The original video that lead to the song - already sifted: http://videosift.com/video/Debbie-s-crazy-eharmonys-bio-I-LOVE-CATS

Damn dude! I used to think I knew how to search the net. Nice work, and I thank you for the info.

These were submitted in the hope of finding just such info, more than any hope they'd get sifted. So I owe you one now. LOL
In reply to this comment by oritteropo:
Electronic Pop Indie band from Lisbon, Portugal.

They have a youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/bangguru and their website is accessible using the archive.org internet wayback machine (it has been defunct since 2007) -
<a rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20070806143530/<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.bangguru.com/">http://www.bangguru.com/">http://web.archive.org/web/20070806143530/http://www.bangguru.com/

From the bio on that archived site:

The Portuguese musician João Pico formed BANGGURU in December 2003. Featuring J.Pico (guitar, programming) , Marisa Fortes (voice, lyrics), Pedro Henriques (voice, lyrics), João Hora (programming) and José Dias (guitar). The group presents a multi-oriented electronic pop music and is working on their second album.

João Pico was born in the early '70s. He attended the Hot Clube de Portugal and several musical projects sprang up from this invariable interest in music. He is presently working as an image editor in a TV network.

Marisa Fortes was born in the late '70s. she had singing lessons in Academia de Amadores de Música de Lisboa. She has a degree in Portuguese and English Literature and is presently working as a teacher.

Pedro Henriques was born in the early ‘70s, he attended the Academia de Amadores de Música de Lisboa and studied Archeology. He is presently working as a technician in a TV network.

João Hora was born in the late ‘70s, he has a degree in Physics and he is a music composer since the early ‘90s. He is presently working as an audio technician.

José Dias was born in the early ‘70s, he has a degree in Portuguese Literature, he is a musician as well as a composer. He is a teacher and he also works in a Portuguese dance music magazine as a jazz reviewer.

Electronic Pop Indie band from Lisbon, Portugal.

They have a youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/bangguru and their website is accessible using the archive.org internet wayback machine (it has been defunct since 2007) -
http://web.archive.org/web/20070806143530/http://www.bangguru.com/

From the bio on that archived site:

The Portuguese musician João Pico formed BANGGURU in December 2003. Featuring J.Pico (guitar, programming) , Marisa Fortes (voice, lyrics), Pedro Henriques (voice, lyrics), João Hora (programming) and José Dias (guitar). The group presents a multi-oriented electronic pop music and is working on their second album.

João Pico was born in the early '70s. He attended the Hot Clube de Portugal and several musical projects sprang up from this invariable interest in music. He is presently working as an image editor in a TV network.

Marisa Fortes was born in the late '70s. she had singing lessons in Academia de Amadores de Música de Lisboa. She has a degree in Portuguese and English Literature and is presently working as a teacher.

Pedro Henriques was born in the early ‘70s, he attended the Academia de Amadores de Música de Lisboa and studied Archeology. He is presently working as a technician in a TV network.

João Hora was born in the late ‘70s, he has a degree in Physics and he is a music composer since the early ‘90s. He is presently working as an audio technician.

José Dias was born in the early ‘70s, he has a degree in Portuguese Literature, he is a musician as well as a composer. He is a teacher and he also works in a Portuguese dance music magazine as a jazz reviewer.

>> ^longde:

WOW. May I ask what two classes these are?
Sorry to hear that. Things must be different now. I couldn't imagine a senior level class being unavailable when i was in school.


It was more than Two Classes...I just realized I had to change from a degree to a Surgical Technician certificate instead. Maybe those classes are available now. I just know while I was down there I was trying to get the same classes in 3 different Community Colleges and each time I was totally blocked.

I've been going to College for the past 9 years...I used to be able to go to the class the first day and easily get in because there were only 10-20 people in any class on campus. Now it's just not that way, cuts cuts and more cuts screwed everything up.

EDIT: Even up in WA I have to go to two colleges cause one didn't have my Bio class that I need for Surgical Tech...because they only have ONE class open at each college per quarter. Just ridiculous when it fills up before I get a chance to sign up when the servers open.

.... why are you uploading this guy's bio in here? Are you affiliated with him?

Just finished "A Song of Fire and Ice" series. All up to date. Some light reading to take a break from my cell-bio text. Ahhh... who am I kidding? I don't do homework. I just watch TED and pass all the tests.

Good luck on the revolution front. Not only do we need a new foundation on how we deal with corporations, police, military, science, religion/state, prisons, health-care, lawmaking, politics, policy foreign/domestic, executive functions state or country, emergency response systems, logistics roads/bridges/railroad, infrastructure, welfare and societal needs, energy, money/goods, trade, etc...

Like he said, we need a new foundation on our psychology. What we teach our children is bunk, it will make the majority of them happy for a few fleeting moments and unhappy the rest of their lives. We need to find a new foundation to help find happiness for everyone for the majority of their entire life--without resorting to competition and instead combining our strengths and creating a great community.

I'd wager the closest you'll get is to literally do education completely different than what we do now. Start at an early age and give the children a glimpse of ALL trades to be used and learned in the world. Over time find what they excel at and LIKE doing and help them achieve their goal in that field. Then continually narrow the field as they get older so they can truly become a master at something, like a chemical engineer. Education would, graphically, look more like a giant plinko board that students slowly make their way down and filter themselves into the field THEY want. If we supported students all the way PASS college to the point they were job ready (and in fact you could perhaps harmonize corporations into the mix, so that when you get your degree not only have you most likely interned/researched at the place you will work gaining practical knowledge you are ready day one out of school to start a job you LOVE and excel at.

I know you'll get clumps and pools of people in places you may not have uses for them, but if we truly put our minds to it I bet we could find a way to still get the method to work (I know corporations won't necessarily do what I said except in--most likely-- the science fields, but having just a few large companies do it would help). Then if we lived a slower paced life, with more time off to OURSELVES than in slavery to someone else you might see a change in the overall attitude of our community and maybe civilization. Help people pay for modest houses and maybe even some furniture. Cover healthcare needs for each other, maybe even other social services as well. Tone the military down to a defensive one, one that can defend us, but can only truly become a real war machine like what happened in WWII.

Granted, there would be a lot to work out, but I highly doubt it's impossible to create a GREAT life here on this planet if we all work together to make it happen. Hell, we walked on the fucking moon! I know most of this will require not only leaps in science and with those leaps, hopefully ,soon, some of those bring about leaps in the psychology fields helping us to genetically weed out sociopaths, psychopaths, unipolar, bipolar, borderline, Asperger's, sever depression/anxiety, OCDs, addictions, etc... Plus with expanded bio-engineering, especially in genetics, if we could make sure people atleast have an IQ of say 120 (hell if you truly find the master switch--just turn it up), get rid of all genetic diseases and birth imperfections, rid us of deafness, blindness, baldness, etc... Then add in the advancements in bio-engineering on the mechanical, nanotechnological, electronics, and computers and we'll have one hell of a ride (of course if we haven't solved the psychological issues by then, we will almost certainly kill ourselves off). But, that stuff is 50 years away with some probably 150-200 years away. If we can help stabilize our humanity, through engineering and perfecting our psychology, I really believe we'll have a chance one day to see some sort of Utopian society.

Everything he talked about most likely leads to something that MIGHT be better than what we had. But, it won't be here in the U.S. and I doubt it'll even be in Asia (China, South Korea, and Japan). Europe, excluding the U.K. has a chance, with northern Europe having a better chance. You never quite know who history will choose next to bring the next big leap in progress to the human civilization.

/I didn't think I'd write something so long about that. Oh well, I just felt like sharing a little more optimistic view on what could happen to we humans.

>> ^bareboards2:

Did you not take your meds today? Because you sure are being a snot. And since you aren't always a snot, I figure it must be bio-chemical.
Take your meds, little boy.
>> ^Yogi:
>> ^bareboards2:
Not sure how he was "foiled" -- definitely filmed and laughed at.

Why don't you look up the definition of Foiled then.



You definitely came away from this exchange looking better.

Did you not take your meds today? Because you sure are being a snot. And since you aren't always a snot, I figure it must be bio-chemical.

Take your meds, little boy.

>> ^Yogi:

>> ^bareboards2:
Not sure how he was "foiled" -- definitely filmed and laughed at.

Why don't you look up the definition of Foiled then.

This was required summer reading at my high school back in the 80's. I ended up writing my college app essay about him. Really has stuck with me.
>> ^Boise_Lib:

>> ^hpqp:
Thanks, I did not know this! Respect +100

goes off to look up his bio in local library
>> ^RadHazG:
Feynman was in fact, an expert safe cracker. He managed to crack almost every safe part of the Manhattan proj. and made a point of trying to bring to the heads attention how vulnerable the safes in fact were to being cracked. Their response? To instead have everyone change the codes and warn everyone about Feynman! Typical. Check out is autobiography. It's one hell of a read.


There are many books out there, this is my favorite one by far:
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

>> ^hpqp:

Thanks, I did not know this! Respect +100

goes off to look up his bio in local library
>> ^RadHazG:
Feynman was in fact, an expert safe cracker. He managed to crack almost every safe part of the Manhattan proj. and made a point of trying to bring to the heads attention how vulnerable the safes in fact were to being cracked. Their response? To instead have everyone change the codes and warn everyone about Feynman! Typical. Check out is autobiography. It's one hell of a read.



There are many books out there, this is my favorite one by far:

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

Thanks, I did not know this! Respect +100


*goes off to look up his bio in local library*

>> ^RadHazG:

Feynman was in fact, an expert safe cracker. He managed to crack almost every safe part of the Manhattan proj. and made a point of trying to bring to the heads attention how vulnerable the safes in fact were to being cracked. Their response? To instead have everyone change the codes and warn everyone about Feynman! Typical. Check out is autobiography. It's one hell of a read.

@dystopianfuturetoday

1a. Some of globalization might be improved, but a lot of it is inevitable. At most, we can hope to reduce the efficiency of humankind by blocking people in developing nations from fairly being employed where they're most needed (by 1st world companies). If we had to overpay for unskilled labor, automation in the US would just increase even more quickly, so transferring labor from humans in the developing world to machines in the US wouldn't be a big help overall.

1b. Yeah, the public sector is definitely good at a lot of things, like the areas you mentioned. But the point still stands that, in effect, I'm probably more prosocial than my collectivist friends because I pursue career like an individualist, and it's through our careers and our resulting personal development that we contribute to the world.

2. Ok.

3a. The cliff notes version of human bio-diversity is that most problems with society that liberals dislike are caused by neurogenetic inequality, not by policy. The current push by liberals to restore racist discrimination against Asian Americans at California universities is tacit admission of this.

3b. The problem with regulation is that liberals moved the goal post by replacing the population of our society with the population of a poorer society. The result is things like fabricated "failures of the market" like widespread unemployment, permanently lowered academic test scores and health outcomes (which increasingly correlate with cognitive complexity as personal health management becomes more complicated) and a workforce that's too unskilled for society to be able to afford things like infrastructure and cutting edge 21st century healthcare.

3c. The good news is that, by all appearances, reprogenetics (reprogramming genetics) will begin around the middle of this century to solve all the problems caused by natural neurogenetic inequality. Embryo selection has been in use in in-vitro fertilization clinics for several years to screen out embryos with disease genes, and its use will continue to grow as genetics knowledge continues to advance at an exponential rate.


Good chatting with you also, DFT

@dystopianfuturetoday

1a. Social stratification is increasing in every country around the world. It's due to globalization and automation, not to domestic policy. People who work smart and hard doing 21st century work are contributing more to society every year, and people who prefer work that can easily be automated are contributing less to society each year. Resistance to that is just the luddites burning down loom machines all over again.

1b. My lazy collectivist friends who grew up with more advantages than I did all contribute hardly anything to society, whereas large numbers of consumers enjoy the results of my labor. Economics is multi-sum by definition because unless both parties benefit, no trade can be completed. Trade creates value all around.

Some regulation is reasonable.

2. Problems in the US are generally due to (1) inevitable globalization (only 21st century labor is valuable now) and (2) to population replacement. (We're in the process of replacing a high education white/jewish/asian society with a low education non-Asian minority society. That's why California went from being one of the most well-off states in the country to being literally #50 out of #50 on some measures, despite having very liberal policies on education spending, teacher salaries, etc.)

3. Read the NYT article that was linked, and then wonder why virtually all liberal academics will lie about that article and about HBD (human bio-diversity) in general if you ask them about it. Reading Pinker's Blank Slate is a good start.

4. A free society means you don't have to cover the costs of your stupid neighbors who are exercising their right to be stupid and to reject your sound advice. Arguments counter to that are just an excuse for liberals to avoid pursuing their human potential and working smart and hard. My productivity already subsidizes my lazy friends that I grew up with... it's weird to try to increase subsidies for stupid ideas.


It appears to be the case that even if we assume voting liberal is best for society, holding liberal beliefs in your private life greatly reduces your ability to contribute to society, because liberalism makes its adherents think of smart hard work and careerism as slavery rather than contribution and personal development.

Two professional bio-medical ethicists/scientists are now offering money -- as much as $11,000 to Michelle Bachmann's campaign, for the medical proof to verify this outrageous claim regarding a vaccination gone bad. (It's my understanding that, if she is unable to "produce her victim," she will need to donate $10,000 to a pro-vaccination group.)

Bachmann's camp has had "no response" to this offer.

I for one, wish her luck! ;-)

>> ^Trancecoach:

there is exactly ZERO percent possibility that an injection of a vaccine can result in or even correlate with the symptoms of mental retardation.
None.
Zilch.
Nada.