Recent content by PhillJones

Sure, the stretch reflex thing was just an aside, it's not really what happened here, I'm just saying that grasping at peoples arms seems to me to be a sure fire way of escalating a conflict, it's the physical equivalent of telling somebody to 'calm down'. As far as the incident in question is...

We're probably closer in opinion on this point than it seems. If what you posted in that quote is in line with what you meant, then we actually agree and are just talking at crossed purposes. I took the phrase 'extremely intimidating to mean something stronger than increased height and...

I'm sorry if I offended you, I was merely drawing on the experiences that I have. I've seen or been involved in maybe a dozen or so incidents; I just happen to have lived in several places which had on-going social problems with anti-social behaviour. Like I said, I'm from a fairly rough...

It's not about hurting somebody's feelings, it's about the best way to resolve conflict without it escalating and my experience tells me that the way American police behave, in this way, is precisely the wrong way to handle conflict unless you specifically want it to escalate. As a martial...

I've waited quite a while before posting in this thread because I wanted to see how the discussion turned out but now I'm going to put my 2c in. It seems to me that this, like many other controversial use of force incidents is not an example of police brutality but of police incompetence and...

It looked to me like the young man who recorded the incident had watched this video from the ACLU and was trying to exercise his constitutional rights. I'm not sure if this video was discussed here or not in the past but I remember commenting on it somewhere that following the advice in...

That's an unusual explanation for it's active mechanism. One of my collaborators did some of the basic research that suggested that Sumatriptan (Immatrex) would work for migraines and the model that the drug was based on was that cortical spreading depression leads to hyper-excitation of the...

That sounds nasty. Have they put you on Serotonin uptake inhibitors? My wife had transformed migraine syndrome at point and that's what they put her on.

Lagavulin is the odd man out of the Isleys, because they have a strong sherry cask flavour as well as the classic Isley peak and smoke. If you're after peak, try Ardbeg, their 10YO has the highest ammount of peak of any distillery bottle on the market. The Bowmore and Laphroig are also good. If...

Koepi's Xvid codec is pretty damn good as far as I can tell. I use VirtualDub as a front end for it.

Thanks for the reply Chris. I thought I might be screwed. The number of times I've bought something since moving to the states, or in this case had things bought for me and I've just ended up out of pocket without the thing I paid for is just silly. I've already gotten to the point where I...

I can never get the hang of all this different laws in different states so I thought I'd just ask you guys, as you seem to know everything. Anyway, it was my birthday just recently, happy birthday to me, and my parents bough me some martial arts equipment, some pads and stuff. Since it was a...

You could just download ffdshow and never give video codecs another thought. That's my solution, it's a lot cleaner than dowloading lots of codecs or codec packs and making a quagmire of direct show filters.

I thought they were refunding. a replacement seems a poor deal for a parent who no longer trusts the supply chain. having said that I think Metell toys are probably the safest imported toys right now as it looks like they're rigorously testing everything. As for the paint supplier. The...

If they're part of the specific recall, then yes. If not, then no. The thing is Matell found a small batch of toys (1 million) contaminated with lead and recalled them. Two weeks later they recalled an order of magnitude more (9 million). I don't know but I suspect they decided that they'd...