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• A reply on Conversation: How TED can spread great ideas even faster and even further?

  Feb 20 2013: Michelle, it seems you are an endless source of TED improvements and I assume you haven't even revealed the tip of the iceberg of your creativity yet ... :o)
  
  But unfortunately, the implementation of TED's and other great ideas remains the difficult part.
  
  Much of what we get to hear on this site appears to me as beautiful 'concept cars', all new and beautiful by their looks and sketched by talented and passionate designers. Yet after 'reality check' of those concepts within 'the company', most of us get to buy only the ordinary models at our 'real life' car dealers... :o)
  
  I assume, that since the beginning of civilization, there has never been a lack of good and better ideas than the ordinary ones in charge, so one could ask, why 'we' didn't manage to implement them? Here, I am afraid, we enter the vast fields of political and economical interests, which are reason why we still have the ordinary... :o) So if you have a working idea how to bypass this current and static 'model' of this world and make it evolve as a whole instead, I would love to hear about it... :o)

• A comment on Conversation: Is there an online software to create typography videos?

  Feb 20 2013: The only online software I know to animate text is a presentation tool called PREZI, which also comes with a free yet limited license option:
  
  http://prezi.com/
  
  Here is a how-to video on youtube for a simple text-animation:
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWoc5Oci8Wk
  
  Hop to 10:38 to see the final animation...
  
  Maybe this can be of help for your project.

• A comment on Conversation: Any one for free public transport

  Feb 20 2013: Yupp, count me in!
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  A reply on Conversation: Colin Powell

  Feb 20 2013: This answer refers to your above comment to Damon Ucraiui's link-list, which, as a 3rd level reply can not be commented directly.
  
  Quote: 'I not sure if you aware that DOT COM, more often than not, indicates a "commercial entity"'
  
  You are not very familiar with the Internet, are you? You can reserve any free COM domain for about a dollar a month to run just your family website, so what is your connection here as part of your 'analysis'? This domain is free for private use already, just in case you didn't notice...
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  A reply on Conversation: We are advised to travel light when we undertake a journey.Why can't we travel light in our lives too to make it beautiful and enjoyable?

  Feb 16 2013: I see what you mean and for possessions I trained myself some while ago to the point, that what I have, is enough. Relationships are different to me, because those I don't mind to loose are of no value to me anyway. I would not wish to have no value in anyone and even though it is very painful, I would not like to miss any of the gaps of close people I once loved yet lost. It taught me humbleness. But that's just my view, and interesting to see your difference.
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  A comment on Conversation: We are advised to travel light when we undertake a journey.Why can't we travel light in our lives too to make it beautiful and enjoyable?

  Feb 15 2013: Maybe Buddhism could be of your interest then.

• A comment on Conversation: if you had

  Feb 15 2013: Is there a valid precedent case regarding the law of inheritance in this paradox?
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  A comment on Conversation: The use of shock advertising by social marketers is an effective strategy to change behavior. Or has it contrary/counter effects?

  Feb 15 2013: In my opinion, anxiety is the ONLY reaction 'social marketers' (whoever those are) are aiming at.
  
  In modern 24/7/365 media terror societies, in which we became unable of NOT being subjected to any form of advertising, commercials, brand-names, logos, jingles and beauty models by our sensory organs, how do those 'social marketers' get to 'ring' another bell of ours? And here even a bell of 'our' personal 'importance' in their and their advertising customers eyes?
  
  How do they penetrate our 'horny media skin' by their, but yet another message? How do they catch our eyes which have seen all of the bright side of sweet promises - every day since birth? Glamor, Beauty, Youth, Happiness, Friends, etc.?
  
  Anxiety is a powerful emotion and compared to knowledge, way more likely to induce a behavioral change within us.
  
  For instance, in 2013, in the western world, there is no active smoker anymore who doesn't know about the risks he/she is taking. So, if not anxiety, what do you think the UK health department is trying to generate in your given example? Just a 'visualization' of this knowledge for a 'better' understanding?
  
  Humans are world-champions in suppressing better knowledge. This is part of our nature, part of our optimism and a necessity for our lives not to 'freeze in anxiety' facing all the risks surrounding us every day.
  
  To place a 'message' behind those lines of personal defense, one got to be drastic, shocking, unexpected for it to sink in, again and it is necessary to bypass the filter of our 'ratio' and to sting right into our instincts, of which fear is one of the strongest, if not THE strongest.
  
  Shock advertising has to get very personal and this is why it is even more suspicious to me than the 'regular' ones. WHO is going to place ITS message within ME and WHY? Is the UK health department only interested in the 'health' of smoking people, or is it a 'cost saving program' to health-care? What about car driving then? Shouldn't we get to SEE it too?
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  A comment on Conversation: Can democracy survive without journalism?

  Feb 14 2013: Journalism has never been free, has it?
  
  Print media, TV and their digital 'remakes' - all of them, at least the 'big ones' are full of commercials, which are paid by 'the big ones' of the industry.
  
  And how often can a journalist, a publisher, bite the hand who feeds him?
  
  Actually, the time has never been as good for uncensored journalism as it is today!
  
  By the use of digital media, the main costs of publishing get eliminated to almost zero, thus the necessity for commercials, alias 'censorship', is completely eliminated!
  
  No paper, no printing ink, no transport logistic, no satellite necessary anymore.
  
  Just some server capacity and the journalists salary, that's all you need today to reach your readers and this even worldwide! So why on earth should those perfect conditions be the end of journalism and not its very pure beginning?
  
  And the same goes for democracy, as there is no need anymore to keep any paying customers of 'the industry' happy, which is the best condition for any investigative journalism anyway.
  
  So why should journalism fail if it could actually thrive?
  
  And why do you think those new forms of information, such as 'WikiLeaks', are actually feared by so called 'democracies', instead of being welcomed? Why do you think did 'they' block easy payment methods for this site? Why this 'witch-hunt' of it's founder?
  
  Information has always been the source of power of any ruling class, yet who is actually the ruling-class in a democracy? Isn't it us, the people? There is a new era dawning, if 'we' would just allow it.
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  A comment on Conversation: Movies give a false sense of reality

  Feb 14 2013: And what about books, perception and fantasy? And what about 'reality' in the news? How does a real war, murder or rape affect my thinking the moment I get to hear and know about it? Isn't this way more 'dramatic' than any first person shooter video game? What about the F-word I get to hear in 'real' life? Does it really help to 'beep' it out on TV? Isn't it actually just 'forcing' me to 'fill this gap' by myself? Who grows up that isolated to be actually saved by this?
  
  How do we 'prepare' our children against child abuse? How do we make them understand how 'reality' can look like, as we all know, that it is not always 'the stranger' who is the potential 'threat'.
  
  Isn't 'age-appropriate' just an illusion as well as 'civilized countries'?
  
  Of course our 'thoughts become our reality', yet video games and movies are just a fraction of what actually forms our thoughts, so what about the rest, called 'real life'?