and I don't know how much longer I'll have a job for!

Ideally (for me), they will realize that there's no sense in throwing away a whole call-center full of pre-screened, drug-tested, background-checked, trained employees, and keep us around to handle all the new work they've given themselves by buying the nation's 4th-largest bank. Worst case scenario is they cut us loose tomorrow with no severance package, and i must scramble to survive until my lease is up next september, at which point I will move to florida. livable scenario is they turn us loose sometime around the end of the year WITH a severance package, and i use that money to live on whilst I arrange moving to florida, which I've been considering anyway, and go spend my days working someplace where it doesn't snow and my evenings lounging someplace close to my family and favorite comic book store.

With all of this, it is still important for marketers to remember that, despite such innovative developments in media, the basics of truth in advertising still apply.  As set forth by the FTC, some of those basics include:

If you're way into regulations, you can read more here. 

As short films and viral videos take off through sites like YouTube, it's important for marketers to remain sane and not push envelopes too far when it comes to claims made by products and services.  Since anyone can produce anything these days and post it online with little more than a video camera and a free copy of Windows Moviemaker or similar software, there is no shortage of less-than-credible content out there.  Don't let your product or brand fall into the trap of exaggerations or unbelievable claims just because a cool video can be created that offers some sweet technology that can manipulate reality. 

This reminds me of the episode on Discovery a few weeks ago where the Mythbusters debunked online videos as being real or fake.  Astonishingly enough, all videos proved to be true, though some elements of what was presented needed modified to make them work.  Here's a sample of a car that is lifted into the air by connecting a few fire hoses to it...pretty cool:

While all vids were proven to be truthful, the fact that consumers are automatically skeptical enough of online video to allow Mythbusters to feature an entire hour-long episode about it provides insight into how consumers like to seek out information and then form their own opinions and thoughts.  As a marketer, keep it cool, cutting edge, relevant, but truthful when it comes to short films and viral campaigns.

Original Post:  Maybe you have heard this rumor:

Wearing Obama T-shirts or Obama Buttons is considered campaigning, and campaigning is not allowed within 100 ft. of a polling site. This is something that can be used to ensure that your voice is not heard. Make sure you forward this email to everyone in your address book… register to vote, but DO NOT WEAR YOUR OBAMA GEAR to the polls on November 4^th.

 

This is NOT, I repeat, NOT truthful or factual information.

We were first sent a variation of this email a few days ago, and yours truly went through the trouble of contacting the Washington State and King County Elections offices to get to the truth.  Keep in mind then, that this informationi is for Washington state and King County voters.  We also contacted the Obama campaign for their two cents; they suggested that voters contact their state and county officials to get a copy of the instructions given to poll workers regarding day-of-voting conduct at the polls.

First of all, wearing shirts, buttons, stickers or hats is not considered campaigning unless you are at a voting location, but are not there to vote.  (clothing is generally protected as freedom of expression- election day is no different)

Secondly, campaigning at polling sites is not allowed within 300 feet, not 100 feet.  This is a federal law and that means it applies everywhere in the country.

Third of all, while there are places in this country that interpret the federal laws to include hats, buttons, stickers and shirts you cannot be sent away or denied the opportunity to vote because of your attire.  That is illegal and an obstruction of YOUR civil rights!

So, while you can wear your Obama gear to the polls, you can't walk up to other people who are waiting to vote and shove your shirt, hat, button or other attire in their faces- that would be campaining.  You also cannot wear signs to polling places as that is considered campaining.

I hope this was helpful to folks and clears up all those "the sky is falling" rumors about what you can, and cannot wear to the polls on election day.  Below the updates is a list of laws that outline what is not allowed on election day at polling locations in Washington state.

Peace ya'll, and trust, I'll be wearing my Obama gear come election day!

Sable Verity

Update #1: Enough (to quote Obama)!

I have sent an email off to people much smarter than me (and you too) at the Above the Law Blog and begged for their two-cents.  Should I get a response I will post it for all to see.

Update #2: First response from ATL says, in part:

"..."you can't be denied voting even if you are wearing a suit made of human flesh"...the only people than can be within 300 ft (I thought it was 100 too) of a polling place who are not voting are poll workers. You can't just hang out there, no matter what you are wearing or saying. Even if your were wearing a non-partisan purple pant-suit, they're instructed to ask you to leave...that law comes from the old machine politics days, where "people" (the knee breakers on the union/tameny hall payroll) would just walk around, silently intimidating members of the public. It's like, if you see your boss just standing there, he doesn't have to say anything to you for you to "get the message."...your post covers the ins and outs of the issue..."

 Update #3:  And we're back this happy Monday!  Another shout-out to the ATL Blog.  They have featured us in their "Non-Sequiturs" post, phrasing our question in this manner.  This is a good one.  Ahem:

"If I loiter outside my polling place dressed as black Jesus, does that count as electioneering?"

Please read the original post to answer this question in its fullest context.  We'll post the smartest- or funniest- answers.

WAC 434-253-010
Polling place — Activities prohibited
  The county auditor shall ensure that all precinct election officers receive instruction regarding activities that are not permitted within the polling place, including electioneering, circulation of campaign material, soliciting petition signatures, or impeding the voting process. Whenever it is necessary to maintain order within the polling place and the surrounding environs, the inspector may, if circumstances warrant and if the means to do so are available, contact the county auditor, who shall determine the corrective action required. Such corrective action may include contacting a law enforcement agency for assistance.

 
 
RCW 29A.84.510
Acts prohibited in vicinity of polling place — Prohibited practices as to ballots.

(1) On the day of any primary or general or special election, no person may, within a polling place, or in any public area within three hundred feet of any entrance to such polling place:

     (a) Suggest or persuade or attempt to suggest or persuade any voter to vote for or against any candidate or ballot measure;

     (b) Circulate cards or handbills of any kind;

     (c) Solicit signatures to any kind of petition; or

     (d) Engage in any practice which interferes with the freedom of voters to exercise their franchise or disrupts the administration of the polling place.

     (2) No person may obstruct the doors or entries to a building in which a polling place is located or prevent free access to and from any polling place. Any sheriff, deputy sheriff, or municipal law enforcement officer shall prevent such obstruction, and may arrest any person creating such obstruction.

     (3) No person may:

     (a) Except as provided in RCW 29A.44.050, remove any ballot from the polling place before the closing of the polls; or

     (b) Solicit any voter to show his or her ballot.

     (4) No person other than an inspector or judge of election may receive from any voter a voted ballot or deliver a blank ballot to such elector.

     (5) Any violation of this section is a gross misdemeanor, punishable to the same extent as a gross misdemeanor that is punishable under RCW 9A.20.021, and the person convicted may be ordered to pay the costs of prosecution.
 
 
RCW 29A.84.620
Hindering or bribing voter.

Any person who uses menace, force, threat, or any unlawful means towards any voter to hinder or deter such a voter from voting, or directly or indirectly offers any bribe, reward, or any thing of value to a voter in exchange for the voter's vote for or against any person or ballot measure, or authorizes any person to do so, is guilty of a class C felony punishable under RCW 9A.20.021.
 
RCW 29A.84.670
Unlawful acts by voters — Penalty (as amended by 2003 c 53).

(1) It is unlawful for a voter to:

     (a) Show his or her ballot after it is marked to any person in such a way as to reveal the contents thereof or the name of any candidate for whom he or she has marked his or her vote;
(2) A violation of this section is a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, plus costs of prosecution.

RCW 29A.84.630
Influencing voter to withhold vote.

Any person who in any way, directly or indirectly, by menace or unlawful means, attempts to influence any person in refusing to give his or her vote in any primary or special or general election is guilty of a gross misdemeanor punishable to the same extent as a gross misdemeanor that is punishable under RCW 9A.20.021.
RCW 29A.84.640
Solicitation of bribe by voter.

Any person who solicits, requests, or demands, directly or indirectly, any reward or thing of value or the promise thereof in exchange for his or her vote or in exchange for the vote of any other person for or against any candidate or for or against any ballot measure to be voted upon at a primary or special or general election is guilty of a gross misdemeanor punishable to the same extent as a gross misdemeanor that is punishable under RCW 9A.20.021.

What about verses about "evangelists?"

In places in the Bible, we find that some are particularly gifted or called in this area.  In Ephesians 4:11, we see that there is a special gift to the church of an evangelist.  And, in 2 Timothy 4:5, pastors are called to do the work of evangelists.  So, you may think that evangelism is something that only a select few do, and that because it is not your gift, you don’t bother with it.

Consider these verses

The Bible is clear that we are all to “proclaim the gospel.”  In fact, this is the reason that God has called you to himself.  Look at 1 Pet 2:9, “but you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.” Who is Peter speaking to here?  He is speaking to Christians undergoing persecution.  Notice he doesn’t say, “Some of you have been called to evangelize because you have that gift, or all those of you who have some kind of special Bible training proclaim the excellencies of him who called you.”  He says, we are all called to proclaim the excellencies of God in Christ.

Does evangelism have to take place from a pulpit?

This includes fisherman, teachers, accountants, homemakers, or any other category of person you can concieve of.  God calls all Christians to evangelism.  That proclamation isn't necessarily from a pulpit either.  In fact, at the time this was written, I would venture to say that is virtually a gaurantee.   This proclamation happens as mothers raise their children, as a plant worker eats lunch with an unbelieving coworker, or as a Doctor offers consolation to someone suffering a terminal illness.

Isn't this risky?

Are there risks in doing this?  Yes!  And, I don't want to belittle the ever-growing risks of faithfull evangelism.  Risk itself is not a new developement in the lives of Christians though.  Remember Peter's audience faced sporadic, but severe persecutions for proclaiming the faith.  All of the Disciples suffered immensly and most were martyred for the faith.  In Acts 4 we find a similar situation.  There, the dispersed Christians flee for their lives while proclaiming the gospel.  The point is that risky evangelism is the only true kind of evangelism.  That is one of the costs of true discipleship.  Another way of saying that is, Christians, this is what you were created and recreated to do.

The proposition is this:  An airplane sits on a treadmill which operates in such a way as to counter the forward motion of the airplane's wheels.  Thus, even as the propellers (or jet engines, as the case may be) attempt to move the aircraft down the runway, the treadmill (running in the opposite direction) keeps the plane stationary relative to the rest of the world.
Question:  Can the plane take off?

Now, some geniuses like to point out that the airplane is not powered by its wheels.  The power, they insist, comes from the jet engines (or the propellers).  Thus, the plane can take off.  These people are twits, who when asked will further assert that LIFT is similarly created by the jet engines (or the propellers).

LIFT, without which no plane is getting a fucking hair's width off the ground, is created by air moving over the wings...or the wings moving through the air (a distinction without a difference).
If the plane is stationary relative to the air around it - a feature built into the premise of the argument - then it cannot develop lift and, consequently, cannot take off.

On the Mythbusters episode in which they tackled this problem, Adam and Jamie attempted to drag a sheet of paper beneath a remote-controlled plane.  Sadly, as the footage clearly shows, they were unable to match the speed of the paper to the speed of the plane.  The plane was faster, developed forward motion over the paper sufficient to create lift and permit take-off.  Pfft.  This merely proves a principle Orville and Wilbur worked out in Kitty Hawk about 1903.

Here's the thing, kids.  Lift comes from the wings, not the engines (or the wheels).  It is created by airflow over the wings.  You may confirm this by asking any pilot what happens when their airspeed drops to zero.
All the thrust and propellers in the world won't help you if you aren't MOVING FORWARD THROUGH THE AIR.  In point of fact, a headwind of a few hundred miles per hour would work equally well in theory - one only need watch seagulls soaring in place on a windy day to figure that out.  Note the gulls do not move relative to the beach, nor flap their wings to stay airborne.  They simply ride the wind, taking lift from the moving air rather than generating forward motion though stable air.  On calm days, there's much more flapping and no hovering.  And, of course, relatively speaking, wind is the same thing as forward motion through a stable air mass.
One might also note which way the fucking model is aimed when tested in a wind tunnel for LIFT.
Tailwinds.  Not helpful.  Fuck me.

This is not dissimilar to the old argument that says, "Guns don't kill people, people kill people."  To which Chris Rock replies, "Don't be fucking stupid.  Guns don't kill people...BULLETS kills people.  Guns just make the bullets go fast."

Well, propellers and jet engines don't provide lift.  They just make the wings go fast.  Take away the guns and bullets are harmless.  Take away the forward motion and so are wings.

Now, and this is important, the premise of the treadmill question demands that the plane is NOT moving forward through the air surrounding it.  No forward motion = no airflow = no lift = no take-off.
If you think otherwise, you might further consider how they get aircraft off carrier decks.  They catapault the fucker up to speed using a huge steam-powered drag line.  They DON'T just roll the jet over to the edge of the deck, fire up the engines and magically zip off into the wild blue yonder.  In fact, they turn the whole damn carrier INTO THE WIND.  Now why do you think they might do that?
If you STILL think stationary aircraft can take off if only you get the propeller turning fast enough, castrate yourself.  You're too fucking stupid to breed.

Não sei vocês mas sempre ouvi falar que deixar o micro ligado direto aumentaria sua vida útil e evitaria problemas com o sistema operacional. Na verdade, quem já trabalhou com os antigos mainframes da era inicial da informática conhece bem essa história: os CPDs (Centro de Processamento de Dados) de qualquer empresa ficavam "abertos" 24 horas, debaixo de uma refrigeração polar, literalmente isolados em salas térmicas e à prova de tudo o que se possa imaginar.

No entanto, na grande maioria das vezes, essa operação era necessária pela lentidão e dificuldade de processamento dos próprios equipamentos, bem como a precária alimentação de dados e as técnicas ainda "analógicas" de programação.

Com a chegada dos PCs, por algum motivo criou-se essa lenda, de que o equipamento duraria mais se ficasse ligado o tempo todo.

Mas, segundo o pessoal da HP, essa história não passa de puro mito! Em entrevista para a PC World deste mes, o engenheiro Ken Bosley afirma que "se você não se importa com o consumo de energia ou o carbono liberado, não há grande problema em deixar seu PC ligado. Mas você não deveria gastar energia pensando em estender a vida útil de um computador".

Segundo ele, ligar e desligar o equipamento pode até causar algum tipo de desgaste mas a esmagadora maioria dos sistemas é aposentada "não devido a falhas no hardware, mas por conta de obsolescência.

A PC World lembra que o Windows edecuta uma série de importantes tarefas durante os atos de ligar e desligar, o que é outro bom motivo para desligar o sistema.

Como diz o programa dos MythBusters, esse mito está detonado!

Um bom final de semana para todos!

http://dsc.discovery.com/video/?playerId=203711706&categoryId=210013704&lineupId=229524134&titleId=16938836

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Jamie Hyneman + Adam Savage = Big boom
Add Rayne Summers to the equation and I don't know what will happen. Hahahaha.

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Taking that brilliant concept into the world of Halo and Xbox Live is this video testing various widespread claims about what is (or isn't) possible in Master Chief's domain.  Even if you're not into Halo, some of the idiosyncrasies are kind of surprising!  A peek at the video, plus some news, after the jump.

That's the first episode, but so far there are three total.

In other Halo-related news, Bungie got everyone worked up on the anniversary of Halo 3's release with a teaser and a tagline ("Prepare to Drop") for what looks like an expansion (rumored and reported here and here) to the game.  The expansion doesn't appear to star Master Chief, but instead perhaps one of the UNSC's Orbital Shock Drop Troopers.  Blah blah blah...ultimately, it looks like a sweet addition to the franchise, and a fun new angle, too.  GameSpot has the trailer, links, and a much more in-depth breakdown for those interested.

Who's excited?

Calling the MythBusters YouTube community... submit your myth to Adam and Jamie for the NEXT viral video episode, coming in 2009!

Tell us which YouTube videos you'd like to see debunked by posting the USERNAME and TITLE of the video in the comments section. Or post them as a video response and tell us what you'd like to see Adam and Jamie tackle next.

If you want to submit a clip to be considered for testing on MythBusters, please make sure to review these terms first:

Do not do anything reckless, dangerous or illegal in the preparation of your clip. 

Do not do or include anything that is a violation of anyone's privacy.

By submitting a clip and participating, you agree that you and your participants release, discharge, indemnify and hold harmless Beyond Productions Pty Limited (Beyond), Discovery Communications, LLC. (Discovery) and Discovery's cable service providers from any and all claims, actions, costs, damages and expenses, including those arising in any way out of your creation of the clip, posting the clip, or Discovery or Beyond's use of the clip.

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Writer's note: i wanna submit an entry! but i don't know what! O_O and LOL on Jamie looks like he has a small head :D