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Andrew Yang Plans To Use a 3D Hologram For Remote Campaigning (nymag.com)
Andrew Yang, the presidential candidate who supports Universal Basic Income and has attracted a devoted online following, is planning to use a 3D hologram on the campaign trail. "On Wednesday he gave the #YangGang, which is what his supporters call themselves, their first look at it," reports New York Magazine. From the report: The hologram's debut came on TMZ Live, which showed a video of Yang's hologram performing a duet alongside a hologram of his "hero," Tupac. "I was doing a demo of what a hologram would consist of in order to send the hologram of me to campaign in Iowa or other battleground states," he said.
Last month, Yang spoke about his hologram plans with Iowa newspaper, The Carroll Daily Times Herald. "We are exploring rolling a truck out that would enable someone to see a hologram of me that is three-dimensional give my stump speech," Yang told the paper. "And, also, if I were in a studio, which we could set up very easily, I could beam in and take questions live." Yang also told the paper that he plans to use hologram technology to remind voters that "it is 2019, and soon it will be 2020, and things are changing."
Last month, Yang spoke about his hologram plans with Iowa newspaper, The Carroll Daily Times Herald. "We are exploring rolling a truck out that would enable someone to see a hologram of me that is three-dimensional give my stump speech," Yang told the paper. "And, also, if I were in a studio, which we could set up very easily, I could beam in and take questions live." Yang also told the paper that he plans to use hologram technology to remind voters that "it is 2019, and soon it will be 2020, and things are changing."
yang it real good
Instead of the Nose he can campaign as the Yang.
A projection on a transparent screen is not a hologram.
Universal basic income doesn't work - Yang is an idiot.
Someone explain that please....
Also sounds really boring.
"This guy is so elitist he can't even be bothered to leave his comfy studio and come out here and speak to us in person? I'm sure as hell not voting for him."
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
And I support a chicken in every pot ...
But anyway, how is this better than a 2D video conference? Or for that matter, just Luddite text?
"Please state the nature of the medical emergency."
Requiem for the American Dream
When you view a population as your extended family, filial piety starts to look a lot like socialism (or, dare I say, I communism).
That gets the attention of a lot of people, especially the leftist media.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Waldo_Moment
Is Hatsune Miku going to appear alongside him as his holographic running mate?
Right. It grates on me when they call it a hologram.
Why can't they come up with something equally sexy sounding.
On the other hand if it gets people excited about holography and "Science" then that's not a bad thing even if it's a misunderstanding.
The trouble is real holograms will be a lot more disappointing! A real holgogram will have a quality will be way lower yet the net effect will for practical stage purposes be identical to the audience.
But why not call it holoviz or something just a little different.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
That technique is over a century old and is referred to as "Pepper's Ghost". It is well established technique used in illusion and other entertainment.
A hologram is a *THREE* dimensional image, not a two-dimensional one projected onto glass.
As you move relative to the position of a hologram, your perspective of it changes just as it would if you were to move around an actual 3-dimensional object, and even the differences between what your left eye sees and right eye sees will be different enough at close distances that your brain will tell you you are looking at something with actual depth.
No so-called "hologram" of Tupac ever did that.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
Legalize whatever he is smoking. I want some.
I guess if you are unfamiliar with the trick it seems kinda cool. But, I can imagine a certain level of disappointment when you pay a bunch of money to see a "hologram" show then realize it's a somewhat higher-tech version of the dining room scene at the Haunted Mansion in Disney World.
Trump had teams of angry people trying to pin him with something/anything. And? Nothing. NOTHING.
No collusion, but a metric tonne of leftist bullshit.
And that is their legacy - no decent policies - just 4 years of 'orange man bad' propaganda and misinformation.
Which is why they have lost the next election - and rightly so.
This method won't fly...
The +1 growth and +1 industry he promises are something our country really needs right now, not to mention the free perimeter defense at all of our cities. I can deal with the -1 economy.
Ever see a regular person try to run a powerpoint presentation? What is the success rate? I predict the hologram will never work and/or will fail constantly. It'll make for good entertainment.
That gets the attention of a lot of people, especially the leftist media.
It's amazing how you people never bring up "other people's money" when billionaires get local taxpayers to pay for the sports stadiums for their professional ball teams. The taxpayer never sees any benefit for it.
Or when they tool around in their private jets and get the benefit of taxpayer funded air traffic control and airports.
And of course the use of the taxpayer funded interstate system that allows them to make their billions.
But when regular people want some basic single payer healthcare, oh no! "other people's money!" Healthcare is a luxury in the USA. We have the most expensive system that is also the worst performing in the industrialized world. Why? More welfare for the billionaires. They rigged the system so that we have to do business with their ripoff insurance and pharmaceutical companies.
You know what? If AOC, Sanders, Warren somehow got what they promised for all us, OUR standard of living would go up. Yes, you too.
But you have been brainwashed by the conservative media (it's ALL controlled by big conservative corporate interests: yes, even MSNBC) that what they want is in your best interests.
Nope. Wake up! You're being played for a rube.
Don't worry, he'll take care of you....
Dude. Name your foe: Government.
You are angry that people's resources are being taken from them, against their will, at the point of a gun, in order to fund someone else's stupid ideas.
Taxation is theft. Accept it.
Holograms delivered to every state on demand for a day of town halls around the country?
Now THAT is mass-communicatiin'!
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
You're my only demographic.
I eat only the real part of complex carbohydrates.
"Hey's he's communicating just like Princess Leia! He must be a man of the people!".
People think of you as elitist based on what you do. If what you do is appear to them in a hologram but then say even the poorest should get $1k/month as basic pay, that sure doesn't come off as elitist no matter how he arrives speaks to them. Pretty easily people can see that being able to talk to groups from many states in a day via a fancy FaceTime, is way less elitist than flying around the country by private jet.
Plus it's not like the rich are using holograms everywhere, so there's no basis for claiming he's elitist by using one - just smart.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
"We are exploring rolling a truck out that would enable someone to see a hologram of me that is three-dimensional give my stump speech,"
Yeah, or you could just make a YouTube video like normal people do for your "stump speech" instead of pissing money away on pseudo-hologram bullshit. Way to demonstrate fiscal responsibility. I'm sure everyone will benefit with you leading the UBI efforts.
Yang also told the paper that he plans to use hologram technology to remind voters that "it is 2019, and soon it will be 2020, and things are changing."
Just because it's almost 2020 doesn't mean getting out there and greeting people in person is an outdated concept, but hey don't let me stop you from digging your own grave. At least you'll be livestreaming your own demise. That should be somewhat entertaining.
The hologram's debut came on TMZ Live, which showed a video of Yang's hologram performing a duet alongside a hologram of his "hero," Tupac.
His "hero", is Tupac? Yeah, I'm fucking done here. Hope 300 million citizens are too.
Some choice of hero you've got there. Picking Tupac Shakur, a convicted rapist as your hero. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.
That simplistic view ignores all of the 18th and 19th century history of robber barons. Look at literally any society with a weak government and capitalism and you get giant monopolies exploiting people to the point of death. This isn't too say this doesn't happen under other systems, but a weak or nonexistent government which isn't beholden to the people is a death sentence for anyone who isn't in a position of power.
The USA is a Republic, not a democracy. The policies Bernie Sanders are pushing are Social Democratic (think Germany) not Democratic Socialism. Kirk says "Beam me up Scott" not "Beam me up Scotty". Darth Vader says "No, I am your father", not "Luke, I am your father".
Virtually all money is created by banks, under authority of the US government. It's not "other people's money". All money is created by Congress, or by banks. How it is distributed has been, since the country was founded, ultimately an issue of public policy. In particular, banks were allowed to fail so they did not make stupid capital allocation decisions.
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/working-paper/2018/banks-are-not-intermediaries-of-loanable-funds-facts-theory-and-evidence
Include things like:
1. Holographic food
2. Holographic housing
3. Holographic money
I mean, if you're going to go holographic, you need to go all in.
BlameBillCosby.com
Learn you some Truth about the Robber Barons.
Besides, why doesn't your mistrust (or even loathing) of a voluntarily grown monopoly extend to government, which is even worse: A violently imposed monopoly? You are proposing that we should rely on a violently imposed monopoly (government) to save us from a voluntarily grown monopoly; such a position is patently absurd.
If you apply your ethics and politics to government, you'll see that government itself needs to be busted up, and thrown away; the future of a free society is law by contracts, not law by decree—the future is agreement between individuals in advance of interaction, not the coercive imposition of some blessed, ordained, religiously-revered authoritarian monopoly over the men with guns.
By redistributing money, you are redistributing the right of people to decide what to do with society's wealth (provided people continue to use that money to facilitate their choices).
In a free society, money is distributed according to voluntary interaction; there's a reason a doctor gets paid more than a paperboy. A government, then, is naturally opposed to a free society—a government uses violence (or the threat of violence) to force people to allocate society's resources in one way or another, and socialists want to use that violence to force people to pretend that a paperboy is worth more than he is (and that a doctor is worth less than he is).
Who is this douche?
EDIT: CAPTCHA is "governed"!
We should be using this technology for its intended purpose. Porn.
Remote 3D super realistic porn.
Interactive touch-enabled porn.
I hope the fire department lets your house burn down.
I built my home with fire-retardant materials, and fire thwarting engineering, including a sprinkler system system; I did this not only because it's smart, but because my home insurance company gave me an enormous reduction in the premium as a result.
Government is useless. Don't need 'em. In fact, the local government's fire depart is in financial crisis for lack of good management, which is another good reason for not relying on them. I mean, FFS, their method of fire mitigation hasn't fundamentally improved since Croesus of Rome.
This sums up the central problem, promises of "free stuff because you deserve it" will always win against the core idea of "work hard and you will see rewards in the end". Nah, i'll just sign up for the "free stuff" train, they have holograms and hip young candidates who do IAMA's on reddit.
Actually, they do here in Alaska. Some communities are so far outside the "fire service" area it isn't practical to respond to every call. Other's choose not to pay the taxes and the fire services will only respond if there is someone in the house, and the likely give you a nice bill. I had a friend who saw one of his neighbors houses go up in this exact way, he called the "local" fire department and reported the fire, they asked if anyone was home and when he said no, they told him to let it burn. The main concern was neighboring structures and forest fires since no lives were in danger.
News outlets need more candidates - more candidates means more words written about the campaign - more advertising and all the rest of the usual path they follow
How is this surprising?
Expect a Candidate X is surging in the polls news story soon when they go from 1% to 3% because the news media needs a horse race.
For the Republicans, it will be all 'falling apart campaigns' and red meat news coverage.
A billionaire is, by definition, contributing to a region.
A billionaire is the conduit through which much wealth is generated for society, through jobs, through innovations, etc. Even if that billionaire merely inherits his wealth, then he's either going to lose the wealth through a playboy life, or he's going to be the conduit through which learned money-managers allocate resources to productive activities.
Government TAKES wealth; it does not MAKE wealth; in a free market, where the economic activity is voluntary, that billionaire has literally proven himself to be productive to society. In contrast, your precious taxmen have proved nothing of themselves, other than the fact that they are adept at robbing people.
Your whole position seems to be dependent on the idea that the people who run governments are made of finer clay than the rest of us. Not only is history replete with counter evidence of that fact (after all, it's easier to force people to do something at the point of a gun than it is to convince them to do something voluntarily, such as buy your product), but I've got news for you: Smart, industrious, productive people who generate wealth for society (you know, those people who become billionaires) do not aspire to work in government; a government is never filled with society's best, but rather it's filled with people who depend on being able to decree their income regardless of their objectively poor performance.
And, when do billionaires become a problem? They become a problem when a government corrupts them—when billionaires get tired of being actually productive, and seek to buy some of a government's authoritarian power to force people to pay for their products instead; as always, the real problem is government; the real problem is a cultural reverence for a monopoly on the men with guns.
Neither one has a chance.
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Have a look at this web page. By the way I can't see what's "3D" in there. We don't need to care about "3D" or "hologram", the person shows up and the talk and convictions matter!
https://lafranceinsoumise.fr/operation471/
You're just lamenting the fact that most people are a relatively unproductive drag; you're just wishing that there existed more people who are intelligent, industrious, thoughtful, planning generators of wealth.
Well, that's my fantasy, too. Unfortunately, redistributing wealth at the point of a gun ain't gonna make that fantasy a reality.
In a free society, there is inequality, because the most productive people end up exactly where they should be: At the top!
Maybe the supply of paupers is too large...
blah blah blah
Billionaires have their own authoritarian power and get some more via media ownership, lobbyism, ownership of weapons manufacturers etc.
"...he's going to be the conduit through which learned money-managers allocate resources to productive activities."
This assumes all money managers make money through ways that are beneficial to the society as a whole?
There are many ways of making money that really have no value to society at all (Martin Shkreli comes to mind as one example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Shkreli ).
"And, when do billionaires become a problem? They become a problem when a government corrupts them—when billionaires get tired of being actually productive, and seek to buy some of a government's authoritarian power to force people to pay for their products instead..."
Has the government corrupted Peter Thiel or is his corruption just inherent in humans?
“Competition is for Losers” -Peter Thiel
Government TAKES wealth; it does not MAKE wealth;
This is just unsubstantiated unadulterated bullshit. It's magical thinking. Ridiculous and baseless.
Two examples :
1) a government builds a Hoover dam. Is no wealth created?
2) a company like Comcast gets $50/month from 100 million people and sit on their asses doing nothing. Is wealth created?
Governments print money but they must stay within certain limits due to the Law Of Diminishing Marginal Utility and the very real risk that they lose the faith of the population. If they lose the faith of the population the currency goes into hyperinflation.
The conclusion of the article from your link has holes because it is quite bias. Why? Because it pointed out only bad things happened from one side and only good things from the other side. Possibly, the author couldn't think out of the box because the author is deep into his own bias.
There is no such "all good" in either completely trust in government or no government at all. Why? Because we are humans, and at least one among us will always look for a way to exploit a situation in order to benefit the one. The link you gave shows how the other side is being exploited by certain group of people, but never mentioned anything about how his side could exploit the situation when it favors his side.
To me, you need to give a benefit of the doubt to both sides and try to be in the middle. It is not easy or trivial to find a fine line where it is too much on either side, but it is not impossible. Though, it also depends on who is in charge and majority of the followers.
Freedom is Slavery, right?
Let me know how all that shit works out when there's a gas main explosion in your basement, or a plane falls out of the sky and destroys your precious over-thought out coffin.
Nah, you don't need those Chippendale's in Helmets! Nor the Gov't, all those laws are for suckers!!`!~
Oh, and I would say the Jaws of Life are a significant improvement over ancient Roman firefighting techniques.
Idiot.
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There is no such thing as Intelligent Design; there is only evolution by variation and selection.
There are a lot of problems in society, and nobody knows their solutions; there are a lot of problems in society that nobody even knows about, and they definitely don't know the solutions to those.
In a free society, when people compete, they are cooperating to find workable solutions; from the decentralized activity of the market, solutions emerge, often without people even realizing that they are emerging, or without people even realizing that a problem needed to be solved. May the best participant win, and thereby show us the way (at least for now).
Because a government can generate wealth, it has no need to take people's resources at the point of a gun.
Hell, we can dispense with the market altogether—just think of the savings society will enjoy by removing the overhead of competition, allowing the angelic geniuses in government to command us all from on high!
You need to think about what a "government" is.
The United States is a government; a monarchy is a government; a warlord is a government; the Kim regime of North Korea is a government; the Ayatollah of Iran heads a government.
I, for one, am not going to give the Kim regime the benefit of the doubt.
Is the local barbershop a government? Is Walmart a government? If one of these organizations does engage in coercive activity, is that coercion actually just outsourced to a government (and, thus, should such coercion be blamed instead on that government)?
What does "voluntary" mean, anyway? What does "law" mean? If you sign a contract that says you get to drive a car as long as you make payments to a certain organization every month, does that mean that I also have to make such payments? Is your separate obligation to make payments a kind of law? Are you existing under a different law than I am? Is it possible to view the collection of contracts between individuals as emergent law? Would it be better to forego law by legislation (that is, law by decree) in favor of law by contracts, at least as much as possible?
Is the enforcement of a contract a service? If so, should such a service be subject to the rules of the market like any other service, or should there be a magical, ordained, blessed monopoly on enforcement activities (e.g., a government)? Is competition among enforcers a better way to implement a separation of powers? Are competing nation-states viewable as competing enforcers? Are nation states actually an example of entities that have existed in total anarchy, and does that prove that anarchy is not without order? Has the world gotten better or worse as those nation-states have approached ever more robust contractual obligations to one another? Actually, who enforces those obligations, anyway?
Is society the one thing in this universe that should be Intelligently Designed, or must it too be subjected to Evolution by Variation and Selection? What is the most robust and humane form of evolution by variation and selection? Law by contracts?
Society is composed of individuals; those individuals can be grouped into organizations. What is it about this organization or that organization that allows you to call it "government"? Why can you so comfortably and confidently talk about "sides", as though it all makes sense?
You jelly?
Andrew Yang Plans To Use a 3D Hologram For Remote Campaigning
I was just planning to use a 3D hologram for remote jeering!
So Yang is launching a TV ad campaign, only, if you want to see it, you have to leave your home & go to a specific place at a specific time to watch it... & Yang might even be watching you watching the ad & then answer some questions on Skype/Facetime.
Yeah, I'm sure it'll catch on.
Debate is a form of harassment. Do not question my truth.
So jelly.
I think he's a bold person with a very optimistic view. How he thinks he could ever be a president of the US is beyond me, but I hope he succeeds.. The biggest problem he has, is being asian.. And with the US already trying to block a lot of chinese companies (in the media) it will just make people wonder if Yang isn't a puppet for the chinese goverment (no, they don't even think about where he's actually born, he looks like one so he is one, for a lot of people).. And ofcourse I don't think a lot of democrats don't want him in the chair either..
But agian, I hope he succeeds, it would mean a completely different direction as Trump is going.
why vote for someone who don't care enough to be there in person?
Giving this jerk the idea that he has any sort of creditable chance is just cruel, when we all know he is just your date to the "pig party" so you can make fun of him. You should be ashamed.
Value is in the eye of the beholder. That's why taxation is theft.
...Hitsune Miku-chan? That will get the otaku's to vote!