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President Obama Will Kibbitz With YouTube Stars
theodp (442580) writes "For better or worse, YouTube stars are a big deal these days. Last December, Microsoft and Code.org turned to YouTube Stars iJustine and The Fine Brothers to help recruit the nation's K-12 schookids for the Hour of Code. And next week, in what the White House is touting as the State of the YOUnion , President Obama will turn to a trio of YouTube Stars for advice on the issues of day following his State of the Union Address. "We're inviting a handful of YouTube creators to the White House to talk with the President in person," explains the White House Blog, "and you can watch it all live on Thursday, January 22. YouTube creators Bethany Mota, GloZell, and Hank Green will interview President Obama about the issues care they most about and what they're hearing from their audiences." Commenting on the choice of the YouTube interviewers, CNN's David Acosta asked (confused) WH Press Secretary Josh Earnest, "I'm just curious, was 'Charlie Bit My Finger' or 'David After Dentist' not available?" So, how long until the U.S. is redistricted into YouTube Channels?"
CNN's David Acosta asked (confused) WH Press Secretary Josh Earnest, "I'm just curious, was 'Charlie Bit My Finger' or 'David After Dentist' not available?"
Sounds like the press secretary got "Acosted".
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ha...
The Myth of Tamiflu: 5 Things You Should Know
Influenza-like-illness is sweeping the country with the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention reporting that most areas of the country experiencing high rates. I should know, my family is in the midst of it despite having been vaccinated. This year may rival some of the worst years in recent history.
These illnesses are more than uncomfortable Ãf" they can cause life-threatening complications. Worries about complications lead many people to want to be prepared with a treatment. I have a friend who once stockpiled Tamiflu, an antiviral agent sold by Roche, wanting to be prepared to protect his friends and family. He was not alone. The US actually reportedly stockpiled $1.5 billion of the drug prior to the global outbreak of H1N1 influenza and while the vaccine was being prepared.
The problem is that we actually know little about the effectiveness and safety of Tamiflu Ãf" and Roche is not willing to share all the relevant data they have. Last year the Cochrane group, the worldÃf(TM)s most respected organization devoted to synthesizing evidence and providing assessments on medical interventions, updated their review of the Tamiflu studies. If you are enamored by the idea of Tamiflu, then here are 5 things you should know from their report.
1. The manufacturer of the drug sponsored all the trials and the reviewers found evidence of publication and reporting biases. With so much at stake I was surprised that there had been no prospective, placebo-controlled trials conducted that were funded by an independent source. Industry trials can be well conducted, but there are many situations where a lack of independence has had an influence on the way the study was designed and the results that are released. At the very least, it is worth noting that they were probably designed to have the best chance of showing benefit. And that the reviewers had concerned about whether all the information was released. In addition the experts found evidence of reporting bias. According to Tom Jefferson, one of the authors of the Cochrane study: 60% of randomized data from the Tamiflu treatment trials (i.e. in people with influenza-like-illness symptoms) have never been published including the biggest trial ever conducted (which was done in the US, so itÃf(TM)s of great relevance to you).Ãf
2. The studies did not show that Tamiflu reduced the risk of hospitalization. One of the reasons people might take an antiviral is to prevent the illness progressing to the point where they would need to be hospitalized. Unfortunately there was no evidence that the drug produced that benefit.
3. The studies were inadequate to determine the effect of Tamiflu on complications. Even though the drug did not reduce hospitalizations, some people may think it would prevent less severe complications. Unfortunately, the reviewers found that limitations in the design of the trials, their conduct, and the way they were reported precluded any conclusions about the effect of the drug on complications. To expect that Tamiflu can reduce complications would be a leap of faith currently unsupported by the available evidence. You should also know that the FDA requires Roche to print on the label: ÃfoeTamiflu has not been shown to prevent such complications [serious bacterial infections].Ãf
4. The studies were inadequate to determine if Tamiflu reduced transmission of the virus. Same story. Some people might prescribe the drug to prevent the spread of the virus. The expert reviewers simply said that with what information they had available; they could not assess the effect of the drug on transmission. I asked Peter Doshi, one of the authors of the Cochrane report about this issue of transmission and here is what he wrote me: ÃfoeRocheÃf(TM)s prophylaxis trials were not designed to answer t
About as effectual as that.
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
Thank you for having dealt with all the other more pressing problems, domestic and foreign, so that now you have extra time for these folks! I'm sure they'll have lots of informed, trenchant, challenging questions for you, the answers to which will be informative and enlightening. It'll be the adversarial press speaking truth to power!
Q: What does the "B." in Benoit B. Mandelbrot stand for? A: Benoit B. Mandelbrot
I need to get out more.
Just glad to see Hank Green doing stuff. Glad he's got this great opportunity!
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
Since it's not like an evil worldwide ideology is on the rampage or anything, plenty of time and resources for important things like this :)
Wow, I really want to slap the person who came up with that State of the YOUnion buzzword.
Frankly that "After Dentist" kid is exactly how I feel about five minutes into any president's State Of the Union speech...
It would be great to see the wigged out kid and the biting baby / sibling behind the president as he gave the speech though. I can hear the young britsih accent now, faintly from the back... "Charlie, that man is really boring".
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Is the pres gonna plink with Hickok45 at his "backyard range"?
If you don't know who those people are (and I'll admit I don't) then this isn't for you. It's about getting younger people involved and voting. Older people already vote more regularly, with people in their teens and 20s not voting with much regularity (see 2014). If Obama can reach those voters and get them interested in the process, then he's laying a base for Democrats going forward.
As for the 'all other problems being solved' nonsense, take a look at the schedule for Congress over the past few years and see what tough issues they spent their time working on.
If you don't know how to spell an unusual word with yiddish origin that'll make you look like a pretentious schnook, perhaps you can find a better word?
He does know he's not campaigning for re-election, right?
How pathetic.
Last December, Microsoft and Code.org turned to YouTube Stars iJustine and The Fine Brothers to help recruit the nation's K-12 schookids for the Hour of Code.
I'm sorry, who?
It's only significant if you make it so. Winners of masturbation contests don't really "win" anything. Obama ought to know that.
Will the Annoying Orange get invited? Huh? huh? huh? huh?
Amazon Fire TV monitors and records your conversations
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Millions of Americans installing 'perfect spying device' in their own living rooms: Amazon Fire TV monitors and records your conversations
Tuesday, July 15, 2014 | by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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"Millions of Americans installing 'perfect spying device' in their own living rooms: Amazon Fire TV monitors and records your conversations"
"Amazon.com is building the CIA's new $600 million data center, reports the Financial Times. (1) At the same time Amazon.com is building this massive cloud computing infrastructure for the CIA, the company is also shipping millions of Fire TV set-top devices to customers who are placing them in their private homes. I have one myself, and it's a terrific piece of hardware for delivering Prime video content. In fact, in terms of its usability and specs, it's far superior to Roku or Netflix-capable devices. Fire TV is, hands down, the best set-top video delivery device on the market today.
But there's something about it that always struck me as odd: it has no power button. There's no power button on the remote, and there's no power button on the box. It turns out there's no way to power the device off except for unplugging it.
This is highly unusual and apparently done by design. "It is not necessary to turn off Amazon Fire TV when you are finished using it," says the Amazon.com website. (2) "Your Amazon Fire TV is designed to go into sleep mode after 30 minutes, while continuing to automatically receive important software updates."
Note carefully that this does not say your Fire TV device WILL go into sleep mode after 30 minutes; only that it is "designed" to go into sleep mode after 30 minutes. As lawyers well know, this is a huge difference.
Fire TV devices linked to your identity
So far, you might not be convinced this is anything to write home about, but there's much more to this story. What we know so far is that Amazon.com is building the CIA's new cloud computing data center, and we also know the company's Fire TV devices have no way to be turned off and are being placed in the living rooms of private homes.
What starts to make this really interesting is when you realize these devices are linked to your identity before they're shipped to you.
Ever notice that when you power on your Fire TV device, it already knows who you are? Your entire library of video purchases on Amazon.com is already available, and those purchases are of course linked to your credit card, which is linked to your social security number, which is linked to your identity.
In other words, Amazon.com knows the identity of the owner of every Fire TV box currently sitting in living rooms across America. This mean it can connect everything that happens around that box (including audio monitoring, as you'll see below) to your personal identity.
Fire TV devices listen to your voice and upload audio to Amazon servers
Here's the next piece of this puzzle that may give you pause: There is a built-in microphone on the Fire TV remote.
When you click the search button, your voice is recorded and uploaded to Amazon.com servers where it is analyzed by Amazon cloud computing applications -- the same kind of thing Amazon is building for the CIA -- in order to return search matches to your local TV screen.
Now, I fully realize that most Americans are too gullible and naive to believe their audio recordings get uploaded to Amazon.com servers, so I'm going to quote CNET.com here which published an article earlier this year entitled: "How to delete your Fire TV voice recordings - Amazon stores your recordings on its servers to improve accuracy of voice searches. Here's how you can delete that data." (3)
As this article openly states, "To improve
"about the issues care they most about and what they're hearing"
care they most??
really??
It's not just the summary, that's on whitehouse.gov...
I am so ashamed to be a citizen of the U.S. right now.
It takes a lot less to inspire your generation than ours.
I've never seen the other two, but Hank Green, and his brother John, are two people who've earned much respect in my view, for their charity work, for their educational series "Crash Course", and for the work they've done supporting other youtube science channels, like Emily Graslie and Animal Wonders.
The Prez wants to hang with Aurini, because bitches, man.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Nor will he issue Executive Memorandums. He'll just tweet new laws and upload speeches to Youtube. And, of course, for the devoted that want real "face time", there's Facebook.
On a day when 12 French citizens were massacred by Islamist zealots yelling “Allah akbar,” the Democrats controlling the White House announce that “Islam is a religion of Peace.”
Read more: http://therightscoop.com/islam-is-a-peaceful-religion-white-house-press-secretary-on-terrorist-attack-in-paris/#ixzz3PEyyTPqV
The result is a cover up of orders by Mohammed to kill non-Muslims / Jews, such as
"Oh Muslim, there is a jew hiding behind me, come and kill him" (Sahih Muslim Book 41, Number 6981)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_antisemitism
President Barack Spicoli Obama (you DID read his autobiography, didn't you?) has his minions draft huge sweeping executive orders that violate his oath of office (instructing his agencies to not enforce/uphold entire laws, where his oath requires him to see that the laws are faithfully enforced) and he signs those oders and then skips-off to play golf. Obama's actions have run afoul of the Constitution so many times that he has been slapped down UNANIMOUSLY by the Supreme Court over 20 times. For you liberals, that means he is WAY out of line, since most cases never reach the Supreme Court and a unanimous loss means that even the justices put in place by Bill Clinton and Barack Obama voted that he was in the wrong.
As President, his JOB is NOT to run the country by issuing orders that are completely untethered to the laws and to the congress and courts - that's what dictators in banana republics do; his job is not only preside over the entire executive branch of government AS IT FOLLOWS AND UPHOLDS THE LAWS CONGRESS HAS PASSED, but also to negotiate with congress to come up with compromise legislation (something he has NEVER done... that would take time away from his golfing and also require HIM to, well, COMPROMISE). When Obama talks about compromise, if you pay attention, you'll note that his version is that his opponents must agree with him completey (NEVER says HE is willing to meet in the middle).
By running the country with executive orders rather than following the laws and the Constitution and getting involved in lengthy negotiations with congress (as ALL previous presidents, EVEN NIXON have done) Obama has plenty of time to goof off on the golf courses, hang out with Jay-Z etc and vacation in Hawaii. There is NO conflict in these two things with Obama. Oh, and unlike most presidents, when Obama vacations in hawaii, he REALLY vacations. Presidents like Reagan and Carter, and Bush, and Clinton tended to do "working vacations" that often involved inviting foreign leaders to spend the time with them discussing international matters and negotiating treaties.
Genocide is the wiping out of a race of people. If the Jews in Israel are attempting genocide against the Palestinians (who often brag about their rising population and claim they will eventually eliminate the Jews by out-breeding them) then the Jews have to be the most-incompetent people on Earth when it comes to being evil - they're apparently just not able to be very bad.
The arabs, and the people who pretend to be from the mythical nation of "Palestine" (a nation that has never actually existed, as Yassar Arafat admitted in the 1970's) on the other hand have frequently announced their intent to wipe out all the Jews (they just lack the power to do it... which further enrages them). Given that the so-called Palestinians wave flags and maps that have NO Israel on them while screeching about killing all the Jews, THEY certainly deserve to be victims of genocode more than anybody else on Earth ... but NOBODY has ever attemtped a mass-slaughter of Palestinians. The Muslim Brotherhood, on the other hand, allied itself with Hitler in WWII and was part of the war machine that DID attempt genocide against the Jews.
It's time for the "Palestinians" to stop occupying Israel (ALL of it) and get off the Temple mount (THE holy site of the Jewish faith) to which Islam CANNOT logically hold ANY claim given that Islam is about 700 years younger than Christianity, which is thousands of years younger than Judaism). The "Palestinians" can live in MANY lands where their ancestors actually came from, like what is now called Jordan (formerly "Trans-Jordan" a majority-Palestinian nation) Syria, Lebanon, Arabia, Egypt (Yasser Arafat was actually an Egyptian). Jews CANNOT safely live ANYWHERE else as history has proven (in WWII every nation turned its back on them, even the US sent many to Germany to die). In the aftermath of WWII, the entire civilized world swore "Never Again", and yet clearly nothing was learned - Jew-hatered is on the rise across Europe and even in the US where leftists have taken over the universities and are again pushing evil ideologies like national socialism.
Half of your population voted for this radical clown. I used to think that something would be lost in a nuclear war between the US and Russia or China - now, not so much.
I mean...it must be hard work killing jobs, energy, and inviting millions of illegal aliens to hook into our every growing welfare system that doesn't even help real Americans. I guess he must have some hobbies between golfing and vacationing like the 1% of the 1% of the 1%ers. How he manages to find time to do the little things with his 1 day a week work week. Maybe he should triple the deficit and give more power to our broken federal government. Oh well...lets get back to attacking Fox News and the Tea Party. HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Attempting to turn yourself into an internet meme won't cozy you up to us, not when your administration's policy is that all private communications online should be subject to government snooping.
N4st0r, trixx0r h0bb1tz0rz! Th3y st0l3 0ur pr3c10uzz!
Always works well.
That means they're confident. So confident about these youtubers' ambition and personalities that Obama will never hear any word that might potentially upset him, such as "Kiriakou", "torture", "drone", "kill list", "accountability" or "war criminal".
xkcd is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
At least explain your nonsense if you're going to say it in public.
Please use proper English. Throwing strange slang and borrowed stuff into articles makes it very hard to read some of the submissions.
YouTube has more viewers and gets basic facts wrong less often than CNN. Yet despite CNN's numerous ongoing deficiencies, the President has been quite generous and gracious to the network, appearing for interviews several times -- including a one-on-one interview with Candy Crowley late last month.
FoxNews would have a field day
Table-ized A.I.
Well, it's not as bad as it seems. They could have invited Cartmanbrah.
Absence of proof != proof of absence.
'Bethany Mota' a very clever way of selling product to kids, under the guise of some Valley girl just hanging in her bedroom with her Youtube 'friends'. Marketing exec: 'We got a contract to shift some .. 'batiste dry shampoo', 'Bumble and Bumble City Swept Finish', 'white eyeliner', 'red lipstick', 'mascara', 'vests from Target', 'skirt from For-ever-21', 'boots from For-ever-21', 'tanktop', 'Blue dress from LX-Fashion', 'White shoes from American Apparel', 'Purse from Clothing Line', 'Overalls from Love Culture', 'American Flag T-shirt from Brandy Melville', 'Backpack from Target', 'White dress from For-ever-21', 'Black-&-White Wedges', 'Headband from Michaels Craftstore'. If you're a teenage girl out there, if you buy all this product, then you can also have Bethanys lifestyle.
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ref: Valley Speak
Never heard of him!
Niggers aren't human, they're subhuman.
...in Bread and Circuses.
Stop-Prism.org: Opt Out of Surveillance
"Kibbitz" (or "kibitz") is a Yiddish term meaning, "to offer unsolicited advice". Until very recently, this is the only meaning i'd heard for this term, but lately people appear to be using it to simply mean, "converse" (or perhaps more precisely, "engage in small talk"). I understand that language evolves and word meanings change, but if this is indeed the case with "kibbitz" it would be a real shame, because the word in its original sense is useful for conveying a concept concisely that otherwise cannot be conveyed in English using a single word...
I am not a number - I am a free man!
... that I'm not idiotic hipster enough as I find the "Fine" Bros to be as irritating as fuckall, and iJustine as just a WTF moment...
I note that they're both super hip on suckling on the M$ teat as well... One has to wonder what that raked in...