Did you think that meant the show was over? A bit of the old Toby. I think he must have watched Max recently. So good. Well, these hardwoods, I tell ya, there is something not right about them. ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] Previously on Rings of Power, everyone died. Did you think that meant the show was over? Oh no. In this episode, we follow our characters as they reckon with the fact that their actions landed them in the bad place. It turns out pledging to commit genocide right before dying, not a great idea. Even her horse was condemned for guilt by association. Theo, who notably touched the darkness and did not find the light, also went to the bad place. In fact, many of the Southlanders ended up there condemned to forever relive the stupidity of returning to their village from the fortress. They're not the only ones that made it to the bad place, oh no.   I'm not sure why the Queen of Numenor is there. I mean, she wasn't a great leader, so maybe that's something to do with it. Yeah, she's being punished for her willful blindness with actual blindness. But back in the land of the living, we check in with the Harfoots, and Poppy, she smells wood smoke, and she's immediately like, the others must have started baking. Obviously a nomadic people would not have ovens, so I'm pretty sure what she was referring to is a bit of the old Toby, but oh calamity. Turns out it's not the Harfoots toking after all. It's actually because the evilness alarm went off.  So I mean, good job to anybody who installed that early warning system, very good idea. But then not Gandalf begins hugging trees, and Harfoots, like all sensible people, are immediately put off by this hippie behavior and banish him. So then we check back in with Durin and Elrond, and we learned that Durin's dad, you know, the king, he doesn't think he can trust elves to keep their word in any bargain that they would stray, and has decided it's best to just let the race of elves die out instead. Meanwhile, Durin's wife, Disa, is enjoying a quiet evening, forging things in her living room, as dwarf wives do. She's dismayed when Durin tells her about the imminent and entirely preventable extinction of the Elven race. But in this scene, we see the true nature of Mithril. And it turns out what they've found is actually just a lodestone, because they place it next to a leaf that they thought was rotting. But it looks like it was actually just covered in iron filings, which are magnetically pulled away by the Mithril lodestone when it's placed next to it. So whew, oh, that's a relief. Nothing's rotting, no one's dying. Oh, speaking of dying, we next head back downstairs, and Theo wants to comfort Galadriel, and he says, what are you so bothered about? It isn't your fault. And Galadriel says, yes it is. I mean, as great as it is to see her taking responsibility for her actions for once, when she picked a bad time, because for once, this isn't actually her fault. But we do get some amazing words of wisdom from Galadriel. Theo is wondering about who might have survived, and Galadriel tells him, what cannot be known hollows the mind, fill it not with guesswork. So if you don't know something, don't wonder about it, don't think about it, just ignore it, got it. But Theo wants to know how many orcs she's actually killed, and she says many, and Theo says good, but this does not please Galadriel. She tells him that she would not use such words.  It's all or nothing. She then tells Theo, it darkens the heart to call dark deeds good. Obviously, doing dark deeds is okay. She tells him that all soldiers have to worry about this, so Theo wants to know if he is a soldier. We know how elves feel about lying, but he's not a total lost cause.  I mean, she won't need it anymore. The rest of the nominorians seem to be making their way out of hell, presumably into purgatory. Elyndiel's walking beside the queen, and he manages to avoid having a branch hit him in the face. But will the queen avoid this as well? We pan up, and she's getting closer and closer, and it looks like it's gonna hit her in the face, but ooh, she misses it. And the queen is like, are we there yet? Elyndiel explains that they have a bit further to go, and she's like, I see. And sassmaster Elyndiel is like, do you? Sick burn. But anyways, for some reason, the queen doesn't want anyone to know that she's blind. She tells Elyndiel to guide her horse, mums the word. So we go back upstairs to check in with the Harfuz, and it turns out that Nori has been plotting her revenge against Nott Gandalf for that little ice fiasco all along. So just like the evil queen from Snow White, she has crafted a poisoned apple, which she then slowly and dramatically hands to him. Or she's just giving him a snack, which he could more easily reach up into any of the trees and get for himself. So then back downstairs, Galadriel's having another heart to heart with Theo as the two of them continue to try to make their way into purgatory. And here we learn that much like the Ents who lost their Entwives, Galadriel has lost her husband. I mean, she's immortal, so it's not super urgent. She can go look for him later.  Theo tells her, you're wrong. It's not your fault. It's mine. And Galadriel says, no, you did not intend for this to happen, which can only mean that she did. Next we get an amazing callback to that splashing scene from episode four. If you remember, Theo got into a well and the Orc heard the splash and then he hid under the water and the Orc didn't see him. So he walked away. So then he made a big splash getting out of the water and the Orc didn't hear it. So here in this episode, above where Galadriel and Theo are, the Orcs are clattering and clamoring in their armor as they march along. And Theo unsheathes his weapon and the Orcs immediately stop because they hear this small sound. So then one of them goes to check it out. Now, something about this scene seems familiar, but I can't quite put my finger on why. Anyway, the Orc decides that he hears nothing. There's nothing there. So he continues on his way.  I mean, between this and the splashing scene, I think we've learned something really important about Orcs as a species. They can only hear a sound once. They're deft to it if it happens again. So I can't wait to see this pay off when our characters use this knowledge, their advantage in a later episode. So then we check back in with Duran and Elrond, where they've decided that they're gonna mind the Mithril themselves, screw dad. But the mind starts to shake and then the quiver in and there's another tremor. And Elrond being the crudiest elf that he is, he tells Duran to give the Orcs time to settle. They need to get used to their new lives situated a little bit lower than they were before. You know, they needed an adjustment period. While they wait, Elrond offers Duran some water and Duran declines and says self-discipline. I think he must have watched Mad Max recently. Duran then tells Elrond that Dwarves have secret nicknames that they only share with their friends and family. And it seems like he's about to share his secret nickname with Elrond, but Elrond quickly shuts that down. He's like, Nabra, I don't know you like that. So Duran then does break through the wall. Don't worry, the Orcs were good and settled by then. And he finds all of the Mithril. Like they're not even gonna have to mine it.  So great, they don't even have to mine it. They can just go grab it, awesome. But Duran's dad is super not cool with this. I mean, he's made his position on Elf Extinction pretty clear. And here's his son going and trying to save the elves anyway. He's so mad that he takes away Duran's necklace. So meanwhile, back with the Harfoots, as they're collecting all of the apples, Poppy starts singing this absolutely horrifying song about Boulderbook, who we all remember. They like to make fun of for dying of bees. In this song, he's left his daughter by a river. She gets turned into a snail and he catches the snail and eats it. I mean, these Harfoots, I tell you, there's something not right about them. Poppy then notices the footprint of a big person. I mean, not Gandalf left pretty recently, but she is certain that this is somebody else, somebody dangerous. So she drops her bucket and runs away. And it turns out that somebody else are those pop stars that we saw a few episodes ago. They are in the middle of another photo shoot and they are not pleased that Poppy is littering and dropping buckets all over their shooting location. And if that wasn't bad enough, Nori starts yelling, interrupting their shoot yet again. And we all know what D.Va's pop stars are. So they overreact a bit and set fire to all of the Harfoots caravans. Meanwhile, back downstairs, it looks like the new Minorians, except for Naughty Isildur, have successfully managed to get to Peruvatory.  So Elendil is like, give him to me, you're coming home with us. And the horse is like, nah. And Isildur's buddy is like, he won't listen to you. He won't listen to any of us. And the horse is like, yep. So they just let the horse go and he helps away off to a life of freedom. I'm really looking forward to the spinoff series about Barrick the horse who goes around fomenting rebellion among all of horse kinds, telling them if you just stop listening to your masters, they'll say, you free. I am sad though that in this show, at least we are definitely never going to see Isildur or his horse again. So the rest of the Minorians have set up a camp. They'd be fucked if they were in the land of the living because that charging army definitely did not have supply wagons charging alongside them. Well, luckily they're in Peruvatory. So food, medicine, tents, tables, all that stuff. It just materializes. Galadriel and Theo have also successfully made it to Peruvatory where Theo is reunited with his mom and his mom's boyfriend. Galadriel goes to see the queen who is determined to keep her blindness a secret which is why she is wearing a blindfold because a blindfold on a blind person would be pretty redundant. So when people see her in a blindfold, they'll just assume she must be able to see. She's about to sail out of Pergatory and back to Númenor but she vows that she and the Númenorians will return. Galadriel tells her that the elves will be ready by which I assume she means herself and Erendir. We'll back upstairs with the Harfoots. Nori and all the other Harfoots are really sad that all their caravans were destroyed. So Nori's dad decides to cheer them all up with a bit of stand-up comedy. We're Harfoots. We don't slay dragons or dig for jewels, but if there's one thing we can do better than any other creature in Middle Earth, it's stay true to each other. So good. Then Malva admits that she was wrong that Nori was right all along to help not Gandalf. And then Papas Murph is like, it would be grand if just once Malva, you weren't right about everything. Who knew Papas Murph could be so sarcastic? Then back in Purgatory, we learned that Halbrand was stabbed in the gut by the pyroclastic flow.   He needs elf medicine stat. So they immediately begin gathering a pallet and putting it together a wagon. Oh, just kidding. It's like Halbrand can just walk over to his horse and mount it. So it's not an emergency? Anyway, Galadriel likewise mounts her horse and these two depart with absolutely zero supplies for a long and dangerous journey. Theor approaches to at least return her sword to her but she's like, not, I don't need that. I got girl power. And they ride away as the townspeople who met their king yesterday, shout strength to the king as he immediately abandons them. So back in Khazadum, Duran is sad that his dad took his necklace away. And here we get our first glimpse of Dees' villain origin story. She tells Duran that it doesn't matter because he'll be king. This is going to be yours. And mine one day will rule this and other mines before our time is done. Whoa, they cut the laugh out for some reason. But then we see Duran's dad toss the now iron-less leaf into the chasm filled with Mithril. And as it floats down to the bottom, we see that somebody must have fallen in there a long time ago. And that dude has been bathing in the light of Mithril for so long that he became super charged. And then lastly, we check in with the orcs.  You are no longer burdened by the day. And these poor guys really aren't bright if they needed that pointed out to them. They shout, hail Adar, Lord of the Southlands. But he's like, mm-mm, that's the name of a place that doesn't exist anymore. And they're like, so what should we call it instead? And they start chanting, Adar, Adar, Adar, Adar. So I guess they're gonna call this place Adar now. Mordor. So yeah, that was episode seven. Bold and unexpected choice to show our characters in the afterlife.  I mean, the queen has found a way to sail back to the land of living. So I'm sure we'll see them back in Middle Earth in no time. Except for Isildur, because he's definitely, definitely out of the story for good. In the next week's episode, I'm assuming we're just kind of gonna wrap things up. You know, the Numenorians will find a way back to the land of the living and go back to Numenor. The orcs now have their own land that they can live in. The half-boots don't have caravans anymore, so they'll just kind of settle down in this orchard and give up the nomad life and maybe change their name to Hobbits and maybe call the land a Shire. The guy that got super charged by the Mithril will bust on out of there and be like, guys, just like pop down here, bathe in the light, you'll be good to go. And then next season, we'll just have to deal with Disa as the villain as she tries to claim power for herself. Yeah, yeah, I'm pretty sure that's just gonna happen. So let me know in the comments down below your thoughts about this episode, your predictions for the season finale. Whatever you wanna let me know. I post videos on Saturdays, other random times of all, but on Saturdays I like and subscribe from my Patreon if you feel so inclined and I'll see you when I see you.


Coming up on DTNS, Facebook wants to change its name. Amazon's Just Walkout technology arrives at a concert venue, and is it smart for Steam to ban games with NFTs? This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, October 20th, 2021. It's my brother's birthday after birthday, Tim. In Los Angeles, I'm Tom Merritt. In Salt Lake City, I'm Scott Johnson. I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. We were just talking about Grammar and my brother's birthday on Good Day Internet. Get that wider conversation. Become a member at Patreon.com slash DTNS, where you can join our top patrons like Irwin Sturr, Ken Hayes, Phillip Shane. Your name could be right there with them. Patreon.com slash DTNS. All right, folks, PayPal supposedly might buy Pinterest. If they actually do, we'll talk about it then. Meanwhile, let's start with a few tech things you should know. A preview version of the Windows subsystem for Android is available now in the Beta Channel. People have been very excited about this. Beta Channel Windows 11 plans to bring the preview to the dev channel down the road. But if you want to try it out, you'll need to set your Windows 11 beta to the US region and have a US-based Amazon App Store account, because that's how it gets the Android apps. Microsoft and Amazon have curated about 50 apps to start with, not a lot. That's just to put it to the test. So check it out now. Nikkei's sources say Oppo is developing its own chips for its flagship phones. The custom chips are targeted for release in 2023 or 2024. Oppo is the fourth largest smartphone maker in the world. Wow, I'm stunned. You know, sometimes at the grocery store, they have a lot of little bits of chicken left over so they make chicken salad. Here's Facebook salad. Several Facebook stories you should know about. The UK's competition and markets authority has fined Facebook approximately $69 million for consciously refusing, in their words, to report required information regarding its acquisition of Giffy. I thought maybe they were gonna find him $69 million for calling it Giffy, but that's not it. US officials announced Facebook has agreed to pay penalties of more than $14 million in a settlement with the Justice Department for failing to advertise at least 2,600 jobs to US citizens and instead offering those jobs to people the company was sponsoring for green cards. Not done yet, two more. Washington DC Attorney General Carl Racine said he has named Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as a defendant in the district's lawsuit over the improper sharing of data with Cambridge Analytica by data scientist Alexander Kogan. And one thing that isn't happening to Facebook, the social network announced it will now demote content in groups by people who have violated its policies elsewhere on the platform. No, they didn't do that before, but now they will. That's a lot of Facebook. Real quick, just a note that I'm gonna read the following thing from a Brave browser, all right? Oh, very nice. The Brave browser has removed Google, Quant, and DuckDuckGo as its default search engines in various markets. New installations of the browser will use Brave's own search as its default. Brave search is built on an independent index and does not track users' searches or clicks. However, an ad-supported version of the service is coming soon. Yeah, I can tell. I can tell you were you were getting your facts off of an actual Brave browser. The U.S. Department of Commerce announced it will require companies to get a license from the Bureau of Industry and Security in order to export certain security software, particularly intrusion software to Russia and China. This extends existing rules to cover tools like Pegasus from the NSO group that don't involve encryption. Before, encryption-oriented products were banned now. Even if they don't have encryption, they still qualify for the ban. The rules do make an exemption for cyber defense purposes. They're gonna try to avoid inhibiting security research and collaboration. The new extension aligns U.S. security software rules with the 42 countries that are part of Europe's Lawsoner Agreement. All right, let's talk about Facebook's name chains. Verge has sources that say Facebook plans to announce a new company name next week, most likely during the annual Connect Conference on October 28th, although it could happen before that. Facebook, the social network, would supposedly stay called Facebook. We're not going crazy here. The parent company, which is Facebook, Inc., will get a new name in order to differentiate itself from the social network brand. Right now there's two logos. There's the blue Facebook logo for the social network platform, and there's a gray, boring one for the Inc. Well, they're just gonna change the whole name. Facebook, if you don't already know this, also owns Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, Novi Financial, Reality Labs, and a few more brands and divisions. Famously back in July, Mark Zuckerberg told the Verge that the company, quote, will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company. Facebook has been working hard to position itself as a leader in VR and AR. They mounts that plan to hire 10,000 people in Europe to work on metaverse-related projects. They promoted their head of AR and VR, Andrew Bosworth, to CTO. And the Verge notes, if you're wondering what they're gonna change the name to, that Facebook recently renamed its unreleased VR game, Horizon, to be called Horizon Worlds. Now, that on its own doesn't mean much, but they also demoed a version of their workplace software called Horizon Workrooms. So Verge is like, I don't know, maybe the new name of the company is gonna be Horizon or something around the word Horizon. I'm putting my cryptocurrency on them, changing the name to the Elbob Reif company. See what you've done. You know what? I think the Horizon's theory is pretty strong. I wanna give you, okay, here is Scott Johnson, the average consumer of some Facebook products as they currently stand. Here's my reaction to this possible news. And that is, oh, actually, great idea, Facebook. It would be good for you to change this because people look at Facebook in a very negative light these days. I do. So you're gonna help me with your other products by having a different name that I can associate with it. And I think this is cool. If you'd asked me about the Google alphabet switcheroo back in the day, I would have said the opposite. I would have said, I already know Google. Don't change the name. It makes sense that it's still Google.  Why do we need to change it? And I think the reason was is I didn't have Google in the same doghouse as I have Facebook in right now. So I have to think this is, I could be wrong, but I think this is the primary reason they're doing it is there's a lot of negativity, unavoidable negativity around a social network of any kind. There'll always be that part of the discussion. And this is a chance for them to say, apart from that, we do all this and now we want to brand ourselves as such. Like I think it's probably the best thing they could do. Maybe the only thing they could do at this stage. I think it is a practical consideration. When alphabet became alphabet, the idea was very practical. It was, we want to separate the cost of everything that's not actually Google from the cost of Google so that we get a real ability to report Google's results and also have separate CEOs in charge of things like Waymo and Wing and have a company that isn't, that we don't have to keep saying, yeah, the company's called Google, but this has nothing to do with Google. This is an entirely separate project that we're doing. And I think Facebook has a little bit of that too. I don't think Facebook believes that everyone's going to turn around and start loving Oculus tomorrow if they change the name of the parent company to Facebook. They're not crazy, but it does make it easier for them to talk about things and makes it easier for us to talk about things if, let's say they call it Horizon, you say Horizon-owned Oculus, which requires a Facebook login or whatever, right? It makes it easier for them to say, yeah, this is not a part of our company that's doing the same things as the social network. And I think it's easy to overreact and be like, wow, that's not really going to change anything. There's still Facebook under all, and yes, absolutely. But it will frame things differently. And so I think that's probably why they're doing it. Yeah, I also think there's an investor angle to this that makes things a little more palatable when you start spreading it like that and have a parent company. So we'll see how it goes. Speaking of Alphabet, let's just roll right into them. This wasn't planned at all. This is crazy. Alphabet's Wing company has expanded its drone delivery service. It's going to go into Texas. Yeah, that's right. Folks in the Dallas suburbs of Frisco and Little Elm can get packages delivered by Wing from nearby Walgreen stores. So I don't know, prescriptions, candy. That's about all I get from there. But anyway, lots more things, obviously. Wing already operates drone delivery in Christenburg, Virginia. That's a less populated area. So moving out there is a bit of a growth. Test flights begin in Texas next week and commercial service is expected to begin in the coming months. So if you've got some, you know, Walgreens needs, it sounds like Wing has you covered. Yeah, if you live in Frisco and Little Elm, this is good, though. This is them saying, we want to try a denser urban area. We want to expand this. We want to make this work. And they're among dozens of companies, maybe even hundreds of companies out there delivering this. The one that's been doing this the longest is Zipline, most famously in Irwanda. They've been delivering medical supplies there, you know, across mountainous terrain for more than a decade now. But we really haven't seen this in urban areas. So this is an important milestone to see one of these companies say, let's try it in the suburbs. So in a big metro area like Dallas, Fort Worth, if you're not familiar, it's, you know, it's among the top 10 metro areas in the United States. So it's a populated area. But of course, they're going to limit that test. They're not going to do the entire DFW area to start with. They're going to start small, but that's how it happens. Now, the question is, will they run into too many problems? They're going to do this test and ask the community for feedback around it. Maybe they never do get to launch the commercial service if they have too many problems, or maybe it all goes well. And people in Frisco are ordering their M&M's from Walgreens to be delivered by drone. I do look forward to the day when these services start to grow to the point that, you know, they have successful tests in these test markets and they can start to support other stores. Because what I would like to do, and I'm not kidding about this, I really want to do this. My first drone delivery. I want to be a drone.  But I want a drone to bring the drone to bring the drone, which would be in a box. Yeah. I just need to do that before I die. That's a bucket list. They sell little mini drones at Walgreens. Yeah. So if they've got them at Walgreens, and if I lived in Texas or these Virginia locations, I'd be all set. Yeah, I'm all set. I was really disappointed. My nephew lives in Canberra, Australia, and they're doing burrito deliveries in Canberra from a burrito restaurant, but not in his neighborhood. Oh, man. Think of the data you could get if you just had one family member getting burritos by the air. That'd be amazing. Perfect for DTS. Burritos by air. The future is now. Well, let's move on. We've got a trifecta of big tech announcements concluding Wednesday. I don't know if you guys noticed there was a lot this week with a Samsung Galaxy unpacked event, and it wasn't all software as some people named Tom. I won't say last names may be expected. Here's what we got. First of all, we got the Maison Katsune. This is a brand fashion brand. A lot of you are probably familiar with. They have a very cute box face for a logo. You can now get a Galaxy Watch 4 and Galaxy Buds 2 with the Fox on those. That is going to matter to a whole bunch of people that aren't me, but I'm excited for you. Okay, I really am. Second, there was a Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 3 Bespoke Edition. Hopefully it won't be an addiction. That lets you customize the color of the back and front of the phone with supposedly 49 different color combinations that will be available at least at the beginning. The frame is limited to black or silver though. Costs $100 more than the regular Flip 3 to get those custom colors. So be prepared for that. And if you change your mind later, you can swap to a new color with something called Bespoke Upgrade Care Service starting at $79. And that will happen in November. Finally, the Galaxy Watch 4 also. Oh, go ahead. No, I was just going to say they should have named it the Bespoke Artisan Upgrade Care Service. That's better. That's better. Upgrade Care Service. I don't think my car is getting new tires, but whatever. Finally, the Galaxy Watch 4 also got Bespoke Options, but the bigger news here is an update to Wear OS and now offers fall detection. So this is good news for me lately and a knock-knock gesture to launch a pre-selected app. Yeah, they got some new watch faces and live wallpaper and stuff like that. Honestly, the one that's going to affect the most people is probably the Wear OS update because there's a good number of Watch 4 users out there and this is bringing Wear OS up to par with the Galaxy Watch 3, which was based on Samsung's Tizen operating system and Galaxy Watch 4 is based on Wear OS. So the things like fall detection were available to the Galaxy Watch 3 but not to the Watch 4. So filling in some gaps there. Although on the most part, Wear OS is more functional than the old version based on Tizen, the Bespoke Edition thing is interesting. I don't know that that gooses a lot of sales of the Flip 3 but I think it's an interesting way of doing things and maybe they do it on the Flip 3 to limit how often they have to do it and it's a bit of a test. But the idea that you can not just pick from four colors but pick from 49 different color combinations, I think for some people it's pretty exciting, right? Because they consider their phone to be as much of fashion advice as it is a practical thing. I completely agree. Like there certainly, well, there's no limit to various brands trying to lean into customization and or color combinations or whatever. It's long been, I think an important part of phone ownership is to be able to choose from more than just two or one. And every time colors come out for a product on like a Monday's Apple announcement, those mini, what are they called? I forgot already. The mini music balls, whatever they're called, can they get the name? Anyway, those things coming out in additional colors, I usually kind of smirk and go, oh, that's a real innovation, guys. You got a different Pantone color to choose from, neat. But at the end of the day, HomePod, HomePod, jeez. How could I not remember HomePod? I don't know. Music balls, you know how that's the better term, which they should have gone with that. But point being, that kind of choice is clearly stuff customers like. I like to be able to choose from a number of colors. And I like to know that, you know, they, I like to know that there are more options than that. 100 bucks for a, you know, an extra color on the back or front. I don't know how I feel about that, but there are going to be some people who are over the moon. So good for them. Yeah. Good stuff. All right. So big announcement week, finally concluded folks, we have another companion series here.  But if you're not, go check out know a little more at know a little more.com. I dig deep into big tech topics. Sometimes I'll bring on an expert like I did with Stacey Higginbotham to talk about the matter system for smart homes. Sometimes I just dive in deep and explain something like I did last week with RCS. This week's episode is the perfect companion for Molly Woods. How we survive, how we survive is all about batteries. And this week on know a little more, I'll be digging deep into lithium ion batteries. Why they're the battery of choice? How they work kind of a little bit about how batteries work in general. So check that out before it comes out. Know a little more dot com. You may not like or even understand NFTs, but lots of people do and it's become a thing. Quick catch up NFT stands for non fungible token. It's a cryptographic way to make a record that is very hard to change. Not a not an album. I mean, like a record of something like Scott owes me money or Scott owns my picture of a fox. Non fungible means that it's unique. So Bitcoin tokens are not unique. Each Bitcoin is pretty much identical to another just like a dollar bill is exactly identical to another dollar bill. NFTs say, ah, this thing that we recorded is different than any other. It's unique. It's most frequently used to show ownership of a digital item, but keep in mind, it's not copy protection. Just a recording of who owns something or or a fact for more on how that actually works. If you're like, how can you keep that from just being copied or faked? Check out our episode of know a little more on blockchain that we put out earlier. So if you have a digital item that we can say belongs to you, is that worth anything beyond bragging rights? Well, for some, that's enough. There's a lot of people doing that. But another nascent use is a game. If I own the sword with plus 50 damage, a game could use NFTs to respect that and only allow me to wield it in the game. They check the NFTs. Ah, that's Tom. He gets to use that sword. It allows me to sell that sword or give it away to someone else and still have only one version of it in the game. For instance, the loot project is one example of a project that's doing that. Last Friday, the news broke that Valve had added a rule to its list of what you shouldn't publish on Steam that prohibits and I quote applications built on blockchain technology that issue or allow exchange of cryptocurrencies or NFTs, specifically NFTs. Now, Space Pirate Games, the developer of the game Age of Rust pointed it out on Twitter saying they had been in good communication with Steam about this and they understand why Steam is doing it. Steam says they don't want games on the platform where the in-game item has real world value. That has caused problems on others. Now, granted, there are things that have a real world value because people assign them to them, but NFTs particularly intentionally have a value. It's different than a CS go item. Epic Games on the other hand told Verge that its quote open the games that support cryptocurrency or blockchain based assets on its game store. A seemingly logical thing to do for Epic, a competitor of Valve to say Epic said games would have to comply with financial laws, be clear how the blockchain is used in the game and have proper age ratings, but they're thinking about it. Epic would not let developers use its payment system to accept crypto and they have to be another way of you getting the NFTs. Epic's self publishing system right now is enclosed beta, so we don't know what the real world impact of this is yet. And keep in mind that back on September 27th, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney said on Twitter, quote, we aren't touching NFTs as the whole field is currently tangled up with an intractable mix of scams, interesting decentralized tech foundations and scams. He said scams twice on purpose. So I guess this means that NFTs won't be banned from Epic because they'd like all those games that are getting kicked off of steam to come over to Epic, but Epic itself won't put NFTs in its games. Anyway, the upshot is blockchain, NFT and gaming, they're all hot buzzwords that combined will give you plus five funding when rolling venture capital. So the question is who wants this and who will try it? Are there better ways to do scarcity in games? There are other ways. Well, this just end up crashing and burning with a series of games that let the person with the most money win because they can buy all the cool NFTs. Casey Newton at the Verge points out in a column today that this idea of unique items being traded in a virtual world like a game sits squarely in a well-funded buzzword called the metaverse. I mentioned that regarding Facebook earlier. Being able to own a thing in the metaverse, a virtual world is kind of fundamental to that.   It was an example of not NFTs, obviously. We weren't there yet, but in 2012 when that game launched, the real money auction house allowed you to go into basically an auction house storefront and purchase items from other players. And the way it was non-fungible quote-unquote because it wasn't, but the way it was was they were tied to your account through your Blizzard account. And when you sold those items, the transfer of that item would go to whoever bought it from you and now they own it.  It was horribly received by players who felt like the system diminished the gameplay experience and the earning of items in game and instead put a focus on this weird outside seller's market which is why they dropped it in pretty quick time. So all of that being said, do I think they're making a mistake? No, because I don't think the time is right yet. I think there will come a time where this is the norm and by norm I don't mean that somebody somewhere is making way too much money on a sword they sold. What I mean is I can picture a time, metaverse games wherever where a developer has a game and there are swords in it. We'll stay with the sword analogy because it's a good one loot of value in a video game and the game makers themselves say, well, this sword of destiny to borrow a term from another thing is really cool and it's the only one that exists and only you can have it and there's a 0.5% chance it'll ever drop for you in the world and that's it. There isn't a store to buy it. There isn't a place to get it.  You got lucky on a Saturday afternoon and the only one ever dropped and it was you who got it. Now you own it. There is an NFT that says you own it. No money had to transact, but the record is there. That's the kind of future I want to see with NFT in games not just another money revenue channel but like how interesting it is that you in this vast world you're playing and are the only one with the sword of destiny. That's a huge concept and very cool. But it's when it gets tied up when who gets what money and how are you going to pay for it and do you have crypto? Can we do dollars to crypto conversion on your store? Like all of that stuff may or may not come but I don't think that's what gamers care about at all. I think what they care about is scarcity in a more pure game sense that you're going to get an item and it's yours. I think it's just too early and Steam can very easily wait until NFTs have worked out the scam, other thing, scam problem that Tim Sweeney so accurately pointed out because I do believe that NFTs will shake all of that stuff out and we will find a useful thing for them. Now maybe it won't end up being that useful for games. Maybe we'll find out that there's problems with it or there's a way better way to manage scarcity across platforms. I think there is an advantage to having a platform for scarcity that you don't have to build every time any object-oriented programmer knows this. Like it's way better to take a really useful piece of code and just use it than have to go from scratch every time. So if NFTs prove themselves to be good at this then yeah, why not take it? But maybe somebody will come up with a better way of doing this because they're inspired by it. I don't know. However, if NFTs shake off all the scams if it proves to be a pretty reliable and good way to do item scarcity then I think Steam changes their mind down the road. There's no reason they can't and say like, oh, now that NFTs are not, you know, scam-ridden anymore and now we know how to shake out the scams we'll allow them into the stores again.  These were all scam-ridden at one point, these ideas. Yeah. So their very founding is based on a previously sketchy thing Apple and their music. You could look at a million examples. Yeah, yeah. This is a case where I do think it's just not time yet and when the time's right, of course they'll do it. I think Epic's being a little cheeky here, if I'm honest. They're not really doing anything. They're just saying, we're open, unlike our competitor, but it doesn't mean anything. We're not going to see anything right away. So yeah, give it some time. They'll all be doing it. Email itself is scam-ridden. Yeah. But we still use it. We figured it out. We figured out how to use it. All right. Snob OS's Nika Monford is back to spotlight a black tech entrepreneur who made her name developing FinTech to help the unbanked and underbanked. Hi, this is Nika Monford of the Snob OS show with another episode of Teching While Black. In this segment, I bring awareness to an innovative black leader in technology. This week's spotlight is on Sheena Allen, CEO and founder of Sheena Allen Apps and Capway. Hailing from Terry, Mississippi, she is a serial entrepreneur and FinTech leader and graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi. In 2011, she created her first company, Sheena Allen Apps, that included a suite of five separate apps, which she bootstrapped to ultimately garner millions of downloads. In 2016, she had an idea that would organize money and spending. This idea eventually became Capway, which is an FDIC approved financial service provider with the core service of mobile banking. Capway's goal is to fill financial gaps and create financial access and opportunities for those who have been underserved and overlooked by the traditional financial system, including individuals who are unbanked and underbanked. Her work with Capway has earned her the title holder as the youngest female in America to own and operate a digital bank. Additionally, Sheena has been featured in various publications, including Ink Magazine, Essence and Black Enterprise. Now, Sheena has been on essentially every influential 30 under 30 list, including Business Insider, Forbes and Ink Magazine. Also, she was on the Ink Magazine Female Founders 100 list. Needless to say, she is definitely one to watch. To find out more about Sheena Allen and her work, you can follow her on Twitter at WhoIsSheena and at SheenaAllen.com and Capway.com. Join me next time as I highlight another Black Tech innovator. When we are aware of all innovative voices, especially those in underrepresented groups, the tech community thrives. Thank you, Nika. I mean, that is one impressive person. And we've got links. If you want to find out more about Sheena Allen in the show notes, SheenaAllen.com, Twitter.com slash WhoIsSheena. Thank you, Nika. Los Angeles' fabulous forum is an older arena that was remodeled in the mid teens, the 20 teens, not the 19 teens, and purchased in March 2020 by Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer. Yeah, that Ballmer, the former CEO of Microsoft, owns a team with a nickname Dangerously Close to Clippy. And the forum was the site this week of not only an Eagles concert, for real, but also a stadium concession stand using Amazon's Just Walkout technology. Unlike most concession stands, you don't have to stand awkwardly in the walkway waiting behind 12 other people to get a hot dog. With this one, you use a credit card to get into the concession area, then just grab whatever you want, walk out, and you're done. The forum will not be installing more of these. There's just the one down by the stage because it's costly to retrofit, but it's meant as a test run for their installation in the new Intuit Dome being built from scratch to open in 2024 and become the new home of the Clippers. Yeah, 100% behind this idea of bringing it outside of the Amazon closed in sort of ecosphere of, you know, their stores and stores they own into broader places. I think a place like this is a great idea. Any kind of sports arenas. I think Comic-Cons. Imagine this sort of thing happening anywhere where you need to just go in, browse for a thing, and get out of there without huge lines and, you know, nightmare checkout scenarios. So I've never been more for an emerging tech than this. I love this. And I know I, among other people, have been wondering like, okay, Amazon's cool, nifty walkout tech. That's great. Amazon makes it work. Is anybody else going to adopt this? Can it work without Amazon, you know, juke in the system to make it work for them? Apparently, yes. Here's an example at the fabulous forum. I just think it's still, to this day, we'll say it's still dangerous for them to call that just walk out given some of the issues they've had in their warehouses. So I'm just saying Amazon, your naming convention here is maybe just a little on the nose. You might want to rethink it. Just saying. Hey, real quickly, thanks to VJ who sent us some recommendations for third-party MagSafe-like cables that you could use on a Windows PC. 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Hi everyone, my name is Nika. Welcome back to my channel. This is Hi Black Girl, a channel where we talk about all things beauty, skincare, you know, all that fun stuff. But then also personal finance, because I feel like what a lot of people don't talk about is like beauty can be expensive.  So I like to just try to help girls be like as financially responsible as possible so we can look cute, you know, while we're doing it. So welcome. If you're new here, please subscribe. If you're a returning user, welcome back. Today's video is going to be all about credit card debt. So I'm going to break it down to three parts to have my notes here. The first part is why is credit card debt bad, followed by how do people like get in credit card debt. And then lastly, it's going to be how to get out of credit card debt. So if you're interested in one section in particular, go ahead and skip to that part of the video. Otherwise, stay tuned, buckle in, and we're just going to get right into it. I am also a side note. I'm going to ramble a little bit. I just did these braids myself because I did not feel like paying $300 to get my hair done. And I'm like really part of myself right now. So if I'm touching my hair a lot, that's why. But yeah, let's get right into it. So why is credit card debt bad? So opposite to what people may tell you, having a balance in your credit card doesn't actually help your credit score. When I first got a credit card, I was told and taught that having a balance in your credit card was a good thing because it helps increase your credit score, but that's false. What really goes into your credit score is your credit utilization, which is you don't kind of a balance in your credit card, but you want to keep that low. So you want to keep that, I want to say under 30% and the lower it is, the better. So having actually like a rotating balance.  So that's truly what your credit bureaus are looking for, like how responsible you are with your credit card debt, but that's not what the banks want. So credit card debt is really bad because that's how banks make a lot of money and that's why they are so excited to give a bunch of 18 year old credit cards because essentially they make all their money off of interest on these credit cards. So let's say if you have a $100 balance on your credit card and your interest rate is like 20%, the math, I don't know. But your next statement balance, if you like roll it over, it's going to be like $120, right? And if you just pay the balance, it's going to keep rolling over until it's like $140, $160. The math there is not perfect because math is not my strong suit, but you get the idea. They are making money because you're not paying them back.   Like I use 20% as an example, but I would say even when you have a good credit score, like the lowest, the lowest your credit card interest is going to be is like maybe 15% or 17%. And then upwards, like if you have a bad credit score, they could literally rob you like 25 to 27% on credit card interest.   So I am a huge fan of high interest savings accounts. Actually, I wrote a blog post about it and I will link that in the video. But like if you have the highest, the highest like interest rate that a bank will give you for saving money with them, it's going to be like 1%. And it's the same principle, right?  And then, you know, you'll have $101 where they're basically paying you pennies to save your money with them.  So that is basically why credit card debt is really bad. It's like one of the highest interest rates that are in the market right now. You know, like other financial tools don't have interest rates that high. Even student loan debt, you know, your interest rate, if you went the government route, it's likely going to be somewhere between like 5% and 7%. I'm sorry if you guys can hear my cat in the background, but yeah. Just think about that. Like you borrow from the government, you have a 5% interest rate, you borrow from a bank and your interest rate is 20%. That's like insane. The next topic is how do people get in credit card debt, which is honestly the saddest thing because a lot of people get in credit card debt.  Like just living their lives. Like I right now, I am in credit card debt and I actually shared my story and I'm sharing my debt free, like kind of payoff journey on my Instagram. So if you want the latest and greatest on that, follow me on Instagram. But right now I started about $9,450 in credit card debt. I currently, I just made a payment $450, so it's $9,000 right now. And by the time this comes out, I should probably be at like 8,500. So if you want the latest and greatest on that, follow me on Instagram. But otherwise people, back to what I was saying, people typically get into credit card debt just like on everyday items. Like if I knew I was going to be like $9,000 in debt, I wish I had like a Birkin to show for it. I have nothing. So typically a lot of people find themselves in credit card debt, not because they bought like super luxurious things, but because they're just not budgeting correctly. So if you are spending more than you're making, you're going to have a deficit, which is going to lead you into credit card debt. A lot of the common mistakes is like reallocating money or not allocating money appropriately. So I know for me personally, I had a really large bill that my company reimbursed me for.  It was a qualified work expense. My company reimbursed me for that money. But honestly, instead of paying down my credit card bill, I chose to save all that money because it was really important to me to actually meet my $20,000 savings goal and I valued that over debt. So we all make our own decisions. It's personal finance for a reason, but just be aware. If you are going into debt for something, make sure you're making the right choices with your money. For example, if you are looking to save on everyday items, can you buy the same brand of aluminum foil, paper towels, toilet paper at a less expensive savings mart or dollar store rather than going to Target or a Walmart? I don't know. All right, so how to get out of credit card debt. So we talked about why credit card debt is bad. We talked about how people get into credit card debt. It's a scam. The credit card companies do this on purpose. They don't even debt. So how to get out of credit card debt, which is honestly the meat and potatoes of this video, right? So you find yourself in credit card debt, you're looking at your American Express bill and you're seeing every month, they're charging you like $300 a month in interest. That might be an exaggeration, but I do feel like my interest on my account was like up. It was like $100, like an extra $100, $200 a month. And the longer I kept that debt with American Express, the higher the interest rate is going to be. Because again, like we said in the beginning, why is credit card debt bad? Because they have this high interest rate that accumulates. So the longer you have the debt with them, the higher the interest and fees you're going to pay on it is going to be. And so that's how people really snowball into debt. So the first thing you need to do when you're in credit card debt is stop the bleeding. So if you need to be super dramatic and like freeze your credit cards or like cut up your credit cards or like just hide your credit cards from yourself, do it. There's like truly no shame in that. I've been there, I've done that. I've been like, okay, I'm going on a debit diet. Like I'm not using my credit cards anymore. That's the first thing to do, right? We need to get you back onto like a cash diet. We need to get you back within a budget. We need to get you back on track to live within your needs. Live within your means. I kind of don't like that word, but that's a different video. But we need to get you back to living within your needs and taking into account that you now need to pay off this credit card debt. So you do have a few options when it comes to just looking at my notes here. You do have a few options when it comes to paying off credit card debt and I will kind of go through the three of them now. So the first option is getting a personal loan. The second option is doing a balanced transfer credit card. And the third option is bankruptcy. I don't really know anything about bankruptcy. Never done it. So I'm just going to scrap that option. But it's an option if you are seriously considering it. You don't feel like there's any way you can pay your debt off the next two, three, four, five years. Like it's a wrap for you. That is a viable option. And you should check that out because credit card debt is like, you can write off credit card debt in a bankruptcy versus like student loan debt. Even if you declare bankruptcy, like you still have to pay that back. So if you do have a lot of credit card debt and you don't think you'll be able to pay it off in like the next five years, like that's a viable option for you. The two options that I'll talk about a little bit more at length are number one, the personal loan and then number two, the credit card balance transfer. So number one, a personal loan. This is something that you'll also get from a blank, but personal loans interest rates tend to be a lot lower than any credit card interest rate ever will be in life. And the better your credit score, the lower the interest rate it's going to be. So for example, I had a personal loan offer. The interest rate was around 7%. And I could take out like literally the full amount of my credit card debt. So that way I would pay off my credit card debt, stop the bleeding there. Now I would have a 7% interest rate on my loan that I would pay off and pay off the credit card debt that way. So that's a solid option. And one that you should really look into if you have like a good credit score. Even if you don't have a good credit score, you could still probably get a personal loan. Your interest rate would just vary. But the number one thing you should look for, you want to make sure your personal loan interest rate is significantly lower than your credit card debt interest rate. Another thing when it comes to personal loans, you will have like a fixed monthly payment.  Basically like every month is probably going to be the same amount. Like based on your term, right? So you might have a personal loan for six months, 12 months, 24 months, whatever you have. I would highly recommend getting something that's the longest amount possible. So if you're able to pay it off early, that's great. But recently, like if nothing else changes, you foresee it. You seriously like can see yourself paying it off and like that 24 month period. So the next option is my favorite option. Honestly, and that is a balanced transfer credit card. I like these options better because it's like a zero interest rate. Yes, you heard me. The interest rate is zero. And so that's like honestly my favorite way to go down. You do have like a 5% initiation fee. So my student loan debt was originally like 9,000 is the amount that I wanted to transfer, but I had that fee. So it brought the balance to $9,450. And so now I'm just paying that off that way. But what I really like about banal transfer cards is that one, they are really good for people who have good credit scores to you can like kind of shop around. So I saw some that were for 12 months, 16 months. And I chose the one with the longest runway, which was 21 months. And then I just kind of divided my debt over that 21 month period. And I saw that I would be making payments of like $450 a month in order to pay it off in 21 months. Ideally, I would like to pay it off sooner and there's no pill and tea for paying it off sooner. Sometimes with personal loans, there are penalties for paying it off sooner. So you want to like read the fine print there. But for credit card balance transfers, it's basically like the same thing with my balance transfer credit card. I do not use it. I don't use it. It literally sits in a drawer in my bed. I never touch it. Like I am truly using it as a vehicle just to pay off this debt. So yeah, don't if you feel like you're going to get another credit card and then you're going to you're going to transfer the balance and then that you're also going to max out that credit card. Don't know get a personal loan. It's not worth it if you don't think you have like the self control. So yeah, I mean, that's kind of it. Did I miss anything? Oh, of course. The number one thing to get out of credit card debt is you need to just make more money. That's the long of it. That's the short of it. You need to make more money. So when I am kind of in the midst of doing right now is interviewing for different jobs, trying to get a nine to five that pays me more. Another alternative is to side hustle. So I'm also a yoga instructor. And so I teach yoga on the weekends and sometimes on the weeknights as well. But that has really helped me kind of get out of debt. And that was something that I had to put an initial payment on. I want to say my yoga teacher training was like $2,800.  Pay off my debt because I can pick up extra shifts at studios and things like that. And it's really easy for me to make more money with yoga.  I now have like a second line of income that like if I needed to teach yoga full time, it wouldn't be an issue because I already have a relationship with a second employer. Looking at my notes here. Oh yeah. So that's about it. Like to get out of debt. One, you want to create a debt payoff plan either by doing a personal loan, a balance transfer transfer or if bankrupt sees your thing. If it's looking real bleak, like got to do what works best for you. Two, like I really think you just need to make more money. Whether that's getting a new nine to five job, a new full time job or like doing some side hustles like yoga in my case.  Yeah, I think that's it guys. Let me know in the comments if I missed anything or if you have any other questions. I'm more than happy to help. Remember to subscribe to my channel for more videos. And yeah, I will talk to you guys next time. Bye.


Hello friends, I am Saja Gupta. I welcome you on my channel. You can watch various programming related videos on my channel So you can search it. You can subscribe it for updates. You can watch more than 800 videos You can search those videos with the help of Tivo programming by Sanjay Gupta on YouTube. In this video I am going to demonstrate you Why main is static in Java? So you might have used main method in each code of Java and you have used static keyword with this main method And you might be thinking why we are using static every time with main method So I have implemented this test class. It is containing main method and this system.out.println So first execute this It is working properly without Providing or giving any error. Now I am removing static keyword You can see it is compiled successfully But at the time of execution it is providing an error that main method is not static in class test Please define the main method as public static void main. So This error you might have seen if you have removed static from main and this is because of this reason Main is called by JVM automatically So you can say if the program is containing one or more than one classes There should be a entry point. So main is the entry entry point Or you can say it is the beginning of execution So there must be a method which will begin the execution of the program So in case of Java it is main and if main is defined in a particular class Then you have to create object of that class Then you can call that particular method because if a method is defined in a particular class Then you can call that method With the help of that object But you cannot create object of this class because it is the entry point That's why there's a feature If you can't create object of a particular class you can make its method as static So that they can be called without creation of any object So like if I create one more class Test one And if I define any particular method here like this So if I want to call this some method so I can create object of test one like this And I can call some method like this. So test one object is created in test class And some method is called through this ob object in test class, but After test class I can't define another test class because test is containing main which is the beginning of execution so There is a problem that Willingly or unwillingly I can't create object of test class into another class because main is the beginning point So that's why there's a spatial feature which is known as static method And static keyword which is available with main so that it can call without creating any object in Java And it is called by jvm automatically. So if we having these two classes test one and test So first this main will be called automatically and then main will be calling some method using this object So there's a reason Why we are using static keyword always with main method So I hope you have understood now why we are using static keyword with main method every time in java I hope you have understood whatever I have demonstrated you in this video If you want to watch more programming related videos, you can search the keyword program by sanjay gotha on youtube Thank you for watching this video


Aloha. Welcome to Think Tech Hawaii's Movers, Shakers, and Reformers. This is the Biofuels series. Please join us each week throughout the rest of October as we explore the potential of biofuels in Hawaii as we discuss with the various stakeholders including our legislators, our landowners, and various developers as we can achieve goals that can help bring jobs that can help create more sustainability for our future, that can help reduce cost of living as well. So this is a very important topic and I appreciate that you join us. And let me welcome today our two guests. I'm very pleased, very excited to have our two guests today. We have Representative Mark Nakashima and Representative Chris Lee. Welcome to the show. Thank you very much. Thank you for having us. Excellent. So we're going to stop a little bit with some personal stuff, a little bit about you guys, about what you're up to and why you do what you do a little bit. So let's start off with, okay, how long have you been in office? I've been in office for eight years now. For eight years? Okay, so you're about to, so do you have an opponent currently? Yes, I do. So you have a race? Okay, well even more so thank you for being here. So I, because I know what that's like. So, okay, and Ripley, how about you? Eight years as well. Eight years as well? Okay. Eight years as well. Fortunately I don't have a race this year. So I've got a little bit of a pass. So I'll be out helping Mark, Captain Hane out in the second best district in the state. It's not mine, but no, they're equally good. They're equally good. Yes, as we were talking earlier before the show began, Nakashima is District One, which is Hilo, Hamakua area, and Ripley is District 51, which is Kailua, Kaneohe area. Kailua, Weminello. Kailua, Weminello. All the way out to Midway. All the way out to Midway. There you go. There you go. Okay. So again, no, I appreciate you being here. So okay, just real real quick as well, let's jump back into eight years, both of you. So bookends in more ways than one. What made you first run, Ripley? You know, the guy in my area retired, and it was the community that I grew up in, and I actually didn't want to run originally, but there were some folks who were talking about some crazy things at the time who were thinking about running.  And for me, it was something, it was a place I cared about. So I figured I'd put my name in and hopefully do some good stuff, and as fate would have it, ended up winning. And I think we've accomplished a few good things for our community since then. Yeah, I think so. I know that I have done what I can to support you in both your race that you've had, at least one campaign that you've had as well as some of your agenda as well. Much appreciated. No, I appreciate it as well, all of your work. And so same for you, Rip Nakashima. Well, you know, my situation was very much the same thing. The seat became available. The incumbent moved and ran for the Senate. And it was fortunate for me because prior to that, the Takamini dynasty held the seat for almost 50 years. On the Hamukawa Coast. And I had not initially thought about running for the seat. But again, I think, like, representably knew I was encouraged by friends to consider running for the seat that I did. And I guess it worked out because here I am eight years later. Eight years later. And but you do have a race this year. So someone has decided that they want to stand up. Well, I have always had a race every year that I've been elected. So I've been fortunate that the voters have seen fit to return me. Which says a lot. I think that says a lot. So congratulations to you for overcoming it every couple of years. Thank you. That's wonderful. I think it says a lot. It means you're really, I think, connecting as a community is what I think that means. So no, I appreciate that. So okay. I know you had a race two years ago. And because I know I helped with that. Yeah, it was a really hotly contested race. But I think it's fortunate to have a lot of good help and support in the community. And we're able to pull out a pretty big victory. And I think that hopefully reflects some of the work we've been doing. And and though at the same time, you can't take that kind of thing for granted. So we're going to keep working hard. That's right. Never take it for granted. That's right. Exactly. Excellent. Excellent. Positive. Good positive. I appreciate that. Okay. All right. So tell us, tell us, please. What are the legislative, I know that we have posted on our thirds here a little bit about you, but tell us about the committees that you're involved in and the roles that you may have within the House of Representatives. So currently, I chair the Committee on Labor and Public Employment. Okay. And I sit in the government bracket, also on transportation and public safety. And in the afternoons, I sit on judiciary and commerce consumer protection. Okay. Wow. So these are all significant. Yes. Good. Good. Good. Wow. Okay. And and Ripley, currently I chair the Energy and Environmental Protection Committee and sit on the Natural Resources Bracket. And in the afternoon, I'm on judiciary and consumer protection as well. Okay. Okay. So all very, wow. Okay. So good. This is why we have them here. They're really important people here today. So now I truly appreciate the time that you've taken to come talk with us a bit. So, okay. When you were first, I'll stick in this area that then we'll go into biofuels a bit more after this. But when you were first running, did you already have in mind what committees or what you might want to do? Or was that something that happened or developed after the fact? Did you have like specific agenda items? So we'll start with you. Um, I didn't have a specific agenda item, mostly because I didn't really know how things were going to be structured at the Capitol. And once I got there, they'll realize that, you know, definitely I think for our side of the island, which is for a while with the more rural side of the island, environment and natural resources are definitely a priority out there. So joined that particular bracket and got involved that way. That makes a lot of sense. So again, connecting to the community and making sure that you're reflective, right? Excellent. Okay. Uh, for myself, you know, I'm a teacher by training. I taught in the classroom and I did work for HSD for a bit. So education was a major priority for me. And so my first four years in the legislature, I was a vice chair of the higher ed committee and served in the education bracket and tried to do a lot of work there to try and perfect the public school system. That has its own challenges. Yes. We'll do a different show on that later. I've been doing shows on education. So actually, I wish I would have known that. I would have invited you to come sooner, certainly, but certainly you're both welcome whenever. Okay. Now let's shift back into the energy side a little bit, a little bit of transportation energy that we're really going to be talking about more than anything. But before we start with that, what, if any, roles did you both play in the Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative? Yeah, I think going back to, at least since we've been around since 2008, there definitely has been a momentum already that was, that was there trying to get Hawaii off of fossil fuels and build a new economy where you have new jobs in different, different energy areas. And I think for us or for me anyway, our chair at the time of the committee that, that I now chair, Meena Morita, had really been involved with creating the Clean Energy Initiative in her day and pushing that along. So for us, it was really like, I think the first couple of years, I say for us, for us on the committee at the time, it was, it was a learning process really figuring out who those players are and how they came together because that's, that, that understanding of those relationships is key to getting any of this stuff done and actually getting these things moving in practice. So it really was some onto the job training and getting to know the players more than anything. Yeah, being able to pull them together. Absolutely. The stakeholders who are there to see what the challenges are and how to bring us any idea of solutions together. Yeah. So you need to have their buy-in. Yeah. So was that a challenge or did everyone kind of agree? No, you know, I think this is the challenge, right? Because anytime you're talking about an industry that's undergoing massive change and energy more than any other right now is completely transforming itself, you're going to have, you know, quote unquote business winners and losers technologies that are just out of date are no longer financially viable. And at the same time opportunities for new startups and other folks to get involved. And so it's really creating that transition and trying to keep it smooth so that you have, for example, meter readers at the utility who are in some cases no longer going to have jobs or at least the same number of jobs and giving them opportunities for other employment and marking it into the labor side. There's definitely a lot of that. Absolutely. But there's definitely that, that tug on both sides of it that you try to navigate and try to make everybody sure. You try to have as much of a win for everyone as possible, but it just can't always be there certainly. But that's why it needs to be looked at not just in a one session, one moment it needs to be looked at over a progression of time, right? And if you recall, you know, when we were elected back in 2008, you know, the price of gasoline was rocketing upward toward $400. And at that time it really emphasized the importance of being more energy self-sufficient and getting away from the fossil fuels because, you know, our number one export in Hawaii is money. Because we import all our oil and we import everything and we export our money. And as long as that money is going out of our economy, you know, our economy is never going to get ahead. So, you know, the emphasis on renewable energy and fossil fuels and getting away from the fossil fuels I think was particularly important to me in that election. You know, the fact that it was hitting the pocketbook and that people could not plan ahead, that businesses were going under because their monthly bills are just skyrocketing. Absolutely. That's a vital piece to understand. I mean, you want to talk to connecting with your community. It is their monthly bills. It is their weekly gas bill. And one of the reasons we look at this is, yes, our electricity bills go up and down monthly, but then our fuel bills go up and down sometimes daily, right? So it's that those are called price shocks, right? When all of a sudden, hey, I've been paying that, oh, now I'm up here and oh, wow, I now have to readjust. I can't buy that extra loaf of bread anymore because I now have to pay more for gas. And that's a real impact. And that's kind of how we get into the transportation fuels, biofuels, alternative fuels conversation. Yes. Yeah. So let's jump in a little bit with the workforce, with the labor force idea and what have been some of the conversations and what are some of the, I guess, theories on how we can best address this transition of making sure we have jobs for people as we transition. So actually when I first became a labor chair, the Department of Labor had received a grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to explore green jobs in Hawaii and to look at the need for green jobs and to identify where training and workforce need to be developed in the way of green jobs. So in that way, the Department of Labor started to try and lay the foundation for the need for job training and preparing a new workforce for that sector of the economy. And I think that as we move forward, that continues to be some place where we continue to look at for expanding roles and I think that there's been some setback on the solar side with regard to jobs available. Significant setback there. But I think that where there are those gaps, there are additional opportunities. And so we are looking at how we continue to support the industries, getting yourself a fossil fuels and looking at ways to create a workforce that will help us move into this fossil free economy. Sure. Now it takes a lot of planning, a lot of forethought to really, because you don't want to upset the apple cart a little bit too much, right? You don't want to upset the economy. You don't want to break anything down too soon. So how do you address that? So we are already at our break. So that was a really quick first 14 minutes. So thank you all for joining us. This is Think Tech Hawaii's Movershakers and Reformers, our biofuels in Hawaii series. I want to thank once again my guests for today, Representative Chris Lee and Mark Nakashima. We'll see you in one minute. Thank you. Aloha. I'm Kirsten Baumgart, Turner, host of Sustainable Hawaii. Thanks for watching Think Tech this summer. We have a lot of terrific shows of great importance and I hope you'll watch my show too every Tuesday at noon as we address sustainability issues for Hawaii. They're really pertinent as the World Conservation Congress approaches in September and the World Youth Congress that's focusing on sustainability next year as well. Have a great summer and tune in at noon every Tuesday. Hey, you Stand the Energy Man here. I know you're bored this summer. You're just sitting at home, figuring out what to do, go to the beach, spend some time with Think Tech Hawaii, spend the time thinking about how you can contribute to Hawaii and making it a better place to live and start watching some of the programs on Think Tech, including Stand the Energy Man. Well, you'll learn all about everything energy, especially hydrogen and transportation. So we'll see you every Friday at 12 o'clock noon, Stand the Energy Man here on Think Tech Hawaii. Aloha. Welcome back to Think Tech Hawaii's Movers, Shakers and Reformers, our biofuels in Hawaii series. Once again, help me welcome our guest for today, Representative Mark Nakashima and Representative Chris Lee. Thanks again for joining us. So okay, we were just talking about the workforce side of that. And one of the issues that we've got is that transition. So we don't want to have and that transition exists in multiple areas. So we don't want to just like all at once eliminate all of the fossil fuels because how does that impact the economy in Hawaii? How does that impact the global economy if it's done in that regard? But we have to look at that same thing. And I'm asking this as a question. Do we look at that same thing from a jobs perspective so that we don't have too much of a lag that requires too much training to get people into a new area? Is that kind of what you struggle with a little bit? Or I don't know, do you have the thoughts on that? Well, I think more and more under the new federal workforce improvement and Opportunity Act, we are looking at working much closer with industry to identify where those jobs are and what the needs will be. You know, up until now a lot of workforce development was kind of more hit or miss and it was looking at really getting people on unemployment back into employment. So it's kind of real entry level type of things. And what we're looking at now is trying to create more partnerships with the industry so that the jobs that people are getting are what the industry needs and also provides an opportunity for advancement in those companies. So that's kind of key difference not only in how we train but also how we're measured for success in that training. Got it, got it. Okay, no, that makes sense. Okay, we're going to shift now back to its biofuels in Hawaii but we're going to, let me ask this because you both brought this up before the show. It's biofuels in Hawaii and there's a specific reason for that and there could be in their perhaps in some opinions should be more of a focus on producing more biofuel feedstock and creating that supply chain here so there's creating more jobs in all kinds of levels. But are you more comfortable calling it alternative fuels because there are other things that we would want to include as well? I think there are definitely, well one we should say, I don't think any of us have the answer for exactly what this place is going to look like and what's going to be viable in 10, 20 years but there are definitely a lot of promising options and biofuels is definitely an area where there is a lot of that particularly because we're never going to be able to in any time soon replace liquid fuels particularly in the transportation sector, jet fuel and things like that and this is the one area where you really have a lot of potential for that but there is other, there are other things for ground transportation here in the state and you've got certainly EVs are taking off but also hydrogen as a fuel source is something that I know Mark's been working a lot on over on his island looking at using hydrogen as a clean fuel source to power fleet vehicles and buses and all kinds of things like that so I think that's definitely part of the mix and we can't look at these things in isolation they're all pieces of the same larger puzzle. Yeah hopefully we're beyond the silos and we're definitely crossing over as much as possible so okay so electric vehicles for multiple reasons could be considered. I just read an article today that Germany is about to require that 100% of vehicles be electric vehicles or certainly be non fossil fuel. I posted up on Facebook how feasible is this presumably in Hawaii I don't know how feasible that would be or what sort of transition that would really require. Well I would say you know Germany is the country that really originated the internal combustion engine so if they can do that then maybe they can make this next step work too. I hope and you know what I look forward to seeing how they do that and maybe we can see about you know sharing some of that so wow that's so yeah so electric vehicles are very important because it's taking us off of the fossil fuel transportation fuels of course we are still dealing with generating what electricity through fossil fuels so therefore there's there's there's still an impact there right. Interestingly Jeju Island in Korea which is our one of our sister states is moving to a totally fossil free energy grid mostly wind and solar and they are also requiring I think in 20 years that everybody have an electric car and the federal government in Korea is actually subsidizing that test so you know where there's a will there's a way and so they can do that. I'm not sure that that that single alternative is the best but you know it shows a initiative to move in that direction. More globally we're talking Germany and Korea and here in Hawaii we've been talking about it for a while right. I think in here here in Hawaii you know I think you know each of these vehicles have their their niches so to speak where where they work much better than others right for my instance the reason I look at hydrogen fuel cells technologies because you know my island if I get in the car I'm driving 100 miles one way and you know the current range on the plug-ins won't let me do that on one charge so that's why your hydrogen kind of lends itself nicely to that of course we're still a ways away from being there. I've heard that next year there's going to be some stuff coming so I'm looking forward to hearing that so yeah we're working with Hcat with some of that right. Stan Osserman yeah he's a he's a good guy I've had some good conversations with him. Yeah good good good excellent excellent so all right you mentioned will there's a way but with that comes the question of political will and that political will is based on what the communities are really willing to agree with and go along with so with regards to alternative fuels whether it be or alternative transportation different modalities whether it's the obviously the train is a big deal I'm not going to ask about that right now but the train is a big deal the having a marine transportation transition would be interesting as well but that also includes okay well inter-island stuff well okay I'm not going to go into that now either but then you get into biofuel side of it you get into the electric vehicles and having that mandated in different ways and then you get into the hydrogen aspect so all of those pieces necessary to achieve that but it requires some will because it requires some investment so from that perspective what would you say the political will is as far as Hawaii is concerned maybe your districts in particular as far as alternative or biofuels potential generation or potential industry development I'll jump in I think I think in the broad context you know we are one of the few states in the country for which I think moving toward renewable energy and alternative forms of transportation is sort of a foregone conclusion you know we've adopted this as a paradigm here in the state we want to get there it's just a question of now how and how fast we can do it so I think the public gets it because you know we in Hawaii you can you can talk all you want till the cows come home about climate change and all other stuff on the mainland here it's you know we feel these effects right we've had multiple hurricanes more than usual in any given month over the last couple of years we've we've lost 17 miles of beaches around the state in the last couple of decades and we're at a point where even the hotels in Waikiki have stepped forward saying you know what tax us more so we can pay to to fix the erosion on our beach so that we can keep keep advertising ourselves as a tourist destination and and so for us that part of it I think is is not a big deal it's really how we get the political will to figure which specific pieces of that policy puzzle we move forward with you know is it going to be additional subsidies for biofuels or for EVs or what have you and you have different elements of the industry kind of competing and positioning to try and make themselves viable so that they can they can work with government and work with each other to fill that role so it's a question of what to invest in which technology which direction to invest in you kind of hold back a little bit wanting it to happen and hoping that something shows up and says hi we can do this for you right but you don't know that so okay so that's that's a challenge that's one of the challenges that we have is sure I think there's you know two different things we're talking about the state very much has been involved in R&D and and you know new innovative experimental stuff from time to time because only government sometimes can do that a good example is our OTEC plant over on the big island which has been over the years and you've this is all your stuff actually you talking about but anyway I mean the state's been involved in partnership with some private companies and public private partnerships over the years trying to get these new technologies working and we finally just hooked one up to the grid over there for the first time anywhere in the country but the next one may be a private endeavor because we we know that to a certain scale this works and so it's helping facilitate that but then there's the bigger question of policy you know do we for example provide tax credits for PV for everyone's roof which we've been doing for quite some time and to what level and how long more do we keep doing that or do we put that money elsewhere sure no absolutely absolutely I uh so going along the lines of the Hawaii Clean Energy initiative I like the idea of a Hawaii green fuels initiative that would be similar suite of supportive bills that can bring some revenues to the table in area in targeted areas to help advance the supply chain here in general how how do you see that at the moment as far as a political will perspective trying to take something like that on in a reality versus a theory you know I think that you know in in all cases it comes down to the cost and what it's going to cost the consumer because if it's going to be a much higher cost to the consumer then the willingness to adopt is not going to be there so you know I think when we look at these authority fuel cells you know the fuel cell car is a very expensive proposition however if we were to do public transportation like fuel cell buses the cost on the the cost the investment there is much lower across the board across the board and so economy of scale it's the economy of scale and also the technology lends itself more to the buses than it does to the hydrogen fuel cell car right the moment so because of that you know if we start looking at transitioning in that way then I think you start getting more adoption and familiarity in the public with the technology and then you can move forward there you know I think you know over and over I keep hearing that using the fuel cell on a larger platform like bucket trucks will pencil out much faster than it would on something like Sudan got it so okay so cost is one of the barriers that we have to to address that so I do have to apologize we are at the end of our show and I've got about five more questions left but I won't get there but thank you again for joining us I truly appreciate it I hope to have you back and talk more about really this and other things but I really appreciate your insight and and your help in trying to help really all of us understand what we can do with some of the barriers that we have so again thank you I appreciate it thank you to the Think Tech crew and the staff and everyone involved we look forward to seeing you next week when we have Miss Cecily Barnes from HECO who will be joining us thank you see you next week take care


Good evening, everyone, welcome back to theCUBE, the leader in live tech coverage. We have spent the last two days, Lisa Martin, Dave Vellante, covering CrowdStrike Falcon 23. We've had an amazing two days, Dave. Full of- It's a good show, right? Amazing show. It was- Your first time. My first time at Falcon. Their seventh, our second as theCUBE. But my first time, over 4,000 customers and partners here. It looks like, based on your observations from last year, the ecosystem here exhibiting has more than doubled. What are your takeaways from Falcon 23? Is there so much- You know, that was, Lisa, my big- I mean, I was very impressed last year. It was a great show. I learned a lot about CrowdStrike, especially the products. I mean, it was really, really impressed. But the one sort of area that was kind of disappointed and left me flat was the ecosystem last year. It was small. And it's, by the way, it's still small. It's not huge, but it's double. So, you know, a $3 billion company with a $40 billion market cap that's doubling the size of its ecosystem, at least from the standpoint of the exhibitors here. This is going to explode. Mark my words. It was interesting to hear from Daniel Bernard just now. He was saying, TCS, HCL, Infosys. He didn't mention PwC, but I got to believe, you know, they're going to hop on the bandwagon. Obviously, Deloitte is here.  And then, you know, add in the accentures of the world, cognizance, EY, and they're all using CrowdStrike, but they're not here. And so they are going to take over this show, I predict. The other big thing to me was the pricing from the financial analyst meeting. The NASDAQ was way off today. And- Did that surprise you? You know, who knows? They can't predict what the stock market's going to do, but it was off. I think there's concerns about, you know, soft landing and inflation and recession and blah, blah, blah. But CrowdStrike was basically unchanged, which says to me that the, whatever they told the analyst, you know, it was down almost a percent, but in a market that was down one and a half percent. So it says to me that the message to the analyst was well received. We'll start seeing reports come out. I can't believe it wouldn't be well received. The company's got so much momentum. But I wonder if they didn't give the kind of guidance that the analyst wanted to hear. So the pricing on Charlotte AI was the big, we're waiting for this event. And we talked last night that we thought it was going to be a low cost per endpoint and then some kind of query bundle on top of that. That's exactly what they did. It's $20 a year per endpoint, $20 a year. Now we said last night that the entry level cost for CrowdStrike per endpoint is around, I want to say $110, $120 a year, somewhere in there. It's a little over $100 a year. So for another $20 a year, you can get Charlotte. That's per endpoint, Charlotte AI. So that's dirt cheap. When you compare that to the average, let's say the FTE of a security analyst is 175 grand a year, 150, $175,000 a year, fully loaded. And you're going to now, they make that person more productive. I mean, let's say you have 10 of those, couple million dollars in FTE costs. If you can make them 5% more productive, that's 100 grand that drops right to your bottom line. And I think Charlotte AI has the potential to do a lot more than make you 5% more productive. I don't know, how much more productive does chat GPT make us? Maybe it's 10% overall in a day. You use it, I use it a lot. I do, absolutely. I'd say it adds 10%, gives freeze up 10%. I don't know, it makes me better. Gives me new ideas, things like that. I think so too. It makes me think of ways to interact and engage and ask questions a little bit differently. But to your point, it's generative, so it's changing. So it positions itself as accurate, but we have to kind of go in there with our own human minds and kind of adjust and tweak, especially to kind of fit your own voice. And there's a quality aspect. So that's kind of a fuzzy measure. But in security, you know, they're going to know fast. So basically $20 a year per endpoint, and then plus a per query or a bundled cost that way you can chew up your queries. And it was interesting. I mean, it's either going to be, got to be a subscription. So it'll be a one year or a three year. Our information suggests from talking to folks that most people do a three year, because a better deal. You look at the ETR data. CrowdStrike churn is like non-existent. I don't think I went into that in my last, oh yeah, I did. I did in my last breaking analysis. You can see on the CrowdStrike post, I'll just pull it up now, but the churn is, there's no churn.   I'm looking at it now. I mean, it doesn't even show up in the numbers. It's like less than 3% churn. Wow. And the other thing is that it's even smaller that the percent of customers are spending less, right? So they got a really good net score and a off the charts net score, which is a measure of the net percentage of customers that are spending more off the charts in the global 2000. Yes. So I guess the point is most people, where was I going with this? The point I was making was that you're not going to churn, you know you're going to do that.  So why not lock in for a three year term? And get a better deal. You know, think about it. When real estate, commercial real estate is down and you get an opportunity to land a lease to go one year, three year, five year, maybe even longer, if you think you're going to be there, you might as well take the good rate. And so that's what I think many customers are going to do. And I guess the other big takeaway was, you know, products. I mean the products here are rocking. You know, they got, we're up to, Daniel Bernard said, up to 27 modules now, up from 23. Right. So they keep, and it's still single agent, single ingest, or ingest once, use many times. So that's, I think a big deal. And then the other thing I said last night, which I thought I missed in my breaking analysis, which some LinkedIn commenter shared with me is, what about the go to market? That's another piece of the secret weapon. And I thought Daniel Bernard did a really good job of explaining the investment that CrowdStrike is making in the ecosystem and partners, because we've seen it so many times, having that indirect channel through partners, game changer, drive sales productivity through the roof, drives margins, keeps your cost of sales down and enable scale. Well, an Accelerate program is only getting off the ground and it sounds like they've already done a tremendous amount of work with the ecosystem, just really synergistically to define the right incentives to drive what they're doing with AWS, what they're doing with the Deloitte's of the world. And some of the other partners that we talked to today, we had a good community of ecosystem partners involved. But what Daniel was describing as that Accelerate program, I love the name Accelerate. It's perfect for them. Everything here is about speed of innovation. F1 was brought up a lot as a really great metaphor. They had some good metaphors. One of the things too, the chain smokers are tonight. That's the entertainment. And I didn't realize that they actually have a venture firm. They're investors. And cyber, they are. So just from a thematic perspective, everything I thought at this event was very well woven together into a really cohesive story. And so I think to your point, the momentum that they have is, it's impressive. You know, it's funny. I mean, it's a company that, it's not a hype machine, but it does really good marketing. And it weaves in like little deep positions. Like you were describing earlier this morning, I'll kick off what happened with the Microsoft, you know, bleed in where they were talking about all these security problems. And then all of a sudden Microsoft comes in, little subliminal message. Daniel was talking about certain companies going potentially going private. He's talking about Sentinel-1. He didn't mention them by name, but that's the fud that they're throwing into the market.  I think Microsoft is interesting. Ali Mellon, I think, nailed it. They are going to be there. Microsoft is always going to be there. They're ubiquitous. They're, they'll continue to be a pain in, in, you know, as a competitor, but that's fine. CrowdStrike knows how to deal with the Microsofts of the world, right? I mean, Microsoft's great in Microsoft environments, but take them out of their home court, and it's just not as interesting. And as well, CrowdStrike's capabilities have, you know, so much more depth and, and breadth. And I think innovation relative to what you see from some of the big cloud providers. Not that the cloud providers do great job with security. I don't know, Microsoft maybe gets some issues. But still, I think Azure is a secure platform, as is AWS, as is Google. Particularly Google is really top-notch security. But when it comes to supporting the SecOps team and tools for the security team beyond that shared responsibility model, companies like CrowdStrike can really thrive. And as we pointed out many, many times on this show, security, no one, no vendor has like a large market share. You know, maybe Microsoft, because they knows what's in their security business. They're so big. But as far as the independent security companies, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto, Octa, Zscaler, CyberArch, you know, on and on and on and on, the thousands of companies, I think nobody has 10% share. I mean, maybe 10%, maybe Palo's got 10%.  You know, so Palo Alto doesn't even have 8%. It's a 10%. Less than that. So tons of opportunity here for everybody, but for CrowdStrike in particular. I think so. I think that was a theme that we heard. Well, I had a great time covering the event, Dave, with you the last two days. We have a lot of great content coming up on theCUBE this fall. You want to check out theCUBE.net, which might be where you are now. Look at what the upcoming events are. Lots of great content coming your way. You can find all of our on-demand content from CrowdStrike and from all other events on theCUBE.net. All of our editorials on siliconangle.com. Dave, always a pleasure co-hosting with you. Thanks Lisa. Thanks for coming to our next event, you too. Yeah, we'll be out here in a couple of weeks, right? We got UiPaths. I think we are back out here. Coming up, forward six, I think. That's right. Six, yep. UiPath forward six. They're back. UiPath is back on track. That's right. And we hope to see you there. Check out again this schedule. We'll see you soon.