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Very good observation about the similarities between the rich and the poor. In America, you can’t do or say much unless you’re too poor to give a flying f*ck or too rich to give a damn. Think about it, a divorce will wipe you out if you’re middle class, say with a net worth between $100K – $1 Million, but you’re a $5000-naire, then what difference does it make? Yeah, she can keep the 1989 Dodge Omni and the double-wide. If you’re loaded, what difference does it make if you lose the vacation home in the Hamptons? You’d still have your penthouse in the Dakota and the house on Martha’s Vineyard. If you’re poor, you can pretty much say whatever you want. For one, nobody’s paying attention to what you’re saying. Even if they were paying attention and happen to disagree, they aren’t going to dispute you because they have much more to lose in a confrontation than you. If you’re loaded, then, by God, whatever you say must be really important and visionary. Remember Larry Ellison’s Network Computer back in 1995? Any computer engineer with 2 brain cells could see that bandwidth limitation, security, and cost were limitations that technology couldn’t solve for at least 10 more years. Even if the technology were feasible, nobody would want a dumb terminal that becomes useless the moment the network connection went down.

OK, got it. HOWEVER: A lot of stupid videos have been on the internet and non-ironically described as neat/creative/inventive or sometimes “genius.” I guess looking at a video on a computer screen makes something more visionary for some reason.

To “A Random One” and Alexander Steckel – I think there is a fair chance Philip was being ironic. He is not known for his love of the MIT Media Lab. Have a look at the humour section of his personal web site, which will also give you a better understanding of his sense of humour.

I don’t get it! This video is stupid — it’s just a guy loading and firing a machine gun. Is Phil being sarcastic?

There *is* nothing wrong with drugs like Cocaine as it might be useful to someone in a way that you or I don’t understand — so it should be legal (although hopefully undesirable). It is funny how older deadly weapons, like spears and bows, are no longer considered a threat when they murdered countless people. Some day when we have energy rays, machineguns will be more freely available because no one will consider them a significant danger in much the same way that you can still mail-order the very deadly muzzleloaders of the Civil War (and they would have been able to do the same job as the Bushmaster used by the DC Sniper since he only single-fired each shot).

Yoni,

There is nothing wrong with drugs like cocaine either. I have never seen cocaine jump up and smack up someone’s nose.

Alex,

There is nothing wrong with machine guns. I have never seen a machine gun jump up and shoot somebody. What it really needs is a person behind it that wishes to kill his/her fellow human beings.

“More than 840 million people in the world are malnourished—799 million of them are from the developing world. More than 153 million of them are under the age of 5.” <- http://www.bread.org/hungerbasics/international.html

So, is that video more evil than our nice hot dinner?

Ummmm, I don’t know about you, but does “explosion in video creativity” really have to mean the filming of how a machine-gun is fired? And that is not to point out what this type of machine gun has meant to countless creative minds in the past 62 years…

Maybe I just don’t get the irony?!?

I thought it was a basic rule of aviation that you can have brave pilots, old pilots but almost never a combination of both.

Back to the jets: That’s one of my lotto fantasies: Drive up to a small airport in a limo with a bunch of suburbans riding security, then hop on a jet to take me to a golf course for a few hours