[GPSCC-chat] Why you should vote Yes on Prop 37

[Spencer Graves]

       Thinking more about this, I'm concerned that it may not be a good 
use of resources to schedule a showing of this video at the Peace Center 
before the election. Specifically, I'm concerned that the vast majority 
of the people who might come to see this would already be planning to 
vote for prop 37.  Moreover, they time they spend watching this video 
could be better spent having them make phone calls or ringing the 
doorbells of their neighbors and asking some appropriate question like, 
do they feel they should have a right to know what's in the food they 
eat -- whatever question the Prop 37 campaign says we should ask.


       What can you tell us about what the "Yes on prop 37" campaign 
suggests we use for talking points with neighbors, etc.? If I'm not 
mistaken, they have enough money, they should have done focus groups, 
etc., to make good recommendations about the sound bites that are most 
likely to be effective.


        Spencer


On 10/11/2012 6:38 PM, eden wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Spencer Graves
> <spencer.graves at prodsyse.com> wrote:
>>        3.  I have not worked much with YouTube.  However, from my limited
>> experience, I've had lots of problems with YouTube videos in real time,
>> especially for something like this.  If you are trying to download it and
>> play it via wi fi in real time, I would NOT expect it to go smoothly.
>     I agree.
>
>> It
>> would be best to download the video to a hard drive (or maybe a USB drive or
>> CD) and play it from there.  With a typical DSL connection, it can easily
>> take 3 hours to download the data for a 1.5 hour video, and if a user clicks
>> the wrong thing, it can restart from the beginning.  If you've watched it,
>> it probably is some place on your hard drive.  However, I have not done this
>> myself, so I don't know the details of how to do it.  I just know that it
>> should be feasible unless there is some special copyright protection in
>> YouTube and the operating system to prevent that.
>     I just attempted to download that YouTube using the DownloadHelper
> plugin for Firefox and it started to download with no problem. That
> usually implies that the file is free to download. (In other words, if
> the person who posted it didn't want it to be downloaded for copyright
> or other reasons, the file would not normally be downloadable with the
> plugin.)
>
>     Enjoy.
>
> --
> eden
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