Jay Walker: A library of human imagination

http://www.ted.com Jay Walker, curator of the Library of Human Imagination, conducts a surprising show-and-tell session highlighting a few of the intriguing artifacts that backdropped the 2008 TED stage.
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[roflcopter2225]

Wow, I never thought about the energy I use on my computer in respect to coal being consumed. All that CO2 and SO2, oh boy. I wish solar panels were cheaper. Perhaps someone needs to study more molecules that release electrons when exposed to UV light. I hope when I finish college one day I can do something like that.

[qpwnsall]

This guy is so full of shit. It does NOT take a lump of coal to download a megabyte, if that were the case the entire world would run out of coal within a year.

[marcusnicko]

there are other sources of power which don't use coal(nuclear , solar, hydro...)

[fabiolous72]

yep

[bergenstation]

Is he a jewish?

[someman7]

If you meant sin, then you're wrong.

[NegativeNick]

I think you're forgetting that this is all bullshit anyway and has no barring on real life, it's fantasy!

[Yankeefan6190210]

It is the Jay Walker who founded Priceline

[Psypomp]

I saw this in Wired a couple moths ago.. I don't like the magazine, but the article on his library was breathtaking.. I can't believe this guy accumulated so many important artifacts of humanity.

[Monchanger]

So you propose to fight alleged bad science with empty claims?  Interesting...

[someman7]

The Catholic Encyclopedia states: "[I]t is easy to see how abuses crept in. Among the good works which might be encouraged by being made the condition of an indulgence, almsgiving would naturally hold a conspicuous place. . . . It is well to observe that in these purposes there is nothing essentially evil. To give money to God or to the poor is a praiseworthy act, and, when it is done from right motives, it will surely not go unrewarded."

(be sure you'll get my posts for every lie i find)

[someman7]

The definition of indulgences presupposes that forgiveness has already taken place: "An indulgence is a remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven" (Indulgentarium Doctrina 1, emphasis added). Indulgences in no way forgive sins. They deal only with punishments left after sins have been forgiven.