In this week’s episode Pat Roach joins in as a guest. Darren starts things off with a discussion on whether violence is declining; a review of Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature. Adam passes judgment on courtroom television shows and Pat explores the myth that Steve Jobs stole the mouse from Xerox Parc.
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Show Notes
Violence Declining
Aaron The Book Reporter at New Books In Brief
Judge Shows
What Legal Authority Does Judge Judy Have? – Mental Floss
How Do Those Judge Shows On TV Work? Weakonomics
Out of Order: Infiltrating Judge Joe Brown – Cracked.com
The People’s Court – Wikipedia
Judge Judy Sheindlin – Little Known Facts – Yahoo! Voices
In The Audience At One Of Those Fake-Judge “Reality” Shows – Houston – News – Hair Balls
Did Steve Jobs Steal the Mouse?
Gladwell on Innovation Truths and Confusions
Xerox Parc, Apple and the Truth about Innovation
Engelbart: The Mother of all Demos
Video: The Mother of all Demos (1 of 9)
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I know of at least one Canadian court show… in french!
http://vtele.ca/emissions/l-arbitre/
Thanks Yves. I had not heard of this one. Indeed it looks like this show uses a similar system for paying out the award as other shows:
“Si vous avez un litige et que vous souhaitez le résoudre RAPIDEMENT et GRATUITEMENT, soumettez-le à l’Arbitre. Les participants à l’émission recevront un cachet minimal de 100$ et tous dommages accordés par l’Arbitre à une des parties seront défrayés à même un fonds constitué par le Producteur.”
http://vtele.ca/emissions/l-arbitre/description.php
Looks like I know what I need to do if I ever get in legal trouble…
Also the show goes up to 7000$ which is more than Judge Judy does!
“Il faut qu’une des deux personnes poursuive l’autre pour un montant n’excédant pas 7 000$”
http://vtele.ca/emissions/l-arbitre/questions-reponses/
Also, she does not appear to be a “real” judge but then the show doesn’t seem to insinuate she is outside of her clothing:
http://www.goldwaterdube.com/en/profiles/me-anne-france-goldwater.html
Hellο; Je ѕuis agée dе vingt-seρt
années .
Je m’appelle Jacquenett.
Mon boulot: barmaid . Est-ce un défaut d’être attentionnée ?