YouTube to MP3

Recently Peter Schiff gave an excellent 55 minutes speech in Killingly, CT. Link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K70vAAhpk-c

My pain point is I do not want to set in front of my computer for 55 mins just to listen to speech and to click a link every 10 mins. If the video was a webinar, then that is a different story.

Here is what I have been doing.

I use Firefox as my web browser. http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

I use the Firefox extension DownloadHelper http://www.downloadhelper.net/

I visit YouTube and download the .flv video file(s) to my computer.

I use Leawo Free FLV Converter http://www.leawo.com/flv-converter/ to convert the .flv files to an MP3. The neat part is the software can take the 5 parts of the speech and combine it into 1 mp3 file.

I can now multitask by listening to the speech and performing a physical activity vs. sitting in front of the computer screen.

$10K Homebuyer Tax Credit in California

Gov. Schwarzenegger Extends $10K Homebuyer Tax Credit in California

Link - http://www.dsnews.com/articles/print-view/gov-schwarzenegger-extends-10000-homebuyer-tax-credit-in-california-2010-03-26

"….important housing bill that will get people off the fence and into homes…."

Why not let the free market lower prices by apx. 25-100k? We do not need an artificial market forces interfering with prices.

Why would anyone want to purchase an artificial price for a house?

This is helping the seller of home and not the buyer. The credit is trying to round up more sucker buyers in my opinion.

 

 

Blockbuster bankruptcy warning – bailout?

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Blockbuster-shares-tumble-apf-1343630299.html/print?x=0

Let take a vote, will Blockbuster video be bailed out?

This reminded me if CIT situation back in July.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31939425/ns/business-small_business/print/1/displaymode/1098/

The Cops Have Quotas? Tell Us Something We Don't Know

This is a well known practice to most but it is a wonder to me how everyone seems to accept it as normal. It seems to be people will look the other way on just about anything as long as they are not impacted. Of course, when it is them they are shocked and can't believe people allow such things to happen and ask why no one will help.

The following shows how even the few who will stand up for others are ignored, as nothing will be done to fix the current quota system. There are some police who actually mean to serve and protect others, and are police for that very purpose. The government prefers police who serve and protect the state and not the people and does not tolerate honesty and character.

Is This 12 Year Old a Terror Threat? The TSA Thinks So

For all those who think it can never happen to them, you should think again. Imagine if this obviously random, computer generated selection had been done to a 22 year old Middle Eastern man named Mohommad. Would anyone have believed he was really not a threat? Now think about how many people we have in secret prisons without a fair trial, but because the fear of "radical Islam" has been propagated at incrasing levels since 9/11, many Americans are happy since "it doesn't impact them" if they have nothing to hide.

So Is Bill Gates a Conspiracy Theorist or Are Vaccines and Health Care a Means to Population Control?

If we "do a really great job..." that is. I think this one speaks for itself and gives me one more reason to buy Apple.



Bill Gates, who I do not doubt is a lot better with computers than myself, has proved himself an idiot savant. The Malthusian theory on population that our elite rulers believe in which Malthus states, spuriously albeit, that population grows in a geometric series while the production of food, on the other hand, grows as an arithmetic series is what has misled, unfortunately to the loss of all of society, the technocrats of the time since. This is preposterous in light of the increase in the standard of living of all classes in our current time. A king just a few hundred years ago would have dreamed, if even he could imagine it, to live in the comfort of some of the poorest that live today. What about the homeless? Even they, in Newark, sleep in a heated train station at night and have access to health care far beyond yester-year's.