The WAN Show - Exploding Galaxy Note 7 Also Tek Drama - September 2nd 2016
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### The Acer Predator 21X: A Beast of a Laptop
The tech world has been buzzing about the **Acer Predator 21X**, a gaming laptop that defies convention. Packed with high-end specs, this device features a curved 21-inch display with a resolution of 2560x1080, making it ideal for immersive gaming experiences. The laptop also boasts a mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX switches, providing a premium typing experience. Under the hood, it houses an undisclosed K Lake processor and an SLI-configured GTX 1080, ensuring top-tier performance for even the most demanding games.
Despite its impressive hardware, the Predator 21X isn't without its quirks. At over 30 pounds, it's more of a desktop-in-a-laptop form factor than a portable device. Acer has positioned this machine as a proof of concept rather than a mainstream product, but enthusiasts are already drooling over its potential.
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### Carbon Nanotube Storage: The Future is Here
In a significant breakthrough, **carbon nanotube (CNT)** storage technology is set to hit the market in 2018. Japanese company Fujitsu has licensed CNT-based nRAM, a nonvolatile memory solution that promises unmatched performance, durability, and temperature tolerance. Unlike traditional storage solutions like 3D Cross Point RAM or PCM, nRAM can withstand up to one trillion write cycles, making it ideal for high-end applications.
The potential benefits of CNT storage are immense. It could revolutionize industries ranging from aerospace to consumer electronics by offering faster, more reliable storage at a fraction of the cost. While challenges remain in scaling production, this innovation marks a major step forward in memory technology.
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### SpaceX's Rocket Explosion: A Blow to Facebook's Satellite Dreams
SpaceX's recent rocket explosion during a test firing dealt a significant blow to **Facebook's satellite initiative**. The rocket was carrying Facebook's first satellite, designed to beam internet connectivity to smartphones in sub-Saharan Africa via spot beams. While the satellite survived the explosion and landed intact, the delay caused by this incident could set back Facebook's ambitious plans.
SpaceX confirmed that an anomaly on the launchpad led to the loss of the rocket and its payload. The company is no stranger to setbacks, but this one comes at a particularly inconvenient time for both SpaceX and Facebook. The satellite project was seen as a key part of Facebook's efforts to expand internet access in remote regions.
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### Facebook Fires Human Editors, Replaces Them with Algorithms
In a move that has sparked controversy, **Facebook has replaced all its human editors** on the trending topics feature with an algorithm. This change comes in response to criticism that the platform was biased against conservative voices. The algorithm now promotes stories based on user engagement, effectively putting the power in the hands of Facebook's community.
While the company claims this approach ensures neutrality, critics argue it could lead to more fake news being amplified. Human editors are still involved in verifying real-world events, but their role has been significantly reduced. This shift marks a turning point for Facebook, as it grapples with balancing algorithmic curation and editorial oversight.
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### iPhone 7 Rumors: Bigger Storage Finally on the Way
Leaks continue to surface about **iPhone 7**, with rumors suggesting that Apple will finally increase the base storage size. A recent sticker spotted on a prototype device reaffirms 32GB as the starting point, which would be a significant upgrade from the current 16GB model.
While analysts speculate on the reasons behind this change—ranging from manufacturing economies of scale to strategic cloud storage pushes—it’s clear that consumers have been vocal about their desire for more storage. With Android competitors offering larger base models at similar price points, Apple is likely responding to market pressure.
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### Unraid: New Features and Cloud Storage Possibilities
The popular network-attached storage (NAS) solution **Unraid** is set to introduce some exciting new features soon. These updates could include self-healing capabilities and improved compatibility with external storage solutions. One particularly promising development is the potential for direct unraid-to-unraid file syncing, which would allow users to easily create off-site backups without complex configurations.
If implemented, this feature would be a game-changer for content creators and small businesses relying on Unraid for their data needs. It’s a move that could further solidify Unraid's position as one of the most versatile NAS solutions available today.
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### Obama Signs the Internet Over to the United Nations
In a controversial decision, **President Obama has signed over control of the internet** to international authorities under the auspices of the United Nations. The transition, set to take effect on October 1st, involves handing over management of key internet infrastructure, including domain name systems (DNS) and IP address allocation.
Critics argue that this move could embolden foreign governments to impose stricter content regulations and reduce accountability. While the exact implications remain unclear, it’s a decision that has sparked heated debates about global internet governance.
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### Final Thoughts: A Tech World in Flux
From groundbreaking storage technologies to dramatic rocket explosions, the tech world is anything but dull. Whether you're rooting for the Acer Predator 21X or hoping carbon nanotube storage lives up to its hype, there’s no denying that we’re living in an era of rapid innovation.
As for Facebook and its algorithmic curation experiment, only time will tell if this move will silence critics or further polarize the platform. And with the internet's future now in international hands, it’s a reminder of just how interconnected—and fragile—our digital world has become.
Stay tuned for more updates as these stories continue to unfold. Until then, keep your memes ready and your satellites insured!
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enyeah 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 throw stones how awkward you kind of have to defend both a little bit well cuz you have to go home eventually you got you got to actually go to I can go wherever I please all right so uh next topic coming up is YouTube being accused of censoring vloggers and I don't actually is that hat again yeah I don't actually normally do this where I'm like haha I'm going to tease a topic before I jump into a bunch of sponsor spots but I really want you guys to stay tuned for that discussion because I think it is going to be a good one so our first sponsor of the day is Squarespace you can get 247 support via live chat in Brackets we don't offer telephone support it costs only $8 a month you get a free domain if you buy Squarespace for a year I'm just going to read the talking points because Nick keeps yelling at me for ad living what does that mean like he doesn't 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after that plan started only 25 bucks a month all right oh I hate you all okay so let's move on 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'tyeah 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 throw stones how awkward you kind of have to defend both a little bit well cuz you have to go home eventually you got you got to actually go to I can go wherever I please all right so uh next topic coming up is YouTube being accused of censoring vloggers and I don't actually is that hat again yeah I don't actually normally do this where I'm like haha I'm going to tease a topic before I jump into a bunch of sponsor spots but I really want you guys to stay tuned for that discussion because I think it is going to be a good one so our first sponsor of the day is Squarespace you can get 247 support via live chat in Brackets we don't offer telephone support it costs only $8 a month 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is a confusing name it is okay um you you know tutorials forget it you can get you can get a free trial for 10 days at linda.com wow see for yourself and start learning today after that plan started only 25 bucks a month all right oh I hate you all okay so let's move on 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\n"