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Part I: Speaker

Government surveillance — this is just the beginning

Filmed August 2013 at TED Fellows Retreat 2013

[Rephrase 1]

[Dialog: 08'18]

Transcript:

Audio:

Source: TED
http://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_soghoian_government_surveillance_this_is_just_the_beginning

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Part II: Speed

Kurt Sutter talks Sons of Anarchy at the 2013 Summer Television Critics Association tour on Aug. 2, 2013, in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images

I Created "Sons of Anarchy". Here’s Why I Hate Google’s Stance on Copyright

Kurt Sutter

Kurt Sutter is a writer-creator, producer, and director.

[Time 2]
Hollywood and its activists always make for a convenient and easy punching bag. Public opinion gets wildly distorted, so folks perceive us as decadent spendthrifts who drive to work in gold Maybachs, where we dabble in our “art,” while minions massage our feet and feed us the marinated roe of endangered species. Other than Diddy, that’s just not the case.

And man, this manipulation is getting fucking dangerous.

Let’s consider the March 11 anti-copyright rant in Slate by Marvin Ammori, a lawyer working for Google (which somehow he forgot to mention in the article). He compares Hollywood to that insidious “ex who won’t give up” pursuing you and making your life miserable. As a guy with more than a few exes, I have to tell you, Marv, the most insidious ex is the one who hides the truth, steals your money, and lies to all your friends. That’s what Ammori and Google are doing.

Clearly, I’m not a lobbyist. I don’t think you’re allowed to say “fuck” in lobby school. Or at least, I’m sure there’s a fuck cap, which I’ve already exceeded. I’m a writer who makes his living in television and film (The Shield, Sons of Anarchy, Outlaw Empires.) I create dramatic content. I’m blessed. I get paid a lot of money to do something I love. I wouldn’t trade the 80-hour weeks, the psychiatrist bills, the death threats, the hostile-work-environment claims, or the fact that I have to reintroduce myself to my children every hiatus for anything. But make no mistake: I work hard to create my content. So do the hundreds of people I employ who work with me every day.

So does every other writer, producer, director, actor, musician, tech developer, and artist out there. We all commit and burn to do what we love.
[332 words]

[Time 3]
Everyone is aware that Google has done amazing things to revolutionize our Internet experience. And I’m sure Mr. and Mrs. Google are very nice people. But the big G doesn’t contribute anything to the work of creatives. Not a minute of effort or a dime of financing. Yet Google wants to take our content, devalue it, and make it available for criminals to pirate for profit. Convicted felons like Kim Dotcom generate millions of dollars in illegal revenue off our stolen creative work. People access Kim through Google. And then, when Hollywood tries to impede that thievery, it’s presented to the masses as a desperate attempt to hold on to antiquated copyright laws that will kill your digital buzz. It’s so absurd that Google is still presenting itself as the lovable geek who’s the friend of the young everyman. Don’t kid yourself, kids: Google is the establishment. It is a multibillion-dollar information portal that makes dough off of every click on its page and every data byte it streams. Do you really think Google gives a shit about free speech or your inalienable right to access unfettered content? Nope. You’re just another revenue resource Google can access to create more traffic and more data streams. Unfortunately, those streams are now pristine, digital ones of our work, which all flow into a huge watershed of semi-dirty cash. If you want to know more about how this works, just Google the word “parasite.” And if you think I’m exaggerating, ask yourself why Google spends tens of millions of dollars each year to hire lawyers and lobbyists (like Marv) whose sole purpose is to erode creative copyright laws.

Do they do this because they hate artists? No. They do it because they love money.
[309 words]

[Time 4]
Every writer, producer, actor, musician, director, tech wizard, and fine artist working today needs to be aware of what this all means for our future—we will lose the ability to protect and profit from our own work. Every kid out there who aspires to be an actor or musician or artist: This is your future that’s at stake. More importantly, everyone who enjoys quality entertainment: This impacts you most of all. Content excellence cannot sustain itself if it loses its capacity to reward the talent that creates it. Consider this clunky analogy: If your local car dealership started selling your favorite luxury car for $1,000, then $100, then started giving it away, what do you think would happen to the quality of that vehicle? Before long, the manufacturer would be forced to let go of the skilled laborer, the artisan, and the craftsman, and eventually cut back on everything in the production process. And before long, that fabulous, high-end car you so enjoyed will be a sheet of warped plywood on top of two rusty cans.

Yep, it’s cheap, and it’s shit.

Look, whether you think I’m an idiot or a prophet (ironically, that’s the name of my new autobiography: The Idiot Prophet), at the very least, I hope you take away a few things from this, whatever the hell this is.

1. At this point, we are not talking about legislation or throwing handcuffs on any single party. We don’t want blood. Voluntary agreements are simply a place to start. It means sitting down to begin a fair, open dialogue to find a solution that gives consumers the access and tools they need, while still protecting the livelihood and rights of content creators. This means that everyone is welcome to the table—artists, corporations, consumers, Google … hell, bring along Marvin and all his exes!

2. Voluntary agreements can bring strange bedfellows together. The creative industry is now working with ISPs on the Copyright Alert System, a voluntary, cooperative effort to let subscribers know when their network might be used for illegal downloading. And it was created with input from public interest groups, including Public Knowledge, the Future of Privacy Forum, and others.

3. No one benefits from piracy except the criminals and the portal that opens its doors to them. Stealing content may feel like a win, but supporting piracy will ultimately diminish the quality of the content you’ve come to love and depend on. Google and the other copyright killers will tell you the opposite to assuage your burden of guilt and theirs, but again, it’s in their best interests to do everything and anything that serves their current bottom line.

4. Diddy drives a solid-gold Maybach, never wears the same Rolex twice, and his boxers are made of the fur of baby pumas he kills with his bare hands.*

*This intel may not be accurate; I found it all on Yahoo.
[500 words]

Source: Slate
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2014/03/sons_of_anarchy_creator_kurt_sutter_google_s_copyright_stance_is_bad_for.html?wpisrc=burger_bar

Mirror, mirror, on the Web.

Photo by Loic Venance/AFP/Getty Images

Move Over Glossy Magazines. Now Social Media Makes Young Girls Hate Themselves

Katy Waldman

[Time 5]
In case you were starting to feel OK about this newfangled Facebook thing, two recent studies show that the blue-and-white behemoth is ruining young girls’ self-esteem. Do you want to hear about the disordered eating first, or the increase in plastic surgery rates?

The American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery recently surveyed a group of its 2,700 members and discovered that 1 in 3 doctors saw an uptick in procedure requests for 2013. The researchers attributed the rise in part to “patients being more self-aware of looks in social media.” They write that 13 percent of plastic surgeons mentioned patients who wanted procedures specifically because they didn’t like their appearance on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, or Selfie.im. Not surprisingly, many of these patients were teenage girls. The composite face of plastic surgery is getting younger, the researchers say, noting that 58 percent of the surveyed AAFPRS members reported an increase “in cosmetic surgery or injectables in those under 30.”

Why would an association of plastic surgeons publicize results that show them preying on the Web-induced insecurities of vulnerable kids? Perhaps they think of themselves as heroes, able to swoop in and fix the nose that’s looking back at you from your computer screen. Or maybe they’re just honest. Either way, cosmetic surgeons are operating in a world we’ve all helped create, in which the new wave of teenage insecurity comes not from the magazine rack at CVS, but from our peers and ourselves.

In another study, researchers from Florida State University detected a link between time spent on Facebook and disordered eating patterns. They asked 960 female college students to complete a test assessing their relationship to food and weight, as well as how often they logged onto Facebook. After an association emerged between disordered eating habits and social media use, the team then swept 84 of the women into an additional experiment. Half of the participants spent 20 minutes on Facebook before retaking the food survey; the other half used that 20 minutes to research ocelots. (This is an ocelot—cute!) Again, women who had been exposed to the idealized images of themselves and their friends demonstrated more disordered thought-processes around snacking, weight, and exercise than the women who looked at fuzzy cats.

The bedtime story behind these results: Once upon a time we imbibed our unrealistic expectations for female beauty from glossies like Vogue and Elle. Today we drink them in from social sharing sites, gleamed-up corkboards we plaster with dispatches from a more perfect version of our lives. But how do you prevent kids from subjecting themselves to Facebook pressure? Prohibitions against seeking out the most flattering angle? Paper bag selfies? The problem is that insecurity has always been a self-inflicted wound, regardless of who our aspirational symbols are. The yardsticks change, but the impulse to measure and seethe and yearn (and frantically untag) remains.
[493 words]

Source: Slate
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2014/03/14/social_media_and_self_esteem_study_links_time_spent_on_facebook_and_disordered.html?wpisrc=burger_bar

Photo fromShutterstock

Report: 95 Percent of the ATMs in the World Still Run Windows XP

Lily Hay Newman

[Time 6]
Right now, 95 percent of the 2.2 million ATMs in the world run Windows XP, according to a report by Reuters. Furthermore, Microsoft ends support for the 13-year-old operating system on April 8, only a third of the ATMs currently running XP will have been upgraded to something newer.

But unlike your home PC, which will be on its own after April 8, ATMs will still get security updates and other necessary operating system maintenance—so long as they pay up.

Britain’s five biggest banks—all five of them—are unprepared and are negotiating agreements with Microsoft so the company will continue support. As Reuters reports, it will cost each bank about $100 million total to both maintain support and also get the system upgraded.

Sridhar Athreya, the head of financial advisory at SunGard Consulting, told Reuters that the banks are so behind because they’ve been scrambling to adopt new regulations that came out of the 2007-2008 financial crisis. Athreya said:

They were probably not very serious about the directive that came in from Microsoft. There's a lot of change going on at these banks at this moment in time and they would have seen Windows XP as one more change.

Meanwhile, most of the roughly 440,000 ATMs in the United States will also keep running XP for a while after Microsoft officially ends support. They will be on extended contracts, and many will use the switch as an impetus to upgrade their ATMs with microchip readers, increased data encryption, and/or other improvements.

The situation still seems dangerous, though, since Microsoft won’t be as focused on XP once it’s retired, and hackers will probably be on the hunt for machines running the old operating system that they can try to exploit.
[302 words]

Source: Slate
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/03/14/windows_xp_still_runs_on_95_percent_of_the_atms_in_the_world_says_reuters.html

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Part III: Obstacle

Why being too busy makes us feel so good

Brigid Schulte  |  March 14

Brigid Schulte is a Washington Post staff writer. This article is adapted from her book “Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time.”

[Paraphrase 7]
One man says he works 72 hours a week because everyone else at his office does; he’s thinking about cutting back on sleep so he can be more productive. A woman says the last time she had a moment for herself was when she went for her annual mammogram. Another says she has decided that life is too hectic to have kids — ever.

Then a woman bursts in, apologizing for being late to this focus group convened precisely to discuss the fast pace of modern life. She got stuck in traffic, she explains.

I look out the window from our perch at the bar of the 18-story Radisson Hotel and see just a handful of cars at a stoplight. Beyond that, acres of cornfields. We are not in New York, Washington, Los Angeles or another frenetic, Type A city.

We’re in Fargo, N.D.

I had been searching for bright spots, for places where the too-muchness of life hadn’t taken hold, and I had figured that rural America might breathe a little easier. I was wrong. “Life is stressful in Fargo,” Ann Burnett, a researcher who convened the focus group, told me. “People are going nuts.’’

Somewhere around the end of the 20th century, busyness became not just a way of life but a badge of honor. And life, sociologists say, became an exhausting everydayathon. People now tell pollsters that they’re too busy to register to vote, too busy to date, to make friends outside the office, to take a vacation, to sleep, to have sex. As for multitasking, one 2012 survey found that 38 million Americans shop on their smartphones while sitting on the toilet. And another found that the compulsion to multitask was making us as stupid as if we were stoned.

Burnett, a communications professor at North Dakota State University, has studied a trove of holiday letters she’s collected stretching back to the 1960s that serves as an archive of the rise of American busyness. Words and phrases that began surfacing in the 1970s and 1980s — “hectic,” “whirlwind,” “consumed,” “crazy,” “constantly on the run” and “way too fast” — now appear with astonishing frequency.

People compete over being busy; it’s about showing status. “If you’re busy, you’re important. You’re leading a full and worthy life,” Burnett says. Keeping up with the Joneses used to be about money, cars and homes. Now, she explains, “if you’re not as busy as the Joneses, you’d better get cracking.”

Even as neuroscience is beginning to show that at our most idle, our brains are most open to inspiration and creativity — and history proves that great works of art, philosophy and invention were created during leisure time — we resist taking time off. Psychologists treat burned-out clients who can’t shake the notion that the busier you are, the faster you work, and the more you multitask, the more you are considered competent, smart, successful. It’s the Protestant work ethic in overdrive.

In the Middle Ages, this kind of frenzy — called acedia, the opposite of sloth — was one of Catholicism’s seven deadly sins. But today, busyness is seen as so valuable that people are actually happier when they’re busy, says Christopher Hsee, a psychologist and professor of behavioral science at the University of Chicago. “If people remain idle, they are miserable,” he wrote in Psychological Science in 2010. “If idle people become busy, they will be happier.”

Life in the early 21st century wasn’t supposed to be so hectic. In a 1930 essay, economist John Maynard Keynes predicted a 15-hour workweek by 2030, when we’d all have time to enjoy “the hour and the day virtuously and well.” During the 1950s, the post-World War II boom in productivity, along with rising incomes and standards of living, led economists and politicians to predict that by 1990, Americans would work 22 hours a week, six months a year, and retire before age 40.

While accepting the Republican Party’s nomination for president in 1956, Dwight D. Eisenhower envisioned a world where “leisure . . . will be abundant, so that all can develop the life of the spirit, of reflection, of religion, of the arts, of the full realization of the good things of the world.”

At the time, the idea that leisure would soon be meant for all, rather than just a wealthy elite, was quite radical. A 1959 article in the Harvard Business Review warned that “boredom, which used to bother only aristocrats, had become a common curse.” In the early 1960s, when TV broadcaster Eric Sevareid was asked what he considered the gravest crisis facing Americans, he said: “the rise of leisure.”

Leisure for all was exactly what the U.S. labor movement had been pursuing for more than a century. As late as 1923, the steel industry required 12-hour shifts, seven days a week. Finally, it seemed, workers were about to savor shorter, saner work hours. So, what happened?

First: Life got more expensive, and wages failed to keep up. College tuition alone jumped 1,120 percent from 1978 to 2012. Child Care Aware of America reports that child care is more expensive than public college in dozens of states. The Kaiser Family Foundation says  that health-care premiums increased 97 percent between 2002 and 2012. At the same time, wages have fallen to record lows as a share of America’s gross domestic product. Until 1975, wages made up 50 percent of GDP; in 2012, they were 43.5 percent. And, as a recent obnoxious Cadillac commercial boasts, we work hard to buy more things: The Commerce Department reports  that consumers spent $1.2 trillion in 2011 on unnecessary stuff, 11.2 percent of all consumer spending, way up from 4 percent in 1959.

Second: Jobs have become less mechanical and work more creative. New York University sociologist Dalton Conley argues that today’s knowledge-economy professions in art, technology, engineering and academics are similar to the pursuits of the mind that the ancient Greek philosophers envisioned as leisure. So, we work a lot because we enjoy it.

That’s true in part, but the rise in working hours for the creative class in the 1970s and 1980s was accompanied by an increase in job insecurity for those same workers, according to the General Social Survey. And the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act, which protects employees from working too many hours, applies only to hourly, not salaried, workers. In the crudest sense, U.S. law allows employers to work professionals harder without paying them overtime or hiring more people to share the load.

Perhaps we have no choice, then, as a matter of survival, to give greater value to the work that we are compelled to do all the time.

“Work has become central in our lives, answering the religious questions of ‘Who are you?’ and ‘How do you find meaning and purpose in your life?’ ” Ben Hunnicutt, one of the few leisure scholars in America, tells me. “Leisure has been trivialized — something only silly girls want, to have time to shop and gossip.”

Taking time for yourself is tantamount to weakness. One man in Burnett’s focus group, who works two jobs and juggles caring for two special-needs children, says he longs to go canoeing but feels he just can’t. “Leisure sometimes just feels . . . wrong.”

Back in Fargo, Ann Burnett has scrawled a big letter “A” across the top of only a handful of holiday letters from her collection. These, she says, are “authentic,” written by people who have stepped off the hamster wheel long enough to savor everyday moments. And in each, there is a realization that their time on Earth is limited.

Maybe that’s the attraction of busyness. If we never take a moment to stop and think, we don’t have to face that hard truth.

And without time to reflect, our drive to show status can mean we create busyness even when it doesn’t exist — like the idea of a traffic jam in Fargo.
[1430 words]

Source: The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-being-too-busy-makes-us-feel-so-good/2014/03/14/c098f6c8-9e81-11e3-a050-dc3322a94fa7_story.html

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Day 40

----speaker

It is not a secret that governments master the technology to attack phones and texts, however companies currently provide surveillance technology to governments to hack targets’ computers.

Gamma in Germany is one of the five big guys worldwide, and its software has been sold to countries around the world. Itallian hacking team is an another example which even use amazing marketing videos to attract governments. This tech and behavior is violating human rights.

According to the speaker’s investigation, US has enough budget to build its own surveillance system, and the speaker found that FBI indeed has dedicated team to hack targeted computers.

Based on the facts above, there are hacking software and practices around the world without any law passed to authorize this tech. As a result, it is important to arouse public debate on this human rights and security issue.

----speed

1.      1’52

Google and its lawyer distorted public opinions of artworks. Actually every writer, producer, director, actor, musician, tech developer, and artist commit to do what they love.

2.      1’39

Google contributes nothing to creation, while it takes creators’ content, devalue it, and make profits from it. Google erodes creative copyright.

3.      2’19

If copyright devaluation continues, creation will be cheap and low quality. Something we can take away from this phenomenon is: voluntary communication to reach solution or agreement is suggested; Voluntary agreements can bring people together to make efforts to illegal downloading; Google and other copyright killers benefit from piracy, however quality of content will be lowered;  

4.      3’32

Study shows that more young girls have plastic surgery because they do not like their appearance in FB, and there is a correlation between FB surfing and increase in cosmetic surgery. Another research demonstrates that people are more likely to have disordered eating after surfing on FB.

5.      1’24

95% of ATMs around the world use XP system. 1/3 of ATMs will have been upgraded, and some banks are negotiating. The US will keep XP for a while, but it is dangerous as hackers might target them.

----obstacle

9’06

Nowadays, even in non-type A city, people live stressful life too.

The busyness can be dated back from late 20th century, and it has become a way of life and even a badge of honor. People even compete over being busy as busyness represents importance or status. In the Middle Ages, busyness was regarded as one of seven deadly sins, however in contemporary life, the busy people are showed to be happier than those who do not work.  

People has been predicting and pursuing leisure since 20th century, but the current reality is opposed to what we supposed.

Some reasons were cited. First, life is expensive but wage not catch up. Moreover, we work as we enjoy it since the jobs are more creative and less mechanical than before. Work occupy almost all of our life, and in order to sustain family, some people even think leisure is wrong. Another possible reason why people do not stop is that we will not face the hard truth as we do not even have time to do so.

cherry6891

      

Obstacle 8:20

How modern people busy now--reason why they r busy--work makes people happier and make them success,valuable--now boredom is a common curse to all while jobs are less mechanical and more creative,plus life goes more expensive --religious part:work answer they question;who are u?--work make us too busy to face the awkward truth

Article 2

7:05 --slate google on the open sources of origin works which decrease the income of creator,if things go like that, we will go vicious circle,decrease income of creator--less people want to do this job--less creative works for writer,producer,actor and so on

--Solution; voluntary agreements to protect the livehood and rights of content creator

--No one benefit from piracy except criminals and supporting piracy will ultimately diminish the quality of contents

Article 3  3:39

--The social medias make girl care more about the looking. The more they care,more people choose to do surgery or care more about weight and eating

Article4  1:37

ATM still use the windows XP which will retire from microsoft in UK.

But they will keep running it for a while after microsoft ends support and then update them.

So maybe hacker will hunt for the old machines they can exploit

xiaofan0205

报道来了！

Speaker:
The man is talking about government surveillance all over the world. It's not a secret that governments are able to intercept telephone calls and text message, but there is a new industry that can provide technology that allows governments to hack into the computers of surveillance targets. It's a $5 billion industry. In the United States, there's no law that's been passed specifically authorizing this technique, and because of its power and potential for abuse, it's vital that we have an informed public debate.

Time2: 2'11"
Time3: 2'10"
Time4: 3'29"
Google doesn't contribute anything to the work of creative, but the big G wants to take the content, which created by writer, producer, director, actor, musician, tech developer, and artist. Google devalue it, and make it available for criminals to pirate for profit.
Content excellence cannot sustain itself if it loses its capacity to reward the talent that creates it.

Time5: 4'10"
Studies show that social media like Facebook influence teenage kids. One study indicates more and more teenage girls don't like their appearance on the social media, so they go to do plastic surgeons. Another study shows a link between time spent on Facebook and disordered eating patterns.

Time6: 2'19"
Right now, 95 percent of the 2.2 million ATMs in the world run Windows XP, but Microsoft will end support for the XP system on April 8. The situation seems dangerous since hackers will probably be on the hunt for machines running the old system that they can try to exploit.

Obstacle: 9'14"
People are more and more busy now not only in the big city but also in small towns. Busyness became not just a way of life but a badge of honor.
Leisure for all was exactly what the U.S.labor movement had been pursuing for more than a century, finally, it seemed that workers were about to savor shorter and saner work hours, but then life got more expensive, wages failed to keep up, and jobs have become less mechanical and work more creative.
Maybe that's the attraction of busyness, if we never take a moment to stop and think, we don't have to face the hard truth that our time on earth in limited.

疏离无罪

地下室~~~~~~~~~~~~

Speaker: Some companies provide tech to government to hack personal computer.Once this kind of software sold to government,the company can not aussre how the software is used.ROU.No real debt no law.

02:00
The author objects Google's stance of anti-copyright.Many people like the author get paid money to do sth they like by creating content.

01:33
Google does nothing about creativity.The big G makes billions of money from data stream.People and their content are just their revenue resources.

01:59
We will lose the ability to protect and profit from our own work,and then ruin the whole creativity industry.No talented people will join this industry and all products are cheap and shit.Only criminals can benefit from this.Producers should take action to protect themselves and provent illegal downloading.

02:04
Social media makes more girls have a plastic surgery and eating disorder.

01:44
95 percent computers still run windows XP,which is a danger situtation.British banks pay microsoft to get the system upgraded.And the ATM in US will remain XP for a while.

09:07
Main Idea: Why being busy makes us happy
Now more people have a stressful life even in a rural region.Busyness becomes a way of life and a badge of honor.People become exhausting everydayathon.And now busyness shows status.However creativity exists most in leisure time.
Busyness makes people valuable and haapy.In the past,many people have predicted more lerisure time in the future.But the reality is opposite.
Because life is expensive and wages is going down.And job becomes less mechanical and more creative.People have to put more forcus on word to survive,which makee work the central of life.Moreover,people now think that the time on erath is limited.
If we do not stop and think about this,we will never find out this hard truth.

TaoRs92

首页。谢谢兔！

time:1:46.48
The writer hates Google for stealing his creative works.
He pointed out the article published in Slate by a lawyer working for Google.
______________
time:1:47.17
What Google do to these artists.They do this for money and revenue.
They hire lawyers and lobbyists to deal with the possible problems.
_______________
time:2:57.75
What will artists do after these stealing.The quality will decline.This will also have impact on the audience,not only the creators.
Four parts that the writer wants to deliever.
_____________
time:3:05.50
Two researches indicate that teenages are more likely to decline their self-esteem,if they use social media more.
1 plastic surgery
The reason--these kids think they should have a better image in their social tool.They raise more self-awareness.
2 disordered eating patterns
How to face the Facebook pressure?This is the slef-inflicted wound.
_______________
time:1:36.68
Many ATMs are still using XP and will still use XP for a while,after Microsoft ends the support.
They negotiate with Microsoft,and pay milloins to continue the software.
But it is dangerous,since Microsoft will not as focus as before.
______________
time:7:20.65
Busyness in the cities in US(not only big cities).Life is difficult and busy in the city the writer works in .
The reason behind the phenomenon--people think if they are busy,they are important and successful.They just want to be busy.
The old view and prediction before--people will have more and more leisure.
But the turth is--
1 lift is more expensive.wages fails to catch up with.
2 works become more creative.people do these works because they love them.but in another part,the society pay less to them.
Not busy?Just feels wrong.

MAGGIEHE1993

还有首页哈哈~~~谢谢枣糕兔~~~~~~~~~每次读文史哲的文章都深深的感到要背一下GRE的单词。。
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Speaker: The Speaker said the governments around the world usually don't develop surveillance devices but buy them from
         companies such as Gamma and Hacking team. Such companies are aimed at provide governments with surveillance that
         are stealth and untraceable. The surveillance devices are able to steal documents and other information from all
         kinds of platforms. The devices are sold to governments all over the world. The speaker is worried that there is
         no special telephones or computers used by surveillance objects and therefore we are all subject to government
         surveillance. The speaker thinks it is necessary to hold an informed public debate.

time2: 1min 55"
time3: 1min 59"
       The writer is a creative artist and he is feared that his work is devalued and stolen by Google. He thinks that Google
       wants to take their content, devalue it, and make it available for criminals to pirate for profit. Google loves money
       and that's why they spend tens of millions of money on hiring lawyers to erode creative copyright laws.

time4: 3min 13"
       The writer thinks that creative content stealers such as Google will make the work of creative artists cheap and worthless.
       It is also bad for art consumers since they cannot get high quality creative works. The writer provides several ways to solve
       the problem. He suggested that different interest parts involved should sit down together and have an open talk. Voluntary
       agreements are suggested.

time5: 3min 28"
       Two recent studies show that social media such as Facebook is ruining young girl's self-esteem.
       One study found that more and more teenage girls go for a plastic surgery. Another study has found a link between time spent on
       social media such as Facebook and disordered eating patterns.

time6: 2min 04"
       Some large banks need to upgrade their ATMs because their ATMs run Windows XP and Microsoft is going to end support for the
       operating system. If some ATMs left unupgraded, they are very likely to be hacked.

Obstacle: 9min 16"
       Main idea: Being busy actually make people feel better.
       People today are very busy but they actually enjoy it. They hate being leisure. The writer thinks that only people in large
       cities such as NY,LA are so busy. But he is wrong. Even people in Fargo are busy all the time. They think that if you are busy,
       that means you are important and leading a full and worthy life.
       Neuroscience has shown that we are actually more creative during leisure time. Early in the 20th century, many famous including
       Keynes and Eisenhower predicted that people would have more leisure time in the future and focus more on religious and art aspects.
       But they were wrong.
       The writer presented two reasons to explain why people are more busier today. The first is that life is getting more expensive and
       wages fails to keep up. The secong reason is that jobs have become less mechanical and work more creative. The writer thinks that
       work has become central in our lifes so that we do not have to spend time thinking the meaning and purpose of life. We are busy because
       we actually enjoy it.

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spk : many governments had no abilities and resources to built their own survellience system, so they bought hacking softwares from ourside.( like Egypt and Gamma) Using hacking team from other country will become a big problem, because every digital platforms can be monitered by government. since no law had passed to control , so we need a serious debate about this.
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life is stressful in Fargo N.D. too --around the end of the 20th century, busyness became not just a way of life but a badge of honor.-- from the letter collection, B found words and phrases like "hectic" began surfacing in the 70s and 80s.  it’s about showing status.--In the Middle Ages, sloth is a deadly sin, but today,busyness is seen as so valuable that people are actually happier when they’re busy.--Life in the early 21st century wasn’t supposed to be so hectic, even the president D. Eisenhower had envisioned a world abundant of leisure.-- so , why more and more people like to work busy instead of rest. -- First: Life got more expensive, and wages failed to keep up. Second: Jobs have become less mechanical and work more creative.--Maybe that’s the attraction of busyness. If we never take a moment to stop and think, we don’t have to face that hard truth.