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Feigning Interest
Actor and musician (he's one threat away from being a triple threat!) Josh Hopkins sensitively explores the internal conflict experienced by a man who finds himself in the all-too-common situation of being on a date with a woman who is deeply boring yet still attractive enough to maintain his interest in having sex with her.
Directed by John Killoran & Matt O'Neil. For more of Josh's original music (and a free pony!*), visit www.myspace.com/hopkinsjosh.
*free pony not guaranteed.
Length: 281
Rating: 4.50 (256 ratings)
Tags: josh hopkins music dating distraction feigning women men sex breasts switch guitar bonding beer imagine killoran o'neil
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Jason Mraz - 0% Interest
Jason Mraz - 0% Interest
Length: 174
Rating: 4.90 (20 ratings)
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Milton Friedman on Self-Interest and the Profit Motive 1of2
This clip is from the 15-part lecture series, "Milton Friedman Speaks"
http://www.ideachannel.com/product_info.php?products_id=1137
Transcript available via FreedomChannel: http://freedomchannel.blogspot.com/2007/12/milton-friedman-on-slavery.html
Summary:
A student poses a series of question on based on Friedman's notion that people should pursue their own self-interest. The student points out that he'd read that Friedman had previously come out against disaster aid for victims of a flood in Pennsylvania. Friedman corrected the questioner and noted that he did not come out against private aid for flood victims but instead was against the Federal Government providing discounted flood insurance in advance to home purchasers which motivated people to build houses in areas where they otherwise would not have been able to obtain insurance privately. If not for the discounted insurance, it's likely many of the flooded houses would never have been built in the first place as it wouldn't have been in peoples self-interest.
The student went on to note that it was recently reported that an old man in Ohio died when the electric company turned off his power when he'd failed to pay his electric bill. Was it moral for the company to act in it's own self-interest to do so? Friedman responded by asking what if the electric company never turned off the power for anyone? Who would pay the cost--the people who own or work at the electric company? It would be unjust to impose that responsibility on individuals who are running an honest business of providing electricity. Friedman suggests that the true responsibility lies on the mans neighbors and friends who were not charitable enough to allow him to meet the electric bills.
Finally the student uses the example of Ford deciding not to install a $13 block of plastic which would prevent it's Pinto cars from exploding in a rear-end collision. Ford estimated such a move would cost 200 lives a year at a cost of $200,000 per life lost. They multiplied and found that it wasn't worth it to install the plastic block. He asked if a corporation seeking it's own self-interest was a good thing in this case? Friedman responded by asking, what if it cost $1 billion to save each life, should Ford have put in the block? It's simply not practical to put an infinite value on an individuals life. If it took $1 billion in resources to keep one individual safe, and acquiring those resources meant that a million people must starve, it's a bad deal. Friedman concludes that he doesn't know if the $200,000 number that Ford used was the right number to maximize the overall benefits, but at the end of the day the principle is that we can't simply protect ourselves from everything and impose that cost on others. Friedman posits that the question the student should be raising, is should Ford be required to attach the statement to the car, "we've made this car $13 cheaper, and therefore it is X% more risky for you to buy it".
See also:
Free to Choose - All 15 episodes streaming online for free
http://www.ideachannel.tv
A history of Free to Choose
http://www.freetochoose.com
Length: 325
Rating: 4.70 (101 ratings)
Tags: Milton Friedman Capitalism Freedom Corporations Profits Communism Socialism Subsidies Documentary Politics liberty
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0 % Interest
Jason Mraz
Length: 623
Rating: 4.90 (61 ratings)
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Unspoken (Lesbian interest, short film)
Two teenage girls share friendship and affection that sparks jealousy and turns heads. When two teenage boys come into the picture, dynamics shift and illusions shatter as sex, drugs and infidelity run rampant in a junkyard.
Length: 633
Rating: 4.80 (180 ratings)
Tags: lesbian short film unspoken fei-fei
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Bay Area Python Interest Group April Meeting: Snippets
Various members of the BayPIGies show off cool things you can do with just a snippet of Python code.
Length: 4659
Rating: 5.00 (1 ratings)
Tags: google howto bay area python interest group
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R. Stevie Moore - Conflict of Interest (1980)
Unsung Father of Lo-Fi and DIY Pioneer, R. Stevie Moore, performing "Conflict of Interest" on the Uncle Floyd Show, 1980.
With Jim Price, Irwin Chusid and Susan Griffin.
For the audio cd version of "Conflict of Interest"
get Clack! (1980) at:
http://www.rsteviemoore.com/tp/clack.html
For the complete Uncle Floyd performances
in DVD get:
http://www.moorestevie.com/3/uf/
Lyrics:
i am stupid you are smart
getting ignored just breaks my heart
thinking in the auto where am i at
i don't wanna know the answer to that
not responsible for getting it right
holding my breath every night
scared to death you will not react
i don't wanna know the reaction to that
good shape
good shape
good shape
good shape
conflict of interest
i ain't gonna quit
conflict of interest
i ain't gonna change
there's a conflict of interest
i cannot improve
i can't no i can't
i don't know how
what is the reason for this grief
is my personality too deep
you might say i'm wasting my time
trying to solve this inhuman crime
take me back to maplewood get me a job
write apologetic letter to bob
anything is better than singing this song
nothing is right but something is wrong.
http://www.rsteviemoore.com
Length: 222
Rating: 4.90 (36 ratings)
Tags: stevie moore rsm lo-fi diy punk uncle floyd underground psychedelic new wave ariel pink synth beck guided by voices
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