FIRED UP ? Not so much.

I've just watched the Full FOX republican presidential debate, so that you, faithful reader, don't have to endure it.

you can catch it here :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDSs_XFmacc&feature=player_embedded#!

Lots of tough talk, not many ideas.

In short :

Worst fucking nightmare : Rick Santorum (Hitler's spiritual grandchild)

Least horrible : Ron Paul or Mitt Romney

Best scores from the (republican) public : Herman Cain (the black guy, who's up for an all black election in '12 ?? ) with 72% positive rating, close second was Ron Paul with 70%

Worst score : Pawlenty with 20% positive rating.

Gayest candidate (in spirit only since the man has 7 kids) : Jon Huntsman heroically steals the price from Pawlenty. (If these two ever decide to get a civil union I'd support that)

Now that Rick Perry joined the race he might be worth looking at since he's good looking, always a plus in an American election. But he's too close in terms of image to George W. Bush to win the independents in '12 in my opinion so not really an issue.

Hottest candidate : Michelle Bachmann, also she's from Minnesota so she gets extra points from me and yet more points for arguing a woman should be "submissive" to her husband :)

She got asked about being "submissive" as a president and fumbled something about "submissive" really meaning respect.

Wonder why God didn't just say respect in that case... A much better answer, in case she's reading, is to separate the role of wife and president. Both come with diverse sets of obligations.

Least green candidate : Huntsman, the guy actually wants to close down the EPA. He created a cancer institute, here's an idea Jon : don't give people cancer in the first place ;-)

Newt GingRich is still kicking, the guy's best chance at being president at this point is an alien invasion... But he's a decent politician (comeback wise) I give this to him, too establishment to ever win in 2012 tough.

Overall, these no one even comes close to Barack Obama in terms of political talent, oratory skill or eloquence. But the voters will be confronted to the reality of Obama against the election promises of the Republican candidate. That on top of the fact that Obama didn't get any whiter in 4 years and that this time he has no Bush bonus and won't run again'st a half dead candidate with no money and a wacko for vice president.

Put all that together and I predict a republican victory in '12. If the elephants manage not to choose a far righter, they can take this election easily enough. Unless 15 million unemployed suddenly find a job or drop dead that is.

The pen is mightier than the sword

One of the many reasons I want a space elevator

This video is about space based solar power. SBSP is a revolutionary technology that captures electricity in space and microwaves it back to Earth.

It is enourmously efficient and all the technologies already exist today. But no one will build it because it's too much material to lift to space...

US NOW - can we rule ourselves online ?

The end of democracy is right after the elections.

- unknown

Do you every feel like the people ruling your contry could be doing a better job ? What if you had their job, you and everyone else ? What if a country had no rulers because everyone is a ruler ?

What if the internet allowed for better societies than the standard hierachical model ? What if a new football team managed exclusively by its fans, online, collaboratively won the cup ?

Are 30'000 brains really better than 1 ?

http://www.youtube.com/movie/us-now

Check it out !

The entertainer that did not want the people listening

I would like to ask you a question, when you watch a tv show or a theatre movie at the moment, how do you usualy do it ?

a) Mostly on the internet

b) on Tv or in the theatre

If you are not making a lot of money at the moment, it is probable that you choose to get your entertainment online when it comes to movies that are less than stellar. You might go the the movies from time to time but you'll mostly watch the b series and fourth remakes online. In my case, I went for Avatar, I might go again for Transformers 3. Some people might go only for their favorit Director but in any case, with today's prices you won't go see everything out of home. It's time and money consuming.

Tv shows are totaly dominated by HBO who has the best series in the world by a long shot from any competitor (Game of Thrones, True blood, The Pacific, Band of brothers, The Sopranos, Sex and the City, Oz, Rome, Spartacus). These are just a few examples of the shining succes of HBO shows.

These shows are so popular that a majority of people would elect to make them part of their personal entertainment selection if they could watch for free and at a time that is convenient to them. That is a stellar result, better than almost anything in the whole history of entertainment. Over half the POPULATION wants to watch this stuff.

That's no accident either, in 2011 our social level of specialization is reaching dizzing heights in every field, including entertainment.

Yet HBO is strugguling to make money. HBO is not watched enough, can you believe that ?

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20470532_20228856,00.html

Why ? Making good shows is expensive and when you restrict who can watch based on who can pay, you limit the number of people watching.

Incredible isn't it ? PRICED OUT of your own market by your own supperior quality of product ???

Yet this is happening to HBO at the moment.

So why not make it free online world wide?

Provide 100 languages in text and twenty in sound dubing and advertise !! This way HBO should theoreticaly gain a timeshare of worldwide entertainment viewers time that would be very considerable. Based entierly on the quality of the shows. Not to mention that a deal could be found with Google to do this at no cost.

That would basicaly place them in a situation like Facebook. Have a large time share of the population's attention during the day. Making it very attractive. Furthermore this access is gained when people are relaxing, therefore most receptive to suggestion. The selfsame reason there are ads on TV at home and not on your computer at work.

Once that is gained it's easy to develop "popcorn sessions" and let people watch TV with friends and webcams open... or any other social type of stuff. That will consumate more time, you can add a chat service and a small intern mail and photo system. Basicaly the longer you keep them hooked, the more time
you have to advertise.

The some 800 million people with broadband internet access of the world could access this service (by the way, they happen to be the top 800 million in terms of wealth, neat little segmentation), even if only 10% choose to use it. Smallish value compared to how many people would choose to access HBO series for free. 80 million wealthy people is great !! The Sopranos, widely recogniszed to be the most successful show on recent TV only had 11 million viewers !!

If you make these 80 million people watch 2 adds each every day that's 160 million targetted and verified impressions of the add per day. That's 54 BILLION verified and targeted impressions per year. Even at 0.1 cent per impression that's still 5.4 billion dollars of extra revenue. With potentialy no cost.

"Look after the customer and the business will take care of itself"

- Ray Kroc (founder of McDonald's)


It is time the entertainment industy recongnized it is closer in nature to a supermarket than to an art galery and started giving people what people want, free TV and Movies. Instead the morons that run these companies have elected to fight with their own consumer base through legal means and to punish their customers for, well, consuming the product in a way they deem unfit.

MADNESS !!!!  Madness and stupidity !! Adapt you you shall survive.

Another quote to reflect on before leaving you:

The army's formation is like water.

The water's formation avoids the high and rushes to the low. So an army's formation avoids the strong and rushes to the weak. Water's formation adapts to the ground when flowing. So then an army's formation adapts to the enemy to achieve victory. Therefore, an army does not have constant force, or have constant formation.

Those who are able to adapt and change in accord with the enemy and achieve victory are called divine.

- Sun Tzu, the art of war

The Genocide of first born Canadians

I've recently stumbler upon this documentary named H2OIL. It's about the exploitation of tar sands in the region of Alberta, Canada. You will not believe what is going on out there, you will not believe your own eyes when you see the scale and enormity of the destruction and you will not believe your ears when you hear the local people's horror tales of mutated fish and deadly cancers. And you most likely won't believe the angel faced PR people of the oil industry telling you it's all normal after all.

You want to know the real price of the modern day oil addiction ? Watch this real world horror story and share it with your friends.

This is a link only video, click the link below to access it on Youtube  (Putlocker now).


http://www.putlocker.com/file/7E59E8A7395F8D93



Want to get involved try h2oildoc.com

Thanks for watching !!

FastPass TV

Anyone wondering what happened to the best video streaming website out there (FAST PASS TV) it's been taken down by the UK police. Thanks to the help of a few dedicated hackers it is now back up (less than a week after being taken down) at http://fastpasstv.ms/


If you want to watch House, Grey's anatomy, Game of thrones, The Event or any recent movie, that's the best place to find links !

Enjoy.