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| Feigning Interest |
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Actor and musician (he's one threat away from
being a triple threat!) Josh Hopkins
sensitively explores the internal conflict
experienced by a man who finds himself in the
all-too-common situation of being on a date
with a woman who is deeply boring yet still
attractive enough to maintain his interest in
having sex with her.
Directed by John Killoran & Matt O'Neil. For
more of Josh's original music (and a free
pony!*), visit www.myspace.com/hopkinsjosh.
*free pony not guaranteed.
Tags : josh hopkins music dating distraction feigning women men sex breasts switch guitar bonding beer imagine killoran o'neil |
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Durée : 281 s |
| BayPIGgies Meeting - SF Bay Area Python Interest Group - Python Callbacks |
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Google Tech Talks
June 13, 2008
ABSTRACT
Don't call us, we'll call you: callback
patterns and idioms in Python Callbacks (the
general "Don't call us, we'll call you"
pattern) are a crucial technique for
concurrency, event-driven programming (in a
disparate variety of fields, from GUIs to
parsing), and advanced customization of
library and system behavior. This talk covers
callback patterns and idioms, their use in
the Standard Python library, and best
practices in designing and using
callback-based interfaces.
Speaker: Alex Martelli
Tags : google techtalks techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education |
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Durée : 4029 s |
| Milton Friedman on Self-Interest and the Profit Motive 1of2 |
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This clip is from the 15-part lecture series,
"Milton Friedman Speaks"
http://www.ideachannel.com/product_info.php?p
roducts_id=1137
Transcript available via FreedomChannel:
http://freedomchannel.blogspot.com/2007/12/mi
lton-friedman-on-slavery.html
Summary:
A student poses a series of question on based
on Friedman's notion that people should
pursue their own self-interest. The student
points out that he'd read that Friedman had
previously come out against disaster aid for
victims of a flood in Pennsylvania. Friedman
corrected the questioner and noted that he
did not come out against private aid for
flood victims but instead was against the
Federal Government providing discounted flood
insurance in advance to home purchasers which
motivated people to build houses in areas
where they otherwise would not have been able
to obtain insurance privately. If not for the
discounted insurance, it's likely many of the
flooded houses would never have been built in
the first place as it wouldn't have been in
peoples self-interest.
The student went on to note that it was
recently reported that an old man in Ohio
died when the electric company turned off his
power when he'd failed to pay his electric
bill. Was it moral for the company to act in
it's own self-interest to do so? Friedman
responded by asking what if the electric
company never turned off the power for
anyone? Who would pay the cost--the people
who own or work at the electric company? It
would be unjust to impose that responsibility
on individuals who are running an honest
business of providing electricity. Friedman
suggests that the true responsibility lies on
the mans neighbors and friends who were not
charitable enough to allow him to meet the
electric bills.
Finally the student uses the example of Ford
deciding not to install a $13 block of
plastic which would prevent it's Pinto cars
from exploding in a rear-end collision. Ford
estimated such a move would cost 200 lives a
year at a cost of $200,000 per life lost.
They multiplied and found that it wasn't
worth it to install the plastic block. He
asked if a corporation seeking it's own
self-interest was a good thing in this case?
Friedman responded by asking, what if it cost
$1 billion to save each life, should Ford
have put in the block? It's simply not
practical to put an infinite value on an
individuals life. If it took $1 billion in
resources to keep one individual safe, and
acquiring those resources meant that a
million people must starve, it's a bad deal.
Friedman concludes that he doesn't know if
the $200,000 number that Ford used was the
right number to maximize the overall
benefits, but at the end of the day the
principle is that we can't simply protect
ourselves from everything and impose that
cost on others. Friedman posits that the
question the student should be raising, is
should Ford be required to attach the
statement to the car, "we've made this car
$13 cheaper, and therefore it is X% more
risky for you to buy it".
See also:
Free to Choose - All 15 episodes streaming
online for free
http://www.ideachannel.tv
A history of Free to Choose
http://www.freetochoose.com
Tags : Milton Friedman Capitalism Freedom Corporations Profits Communism Socialism Subsidies Documentary Politics liberty |
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Durée : 325 s |
| R. Stevie Moore - Conflict of Interest (1980) |
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Unsung Father of Lo-Fi and DIY Pioneer, R.
Stevie Moore, performing "Conflict of
Interest" on the Uncle Floyd Show, 1980.
With Jim Price, Irwin Chusid and Susan
Griffin.
For the audio cd version of "Conflict of
Interest"
get Clack! (1980) at:
http://www.rsteviemoore.com/tp/clack.html
For the complete Uncle Floyd performances
in DVD get:
http://www.moorestevie.com/3/uf/
Lyrics:
i am stupid you are smart
getting ignored just breaks my heart
thinking in the auto where am i at
i don't wanna know the answer to that
not responsible for getting it right
holding my breath every night
scared to death you will not react
i don't wanna know the reaction to that
good shape
good shape
good shape
good shape
conflict of interest
i ain't gonna quit
conflict of interest
i ain't gonna change
there's a conflict of interest
i cannot improve
i can't no i can't
i don't know how
what is the reason for this grief
is my personality too deep
you might say i'm wasting my time
trying to solve this inhuman crime
take me back to maplewood get me a job
write apologetic letter to bob
anything is better than singing this song
nothing is right but something is wrong.
http://www.rsteviemoore.com
Tags : stevie moore rsm lo-fi diy punk uncle floyd underground psychedelic new wave ariel pink synth beck guided by voices |
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