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Pilots everywhere overusing flight management systems. in my generation we called it autopilot. flight management systems are something that makes life very nice for the pilots. but im not entirely sure they can be trusted. and one of the reasons why they cant be trusted is if there is an attack such as an electromagnetic pulse, that thing is blown and its shot, then you have to recover the airplane. one of our incidents was in an aircraft that went down over the atlantic a number of years ago w...

You spell something wrong, its highlighted for you. you spelled it wrong. you can press a button to tell you your grammar is wrong. people dont have to learn. were dumbing down our complete society because were relying on technology. >> are you done sucking up to oreilly on this or what? >> i think hes right on this. >> i have to disagree because i think im with bob on this. its easy to blame technology when its actually ideology. technology is an inert substance, its like blaming the mailman fo...

On farms and then the productivity increases, automation on the farms. people said what will we do with all of these farmers? a terrible thing. they went into the cities and got into manufacturing. the point im trying to make is rather than trying to to go back in the business of textiles and things we cant compete any more, we should be competing and putting our emphasis including government policy and all of this stuff on the industries we are good at, on technology, on health and on education...

User. >> it looks like the national security agency is secretly using tools that allow internet users to track consumers. it shows the nsa and british koufrnter parts are piggybacking on technology advertisers use to target advertising to people they consider suspicious. it not only allows them to monitor a persons web habits it guides hacking software to the computer. the documents show they are using tracking technology for mobile apps and operating systems to help it locate mobile devices aro...

Up with an -- they opened it up to third party developers, for fuel efficiency. if you can come up with the best app for fuel efficiency, theyre pushing the envelope on technology. people want their cars to be just like their smartphones they walk around. they want it to talk to them and interestingly, brooke, fuel efficiency really important to women and to millennials, those are the people buying the most cars right now, ford tells me. >> interesting. guys dont care about fuel efficiency, appa...

Doctors order a bunch of extra tests. i have a family member who had some problems and went in to the doctor and the doctor said i think its an infection but first im going to do this big test on you. and then an m.r.i. and then a bunch of blood tests. and at the end it was solved with just a bunch of little pills that didnt cost hardly anything at all, which was the first suggestion. you know, we hear theyre trying to cover their bases. for instance, if somebody needed an echo cardiogram. if it...

Issue. >> mike: i dont know what a monkey hat is. >> alisyn: as a kid youre wearing a monkey mat. >> clayton: and when a kid turns into a goth affecttation, as a little kid-- >> here is another one, i and me. >> clayton: he expected helen and i to help him. no, the correct way, he expected helen and me, if you removed helen from the conversation, it would still work. he expected me to help him, not he expected i to help him. >> alisyn: this is one you see constantly, somebody says i could care l...

Engages in political engagement. i have ayesha and her husband here. and we have msnbc host thomas roberts. if you go on twitter right now, you can see a picture of thomas nerdland socks, which he tweeted out. so i want to ask a little bit about the politics of this. asking whether or not we can get democratic with a little d check on technology. but the democrats with a big d started using technology in 2008 in a way that felt game-changing. the joe biden text message, who cares who the vice pr...

In 2011 the obama administration does away with the class act because it is fiscally unworkable which was a portion of one of the accounting gimmicks as the right called it, and in the numbers, there were projections and weird accounting gamics accounting for the lowering. >>nicole: they give us something and revise it. we were presented with one thing and they revise it. and now the true costs of obamacare, wiping out $70 billion of projected $143 billion of deficit reduction. >>dave: much of o...

2010. its founders are dennis crowley and navin. what is four square? >> with four square, what were trying to do is build applications for mobile phones that help make the world easier to explore for people. people use four square to check in at all sorts of places. you can open up four square pretty much anywhere you are in the world and it will give you tidbits of things you should be doing nearby. check in at bars or coffee shops. whenever they go out to eat or at parks. when they check in, ...