The Story of Stuff (2007) - Teaser #2

[alfamud]

Moore´s Law :P owns all hard

[Ajboi89]

That part about computers was amazingly wrong.

[darkchakra123]

Please watch zeitgeist addendum on zeitgeistmovie. c o m (no spaces) , it contains the real solutions!!

[opticsnake]

"Each new version is a different shape"? What kind of crap is that? Look, I'm all about limiting consumerism but this video is really missing the mark with this one. If you need to upgrade your system and there isn't a faster processor that's compatible with your motherboard then you upgrade that too. The visualization that just because your jigsaw-puzzle-shaped processor (anybody ever see one of those?) doesn't fit means you need to chuck the whole system (including monitor) is a load of crap.

[rockyraccoon]

@opticsnake No, I swear. One's shaped like a square, one's a triangle - I saw one shaped like an "L". It's a total mess.

[godslander]

pure socialistic communistic crap! I thank God I did not vote for Obama...and feel like telling all of you who did "i told you so!" (ok bring on the hate replys!)

[faamecanic]

The only idiot is the narrator. You can buy a PC case that will last 10 years (I have), Hard drives, disk drives, graphics cards that will last 5+ years (technology does advance you know). So the only thing you change is the motherboard, memory, and CPU every 3 years or so.

These people are like cultist. The only way to avoid most of this stuff is to live in a tee-pee, wearing a loin cloth (made from hemp becuase libs dont hunt, but boy can they smoke dope).

[jormahm]

Well I may be a cultist but I don't smoke dope and don't live in a tee-pee(although I'm impressed by people that can survive in a tee-pee). The easy thing in life is to consume without thinking. Things become much more difficult when one begins to LEARN and THINK! Congratulations on learning how to install a mainboard...you are one small step in the right direction. Peace to you

[ADeadRock]

BULLLLL SHEEEEET

[bk2118]

This is the true and the real ... If you are a good person and have a big company you don't see the other side of things, guys wake up! we are finishing the world that we live!

Essa é a verdade e é real ... Se você é uma pessoa que tem uma empresa grande você não consegue enchergar o outro lado das coisas, pessoal vamos acordar! Nós estamos destruindo o mundo em que vivemos!

[Metziker]

For a woman wanting to explain "the story of stuff" she have no idea how a computer works.

[Naturyl]

Hey indoctrinated/brainwashed morons, guess what? I am a certified computer technician, and what she is saying is true.

These videos are truthful and insightful, and those of you American-brainwashed low-intellect hacks who think you are qualified to object to it are gravely mistaken. You are exactly the arrogantly ignorant people who are endangering us all all, and the whole God-forsaken planet to boot.

[zantrua]

yes, you must be a real genuis to not know that there is more than 1 piece that you can change. theres ram, gpus, raid cards, hard drives, mother boards, and not to even mention the software, or the os... TL;DR: your a liar and have no idea what your saying

[faamecanic]

So let me get this straight. You believe enough in these groups male bovine excrement to spout off.... then you go off to work to make money changing these same parts (and putting them in a landfill).

Nice ....Hypocrite.

[Naturyl]

Wrong. I said I was a certified computer technician, not that I work.

But now you'll just try to berate me for not working, right?

[lpbmartialarts]

@Naturyl So they just dump it? Can't just recyle some of the parts? I don't know a lot about computers so I am simply trying to clarify somethings.

[prai1972]

V must look at ideas with an open mind. what Annie talks abt makes perfecr sense. Look around urself problems posed by global warming r true. V must act bedore the situation turns into serious crisis

[tobyeo]

This was PWND

[theanswersofnwo3]

Fuck this bitch. She is a liar who worships satan obama.

[David578593]

Howtheworldworks pwned this propaganda

[ipsofonic]

HEY! COMPUTER'S DON'T WORK THAT WAY!

[gtq838]

I know!

What a bunch of bullshit!

one piece in the corner changes every year and only the shape changes?

For those not in the know, she was talking about the CPU, but when a cpu is upgraded to a different pin configuration (shape) the chipset, memory type, well, EVERYTHING about the computer has changed. THEY ARE A DIFFERENT SHAPE BECAUSE IF YOU PUT THE OLD ONE IN THE NEW COMPUTER IT WOULD NOT WORK!

ITS CALLED IDIOT PROOFING, because they knew some idiot like this bitch would try it.

[nachoisch]

How the World Works obliterated this garbage

[podrag]

LMAO HowTheWorldWorks destroyed this garbage.

Annie Leonard needs to be recycled into dog food for lying to and misleading children.

[DavidJohnsonsbag]

Theres a thing called a mother board which if you really want to you can change each year and keep your old comps body...

[flowingsolder]

il trade this bitch her computer for a commodore 64 let her edit her hippi videos on that

[nikjs]

take a look at the islands of waste floating in the pacific you know-it-alls, or the mountains of ewaste in africa if you care. Anyone cared to notice all the trash in Wall-E ? It's happening as you read this. Wake up and smell the garbage you ignoramusses!

[Inflectum]

Ah, you must have seen these things yourself to advocate their presence so forcefully.

In any case, a Disney movie is hardly the place to look for facts about the future of the earth.

[bucjason]

enviro-marxists will equal the death of freedom

This hippie bitch makes me sick....

[thestoryofstuff]

i agree

[poppa2006]

What freedom you fxxxxng IDIOT? Where will you roam with all your freedom when the earth is a big dump?

Oh, I forgot, you just 'want' the 'word' freedom. You have NO idea what the word really means......someone put the 'idea' of that word in your pea brain, now you want the 'WORD'!

[profstampede]

What is the only "piece that changes each year"? The RAM? The processor? The hard disk? The graphics card? The cache? I'm guessing she means the RAM, but the RAM format doesn't change often, certainly not each year. And just updating the RAM won't keep the computer up-to-date. Methinks this lady doesn't know much about computers.

[thestoryofstuff]

me thinks this lady doesn't know about anything

[shibu2010]

i have 3 laptops, for every new chip....wowowow...more to come...

[fishcrazy104]

Fuck this Shit

[thestoryofstuff]

fuck it all the way to the landfill!

[mopman411]

you didnt open a computer and your not an engineer so stop the bs. you have no clue what your talking about and are extremely misinformed about recycling and how sorting takes place at dumps.

[vindicato15]

socialism crap. truly only the mindless would treat this video as factual. if this is factual then the madmax trilogy is the holy bible. Yea someone touch that with a ten foot pole.

[jodark]

YOu guys are the dumbest fucks I've ever met. You should all just go drown yourselves in a fucking septic tank. Cocksucking socialists.

[82816a]

lol

[russttu]

Technology changes and people want faster computers. Not everyone is satisfied with a 486 with a 15k modem and a 1 gig hard drive. You also completely gloss over the fact that new software needs faster hardware. Try telling a graphics designer that they have to work on a 10 inch green screen using dos running on a computer no faster than your average calculator. Enviros are such lying fools.

[thelion2430]

@russttu you idiot the point is this that they make stuff what is planned to be obsolete ...the point is you moron that WE WASTE Resources only to make some guys rich... you should see this `` NEW!!! 2009 - THE ZEITGEIST MOVEMENT ORIENTATION PRESENTATION `` then you get what is going on in the world

[russttu]

@thelion2430 Just like a liberal to immediately resort to personal insults. If you even bothered to watch the video and read my response, you would see I was clearly speaking to the portion on computing. Nothing in your derogatory rant indicates you understand either the nature of computing or the speed of technology movement in general. Your steady state or zero growth mentality is all well and good for a luddite, but in the real world, technology requires new infrastructure and products.

[thelion2430]

@russttu no i insult and i make a point too...so shut up

[russttu]

@thelion2430 Ones ability to conduct oneself respectfully in debate is directly proportional the the amount of respect one gives ones self. For that you have my pity and sympathy. It is unfortunate that so much dialogue in today's society resorts to personal attacks instead of reasoned and factual debate. The motto of the weak mind seems to be attack when one disagrees with you instead of responding to the issues raised. Maybe one day, when you are all grown up, you will recognize this.

[thelion2430]

@russttu yee yee man see i dont giva a deem what some person in youtube thinks...debating somthing here in youtube with commentars dosent mean a deem thing see please...i just wanted to sai that what in this video is shown is important

[hogsonquads]

If your worried about the environment youtube/google NEW WORLD ORDER!! Obamas Just A puppet Wake Up Obama LOVERS!!

[monkeyman1140]

Apple computer survives on the theory of planned obsolescence. Thats why the iPod doesn't have a battery door cover, You can't upgrade the CPU in an iMac, and it requires 2 putty knives, the willingness to void your warranty, and nerves of steel to put new RAM in your mac mini.

[adinbon2]

She's not suggesting you have to change or keep your computer, she just wants people to be aware of their actions and the effects of their actions.

[applefox77]

lol It doesn't fit because the 2 "Pieces " aren't compatible. It is like ddr2 and ddr3 ram.

[trevoreriksmoen]

so is she saying she wants to use her old computer? and opening them voids the warranty

[djjazzn]

You could keep your computer beyond the warranty...just a thought

[wutsoevanevamind]

So, what do you want to change? LOLZ You have to buy a new computer anyway....

[MiXaYL0]

Dudes are u ok? u write tons of stuff for what, go and buy a better computer, this is not entierly true... BUT GREAT COMMERCIALL LOL

[2mynk]

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[WhosChase]

okay i completely understood this video and im 14 this makes me angry too!

im going out and making a difference!

for computers!!!!

[Sadjina]

I am generally a great fan of Story of Stuff, but this piece of information about desktop computers is not entirely true. Of course there are marketing concerns too but it is also about technology and how to implement new findings in a desktop PC.

This is a field where it's only a relatively short time between fundamental research in science and applications in IT. Just keep that in mind...

[amyOfEgypt]

im working with DELL, the thing abt computers its true, if ur old processor burns, if the manufacturing is not making it anymore, sorry buy a new motherboard w/c is as expensive as the whole thing.

[gsilbers]

well, the idea would be to make a computer that you wouldnt have to upgrade the whole thing.

also, most computers do not need to be that fast anyways to be online and use word.

[lildigiman]

actually, alot of things change in Computers, not just one "tiny piece." and you can modify computers to last for about 10 yrs, not running vista, but Linux would be just fine, and then your not paying "Big Corporations" like Microsoft

[hydetorres]

Yes, but most consumers aren't so computer saavy and thus wouldn't have the know-how or patience to modify the computer to last for "10 years". They are the ones the computer companies are hoping well have the money to discard their old computer for the newer, faster version after just a couple of years.

[gsilbers]

it could be a matter of education and simplification.

[djlookwood]

great stuff. this is they way to help people get the truth about our consumer culture!

[offthehook2]

Hey, anyone here, throwing a computer way, PLEASE, PLEASE don't. For God sake don't. I know children in Africa, families in Brazil, people who if they have something you're throwing away, it can change their life. So, if you're in UK and throwing some computer away that works, then drop me a pm. We just helped build a Radio station in Africa and helping others in Congo to do same.

[nidianobre]

Sorry! Wanted to give u a thumbs up...endend up clicking the wrong hand! :P Great thing u're doing giving a helping hand! Keep up! :)

[viteoman]

Well done Annie! Thank you for making this message simple and clear! Keep on! Will support in all possible ways!

[smikules]

This video mentions "DVDs" as things to use and throw out. The homepage for this video says you can "order a DVD". This is a quite large contradiction on their part. These DVDs will end up in the trash in a few years, maybe sooner. I highly recommend you leave your video to YouTube or online download from your website.

[firechlc]

I'm sure this option is for educators who will use it over and over, year after year as youngsters are moving through grade school, high school or college.

[greenfrogy44]

Um, you guys, you CAN download the entire movie as a 500 MB file. And I agree with firechic, the dvd option is probably just for educators or people who want to show support.

[SuperPais]

There are many uses for DVDs today. If I buy a good DVD, from a good movie, I will not put it in trash. But how many DVDs are give away for promotion stuff, for example, that are completely sh)t ? Tons.

[aioannid]

It's one of the rare times that I saw an analysis of the ecology problem combined with the critisism of the productivity process and the economic relations behind all these. I aggre with the whole point of view. I am a teacher of Biology and I am going to advice my students to watch it.

[djlookwood]

brilliant! this is the way. inform. empower. change values for thrivival!

[kfishy]

it's so true. as someone who works in IT, we've got lots of computers that are perfectly usable, and would've not been disposed if it weren't for all the bloated "new" softwares we supposedly need or the brainwashed perception from management/colleagues that we *must* have the newest and shiniest.

sad state of affairs...

[Glennk1949]

Sure they are. In fact the whole damn computer is an excellent example of PO.

[LalitanandaGiri]

Planned obsolescence and perceived obsolescence needs to be talked about and countered... like this. In a very clever way! Watch the whole video...

[sharpezor]

im sorry but you dont know ANYTHING about computers.

[oxxiox]

This clip is intellectually bankrupt. I understand what you're going for (and I agree with it), but outright lies won't garner any positive support.

[Glennk1949]

Why is this a lie? Or what about it is a lie? PO is built in everywhere in da system. Worse the psychology is so embedded in people's heads through advertising its made us all shopping robots.

[oxxiox]

CPUs are not part of planned PO.