If you havent read Walter Isaacson it is a delight to read and because he connects us with devices that connect our lives. Everyone of you is carrying around something that has dozens and dozens of technological streams that have merged to get it to give us the connectivity we assume it today. Walter is the best person i know. Alter is the best person i know at explaining the connections that lead to the things that change our lives. In his new book the innovators how a group of hackers, geniuses, and geeks created the digital revolution walters drinks together not just the hero stories but the stories that you wouldnt here because these things are not made by individuals. Walter does of phenomenal job explaining how the team work involved and the history is exciting and reverting. I will go back to my script for one thing i could not say better. I will quote salon. Com and say if anyone in america understands genius, it is Walter Isaacson. [applause] thank you very much, jim. Notice h
But then it becomes a committee platform. Joining the publishing power of the web with the Committee Power of the internet, that forming of online, you no virtual communities is where the power lies in the future. And that is clearly what twitter is. Very much the information spreading mindset. I think originally it was looked up more. That that looms in the something is very powerful. And i think if you look at any major platform today it obviously combines those elements. We didnt have comments for a long time. Who wants to talk to people . I dont want to talk to people on the internet. One of the central themes of the book as i understand it in my limited understanding that this myth the Silicon Valley creator myth you dissected over and over. Break it apart to show there ideas who invented what and how many things. A lot of people did. Those of us who are biographers no that we have a dirty little secret. We distort history. We make it seem like their is some guy who comes up with
In the United States are considered a minor until you turn 18, but being that status is a very different kind of thing in places like el salvador and other places than the United States. But we know that a lot of gang members in the world, using these not only to get to their family members and they are using these hubs where 47 of the minors are young men and they are using them to recruit more people for their games because of the perfect breeding ground and their parents arent around and they can offer a sense of community and livelihood. We are talking about very violent people showing that they engage in murder and torture before entering the United States. In terms of the Border Control not being able to set them out, between minors and juveniles, you lose your job as you process these people through and then they turn them over to i. C. E. And then i. C. E. Do something with them. Whether they deliver them to their parent or not, that happens. All i know is that they are being s
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Am from johanesburg. The milestone 15 years in the making. The space station and the hefty price tag to make it all happen. [ music ] we begin tonight with the news in a congress has reached a tentative budget deal that could avoid a Government Shutdown after months of disagreeing, republican and Democratic Leaders found Common Ground. The deal still has to be approved by the senate and the house and could still face some obstacles. Libby casey joins us from capitol hill with more on that. Libby . Reporter the leaders of this packet, senator patty murray and congressman paul ryan, the Top Republican on the house budget committee, they are the ones who hammered this out and they said it will rolling b some of the some pluses, some minuses. See the fine details of this budget deal to be posted online later tonight. Congressman ryan said this is really the first bipartisan budget deal thats come out of a divided Congress Since 1986. This bill reduces the deficit by 23,000,000,000. It does