Last names as a way to determine ethnic diversity, lost me there.

Cool though, that makes my sister latin american.

Too bad I am stuck with a name thats probably German in origin.

Diversity is fine. It was the tolerance of the society to entertain the notion that feeding a bunch of good for nothing intellectuals was a noble idea that made a golden age possible. Also the possibility to travel and communicate, the spread of information was helpful. Language barriers came down. That tolerance ended around 1250. Muslim lands were still ethnically diverse after that, but no more tolerance for science.

So tolerance of different ideas, customs, religions, foreigners and races seems more important than attempting to induce diversity artificially.

Tolerance naturally leads to diversity - you can see this in areas like scientific teams, hi-tech companies, or top sports teams. If you want the best people you arrive at not evaluating their race, but their abilities. That is if the society around you lets you do that.

My friends son just spent 6 months working in a chemical lab in Sweden. Met few Swedes, mostly worked with people from all over the world. So he helped with a Swedish project, he can now go back to work on his own project and he knows all these people from around the world who work on similar stuff. No one gives a damn about what ethnicity any of the people involved are or if the lab was "diverse". They all concentrate on the project. If a commision goes in and starts counting how many Laplandian scientists are filling a quota the scientists would show the (imaginary) commision their collective middle finger or just leave.

So i would argue that ethnically diverse scientific teams are not more succesful because they are diverse, they are more successful because they are open and tolerant (and that has led to their diversity).

Forcing diversity will not bring the same result.

Long? Sorry.

Who said it would be free?

It would be unlimited and therefore approaching a zero-cost, but it won't be free. As the video explains, fusion plants will cost a ridiculous amount of money to build.

But we either do it, or forget about a hi-tech (i.e. energy intensive) future.

And they are phasing that model out.. A10 is simple and it works but nah, they want something hi-tech to keep the budget staggeringly high. It's like replacing every spoon in your house with robots that don't know what soup is.

This makes a mouse, trackpad or touch screen look hi-tech

A lot of misconceptions here:
>> ^Drachen_Jager:

and people may think of zones where these have been operating as 'clear' instead of as potential landmine areas. I think this invention has a great potential to increase the number of accidental landmine detonations, lost limbs and deaths.
Generally, people don't whimsically choose to walk through an area that is covered in land mines. Most Westerners tend to discount the power of local knowledge, and to assume that everyone else in the world is just running around from unknown place to unknown place like we do. Fact is, in places like Afghanistan, the people are hyper-aware of the local situation, particularly when it relates to their personal security and they tend to stay in a small geographical area (no weekend trips to the lake or across country to see Grandma). Landmine deaths occur most often in places that are not marked as dangerous and alongside roads (which tend to be the only path between one location and another.
>> ^Drachen_Jager:

Maybe it will explode a few, but when some of it's 'legs' get blown off it stops moving. Does someone go out there, risking his life and limbs in what is now a known minefield to fix it, or do you just leave it there?

Ummm.... how do you think landmines are removed now? With hi-tech robots and a smartphone? Plenty of lives and limbs at risk in this world cleaning up the messes of violent conflict.
>> ^Drachen_Jager:

Because they may seem cheap, but 1 whirlydoohickey blown up per 1 landmine disarmed is hardly 'cheap', when some landmines cost under a dollar, and they may be spread out in the thousands in a given area.

IF the current cost is §1200 per landmine removal, then, yes, §40 per landmine is cheap.

Happy CATERDAY with teh hi~tech smartassfone!

>> ^deathcow:

DUDE, "The Wall" is coming out of that dudes face!!! I can't even compute it, these are my music gods.
This takes me all the way back to 5th grade with my Sanyo and a cassette.


i hear ya man.
the WALL was my first album that i bought with my own money.
i was 12 and worked at a neighbors eatery.
i paid 35 bucks for the double album and that was in 1979!
i would sit on the floor in front of the families super hi-tech "realistic" stereo with the speakers on each ear and play this over and over.

Well, it looks like @MarineGunrock should try getting his tech channel now, because it's a channel free-for-all.

Congrats on the channel, youdiejoe.

>> ^therealblankman:
I love his hi-tech lav mic.


I'm pretty sure his tie is painted on as well.

I love his hi-tech lav mic.

I think Elvis did it.

He was made of molten steel and asbestos, and then the other guy got terrorism insurance like three days before The USA WTC Attacks of 911 and also ran a fake-flag against the Pentagons, which was NOT AN AIRPLANE, but was actually lazers shooting from super hi-tech rhinestones on his cape.

Everyone was in on it. Elvis "died" a long time ago, to receive the proper training to pull this off, not even thinking of all the co-ordination with the Pelosi Elite Task Force, who then planted and lit thermite explosives all over WTC 41 and 47.

They knew some skeptics could catch on to their evil plan one day, so they thought "hey, lets send out some of the absolutely stupidest people on the planet to push the 'inside job' theory!!", knowing the public would never buy their shit, Pelosibot3000 XL thought of only one name...Reid.

"Harry! Get Alex Jones on the phone!" Cried PLB3kXL.

"He's so fucking stupid, dishonest and unqualified, absolutely NOONE will buy this shit 8 years after it happened!"

And there you have it my friends.

PLB3kXL has successsfuullyy pulled teh woolz over all sheeple's eyes.

And, also.

So this brings up an interesting point. Is Videosift useful to advertising agencies as a medium for viral marketing?

Hypothetical question of course, because we all know that it is. I don't object to viral advertising when it's allowed to spread... organically? This doesn't seem very organic though. Maybe I'm just a cynic, but when a new user comes on board, and their very first sift is a vid from a viral advertising campaign...

This just feels very heavy-handed. Brutish even. Why do I think this is active viral marketing, and not organic?

Look at the video description above.

"MI6 are supposed to be the UK’s premier secret service, responsible for national security whilst employing the likes of Spooks and James Bond. Unfortunately, they were powerless when another group of agents infiltrated the River Thames and gave them an interrogation of their own.

Known only as ‘Agents of Change’, this crew of graffiti artists went on their own secret mission with a message for MI6, scrawled on the building opposite with lasers hi-tech enough to make Q jealous!"

That's pretty great copy. It's not something your typical sifter would bother to craft. Interestingly, it's also found (verbatim) here: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=12393612318

The description on YT is simply: "Graffiti by Agents of Change, secrets by MI6, all natural Cola by Red Bull."

Viral marketers: please be more subtle, else you just come off as trying too hard.

Not only could we be using nanotechnology on something more important, but soft/hi-tech shoes can actually be harmful.

More information here, here, here, and here.

^lol V! Actually the collars were hi-tech hand-cut manilla file folder paper, fastened with staples. Nothing but the best! I only use Swingline.

Best Dilbert cartoon ever: Dilbert is at the doctor's office and complaining of a buzzing feeling in his hip that came from carrying his tech support pager for years. The doc says "That's 'phantom pager syndrome'. It's easy to cure."

Dilbert replies "I don't want to get rid of it - I want to move it."