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I'm watching it right now, so my thoughts in sort of a freeform brain dump. I'm going to state that I know in advance that I probably agree with the sentiment of the video.
First thoughts, I doubt the core reason for the ongoing subjugation of the poor by the wealthy has *everything* to do with ignorance.
I would argue that, while ignorance is important, at least as important is the, probably genetic, social behaviors that make it difficult to disobey authority and even more difficult to act independently against authority when it's happening to someone else.
Second thought, the bit with the TV was dumb.
I don't really think that critical thinking was removed from education, considering that is exactly where I learned to think critically. But I'll suspend my disbelief for now. It seems a bit alarmist.
The investment banker looks like a douche, but the interview looks to be highly edited. I'd like to see an uncut version of it. Just because I agree with the sentiment that rich investment bankers don't really understand or give a shit about the poor doesn't mean it's actually true. And I would be deeply upset if (as I suspect) this interview is a chop job.
J Random Black Guy makes a good point. The only possible route to anything remotely resembling success for an inner city child is to entertain the white man. Primarily through Basketball and Rap. Interesting statistic, you know that we incarcerate our 20-25 year old black men at a rate about 6 times that of the rest of the population? It's shit like this America.
This guy is sounding more and more like a rare, endangered super-douche. Researching his name on the internet to ensure that he isn't some sort of plant. A bit of research shows that this interview was probably pulled directly from "The One Percent" This link shows that at least he puts on a show of being philanthropic:
http://www.bridgingnetwork.org/members.html wrote:
Karl Muth is an heir and entrepreneur as well as a philanthropist, traveler and commentator. He has traveled to dozens of countries on five continents and been featured in a wide range of media including the Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, The Chicago Journal, and the Oprah Winfrey Show. He also appeared in the movie The One Percent, a film by Jamie Johnson, director of Born Rich. Karl was an early proponent of Resource Generation and a board member of the Self Education Foundation. He also co-founded Channel G, an organization that uses media to encourage participation in -- and the democratization of -- philanthropy. Native to Chicago, he is a graduate of The John Marshall Law School and an MBA candidate at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
But I was unable to find any reviews at all for this "charity"
So at this point he seems like a normal, douchey rich person with pretenses but no substance of charity. Which is probably more work to pretend to be than I'm willing to give this youtube video credit for. Continuing.
I'm still disturbed by the assertion that compulsory education necessarily means brainwashing. With one breath the video argues that we're incompetent for the challenges that face us, and with the other it argues that education is the problem, not the solution, to this. I doubt very much that there's a conspiracy in the American education system to make is suck as much as possible. Rather, I think it's simply underfunded. I will admit that No Child Left Behind was an awesome way to deny the most needy of students federal funding though. Bravo Bush Administration.
Good point of on population, but unchecked growth also leads to problems. Exponential growth vs finite resources is a big problem that we're experiencing right now. For instance, let's take something like coal. There's a finite amount of coal in the world, and let's say we use 7% more coal this year than last year. And we've used up only 25% of the coal reserves on the entire planet. (The real numbers are actually higher than this, I just picked them for ease of calculation.) 7% growth leads to a doubling period of about 10 years. Which means that 10 years from now we'll have used another 25% of the remaining coal reserves (in those 10 years, in other words, we'll have used as much coal as the rest of the entirety of human history.) And then in another 10 years we'll have used the rest of the coal, on the entire planet. 20 years and everything is gone. If we somehow discovered 3 new planets with coal stores the same as planet earth, it would only last us 20 years. 10 years for 1 planet, 10 for the other 2.
Population is the same way.
I don't know of a moral way to solve this issue though. But simply ignoring it is not an option. Depopulation isn't a problem except in the Western world, and a bigger problem is overpopulation.
John Lennon is kinda dumb.
I'm going to stop here, because it seems really conspiracy based and it's making me feel dirty.
This being said, I believe that there is class warfare going on in this country. But I really doubt that it's as much of a conspiracy as this program is making it out to be. People are really bad at keeping secrets, and a secret of this magnitude would have gotten out a long time ago because it involves so many people. I'm going to call this not plausible. "Climate Change" a myth perpetuated by the wealthy? "Overpopulation" a myth? To keep us distracted? This is exactly the sort of thing that makes it difficult for me to argue about things like this and be taken seriously.
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@andymac, one thing that really bothers me is when people conflate socialism with fascism. The two are not congruent. In fact, some of the most notorious dictatorships were capitalist. The only difference between a fascist communist and a fascist capitalist is the route they took to power.
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Mr. Kelly R. Flewin wrote:
There's 3 No votes at the moment.. and not a single word in here of WHY they were voted No...
I think the entire system needs to be retweaked where if you vote No, you MUST put a response in the thread indicating why or you will be banned from voting for the rest of the year.
I feel this would stop vengeful NO postings [How dare the person obsolete my TAS I spent months on and then say he did it in a week! I'm voting NO and hope everyone else does too!] and actuallly bring forth honest C&C. [And a temp ban if you just make some lame reason "Voting NO because I was bored" isn't good enough... although "Voting NO due to bad game choice" is borderline good enough."
I dunno.. I mean I try to state why I vote No when I do and I don't think it's too much to ask.. but then that's just me...
Mr. Kelly R. Flewin
Voting No to this suggestion. It assumes that the default is accepting the movie. (Because Yes votes won't have to be justified,) and it leaves users in an uncomfortable spot when the must come out against majority opinion, and it's (in my opinion) not a big problem, because the judges already are responsible for determining a movie by it's merits and just a simple unsupported No vote is vanishingly unlikely to affect the judge in one way or another.
So voting No as this is a radical and potentially drama and damage causing solution to a non-problem.
Much <3 though!
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neo_omegon wrote:
Unfortunately, improvement patch causes desynchronization around the battle against Tropicallo.
Graphical problem in path to matango might be solved by changing emulator version to v1.43.
During the encode I also got a desync. The best bet is to play the movie for a few minutes and then stop the movie and restart it without closing the emulator. After doing this it played back just fine. I doubt it has anything to do with your improvement patch. Stop confusing Touch Me. :(
Encode incoming.
EDIT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xrZdIYeUp8
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Warp, it works fine for me using Firefox 4.0betapre8 under Linux 64bit.(hg20101007r55015)
Though I've had on again and off again trouble with the flashplayer in the 4.0 svn series.
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Because of the reduction in lag because of the glitched out graphics, is it possible to trigger the DelayWaterCurrent glitch in Iceman's stage after triggering DelayStageClear in Bombman's stage?
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mmarks wrote:
I tried to do this TAS, but when I saw the video of OmnipotentEntity, I did not realize it was so long, because I do not like to make TASes of more than 2 or 3 hours, but if I have to encode, but this was a great game for OmnipotentEntity, congrats
I didn't encode it, I just stitched it together and reuploaded it, the quality as a result is rather poorer than I'd like. So if anyone can find the smv I'd like to reencode it. And if someone can translate the annotations I would like to add them as well.
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mencoder can stitch the files together, if you don't need to keep your sources you can setup a for loop to combine the files 10 at a time, delete the sources and repeat.
This is bash scripting (does not work in zsh or plain sh) and it assumes mencoder is in your path, if you need batch scripting then let me know and I'll try to work it out.
mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -o sm64.batch.0.avi sm64.{01..10}.avi;
rm sm64.{01..10}.avi;
for file in {1..9}; do mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -o sm64.batch.${file}.avi sm64.$[(10*$file)+{1..10}].avi; rm sm64.$[(10*$file)+{1..10}].avi; done
mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -o sm64.batch.10.avi sm64.{111..116}.avi;
rm sm64.{111..116}.avi;
Obviously, I have no way of testing this script, so please review it first to make sure it work.
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