And Tommy says, I asked him what was going on and Tommy says, I couldn't tell you, I never met another prisoner. I saw a serge twice, I tried to communicate, but the glass was too thick. He said, I'm broken after nine weeks. I can't believe this guy's had a couple of years, you know? There's only one decision. US, UK. The husband of Baroness Sharp, Baroness of Walton on the Hill, our Lady Justice of Appeals, husband lent Boris Johnson £800,000 and secured his job as the director of the BBC. This is how British politics works. This is how the favours, the back, the revolving door of finance and corruption has overtaken the body politics of the UK. So, free Julian Assange and save yourselves. What's your name, sir? It's Kasim Kas. Kasim Kaselo Kas. And what brings you here today? Well, one and one reason only and that is that what's been happening in Assange's case. The fundamental point here is that tradition based on his health grounds, you've had Judge Vanessa say that his ex-tradition in the US will be oppressive in health grounds. So I think that's the most important piece we have to take into consideration. And also preservation of life. One of the articles in the human rights charter with the EHR. So I hope Assange's lawyers look into this and push this forward. I really believe that Assange should not be extradited to the US. And the reason why I'm here is simply to advocate for human rights, but also to disrupt his ex-tradition. We all here to support Assange not only for his bravery, for his stupidity, but also the fact that he's exposed more crimes. But also what he's done for the greater good as well. I cannot think of any case in the last 100 to 300 years where this has gone so big, so huge at this colossal level that he's exposed. And the treatment he's getting is just below minus zero.  We should communicate together. Everybody should be free and equal. Freedom of expression. Freedom of opinion. It's the basic thing for the democracy. Freedom for Julia Assange. Freedom for everybody. Thank you very much. It's like a race against time from the exit, more than ever. Assange has been in jail for almost five years for a maximum security of Belmarch, here in London, in the isolation regime. His legals describe him as a deeply signed man, emotionally, psychologically, physically, at risk. Can I ask what brings you here today? Julia Assange, of course. Freedom, justice, and all the rest that goes through with all our lives. Because if Julia Assange is not free, none of us is free. But telling the truth, the sense of truth is a crime. If truth is a crime, that's no lie.  It's evil beyond evil. Justice is our right, human right. This planet is ours. Not only for the few. We belong here. I don't know the planet. I don't know the planet, but this is all going on there, too much. What's it like for journalists to get access in there at the moment because we've had some problems getting... Well, I'm constantly getting problems. We're getting access to the courts here. And it was no different this morning. I was originally denied access on Thursday. I protested and demanded that that would be reviewed by the court. They did allow me access, but when I turned up this morning, I find out that I'm not allowed into the tiny courtroom which is taking place, the proceedings, but put into an annex room. In that annex room, which was supposed to be fed by audio and video from the main room, the audio was so poor that all the journalists in there could hear a thing. They were loudly protesting. They claimed a fumble that they were trying to fix it, but it wasn't fixed. You couldn't make out the words. So I simply said, this is humiliating. This is absurd. So I left the room. Really? Okay. So it seems like a very crude exercise in obstruction is going on. Well, but it doesn't surprise me. There's been going on in every proceedings. Obstructions in a sense that journalists are not allowed because they have a hard time getting inside. International observers, MPs who want access. I mean, it's a constant struggle. It's like the entire system when it comes to junior assistants. They don't want anybody around. They want to do their dirty work in the shadows. And this is what we're experiencing and seeing this morning. Okay. So are you going to attempt to go back in the courtroom or what's your strategy going forward? I'm just going to wait and see. They promised to fix the audio in the lunch break in the annex room. So I'll reconsider or maybe I'll try again. But it doesn't make any sense to sit there and listen to muffled voices of the process where you cannot make out any words. It's absurd. Okay, thank you very much. He's got it. Here today is the truth. I'm here to stand up for the truth. And that truth, in this case, is Julian Assange. This is for our future. It's about our kids. It's for the freedom. That's why I'm here. Today is the original signatory of the Human Rights Act. And that act states that if one faces unfair trial, torture, or death penalty, it cannot be extradited to that country. It's simple as that. But what we're actually seeing in this practical is his lawyers and arguing a case. Is he a spy? Did he do this or did he do that? He spoke the truth. That's the bottom line. He spoke the truth. In case he's extradited, he will be tortured, spent life in prison, that torture. It's not a punishment. It's a torture. He would be, what's probably put on death row. And his trial would be unfair. The judge, who is supposed to be, what they're just supposed to do, is to upheld the law. And the law, the human rights law, states exactly that. That's against his human rights. And just on those bases, he should be free. Okay. Do you think there's any hope that the European Court of Human Rights will actually be effective in stopping this expedition? It should be. It should be. But that's why it exists. But you believe the truth will out? Absolutely. You can't hide the truth. Okay. Thank you very much. Pleasure. After the proceedings, we will march to Downey Street. And we will voice our opinion there. End this travesty. Free Julian Assange. Great! Julian Assange! The proceedings had to be stopped in the main court list and the other observers to hear what's going on. That's not a question of justice. It's just a question of competence to allow observers. Justice that is blind, justice that is behind closed doors. Justice that is secret is no justice at all. Wikileaks has been used as evidence in the European Court of Human Rights and other foreign courts to expose state criminality. And the United States is abusing its legal system in order to hound and prosecute and intimidate all of you. What's at stake is the ability to publish the truth and expose crimes when they're committed by states. In defense for Julian Assange. We are the last line of defense in the most important free speech trial this century. And remember what it was that the New York Times said back at the time of the Iraq war. Superpowers in the world. One is the United States and the other is world public opinion.


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Hey Adam, welcome to the team! Hey Jesslyn, I'm excited to start as a junior designer today. I figure your first day should be with me, in the product, on the web, squatching bugs from our ticket system. What do you think? I think that sounds rad. Let's do that. The first ticket I grabbed for us is a duck team bug. Hmm, our contrast is apparently too low in our primary button. Let's check it out. Right click, inspect on the button. Then, we can emulate the duck team by running the duck mode command. Next, I will inspect the button color contrast. Spot that little warning icon there. Not a good sign obviously. Look here, we set a different text and background color when the media query is set to pre-first color scheme duck. I remember we have a primary brand color variable defined. Let's try with that. I think this color combination seems okay now. Let's try to find if the page has others contrast issues. Go to the CSS Overview panel and run it. The color section shows a nice summary of all the contrast issues. Ha! We actually didn't fix the primary button color. Seems like we can't depends on our intuition to solve color contrast issues. We look like such a bad example here. Let's go to the button and fix it again. Let's fix the text color this time. Open the color picker. Expand contrast ratio section. Let's click on the suggested color to see if it's fit. Hmm, cool. It looks okay. Let's change the secondary button color as well. Let's shift click on the variable, see what are the other gray colors we have defined.  Instead of doing that, you can actually click on the color picker, expand the color sections and preview all the CSS wearable colors there. I think darker gray might fit. Let's update that. Let's capture the overview again to see if we fix all the issues. Or fix. I think AA is fine for this one. We'll open up a PR and get confirmations from a designer that this color is good to go. Whoa, that was rad. Oh, we should probably check if there are any contrast issues in the live theme too. Ah, I forget to enable this pretty handy experimental feature. Open the experiments pane and filter by contrast. Enable automatic contrast issue reporting and reload depth tools. See the issues icon there? Click on it. If our page has any contrast issues, it will detect automatically when we reload the page. Seems like we have more contrast issues to fix. Let's create a bug report and assign it to you. What do you say? Sure, I'm up for that. Next bug is on mobile. Whoa, look at this. Seems like we have a jiggy navigation bar. Nts, nts, nts, nts, nts. Do that bug, do that bug. Okay, let's try to string the page view port with the depth tools to stack the navigation bar on top. Whoa, nice dance. The animated elements appear to be in the mouse way causing some infinite loops. Oh yeah, that's broken. We got this. Let's start by checking the scroll styles for this layout. Okay, I see the overflow x is auto, but overflow y isn't specified. We have animated elements that looks like they are changing the container height. Let's disable scrolling on y. I mean, we don't need it anyway. Aw, no more dancing nav. That's okay. But hey, it looks like that spin is really hyper. Can we tone it down? It's too much, right? What do you think? Oh yeah, let's fix that too. Let's hover to the link and toggle the hover state repeatedly. I use target, focus visible, and focus within all the time too. Hmm, no animation here. I think it's defined in the seal door element. See? There you go. Five turns is a lot of turns. That's why this looks so hyper. I bet the intended value was 0.5 turn. Let's change that. You know what? I really like this angle preview too. I can drag on it all day. Let's verify if the spin is less hyper now. Cool, the animation direction doesn't seem right. I think it would be nicer if it's coming from the bottom. Let's see what we can do here. I think we should change the transform from translate x to translate y. Almost there. But now the animations is coming from the top. I see the calc function here is inverting the value to a negative transform. Let's get rid of the calc immersion and just use the custom property. Oh yeah, well done. I'll mark the solution in this bug report and assign it. Yeah, crushing bugs. Just as a double check. Let's make sure the spin animation is still reduced when the reduced motion media query is active. What is the reduced motion media query? We'll show you in a second. Let's open the rendering tab and emulate the reduced motion option. That's the media query to specify the styles for reduced motion. Nice. No regressions here. A crossfade animation is great for reduced motion. Whoa, Jesslyn. That was rad. Next one is a layout bug. The footer doesn't look good on foldable device. Let's simulate the bug by toggling the device toolbar, select the surface dual device, and toggle the dual screen mode. Whoa, DevTools can do that? Did you just flip it and reverse it? You think the emulation is cool? Let me show you the CSS screen spanning media query. It lets us adapt to the foldables. Check this out. This feature is currently experimental. You need to turn on the experimental web platform features in order for that to work. Oh, I see. That's rad. Very cool. Ah, I remember the footer was built with Flexbox. Let me show you something cool that I recently discovered. You can go to the layout pane. There is a Flexbox section that will list out all the Flexbox elements on the page. Since the footer is the last element, let's scroll to the last. Enable the footer checkbox. See the overlay show up. Let's change that color to red and make it stand out. Then we can show the element in the elements panel and fix it there. Go to the styles pane, see that little Flexbox editor icon there. Let's open that and play around with the styles. Ideally, we want the footer to align on the right. I think we should stack it. Let's change the flex direction to column. See the icon is changed according to the direction. Sweet. Let's align item to the right. Looking good. Let's see what are the changes we have made so far. Let's pull out the changes tab. Make sure you don't misclick that undo button before capturing all the changes. It happened to me once. Oh yeah, one more tip for you. Sometimes I find the badges are too noisy. You can filter them out in the best settings like this. Red. Alright, let's watch the next part. Someone with an older browser reported that our featured image is missing. Let's open the page. Hmm, the Bandung image is still there. Let's inspect that. Oh, it's a picture element. Let's hover on the image source. Ah, nice summary there. Okay, it's got the dimensions, the aspect ratio, and it has the source. I see it's WebP but not all browsers support WebP, right? Definitely. We can disable the modern image formats with DevTools. Go to the rendering tab and disable the AVIF and WebP format. Refresh the page. Oh yeah, we reproduced that. Seems like some typo in the image path. Spot that extra dot there. Let's fix that. Nice. Easy fix. Oh wait, there's another bug report on slow image rendering. Seems like we are using a bigger image for a small display. We should actually optimize that. Let's save that for you. Okay, you can use Squash to do that. Oh, definitely. Squoosh is rad. Oh, there's a bug on missing limited edition tags on Carrip Up. There is also a request to highlight the price. Let's see what we can do here. Let's duplicate the element and drag it down. Looking good. Let's play around with the price now. Maybe we change the font and make it bigger. What do you think? I think that looks good. Let's copy the styles and paste it in the Carrip Up too. We should take a screenshot and send it to the product design team for review. It's very rad. Okay, now we have fixed all the bugs. You can go and start your work. Any questions for me? Yeah, how did you discover all of these DevTools features? I follow the Chrome DevTools Twitter and subscribe to the Chrome Developers YouTube channel. There is this awesome What's New in DevTools blog and video series published every six weeks. I also like the DevTools engineering content. Check them out. Yeah, okay. Let me open up that link real quick. They are more new features. Is that you in the video? Please don't tell our boss I have side geeks with Google. Ciao.


Kaj je? Čekaj, počekaj, nekaj je osepčen. Vse, da je to všeč bilo vsečen, je to z kaj je 2010, o kaj je osepčen, ki je izgledaj v vsečenih kratkov, kaj je osepčen informacije iz Kikosma. V moj bovnih možno, da je to je počkaj, da je to počkaj, da je to počkaj, da je to počkaj, da je to počkaj, da je to počkaj, da je to počkaj. Vse je koncept, zelo in sepšen. Spesivno, in sepšen je zelo in plantacija, zelo in sepšen je tudi izgleda. So the question I asked and the topic of my presentation is whether it is possible to make it for real. And just to make things clear, I'm pretty sure that there are multiple approaches that can be taken to address this question, but the point of view that I would like to provide is the one of a biologist. So I would like also to explain a bit the biology of memory. So I made it of research and among the other papers the most important that I found is this one, which is entitled Inception of a False Memory by of the genetic manipulation of an apocampal memory syndrome. The paper comes from a very important group. And the head of the laboratory, Susuki Mikaula, won the award a bit more than 30 years ago. So let's see together what they mean when they speak about the inception of a false memory by of the genetic manipulation of an apocampal memory syndrome. And let's start by trying to understand why they speak about apocampal memory. So what I would like you to understand is that there are different forms of memory. I have put here just a couple of examples. First thing about writing a bike. To write a bike is a skill that probably most of us learn when we were kids. It's something that indeed that involves the use of some memory, but it's a form of memory, which is very difficult to conscious and very complex. And even if it could be more, what does it mean to be able to write a bike? On the other side, think about the first date with your partner. Of that episode, we remember every figure, what the e-pace and also what the emotions are. And if you go back to that same place, you will always associate it with that episode in the past. What is very interesting is that we have now a disease that the different forms of memory also associate with the different brain systems. And the words brain systems may sound a bit unclear, but just imagine a brain system as a group of different areas in the brain. So this is the reason why they speak about apocampal memory, because the form of memory that they are manipulating is mainly associated to a region of the brain, which is called apocampus. And let's see now why they speak about memory and memory. And to be honest, to explain what apocampal means in order to take more, at least 15 minutes. However, for the purpose of this presentation, I think it's already a very good approximation. We imagine that memory into our brains can be imagined as groups of neurons which are active together, also in different parts of the brain. This group of neurons, also called approximation, is what we call the angram. Angram is basically the word that we use in neurobiology to indicate the biological equivalent of memory. Our memory is represented in both brains. And this is also why they speak about memory angram. So this association between memory as a group of neurons active together is very important, because if you think about that, now if we have a strategy to control the normal activation, then we might have also the possibility of impacting more memory. And it turns out that this is actually the case. We have multiple ways to control the normal activity, but probably the most used one, the strongest one, is called optogenetics. And that's why they speak about optogenetic manipulation. So also to explain in detail how optogenetics work would probably take most of these 15 minutes and also it was the topic of a pre-user 15x4 talk, so if you are interested, you can also watch that video. For the purpose of this presentation, please keep in mind these two concepts. First of all, that optogenetics is mainly based on a molecule, which is called changodoxin. And this molecule has to be put into neurons through some genetic manipulation, which unfortunately I don't have time to explain. Now changodoxin is a very nice molecule, because it allows to control the normal activation and is to be responsible for light. Now if you imagine that garfid is a neuron that contains changodoxin inside, when no light is present, garfid behaves normally, so it's basically not different. But if you shine the light on it, suddenly it becomes active. This is in few words how optogenetics work. And this is just to make you understand that it might seem that optogenetics is an easy technique, but it's actually not the case. It's a quite handy technique. So now we understood most of the words in this title, and it should be able to understand how this science piece is claiming to have done an exception of a false man. However, guys, I now have to inform you that while I was preparing this talk, mainly about at least paper, a second paper came out, this title, the memory formation in the absence of the experience, and this came out just few weeks ago at the end of April. And to be honest, I think that the second paper is even more relevant for the question of this presentation. So at the beginning my lecture was about this, but then it's been cool. And I just thought that you guys really like what is the state of the art of the theater. So I decided to change the presentation, and for a matter of time I will not anymore present the results of the previous presentation, and instead I will present the results of the second paper, whether any production of the game could be useful in order to understand this one. So follow me in understanding how this science piece back for the memory in the absence of the experience. And first of all, let's see together this example. Think about how the memory of a positive when I make it to this manner is formed. Either when you force this manner, this order in the life of this title, but it can also be for example that you are hitting some fruit, and it turns out to be bad, and you feel sick. So when you smell again this order of this food, you will associate it to an electric experience. So this can also happen for the mouse. If you take a mouse, and you make it to smell a odor, but then you also provide a small electric shock, not very strong, but strong enough that the mouse doesn't like it. The mouse associates this order to an electric experience. So if you represent this order to the mouse, then it might receive an electric shock, so that could be a odor. This order. So let's see now how the memory of a positive when I make it to this manner is formed from a biological account of it. To form this manner in your life at least three different elements. Because the order you need is manner in order, so that means your nose. But of course, your nose alone is not sufficient. And this information to your brain. So something has to translate this order into words that your brain understands. And this is done by some neurons which connect your nose to your brain. And finally, you will see something that tells you whether this is a positive or an electric smell.  So a group of different brain areas which is called in this system. So to summarize this is how the memory of a positive or an electric smell is formed. Of course, the order you need to smell in order, then you need to translate it into words that your brain understands. And while these neurons are active, are translated in order, or encoded in order, some other neurons set to the new system has to be active and tell you whether this is positive or negative. So when the memory of the order associated to a negative experience that was formed into the mouse brain this is how it is encoded. So people, of course, were able to put transnorobox specifically in those neurons that encode for that order. So when now artificially activated these neurons by shining light the mouse gets an artificial feeling of smelling this order. As well, they were able to put transnorobox in specifically in those neurons that encode for a negative feeling. So when you artificially activate these neurons the mouse gets an artificial feeling of bad experience. You won't see where I am going. If you artificially activate at the same time the neurons that encode for that order and those that encode for a negative feeling an artificial memory is formed into the mouse brain that associates that order to a negative experience. And you know that this is true because if you then present the order even if the mouse has never experienced it before it has never smelled it before it will actively avoid it. So this is, indeed, the formation of a memory in absence of experience. And I think I'd like to summarize what I hope you understood. I hope you understood that memory manifests into different forms and that these different forms are associated with different brain systems. I hope you understood that engram is a word that we use to indicate the biological representation of memory into our brains. And these, to a good approximation can be imagined as groups of neurons into our brain which are active together. I hope you understood that optical genetics is a very powerful technique which allows to control the neural activity and the instrument of the genetics and to the understanding that we have of how memory is encoded it was possible to generate a completely artificial association between a order and a negative experience. So, concluding, I just would like to spend a couple of words to explain why all these should be important. So this is basic science I'm not claiming that there's anything conservation under. However, if you think about that if we understand the basic mechanism underlying mental formation it might be that these we helped us to develop new strategies that are much easier such as, for example, post trauma express disorder and so, thank you for your attention. So we have time for the big questions please. As you do here. Thank you very much for your talk. Could you explain in more details how you undo this link between the neurons? So you're talking about which part of the effects could have on the psychologi, how we undo the link. The link between a negative section and treatment of post trauma express disorder or the link between three different stimuli in the brain which I guess are the second ones. They are not. So, sorry. So, concerning the force then the link between post trauma express disorder and to be honest, not claiming that this is possible at the moment. What I was just saying is that since post trauma express disorder is a disease where a memory of a negative experience is feeding from a cancer it might be that if you understand properly how memory is engoded then you might have some strategies to treat this disorder but I'm not pretending that this has to be an exception. However, what they can have is that there are groups that are working on post trauma express disorder and what they show for this but they're trying to do a different thing. They're trying to reactivate the memory and to establish it which is not an exception. And this, like either some psychotherapy approaches them and just sparkle and for the second question the question is if it's possible to officially forget something. I think at the moment that I think you should forget not what he is doing there but I might be wrong. I was getting an exception to some positive and then this paper came out. Do you have time for some other questions? I will take this Thank you very much I have a question how specific the system is in the case of some study tomorrow how do you know how the scientists actually could see if that was actually the order of the flower or maybe it's a shape of the flower it's a color of the flower maybe it's just a slightest That's a very good question I think of course to simplify the experiment but if you look at the paper there are a couple of studies that they do meaning that it's not that they are just presenting the whole of the mouse they are making two different orders that are different in encoding it and they show that they can't see the man in one of them and not the other at the same time so it's specific for the order but just for the order meaning that it was actually to be able to find a system which is the order and the whole factorial system which is simple enough to do this manipulation you can't do that for other systems of creation Okay, time for one more question Hi, very nice talk Would you like to comment how the information is chosen in the library or in the UI? So it's a very good question So the question is how the information is stored in the library It's a good one So the real answer is that we don't know yet and the answer is that as I say Engram is I made a bit of simplification we say that Engram is simply a group of languages so Engram what you can imagine is that experience makes changes into our brain map into mind, from molecular to network level these changes all together don't know all then this is how memory is stored in our brain or at least how we think how we estimate how the information is stored in the library Thank you Thank you very much


We're here at the Forecast 2012. I'm John Furrier with siliconangle.com for siliconangle.tv. Cube Conversations, and we're here with Petri Ulias from Capgemini, the CEO of Finland, and also you're in charge of the global data center operation for Capgemini's roadmap. Welcome to Cube Conversations. Thank you. We have a publication called Services Angle, and we were really the first ones to document this migration of cloud, big data, and the impact to services. We had a lot of thought leaders on earlier this morning here at the Intel Forecast event, talking about, not the argument about cloud technologies, because the data centers are these big, you're big customers, and the big buyers have been doing data server consolidation, service standardization, virtualization, NAS, storage servers, now network virtualization for years. So their timelines, they're cloud ready almost, but they aren't being disrupted by clouds per se. From a technology perspective, but it's really the business model that's changing. So could you share with our audience the impact to what cloud does to the services business? When I say services, I mean, there's a lot of consulting opportunity out there, but also people are selling services over the network. So their products are services. So can you talk about the landscape? Well, I think the first thing maybe is really, it is the big check. Well, first of all, the business, the whole market is changing because there's a lot of new kids on the block. So there are companies that we haven't faced. Typically our competition or our colleagues, they are HPS, IBM, SAC sensors of the world. Now you have all the telcos, all the small companies, all kind of a man and a carousel, man and a dock, or however you say it, the English kind of a companies. So it's important for us that we can pick our play better so that we go for what kind of a services we want to go for. So we, for example, we are a service provider basically. So the big change is, as you said, it is in the business model because to me the technology, it's kind of an evolutionary. So there has been changing in the technology, but they would have been changing in the hypervisor, in the storage, in the compute level, regardless of the cloud, so-called. So then the cloud is basically the provisioning layer kind of upwards, you could say, where you can be agile, where you can scale up and down easily. And then that is also then the challenge or the thing that we are facing now as a service provider, but also our clients is that, traditionally what you try to do, of course, is you try to sell as much as possible. I mean, for most businesses, it's kind of a good thing to do, sell as much as possible. And then typically the service providers, we've been looking for long contracts, be it three years, five years, whatever. And now when we go to cloud, then how do we adapt? Because the contract can be for one day, two weeks, maybe three weeks. So we don't have the same kind of a client lock-in as we used to have. People talk about technology lock-in, we talk about really the kind of a client lock-in as well. Well, you guys enjoyed, or CapCham and I, and your peers, our competition, have enjoyed a good run of lock-in over the years with SAP deployments. I agree, I agree. But those deployments from start to finish were pretty long. So with cloud and some of these new acceleration technologies, the deployment cycles are smaller because the speed is faster. Could you comment on the changes going on in that area? Well, I think there we are still in the, we talk about fast deployment. And I would like to say that, yes, now everything you can do with the cloud, you can jump into the cloud fast and so on. But we all know that we are not there quite yet. I mean, we don't have the same terminology. It's not standardized totally. We are not using the same, well, abbreviation, you know, IT world is a world of different kind of abbreviation, acronyms and all that kind of stuff. So we don't have a common language yet. And that's actually what is slowing down, for example, still the transition and the changes as well. So, but it's also what I said earlier. I think that also from, it's not only for service provider point of view, it's also for the clients who are looking for a cloud service, what they also used to do is that they were good in building a business case that do I outsource? Do I keep it inside? Do I insource? Do I buy whatever? But also for them, making a business case for cloud is much more difficult than making a business case for traditional IT spend. Yeah, they're comfortable with on-premise. But, you know, cloud offers some advantages. You mentioned spin-up, spin-down, on-demand, by the drink, however you're renting, whatever you want to call it. But the complexity with things like big data, for example, you just can't spin-down data. So like, you know, people think of Amazon, for example, develop, oh, I was putting my credit card down, I'll spin-up some web servers and spin-up some resources, and when I'm done, I'll just tear it down, I'll just move my app and port it inside. Well, that's assuming you're throwing away your data. So, what's become pretty clear from us, or very clear from us, is that the role of data into the business model is critical. And that wasn't on the cloud agenda three years ago. So, as a provider, how are you dealing with that? And, you know, you can spin-up stuff in the cloud, maybe seasonality if you're in retail, or if it's something else, whatever the vertical application is, you can use the cloud for that bursting, if you will. But now you've got the data, where do you put the data? You spin-down the data, do you port the data? So, data's become an interesting linchpin now. Can you talk about the changes that you've seen with data? Well, I think the main thing is, of course, the growth of, I mean, the amount of data keeps on growing all the time. And then, if we were not so good in using the data for our business purposes, three years ago, five years ago, we are not better today. But the amount of data we have is multiplied, 10 to 100 or whatever. You can capture the data, you can store the data. Yeah, exactly. But what do you do with the data? So, I think it really then, maybe that connects to the cloud as well. But I think the cloud has kind of come afterwards. But thinking about the BI, the analytics, or that part, we need more and more, I mean, more improved analytics and BI kind of a software, for example, or application, where we can easily, easily, what you call it, crunch and blah, blah, blah, slice and dice and all that, the data, and really get the information you need. Because data is data, but making it information is the most difficult part. So, let's talk about some successful components in Germany, SAP, headquarter in Palo Alto, in my town. You've heard of those guys. They do very successful with their messaging and their product lines these days. They have the HANA, they have the in-memory, they have the application suite, they talk about business analytics, it's a really great product. The side baseball for the mobile. So, that really talk about the application market. Can you talk about applications? Because developers are really part of the big conversation right now. You guys are racing out with solutions out there, with customers, you're providing a service. The role of the developer agile programming, these are like consumer-like concepts, but now the enterprise needs to up their application portfolios. We've seen that trend of app stores. The app conversation hasn't always been the leading conversation in with IT in the data center. How has that changed, or is it still early? The role of the application developer. Well, I think if you start developing application today, most likely then you want to make it cloudable in a way, what does this really mean? It is, I'm not sure if it's, I think again the cloud, if you think about the cloud really as a kind of flexible layer and provisioning layer, it is about the technology, the portability for example. So I suppose all those things are the bigger, in the past it was easy. You focused, you have a certain hardware, certain kind of a middleware, certain kind of operating system so on. So you build your software. Dotnet or Java, whatever, that's your choice, and then you just do it. And now I think, but I'm not sure if it's really so big thing for the software development because you should be able to somehow, as far as I understand, I'm not a technician, but somehow what you call it, encapsulate or whatever, so that it really is portable from one place to the other. And I would imagine that the development tools that you are using today, they would kind of do the encapsulation for you in a way that when you work on those parameters that they give you, then it is movable. But I think- We're seeing that platform as a service, for example, becoming a key enabler for developers because they can extract the right- That's also interesting. Where is the limit between the platform as a service or software as a service? If you are providing for- That's a good question. Where is it? Well, I don't know. I mean, basically, platform, if you only think that it's kind of a middleware and maybe some kind of a management layer on top of it, that's clear. But then when you go to database, you go, for example, the messaging services or you go, you could call, I think you can call it a software service or application as a service as well as platform as a service. So I don't know what is a platform or is an application, it's a good question. And you know, there's also infrastructure as a service. So, you know, we've been saying on SiliconANGLE- Which is the most difficult part, by the way, in many ways. Yeah, I mean, as you go down to the infrastructure, there are things with virtualization. Now, network virtualization is very, very difficult. Configuration, management, automation, this is not trivial. So up the stack, they look down, it has to be turnkey. And that's a problem today in some of the tech that I'm seeing. But again, what is the line between commodity, infrastructure as a service, platform as a service? And the fundamental question that everyone was asking in the market today is, what's the differentiation strategy for a vendor, a provider, if platform as a service and software as a service is erased as zero, which some say, it gets commoditized. Where's the differentiation? We think it's in software and services. It is, I agree. Share your thoughts on that. Well, I think just a little bit background. We started our infrastructure as a service offering about two and a half years ago. And I think we made a mistake because we basically thought that it is a building block you need, and then you put your platform on top of it, then you put your application on top of it. But then we also thought that we can sell it as it is because people would need testing or development. It hasn't been at all as easy as we thought because then you have all the security, the network connections, all the things that we've been discussing also about here. And we didn't really, probably, and many people haven't really thought about those. You just, it's so easy to build your infrastructure stack and then, okay, just plug it in. Well, it didn't work so easily. So I think, and then why- Because of the dynamic nature of what? The apps and the network or all the above? I think the accessibility, the kind of two-fold, basically it's all about the security and the access. So on the other hand, the kind of front-end access for the end users and then the back-end access for those who are maintaining the system. And basically, traditionally, when we build our IT system, we've made all the efforts to make sure that those are totally separate. They can't in the cloud way be. So I think the thinking that what you have as your basic infrastructure and all the kind of rules for accessibility, they would work for cloud as well. It's probably not, it's not that simple. So how are you helping, how are you working with people in your customer base solve the cloud problem? What specific use cases are you seeing as the most prominent right now? I think for us- For the large enterprise. What comes to the cost for the large enterprise? I think for us, one of the big things lately has been the kind of road from system service management, integration, aggregation, and then finally to the service orchestration because people have always had difficulties in managing, especially if you are multi-tower services, you're buying services from different partners. It doesn't even have to be IT services. It can be anything. Managing and orchestrating all those services is always been the pain. In cost too. Yeah, it's on a cost as well. And actually also cost that you don't really manage well. You don't even know exactly what you are spending with those. So what we see now coming, and we already have quite a few clients where we basically are just doing the service orchestration or integration part. So we can take all the SLA's from all existing service providers. For example, we take the SLA's, we carry the risk for the SLA's, and then we use our expertise to manage all those different towers. And you assemble the SLA's in concert with what the business objectives are. Exactly. And match that to the infrastructure. Exactly. So then the client has one portal. One kind of a portal. Into the window. Yes, one, one kind of. So you guys are providing a management function as well as an interface. Yes. Both. Yes. And when you say take that risk of the SLA, you're actually taking the business risk on? Yes. Or management risk, or both? Well, I mean business risk, management risk. But basically, the SLA's are supposed to, they are supposed to be there to support your business as well. Theoretically, your SLA's are there that if you breach, you have a business problem. If you don't breach, your business is running for you. Well, you're hitting on my favorite topic, which is the business, the data center operating system. Because what you're basically doing is assembling at runtime the different service levels within the enterprise. True. And managing that for the client. That's essentially creating an operating environment for the customer. Yes. And providing that as a service. So it kind of makes sense. So with that, I wanted to ask you, what do you think about the concept of a data center operating system where HP and others are putting out some really good R&D through HP Labs, a holistic approach to the data center. They're looking at using big data, using management software, specifically one of the hottest things we're tracking right now is DCIM, data center integrated services, management type software that works across the data center. Are you seeing any of that in your environments now, or is it still too early R&D? Well, yes, I see. But at least for us, I think that's where there was a discussion, I don't know if you were, there was one panel just before the lunchtime actually, and it was a discussion about the locking actually. Kind of a technical locking. And I think that's where it's quite obvious that if you go kind of a higher level of services you take for your data centers from one given provider, the more difficult it is actually to break away from it. So I don't know if that world is ready. The nestedness of one vendor provided or one technology. Yeah, it's like, I think it's the kind of the same thing we discussed about the virtualization already for quite a few years. And then we also, I did a lot of work with the virtualization of different layers, also for example, virtualization of the stories. And then there was that there is a software provider whom I can buy a product that then I can plug in all my stories or whatever beneath it. It sounds good, but the problem is that then I have a complete lock-in with that virtualization software. I can't change that part ever. And the same if you take it kind of the abstract layer a little bit higher to the data center level then it could be the same. But I don't really know about it. Okay, so the change gears I want to ask you around. I want to talk about globalization. So I talked to a lot of my friends and some of them run huge global operations. And so it's a complicated environment. You have all kinds of issues around replication of data. You also have policy issues around country management and country rules. Cloud has been an interesting use case where cloud can be an enabler for business logic and business use cases around country deployments. People who have data centers and all over the world who are managing whether it's a follow the sun sort of backup strategy or application strategy. Follow the moon. Yeah, so yeah, depending upon that. So how does cloud enable like global business? Take advantage of some of the resources when you have in some cases regulation in countries.  Can you lend some insight into the global CIO out there who's grappling with in-country strategy? Should I put a data center in Africa? What do I need to do in India? Should I look at tier two cities, follow the sun, all of the above? What's on the agenda for these global CIOs and how they use cloud to architect their data centers? It's a big question, but let me- It is a big question. I was just trying to think that what's, but I think one thing is first of all discussed it also that people may think that there is easy in a way that cloud war that you basically have big enough theaters in all the time source and then you just manage and you follow the sun or you follow the moon and so on. And then especially, well, coming from Europe you start thinking about okay, we have about tens of countries with very strict break relations or all the data have to stay inside the country borders no matter, well, you can move it maybe from Finland to Sweden or so on, but not much further than that. And that complicated. So actually, I think now we are kind of rethinking probably needs to be much more granular than we thought. We also like many people you remember some years ago many people thought that all the Googles of the world they were building huge data centers here and there but I don't think that it's really going to work that way unless you get to the pass or even source level when you kind of for them, it's actually easier because by default, if you're going to Azure, if you're going to Amazon, they won't by default they won't promise you that they will store your data in your own country or whatever. And you accept it because it's part of the concept then if you buy your services more but then about the global things is that companies that are truly global, they actually are in a way the easiest clients because they don't typically care. So they are okay, so that okay, I am truly global company I find that all my data in Europe is centralized in Germany, all my data in APEC is centralized in Singapore and all my data in here is centralized in New York or whatever, so that's okay with that. So they're already operating at that level so they want to be globals. Exactly. Have to figure out their localization strategy by data. Yes, and also the kind of, because typically, do you really have global operations or do you have all the sales depots I mean all around the world or so, so it really depends. Okay, so my final question here in this CUBE conversation here at the Intel Forecast in 2012 is what's the impact that you see in the next few years in the services area? What are the big things that's going to really change the equation, if you will, and change the distribution of wealth and the ability to monetize that will impact the business? We had a theme, adapt or die, transform or die, it's been a mantra, it's been around for all innovation cycles. As we enter in this new age of big data cloud and all this innovation, apps and applications, mobile, social, what is going to be the disruption areas in the services business? And services being, you know, how people are servicing their customers, how they're delivering services, what do you see as the, in your personal perspective, the key disruptions in that market? Wow, that was a, that was a... Next few years, what are you expecting to, what are you watching? What trends are you watching closely that you're still not sure about that could really transform the business completely or not and still open, open, open-ended for you?  I suppose that's why it's kind of difficult as well. I do feel, though, that people say that the cloud is kind of the next part of the saves after the internet. Fine, it can be so. But I mean, I feel that in a certain way, the cloud is still so kind of small and granular. It's all over the place. It's like, I don't know what you say to me, it's kind of a dusting phase. So everything is in the air. Yeah, flying around.  There will be a certain kind of, I'm sure that there is one thing that is quite clear. There is room for people like us, I mean, big service providers. We have to be able to provide more agile services. That's quite clear. That's what we are focusing on. Our main focus still will be with really big enterprises and that helping them to orchestrate and manage their services. Because as we discussed the role of the CIO because more like a chief service orchestrator and that's where we want to go and help them. So I think for us the clear, to me it's quite clear, we go and from that system management tradition, we go towards the orchestration play. But then there is, what it really means is that because now having an IT system, having a system in there for a small company of one or two persons, it is easy, it's cheap, it's, you can do it. So there is going to be a lot of room for kind of a much smaller. Innovators. Niche kind of players. Boutique kind of. Exactly. But where do they exactly settle in? They are not going to really compete with us because they have the different kind of clients. Yeah, they don't have the scale. Well, Hitchie, thank you so much for being inside theCUBE. This is CUBE Conversations from Intel 2012 forecast event in New York City. We'll be right back with our next guest.


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Yeah, okay, we're back. We came back. We came back on a Thursday at 10 a.m. And we're here with Tom Yamachika, tax foundation of Hawaii, and we have some really disturbing news for you about things that have happened in the legislature. Welcome to the show, Tom. Oh, thanks for having me on the show, Jay. Are you as disturbed as I am? Well, it was kind of surprising seeing all the inflating that's going on. So we wanted to kind of give you an idea of some of the backstories that go in at our large square building there on Baratanya Street. Well, how about the gift to the teachers? I think it's, where's talking about that one? Okay, today we're gonna be talking about House Bill 613. And ultimately, this is how it started. Okay, it's a very simple bill. So it's what we call a short form. It says absolutely nothing, but it does have a title. And... That's the whole bill we're looking at, that's everything? That's the whole bill. That's what I call a short form. You're gonna have a bill of 1,000 pages or five lines, interesting. Yeah, obviously you can't sign that one into law, but what it does is it gives you a placeholder in case you wanna introduce something later after the legislature has started rolling along. That's kind of what happened. So it turns out that when the legislature was rolling along, then there came the possibility of having a lot of education aid in terms of like ESSER funds and similar grant funds that would be made available by the federal government as part of the American Rescue Plan Act. So what the committee did quite properly, this is the House Education Committee, is they took this short form bill, had a hearing and said, we're gonna amend this bill and we're gonna recommit to our committee for the purpose of hearing the bill once it has contents, okay, which is fine. So the bill gets recommitted and there's some language then put in it to expend the federal funds that they are anticipating. Specifically, they wanted to ensure that federal maintenance of effort requirements, and we've talked about that a little bit before, as applied to our DOE are complied with and we're spent according to the collective bargaining agreement, at least as it applied to those at the school level, so far so good. Now, things started happening when this bill crossed over into the Senate, okay. The Senate Education Committee changed those employed at the school level to those employed at the school level in the classroom. And what that meant basically was teachers. Excluding everybody else in the schools, principals and all the non-teaching staff. Yeah, and that's where the fireworks started. Because once you had that language in there, then HGEA, who represents the administrators, the principals, the vice principals, the custodial staff, cafeteria staff and office support workers said, hey, what are you guys doing? In other words, me too. So there were those in the Senate who wanted to basically support the teachers to the exclusion of all else. And HGEA, which of course has a considerable amount of influence representing lots of government workers, started stamping its feet up and down. They submitted some very incendiary testimony to the House Ways and Means Committee in strong opposition to the bill as it was then. Can you give me an example of what you mean by incendiary? Okay, let's see if I can pull up a nice quote here. And here is Randy Pereira talking. It's not as incendiary as he normally is, but he says this measure should be amended to require the BOE and superintendent of education to implement the use of these funds as intended by the Congress for all school level employees and not limit the use of funds for classroom staff only. Anything less is a disservice to the many support staff who keep our schools operating and care for our students. So, you know, it sounds pretty good, right? Ways and Means didn't change the language, it went to confidence. Okay. And then... The SHEA didn't have enough clout. No, I think the thinking was, well, you know, we're too lazy to change it now, but we're gonna have a House Senate conference anyway because the Education Committee amended the bill anyway. So let's kind of hash it out in conference. Okay. So the conference committee meets and here's one of the things that they come up with. Now, not only do they replace the generalized appropriation of the ESSER funds and other federal aid, they get to a lot more detail. So they start talking about, well, yeah, we'll give all manner of programs, you know, like learning laws, charter schools, facilities for safe reopening, software subscriptions and licenses, and even an automated greenhouse pilot program. Okay. The schools of high schools in Kohala, Mahai Naluna, Kauai, Waiyalua, and Mililani all got a cool million to do an automated greenhouse pilot program, whatever that is. Kodakopia. Hey, it's federal money, so as long as it sounds good, right? Well, I'll talk to you about that, but go ahead. Okay. But then came the clincher and here it is, the monofram heaven. This language appropriates a 29.7 million for the purpose of educator workforce stabilization to retain teachers, provided that money is appropriate, shall be used for a one-time stabilization payment of $2,200 for each teacher. And that's what the first conference draft said. Now, each teacher can be fairly broadly, you know, interpreted. So if I'm a substitute and I go teach in one day in a year, and I collect maybe 75 bucks, I'm knowledgeable for the 2200, isn't that great? Fortunately, people kind of woke up before that got passed into law, and what they had to do was they had to amend it on the floor. So they hurried up and went to the house floor and introduced a floor amendment and went to the Senate to introduce the same floor amendment. And the floor amendments were introduced and changed the language to each full-time and half-time teacher. Okay. But there are a couple of problems with that. One is it's still only teachers. Yeah. Okay. So that doesn't solve HGE's problem at all. Second, whatever happened to the collective bargaining agreement because our teachers are unionized. They get paid whatever the collective bargaining agreement says, and the administration, in fact, has teams of negotiators and they have a collective bargaining office whose sole job is to negotiate with the employee unit. And so this monofram heaven, we're bypassing all of that. And it is saying, oh, let's throw some stimulus payments at the teachers, even though it's not in the collective bargaining agreement. So they bypassed the whole system. Pretty much, pretty much.  So this is the version that's being sent to our governor to sign. And obviously one of the comments that he's gonna get is from HGEA, and he's probably gonna be urged to veto that part of the bill, if not more. Okay. The good thing or the bad news, depending on your viewpoint, is that this is an appropriation bill. So it can be line-itemed. The Hoy Constitution says that in an appropriation bill, if the governor doesn't like one or more appropriations, he can line-item it out. But other bills don't have that same flexibility, namely that when you have a large complex bill with multiple layers of tax increases, like what we've been talking about, House Bill 58, the Enoligate Franken bill, that one's either up or down. So you sign the whole thing or veto the whole thing, there is no in-between when it's not an appropriation bill. And so this is kind of where we have it in terms of what's being presented to the governor. What do you think he's gonna do? I think he's really gonna have a tough decision. I think, and I guess to a, in at least one news report, he publicly said that he was not comfortable with having this money come down from heaven, given the fact that he's got an office and his office is supposed to negotiate with the union. So he may pick up his pen and line-item that appropriation out. I wouldn't be at all surprised if he does that, given the fact that we've got two Titans, the HGEA and the HSTA, clashing over this one provision. I think if it were ordinary people like taxpayers objecting to a bill or an appropriation, it might not get heard so easily, but you would think that when it's HGEA and HSTA, they both are in the governor's ear all the time. So there's gonna be some action coming under this. What it is, we don't know yet, but at least here we've got a good chance of the veto pen being wielded. He would have to put that line item on this list of veto inclinations, which comes out pretty soon in June. Yeah, the next legislative deadline is June 21st. June 21st is the day by which the governor has to put out a list of intent to veto list. So any bill that is not on the list is basically gonna become law. Okay. Either by signature or silence. Either by signature or silence. But if a bill is on the list, then by July 6th, the governor has to make the decision as to what to do about the bill. Sign veto line item, you know, whatever, but it has to be done by July 6th. So those- What would you do? I would line item it. If I were the governor, I would line item it. Why? Because, you know, as I mentioned before, that's why we have negotiators and that's why we have a collective bargaining agreement. The legislature's job is to, you know, fund the agreement after the negotiations with the unions have been concluded and everybody's signed off on the collective bargaining agreement. If they have a problem with how the department's run or how the administration is spending their money, then, you know, they take that up with the administration, not with the union. Because that's- Yeah, that's- So you lose control, you lose oversight by the executive branch that way and under the collective bargaining agreement and you allow any organization, any state employee type union to go direct anytime it wants. I think implicit in what you're saying, Tom, is that this would be really bad precedent because it would mean that the union really isn't bound by the collective bargaining agreement and it has two bytes at the apple, which is not what was intended either in the law relating to labor relations or, you know, in the development of the collective bargaining mechanism to give them two bytes at the apple is giving them much too much power. Yeah, this is a classic case of divide and conquer. Everybody learns this as a little kid, right?   But it works really well if the two parents aren't communicating with each other really well. Did anybody raise this with the legislature and say, wait a minute, this is bad precedent. This is not the way it's supposed to work. Keep your hands off this one. Did anybody say that to them? Not in so many words, but at least not what we've seen in the testimony. But of course, a lot of things may be whispered to the appropriate officials behind the closed doors, so to speak. In the legislature? Of course. Yeah.  Aside from the collective bargaining violation, if you will, and the intercession of the legislature where it shouldn't have gone, there's other issues too. And that is the power of the unions in general in this state. My first question is, if this manner from heaven bill had not happened, am I right to conclude that it would have gone into somehow into the general fund and the money that this manner from heaven bill is spending could have been available for other purposes to benefit the state? Am I right about that? Mostly, this is federal monies, so it has to be spent on education. And so as long as you're fulfilling the purposes of the federal act that gives you the money, you can spend it. So it can go to purposes other than teacher salaries, yes, but it still has to be spent for education. And the other part is, what is this supposed to, what the deal with, well, it's for the benefit of the teachers who might otherwise leave town, including part-time teachers now who might otherwise leave town. And I'm saying that, but this, you know, if you're in the military and your time for re-enlistment comes up and they give you a re-enlistment bonus, you're now obligated to stay for the, really obligated under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, you're obligated to stay for that period of time. You can't take the money and walk. Right, right. Is there anything here preventing these very same beneficiaries of the matter from heaven, from taking the money and then taking off? Not at all. So, see, that's why it's really important to, you know, when you're dealing with labor relations at the government level, to go through the administration, to go through the unions and make whatever conditions you want part of the bargaining agreement.   So, you know, there's a real question about what this bill is really, really doing. And, you know, if you ask me, I'm just a bystander and observer. I say, well, this is just a big giveaway. There's federal money coming in. Let's glom on to it. Let's, you know, get it to our constituent members of the union as fast as possible in any way possible. Let's make them feel good. Let's take it. So on the table, let's take it. Without any real regard for education in general, without any real regard for the welfare of the state and the citizens of the state in general. And this suggests that the union is being irresponsible in merely taking the money, giving it to teachers without any quid pro quo, without any benefit to education. So that would be my, you know, knee-jerk reaction here. And I am thinking that the union is too powerful. The union is the only one walking the floor or doing lobbying. And there's no countervailing lobby group or, you know, party constituent who representing the citizens of the state that is saying to the legislature, don't do that. This could be much better spent. This is just a grab. What's your reaction? No, I mean, again, you need to, go through processes to make sure that you've got the correct people bought into it. You need to make sure that you're getting value as a taxpayer for the money that you're putting in. And just tossing it out the window and letting it fall to a select group of people, that's probably not what you want to do. Again, it's in derogation of, it disregards the collective bargaining agreement and really incentivizes, you know, not only teachers, but everybody else to play the same game of divide and conquer. So at the end of the day, if this is kind of the precedent that you're setting, you may have a big free-for-all in government as all of the unions go and, you know, push, push, push for non-bargain for benefits. Couple of thoughts on that. Number one is, I think, you know, one thing that has to be said is that if the collective bargaining process had been in play here, if the governor had been, you know, more aggressive about this and seen it coming and sure that he could have, then what would happen is the Department of Education itself would have been at the table. The other thing is- Actually, the board was there. You know, the board was giving testimony to the legislative committees when it, you know, when they had the opportunity to do that. I'll take that, but bottom line is it had no leverage. That is true. Yeah. Anyway, that's one thought. I'm concerned that we don't have an even playing field here. We have the unions and whoever else wants to do it, you call it a, I forget to turn me used but I would call it an end run. This is an end run.  And if you have the cloud, you lobby the legislature and they warm to it. We have to get out of that mindset. Yeah.  She said, rather than directing the board and department on how to expend on recurring federal funds, it's more suitable for the latest to determine how much general funds it can appropriate to maintain as many resources as the classroom level as possible. Governor E proposed to give back approximately 123 million in general funds to the department following the council on revenues, revised revenue projections. The legislature could ensure as minimal impact to the classroom level as possible by appropriating these previously unavailable general funds as necessary or going a step further and restoring the department's base budget. So what I get from that is, you know, guys, we really don't need that much help. Just, you know, restore our money, we'll spend it. You don't need to tell us how to spend it. You know, get your, you know, grubby paws out of the process is what I, and reading into this may be too much, but that's kind of what I'm reading into this. Well, you know, if you shake it and back it, what happens is a specified group of beneficiaries get money in their bank account. And this is supposed to keep them from, what's the word, stabilize. This is supposed to stabilize them in some way. Right. I'm not sure I see that as an appropriate way to manage the economy or the educational system. There are a lot of other needy people in the state. I mean, we do a show on restaurants, for example, a lot of them going out of business, a lot of small businesses are going out of business. A lot of people in this state are needy because of COVID. And they don't get any part of that money directly or indirectly, not a penny. So what you do is you shower money, it's a lot of money considering there's no quid pro quo or control of it. You shower money on one group in the community and not on others. And there's got to be better planning. It can't be lobbying a gift to one group. This is not the way we do with the markers. Yeah, I mean, certainly the legislature is there to set priorities. And one of their priorities, of course, and understandably is you take care of the least fortunate among us. I mean, that's a legitimate priority. But then you also have to understand where it's coming from. And this is I think the part that they're having trouble with, where it comes from is you've got to take it from other people purely and simply. And then the idea then is, what's the science of it? Who do you take it from? How do you take it from them? Do you base it on income? Do you base it on the business activity? Do you base it on their profits? Or do you base it on activity whether or not it results in profits? So those are the kinds of questions that the legislature is being asked to answer all the time. And I really do think that there is a danger in getting too much involved in the nuts and bolts of who is the money going to and when and how. We just need to make sure that the priorities are dealt with, the agencies are supposed to be the ones who pay their employees and get the work that's required done, query whether the work that's required is getting done. But that's the subject for another show probably. Well, yeah, but I think from what our discussion was today, I think we can make some conclusions. And the primary one for me is that we were coming out of COVID now. Our economy has been damaged. Our workforce has been damaged. A lot of people have left or are considering leaving the state for the lack of a viable economy as it affects them. This is a very compound, complex question. It requires the best thinking that we can obtain from government. All parties on deck, they all got to be thinking about those priorities you talk about. Somebody has got to get a comprehensive analysis going of every element in the economy of our state. And to do it ad hoc, one gift from manner from heaven at a time based on one lobbying group at a time is not a comprehensive solution in any way. In fact, it's just a giveaway. And if you ask me whether the legislature gets high marks on that, it doesn't. If you ask me whether the governor gets high marks on that, it doesn't. But I think the message we leave and you can agree or disagree is that it should be line items and we should all be watchful. It doesn't happen again. Yeah, we certainly need to respect the process and not micromanage, which I think maybe what's happening here. So let's hope that our lawmakers and our governor to do the right thing and respect the process. Yeah, and let's hope they can develop a comprehensive plan to reinvent, reinvigorate the economy of the state. That's the highest priority. It's very complex. And it goes beyond what the challenges they've had before. It is critical to the future of the state. That's what we gotta focus on. This is not an example of good focus. Anyway, thank you, Tom. Tom Yamachika, Tax Foundation of Hawaii. I so enjoy these discussions. I think they are very important to the public conversation. Thank you, Jay, for having me on the show. Aloha.


What's good everybody? Thank you for tuning in to the first edition of Shit, we don't have a name for this she be saying he said that one time, you know what I'm saying. Oh my god That's what you call it. I don't think that a fit be frogs Bees in the frogs the frogs in the bees like ten the birds in the bees Welcome to the first installment of the frogs in the bees I'm Ricky Shucks, and I'm Shannon Boudram. Ricky Shucks his friend case guys and get the relation You see how she friends on me real quick first episode. Damn Well, I'm glad I changed the map he was wearing my hat before but I guess it's kind of like that, you know You're wearing my jacket. Yeah, we just broke up real quick. Damn episode one. We in this bitch So today we are going to talk about the female orgasm Let's talk about that. Okay, I'll talk about that two-thirds of women do not orgasm from penetration alone But most women will have a couture orgasm So I think it's like miseducation that it's like oh that kind of works sometimes now You rub the genie and rub the lamp and the genie will come out 8,000 nerve endings most women other than you know, very few will have a good time if you do that But since you dumped me never mind. I don't want to touch it. Wait look Gonna unzip girl. All right. We back together now You said two-thirds of women can't achieve it through penetration two-thirds of women do not achieve orgasm from penetration alone Penetration alone so coupling the two together like if you're doing clitoris stimulation with G spot And then atop that G spot is really just an extension of the clitoris the clitoris is shaped like a wishbone It's really long and it really goes up through the bladder The best way to really even hit the G spot is you know the two fingers in and then pressing inwards Like an actual G spot tool looks it's like made of metal It's made of metal and it's hooked like this. Oh, yeah Most people don't think about sex in terms of like really what works for men for women It's all about visually what works for men. That's what porn is. It's like Wrestling for sex. It's not real.  Do you need a mint? Does that feel good for you? Like there's no questions I feel like this male ego thing is like, I know what to do. I'm amazing at sex. I've been doing it since I was However many years old You know having a lot of confidence definitely makes the performance good And I want men to feel like they're the boss in bed But still bosses have to ask the employees sometimes like, you know for an evaluation So just look at it that way you could still be the king of the ring if you ask how to use your thing All right. Well, I got a question now What's the mint for?  Yes a mint might be nice. So like an altoid Like an altoid like an ice breaker like an ice breaker Ice breaker better than an altoid or one of those ones that you put you know talking about the sheets I'll list the rings.  We're not doing it, right?   I would love to do that Would you need like a visual aid or something like that to demonstrate on? Yeah, I could probably find like something got you right here You want to use that? No All right.  Let the water hit your clitoris Guaranteed something great is going to happen.  They don't need a lot You just need a slight up and down motion like a petting motion to scratch in that record I just use one finger some people use two now.   Yes, right, right? There you go. So you want to make sure it's at its like full maximum power before you start actually giving it A lot of individualized stimulation now if you're doing that and you add in fingers with that like Come hither motion on the inside. It's hard to do it to yourself because it's like Really weird.     I felt like we came up with a dope name. Yeah, you want to go with that? Okay You say then you should say it. No, I feel like it's your channel. Okay. I'm gonna say your part Okay, and you say okay, so this is going to be known as the poon and the peen We out we out Wait, wait, hold on next week Next week. I want to do a video where rick gets naked Let me know in the comment section below if you'll be interested in seeing that it'll be blurred out But he'll just be sitting here naked everybody's interested in seeing that but you're not gonna do it Santa's gonna be naked I'll do it if he does it.


First shot of the day got the Springfield Armory Prodigy. I Got 20 in the mag one in the chamber here we go. Oh Baby first shot today. I love the first shot to the day feeling you know always so good here we go Yeah, buddy Gosh that feels good. Oh, hold on. I need a surefire X 300 down here. I'll be right back. Okay got my surefire X 300 Put it on there. Oh, look at that. Look at that even better. Here we go. Oh Oh, just didn't okay, hold on Maybe I was limp and resting it there, but uh, yeah, all right. Let's try another mag Let's just go through these mags real quick. Just because it's fun to shoot. Oh Taylor defeat again, but it looks like it doesn't want to go all the way Hey Weird weird There it is again Come on. There we go There it is again. Okay, which is slide lock. That's good So weird Okay, I'm back from reloading got the Prodigy Reloaded up. Hopefully there are no more Mishaps or any kind of misfeeds if there is so I've heard online and I've tested this before But using my staccato mags in the Springfield Armory Prodigy and they work flawlessly So we'll give that a try if this Malfunctions again and misfeeds again. So here we go Look at that Another one. Oh Man, what is going on? Okay, just one out of 20, which that's not bad. So Let's see if the staccato will do the same thing All right, here we go staccato here. I got my staccato mag in the Prodigy Let's see if we get any malfunctions or misfeeds nothing just less aim But overall no malfunctions I'm gonna keep trying to run the Prodigy original mags the stock mags and see if they still misfeed so But now okay, I just went through a couple mags I'm gonna try it again with the The 17 round mag and not the 20 round mag This is gonna be stock from Springfield. So here we go. Let's try it out Zero fitting issues, which is that's I mean that's great. That's good. That's what we want That's what I like to see so I wonder if it's not that one I wonder if it's the extended mag that has the issue and not the 17 round mag Which that would make sense to me because there could be some issues with the way that the spring loads The the rounds in the original Prodigy mag Interesting


What's up everybody? Jason here from Jaxby's casebricks.com. We just sold out 20-20 leaf autograph full-size helmet Two box break random divisions number one. So again eight spots everybody gets a random division and NFL You get two full-size leaf helmet opportunities This is a high-risk but a high reward type of break and again these boxes are loose and again full-size helmets up there can feature Some of these pretty nice ones out there. You have Tom Brady. I believe they're got Aaron Rodgers Some very nice ones and again These should be NFL helmets, but in case they are full-size collegiate just just in case guys remember We're gonna go by college rules So teams that they're currently on or teams they play for the longest if they are inactive or out of the league anymore So just a little FY okay, and then of course eight spots You got the eight customer nature Charles down to Wesley and you have the eight divisions AFC Northeast Southwest NFC Northeast Southwest So let's roll it and we got ourselves a two into two four times. Good luck one two three and four Boom Wesley down to Conrad four times one two three four AFC East down to the AFC North All right, so Wesley you have the AFC East Adam covered on with the NFC North Charles with the AFC South Matt with the NFC South Adam with the NFC West Joshua you have the AFC West Wesley with the NFC East Conrad with the AFC North So if anybody wants to trade divisions Let me know if not we will start this. All right. I'm assuming nobody wants to trade dead Stick with what you got and then the helmets are right behind me guys. So we just have two loose boxes guys.  All right, I can't even do who am I for this one Yeah, I actually yeah, all right guys. Well, you guys are gonna recognize this one, right? And I want to say everyone's gonna have a shot at this helmet and why does it feel like deja vu again? I feel like I legit have pulled this helmet like three times already First of all, all right, does anybody recognize this helmet?  I'll tell you that I wish I can lift the camera, but I can't really lift it up. There you go cascade. Got it That's a really cool helmet there regardless The sharks. Yeah, that is Willie Beeman which is played by the actor Jamie Fox. So again, this actually Doesn't go to anybody. Everybody's gonna have a shot at this helmet You're thinking mud dogs. I know that would have been cool like a little Bobby butchier something Yeah, guys, I mean, it's a very very nice cool helmet. I feel like I pulled this one before already It's nice little That's funny. All right guys. Yeah, it's pretty cool. It's sharks. All right. Well, everybody have a shot at this guy so Makes a little sweeter and Then the big back at COA is right here. I know dude. I can't believe that So that's pretty quick too Yeah, I haven't done the second one yet the last one guys. All right, let's get a current player or Hall of Fame star Someone really nice. All right. This is a good one. I like this one Now I'm very curious to see which Which helmet would it be? I would assume it has to be the one that I remember him most for but All right, I'm a former NFL American running back who played 13 seasons in the NFL Was a two-time all-american at the college he played for was selected it could be the first team It could be that's what I was saying. Yeah was selected second overall in the 1994 NFL draft Who was a he was a member of for five seasons before spending his last eight seasons with a second team he's played with He was a member of one of the greatest Players and teams in the early 2000s and then of course, let's see we can give it away here greatest show on turf given by the same those ramps that appeared in two Super Bowls and one Super Bowl 39 or yeah 39. No, no 34. Sorry In 2000 he was the most valuable player as well One of the only three NFL players to reach at least 10,000 rushing yards and 5,000 receiving yards But it's the only one to amass 12,000 rushing yards and 6,000 receiving yards And he was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2011. And yes cascade. You got it Now, I don't know if this is gonna be a Rams edition or not. This could be Colts or Shaka song be like San Diego State, but Either way, I'd assume it'll still go to the Rams if it's San Diego State Wow, actually is a round close. I thought it was Colts for a second, but it looks like it's like the new Rams helmet You see right here Marshall Falls What's up Aaron? How's it going buddy? No, this one was close. I thought this was actually Colts for a second This is like a new school Rams helmet, but kind of old school I guess There's the autograph right here all the fame and inscription I'm not sure I'm not sure I did I was in Arizona for the last couple days, so I'll have to stop by my parents house in the next couple days All right. Well, there you go. That'll be Rams. So of course that'll be going to the NFC West going to Adam Cuperman There you go. All right guys, why everyone's gonna have a shot at the Willie Beaman. So that's cool Jamie Foxx So the switch seems again and let's go back to a randomizer really quick Roll it. I mean a dice roller and then We'll get the list here and again Everyone's gonna have a shot at it guys whoever comes in number one gets that Willie Beaman Let's roll the dice and it's a three and a one for four times guys four times. Good luck one two three four and Staying at the top after a couple rolls. I believe Matt L Congratulations, man. You just won that Willie Beaman Jamie Foxx autograph full-size helmets So there you go Yeah, well, yeah, do we still have those I? Believe we shouldn't though because we actually took those from over here But yeah, if we still do you can go to jasper.com, but I believe those should be taken out the website But yeah, we did have them there for quite some time The autograph helmets, I think yeah, I think we took them off already But they were there for like the last week and a half But yeah, you can check out our Instagram of course jasper.com for personal boxes It was up there for quite some time, but I think we took them off already But now you were right big rigged that they were on the website there for a while But I think we took them out just today probably to do the two box break But yeah guys that was a 2020 leaf autograph full-size helmets two box break random division number one again This is the only two boxes we had left from the intergem side So if we do get more guys and you guys want to do some of these these round divisions actually sold pretty quick So we can always do more pretty sure to guys Jaspis case breaks.com