- A new idea I have is that instead of our local government donating money to foreign aid projects it should outsource some of it's jobs to those countries. For example when our local council expands by 5 employees it will need to expand the administration department to handle the pension and salary etc of the new workers so it should outsource 1 administration job to a developing country. One would structure it so all their eggs are not in the same basket i.e. each council has outsourced workers through 5 countries that way they cannot be held to ransom by corrupt politicians.

- Maybe that "Calm" audio channel could automatically cut to silent when programme trailers come up

- I was at the lecture last year by the famous sleep scientist from Edinburgh University and he said the nations health is being damaged by lack of sleep.
- On Radio 5 Live Livesey's nighttime radio show is full of interesting items, so problem is it's not calming so you don't fall asleep and you'll probably be still awake at 1a.m. Before the news at 11pm and 12am he should have some calming words and one minute of calm music.
- One problem is you wouldn't want the drivers falling asleep; so he'd have to warn them not to " If you are driving stay awake"

- Since it's on the BBC the shows job is to help people rather than build an audience so the radio show should help people sleep not lose sleep.

- I wonder is it common for shops to have them embedded in their doorways so blind people know what shop they are going into.

- e.g. you get 5000 people to pay £2000, that's £10m + another £10m from investors. So you instead of having to borrow £10m and hope you might it back from customers. Half the customers have already bought free tickets by becoming shareholders. The customers know they get cheap travel and the investors get a lower risk.

- Why aren't cargo ships Travelling in Convoy Anyway ?
- Individual cargo ships off the Somali coast are vulnerable to attack. I have been saying for sometime that during WW2 the British tackled German U-boat attacks on merchant ships by organisng the ships into escorted convoys so why can't we do the same for ships sailing near Somali i.e. have then travel in convoys of 10 travelling in safe corridors.

- OK you can read a novel one phrase at a time by setting the device to scan to a new phrase at the same speed your eyes normally move, but what about a map or picture where your eye does scan the whole page. I believe that there is a way to con your brain whereby your eye stays still but the display scans down to give the illusion.

- Other people could also make use of this telephone to web human interface
- e.g. A technician out in an industrial plant in the middle of the night fixing a broken machine could use it to order a part.
- a salesrep could get information while he's driving to a client.

- Share the oil money
- Martha Schwartz suggests that every inhabitant of the Earth should own a share of its natural resources through a Global Resources Fund.

- Record your Grandparents memories
Angie Hobbs thinks all school children should record the memories of a person over the age of 60 to help build a collective memory bank. For more visit BBC News Online: Recording memories

- Think Smart When you shop
Jeffrey Rosenthal believes we should consider other factors than just price when it comes to shopping.

- Day to celebrate body donors
Ruth Richardson thinks we should celebrate body donors.

- Farm and hunt insects for food
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer suggests we should eat more insects

- hide cars
James Hall says all parked cars should be camouflaged
No - in hot countries all parking should have to be shaded - you'd save heaps of AC energy

Deyan Sudjic wants to stamp out the cult of the architectural icon - probably lots of money wasted

- Frank Furedi advocates taking joint responsibility for the welfare of children - what's he mean ?

Rodrigo Vazquez believes we should live like the Incas - what's he mean ?

Kishore Mahbubani suggests students spend a semester overseas

Haleh Afshar believes all beauty products should be banned. Stupid woman

- If you buy a pirate copy for $2 then manufacturing costs are 30c and royalties and tax are zero so $1.70 goes to gangsters. Buy a genuine copy for $3 then $1 goes in tax and $1.70 in salaries and royalties to the film-makers. Then a shot says "buy from gangsters and the money comes back to your community" shows table full of guns... buy genuine and the money comes back to your community shows doctors, nurses and film- makers.

- You could do the same for software I guess. e.g. you buy Norton cos you know you end up getting treated by a Norton Cancer Nurse or Norton sponsored Developing country real vaccination program. Or maybe use the Adobe funded ambulance.

- problems - The movie industry is renowned for creative accountancy ... like some of the biggest movies on the accountancy books show no profit ... I can’t remember why, but it must be normal to write of the losses of 5 flops against the one good movie.
- Governments don't like setting a precedent of corporations choosing where their money goes otherwise there would be plenty of money for orphanages, but none for mental health and politicians salaries.

- At the lecture Gerd spoke of Gut Feeling often being a process of strategies which has been honed through evolution .. So even though the logic of the strategy is not clear ..it survives cos it works. This gives me a revolutionary idea : that instead of using complicated thinking to think up complex logical strategies you could run a computer program which automatically generates and tries out simple possible strategies in a simulation. It would discard strategies that don't work i.e. successful strategies would evolve. .. from pc454t.htm

- A place where people can go to reform themselves, before things get so bad society has to reform them.
- Humans are special cos unlike the peeing tomcat they can overcome addicive behavior. And if they do address their behaviour problems early then they save society from crime etc.

- So have a place where people can check themselves into, before things get real bad and society has to spend real big money processing them through the prison and justice system."When you wonna getta out of drug addiction, prostitution, being a gangster get yourself to the sanctuary !"

...The sanctuary needn't be a physical place, but could just be a state of mind where you address your addictive behaviour problems .. hence Santuary the book.

- Why put up with having to maintain a pokey house in England, when for 50 quid/week = £2600/year a couple could live at a Thailand resort. They'd have access to gardens and a pool, no heating bills and their room would be cleaned for them.

- Actually in Panama I have seen serviced apartment rooms for American pensioners. ... People always want to own, but don’t realise the huge maintenance cost. I suppose a group of people could form a mutual club and buy such a resort.

- Scientists often talk about self driving cars, but the in town bits are tricky. Likewise trains are good at moving long distance, but the infrastructure costs are a lot and they are crap for door to door service. So I have the idea to combine the 2 ideas : At night the M1 is closed to normal trucks. Drivers would just drive their truck to the beginning of the M1 in London. Then the computerised driving system would take over making the M1 effectively a railway to Leeds. Then at Leeds human drivers could completely the final part of the journey.

- In a car in front of a train of robot-trucks you could have a "train driver" ensuring the road is clear.

- My train of thought : In my area there used to be lots of trainlines. I started to think how you put them in... the infrastructure costs would be horrendous .. but the roads exist and in this area they are long and straight .. so just run a "train" down the road" ... well the :"train" might as well consist of normal trucks ... thinking about driverless system's I realised for them straight roads are an easy task .. the main problem is the other drivers .. so run at night when there are no other drivers. .. longer distance would be more practical you could run a Robot train down thefast lane of the M1.

- There must be many parts like USA, Canada, Siberia, where there are super long straight roads where Robot Road trains can run.
- In Australia have they thought of using drive by remote control ? where the driver just sits in Sydney ?

- our eye doesn't see the whole room so, it's a waste of energy generating a whole picture, but that's how CRT works.

- Now we don't refresh the parts of the image that don't change, but what about we don't refresh some parts of the image immediately even when they do change ? on the grounds that the eye wouldn't have been looking in that particular direction and noticed the change anyway.

- If you imagine a screen frame as 100 lattices, at the moment we refresh each lattice each time it changes, but actually that's not necessary cos a high percentage of the time the eye never looks at this lattice anyway. How much could you slow a lattice window refresh rate down for people not to notice ? Could you refresh some panes e.g. bottom left less frequently that say the centre. Like to begin with the panes around the Super Mario character could refresh 200 times a minute and the peripheral frames 2 times a minute

- If you could work out an algorithms to work out this redundancy, then the computational power needed to make images would be reduced, which would have a number of advantages.

- Similarly female workers should be required to take a course about avoiding difficult situations, how to talk their way out of them and ultimately how to kick a guy in the balls.

- another idea I have is if you are taking a taxi or hitchiking you can cameraphone the licence plate and text it to your mum, when you in a taxi. Indeed if women get into the habit of phoning someone everytime they get in a taxi saying "I'm at X and I'll be at Y in Z minutes", then that should put the bad guys off.

- Everytime I go to the theatre there are few people 1. It’s too far for people to go out of their way and perhaps be disappointed so turn a Saturday into a theatre festival day, put on 5 shows, have an atmosphere bit of music, test pieces etc. Since people will be there all day there's a high chance they'll see something they like. (I saw that KLPAC did this in January, they had an open day)

-2. take the theatre to where the people are shopping centre, airport waiting room, supermarket, office at hometime.

* 3 ideas from pc327.htm

- could register any kind of verbal contract the above way. Contractbank, promiseline, shake-on-it.com

- video shows maybe on bus TV
- 1.Explore KL - I drag a fat Chinese guy to interesting places in city
- 2. Get out & Live - featuring this weeks art and partipant sport activities, sports,
- 3. Maybe Chinese guy drags me to restaurant Durian etc

- the bus videos adverts/promotions are made of local businesses we pass

- Clubs close at 3am, so someone needs to provide a safe place for people before public transport begins. An LRT station has controlled entrances and cameras so how about there ? Turn it into a chillout cafe before the trains begin.

- FREESHARE- Yes you can use any of the ideas for free, but you can't claim exclusivity, or claim you invented it. I've got plenty of other ideas.