Alan Moore does a BBC interview on some of his more famous comics – this one is on ‘The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen’.
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President Harry S. Truman
“We all have to recognize, no matter how great our strength, that we must deny ourselves the license to do always as we please.” and “I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.” – two quotes from President Harry S. Truman, the man who decided to drop two nuclear bombs on Japan, resulting in the death of between 150,000 to 246,000 people. Wikipedia article on Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Lawrence Lessig has moved from activism on Creative Commons issues to activism on fixing Democracy. It boils down to trust. A system of governance without trust can not be an effective Democracy. A system that incorporates an addiction to lobbyists money and electoral campaigns to maintain power and, at the end, retire into the wealthy arms of the very system that lobbies government – is doomed to dysfunction and chaos. Lawrence Lessig argues that the all important action necessary to allow any other effective actions on any other topic, is to remove this addiction from the system. Doesn’t matter which side of the debate you are on – if you want a government that responds to issues and constituents, you need to get them off this drug. They won’t do it themselves, an intervention is required and we are it. We all need to fix this – that is his new focus. His website that takes on the challenge is Fix Congress First.
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Long, gloves off (in a respectful way) interview with Steve Jobs. Covers a lot of ground and quite interesting.
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Andrew Lacis – CO2
“The bottom line is that CO2 is absolutely, positively, and without question, the single most important greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. It acts very much like a control knob that determines the overall strength of the Earth’s greenhouse effect. Failure to control atmospheric CO2 is a bad way to run a business, and a surefire ticket to climatic disaster.” by NASA climatologist Andrew Lacis