Topic: Happy New Salt + What's on your mind 2012: CHILL YOUR HEAD (Read 116275 times)

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I regret that, but inac I wasn't saying anything about anyone or any fetish I was just ecstatic at the time to find a "wiki" for celebrity feet with a gallery of sinead o'connor of all people at the top of the page, but it's not even there anymore bc apparently the site gets a ton of new pictures all the time.
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I just find it strange that there's a rather professional looking internet database of celebrity feet complete with a ranking system.
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Sorry for ruining your facebook, Wayne. But it was a lot of fun.
haha, no problem man. Was some entertainment throughout a dull day at work :)
Shame we're pure evil though :(
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haha, no problem man. Was some entertainment throughout a dull day at work :)
Shame we're pure evil though :(
This dude was pretty amazing, he started swearing at you at the very first moment. He didn't even wait for other people to start arguing with him.
I also gave him FACTS and his response was literally "HA HA, WRONG!" :)
Indeed it was good entertainment.
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in-friended ya commies, god bless remington
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I'm probably the only person who is kind of disgusted by TED talks and finds them really difficult to sit through or to listen to people talk about them: you know, TED talks? you know what TED talks are? that's right you insufferable buffoon, now back to the hot wings and American football matches with you
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I've run into a lot of anti-TED sentiment. I watched a couple about space exploration, but that's all. Usual star dreck.
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within minutes of his first reply he posted a link to another article about the shootings saying like 'DON'T LET THEM TAKE AWAY OUR GUNS! HE WOULDN'T HAVE LASTED LONG!!'

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I guess I should know that other people can have unreasonable opinions about things that don't matter too, but if I see one more nerd who Quit His Dream Job for Technology giving the modest head-dip thank you in response to applause
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BAH WTF earl. I love TED talks.

How can you honestly not like all TED talks though seriously? They are like all basically different topics. Like anti-TED talks sentiment isn't a thing I thought could exist.

Not all the talks are great yeah, but they usually are at least somewhat interesting. Even the 'bad ones' are interesting.
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Well, I did a google search. Most of he people who don't like TED don't like them because they never got in as journalists or speakers or because they hink TED is full of smug people and nerd celebrities (wait what?).
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I'm probably the only person who is kind of disgusted by TED talks and finds them really difficult to sit through or to listen to people talk about them: you know, TED talks? you know what TED talks are? that's right you insufferable buffoon, now back to the hot wings and American football matches with you
It's sort of a perverse thing. The lecturers are told to give short (~30mins) lectures, meaning they can never really go into any significant detail. Apparently the TED audience isn't expected to stay focused for longer than that. A few days ago I saw a (non-TED, on Youtube) lecture on the Israel-Palestine conflict which left out a lot of details for purposes of time (and the lecturer, Finkelstein, explicitly mentioned that), and that was 2 hours long. You just can't really give anything other than a quick overview in less than that amount of time. And I bet a lot of those lecturers also have a book to sell you.
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well like i said i only watched a couple but i think it has more to do with the discovery channel kind of approach to education and information (But what if...The Dinosaurs were alive today? 'If the dinosaurs were alive today, I've got one word for you: We. Are. Screwed.' - Dr. Bill Gibbons from University of West Rump *Insert CGI shot of T-Rex eating Empire State Building* I forget what I was going to say
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ted lecture, more like DED lecture... DED FROM BOREDOM.
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It's sort of a perverse thing. The lecturers are told to give short (~30mins) lectures, meaning they can never really go into any significant detail. Apparently the TED audience isn't expected to stay focused for longer than that. A few days ago I saw a (non-TED, on Youtube) lecture on the Israel-Palestine conflict which left out a lot of details for purposes of time (and the lecturer, Finkelstein, explicitly mentioned that), and that was 2 hours long. You just can't really give anything other than a quick overview in less than that amount of time. And I bet a lot of those lecturers also have a book to sell you.
I'd be all for longer TED talks. But I greatly enjoy what they do go over, I think TED talks are interesting. Though I generally watch the actual technology related stuff so shorter videos are usually not to much of a problem. (though yeah sometimes I'm left wanting more)

well like i said i only watched a couple but i think it has more to do with the discovery channel kind of approach to education and information (But what if...The Dinosaurs were alive today? 'If the dinosaurs were alive today, I've got one word for you: We. Are. Screwed.' - Dr. Bill Gibbons from University of West Rump *Insert CGI shot of T-Rex eating Empire State Building* I forget what I was going to say
Maybe I haven't watched enough TED Talks to know what you are talking about. You think you could find an example of this?

And as much as I know that sort of thing probably shouldn't be in a TED talk, I'd probably still say it was entertaining if not exactly the most intellectual topic. Though it'd also be a video title "Dinosaurs in modern day" and I'd probably skip it because its just a hypothetical thing I want to know about some technology that actually effects someone. (negatively or positively)
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looking at the newest TED's:

Videos I'd normally skip: (at worst, completely needless, at best, 'icing on the cake')
Capturing memories in video art
The greatest machine that never was
New ways to see music (with color! and fire!)

Videos I'd watch first: (practical things)
How to fool a GPS
A vision of crimes in the future
Experiments that point to a new understanding of cancer
Image recognition that triggers augmented reality
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i've only watched a couple of TED Things but they were all messianic uppermiddleclass white technology fetishists talking about how if "everyone" (who is also a messianic white technology fetishist, apparantly) pitched in to crowdfund ipads for el salvadore then it would solve all of the problems. it's cool because it's all based around prioritising volition and individual enterprise in a way which makes it a great fit for people who are enthusiastic about capitalism but still nurture the idea of having a social conscience. poor people: please don't do anything at all but passively, eternally exist in a state of abject desolation while we decide how to make your life better. wasn't gamification a TED talk? let's plug into compulsive, ritualistic behaviour loops of addiction and control to solve problems. wait, i've identified my biggest problem as "plugging in to compulsive, ritualistic behaviour loops of addiction and control". wait, the video must cut off just before they start to talk about this bit.
 
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Whos Sinead O'connor? (scratch that, why is earlchip saying "of all people" and why is thecatamites offended by this?)

So I guess we shouldn't bother talking about technology or helping poor people but we should obsess about the source of that help being us and how its wrong that if we are going to help them we should not have a say? "Ugh, your CHOOSING what charity to donate to? PSH"

Which is funny because it isn't like this is the only thing TED talks are about, nor even a focus necessarily, technology is.

Ends justify the means, if gamification helps someone deal with a serious problem more power to them I say. Just saying they need to rely on their willpower usually doesn't help. I haven't actually seen a TED Talk on Gamification though so I can't comment directly on how they handled that.

But yeah I'm definitely a technology fetishist.
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Its funny, but this TED talk kind of addresses one of the very things you are saying is so bad:
http://www.ted.com/talks/baba_shiv_sometimes_it_s_good_to_give_up_the_driver_s_seat.html

Not my kind of TED Talk normally.
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