2013 C1+ Media and Contemporary Society Monday to Friday

How to pass this course?

Attend, Participate, Complete Assignments, Attain 3.0 minimum from the spoken and written examinations.

How to fail this course?

Skip every class exam then try and pass the exam

• Claim your adulthood
• Get some identity capital
• Use your weak ties
• Start picking your family now

Economy phrases

wnioski:

somebody got all the benefits, then they cost all the costs, now they want somebody to pay for the costs while they keep all the benefits

systemic moral hazard

democracy is asset insurance for the rich - stop skimping on the payments

expressions

tax cuts - reduction in taxes. The immediate effects of a tax cut are a decrease in the real income of the government and an increase in the real income of those whose tax rate has been lowered.

tax revenue - tax based gov income

cought in a slump - in bessa

T-bills

A short-term debt obligation backed by the U.S. government with a maturity of less than one year. T-bills are sold in denominations of $1,000 up to a maximum purchase of $5 million and commonly have maturities of one month (four weeks), three months (13 weeks) or six months (26 weeks).

T-bills are issued through a competitive bidding process at a discount from par, which means that rather than paying fixed interest payments like conventional bonds, the appreciation of the bond provides the return to the holder.

http://www.investopedia.com/video/play/treasury-bill/

debt to gdt - debt to the Gross Domestic Product (a measure of economic power)

repo collateral market - repurchase (repo)

buying and shorting securities.

 In the fixed income market, these transactions are accomplished with the use of the repo market.

 A repurchase agreement, or repo, is a sale of securities for cash with a commitment to repurchase them at a specified price at a future date.

 Practically, the repurchase agreement by itself is simply a collateralized loan.

AAA mortge - The highest possible rating assigned to the bonds of an issuer by credit rating agencies + A temporary, conditional pledge of property to a creditor as security

liquidity crunch -A time when cash resources are in short supply and demand is high. During a liquidity crunch, businesses and consumers are charged high interest rates on loans which are more difficult to obtain. Also known as liquidity crisis and credit crunch.

oecd countries - c. belonging to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

orgy of public spending - borrowing money. spending. No balance to the budget, No sacrifices. galactic scale.

politically unpalatable - not pleasant to taste politically

surplus - excess supply of a produc (nadwyżka)

lax public financing - not sufficiently strict, severe, or careful financing

variable inflation logical set of inflation assets

soverign - the quality of having independent authority (suwerenność)

lever up - podnosić się

volume/levverage - refers to debt or to the borrowing of funds to finance the purchase of a company's assets.

GDP equivalent - the market value (of all officially recognized final goods and services produced within a country in a given period of time) equal to smth

GNP - gross national product (GNP) which allocates production based on ownership.

LTROs - Long-term refinancing operations (LTROs); they involve the central bank lending money at a very low interest rate to euro zone banks, which has led to the term “free money.”

Vagabond

Liberalism Emetic Economics - u need the state, but u are afraid of it

Nullify - to deprive (something) of value

parsimony - extreme unwillingness to spend money or use resources.

myopic - short-sighted.

emetic responce - causing vomiting.

liquidity trap

curtail spending - reduce in extent spending

asset footprint

zero sum against itself - If I lose, you lose so for you to win, I must win but if I win you lose so you must lose.

Housing Crisis - plunging real estate market value of residential properties. Burst housing market bubble.

Federal debt. the amount of debt held by the United States government.

Doomsday device. a device designed to usher in armageddon, apocalypse, total destruction of the world.

What about in the context of the european union?

Fallacy of composition - what's good for any one agent is not good if every agent does it all at the same time.

:Homework for Monday, complete the exam questions with model answers. Add a tl;dr. The first one has been done for you.

Define the following terms as they are used by Psychologist Meg Ray

Extended adolescence

Adolescence is commonly understood as beginning at birth and ending with the end of puberty. Extended adolescence is the detrimental prolongation of adolescent behaviours beyond puberty and the deferment of adult roles and adult responsibility. Some consequences named in the video include not being able to have the career you want, not being able to marry the person you want, not being able to have the children you want.

tl;dr

Extended adolescence is a continuation of pubescent behaviour post-puberty. Biological adulthood without social or mental adulthood.

twixters and kidults

being intentional and mindful choices

infantilization

trivialized defining decade

benign neglect

blowing it

robbed of urgency and ambition

identity capital

Austerity: What is it?

Homework: Write down useful expressions and bring to class on Monday

Whoever controls communications, controls the world?

The End of education

Schooling vs. Education

Trivial vs. Non-Trivial

http://www.psychforums.com/antisocial-personality/topic62959.html

Why you're not going to have a great career:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphasic_sleep

http://b8a.blogspot.com/2014/03/headphones-phenomenolgy.html

leave a comment how you agree, disagree or with a question.

http://www.business.unr.edu/faculty/jstrauss/multitasking.htm

Why you can't be the multitool you imagine you are (but you're not)

http://www.theonion.com/articles/unambitious-loser-with-happy-fulfilling-life-still,33233/?ref=auto

This satire helped me claw back my time

http://factsanddetails.com/japan/cat24/sub156/item907.html

Links to vocabulary on contemporary social issues in Japan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides

the Foxconn suicides

http://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_choice

http://news.err.ee/v/politics/424322a0-c46b-4439-9736-742df3f1ac35

http://jeziorki.blogspot.com/

Comedians! Stand-Up! The hardest form of comedy!

http://guyism.com/humor/the-10-best-stand-up-comedians-of-all-time.html#6-6-steve-martin

Multi-tasking and headphones

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/05/23/uncommon-genius-stephen-jay-gould-connections-creativity/

EXAM FACT!

Why you have to fail to have a great career

Jon Ronson: Strange answers to the psychopath test

http://www.diffen.com/difference/Psychopath_vs_Sociopath

The Exam!

Exam! Know the vocabulary

This is an example of a psychopathic power-control rapist/sex offender from a video series entitled: Truth, Lies and Sex Offenders & Sadistic vs. non-Sadistic Sex Offenders, created by Dr. Anna Salter.

Why do we deceive ourselves?

Low-functioning psychopath

Exam!

Lessons from Death Row Inmates

Exam! Look at the blog

The dictionary definition will not help you

Every piece of writing has its own principles of composition

Journalistic Article

Short Fiction, Novels, Creative Writing

SMS'es, personal notes, diaries, some emails, some comments on blogs, YouTube,

Funnel structure, Beginning with most important fact in general and proceeding paragraph by paragraph into greater detail. All journalistic articles start with a lead sentence. The lead sentence must convey in factual terms the most important information about the news item. Information = new+relevant otherwise it is just data.

Avoid modal verbs. Use direct and indirect principal verbs except when quoting. Always get a quote.

"something happened to someone somewhere and someone (else) has something to say about it."

The Magician's Assistant

Don't "bury the lead"

Slightly Formal

Somewhat Informal

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Most Formal

Somewhat Formal

Slightly Informal

Most Informal

Opinion-Editorial [Op-Ed] Article

Academic Essays

Letters and personal correspondance

http://www.forbes.com/sites/steveforbes/2013/09/17/polands-piggish-pols-theyre-not-alone/

Content

Do not deviate from the subject, avoid any digressions.

Research and present your research, present your facts

Summary is insufficient, Analysis is required.

Make Claims based on Reasons because of Evidence.

Evidence is defined as fact, verifiable outcome of experiment, Commonly accepted scientific proof.

Reviews of art and culture and society, you may have a serious point to make but it begins with your opinion taking the place of a lead fact (journalistic article) or a claim based on reason because of evidence (academic essay).

Use modal verbs such as should, must, has to/have to when introducing your opinion.

Form

Once you are certain of your subject, begin a list of ideas, facts and relevant examples. [Use Evernote!] You can assist yourself to think creatively by asking a series of questions: What? Who? Where? When? How? Why? By what means? Examples for and against. http://bit.ly/1gQIyb9

http://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/default/files/public/Meetings/Meeting%20Transcripts/030713Austerity.pdf

S.O.L.E.

Hole in the Wall project

Sugata Mitra

More from David R. Dow:

http://www.gq.com/entertainment/books/201001/david-r-dow-autobiography-of-an-execution-excerpt

http://faculty.virginia.edu/schoolhouse/WP/handouts/Critical_Thinking_and_Writing.pdf

Meg Ray homework for 11/10/2013

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21588069-scientific-research-has-changed-world-now-it-needs-change-itself-how-science-goes-wrong

Guaranteed Basic Income: What is it? What's your opinion of it? What would be the consequences of implementing it in Poland?

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http://www.reddit.com/search?q=guaranteed+basic+income

http://snowdenandthefuture.info/

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/17/magazine/switzerlands-proposal-to-pay-people-for-being-alive.html?pagewanted=2&_r=3&alg=3L4WL&pagewanted=all&

http://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/1qjm44/if_the_us_were_to_cut_all_welfare_programs_for/

Media and Contemporary Society

This fall Eben Moglen will be giving a series of public talks entitled "Snowden and the Future". These talks will address the following questions:

What has Edward Snowden done to change the course of human history? How does the evolution of surveillance since World War II threaten democracy? What does it mean that information can be both so powerful and so easily spread? In a network embracing all of humanity, how does democracy survive our desire for security?

Time and Date:

Part I - October 9

Part II - October 30

Part III - November 13

Part IV - December 4

All talks will take place at Columbia Law School in room 101 of Jerome Greene Hall. For more information, or to watch streaming video of the events as they take place, visit http://snowdenandthefuture.info.

For press or other inquiries, please write to sullivan@softwarefreedom.org

Level C1+

Eben Moglen

Law Professor Columbia University

http://c1plusmf.blogspot.com/

Water: The Great Mystery is pseudo-science

http://skepticdetective.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/more-water-woo/

http://skepticdetective.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/seven-suspicious-water-claims/

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/meet-badbios-the-mysterious-mac-and-pc-malware-that-jumps-airgaps/

http://www.ted.com/talks/james_randi.html

Compare and Contrast Polish Society with and without a Guaranteed Basic Income

housing

food

wages

cost of living

assumptions

employment

banking

taxes