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• A reply on Talk: Dan Gilbert: Why we make bad decisions

  Sep 21 2012: You are over complicating it,
  
  The increase in the % of people who drove to their destination over the number of people who fly there post 911, times the % of people who die while driving, is more then those that dies in the two towers.
  
  You are right though that its not a very interesting number because its one day vs. years of statistics.
  
  A more to the point statistic is that the number of people who die in auto accidents in a
  year is many, many times the number of people who die in any airplane related event, including the year 2011.
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  A comment on Talk: Dan Gilbert: Why we make bad decisions

  Sep 12 2012: The terrorism discussion was interesting, but I think he left one other important factor.
  
  Terrorism works because it is rare, and therfor unpredictable. We vastly over-estimate unpredictable dangers because we feel less control. Things that happen all the time we can predict to some degree, and we get used to.
  
  This is why no good terrorist repeats the same act over and over. It loses its effectiveness.
  
  We vastly over estimate the impact of unpredictable loss.

• A comment on Talk: Dan Gilbert: Why we make bad decisions

  Sep 12 2012: Is this talk unavailable on a TED DVD? if so, why?

• A comment on Talk: Eric Giler demos wireless electricity

  Sep 12 2012: My question is simple: Every engineer learns the basic inverse-square law. The amount of energy transferred over a distance is equal to the starting energy times one over the square of ths distance.
  
  Does this technique change that, and if so, how?

• A reply on Talk: Eric Giler demos wireless electricity

  Sep 12 2012: Actually, this is a bit of a myth. Your gradeschool bio-teacher over-simplified.
  
  Yes, the human nervous system works through the transfer of electrons, but such transfer is a chemical process. Neuro-transmitters released from one nerve cause the release of electrons inside the cell when hitting receptors in another. This does produce tiny measurable charges, and can be influenced using very strong and focused charges, but we are far more chemical then we are electrical.

• A comment on Talk: Johanna Blakley: Lessons from fashion's free culture

  Oct 28 2010: The entire opening thesis of this talk is misinformation and incorrect.
  
  “The fashion industry has no copyright protection…”
  
  A brief web search says otherwise…
  
  Here are actual law suits over both patterns and the prints on them:
  
  http://www.apparelsearch.com/News/Articles/Fashion/2009/March/3.21.09_Fashion_Copyright_Infringement_Suit_Forever_21.htm
  
  http://www.allbusiness.com/legal/intellectual-property-copyright/850527-1.html
  
  This talk should be removed as containing major misinformation.
  
  Really, I expect better of TED.