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This viral video is all about the exponential growth of available information in our society and what effects it might have on our future. Everyone should watch it once. Created by Karl Fisch.
This viral video is all about the exponential growth of available information in our society and what effects it might have on our future. Everyone should watch it once. Created by Karl Fisch.
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Most of the new technology of the future , i would not be able to do anything with it. I use what we have now for music and home movies, And i will continue to go with the flow. The government already has enough technologies to spy on us. These are the things that should concern us. Such as what can be done today , that takes our liberties away.
Obama has it right to modernize the schools so that the students can be ready for tomorrow. Times changes ,so will the jobs.
Not until there comes a time , when there is supposed to be one giant super computer , that can clone itself and make itself stronger , And will not need man's help for maintenance or improvement then i would have second thoughts.
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By getmad54November 28, 2008 - 3:16pmI want to sing them old songs.
Most of the new technology of the future, you would not be able to do anything with it?
I suspect you are right.
Funny, a lot of the new technology is actually developed with money that comes from entertainment.
It's against national security to sell computer games to China and some other countries because the microprocessor used in the games, developed from consumer revenue which is funding game development, is more advanced than weapons systems in most countries.
Cad and Finite Element Analysis software was actually developed by those that make movies such as Star Wars and then the software is sold off to other companies which then sold it as cad software.
CD players forced the cost to go from 1500 dollars to 15 dollars as well as improving the technology from a double speed single sided CD to duel layer, double sided DVD with Blue Ray technology.
We have actually entered an ages where the new technology is driven by the entertainment industry.
The only way we can compete as a nation is to devolope young minds. As long as the conservatards fight to replace science with mysticism, it will never happen.
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By deanrddNovember 29, 2008 - 2:58amI think the big factor in future tech
is in the fact that virtually every kid now uses a computer second naturedly. 40 years ago only scientists had access to a computer. so only specialists were working on ways to use them. Today they are tools the way calculators were a few years back and people are looking for ways to use them in virtually every aspect of life.
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By gt6November 29, 2008 - 9:45amComputer
Just being able to steer to a website or download illegal music doesn't make you an expert.
Everyone in the US knows how to turn on a light (use the switch stupid), but probably only a tiny percent knows how a light bulb actually works.
The difference between adults and kids is that the kids aren't "afraid" of the computers. Believe me, I have worked with both. Adults are afraid they might mess something up, kids want to know what to do next.
Without a background in "art", computer art looks tacky. Without a traditional background in "music", computer music is just noise. The same for engineering.
Computers today are designed by other computers. No human can design a CPU with millions of transistors. But it's the "people" that program the computers. THAT TAKES EDUCATION.
I remember when John McCain, during the election, referred to college students as a "special interest" group. And talked about nuclear safety and what to do with nuclear waste as "blah blah blah". Throngs of the ignorant cheered. That moron almost became our president.
Does anyone think that if McCain and Palin became the CIC and VP, they would be putting together a bipartisan cabinet with such speed? No, Palin would be "vacationing" in Alaska and McCain would be out playing golf.
The inmates would still be running the asylum. The US has several wars going on right now:
1. War in Iraq
2. War in Afghanistan
3. War on the economy
4. War on this government humbled by Bush
5. War on our world image given to us by Bush
6. War on what disasters Bush will cause in his last 50 days.
7. War on Ignorance
8. War on the mystical who want to replace science in our schools with "supernatural"
And another two dozen wars I haven't even mentioned.
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By deanrddNovember 29, 2008 - 1:15pmBy deanrdd November 29, 2008 - 1:15pm
#7..."war on ignorance"
Don't you mean "war for ignorance? These goons have sought to dumb down Americans to the point where we just say "OKAY" to all of the injustice, "OKAY" to all the prejudice, "OKAY" to each and every move that this Poseur In Chief has made in our names.
I know what you meant, It's only that I believe that there are those like 'hatey' who will pounce on this to try to make that dull pin at the top of his head look like a point.
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By roadgoddessNovember 30, 2008 - 9:07amDepends on which side you are on.
Republicans are the ones "FOR" ignorance.
They have this "tactic" that seems to work for them over and over again among their "ilk".
They come up with these bizarre, outrageous scenarios and use those to justify the awful things they do.
Examples:
Iraq was close to setting off nuclear weapons and that's why we had to stop them. We were next.
If abortion is allowed, women will use abortion exclusively as the only form of birth control and will feel justified killing newborns.
Gays will marry their pets.
Letting a gay into the military is like putting a straight guy into a platoon of hooters girls.
Believing in evolution is a one way ticket to hell. What is to stop you from orgies and murder?
Obama will bring rap and thugs to the White House because he is black.
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I have heard every single one of these arguments from the right. They are awful people. You know that the Christian population in Iraq has been decimated by 1/2 to two thirds? They say things like, "Well, you have to break a few eggs".
The right has been taken over by the worst America has too offer. The unpatriotic ignorant who revel in their ignorance. They can't be reasoned with. They must be defeated. That means that mainstream America must stand up to them. Standing up to them doesn't mean violence. It means exposure. You have to drag them from their damp dark place of prejudice and ignorance into some type of enlightenment. You can't let up. You can't acquiesce. The last eight years has been a free ride for the Republicans and that has been a disaster for this country.
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By deanrddNovember 30, 2008 - 12:22pmBy deanrddNovember 29, 2008 - 2:58am
Of all forms of entertainment, it is porn that drives technology the most. That has been true since the printing press.
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By f u bush2November 29, 2008 - 9:55amYes and no.
Spending money on porn provides revenue, but not technology. That development aspect comes from movies mostly. Virtually all 3d technology came from movies.
You don't need special effects for porn. Just a couple of messed up people with no other talent who would do anything for a buck, a garage, a blanket (optional), a bottle of lube (optinal) and a working video camera.
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By deanrddNovember 29, 2008 - 1:00pmBy deanrddNovember 29, 2008 - 1:00pm
I disagree. Porn outsold the bible with the printing press, creating demand. Porn drove sales of photographic film from the start. And porn is responsible for the development of internet technologies.
In some cases porn is responsible for the new technology. In others it creates the demand that brings about mass production at lower cost. The former is happening with internet and computer technology. For example: Danni Ashe.
If 3d technology can be applied to the porn industry in some manner, it will end up advancing that field farther and faster than any other contributor.
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By f u bush2November 29, 2008 - 1:14pmIf 3d technology can be...
I think you are giving "porn" way too much credit.
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By deanrddNovember 29, 2008 - 3:38pmBy deanrddNovember 29, 2008 - 3:38pm
Well it isn't worth arguing about. But I do not believe I'm giving porn too much credit.
I have history to back it up. As soon as photographic film became available there was a demand for pictures of naked people. And that demand brought about increased production, improvements in production and lower prices.
The same goes for the internet. It was the demand for streaming video of naked women that brought about the development of better ways to stream quality video. It was a large market waiting to be tapped.
Now take the idea of being able to manipulate robotic hands through the internet. There is now the ability to perform surgery remotely with very expensive equipment. But when it comes to upscaling this to mass production, what do you think will drive that technology?; The need to shake hands remotely or the need for hand jobs for $25 a session?
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By f u bush2November 29, 2008 - 3:55pm.
How was that?
It's was great, if a bit "mechanical".
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By deanrddNovember 29, 2008 - 7:28pmPrinting press was first used to print Bibles.
2nd use was to print raffle tickets for wealthy to buy seats in heaven.
3rd use was the original blog, to get the word out to all, of the insanity of the church and the wealthy, for the 2nd use of the printing press.
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By aaazzz111November 29, 2008 - 8:00pmPorn didn't develop or
Porn didn't develop or enhance the technology, but the technology was rapidly embraced by the purveyors of porn. It wasn't the demand for better quality streaming video for porn that developed the technology. As soon as the technology was available, purveyors of porn used it. The printing press wasn't developed to purvey porn, but as soon as it became available, purveyors of porn used it. They really aren't very imaginative people, those porn-ographers. That's why women find most porn very, very boring after the first two or three times. They don't develop stuff, they use what is available. People who are visually stimulated will pay top dollar for a little titillation.
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By MichtouNovember 29, 2008 - 8:14pmBy deanrddNovember 29, 2008 - 1:00pm
Pornography Drives Technology: Why Not to Censor the Internet
Peter Johnson
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By f u bush2November 29, 2008 - 1:09pmreplace science with mysticism
Given the Internet, I doubt that this will ever happen. Unless the Conservatards find a way to shut off the Internet to their non-curious, non-sexually active (yeah right--just ask Sarah Palin how Bristol became pregnant--immaculate conception no doubt) progeny.
I bought a book a few months back called, "The Encyclopaedea of Biblical Evidences." I was hoping to find a scientific discussion. Instead I found nothing but dogma. We are right because the Good Book says we're right, and evidence be damned. Don't you know that scientists can be wrong? Read this book and arm yourself for the next cookie party (since cocktail parties are dens of iniquity) where you can slay the hedonists with your knowledge of biblical evidence.
Sorry, I'm a scientist. I may believe in God but I do not believe that we were created precisely at noon about 6,000 years ago. There is too much evidence to the contrary that suggests double-digit billions of years for the age of the Universe.
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By blogbobNovember 30, 2008 - 12:59amI personally have no ghostly beliefs, neither holy nor friendly.
American Christians are not very, well, Christian. I attended Catholic school growing up. In the Bible, Jesus talks about poverty and the wealthy helping the poor more than 3 thousand times, yet never mentions gays a single time.
Just the fact that American Christians support the new Iraq constitution which makes Islam the national religion and merely shrug at the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Christians who have been beheaded, crucified and chased out of a homeland they have been living in BEFORE there even was Islam proves how low they have sunk.
American Christians are fixated on gays even though there are "swingers" clubs in every state in the union (even Alaska) and some of those clubs boast of members from more than 35 countries. They have swingers conventions every year in Las Vegas and Florida. They take over huge resort hotels and have dozens of orgy rooms covering many floors. It's possible there are more swingers living in the US than gays.
Yet, ask them if they even know any gays and they say, "I don't want to" or "I know someone how knows someone who has a cousin".
Many American Christians don't even know where gays come from.
American Christians would rather their sons and daughters live in extreme danger in Iraq rather than being helped by a gay translator who might "see" them in the shower. They are more afraid of the gays than the terrorists. Could they be any more ignorant?
I use the gay issue because it is so out there and the most obvious. But it is only one of many.
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By deanrddNovember 30, 2008 - 12:42pmWhere in the constitution does it give the president
the POWER to modernize the school system?
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By momofukuNovember 28, 2008 - 9:11pmHi Again, Dummy!
I'm not sure that it does, but when he has a filibuster proof majority in the senate and the overwhelming majority in congress, it should be pretty easy to get the juice to start reversing all the damage you PNAC neo cons have inflicted on my country.
Bye, Dummy!!
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By othelloNovember 28, 2008 - 9:50pmBy othelloNovember 28, 2008 - 9:50pm
Happy Thanksgiving weekend!
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By f u bush2November 28, 2008 - 10:52pmHappy Thanksgiving Weekend To You Too, fub2!
I had the entire week off... took a couple days vacation along with the two holidays. I wonder if all of our trolls are thanking unions for fighting to get them paid holidays? I doubt it, they're ingrates and morons.
I've been dope slapping momofuklansman for a while, but he's getting boring already. Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
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By othelloNovember 28, 2008 - 11:06pmYou mean with that horribly-misnamed...
..."No Child Left Behind" travesty?
Classic example of RepubliCANT doublespeak. Name something the exact opposite of what it's intended to do.
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. ~~~John Kenneth Galbraith
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By nonexistent manNovember 29, 2008 - 6:41amgood call nonex
dumsh*it put his foot right in his mouth.
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By aaazzz111November 29, 2008 - 10:41amOr spy on other Americans?
Or attack countries that never attacked us?
Or torture?
Or arrest people and hold them indefinitely?
Or lie to the American people?
Or give out 363 tons of 100 dollar bills of American Taxpayer money on the streets of Iraq?
Or send our soldiers off to other countries with shitty and old equipment?
Or give away a trillion dollars of middle class money to the very rich?
There are lots of things not spelled out by the constitution. When did that ever stop Republicans, or that shitstain - Bush?
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By deanrddNovember 29, 2008 - 1:53pmThe Power
1. The State is charged with the responsibility to educate our young.
2. This power has devolved from the states to the counties or municipalities over time.
3. States, counties, and municipalities seek Federal government mioney to improve the quality of education.
4. The money is provided through grants and other financial instruments via the US Depaertmernt of Education, a Cabinet-level position since the late 1970s.
5. The DOE has long used these instruments as levers to get school systems of states, counties, and municipalities to do their bidding. If you want Federal money you must comply with the following: (a) (b) (c) and so forth.
6. Every so often there is the unfunded mandate like "No Child Left Alive" that dictaters to school systems without funding the needed changes to implement the dictates.
7. As Chief Executive, Barack Obama will have power over items 4 through 6 above.
As to your question, the power of the President to affect education in the United States is found in Article II, Section 2:
Empahasis added.
any more questions?
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By blogbobNovember 30, 2008 - 1:18amJerusalem worried US will sell tanks to Lebanon
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By f u bush2November 28, 2008 - 10:52pmFunny, Earlier, momofuklansman cut and pasted an article...
... about some guys in Texas being convicted of funding Hezbollah and Hamas, and here we are putting old tanks in their hands! I mean, as far as he is concerned, all Muslims are terrorists, right? I mean, he's said that here before, something about mass murdering the whole billion of them, right?
I wonder if we will supply them with depleted uranium shells as well?
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By othelloNovember 28, 2008 - 11:14pmrobot probe air-drone superiority is the new ground superiorty
Jews in Space.
--Mel Brooks.
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Do the schwartz.
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By aaazzz111November 29, 2008 - 8:37pmWell, nice to get a return on that old hardware
Israel has no need to worry. The M60 wouldn't last 10 secondas against an Israeli M1A2 or Chieftan.
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By blogbobNovember 30, 2008 - 1:24amMore on porn and new technology...
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By f u bush2November 29, 2008 - 8:59pmDanni Ashe developed new streaming technology
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By f u bush2November 29, 2008 - 9:06pmMuch as you'd like to
Much as you'd like to believe that porn drives technology, you're wrong. Porn uses technology, it doesn't develop it. They're great users because they make money. That doesn't mean they develop it. They are first on the bandwagon users because they see the opportunity to make lots of money. They aren't into innovation, they're into making money off inovation.
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By MichtouNovember 29, 2008 - 9:11pmBy MichtouNovember 29, 2008 - 9:11pm
porn takes new technology and develops it more which brings it into the mainstream.
Porn is responsible for early improvements to photography and the internet because of high demand and money available to pay for the improvements. Without porn the new technology would not make the impact it does.
And yes they do innovate. As an example I posted Danni Ashe who developed her own streaming technology which at the time was top notch. She didn't invent streaming video but she contributed to its development.
And as the article i posted points out, it was the porn industry that decided the VHS/Beta format battle.
Let me add that "porn" encompasses all types in my point of view. From the blatant visuals of sexual acts by paid models to more artistic but pornographic writings to the more intimate pictures of an individual's significant other.
Civil war troops were receiving "pornographic" pictures of their naked spouses by mail. This was the dawn of personal photography,
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By f u bush2November 29, 2008 - 9:24pmoregon civil war
oregon 65-38
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By aaazzz111November 29, 2008 - 10:54pmBy aaazzz111 November 29, 2008 - 10:54pm
GO DUCKS!!
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By roadgoddessNovember 30, 2008 - 7:00amLieberman Contributed to GOP Senate, House Candidates
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By f u bush2November 30, 2008 - 12:52amLet LIEberman have his committees now
but the first time he supports a filibuster, STRIP HIM! And do it publicly.
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By gt6November 30, 2008 - 10:22amBy gt6 November 30, 2008 - 10:22am
Let LIEberman have his committees now but the first time he supports a filibuster, STRIP HIM! And do it publicly.
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Thing is, they can't.
Removing him and replacing him would have to go through the Senate. Which is why Evan Bayh's donkeyshit about removing him if he works against Obama's interests was nothing but that: donkeyshit.
Show of hands: how many think Republicans in the Senate will push through the removal and replacement of their newest Zell Miller?
Anyone? Anyone?
Didn't think so.
And if Evan Bayh really thought/thinks so, he's a dumber mother fucker than I had originally thought...
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