yeah you have to post like okay all right so are we live so the real
question we should be asking ourselves right now um aside from why is line is
streaming from the nerd Fusion Studio here in Seattle is why is it that with a
supposed professional streamer in a supposed professional streaming Studio I
still can't start the show on time well we were filming you want me to
answer that go ahead man hit me with I can take
the blink Hit Me With Your Best Shot Hit Me With Your Best Shot I mean it could
be because we were filming until 10 minutes after we were supposed to be live okay a non live yes that that could
have had something to do with it so yeah actually I I guess I'll I'll answer the
other the other burning question on everyone's Minds why the hell am I here
and the answer is we are down here filming a collab with Matt seus from
nerd Fusion we are actually installing that server that we live streamed the
build of like a month ago about a month ago yeah was about a
month ago so we were going to ship it down here but it kept I kept not getting
around to fixing the problems that he caused when he installed an extra
motherboard standoff which I'm pretty sure I didn't do
that what I think it was already in there I just sort of okay so for those
of you who watched the live stream you probably saw me ask not one not two but
at least three times are you sure are
you sure you don't have an extra motherboard standoff and the thing
wouldn't post when he left the office so I was stuck diagnosing it by myself
after hours at my office after hours at
my office I was diagnosing it by myself it added drama it added no drama we
weren't filming no one got to experience there's
drama right now no one got to experience the drama in real time and isn't that
everything I want this to be the the the
linest troll now where everybody who visits your studio just installs an
extra standoff so anyway we were lucky okay so
some of the uh some of the solder points at the back of one of the RAM slots are
actually like bent over from the motherboard being did I send you the
picture you did and it's fine you did it's fine it works so it's fine okay so
it works now so we're down here we installed it we're going to have a video
coming very soon where we tell you guys exactly what the crap a bunch of twitch
streamers need a like $155,000 server in
their closet for that's about what that thing cost you know I mean those CPUs
alone are like four four grand Plus or something like that yeah so uh okay so
we're we're going to get that going we've also got a bunch of great topics for you guys today including but not
limited to uh the Galaxy Note 7 which I
posted a a very glowing review of I
still use it last night well yours didn't explode how great would it be if
it happened on camera though well using it's okay just don't try to charge it oh
that's what it is right right okay no problem so we'll talk a little bit about
why the shipments have been suspended and a recall notice has been issued for
the Note 7 uh we are also going to have probably I imagine this will be one of
our longer discussions a chat about YouTube being accused of censoring
vloggers the EU has demanded that Apple pay 13 billion plus interest in taxes
owed to Ireland and and a lot of you
have been asking me for this up until now I have maintained my silence we will
be talking about the tech Syndicate
controversy um something that has been very much a developing story that I
haven't looked at today so my information may actually be out of date but hey let's face it you don't watch
The W show for the absolute latest in news because a lot of it is from like
the previous Saturday let's roll the intro that's a shining endorsement I
don't even know why anyone watches this show could be watching literally
anything else right now but you tuned in
you tuned in here and we appreciate that we
do yeah what you show you show the time
in the intro why would why would a motherboard standof kill a motherboard
just cuz it was ball bent because it was in the wrong spot what what cuz there
was no hole there there was no hole there and oh oh wow well that's a
mistake I mean it wasn't that big of a deal well well it didn't end up being
that big of a deal as someone who speaks from experience okay I'm not going to
claim I've never done it you can kill motherboards that way have you done this
we were lucky we could have also killed a dim because that standoff would have
been shorting out those solder points under the memory slot and we had that
dim installed so luckily that dim works the server works but um well there you
go all right so I've got pretty much everyone in the twitch chat um accusing
us of this being an archived stream it is in fact an archive stream so you guys
you guys are honest I mean it's not even like me addressing the people saying the
stream is archived is proof of any sort that this is not an archive stream
because that happens all the time yeah you're just really smart I could totally
fake that at any given moment and there would be a message in twitch chat saying
that it's archive so well you guys are on to us I think this is the first thing
that's actually been pre-recorded in this room ever yep so we're setting all
kinds of twitch terms of service viol today maybe we should start whipping out
the so if you whip out a nipple on mytch
channel who's in trouble you are I am so
I'm responsible for your actions unate completely it's very unfortunate for you
uh the other big thing people are demanding to know is where the crap is Luke he's actually on the pack show
Floor Covering all kinds of cool stuff including but not limited to I heard a
rumor that somewhere on the show floor there is a working C Lake sample so uh
for those of you who don't know which is probably just you actually sorry Taran
so for those of you who don't know that is Intel's upcoming CPU architecture the
successor to Sky is only a it like behind the scenes people can see it or
like well it depends how obnoxious you are when you walk into the
booth so if you're the kind of person who takes a Behind Closed Do's demo
kicks the door down grabs the product and points a camera at it then you might
have footage of it before anyone else does is that what you did that is the
kind of publication we are yes my friend so uh consider it not a rumor um there
will be there will be a video so KB KB lake is coming um so so
anyway Luke's on the floor there all kinds of great stuff Logitech has their new
$69 across the board set of gaming peripherals that they're showing off um
I think we should do a $69 PC build
they're really doing 69 yeah the mouse is 6
ke9 yeah you can spill they spilled a whole they spilled a whole beer on it
during the party really yeah oh I wasn't there yeah it's like it's like a beer
prooof keyboard for $69 really yeah
that's very cool you know what's really funny is the only time I've ever really
seen that in the past is on Lenovo
thinkpads IBM used to have uh used to have spillproof keyboards they actually
had drainage built into the keyboard so that if you spilled an entire like cup
of coffee on it it would actually drain out the bottom of the laptop and bypass
all these sensitive internals oh wow probably still sticky though very yeah
yeah probably still sticky I mean coffee is not ideal but especially if it was
water you'd be okay but I mean by S sort of my Logic for something like that is
that well hey if you can spill coffee down it you can probably spill isopr
down it and then you can relieve the stickiness that way right you know now
you're thinking with portals a Kleenex wait sorry what are we talking about
what um okay so why don't we jump into our first topic here I with her
yesterday this this one is going to be this one is going to be a lius and Matt
top Matt or seus do you care more people
call me Matt nowadays actually than seus which is surprising you know what's
funny is we used to do something similar at LMG so I've always gone by yeah I've
always gone by lonus because um not because I thought it was a good idea but
because I didn't have the foresight to use a fake name I actually have a lot of
people accuse me of lus being a fake name and I kind of go that would have
been smart it's a really good fake name
it is maybe it really is fake I've seen I've seen the ultimate troll yeah right
here I've seen really angry posts under our videos about how I'm trading on the
fame of of Linus tals by who is that
really really linis well he's Swedish so
that's how they pronounce it all right listen I only know
Americans if a if it ain't from America
then it can just get out get out of here well that would be both of us yeah uh so
all right peace bye I can do this you're
from America so yeah that's true I'm actually American yeah um so so yeah
I've had people angrily say I'm just like trading on the fame of Linus tals
in order to get my name out there more I'm like no no actually I wasn't smart enough to do anything like that um but
when we added people so my original camera guy at NCIX who also did all the
editing uh who still works there and whose name is still a secret he is just
the cameraman the Mac guy to my pcness TR me from behind the camera um
he just didn't want his name or his personality out there so we called him
the cameraman and we had all this great banter between me and the cameraman who
was like like this like Stig you know like no one knew who he was uh every
once in a while you might see kind of like a reflection in a camera so so we
had like a whole Wilson thing going on and that was where
the nickname thing came from does nobody know who it is really no one knows who
it is I mean I do no this the challenge I don't know you will have no way of
guessing you would have no way it's not someone who currently works for you no
no they still work at NC okay yeah and they're behind the scenes you would have
no way of knowing so anyway when Luke joined I kind of went okay well I want
to keep up this like the off camera people have these nicknames in personas
thing because it had worked really well like the banter was great um so we were
like okay your nickname is slick because
your PC is oil cooled you're like oil PC
wasn't it that's right um and then Ed
was diesel because I could never remember his name at the
beginning and like and he looks nothing like Vin Diesel and he looks nothing
like Vin Diesel um and then Brandon was b-roll for Fairly obvious reasons that's
a good one and so we had all of and then I never got one and you never got one
because it was around that time I think that those guys were just like this is
stupid we should just use our real names and I think the audience likes it better
too so we just we just got away from it and now everyone just uses their real
names so that was I don't remember where I was going with this story right so
you're more Matt now so maybe that's the new thing maybe people don't like
nicknames anymore I don't know if that's true I think it's because I do more
businessyoutube
question there we go you can ask me a question W people like fight like to try
to be first to you always say like somebody oh this person posted first on
the Forum right is there like right when news like this hits like 10 articles
that they're praying that you're going to shout them out on the W show I don't
think it's that intense I think that I think it's I think it's six And1 half it
doesn't any the other so I think some people do like the opportunity to have
the shout out on the W show but we're not consistent enough about remembering
to call it out for for I think people to
be really that that into that but people
do like especially the major contributors within the tech news and
reviews from around the web for for Section I think people do like to be
like a major contributor and they do like people commenting on their posts
and and that discussion happening so yeah when something major breaks I get
like 95% of my tech news from my own
Forum all I have to do is go online as Tech forum and if people are talking
about it it's important and if it's not on there it's probably not important
that's that's actually been my rule of the thumb for like the last 2 years I
like it yeah it's great Outsource it to the audience so there you have it Galaxy
Note 7 shipments suspended over reports
of exploding units now I'm glad I didn't bring mine I actually um I okay so this
is this is funny now normally when I do a review if I have a review unit die I
actually don't bring it up I will let it slide once especially if the review unit
dies in a way that is different from you
sort of any other reports that I'm seeing um or if it if or if it's
something that really looks like a fluke so mine died but it didn't explode if it
the battery had exploded your I died my
first Note 7 died wow so what what happened was my nan flash went um and
like I I and so I normally like I my general policy is I don't mention a
failure unless it's a failure that I can that I can identif ify as something that
should have been preventable um with better design and something like Nan
flash Nan flash can die that can happen
that's not a knock against an Intel SSD anymore than it is a knock against a
Samsung phone stuff can happen even if your RMA rate is
0.1% that still means that one out of every thousand units
dies and and and to be to like to be
completely transparent with you guys like from being on the other side of the
IT industry the sales side of it RMA rates from the you know 1 to 3% range
are considered very good um with
anything above 5% considered to be getting pretty bad so that should give
you some idea of what your odds are I mean that's one of the reasons that companies charge to put together a
computer for you because by the time you put eight components into a system if
you've got about a 3 to 5% failure rate on any given one of them the odds of
having a 101 is actually not that bad just something to something to
consider that's a reason that a lot of people I know who know how to build a computer actually do pay for someone
else to assemble it for them um where there's a warehouse of replacement parts
in the back if something does go wrong interesting so anyway so mine actually
did die um which I don't remember what the point of me bringing up was I've
showered with mine but and there's been no problems you you okay right so that's
the reason I don't have mine with me so I'm actually cuz I'm planning to use it
as a daily driver so I'm rocking the regular S7 and then that's got my
Canadian Sim and I've got my us Sim and my iPhone 6s yeah I I didn't know who
was calling me earlier I was like do I answer this yeah sorry about that yes
yes that was me it was not a phone number leak um you know not that I speak
from experience about that I actually have a new phone number now that is not
anywhere so go lus all right um so so
anyway yeah so it would be great if this thing it can't you said it has to be
charging for it to and by the way this word explode have you seen the pictures
of it like when I think of the word explode I think of let's go yeah yeah
it's more like expanded and like smoke coming out not
in the picture I saw it was just like fatter it was like a little bit of lava
leaked out yeah like that's a battery thing right yeah like lithium batteries
will will will do they'll do that let me see I guess it's an explosion it's not
like a boom I want to see if I can find a picture so we can show you guys uh so
you can we can show you guys here blah blah blah blah blah blah yeah can't
find it right now yeah anyway so not really the point but they have suspended
shipments of the phone to various South Korean telecoms uh due to reports of
exploding Galaxy Note 7s which is a real
shame because I think it puts customers who are very happy with their purchase
of the phone like I'm incredibly happy um in a pretty awkward position cuz what
are like what can you do as aall now so what I'm doing is is I think in most of
the American carriers you have until the end of the month to go give it to them
in which they will swap it out for something of similar quality right
there's a way that they put it and then whenever they get shipments back in
whenever Samsung actually start sending
things then I'll be able to go pick up
you know pick it up again when I don't know if I'm going to
do it but I mean what my goal is to wait it out and hope that within the next 30
days shipments come in so I can just go and swap rather than having to go to
some lesser peon of a phone this is such
a crappy position for Samsung to be in right now because there's a couple
things that were really going great for them on the Note 7 apparently the blue
color which is actually what you ended up with the blue color has just been
phenomenally popular um so Samsung Canada was saying that by far it was the
most pre-ordered color um even though sex even though this is the first time
they've done a pure black phone in quite some time and I think they were
expecting that to be a pretty big draw no no that like that like metallic baby
blue has just been super hot for them um the Note 7 is a great phone and they're
absolutely killing the momentum on it and number three is Apple is waiting on
the doorstep with the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 plus yeah it's coming in like a
couple weeks while Samsung is going to be out fires
literally processing oh my god do you think so so
what it is is it's it's not Samsung's fault right so what there're well what I
read at least is that it's the not the battery cell manufacturer which is a
subsidiary of Samsung yeah but it is the
people that take those cells and then turn it into the packs which is a third
party that's who who messed up it's a
third party H so could there be so here's here's the
thing oh come onle pan them off to cause
issues do you guys have a Tim coil hat problem we actually do but I don't know
where it is can we get some Tim that's very timil but you never know you never
know I okay I doubt it okay so so then here's the question for you then as an
owner knowing that because it it doesn't
even look like all of the all of the
batteries were manufactured by the particular Factory that they're claiming
that's true so Samsung is estimating
that 24 units on a scale of 1 million
were affected by the battery problems are you going to chance it are
you just going to keep it I will keep it I will absolutely keep it if I can't
just swap out if it if there becomes a time this month where I can swap out
yeah I'll do that but if there's nothing in stock where I can't swap out I'm
keeping it screw it all right right so I mean one thing okay I don't fast charge
often I occasionally do like when I'm at a con or something I need just let's go
yeah okay but normally I'm just dribbling it up okay so that actually
ties in pretty well so a lot of people basically half the comments on my Note 7
review that went up last night are um yo
L is great timing for this review endorsing this phone because yo the
batteries are all exploding H way to go that was really funny you got to admit
that was hilarious well I appreciate a good
ironic twist as much as anyone else and it was definitely it was there was
definitely some irony there but to be clear my video was actually uploaded to
vessel a week prior so I I had no way of knowing about this and number two I do
still think it's a very solid phone when you can get one that is not affected by
the recall and number three in my video
though unrelated to this particular phone and its battery issues I do say I
don't recommend fast charging I don't recommend it it's a bad idea and
there's a couple of very basic reasons for that that apply to all phones it's
great in a pinch if you're at a con and
you have 15 minutes to get like 30%
battery that is a very cool piece of technology but charging your battery at
these higher voltages does cause it to heat up more heat is bad for AE device
but to a much greater extent your battery and so if there is any way way
that you can avoid fast charging on your phone even trickle charging it at 500
milliamps overnight is better because it
causes it to not run as hot and it is better for the cells so for me
personally I have never fast charged my Note 7 either of them actually and it's
something that I wouldn't really plan to do I mean I don't have trouble going through a whole day with this phone yeah
I don't either so if you charge it at night and you aren't doing anything
crazy like playing Pokémon go for six hours at a time I I don't really see it
as an issue um with that said I'm not you're not going to hear like an
official Linus Media Group recommendation that you not recall your
phone and then go and blame me when it lights on fire in your pocket I don't
want to open up that kind of worms recall your phone recall your phone you
heard it here first well no you didn't later after the fact we keep it away
from flammable surfaces like you should do that anyway right oh keep it away
from flam oh I got I got keep it away
from open Flames that's how I read that yes keep it off the surface of the
yeah it's got It's actually very hard to
put something on the Sun but yeah no I
I've have had every note that has ever existed and really yeah all the whole
line and um this is by far the best
definitely like Bar N it also feels the best it's I like the curves there's just
so much good about it that it's definitely this is my example of how you
don't always have to continuously do massive leaps forward right it's refined
that's what this is you're taking a product and just constantly refining it
to the point of almost Perfection duct tape except that it lights on fire
except the fact that it might catch on fire yes I mean as long as you don't
charge it ever then you'll be fine yeah I think that's that's the key okay so as
long as so how single use only how would
you even do that I also wirelessly charge everything
so is this so is this only through the port do you know um so I avoid wireless
charging for the same reason more heat yeah uh wor for the battery and and
that's another to consider if your battery is on the edge more heat could
push it over the edge in a way that not more heat could not yeah yeah Brandon
would always wirelessly charge his phone and uh his battery was just complete
crap by the that was on his Nexus 5 right yeah I think so he he basically
had it like sitting on a wireless charger all the time oh top yeah you you
you should probably just plug that thing in to charge it I mean have to buy USB-C
cable I know I know come on oh my phone
might explode PO with his big nerd
Fusion Studio can't afford a cable he has all these wonderful Lego dump trucks
that thing is cool thank you
Terry that's the first thing he saw when you came in this room oh I know it was
we have to keep we have to like keep him physically away from the Lego at work if
we want him to stay F I have a whole box of Legos focused on his editing I do
it's fine I'm waiting for him to correct you I know it's the trigger moment I
think I said it so fast really yeah yeah okay it's you're not
supposed to pluralize it you're right well there's another one where people
say Lego as in the company but it's actually the LEGO Group so there's two
gotas yeah Lego is not the company the most boring fact we ever have on the way
show Beyond hope we didn't need that the
most boring fact I'm just trying to think of things that we've discussed like I we've discussed like arguments
I've had with my wife on the W show and you more interesting you took the boring
cake right there well you got you know I got to top something over here I got to
you know all right so next article this was originally posted on the Forum by
card card with an E pretentious card and
this is a European commission ego in card card at the end okay I couldn't fig
sorry go ahead uh European commission press release uh database site here we
go Ireland gave illegal tax benefits to
Apple worth up to 13 billion euros and
the European commission has concluded that because Ireland granted
these undue tax benefits to Apple which
is illegal under EU state aid rules because it allowed Apple to pay
substantially less tax and other businesses Ireland Ireland must now
recover that illegal Aid and there's there are a of different Ang
that you can go at this from Ian we've got we've got sort of we've got the US
jumping in and saying yo you know Apple's an American corporation uh why
why why is Ireland all of a sudden going to be taking this 13 billion euros you
know you guys you guys can't be getting involved in you guys can't get be
getting involved in this and if you're getting involved why aren't we getting
involved like I mean whenever 13 billion EUR is changing hands you know someone's
going to be upset about who's paying it and someone's going to be upset about who's getting it um so there's there's a
lot of debate there but you know what so hold on let me just see if there's
anything else sort of fact wise and then I'll launch into sort of what I think of this so uh blah blah blah illegal state
aid there's been a suggestion that the bill could be as much as 19 billion
after interest is added which is pretty pretty fun by the way I mean honestly I
think it's I think it's [ __ ] to be charging Apple interest on something
that you told them they didn't have to pay yeah um not not that I'm saying that
I think you know U state sponsored tax evasion is necessarily a good thing I'm
just saying like is that a lot of money 19 billion EUR like you must you are so
American dude no my question is like says the man can't they made they
clearly had to have made Leaps and Bounds above that because they that's
just the tax because Ireland's corporate tax rate is already only 12 a half% okay
so yeah they made way more yes now now hang on on how why did why were they
given these tax breaks in the first place okay so that's a whole other discussion we'll get to that after um so
Michael Nunan the Irish Finance Minister favors an immediate appeal over the tax
bill insisted that Ireland had to preserve its status as a low tax base
for overseas companies um so we'll sort
of get into that as well and that the country so the country made deals with
apple allowing them to pay tax on profits at a maximum of
1% oh so even compared to their 12 and a
half% now to put this in the appropriate context okay oh I thought this was like
a different kind of text in British Columbia Canada uh list Media Group pays
about 25% corporate tax on its profits just to
give you guys some idea is that federal or is that that's all together actually
you know what I I'm going to go to a lifeline on this one because I don't want to give you guys the wrong facts it
may actually be more Federal
tax we live in a state where nerd Fusion does not pay any state income tax cuz we
don't have it really yeah oh that's right I knew that that's the whole
reason that Vancouver Washington exists right so you can shop in Oregon with no
sales tax and live in wash with no
income tax you just don't pay tax down there wow that's great where do you guys
even get roads from because we charge for the
roads the road I'm driving around the roads our roads have like some lanes
that are toll Lanes if you want to you can pay extra money to go faster
basically there's there's uh net neutrality does not exist on our roads
basically so okay we've got a couple pay
to win pay to win we've got a couple more statements so the credit ratings agency standard and pores pointed out
that an injection of 13 billion euros would reduce Ireland's national debt
significantly I mean there okay there is it a lot of money yes um is a lot of
money to Apple that would be more than five % of Ireland's gross dtic domestic
product 5% of Ireland's GDP um and
warned that it could undermine the government at the same time now Apple
CEO Tim Cook has just graciously
accepted the ruling has pulled out the che just kidding
um you fooled me launched had claimed so
this is a quote the European commission has launched an effort to rewrite
Apple's history in Europe what which is one way of putting it I suppose what
ignore Ireland's tax laws and rhetoric
and upend the international tax system
are you kidding me that is what the EU commission is doing how can we
stand for any of these things the international tax system there is no
International tax system also Ireland is not part of the thing that brexit did
brexit Ireland yeah is that part of that
yeah so does the EU control anything I don't know what how I can't remember
hold on Scotland is Ireland yeah Ireland's in the UK right what is the UK
not CRA now we're Allan Americans why did you even bring it up oh good heaven
now we look so dumb we should know more about okay I said yes initially so let's
find out if I'm right why it's more in the comprises four countries England
Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland so
this is southern Ireland this is Ireland Ireland Okay cool so now that there's
good now we know that we feel so we
learned a thing sorry all Americans and Canadians for
that matter know about that entire like
the whole region group of islands from Braveheart yes and it fits inside of
Texas fun fact so fun fact The Kilt
which was depicted in Braveheart as uh
being you know a thing that Scottish people wear uh didn't actually become
commonplace or even invented for that matter until about 150 years later after
the events of the movie later after 150 years after the events of the movie
so a more interesting fact than the LEGO Group yes ter you're still on the bottom
I I just don't care anymore so let's talk about this okay this is great so as
a corporation that pays literally uh
hold on let me let me see if my wife who is our actual accountant and actually
knows these things okay so whatever I I know it's deep into double digits so as
a corporation that pays deep into double digits taxes yeah we're about the same
before you do federally yeah oh ferally ferally oh so it's just no state tax
right we don't have any state tax we have there is federal tax on profit yeah
okay never mind okay I thought I was I thought we were going to be able to have
kind of two sides of definitely less than yours um I really hope that I I really
hope that I hear back from her in I might even just call her cuz my
understanding is so the first little bit like if you're a really small company
you don't actually get hit that hard but after a certain point it starts being
yeah we have that too which is why we have so I think it's like fun accounting
that happens the first like uh for us I think it's the first 500,000 or
something like that gets taxed at a lower rate wow that's really good
actually um what does our corporate tax rate work out to in
percentage can you give me a ballpark ours Max is out at
33 but oh can can you just ballpark it this
is uh enthralling nerds on there okay so
it's somewhere between 20 and 40% for us and I think it goes up to nearly nearly
the so does it bother you that
multinationals with the capability if they were paying taxes of significantly
reducing an entire country's national debt are paying 1%x 1% is ridiculous how
did they how did Ireland rationalize it
at the beginning like why wouldn't they want the money so I think they want the
jobs okay so they want the job for the citizens and that's I mean that's the
kind 5% of their employment going to Apple like if that's how much it is I
mean Apple employees and and that actually okay so that that's another
thing to consider is not all of the corporations that quote unquote have
their headquarters in a country like Ireland actually employ a significant
number of people there sure so so there's that can be a factor in this
kind of a decision but in this case I actually don't know that it was cuz my
understanding is that apple in particular does not employ a ton of people in Ireland and I'm sure that
twitch chat is going to be uh apparently they have call centers in Ireland there
you go that's it yeah this is all over
call centers call centers um listen
Apple needs that 16 billion to build that stupid building they're building in
uh where is that okay 5,000 okay they
commit to invest in infrastructure what infrastructure so I
don't know but infrastructure can mean anything it can mean roads it can mean
Urban Development it can mean uh it can mean pretty pretty much anything it's
what you say to a place to make them be okay with you causing a lot of noise and
traffic uh blah blah blah okay okay and this is another good
point Ireland wants the 1% because even one% of Apple's pro profits is better
than 0% of Apple's profits so basically
it becomes like a bidding war between countries for who can offer the lowest
corporate taxes this is great thank you twitch chat for contributing positively
to a convers ation you guys are awesome today note that I said today so Ireland
says okay you you can be here and we're only going to charge you the 1% and the
EU is like hey Ireland now you got to
charge them the full price Yeah so basically so it's all good for Ireland
shoot they're in a really good place I was going to say they're in a really good place unless unless Apple backs up
unless Apple bails on Ireland and and
all the other high-tech companies cuz Apple's not the only one that's using
Ireland as a tax shelter like this is like of like if you were making it part
of your bus as a country to attract 1%
of the profits of tech giants like Apple and Google then all of a sudden being
stuck where price the price is fixed where you have uh like effectively like
a like a minimum advertised price uh similar to how retailers are stuck
selling a product at the same price if that's part of the uh manufacturer
agreement like if they're stuck in a in like a price fixing situation or I
shouldn't say price fixing price fixing is illegal it's a different thing if it's like a like a a Fair competition
act kind of thing then what can they offer other than slashing the price and
I think there's a there's some good things that could come out of that we could have countries coming up with more
uh with more interesting and more innovative ways to attract companies and
we could have companies well actually injecting some of that private money
that quite frankly what do they even need it for at a certain point injecting
some of that private money back into the citizens that are Staffing their
companies even if they're not willing to pay it to them directly I mean we've all
seen the growing disparity between the wages of the highest 1% and the average
working blue color Joe yeah so overall I
think this is great um yeah I think Ireland wins here
I think there's so many other companies there that are probably like wow we
weren't charge 1% like whoever's over there people in
ch are saying Microsoft is over there what if Microsoft is being charged that full amount and now they're just finding
out about this I don't think they are but maybe hey maybe they're paying 1.2%
1.2 mind you if everyone ultimately has to come back and back at the same rate
that's when they all mve to what's that Island Jersey that tax Haven island over
there yeah anyway I mean this makes this is really frustrating as someone who
actually pays taxes who actually feels like they paid for the road that leads
to the building that they occupy um it
it is very very frustrating for me that the bigger you get the less you get lean
especially because you look at it from a personal I don't know if your personal taxes work the same way but from a
personal tax and for normal businesses tax the more you make the more you pay
yeah up to a point that's absolutely the truth I mean the first I think it's 26
or $28,000 a year that you make in British Colombia there's no tax so if
you're very low income there is no income tax and then as you go up you get
into a higher and higher tax bracket but the way it works is there's no
punishment for going up into a higher tax bracket because you only pay the
higher tax rate on the income you make over the last threshold yeah so once I
think you're past about 100,000 a year um it goes up as high as 40%
personally um and and we have a 12%
Federal and provincial sales tax total
so we actually pay over half plus property tax if you're a land owner um
plus bridge tolls like I have to pay a toll every time I want to go into
Vancouver City well you can take how many taxes tunnel you can take the route
if like hate yourself and you want it to like you could pay yourself you could
pay yourself half of minimum wage to go
around if you look depending on where you're going it'll be like only five
more minutes and then I'll take it cuz it'll it'll if there's like a traffic
jam you know because Google will tell you but yes it's ridiculous with those
tax laws just think about how much money your country is going to make when Trump
wins and everybody decides hey I'm gonna go to Canada right as the fix it you
know yeah I don't know you know what's actually funny is U Canada's Canada's
working on um loosening up the rules for
getting into the country um yeah particularly if you are Canadian
educated oh yeah so if you if you came
to Canada as a student and you did like U like an exchange program or some kind
of foreign study thing then what Canada's trying to do is instead of
educating these bloody people and but what people don't really understand is
that University is very expensive or college as you call it here in the US
OFA um College is very very expensive for students but at least in Canada
anyway the actual cost to educate those students is much much higher there are
heavy government subsidies as it is so basically you're taking these
International students who do pay more but I'm still actually not quite sure if
it covers it you're educating them with the Canadian system they're you know
getting immersed in Canadian culture and then you're basically going okay outd you go go back to wherever you came from
you can't come back which makes no sense to me I mean the people cared enough
about Canada and Canadians and Canadian culture that they came to study here and
then what we're going to kick them out I mean what would that what would that
mean for people like Dennis like we're taking young single uh
educated Canadian culturalized people
and we're saying you can't live here I mean those are the ideal the ideal
immigrants yeah anyway I
yeah people are oh the entire chat's
like Canadian culture in quotes I know
we have poutine they have maple syrup a little bit we have maple syr we have
maple bacon we have maple ice cream okay
they're very Sor maple bacon is fantastic that's not culture though all
right yeah things you eat are culture
okay I mean what culture would America have if it was for food well America
America is is like it's not so much the
food that's the culture it's the amount of it it's like lots of yeah that's right you want to throw stones I'll
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cuz you have to go home eventually you got you got to actually go to I can go
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to the big news big one the original article this was posted by um raama
attacks on the Forum uh the original
article that I actually saw was uh sexy
Phils uh sexy Phil's post which had a
very very incendiary title something like YouTube is shutting my channel down
and I don't know what to do Phil the Franco oh I I saw that too um sorry I
don't know I don't think anyone calls him Sexy Phil anymore his like old
channel name is SX Phil yeah kind of like Austin evans's old channel name is
Duncan 33303 I think I'm one of the only guys
whose channel name is actually my channel name cuz they let you switch it
now so if I wanted to Rebrand to something not quite so narcissistic I
could but I won't why would you um so
here we go why is YouTube being accused
of censoring vlog with the sub headline here is that called the by line nothing
has changed I remember I don't actually have a news background I just run this
podcast sub title little little title
yeah the the little the like gray and not black it's not always gray it's it's
smaller it's italicized and the font is smaller the worst is when they repeat
what you've already read in the title like three or four times okay so let's
let's stick with the facts to start with
the fact is that you YouTube is not shutting down Phil def Franco's Channel
that I mean the guy's well known for having clickbait titles and you can
think of that whatever you will you know if it if it if it works I I actually as
long as the video is somewhat about that and I guess it's somewhat about how that
is not actually what's happening I guess like he s s that's yeah cuz in the video
he specifically say says like we're not going anywhere the channel is not
shutting down we have all these other sources of revenue because we're smart we buildt up other revenue streams um
which is smart and that's good it just means that the title really isn't anything to do with reality um so
YouTube did not shut down the channel and they have not as some people have
said changed their terms of service okay let's uh let's go ahead and
pull up the support. gooogle page here
uh I think that's my screen share yep there we go uh this is one of the things
I love about the touchcreen by the way a lot of people ask me why I care about the touch screen I actually use it to
scroll nicely when I'm when I'm streaming I wish I had one of
those these terms of service have not changed content that is considered
inappropriate for advertising not for hosting on the
youtube.com website okay sexually
suggestive including partial nudity and sexual humor violence including display
of serious injury and events related to that violent extremism inappropriate language including harassment profanity
and vulgar language promotion of drugs and related substances including selling use and Abus such items controversial
sensitive subjects and events including subjects related to or political conflicts natural disasters and
strategies even if graphical imagery is not shown if any of the above describes
any portion of your video then the video may not be approved for monetization if
monetization is approved your video may not be eligible for all available ad
formats YouTube reserves the right to not monetize a video as well as suspend
monetization features on channels that repeatedly submit videos violating our
policies so they haven't changed that the key difference is in the
enforcement of the aforementioned rules
now some of this stuff makes a fair bit
of sense to me some of the videos that
clearly violate anti-cyberbullying
policies some of which had been revised in the last I think four to six weeks
something along those lines whereas some of them don't make a ton of sense to me
although I haven't watched the video in question Phil def Franco did claim that
he had a video that was covering a news item about something controversial but
that wasn't promoting it in any way and where basically his coverage of the news
was being considered not Advertiser friendly and therefore not eligible for
monetization potentially that is to say if his only income stream was from
YouTube and Google AdSense uh potentially undermining his ability to
maintain his channel that makes sense
right now these are the rest of my notes on this and then we'll open this one up
for for a real discussion here and I'm sure twitch chat's going to get involved as well so right now videos seem to be
being flagged for reasons that appear to be unfair and
unclear um statements from YouTube suggest that the problem isn't a new
policy um it's just a long-running conflict between the platform's rules
and their execution on those
rules so doesn't surprise me okay I mean
I think we're going to tin foil hat off
sorry could I get another one yeah can we get one thank you you guys have like
a producer can you like fill it up all the way this
time I still have water cuz I haven't been talking as much than you am I
orange cuz like that's Tech tips color I'm green no it was okay I thank you um
yeah so I I don't I don't know like as a not YouTuber oh here we go it seems to
me like like YouTube just likes to has YouTube
done anything right recently right it's where where like they they seem to do
really well when they piss off all their content creators you think so they seem
to the the YouTube views are going way
up just look at this topic alone right think about how many videos and how many
views are stemming from just this topic alone here's a question for you do they
care because these are non- monetizable views that are basically costing Beed
costing oh the discussion about this is way more monetizable than the what they
are unmonetized our can I'm let me put this on they are definitely making more
money off of doing this than if they hadn't done it because all these videos
those are videos that have been seen already by the large majority of people
that are going to see them Y and now there's a way more videos brand new
monetized talking about this now thank
you for the few million dollars everybody says YouTube and uh keep going
I can tell you that every video from a YouTuber cuz many in the YouTube
Community the people who care about this within the YouTube Community seem to be
for the most part super mad about it um most of the ones I've seen in fact one I
saw was pretty funny where the guy went out of his way to break every single one
of those guidelines saw that one um is it still monetized no okay without
monetizing it meaning that YouTube is effectively just paying storage and band
with for something that they don't benefit from and that has a viewer using
up valuable session view time on not
making any money for theform that they have a whole sidebar full of related
content as long as there's one click after on any of those you're good that's
right interesting having good content on is good for YouTube content is King what
else you got for me yeah I I have nothing you do no I I definitely think
that doing things like this is what keeps YouTube people talking about they
want people talking about the platform you know this is definitely tinfoil hat
stuff right here ridiculous to me where it's like they drama is really good for
YouTube views it just is and if they have to manufacture the drama then so be
it I I don't get the feeling that they're going out of their way to manufacture drama to get views I think
they're doing this for other reasons I think this is pure hand handedness I
think that basically they got some pressure put on them by advertisers I
mean at some point they're going to have to make YouTube profitable they're going to have to figure out how to do that um
have to do that I think I think at some point well okay I know for a fact that
one of the business goals within the YouTube business unit is to be profitable whether Google actually
expects it to happen or not or Al whether alphabet expects it to happen or
not I'm not sure but that is that is a goal that is something that they seem to
be working towards with things like YouTube Red um which does extract more
money per individual view than advertisement by the way that's
interesting because there's YouTube Red videos that are not demonetized that
break those guidelines right somebody has gone through and compiled like a
list of 30 or 40 YouTube r videos whose titles completely raping them and stuff
like that interesting yep well awkward
okay so so sorry back to right so my my
my personal theory is that basically advertisers came to them and said look
we'll feel better about advertising on the platform if we don't have our ad
displayed on you know some video full of profanity that is promoting hate and
promoting you know cyber bullying or or
or has these controversial topics and all this stuff um and basically what I
think is happening is YouTube is trying to figure out a way to deliver their ad
inventory because there's always a there's always a finite amount of AD inventory they're figuring out a way to
deliver their ad inventory in a way that
best optimizes their cpms for both the platform itself and for the content
creators who are keeping in line with brand friendly value
while you know and treating the stuff
that is not going to be monetizable as
sort of collateral damage um and I think that right now because Google is all
about automated systems it's not like people are manually going through these
videos so right now in the first iteration of the system they're
basically going yeah there's going to be again there's going to be some
collateral damage we will revise the algorithm over time and my belief is
what they're actually generating on the back end is not not just a black and
white system because they made it very clear in the system or they made it very
clear in the announcement or in the guidelines that the video might not be
eligible for all types of advertising so
they might be able to actually have potential advertising Partners in the
future that I'm looking a year or two years down the road where they can fill
out a questionnaire and they can say what are you comfortable with and then
those Impressions then you'll check this
box certain or if you're willing to have your if
you're willing to have your advertisement play on some YouTube drama
video about two YouTubers who got in a fight or whatever that's full of you
know people saying hateful things to each other um then hey maybe you pay a
little bit less I think they want to figure I think YouTube's ultimate goal
is to monetize every single video on the platform I think just right now they are
rolling this out in stages and what the first stage looks like is a very
imperfect algorithm for detecting stuff
that know is definitely or or probably not
safe for all the advertisers that they have now and then they'll work on
rolling out something more granular in the future and I think that while it is
totally crap for people to have made
YouTube a job to have to have relied on the benevolence of of Google who runs
this wonderful platform that makes it so people can quit their jobs and start
doing this as a full-time job uh even if they're not business savvy people I
think it's super crappy to those people but I think that it's also a huge wakeup
call because what those people have to understand is even if they don't come
from a business background they are entrepreneurs and they're going to have
to understand that as great as it's been
and we should be appreciative of Google and YouTube for keeping us divided from
this as great as it is to feel like I can say and do whatever I want and Ford
or Fredo Le or Pepsi Co or the major
brands like this are going to just display advertising on it and I'm going
to make money that is not how it works in the real world absolutely not so if
you imagined that this was going to keep up forever that brands with like
corporative corporate values and those can go on either end of the the Spectrum
I mean look at Chick-fil-A I mean you can go you can go all the way from like
hyper conservative Brands all the way to brands that are like yeah whatever do
whatever bite the heads off of you know chickens on on stream or on video for
all I care we'll endorse the crap out of it um people are just going to have to
understand that if they expect to get mainstream advertising dollars and those
big mainstream cpms that content just doesn't fly and
there it's a miracle that it did for this long that's my take on it I mean do
you think do you think there's something wrong there with how corporations
perceive ads because right now it seems
that they're like this is now part of the content which is crap right I don't
I don't think a single viewer out there thinks that the ad is in any way related
to the content that I think is wrong really oh yes oh yes I mean I I mean all
you got to do is spend some time on Tumblr do we have to glad I don't do
that right to find people who can get
very upset writing letters writing handwritten letters to CEOs because they
saw an ad for Colgate toothpaste on some
YouTube video where someone was swearing and the problem is that it only takes
one person well that person just wrong
that person is wrong it doesn't take just one person CU advertising is all
about a massive message to lots and lots of
people if just one person gets mad that's fine they don't care no but okay
so hold on hold on so vocal minority because I agree with you that
corporations are viewing advertising wrong and that that person is viewing
advertising wrong but you also have to
understand that from a corporation perspective you have to tread very
lightly around that stuff because one angry person can turn into a thousand or
10,000 angry people very very quickly as soon as it ends up on national news
because some Rinky Dink news Outlet had
nothing else to talk about today besides the fact that a Colgate ad played on
this video besides the fact that Colgate for that one person besides the fact
that Colgate is paying money I mean
that's the thing anywhere money exchange that's not how that worked Colgate does
not pay that content creator that's not how the system works effectively they do
no they don't they pay YouTube and then YouTube serves it wherever they please
that's right and Colgate has every right to be mad if their money and their ad
and their brand gets associated with someone else and and I don't think they
should be mad in this case no no they shouldn't but remember I mean and we've
had okay we've had this conversation offline the advertising industry is like
30 40 years ago oh yeah absolutely right
they are they are nowhere okay they're nowhere near ready for YouTube let alone
twitch yeah I mean that's very true
obviously so none of this is surprising but I mean like there there's it's just
it's I think this is just an education thing where YouTube is is taking some
stance on something without even attempting to educate their advertisers
that advertising you and I you and I spend a lot of time educating people
that come to us right we spend a lot of time talking to them about things like
this talking to linda.com about why it's better if we screw up your ad read it is
better and it is better and it is better totally better I have more fun and
that's what it's all about me having more fun personally it just that is it
just that YouTube isn't spending enough time educating advertisers into hey
welcome to 2016 in
so here's the thing is like you've dealt with big brands with big Brands and I'm
not going to name any names but we have dealt with brands that come with very
big egos I mean when you're talking to a hundred-year-old company that has become
one of the you know Fortune 50 companies
through a a long-standing tradition of Behaving a certain way and having a
certain set of brand values yeah when you're talking to them and you're going
yeah yeah but that's all out the door in the last 3 years don't worry about it
yeah can you imagine the kind of push back you're going to get yeah like they
I mean it depends i' say then I'm taking my paycheck and I'm giving it to someone
else that's simple I'll give it to Malcolm in the Middle reruns cuz that's
just the right that's just the right amount to eggie oh God did you like that
show I love that show great show it's great but you don't like that show it's
all right it's all right me it's like de's the worst child actor on the face
of the Earth it's like Everybody Loves Raymond area of of oh it's better than
everybody loves better come on well
anyway L what you said about like not black and white but having various
levels of of you know gray between where an Advertiser can say I'm okay with this
but not that I think that makes a lot of sense y like and if they would describe
it and explain it that way well they're not I don't think they're ready to roll
it out that way well but people are getting really upset because they don't
understand what the heck is going on like you said there's not enough education going on here yeah but that's
always YouTube's problem like they're always sending out like remember when
like hey this is happening now psych yeah yeah I mean so here's the bottom
line so here here's the ultimate bottom line on this this was a matter of time
and this is a huge wakeup call for YouTubers about the fact that they they
are business owners that they do have to conduct themselves in a professional
manner if they expect sponsors to give them any money um and fact number three
is that YouTube is not censoring anyone they are not telling anyone that
you can't continue to upload your videos to the site I mean they're saying we
won't pay you to do it it's effect it's kind of it's an effective censorship
you're not saying we show you down because if someone's had a show where they've done this for the past like
three years they have a certain thing that they do you know they're they're
more rough around the edges and now now oh crap I can't make any more money this
way cuz nobody's going to want to advertise with me I mean like you said
maybe we all have to grow up about it yeah maybe you have to grow up and realize that this is either a hobby or
it's or you're a businessman and you're a professional can't say because someone says a curse word is no longer a
profession that's true and you know what I think like sensitive political topics
what does that mean I think the algorithm is way too heavy-handed right
now oh I agree with that I also think
that they are heading to a place where it will ultimately be something that
makes sense to me especially if they can have a tiered system where the edge of
the content the fewer sponsors are going to are are going to whitelist it and are
going to be okay with it are going to sign on for it and ultimately the lower cpns you might make but that you might
still be able to make money um I just
think that this ultimately is a bit of a wakeup call and that hopefully we're
heading somewhere better with it and that YouTube has done a crap job of
communication and implementation they always do that but they always do that
and they always over fix and then pull it back that's just a typical thing
right yes maybe that's a tactic of their that's basically what we're looking at
here and ultimately you know what it isn't the fil of franos of the world and
he said this himself it isn't the FI of franos of the world that are going to suffer from this sure it is the up and
cominging guys the guys that do not have a thriving merch business or that do not
have a thriving direct donation business or that do not have any other means of
augmenting their income and so ultimately and this is the part that is
most shitty about it is that it is the
least businesslike that are going to be
affected the most the people who had the least chance of seeing it coming cuz
quite frankly lonus Media Group could survive if YouTube shut off our AdSense
we are set up in such a way that we are ready for that because I've seen this
coming literally years in advance from the moment I founded lonus Media Group I
was trying to figure out how to not be reliant on the benevolence of YouTube
even if I was still I still needed to use it to reach a large audience I had
to find other ways to monetize that audience what that also
means is I am deeply experienced dealing directly with sponsors and I'm already
aware of these sensitivities so it is the guys that stumbled into it that
don't have the business Acumen that are ultimately getting crapped on the
hardest by this and that sucks and they really need to fix it but ultimately the
bottom line is this was coming so don't
be that surprised there I mean I think everyone's surprised it was so heavy yes
cuz that should probably not have come it's so
heavy-handed it is it's way too far yep
they they definitely I don't know and to use an automated system to detect when
someone's cursing and just like wa that part is automated is if you say
something I think right now from what I understand it's tags and and things like
that like users reporting maybe yeah and then users flying yeah yeah that makes
sense cuz as as soon as this thing came out obviously a bunch of people started
flagging videos right oh yeah yeah and then you get a bunch of false
the world and but then of course then yeah
like I understand they want to automate it cuz like you can't have like a train
a room full of of people just watching videos all day to listen for one swear
word sounds like a fun job right that does not s a fun job no that's what they
use the report feature for and and I call it a feature when
it's yeah that's something different all right so I will finally somewhat weigh
in on the situation over at
Syndicate um let's go ahead and pop over to Linus's screen so actually the main
source I have for this is uh lonus Tech tips Forum because as part of the whole
uh and I'm going to I need my allegedly sign because ultimately I don't we need
some more props up in here because there is a lot of conflicting information have
you been following this at all I have not do you know who they are I learned
you briefly learned well whatever anyway
the point is you might to explain though yeah who is Tech Syndicate okay so there
are another YouTube channel uh that makes videos about um sometimes Tech
what else they I'm gonna look up because I think I know who the guy the guy who
runs it used to be the Tiger Direct YouTube guy you know Tiger Direct I do
know Tiger Direct okay so he used to be their YouTube personality like I do know
who that is way back in the day okay I definitely know who that is so
basically the drama llama is is all over
the place um there have been a couple of public statements released from what
appear to be sort of two Waring camps um
allegedly I'm just I'm going to fill it with that so basically Logan and Pistol
appear to be on one side with Wendell and Kane and uh shoot I don't remember
her name Jennifer with Wendell Kane and Jennifer kind of on the other side and
what it looks like right now though I haven't actually checked the thread
today so I don't know if anything if anything new has come out let's just go
ahead and have a look here Tuesday uh blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah wow there's a lot of posts per page on our Forum apparently so there's 10
pages on the latest thre here we're going to we're going to experience this together yeah just keeps going let me
just say your SEO for your forums nailed
it thank you uh not not not me that's mostly it's mostly a Luke thing but
um okay basically Wendell came out and
said okay we have some problems uh it appears as though there's some
misappropriation of funds um I a part
owner in the company um I believe he did clarify his shares are 30% the company's
been increasing in Revenue by 125k a
year or so for the last three years which gives us some idea what at least a
bare minimum of the overall company gross income is even if that doesn't
tell us anything about profitability or or how much is being paid to employees
or whatever else the case may be um patrons were complaining that they
weren't getting the patreon rewards they were promised um the the and I don't I
don't watch the channel so allegedly just based on posts I'm seeing on Reddit
text indicate Forum our own Forum uh people were saying the content's
actually getting worse even though patrons are contributing all this money
um and Wendell basically came out and said look I don't understand where this money is going I'm a shareholder and
what is going on um some many many
strong words were exchanged particularly by um pistol there's been a lot of
speculation as to what exactly the role that she plays and all of this is uh
Logan has released a statement saying it's all basically like down to
miscommunication uh Kane has been fired apparently or quit depending on who you
ask uh Jennifer is definitely gone um
and Wendell from uh my understanding of
it appears to be definitely on the way out claims that Logan owes him for his
shares and is Seeking a minimum of the
amount that he figures he owes him just in like unpaid uh services for the
company and uh yeah let me just see if there's
anything anything else anything else new
um like the forums were shut down but they're back online yeah so that was
that was a whole controversy so in the in the halalu with uh people posting
like public public email exchanges public chat exchanges on both sides of
this conflict in all of that um Logan
says he alleges that the Forum was shut down accidentally because he let Kane go
and was worried that he would sabotage it but people are posting screen shots
of Logan threatening to shut down the Forum uh if people don't stop
criticizing whatever it is they're doing or or whatever else are being haters um
or whatever the case may be and pretty
much um pretty much I guess the bottom line
is that uh it it looks like a pretty bad
situation over there I I wouldn't personally you you'll still see like
Wendell on the channel for a while like there's stuff that's been recorded weeks
ago um that's kind of still getting published so a video went up with him in
it and everyone's like oh I guess it's okay and it's like oh by the way that's
not how video works unless you're this guy you got to work way ahead yeah in
Industry like this or don't know how you guys so we have videos written that are
three weeks from YouTube publication we have videos shot is that how long this
video is going to oh yeah this video will be a while all right cuz there's
the editing queue there's the vessel time delay window oh right you do the
week so by the time you can watch it unless you're subscribed to vessel which
I doubt very much that you are I totally am lius and everybody
should be just for you lius
um a lot of people are on vessel just for us we're very popular on vessel yeah
yeah so there basically my bottom line
on this one is I haven't worked with anyone over there since Highlander in
any capacity so I don't really have any comment other than to summarize
everything that I have basically read on
Reddit texting Forum lus Tech tips Forum
Etc so um so there you go I wish
them I mean drama's fun it's just
drama's fun it just likes what it happens to you right so you know that's
okay we have what what I will say is someone posted a rumor who is a who
claims to be very close to the source um
and I would say that there their Source it was him
yeah can we get a zoom in on can we get a zoom in on that while I do like
ominous music no I'm just kidding it's fine um he's about to jump out of the
chair so so what I will say about this
person's source is that either they are completely full of crap or this person
is completely full of crap but someone claimed that Aus Media Group Employee
will be making the jump over to Tech Syndicate I can assure you that is not
happening um and uh yeah that it's
actually lus I can also assure you that would not be a very good yeah jokes on
you you guys are on your own you can rename it to just Tech tips you know or
like Luke Tech Teran Tech tips way better
alliteration tan Tech tips t Terrorist
Town yeah it sounds like it sounds like an extremist group what the the TTT like
I just oh okay yeah I can see that yeah
we might want to re rethink our image I'll work on I'll work on the name
all right so um I guess I didn't really
talk to Twitch chat much while we were talking about all this stuff yeah what
have they been I don't really I don't really know lots of harambe things lots
of harambe oh yeah you know what's really funny again like most of our
participation in internet memes I feel like is is at least half unintentional
so my video on the Galaxy S7 yeah um
contains gorillas no wait no no it's what CPU to buy yeah yeah what CPU to
buy has um random you randomly put gor
no way it was random put no I my guidance called for gorillas
okay so so anyway that video was written
yeah then there was like a week plus
delay hold on hold on week plus delay in editing then there was a week delay to
go to to YouTube from vessel yeah with
um so I had two people who left reviews for the $1,700 CPU the 6950x extreme
Edition two people who left reviews that were like these like chest thumping this
CPU is so great and so am I for using it and so is anyone else who uses it and
the other guy's like yeah you're great and I'm great too you know I only spent
this much on my total R $4,600 Which is
less than you but still awesome I'm still a baller like so we had these
gorillas pop in while we highlighted like the goofy stuff these guys were
saying and we had these gorilla sound effects so we participated in the
harambe me you totally knew that was a thing completely unintentional no idea I
posted on Twitter and I get all these harambe that is
I had to Google it I had no idea I basically am not an internet citizen I
have two children could you imagine if the gorilla picture that you chose
accidentally was harambe well it was off shutter stock so the odds were like one
in a thousand just because it would have been all gorillas kind of look the same
to me yeah but right now if you search gorilla I guarantee most of trigger be I
am so triggered right now triggered by you being triggered okay I can't be in a
room with someone who's been triggered um very triggering very triggering so
you can't be in a room with yourself it's like a freaking Paradox it's a box
and a box and a box and a box um all right so let's do some of our
let's do some of our more rapid fire topics original article here posted by
Tim Q on the Forum is from unowned Tech
the Acer Predator 21x which
confirmed I will be one of the first to receive a review unit of that's one big
laugh that's huge features a an undisclosed K Lake processor GTX 1080
desktop grade SLI come on and a curved
gaming display a curved display on a
laptop is it a laptop at that point yeah I mean come on those look like
mechanical keys they are mechanical keys does that look like a laptop that's that
that's like a desktop that's been put in a trash compactor look at these vents
look at these vents take that take that on an airplane and see what they say I
think the vents are here too you look at this thing no I'm looking at it now to
be clear you do not actually need quite that much ventilation we actually have a
GTX 1080 SLI video like a like a laptop
coming up on YouTube in I think six days or something like that again working
ahead um already out on vessel already out onel the plugs thank you for that um
all you're doing is plugging them being mad at me for being on vessel so right
thanks a lot for that um this thing looks ridiculous yeah that's dope I can
already tell you what the review will be so I'm even spoiling it for the vessel
piece indul this thing is amazing it's
the best gaming experience in a laptop you could possibly have but it's not
really a laptop yeah that's what we just we just said that you go there's the
conclusion done peace line us out yeah
as long as long as it doesn't explode if you quick charge it it'll be fine um oh
God so Acer acknowledges that this laptop is more of a proof of concept
than any sort of like big seller in retail however Acer has become more and
more Savvy as time has gone on about gaming and I think half of it is by
accident and I think this could end up being a big hit MH so so the the draw is
that it's just so baller so I gave MSI a
ton of crap about the gt80 Titan okay I
made fun of it in my review it was very expensive computer and
I told them in person I was like this is a concept car right six months down the
road I get a I get an email like yo dog you were wrong it's a huge seller and
you know the GTA Titan right I do the one with the mechanical actual cherryx
mechanical oh that one you hated that well maybe not hated I didn't hate it it
was really cool it's not a laptop
totally Unique Piece of Hardware amazing piece of engineering just I wouldn't use
it I would never use it I know just just to look on your your face in the room
when you saw it for the first time was like oh that's not that great what is
that I'm not impressed it's just I mean
there's a reason that there's this whole market now for these external cages for
your uh laptop for your no for just
graphics cards to plug into your laptop cuz a laptop is meant to be
moved at some point yeah spoiler alert
the uh the kbl lake processor that was allegedly on the show floor somewhere
isn't a product that's like looks pretty cool for that so it's a super mobile
super mobile product so the lap so here are the base specifications I didn't
cover all of them mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX switches 21in curved IPS
display with a 2560 x 1080 resolution
four integrated speakers with two built-in you're telling me they're only doing 1080p on something that big no
yeah it's 2560 by 1080 oh so it's wider
is like like 25 or 30% more resolution
but remember this is a 21 21in display
1080p looks not bad on a 21in display
and it's 21 in of like Ultra wide display so it doesn't like it it'll be
okay I think five fans and multiple heat pipes and uh here's a here's a shot
here's actually a couple different pictures of it so here it is here it is
open let's get the screen share going here Zoom what it has a little fold out
wrist rest yep so I'm going to ask for
one for every one of our video editors okay Taran yes you're already you're
already complaining about the weight this is like 30 lb what what do you I
don't care I want a thing that I can edit with take a desktop well that we
used to do that yeah actually that's more of a pain in
the butt than taking a laptop we used Acer's super slim 23in monitor with to
carry with our desktop until we broke them when we were traveling yeah and like we were thinking of making a video
out of like desktop in a suitcase yep um
I don't think we ever did it no we never did it it's also I'm literally doing
that like next week oh I'm sorry it's been done before but not as well as you
will yeah whatever he said just because it's been done before doesn't mean I
don't want it I need it oh okay so you're making one because you want oh I
make them because we're going to use it okay okay okay not just for a video all
right so this is fun carbon Nano tube storage coming to Market in 2018 carbon
Nano tubes the only thing they can't do is
get out of the lab which is not my joke I stole that joke that's a that's a good
joke though it's still a very funny joke because there supposed to be great for
everything and yet but we never ever see them as long as the wanjo has existed
I've been talking about how amazing carbon nanot tubes are and yet I've
never seen one what are you pointing out a I'm pointing at your your logo that
has three uh carbon well okay I thought
that's what you were going for here no that's not no that is the shape of the
hexagon is this blce shape I don't know that EDS that like chist Sav I thought
that that's what you were going for no no well no sorry no all right okay so
basically fij Jitsu announced that it has licensed nanto carbon nanotube based
n RAM nonvolatile RAM which is pretty cool too like RAM discs could be much
more of a thing and will participate in a joint development effort to bring a
256 megabit 15 55 nanometer product to
Market in 2018 so
2020 if ever promising characteristics
include things like unmatchable performance we hope durability and
extreme temperature tolerance and uh the
attraction to these begins with their Dam speed so competing products like 3D
Cross Point re re RAM and PCM suffer
from limited endurance thresholds nram has been tested up to one trillion
cycles that is to say if they can ever make
one cool and they have said that Leading
Edge Products will ship with half the cost of dam and that prices will fall as
production runs up once again carbon n tubes are going to be cheaper they're
going to be faster they're going to be more reliable and you might even buy one
one day day if you live for long enough it's like that bike company that's like
here's a $5,000 bike it'll be only 500 bucks to make this in five
years overly optimistic so spacex's
rocket blew up and destroyed a Facebook satellite so that's shame dude that was
one of the coolest videos of explosions that I've seen in a long time rocket
burn it sucks that it happened yeah Mr Zuckerberg will have to just you see the
explosion and then the capsule that holds the actual satellite in like it's
still intact and you see it slowly just fall off to the side and it's it's still
intact still intact hits the ground just yeah it was it was oddly satisfying so
they were conducting a test firing of their unmanned rocket when the blast
occurred Thursday morning uh they blew up face book's first satellite costing
around 150 million
pound that's a lot of pounds there are insurance compan they could have given
that all to Ireland surely you insure that how much how much would that
insurance cost I mean why would you think that someone else's Rocket's going
to blow up on the Launchpad making your rocket fall over I mean you've got to
insure rocket fall over insurance people buy insurance for holes in one that's
true but there's certain things you can't buy insurance for though like they
wanton to insure against Earth Quakes in Vancouver bet if you pay them enough
they would no they won't why would surely like Lloyds or somebody would I I
don't know I know that you can ensure insane things like I've heard of of
celebrities uring their hair for example yeah and like Mariah car's her voice
insur or something or something like that I don't know like I I can I can see
that happening but I I don't know I don't know if that would even occur to
me that would be like the if I'm going to put my satellite on something that I
have no idea if this thing's going to the first thing I do is go for insurance
I don't know I don't know who you asked for that kind of insurance hey Geico Geico yeah satellite
insurance is this something come on get in on this you guys so the satellite was
so okay SpaceX confirmed there was an anomaly on the Launchpad that resulted
in the loss of the rocket and its payload the satellite uh
so the uh Facebook satellite was carrying technology to allow them to SP
SP beam wireless internet directly to smartphones in subsaharan Africa and
this information was reported by Tech crunch what else were they doing with
that subt yeah spot beam spot beam means
to your brain I don't know if I want to know that um this is actually pretty
great so the original poster on the Forum is good bites and the original
article here that we're pulling from is RS Technica Facebook fires human editors
oh yeah algorithm immediately posts fake news yeah wonderful breaking Fox News
exposes traiter Megan Kelly kicks her out for backing Hillary I don't know who
Megan Kelly is Fox News yeah okay she's
like an anchor reporter correspondent or something she's been involved in like a
feud with Trump or something like that anyway um so this is great so earlier
this year Facebook denied criticisms that its trending feature was surfacing
news biased against conservatives the company has fired all its human editors
replacing them with software replacing them with an algorithm that promotes
stories based on what Facebook users are talking about wow putting Facebook users
in charge of your feed oh man that's
kind of like they trying to put a positive spin on firing somebody here is
that what's going on but that's like R look Reddit if you upvote a story then
it goes to the front page so within 72 hours according to the uh Washington
Post the top story trending on Facebook was fake in a post about the changes
Facebook said said the early move to remove human editors was in direct
response to the feedback they got from the Facebook Community earlier this year
it's actually your fault this sucks so humans will still be involved with
trending in a few ways such as confirming that a topic is tied to a
current news event in the real world that is a direct quote that's important
not the fake one so now they're rehiring everybody they just fired probably not
maybe they'll hire one guy do you think they fired people over that or they just
moved what do you do fire a robot well the people before the robot robot the
people who programmed the robot cuz you said you just said like they fired
people to replace them maybe maybe they get shuffled around to I'm not sure
design satellites I don't know um okay so the rumor is uh this is
post was posted by K to to I don't know
how to pronounce that I don't care um a protype device info sticker reaffirms 32
gig base storage for the iPhone 7 to which all I have to say is it's about
time um oh oh have iPhones been super
tiny and base model 16 gigs for a device
that cost like $800 it's ridiculous still yeah that's I know to an Android
User it's Unthinkable that's pretty ridiculous like the the progressive
Android phone makers are having 64 gig based models with the ones that are
still trying to get as many dollars out of you get going with 32 I think this
one's 64 though isn't it yeah there you go there no excuse for a flagship phone
having a 16 gig model I want to try out
an iPhone soon I haven't ever touched an iPhone Brandon did it I
think it took him about three months to switch back okay that's a long time so
you know what my theory though is about why they're not doing a 16 gig model so
have you noticed that you can't buy a 512 megab SD card anymore sure yeah so
at a certain point yeah it basically
cost the same to make a larger flash
chip that a smaller flash chip because we're pretty much down to the C the bill
of materials cost at that point you're not adding any dies there are no dies
that are cheaper so I think basically it is exactly the same price Now for Apple
to do a 32 GMA I think they could have been saving as little as $2 sense and I
think they were still doing it and they just didn't care and I think well I
think part of the agenda even if it was the same price maybe it's even cheaper cuz that's something that happens
eventually too is because there's more demand more volume in manufacturing at a
capacity I just experienced that with uh thumb drives yeah we ordered a bunch of
thumb drives for here and the 16 gigs were cheaper than the eight gigs that's
right yeah that's right so so basically
I think what might have happened because Apple also wants to remote iCloud they want people investing in cloud storage
anyway so I think even at the same cost they might have preferred a 16 gig model
cuz when you're apple and you have the margins and the profits that you do you
can play around with well we're really investing in Cloud business we can throw
a couple dollars away even to the detriment of the customer directly in
order to promote a different business unit or or business model um stuff no I
never back up to the CLA do you so actually this is a great uh great
conversation um unraid has a lot of cool new features coming that might enable
you to do some self Cloud type stuff other which is pretty cool they also I'm
trying to convince them this is not confirmed but I'm trying to convince them that they should have without me
having to use crash plan or anything like that they should have a direct
unraid box to unraid box uh link that I can do uh like like offsite storage with
so just like an clone like a one button
uh you know and they they figure it's it's possible to do it with no need for
like proxy or port forwarding or anything like that but it would have to
be a paid service because you would have to at least do handle the port forwarding through their uh through
their server unless you wanted to configure it yourself anyway it's like
very much up in the air I'm trying to convince them to do it cool I think it's
important I think they could get a lot of content creators using their storage
if they could allow stuff like that L I think that I I don't think anybody
understands what you're even talking about when you talk about these things
he does well I do okay but like content creators you know who who are these
people YouTubers twitch streamers you
what yeah but I don't pay attention Oh Lordy yeah you just complain when the
server doesn't work okay well this would be an easier way for the server to work
all the time okay see now I get it perect there we go that's what I was
looking for there uh okay last topic for
today this was posted by Nicholas FD Obama signs the internet to the United
Nations what what does that even mean
yeah yeah I don't know America to hand off internet in under two months it
means America will be slightly less World Police over one fewer thing in
within two months so the Department of Commerce is set to hand off American
control of the internet over to International authorities in less than
two months they will finalize the transaction effective October 1st the
move means the internet assigned numbers Authority will move from us control to a
global one and the proposal will significantly increase the power of
foreign governments over the Internet expand Ian's historical core Mission by
creating a gateway to content regulations and embolden its leadership
to act without any real accountability
Senator Ted Cruz said so yeahor Cruz is
not a fan um but honestly I I am not
Savvy enough to know exactly what this means I will say that I'm not that cool
with America being in control of the internet but I'm also not necess I don't
necessarily think the UN is going to do any better of a job of it so I mean I
get that there's Aon is it you said Aaron there's Aaron I think AR in
there's whatever it's one of those things that means a bunch of things um
that sort of controls who gets what block yeah right I can is do they do
that I don't remember what I think I can is like um uh DNS and like maybe someone
else's something I think Aaron is the actual IP addresses whatever it is sorry
not inter this is controlling content as well no so it wouldn't be control of
content it would be in control of infrastructure and regulating it that
makes sense I guess I guess so sure true
as long as somebody's managing it and it's not me it's apparently I a an a Ann
not Erin so there you go enjoy okay so
thank you guys you're helpful you're welcome I I is numbers I can is DNS okay
so I was right about one thing yeah woo send the show on a positive note thank
you everyone for tuning in we'll see you again next week same bad time same bad
Channel thanks to our special guest Taran and Matt seus zeri you can view
him over at twitch.tv seus that's right right that
right oh good that didn't work are we done oh that did work that did work okay
they can still hear us though yeah they can oh I'm sweaty you just do the intro
again do you guys have a airon at 60 turns off I'm not sweaty at all oh
that's what ours turns off at at 6 as well 5:30 actually
what sorry W you didn't know that I did
not know that cuz and you're in the air conditioned part of thing it's still a little cool remaining at that point but
I can bypass it like I've had it on you can't