Comments by "Eli Nope" (@elinope4745) on "TED" channel.

  1. +The Blue Farmer which of course leads to the simple number of people eating food. overpopulation is a problem, that is imported from 3rd world nations. most first world nations are in population decline, the growth of these countries is artificial and created by immigration from 3rd world nations that are reproducing too quickly. why aren't we talking about this?
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  2. +David Patterson i don't disagree that green energy is a good idea, and i think we need to consider the acidity of the oceans and do something about it. but Naveen is right, what they tell you about climate change is omitting some very important information. earth isn't the only planet undergoing climate change in our solar system. the sun's output is increasing, and all of the activity of humans on earth comes nowhere close to what the sun is doing to our climate.
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  3. +David Patterson i don't disagree that green energy is a good idea, and i think we need to consider the acidity of the oceans and do something about it. but Naveen is right, what they tell you about climate change is omitting some very important information. earth isn't the only planet undergoing climate change in our solar system. the sun's output is increasing, and all of the activity of humans on earth comes nowhere close to what the sun is doing to our climate.
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  4. ***** benefiting the world and benefiting american workers are two different things.
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  5. ***** i would like to see how that 100 dollars a year is calculated. i have seen funny math back up absurd conclusions before. i have doubts.
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  6. GuyWithAnAmazingHat i don't think the two are really comparable, the idea of comparing them is a fallacy. one is made of silicon chips, the other is organic in nature. they do not follow the same rules, they are like comparing apples and oranges. when will an orange catch up to an apple? computers are doing crazy things, they make up 70% of the stock markets. they are learning to see, to read, write and speak. they recognize novel objects. whether they are comparable to human brains or not, i have heard predictions by intelligent people that 80% of current jobs in the US will be replaced by automated labor in the next 40 years. there will undoubtedly be new jobs made in the process, but there will have to be some massive changes in society.
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  7. ***** you are correct, western nations are not egalitarian nations. they have legal policies that are primarily sexist in men, and here in the united states there are many many subcultures that treat girls and boys differently.  gender equality cannot be reached. it is comparing apples to oranges, in the end both women and men are a bunch of individuals with individual goals that are based both on genetic factors and environmental factors. they will only be truly equal if they neither have genetic differences or environmental differences. if this were to be the case, then one of the genders needs to be eradicated (which would be horrible for everyone).  the women in third world nations have much fewer opportunities than women in first world nations. furthermore the abuses against them are much more dire.  in the united states the typical rape is a guy who got too drunk and made a poor decision in a party after school with a girl who gave him social indications of consent, and later revoked them without him noticing or sometimes without him caring.  the typical rape in a muslim third world country is a brutal affair where a man holds down a woman, often kicking and screaming and forces himself upon her under the threat of imminent death if she resists too much.  these are wildly different crimes. third world countries have much more violent actions against women.  more importantly the western nations are at a point where they can consider the rights of other marginalized groups that are suffering because we aim too much money at women in general instead of specific groups that bear the brunt of abuse, and oppressive actions, for instance, young black women in the united states are at much higher risk of being raped than white upper class women going to college. and yet it is the college girls that we are trying to protect while still allowing the young black girls to get victimized.  so yes the western nations still have problems. but when they are confused with being in the same state as non western nations (especially nations ruled by sharia law) it creates larger divisions between the people and increases crime rates, thus harming more women and girls.  so we have to focus our efforts and put money into systems that help people based upon stopping the most harm and protecting the most vulnerable before moving on to less dire considerations. 
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  8. ***** i appreciate your sentiment. i think there are violent rapes in muslim countries that do not occur in the united states are anywhere near the same rate. perhaps it is the bias i receive from news sources. i probably only hear about the most severe rapes in other countries as these are the ones that are reported on the international news agencies.  i just think that the typical life of a girl in sudan is much worse than the typical life of a girl in a western college (some colleges are worse than others). 
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  9. for those institutions that have the room, infrastructure and money to do it, they could create 3 bathrooms, a men, women's and disabled/changing room. this last room could be used by either gender, could be extra wide to accommodate wheelchairs (why only accommodate one type of disability?) have rails, and accommodate people with young children who need to have their diaper changed. i wouldn't say this should be expected in all establishments. rather it should be something that is provided by those institutions that can afford to do so and have the building infrastructure to do so (keep in mind not everyone can afford to renovate an old building that had two small bathrooms). i still don't think this should be a TED talks though. TED used to be about science, technology and innovation, not about equality and various brands of humanism.
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  10. Democracy the word, implies that the people make the decisions. You exploit it by doing things that makes the people's lives better, and being clear about communicating how you are making the people's lives better in a way that they agree with. If a foreign country is better at doing this than the countries' own leaders, than something is wrong with the countries' leaders.
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  11. indonesia is producing more CO2 than the united states, perhaps we should be talking about that as well?
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  12. does anyone honestly believe that we can stop the climate from changing? does anyone believe that there was a time in earth's history where the climate was not changing? let me tell you about a neat little cycle of climate change that the earth has had ever since the moon formed. its called "seasons", maybe you have heard of them. historically we have divided the constant climate change into 4 different "seasons" we call them "winter", "spring", "summer" and "autumn" (or "fall"). this continual cycle of climate change is caused by the wobble of earth on its axis, and the cycle repeats every year. there is long term climate change as well, which is constant and has never been halted in earth's history. we do not have the same climate that there was during the age of the dinosaurs (way more oxygen back then in the atmosphere, way less CO2 and no ice age because of it). i believe in climate change. i just don't believe it can be stopped. i don't believe that climate change is unnatural (although i do believe that humans have a non-negligible impact on it). what i don't believe is that it can be halted or stopped. even if we had thousands of years to design something to stop it, it would take more resources than are available on earth. perhaps one day in the future we will have giant mirrors in space that shine sunlight on the earth in patterns controlled by an immense AI that keeps the climate stable and unchanging. but we are a long way away from that, centuries, perhaps millennia. i also believe in greedy bankers who like to manipulate currency. we have a long history of that as well. it might be easier to stop climate change than it is to stop greedy bankers from finding new ways to fleece you out of your wealth.
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  13. man that really did make it better. thanks for the advise.
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  14. a few comments down there talking about her appearance. well i got something to say about her appearance. at first glance i thought this might be some more feminist bullshit. but it wasn't, she was talking about something that is mildly relevant and real. i was delighted to be wrong. so even though her talk wasn't my cup of tea, and even though she isn't the type of woman i am highly attracted too, i appreciate that she didn't use the TED spotlight to spread lies that are harmful to me. so all of you who are saying her hair sucks, or her talk sucks. well a lot of things you do sucks as well. lets just be happy she isn't spreading 3rd wave bullshit.
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  15. develop bacteria that triggers the immune system to attack the dangerous bacteria more quickly. instead of replicating the chemical attack, replicate the bacteria that produces the chemical, and bio-engineer it to be benign or beneficial to humans while at the same time competing for the resources that are used by the other bacteria.  we have a lot of harmless or useful bacteria, why aren't we trying to use them to make hybrids that help fight the problem?
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  16. gentrifying is a social construct. there is only people who live in an area. if you choose to judge them by the color of their skin than you are being racist.
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  17. we should have universal income, and public housing. true public housing, as in government owned and operated housing much like military barracks but for citizens.
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  18. we need enough freedom for people of many different beliefs to be free to pursue their own form of happiness. religious dogma precludes people from pursuing certain paths of happiness. western secular humanitarianism has a dogmatic code that could be thought of as religious in nature. forcing western values on countries like saudi arabia is no better than muslim fundamentalists flying planes into western buildings.
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  19. giving refugees the right to work only encourages those creating the conditions to create more refugees. i would like to point out that a lot of those people are wealthy business owners who want cheaper labor. the type of people who have rigged the political system. the type of people that TED used to try and get as their primary audience. instead of being relevant, TED has turned into a propaganda box. it used to be people talking to oligarchs, now it is oligarchs talking to people.
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  20. i would say that one of the great stories told in recent history is the harry potter series. it was written by a woman. her point is moot, we have already achieved what she is talking about.
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  21. what if i told you that everyone is unique, not just in DNA but also in gut flora, in retroviruses, in diet, in environment. what if i told you that even identical twins will have mild differences in medication effect? this men vs women is easy, but it is also a false narrative. the same things could be seen between people who are vegetarians vs. heavy meat diet people. the same thing is true of white people living near the poles vs dark skinned people living near the equator. to focus on gender is to lose sight of the reality, that people are unique, and that drugs do not work the same on all people. there is a real reason to focus medical trials on extending the health of males. men die much earlier than women, and are responsible for the majority of the production of real wealth. extending the working lives of males increases production, and benefits women as well as men.
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  22. cops using predictive technology that monitors social networks to pinpoint criminals and potential crimes before they occur. mix this with the justice system where the people do not make the laws and often oppose some laws. now tack in the fact that prosecuting attorneys offer plea deals but threaten extreme jail time if the person pleas not guilty and takes it to court. over 90% of people take the plea deal, many of them innocent. certain demographics are more targeted than others. and some actions which would otherwise be considered cultural norms for these groups are instead considered criminal actions. (marijuana should be legal for example, and black people are more likely to be targeted by the crime tracking software).
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  23. Wait, how is Melania Trump not a great example? How is she not a great success story? She starts out a model in Slovenia and is now the first lady. She is a proud mother, she is a talented worker, and she sets a good example. In what way is it bad that Melania Trump is first lady now? If i had to pick between Hillary Clinton and Melania Trump to set an example for young girls, by FAR it would be Melania.
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  24. +Howard Kurtus those who innovate tend to hire employees from other countries. the wealthy do not innovate in our corrupt system, they either start wealthy or they work to prevent other people from profiting off of further innovations on their ideas. wealth is generated from innovation, but money is generated from stopping other people from innovating. copyright laws do reward innovation, and in the process they stop innovation in its tracks.
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  25. i'm worried about the data. it needs to be scrubbed at the minimum. what is to stop the government for looking for some harmless legal activity that correlates with some "undesirable" trait, or some unknown "interaction" that allows people to have effective democracies, and shut it down, or target people who the public would not consider as bad people or undesirable actions? governments all around the world have long histories of abuse of innocent people. but i am sure they can find a way that everyone is "guilty" so long as they get to write the laws. this can lead to massive amounts of discrimination based on socioeconomic status and wealth distribution.
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  26. diseases survive much better if they are not lethal very quickly. diseases grow inside other creatures (vectors) and if they kill those other creatures too quickly than they don't spread. as such evolution selects against diseases that are very lethal unless those diseases are in high density populations where they can spread easily in a short amount of time. but any form of containment of such a disease leads to its extinction.
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  27. Thomas Smith i mean it COULD, but i doubt it will happen that way. rather i would expect it to lead to a less lethal malaria virus. a less lethal virus would be able to survive long enough to spread through other slower vectors.
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  28. Thomas Smith everything is playing with fire. i'm not too worried about this. but you can worry if you want too. i doubt either of us can do anything about it, especially since i won't be putting any effort into it.
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  29. Michael Hartman i don't know. even if i knew some algorithm that predicted these things (i don't) it wouldn't give an exact answer and instead would give a theoretical range depending on if certain factors were accurate. such a calculation would have far too many variables to be reasonably useful to someone like me.
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  30. anonymouse27 are the laws enforced? if not than you can do what you want to do. its that simple. if you live in a dictatorship that refuses to enforce its rules, than you live in freedom.
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  31. anonymouse27 ever hear about "black markets"? they thrive in third world countries, because third world countries do not have the resources to stamp out the black markets. often the police can be paid to look the other way, so the laws are not enforced. show me a third world country where i can't pay $200 to have a cop look the other way, while i break the laws that the dictator tries to push on me.
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  32. kingofprussia17 corporations are amoral, and thus end up doing many evil actions. they have taken over the earth, and monopolized the infrastructure.  i see no reason to not destroy them from the inside as well as the outside. and if they serve my purposes i will use them. i do also use adblock too. so even though i use this i do not pay this.  perhaps i am an idiot, i am surely ignorant of many things. some corporations have been successfully sued by investors for not putting profits over the welfare of people. if that isn't evil, than i don't know what is.  don't worry though, you shouldn't consider the damage done in a corporate ran capitalist economy. 
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  33. i don't like his proposed solution. but i don't see many others and it seems that he is going to be right whether we like it or not. so although i don't like the talk, i "liked" the talk, because it is necessary. this does sound like the future of manufacturing, and it may be the best we can do.
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  34. i am jelly of her talent
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  35. i wonder if it is possible for us to crowdfund a new TED like arena that is more like the old TED that we started watching this channel over? where is the counter talk? where is the talk about fixing the crisis in their home country so that they don't have to immigrate? why have refugees at all? why aren't we talking about ways to stop the immigration?
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  36. wohdin apparently i am part of the problem. i think any woman should be able to turn down the offer, but more options is more power. we still have the problem of women not cat calling men. its only harassment if it is repeated after the person being cat called makes it clear that they are not interested. the traditional cat call whistle is a compliment. if you want to make it out to be anything other than a compliment than you are part of the problem. more women should cat call men. and compliments are not harassment unless the person being complimented makes it known that they do not wish to have such attention.
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  37. wohdin response to 1) i partly agree with this, but in this same definition all media advertisement can be classified as harassment and all unsolicited communication can be viewed as harassment. so to speak to someone you don't know is harassment and so strangers must always remain strangers because it is harassment to start a conversation with one. women are people, i think we all understand this. to value an attractive woman because of her sexual attraction does not detract from her other values. men simply value sexual attraction in women more than they value other things. they place sexual attractiveness as a high priority. this does not mean that other things are not important. it simply means that sexual attractiveness is very important. it is wrong to shame men for having their own priorities. it reduces them to objects and takes away from other values they might have.
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  38. Xanxei annoying is the key word, it doesn't become harassment until i express my desire for it not to be done, or post a communication stating my desire to not be contacted. i would be opposed to people cat calling someone who was wearing a shirt that said "please don't cat call me". i would be opposed to someone cat calling someone after they expressly stated they did not want to be cat called. but some people DO want to be cat called. many men are following the golden rule when they cat call a woman. they genuinely would desire for that woman to cat call them. many women appreciate a cat call whistle from someone so long as the whistle isn't interrupting them, and especially if the cat call comes from a man they find attractive. this is why i stated earlier, that the problem is that women don't cat call men enough. it isn't reasonable to expect all men to cease communicating when they find a woman attractive, and attempting to do so is censorship of those men and a form of oppression. censoring cat calls is far more oppressive than cat calls are. you lose context when you think of cat calls as harassment instead of compliments. and depending on the person being complimented and the person giving the compliment, it can be either wanted or unwanted communication.
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  39. wohdin welcome to the patriarchy where women are seen as objects that are identical and of the same mindset with no unique opinions and desires of their own. welcome to the patriarchy where feminists get to oppress women who do want to be cat called under the guise of oppression to those who don't. welcome to the patriarchy where feminism is an extension of the patriarchy that oppresses women and limits what they can and can't do, what they can and can't desire, what they can and cannot accept.
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  40. Xanxei than just make sure you communicate that you are "just spreading awareness". you will catch a lot less flack that way and also you will spread your message much more effectively. i may be guilty of getting hysterical over protecting free speech. but i am far from the only guy who does that. i live in a bubble of reasonable people who don't go out of their way to offend people but who defend their right to do so if they did choose to do that. saying "hey YOU shouldn't do that, its not very nice." is a long way away from saying "cat calling is oppression of women". the latter is a call to political action, and the only political action that would be effective would be an attack on free speech. not trying to attack you here. just saying that your original message is easy to confuse with an attack on free speech. instead of calling free speech harassment it would be much more effective if you simply stated you were spreading awareness. doing that might actually get people to consider their actions and change those actions, instead of getting them to turn around and defend offensive speech. i would recommend that you come at it from an awareness message and to make that very clear from the get go if you want your message to amount to real change.
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  41. Xanxei well if it means anything to you, a lot of "anti-feminists" are really 2nd wave feminists. they believe that women are strong people and do not need to be sheltered or babied or in any way protected more than a man does. they are our equals.
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  42. wohdin they are just as strong as men. we have laws against harassment of men and women. perhaps you mean something other than harassment and are just exaggerating?
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  43. Xanxei i guess we are just split on what is and is not harassment. i don't have a problem with women admiring sexy men whether they are celebrities or not. i go to the gym 5-6 days a week. i have a friend who has been doing this much longer than me and he goes to the gym with me. he is an attractive guy. he carries himself well, he drives a nice car, he is taller than average and has a muscular build. women are constantly eyeballing him. they don't cat call him, but they do check him out, some more bluntly than others. every once and a while he will get a minor cat call. we just laugh it up. and he takes it as a compliment, and says it is good reason to go to the gym. taylor swift can't go anywhere without body guards. it is the price she pays for being famous. when you are in the public eye that much you have to worry about the one out of a million people that nobody likes and what they might do to you. its unrealistic to think that nobody would hurt her even though we all agree that nobody should hurt her. what taylor swift has to do is sad. she has to protect herself from motivated psychopaths. she has no intention of motivating those psychopaths, but there she is in the spot light. some people (this isn't limited to men) make terrible decisions and do terrible things. pretty women have to worry too. they don't have to worry as much as taylor swift, but the more people they are exposed too the more danger they are in. at the same time, the more people they are around, the safer they are at the moment. prettier women catch more attention. they have to worry about what that stranger guy might do if he is turned down. in that sense when she is alone, and a guy cat calls her she may have to consider her safety. this is a reasonable fear. i don't go cat calling women that i don't know when they are alone. that could scare them, i understand. i have some friends i made while going to college, some of them are pretty women. many of them are in long term relationships and have been with the same guy for years. one of them is very pretty and is like a little sister to me. she had gained some weight over winter, and recently worked hard to get that weight off. she looks much better, but i don't see her boyfriend who lives with her saying much about it, i think they have been together too long for her to appreciate how pretty she is anymore. i whistled at her during a party where she was around a lot of her family members, and her boyfriend. she smiled at me and gave me a hug and asked how i was doing. cat calls can be good or bad. if you are suggesting i don't cat call strangers, than you don't have to worry. i don't. but i should have the right to do so, because i am smart enough to identify times when it would be appropriate and when it would not. these are times when it is appropriate to cat call a woman. 1) she is around many friends so that she feels safe and secure, 2) she appears to be in a good mood and is not busy or focused on something at the moment, 3) she is dressed up or at least not dressed down (not in the gym, not in pajamas, not in something that she would feel is not attractive on her). 4) it is a social situation where other people are openly talking about how other people look. 5) you have met her before and she already knows your first name. if those 5 things are true, than it is a great time to cat call a woman. or alternatively 1) she is eyeing you up and down. if that is true than it is appropriate to respond with a cat call if you find her attractive as well. you are returning a non-verbal communication that she started. i might do the original cat call whistle (call me old fashioned, but this is the only form of cat all i ever use) maybe one to three times a year. it never fails to elicit a smile and a positive response. but i know who to do it too, and more importantly when. if your stance is that many men are socially inept and stupid than sure i agree with that. many women are as well. unfortunately in our society the onus is on men to start conversations to meet women when starting a romantic relationship. if you want to change society and the cat calling thing, changing that standard would go a long way. it might extinguish the problem all together. but for the moment cat calling occurs to attractive women because men want to meet them and want to attract their attention. the men send a message of "i find you attractive". this is a compliment. it might get annoying, but it is one of the ways that men get the attention of women. there may be better ways to get her attention. but until we change the social norms we cannot possibly blame men for following the social norm of starting the communication to begin a potential romantic relationship while at the same time expecting them to be the pursuers and the women the pursued. and the only way to change that is to have women pursue men. in that manner, the problem isn't that men cat call women, the problem is that women don't cat call men. in japan it is women who are expected to initiate romantic relationships. the women are much more forward than in western cultures. it is the men who must worry about feeling harassed by women using various methods to get their attention. its not so bad over there though because their culture also is very concerned with causing someone else to become embarrassed. many western people go over there to teach english. women don't stay though, the guys don't try to date them. its not their job, in japan it is the woman's job to get the attention of the guy. western women don't seem to be comfortable in that situation, they get turned down too often for their comfort. they usually leave within the first year. meanwhile western guys love it there. you would never have to worry about guys cat calling you in japan. but they might grope you on the subway or take a picture of you just to be nice and let you know that they won't reject you. they aren't trying to embarrass you or make you uncomfortable, they fear doing something that would do that.
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  44. +Science and Truth 2 Rock because the government ALWAYS overreaches and illegally infringes on liberties. look at how much they respect the 4th amendment with all the illegal surveillance. look at how much they respect the 1st amendment with the war on whistle blowers. look at how much they respect the 5th amendment with the war on encryption. why would i trust them to to leave the intelligence alone and not ban my gun from ME using it? i would trust that a lot more if they pulled a sudden huge list of apologies and started respecting the constitution and repealing very dirty government behavior. but i somehow doubt that is going to happen. as such a very sad truth is that i must defend myself from my own government, and not allow them a slope to slip down. anything that gives them more power over me than i have over myself is a threat i am not willing to risk.
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  45. glad you have come to terms with it
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  46. i feel like i need to speak up even though it is uncomfortable. AIDS came from africa, and black people gave it to the world. it is not the world's responsibility to fix their problems. i know that is uncomfortable to hear, and it was uncomfortable for me to say. but someone has to do it.
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  47. i strongly agree about having strong encryption. but there are weaknesses in many forms of encryption now. sadly we will have to go to ~4000 bit encryption soon enough, which is not easy to do. if we had a distributed network with ubiquitous strong encryption than they would be very hard to censor and monitor. this would provide much stronger free speech, but within that free speech would be speech deemed illegal by various countries. you can't fight for real free speech without fighting for the types of speech that you are adamantly opposed to the content of that speech.
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  48. +Jaquelynn Gering almost all public speakers who embrace any form of unpopular speech receive threats online. if you can't deal with threats than don't spread unpopular speech. after all threats are just unpopular speech, and if they are in response to unpopular speech than they are about equal in the end. i have had death threats on youtube over my comments on many occasions. and i receive rape threats while playing video games. lucky for me i have the privilege of being of sound enough mind to be able to tell when a threat poses a legitimate threat to my security, or weather it is just stupid because a stranger is threatening to harm me when they obviously have no capacity to do so. i feel sorry for you disabilities, i hope things work out for you. i can see why you might think women are too dumb to be able to differentiate these things, but some women are also of sound mind.
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  49. "the reason they don't is because we control it really well." no we don't. you an buy "raid" insect killer. you can buy a lot of it. if you remove the dilutes it is one of the most powerful forms of biological gas weapons. you can go buy it at your grocery store. you can get the chemicals to remove the dilutes at home depot. you can get the information you need at that russian site with all the peer reviewed articles (i forget the name but should be easy to find on google). you can get a list of the dilutes you need to unbind by reading the can you purchased or from a material safety data sheet. people don't do it, because most people don't want to do stuff like that.
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  50. ***** my bet is on geoengineering gone wrong. we do something that is supposed to create a good environment and it has unintended consequences. perhaps we seed the ocean with new life and it pulls so much oxygen out of the atmosphere that everyone suffocates or something like that.
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