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There were a few CD+Gs released with creative content (such as Information Society) but they didn't catch on until karaoke machines started using them to display lyrics. That's were you find it mostly today.

"... I'm really exited about the new Samsung. ... Not the phone, the refrigerator."

Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

"Flash mob law"

There is a thing ... called a "flash mob": a group of people converge at a location; perform (what reasonable persons would call) a harmless artistic act and then disperse. Often coordinated via social media, and often taking no more than about 5 to 10 minutes from convergence to dispersal...

(This becomes relevant)...

Examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwLlFKaX-ms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXh7JR9oKVE ( yah, I know, "/." and this mentions God, but it is high human ART darnit!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNXd3wX_USc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTdI1dU6Eh8

These may or not be to your taste, but it is unlikely that they are blatently offensive; also they are short enough that they are unlikely to be seriously disruptive...
They look like a lot of fun to watch or even to participate-in

Then, references to "Flash Mob Law" were returned in the results from a web search.

Following the link, I found http://www.americanbar.org/publications/gpsolo_ereport/2012/may_2012/basics_flash_mob_law.html

There is something VERY WRONG when the First thought that must apparently go through one's head when contemplating something intended as simple non-malicious fun is:
I (We) could be SUED or ARRESTED!
Before anything else, Better call a lawyer,
-And an insurance agent..
-And PERMITS, mustn't forget PERMITS...

If The above is the First thought, the Second is likely going to be:

Oh wait... I don't have a few hundred (thousand?) uncommitted bucks for legal advice and "permit-sions"
Nor six months of planning time.
Nor any idea what Permi(ts)(ssions) might be demanded

"Flash mob law"

There is a thing ... called a "flash mob": a group of people converge at a location; perform (what reasonable persons would call) a harmless artistic act and then disperse. Often coordinated via social media, and often taking no more than about 5 to 10 minutes from convergence to dispersal...

(This becomes relevant)...

Examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwLlFKaX-ms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXh7JR9oKVE ( yah, I know, "/." and this mentions God, but it is high human ART darnit!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNXd3wX_USc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTdI1dU6Eh8

These may or not be to your taste, but it is unlikely that they are blatently offensive; also they are short enough that they are unlikely to be seriously disruptive...
They look like a lot of fun to watch or even to participate-in

Then, references to "Flash Mob Law" were returned in the results from a web search.

Following the link, I found http://www.americanbar.org/publications/gpsolo_ereport/2012/may_2012/basics_flash_mob_law.html

There is something VERY WRONG when the First thought that must apparently go through one's head when contemplating something intended as simple non-malicious fun is:
I (We) could be SUED or ARRESTED!
Before anything else, Better call a lawyer,
-And an insurance agent..
-And PERMITS, mustn't forget PERMITS...

If The above is the First thought, the Second is likely going to be:

Oh wait... I don't have a few hundred (thousand?) uncommitted bucks for legal advice and "permit-sions"
Nor six months of planning time.
Nor any idea what Permi(ts)(ssions) might be demanded

"Flash mob law"

There is a thing ... called a "flash mob": a group of people converge at a location; perform (what reasonable persons would call) a harmless artistic act and then disperse. Often coordinated via social media, and often taking no more than about 5 to 10 minutes from convergence to dispersal...

(This becomes relevant)...

Examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwLlFKaX-ms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXh7JR9oKVE ( yah, I know, "/." and this mentions God, but it is high human ART darnit!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNXd3wX_USc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTdI1dU6Eh8

These may or not be to your taste, but it is unlikely that they are blatently offensive; also they are short enough that they are unlikely to be seriously disruptive...
They look like a lot of fun to watch or even to participate-in

Then, references to "Flash Mob Law" were returned in the results from a web search.

Following the link, I found http://www.americanbar.org/publications/gpsolo_ereport/2012/may_2012/basics_flash_mob_law.html

There is something VERY WRONG when the First thought that must apparently go through one's head when contemplating something intended as simple non-malicious fun is:
I (We) could be SUED or ARRESTED!
Before anything else, Better call a lawyer,
-And an insurance agent..
-And PERMITS, mustn't forget PERMITS...

If The above is the First thought, the Second is likely going to be:

Oh wait... I don't have a few hundred (thousand?) uncommitted bucks for legal advice and "permit-sions"
Nor six months of planning time.
Nor any idea what Permi(ts)(ssions) might be demanded

"Flash mob law"

There is a thing ... called a "flash mob": a group of people converge at a location; perform (what reasonable persons would call) a harmless artistic act and then disperse. Often coordinated via social media, and often taking no more than about 5 to 10 minutes from convergence to dispersal...

(This becomes relevant)...

Examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwLlFKaX-ms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXh7JR9oKVE ( yah, I know, "/." and this mentions God, but it is high human ART darnit!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNXd3wX_USc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTdI1dU6Eh8

These may or not be to your taste, but it is unlikely that they are blatently offensive; also they are short enough that they are unlikely to be seriously disruptive...
They look like a lot of fun to watch or even to participate-in

Then, references to "Flash Mob Law" were returned in the results from a web search.

Following the link, I found http://www.americanbar.org/publications/gpsolo_ereport/2012/may_2012/basics_flash_mob_law.html

There is something VERY WRONG when the First thought that must apparently go through one's head when contemplating something intended as simple non-malicious fun is:
I (We) could be SUED or ARRESTED!
Before anything else, Better call a lawyer,
-And an insurance agent..
-And PERMITS, mustn't forget PERMITS...

If The above is the First thought, the Second is likely going to be:

Oh wait... I don't have a few hundred (thousand?) uncommitted bucks for legal advice and "permit-sions"
Nor six months of planning time.
Nor any idea what Permi(ts)(ssions) might be demanded

One of the future areas the company hoped to be in was pervasive computing where every device in your house would have one of our processors and they'd all be talking to one another. I made the comment that it al seemed rather Orwellinan at which point she kinda laughed muttering yeah and finished the remaining 8 slides in as many seconds.

... in certain circumstances.

If you haven't watched it and are shopping for careers, you should see this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I would have like to have up-voted the link to more information, both podcasts are interesting.

There are many lectures on YouTube requiring varying degrees of expertise to understand but this one seems comprehensible to anyone with a STEM background and I recommend you take a look. Jennifer Doudna. The CRISPR-Cas 9 Genome Engineering Revolution, UC Berkeley Events channel (one of many excellent primary sources on YouTube)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I appreciate that many people with an interest will use a search engine to investigate this interesting topic but YouTube has a high noise to signal ratio so you might not have thought to look there.

Nope. I wrote what I meant to write. In NY (and many other parts of the country), companies like Pearson Education are contacting politicians and telling them that there's a huge education problem. The companies say that students are failing and that teachers are to blame. Don't worry, though, the companies have the solution. You just need to give them a few million dollars and they'll test and re-test and re-re-re-test the kids to show that they are failing. Then they'll sell you lesson plans, teacher education, books, etc to help "fix" this problem as well as more tests to make sure the problem is fixed. If the "problem" isn't fixed, some other companies will open for-profit charter schools to pull public funds away from those "failing" public schools.

I've been right in the thick of this whole mess in NY for years so I'm well aware of the situation. I'm under no illusion that teacher's unions are saints, but right now the big threat to education are private companies who look at students and get huge dollar signs in their eyes. They aren't interested in teaching the next generation, they're interested in making a quick buck while implementing cheap, cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all "education."

Side Note: In NY, the teachers unions didn't support our governor during his re-election campaign so he's doubled down on his rhetoric against teachers, going to far as to tie high stakes test results to teacher jobs. A teacher can be fired if his/her kids don't pass the tests twice. Whether tests pass or fail is determined by the companies who have a profit motive on students failing (there's more to sell for failing students) and without independent oversight. Test scorers have come forward and said they were told that they had to "see" more passing tests as failing. As John Oliver put it, it's like telling umpires that they've got to see more doubles as strikeouts and more home runs as doubles.

If you really want to know how bad things actually are, see this 32c3 talk from people who work in the industry.

There is actually one particular group that is being "come for", which are white males. A rather blatant example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

If you ever peruse news comments, twitter, whatever, it becomes obvious after a while that it is in fact politically correct and in most cases generally acceptable to attack white males in ways that are considered "racist" against any other group. I myself (a white male) don't feel particularly oppressed (if they give me shit I'll give them shit back,) but that *may* not be the case for all:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11...

There's already a Broadway version.

Just married to a science fiction convention committee member. "Hate speech against telepaths" because people are discussing why genocide against telephaths is so common in literature was particularly amusing, especially for a "non-gendered" woman wearing a very, very form-fitting Psicorps uniform and saying "I'm a telepath myself!!!". And she wasn't kidding.

I sent a little of this imagery her way mentally.

                      https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

And since we've been able to build things like the Sprint ABM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

for four decades, I don't the lack of **OMG LOL 3D PRINTED CERAMICS NO LUDDITES ALLOWED!!!** was a big barrier.

The military wants hypersonic vehicles? They already have them, they're called artillery shells or satellites. These 3D printing stories are tiresome, with the unreasonable extrapolation.

Dinosaurs and the Civil War on the History Network

They kinda jumped the gun.

Makes you wonder whether that piece is still copyrighted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Here you go.

Sorry I put the wrong link. I meant to put this one about how another planet could not share our same orbit behind the Sun on the other side or otherwise.

I thoiught current thinking was that Jupiter and Saturn formed pretty far out then were drawn in, swapping places with each other and collectively with Uranus and Nepture (and possibly ejecting a fifth large planet) going closer to the Sun than their present locations before finally settling down.

I think that was the idea before large numbers of Jupiter-sized exoplanets were found orbiting close to their parent stars. Then the new idea came up that Jupiter and Saturn may have formed close to the Sun. In a 3-body-problem manner, Saturn might have been pushed out and took Jupiter with it (similar in part to how our own moon is moving away from us). Then, with the space close to the Sun cleared of debris and pushed into clumps, Mars-sized protoplanets started to form and were pushed into orbits around the Sun. If the orbits were too close, because not entirely circular the differential pull of the Sun would have sped up or slowed down planets on the same orbits causing a collision. This may have occurred for Venus, knocking it so that it now has virtually no spin, for the Earth, giving us our current size and moon(s), and also to create the asteroid belt past Mars.

It all ties in with the bombardment phase when/where the inner planets received water, possibly from the motions of Jupiter away from the Sun pulling in the distant icy comets from the outer solar system towards the Sun. It's an interesting model where the actual reality might even be more intricate or different. However, this is a gap in our current understanding that we may begin to solve by analyzing Jupiter in detail.

BBC are terrorist by misrepresenting people, trolling for comments to attack certain groups of people. Apparently BBC got a guy fired for using the term white flower, this is no joke. BBC should be offline forever, I do believe in freedom of speech but when people are lying out of asses to mass group of people it's going way too far. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Like most people, if not all, you hugely underestimate the difficulties involving start travel. Anyone interested in this should see this talk by Cameron Smith: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
It lasts almost an hour and a half and paints a picture of the magnitude of such an undertaking. (assuming Generation ships with Nuclear propulsion, the most feasible option at the moment)
After that you will begin to have an idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...

To watch is to love.

Attack of the Noscopers 1984-style
Major League Can Can
How 2 Montage

To watch is to love.

Attack of the Noscopers 1984-style
Major League Can Can
How 2 Montage

To watch is to love.

Attack of the Noscopers 1984-style
Major League Can Can
How 2 Montage

the most famous example in recent history: the Savile coverup. Other famous examples: the priest and a small boy in relief with his cock hanging out above the main entrance to the BBC London headquarters at Broadcasting House (NSFW). Building 7 WTC falling on its own footprint twenty six minutes earlier than it actually did (1:17 in, it's RIGHT THERE as she's pointing to the spot where it "was"!).

YOU are the joke, m8.

Dank Engine w lyrics

They need to focus more on MLG videos where Pingu no-scopes his parents

MLG Pingu

I hope these delicate flowers of wonder will not be lost to the ravages of time and copyright:

MLG Thomas the Dank Engine
MLG Teletubbies m8

To watch is to love.

I hope these delicate flowers of wonder will not be lost to the ravages of time and copyright:

MLG Thomas the Dank Engine
MLG Teletubbies m8

To watch is to love.

Blizzard's not exactly built themselves the best track record when it comes to arranging their own tournament, the Starcraft II WCS. For example, one year, Blizzard arrogantly decided to have ALL the regional finals during the same weekend, which also happened to be the week that the biggest DotA 2 event in the world took place, The International. I'll let Totalbiscuits, a well-known person from the Starcraft II scene, including as a team owner affected by Blizzard's decision, words illustrate how happy many in the scene were with Blizzard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

But Perl, well, let me just leave this here,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
or Perl Jam 2, the Camel Strikes Back

You're kidding right? That presentation is based entirely on developers not sanitizing user input, from the Internet no less, which will of course lead to vulnerabilities. I don't buy that it is an inherent weakness of the language. If you blindly submit SQL queries passed around as variables, you deserve what you get. That is just really bad programming in any language. Did they do a PHP jam?

They are already built.

Calm, please. It's just a paraphrased quote from the movie "Men in Black" -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Surprising, as at that time https://www.youtube.com/watch?... it would have been making the rounds again, as a Letters to Cleo song. Unless that was before 10 Things I Hate About You came out.

Open secrets... Another great Rush tune!

He worked on that awesome Rush song?! I always loved that tune.

Like? It's important because it's empirically beneficial.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

not this again :/

Recent talk by Sheldon Cooper sums this topic pretty nicely (around 35.30 minutes in) https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
We DONT CARE about feelings, we care about absolutes. I wont cater to some alien (to me) social norms just because you are a precious snowflake, I will tell you outright what is wrong ('this code is garbage' etc).

This is also pretty good and on topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

not this again :/

Recent talk by Sheldon Cooper sums this topic pretty nicely (around 35.30 minutes in) https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
We DONT CARE about feelings, we care about absolutes. I wont cater to some alien (to me) social norms just because you are a precious snowflake, I will tell you outright what is wrong ('this code is garbage' etc).

This is also pretty good and on topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

C and perl

Ok, I can understand C since it has less crap and generally "simpler" (less API to learn) than C++. Generally people that hate on C but "love C++" are same people that don't understand pointers, which makes them kind of dangerous in C++ anyway.

But Perl, well, let me just leave this here,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
or Perl Jam 2, the Camel Strikes Back

Posting the link to Parent's talk so the truly interested don't have to search for it (like I did). Hopefully this is the one you were talking about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH6sSOr-yk8

Send your favorite women here: https://www.mindtools.com/page...

Then, send them to watch a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Then, stop the fucking WHINING!!!!

You're a guy, aren't you Bruce? WTF do you get off whining and crying all the time? "Oh, boo-hoo, men are so horrible, and they mistreat women so badly!" Seriously dude, get yourself some asstertiveness training, grow a pair, harden the fuck up, and stop SNIVELING! We really don't need the SJW's wandering aimlessly about, telling us how horrible we are. Set an example, and STFU. You gain no sympathy for your cause by sniveling. There are plenty of men who are willing to stand with the women, but you are just an embarrassment. Real men don't want to be seen in your company. Hell, real women don't want to be seen in your company. Nobody wants to be seen with a bitch.

That is already available and sounds like it could be fun(ny):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

If your into this kind of thing - check out this in-depth video of how an old US Naval WW-2 mechanical computer works. Absolutely amazing - totally old-school. https://m.youtube.com/watch?fe...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...