Death Inc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY

aaahhhh ha... well that my yearly feed of information

Seen it a few times but it still amazes me every time I see it.

Im guilty of that downloading :D

wow some of those facts!
by 2049 a computer will b smarter than us! and they might even just playing us instead of us playing them :o

thats tripy as chal!

I think you'll find computers are already smarter than us... some of us at least... *looks in Mike's direction*

dont forget what computers are....tools. they do nothing without some sort of intervention. Also it is predicted that a super comptuer will have the capability of a  human brain. first off you need someone to start it, then finish it. also there was probably about 2 things that surprised me in the whole video. add that :)

least im not gay virg. bam!

EDIT: just so it doesn't look like a useless post ill put something in smart....y=mx+c

not spam any more!

So I'm watching it and right at the end when it says, "So what does it all mean?" TS pipes up, "Member left"

Is it a sign?

Funny..Mine said "oooohhhhhhh ooooohhhhhhh BAAAAAAAAAA mine doiken unt svelenburga" ..then again I did have a german goat porno running in the background so that could explain it....me..I prefer the theory that robotic goats in 2049 are going to roam the planet having intercourse with hot young women and see it as a sign also :D

y=mx+c
Generally speaking its y=mx+b kthnxbai

Lies, damn lies, and statistics.
These are interesting times though, and we are stumbling blindly into them. The internet is changing our lives in so many ways, and we don't know most of it. How many things are now purchased online, sure it's great, it's cheap, but where is that money going, what happens to the retail stores that used to sell them, where will those check out chicks work? Consider the humble tomato sauce sachet at mackers, how many people do you think that one little thing employs, the answer is hundreds if not thousands, because if you track it back from the truck that drops it off through the box it sits in, the manufacture of the packaging and the sauce itself, back to the farmer growing the tomatoes. It is mindblowing where that simple product reaches. Now you consider the same thing next time you buy a game from steam. What happens to the retailer, the shopping centre, the freight companies, the packaging companies and all the thousands of people employed to produce that little box you used to buy from EB, but now you just download it. Consider the print media industry, it is put simply, dying. The papers biggest source of income was the classifieds, not the advertisers and certainly not actual paper sales, the classifieds was called the rivers of gold by the news industry. Enter ebay, and who does it impact, the print media, the very thing that first tied the world together as national and global communities, being destroyed by an online garage sale. Every 'improvement' of the internet changes something else you would never expect. When you scratch the surface of any industry and you will find the internet has changed it. By the time we figure out what the internet has changed, it will be to late to change back.

Whilst i do understand your points and I agree with you...you ARE overlooking something.

The porn industry is now waaaaaayyyy more accessible to us all and for that we should be thankfull............in hindsight the amount of FREE porn out there is also killing that industry...Nooo we must unite and tear down this creature called the internets now before it goes any further  ???

this sounds a lot like something i just remembered, you're thinking of this in the wrong way, the internet and buying stuff online is a godsend, we just have to use it properly and not let this happen. Also think about this. You just bought a shirt from eBay. That user had to get it from somewhere, and they got it sent from a truck carrying HEAPS of them, an that truck got them from somewhere, which was made from wherever (most likely china) and they got their materials from somewhere. and you got that shirt from the postie, the only person cut out was the shop. hell, if anything they probably got it FROM the shop.

You make some interesting points bageled.

What's he is saying is kind of like what people have been saying since the 60's, 70's, 80's etc as computers rose to become ubiquitous. People were saying that in 2000 computers would be doing all the work and we would only be doing 4 hour days... now we are arguably working more overtime then ever, and perhaps computers have made even more jobs- like the people that maintain and repair them, server admins, data managers, etc. Maybe the part about 4 hour work days is not true but they have, and continue to, revolutionise they way the developed world conducts its business.

It's true that computers and the internet are causing a cultural revolution. The way we do business IS changing but we need to embrace it and adapt. Take for example, the film and recording industry. 200 years ago actors and musicians had to perform live shows to make their living. In comes technology like record players and TV's and suddenly these people's jobs become a lot easier- one performance can reach an exponentially larger audience. The film and music industries were born, and became complacent, maybe even lazy as technology allowed them to rake in cash for a fraction of the work their predecessors did. The corporate fatcats built a billion dollar empire on the backs of a few talented individuals. Now that everyone has the internet, they realise they can get their products for nothing- thus this lowers the apparent value of films and recordings. The corporate fatcats are crying foul and are looking for ways to stifle the devloping technology instead of embracing it and looking to change their business model to take advantage. They will probably never make as much money as they used to but I would argue that is because they were making far more than what was fair for their products. Itunes is a good example of how they have embraced the technology and structured their business around it, hell Apple itself is a great example of a dynamic, internet-savvy company that is not too rooted in its old ways to get left behind by the internet revolution and cry foul at the developing technologies. More companies need to follow their lead (even though Jobs is a scumbag who would sell his mother if he thought it was a good business decision... look up how he screwed over Wozniak in the days of Atari for more info).

The point about ebay is good, someone just happened to have a good idea and implemented it first, and managed to nearly monopolise the market. There is one potential downfall of internet commerce- with the greater market reach and globalisation it allows, it is arguably easier to create a monopoly. The point about classifieds is valid, although it goes back to what I was saying before- instead of crying foul about it, the media needs to move forward and change the way they do business to provide a better value to the internet generation.

At the end of the day, companies that trade in information need to embrace the information revolution- not struggle against it. Will innocent people suffer as they lose their jobs? Maybe, although it seems to me lately that corporate fatcats doing dodgy things on the stock market and running companies into the ground are a bigger threat.

Anyway you made me think and that's something I don't do enough of so +1 for you

I want to go on about how you're knowledge of maths isn't good enough to be making statements like this but... effort required > worthiness of my time.

So, I'll just content myself with this.

e=mc²

_{disclaimer: I am not albert einstein}

You are ALL WRONG - its y=mca

f=ma (LOL chal +1)

:D  had to throw in a Village people reference in at some point...now my life is complete...nearly complete...anyone have a young blond swedish sister they want to loan me?

My brain is full.

ROFL +1