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  • Hong Kong Protesters Combat the Surveillance State

    10/10/2019 10:07:30 PM PDT · by zipper · 26 replies
    ReasonTV ^ | Oct. 4, 2019 | unknown (Reason TV)
    Encryption, other privacy measures, and decentralization have made the protest movement possible...... A major priority of the protest movement that has consumed Hong Kong for the past three and a half months has been to thwart the surveillance apparatus that's virtually everywhere. Demonstrators have felled camera poles with chainsaws, spray-painted security camera lenses, used green lasers to destroy sensors, and shielded themselves with umbrellas while marching through the streets.....
  • Nassim Taleb Talks Antifragile, Libertarianism, and Capitalism's Genius for Failure

    03/21/2018 6:51:49 AM PDT · by Voption · 21 replies
    Reason TV/ YouTube ^ | January, 2013 | Nassin Taleb
    Reason's Nick Gillespie sat down with Taleb for a wide-ranging discussion about why debt leads to fragility (5:16); the importance of "skin in the game" to a properly functioning financial system (10:45); why large banks should be nationalized (21:47); why technology won't rule the future (24:20); the value of studying the classics (26:09); his intellectual adversaries (33:30); why removing things is often the best way to solve problems (36:50); his intellectual influences (39:10); why capitalism is more about disincentives than incentives (43:10); why large, centralized states are prone to fail (44:50); his libertarianism (47:30); and why he'll never take writing...
  • Donald Trump is 'Very Good at Losing Other People's Money'

    09/23/2015 3:28:05 PM PDT · by Sam Gamgee · 43 replies
    Reason TV ^ | September 16, 2015 | Jerome Tuccille
    Reason interviewed the first biographer of Donald Trump who has a warning for taxpayers: "[Trump] doesn't do a deal unless other people are putting up the money. He's very good at losing other people's money and preserving his own," explains author Jerome Tuccille. (see video)
  • VIDEO - Boondoggle in the Motor City: Detroit's Train to Nowhere

    10/14/2010 11:16:58 AM PDT · by MichCapCon · 13 replies
    Cap Con ^ | 10/14/2010 | Reason TV
    VIDEO - Detroit's current "light rail" system has been called a “Horizontal Elevator to Nowhere” and the “least cost-effective transit project in the last 20 years.” So what's the response to this epic disaster of central planning from the political class? To build more, of course.
  • Busybodies, Babes, and Bacon! Presenting Reason.tv's 2010 Nanny of the Year

    12/19/2010 10:32:04 AM PST · by EveningStar · 3 replies
    YouTube ^ | December 17, 2010 | ReasonTV
    They touch our lives in so many ways, and Reason.tv acknowledges those who tell us that if it looks good, tastes good, or feels good, it should be illegal...
  • Reason.tv: Barack Obama Wins 2009 Peace Prize and...

    10/09/2009 3:59:24 PM PDT · by correctthought · 2 replies · 338+ views
    Reason.com ^ | 10/9/09 | Reason.tv
    Video link, kinda funny, mirrors all the vanities about the "Peace Prize". Gotta love those progressives from Norway.
  • Are You the Change You've Been Waiting For? (video)

    02/15/2009 2:16:29 PM PST · by EveningStar · 8 replies · 604+ views
    Reason.tv ^ | February 9, 2009 | Dan Hayes and Nick Gillespie
    You are the change you've been waiting for, declared Candidate Barack Obama.We weren't exactly sure what that meant, so on the evening of January 19, just before Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States, Reason.tv's Dan Hayes and Nick Gillespie talked with Obama supporters in the Dupont Circle area of Washington, D.C.
  • Living Large [Drew Carey on America's Middle Class]

    02/06/2008 2:51:01 AM PST · by LowCountryJoe · 183 replies · 483+ views
    Reason.TV ^ | unknown | Narrated by Drew Carey
    To hear the Lou Dobbses and Bill O'Reillys of the world--not to mention politicians ranging from Ron Paul to Hillary Clinton--the middle class of America (however you define that term) has never had it so tough. Between credit squeezes, out-of-control immigration, rising costs of education and health care and everything else, it's all darkness out there for those of us who are neither millionaires nor welfare cases, right? In "Living Large," Drew Carey and reason.tv examine the plight of the American middle class. What do they find?http://reason.tv/video/show/61.html