May 5th – Think Differen DayMay 5th, 2011
Albert
I am sure Ryan Kesler will score tonight again. What a guy! Are you watching the game tonight?
Bob
What?
Albert
Canucks are playing tonight.
Bob
Hockey you mean? Since when are you into hockey?
Albert
Ha-ha, it is just for one day. It’s May 5th today.
Bob
So?
Albert
Think Different Day!
A star discovered with iPhonesFebruary 17th, 2011
Kevin:
We thought it would be cool to to get a flash-mob like no one has seen before. Something unrealistically huge, freakishly massive. Something unimaginable!
Alex:
And I said, something cosmic.
Kevin:
Yes, Alex said: “Let’s make it cosmic.” And I said, “Telescope!” Let’s make a people telescope, a huge one. We’ll ask people to take a shot of the night sky and send in the photos. We can process them and then create one big photograph, possibly of very good quality. If we can get enough images we can build statistically a much higher resolution image than the original photos. So theoretically it could be a much better image than any existing telescope can produce.
Alex:
It’s so freaking cool!
Hi, I am your search engineApril 18th, 2010
Marty:
Are you serious?
Emmett:
I am indeed. And not only do I think it can happen, I predict it will happen very soon.
Marty:
Hmm… Let’s start again. What does a search engine have to do with artificial intelligence?
Emmett:
It’s all about semantic search. Once you get over the simple text patterns and start getting the semantics, it all starts. Semantic search is not a passive index anymore. It can evolve. Its ability to recognize objects and relations between them improves.
New Social Virus RevealedMay 8th, 2009
Dan:
Eugene, welcome to the program. Nice to see you here, especially knowing that you don’t give interviews too often.
Kaspersky:
Good morning. Yes, I don’t like to give interviews, partially because my English is not very good, but today I have a reason and responsibility to go public. We just published the latest list of social viruses and one of them really dangerous. It is spreading very fast.
Dan:
Social virus? What is it?
Kaspersky:
You know what a computer virus is. It is a piece of code which can get into your computer system and live there for some time. Mostly, what it does is copy itself to other systems, infecting as many computers as it can. When it has populated many computers it can start utilizing them for someone’s benefit. It can help break security systems, or simply send thousands meaningless messages to a target server causing a so called DoS attack.
People’s Ford Motors CompanyDecember 2nd, 2008
Lenin:
Nadia, what is there?
Nadia:
It is the latest newspaper from America!
Lenin:
Ah, how nice! Sit here, honey, and read it to me. Tell me how our American comrades shovel pepper into those capitalist asses!
Being In Doubt for LifeNovember 2nd, 2008
Cosmo:
When is the election going to end?
Jerry:
In three days.
Cosmo:
Yes, in three days… It’s so sad…
Stop the War!August 11th, 2008
Alex Na:
I am Russian. The new war between Russia and Georgia is my pain. It is madness. People of Russia and Georgia have been living together for so long. How could those mad, greedy politicians from both sides let this happen….
I am going crazy… I am crying for you Georgians, Russians, for everyone who happens to be there now. I saw the Olympics today. Two athletes – one Russian Natalia Paderina, another Georgian Nino Salukvadze were staying together on the pedestal, holding each other. That is the symbol of Russia and Georgia! 
I love you Natasha, I love you Nino! We are all with you. The war should be stopped! Closing of the Chinese RoomJuly 17th, 2008
Student:
Professor, is the Chinese Room open?
Prof. Searly:
Move on, buddy! It is closed.
Student:
Excuse me? Professor, are you OK?
Prof. Searly:
What do you want from me? The room is closed. There is nothing here for you. It is closed and closed forever.
Student:
Is this the same Chinese Room that you have always talked about?
Prof. Searly:
Yes. This is the room. This is the magical room which understands Chinese language. And now they closed it.
Student:
But why? What happened?
Computer’s Red Kimono CeremonyJune 25th, 2008
Master of Ceremonies:
… Your power changed everything you touched. You not only turned our world upside down, you also created new worlds, worlds we have never seen before, worlds we would never have imagined before. Today, on your 60th birthday, we are all standing here, celebrating your greatness, your excellence and your undeniable influence on all of us.
Now, according to the old Japanese tradition, let us award you with this beautiful red kimono. We all wish you well and once again, thank you, thank you for all you have done for us. Please, everybody, let’s give him a great round of applause. Evil carbon tax in BC is comingMarch 14th, 2008
Carole Taylor:
Carbon tax will start July 1, 2008 at a rate of $10 per tonne of associated carbon, or carbon‑equivalent, emissions. That works out to about 2.4 cents a litre at the gas pump and 2.8 cents a litre for diesel and home heating oil. Leading economists and scientists agree: Seeing that cost, and making it real, will give us new incentives to change the habits that created global warming in the first place.
Kevin:
Let me get this clear. Today we pay say, $1.20 per litre, and with the tax it will be $1.224 per litre? Am I correct?
Carole Taylor:
Yes, for every litre of gas an additional 2.4 cents will be charged as the carbon tax.
Kevin:
And why do you think this is the right thing to do?
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