- Believe it or not, we aren't watching the DNC/RNC
- Its pretty boring stuff, actually
- Interesting differences between the presentations
- Parents are protesting in Quebec
- Most parents want their kids back in school
- The SAT/ACT should not be studied for - but the educational system is so messed up that kids need tutors just to get by - this is why Kaplan and other tutoring services are rocking
- Tests are pretty useless now - they are only about memorization - and who needs to use memory anymore
- Our passion is learning.
- We talk a bit about how messages flew around between people prior to the internet - here is Chris' BBS listing (BizBase)
- The modern internet started with the web - if it wasn't for Netscape we wouldn't be here today
- We used to have paper Yellow Pages of websites to go to
- We also used to have to pay for long-distance phone calls
- Reddit is the closest to the old Listservs, and now that's gone too
- Is there really such a thing as the butterfly effect?
- Can one person really change the world? Only if they go viral.
- Facebook is now using concepts similar to the stock market to stop memes before they go viral - why would Facebook wan to do that? Stop-loss is a very different concept.
- These tech companies really are kind of evil. They only like certain kinds of free speech
- First time Facebook ban for Dutch - just for sharing a Putin/Vaccine meme
- We close with some chatter Confidential and cloud computing, in case you are interested...
