Sam Levine

"Almost anytime you're talking with someone you're selling something. The trick is realizing that you're always on a tightrope and that looking down doesn't help." - Sam Levine

"Sparse images with file names that include names and dates, FCPX does the rest." - Sam Levine

"> Is the general populous really this ignorant? Many are ("We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.") but you're seeing behaviors that are specific to the Internet. If you're looking for an intelligent conversation public pseudo-anonymous websites are the worst place to go. Find smart people that you can talk with face to face, ones that you know are actually interesting in having a conversation. If you must do it on a website, do it on ones where there are strong norms against acting like a jerk and where people that violate them can be removed if need be." - Sam Levine

"We eat terrestrial cows. When we find intelligent cows on other planets we will marvel at how cute they are while we dine on their offspring." - Sam Levine

"[London saw traffic go down about 30%](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...) after introducing congestion pricing." - Sam Levine

"When you see a congested road or bridge think of breadlines in the Soviet Union. Tolls send price signals to people to conserve limited resources and help provide revenue to pay for and improve upon them." - Sam Levine

"I just saw this on Friday. Incredibly moving, if you haven't seen it yet I highly recommend checking it out." - Sam Levine

"Because nothing in the music industry is free. If someone screws you, they charge you for their time." - Sam Levine

"It's one thing to ask for 12-36 hours (or whatever timeframe we're talking) of someone's life for free, it's another to not at least provide them with gear or rent it from them. This is basically asking for them to pay you to work for you. Obviously we had for profit companies here, so presumably some money was involved. Why not throw some of it to the people that were gracious enough to make it possible?" - Sam Levine

"That's the appeal." - Sam Levine

"> Nice bullshit quote misrepresenting what I wrote. [no fun allowed](http://images.wikia.com/mlp...). ;( You should try it sometimes, it's amazing what communicating what actually comes across to other people can lead to. > You don't know, because you have not been confronted with it. Are you arguing that all knowledge (and therefore preferences) must be empirical, or experiential? If the former, I've seen kids (and families that have had kids), so I think that counts as confrontation. If the latter, then how can we make decisions about visiting foreign countries, taking a new job or getting strung out on meth while playing the banjo? Obviously from your other posts you don't believe either of these, you believe that until you have children you can't know that you don't want children. But this is like saying that you can't not want to join a church until you join it, or can't not want to go to the moon until you've been there or that you can't not want to..." - Sam Levine

"> I made a choice. Therefore everyone that doesn't make the same choice as me is wrong. You do realize there are other people other there, with other goals, hopes and dreams, right? You're not the arbiter of other people's preferences. I'm very happy that you're a parent and that you love raising your children. Not that I could stop you, but please keep at it. Meanwhile, not everyone shares your priorities." - Sam Levine

"[There's always money in the banana stand](http://www.flickr.com/photos...)." - Sam Levine

"Several people say hi to me on the street every day. They almost universally want money. Ignoring a random stranger on the street that is genuinely being friendly in a city is a cost of living in an urban environment." - Sam Levine

"will do, thanks!" - Sam Levine

"Here you go, let me know if you want me to bug the mods to get rights to edit the wiki: Canon Vixia HF G10 (~$1100) Consumer camcorder. Basically the Canon XA10 without XLR inputs and a handle, smaller internal memory, and no infrared for about half the price. Pros: 1. Easy to use, reliable, has a fast "everything automatic" switch. 2. Reasonably sharp image, fairly good image stabilization. 3. Good battery life with an extended life battery (>300 minutes in practice), acceptable with built in (~120 minutes in practice). 4. Two SDXC card slots supporting 64GB cards stores a lot of footage. Cons: 1. Small 1/3" sensor, your depth of field is going to be very deep. 2. Image softens at full telephoto. 3. It's a lot of money for what you get." - Sam Levine

"If you can publicly say that a state is Orwellian from within it, it is by definition not Orwellian." - Sam Levine

"I'm not sure I'd describe destroying your organs via chronic alcohol abuse as fun." - Sam Levine

"For the example, they're trying to make it look like a documentary done with a handheld camera. It's not just the shaking that does this, the quick zoom and mostly flat lighting also make it look more real. You might also go handheld in a particular shot if you're trying to show less control in a given situation, or make a first person shot look more organic." - Sam Levine

"All we need are strip clubs you can eat at and we'll be the best place in the country." - Sam Levine

"> Why was there a grand jury at all? You need a GJ to take to take serious crimes to trial. In Washington State they exist year round, and typically exist before prosecutors come to them to try to get people indicted for crimes so they can go to a regular trial. > What were they being investigated for? Grand juries deliberate in private, but given that the SPD and the DA have been talking about trying to find people in relation to the May Day damage it seems likely that they're trying to indict people for this. It could be about a bigger issue, but I don't think they'd avoid the opportunity to talk it up to the media. > I have books and stuff on how to subvert from society and how different countries existed under anarchism. Am I committing a crime by having those books? No. But generally speaking having a motive matters in these things, so if you don't have an obvious motive prosecutors would need other evidence to get an indictment and take it to a regular trial. Same thing with..." - Sam Levine

"You don't have a constitutional right to not testify, you have a constitutional right to not incriminate yourself. They're two completely different things." - Sam Levine

"This is incredibly awful. Why am I laughing? XD" - Sam Levine

"Feel free to respond when you have an interest in discussing actual evidence, studies, or anything actually related to the topic, rather than acting like a twelve-year-old that just discovered Wikipedia. Or post a link to [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...), if it makes you feel good." - Sam Levine

"So you're saying that getting rid of some/many/all roads and replacing them with something else (light rail, subways, bike lanes, etc.), vastly increasing gas taxes, or putting tolls on roads and bridges *would not* reduce vehicle miles traveled? How about increasing parking costs? What if we make people pay a $10,000 fee every year (or month, if we want to get absurd) to drive by themselves? Do you think that people lived the same distance away from their workplaces when they only had access to horses in comparison to getting access to trolleys, trains, subways or freeways? What about the number of miles people travel stayed the same after they gained the ability to fly from one side of the country to the other? What about after deregulation when the price of an airline ticket dropped dramatically? Would people still travel the same amount as when they only had access to equine modes of transportation? People respond to incentives, supplies and demands, at work, in government, and in..." - Sam Levine