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  2. Best Of The Internet

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    Posted · Edited by stirlingpowers

    Lol, nice hoax. If that were for real, they would have asked facebook service staff to investigate.

    They could have easily solved the case, as they have access to browser fingerprint,

    Internet history, cookie data for other accounts on the posting device, and most importantly,

    some stats about dynamic writing, probably identifying the writer if he or she has another

    facebook account.


    "Obviously that's a less than ideal situation" :w00t:

    I love the british way of putting it.

  6. Natural Training Session - David Hoffmann

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    I appended outtakes to the first video filename as a hint for David that this one includes the missed jumps (the first view seconds).

    I think Rusevelt meant something like "Checkout the other video", and some keyboard input service made outtakes out of that.

    And for the slide fall in the Mannheim video: I stopped recording the moment it happened. The last frame is in the video.

  15. Best Of The Internet

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    Goooddd I hate these adverts...

    Imbeciles doing traffic education campaigns should focus on the bigger and easier to fight health problems of traffic:

    http://www.transportenvironment.org/press/50000-heart-deaths-year-caused-traffic-noise

    This conservative estimate in the link above doubles the number of deaths by mechanical accidents, and that is just

    heart disease. And other studies come to the conclusion that it is not just old people who die by this effect. In any case,

    traffic noise makes life a lot worse than it could be.

    With the efforts on automotive "sound design", even new family cars are made to sound "sonorous" and "impressive",

    for example the target for diesel cars is to sound like an attacking bigger animal, to which we can't get used to in our

    subconscious reactions.

    In any case, frequencies transmitting the most power in car noise have gone down, which means you can't insulate

    your house/sleeping room against that kind of noise, due to the mechanics of sound propagation in continuous media.

    To see the real effect of this, just compare an everyday stock 90s petrol car like a small Volkswagen Golf and a new

    stock diesel family car going up an inclined small inner historic city road - the old one is very silent, the new diesel

    makes bass noise like in a club, in the streets and in the houses.

    While lower frequencies mostly don't signal an immediate danger to our subconscious and therefore more bearable,

    they are genetically imprinted to still represent a danger and therefore increase anxiety/excitation levels during night

    and day.

  22. Defective Trialtech Cranks

    in Trials Chat

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    I can't turn my eyes away from this horror.

    Nice angles on the Echo crankset, btw.

    @Mark:

    Can you recommend anything sporting parallel sidewalls, single wall bed and top brake performance? Weight and color don't matter, I cut and sandblast anyways.

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