Jan 19 2012: SOPA and PIPA are Digital Prohibition.
Prohibition never works.
Artists who feel cheated need to find new jobs because the current world now only has room for artists that are motivated only by the love and passion of their work.
Just getting your stuff downloaded a million times should motivate you to keep producing.
If you don't feel this way then you aren't an artist or you were born in the wrong era.
You are left with the choice of having your art downloaded by the entire planet for free and being pissed or having your art downloaded by the entire planet and be happy!
Either way there is no legislation that can stop the world from sharing what they like. If you're lucky your work will be among what they share.
Apr 17 2011: I like how the speaker starts out by showing something that is very backwards and "wrong" by unscrambling an egg (which doesn't conform to what we know of entropy) and then spends the rest of the talk explaining how this is exactly how we were created.
Here are just a few of the unanswered questions for me:
- Can one believe in both Newton's laws of motion and the Big Bang theory simultaneously?
- When Newton showed how objects at rest remain at rest unless acted upon by some outside force does this not apply to objects un-banged?
Please Note: This is *not* an attack against the BB Theory which explains so much across so many fields of science that it would be impossible to remove without drastically changing everything else. I just think it is impossible to accept both Newton and the BB without relying on faith instead of logic.
Jan 5 2011: I kept waiting for him to mention Government as an example of something collectively untrusted. I wonder why he didn't use that as one of his examples...
Nov 11 2009: thanks for sharing your research with the world and going the open source route. may only good things happen to you throughout your life :)
this is still one of my favorite talks to watch and i find myself coming back here pretty often.
Nov 11 2009: as a diabetic i've seen my share of syringes and don't think i've ever used a syringe only once.
still i would like to applaud Marc Kosta for his research in making aware the scope of this global crisis and i would gladly support any law making reusable syringes illegal.
sure it would be nice to use compressed air to deliver medicine without a needle at all, however, there is already a lot of existing infrastructure and this solution could at least be a good interim step...
Jan 5 2008: the cost of marketing is out of control and i totally agree that if the choice has to be between buy tv ads for why people should visit soap lake washington and building a 50 foot tall lava lamp there is no question which one would boost their economy more.
as the internet (bloggers in particular) continues its saturation the lava lamp would get so much free advertising backed by personal recommendations.
the other remarkable examples seth left out were nintendo's wii and ds systems. very remarkable and disruptive technologies.
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A comment on Talk: Joe Smith: How to use a paper towel
I shake off my hands and then wipe them on my shirt and let the sun do the rest.
:)
A comment on Talk: Clay Shirky: Why SOPA is a bad idea
Prohibition never works.
Artists who feel cheated need to find new jobs because the current world now only has room for artists that are motivated only by the love and passion of their work.
Just getting your stuff downloaded a million times should motivate you to keep producing.
If you don't feel this way then you aren't an artist or you were born in the wrong era.
You are left with the choice of having your art downloaded by the entire planet for free and being pissed or having your art downloaded by the entire planet and be happy!
Either way there is no legislation that can stop the world from sharing what they like. If you're lucky your work will be among what they share.
A reply on Talk: David Christian: The history of our world in 18 minutes
Creationists are usually the ones who preach
nothing... - BOOM! - ...everything
while Atheists usually draw a line at
everything... - BBT - ...everything different
I liked this quote from the talk:
"Each stage is *Magical* because it creates the --impression-- of something utterly *New*..."
We all believe in a different kind of magic!
A comment on Talk: David Christian: The history of our world in 18 minutes
Here are just a few of the unanswered questions for me:
- Can one believe in both Newton's laws of motion and the Big Bang theory simultaneously?
- When Newton showed how objects at rest remain at rest unless acted upon by some outside force does this not apply to objects un-banged?
- Why didn't object(s) un-banged remain un-banged?
Please Note: This is *not* an attack against the BB Theory which explains so much across so many fields of science that it would be impossible to remove without drastically changing everything else. I just think it is impossible to accept both Newton and the BB without relying on faith instead of logic.
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A comment on Talk: Johnny Lee demos Wii Remote hacks
this is still one of my favorite talks to watch and i find myself coming back here pretty often.
keep it up!
A reply on Talk: Marc Koska: 1.3m reasons to re-invent the syringe
still i would like to applaud Marc Kosta for his research in making aware the scope of this global crisis and i would gladly support any law making reusable syringes illegal.
sure it would be nice to use compressed air to deliver medicine without a needle at all, however, there is already a lot of existing infrastructure and this solution could at least be a good interim step...
A comment on Talk: John Lloyd inventories the invisible
"Nothing really matters, anyone can see, nothing really matters to me..."
A comment on Talk: Clifford Stoll: The call to learn
"don't just ask any kindergarten teacher ask an experienced one"
thanks for qualifying that for us ...
A comment on Talk: Seth Godin: How to get your ideas to spread
as the internet (bloggers in particular) continues its saturation the lava lamp would get so much free advertising backed by personal recommendations.
the other remarkable examples seth left out were nintendo's wii and ds systems. very remarkable and disruptive technologies.