Bowling For Columbine

Michael Moore's thesis is that guns are making people very violent and the U.S doesn't see a problem with it.

To support his argument he shows footage of a shoot-up in a school where innocent people were killed. He also interviews a Sargent who is standing in front of a bunch of missiles. He is trying to show people how anyone can get a gun in the U.S and it has no hunting purposes. He also interviews people who were involved in the bombing or shoot-up. The U.S citizens blamed everyone but themselves, famous singers, government, and more. 

Fact- In the U.S there is a law that gives citizens the right to own and carry a firearm but in Canada they don't let us.

Pac Man

Screengrab: Pushing Arcade Games to the Limit

Any player who reaches level 255 on the arcade classic game Pac Man, the game will glitch out. When it tries to load level 256 the game will go on over load and the fruits, ghosts, cheats and numbers will pop up on one half of the screen. It is still possible to beat with a perfect score but it is very hard.

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/pl_killscreens/

Terminology

Conglomerate- A combination of two or more corporations that are involved in entirely different businesses  together in the same building. (Viacom owns MTV, Dreamworks, Shockwave, BET, CMT, Comedy Central and more)


Demographic- The characteristic of a human population used by government, marketing or opinion research.



Early Adopter- A person who is given company products to start a new trend, they are know as trendsetters.



Coolhunting- Is a daily update on the new fashions and trends.


The Paradox Of Coolhunting- It kills what is finds, when people start wearing the new fashion people come up with an even newer fashion to keep up.


Synergy- Two or more agents working together to produce a result that is not used by any other agents.


Horizontal Integration- Describes a type of ownership or control. It is used by big businesses to sell the same product in numerous markets.


Ancillary Markets- Companies who sell their products to a lot of markets to get more profit.


The Feedback Loop- When companies do research to figure out the next trend.

Relationship Between McDonalds and Disney

McDonalds and Disney
-Both very successful
-Both created fictional characters to attract kids
-Both greedy for money
-Both advertised things that the audience/customers would like
-Both Born in Illinois
-And they both have something to do with Sprite, MTV and Viacom

Sony

Sony is the world's fifth largest media conglomerate with the income of $78.88 billion dollars. Sony is one of leading manufacturers of electronics, video, communications, video game consoles, and information technology products for professional markets and customers.