we are agnostic. we are happy. >> speaking of microsoft, we have a privacy series here back in september. one of our guests was from than two. she talked about what -- was from yahoo!, and she talked about what they do to ensure privacy. >> it is fairly technical. we go into it in some detail in our privacy policy and talk to consumers about the very specific type of data being transmitted by your browser to our server. that is what our data retention policy identifies after 90 days so that it is not kept in perpetuity. it is released. we are trying to have a privacy policy that conveys this information, and we are looking for ways to make this affirmation a lot more understandable, to simplify it, to speak to consumers in a language they can understand. we are looking for symbols. we're looking for shortcuts to get consumers actionable privacy information that they do not have to dig around and look for, that is readily available to them in depth. >> that is exactly right. than you has a wonderful --

i say i'm an agnostic and agnostic means i don't know. and i embrace not knowing.of this mystery. we just don't know the answer. >> rose: the exciting thing the more you find out the more miss steruous it is. >> absolutely. >> rose: we are stool-- tools now that can tell us stuff we could never imagine knowing within the stronger our telescopes get the further the universal is away from us. >> rose: that's it. so what are you writing now? >> what am i writing? i embarked on a project that both excites me and ter fews me. i'm trying to write a musical play with a playwright called brian yorky who just won the pulitzer for a play called next to normal. >> rose: right. >> and it is based upon an album i did many, many years ago about my home town new castle in the north of england, the death of my father, and the death of the industry which is shipbuilding. and it's a mood piece. and i'm trying to make it into a book and a play. and it is terrifying. and i wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat thinking what am i doing. how am i going to do this. at the sa

so, look, i am more agnostic on the question of needle exchange. but the idea that you're sitting there with someone showing them the vein, which vein to use, yes, you want to treat that vein if it becomes abscessed and infected, absolutely. but what you want to do try to get that person to understand that drug use is bad. yes, it's bad. >> the whole approach is very libertarian approach that canada has taken. i don't think it would be widely accepted across united states. it's very controversial. the studies are -- that he been done that have been looked at have been observational studies not clinical studies. so there really is -- i think a mixed message sent by advocate these programs. >> you can take a two-prong approach. prevention is very important but at the same time you need to acknowledge that there are these users out there, they can spread disease, studies have been mixed but they have not shown needle exchanges to be harmful. so i think we have to look at multiple approaches here. >> all right. that's what we're doing. that's it for th

so we're ago agnostic. we're happy to have, we're just happy to see companies move forward. >> host: well, speaking of microsoft, we had a privacy series here on "the communicators" back in september. and one of our guests was ann toth of yahoo!. and she talked about what yahoo! does for, to insure privacy. >> guest: uh-huh. >> well, browsers, you know, technology on the internet has a lot to do with browsers and delivering pages to specific users, and it is fairly technical. we go into it in some detail in our privacy policy and talk to consumers about the very specific types of data that's being transmitted by your browser to our servers. that's the kind of data that our data retention policy deletes in the 90 days so it's not kept in perpetuity. but what we're trying to do is looking for different ways to really make this kind of information a lot more understandable, to simplify it, to really speak to consumers in a language they can understand, and we're looking for symbols, we're looking for shortcuts

there are many atheists and agnostics who are afraid to come out of the closet. afraid to identify themselves. >> reporter: not surprisingly, many religious people are angered by what the atheists are doing. especially right now. >> they have to use our season to make their point because they have no season for themselves to celebrate. that's exactly the problem with atheists who are activists. >> i don't think they should do it during the holiday season. that can ruin a lot of people's holidays. >> reporter: but others are more understanding. >> might not be what i believe in. but they're protected under the law. >> reporter: some atheists who claim there are 34 million fellow nonbelievers in america say this coming christmas season is the perfect time to have this discussion. here's how this discussion has gone so far. in response to the atheist billboard that says you know it's a myth, celebrate reason, a new york-based catholic group has put up their own billboard. it says, you know it's real. this season, celebrate jesus. and atheist leaders have fired back

. >> is that atheist or agnostic. >> i would say atheist. but we all have a slightly different take on it. and my take on it is that -- which is unlike hitchins, that i think if you happen to be religious and the brings you nourishment and solace and inspiration, whatever, that's your business, not mine. and i don't see that it's my business to tell you that you're an idiot. i might think it. >> or as chris kristopherson said, to get you through the night. >> yes. but the religious sensibility is moving more and more into public affairs and politics and trying to determine the way in which an entire society should shape its exef what path it should follow and then i have a quarrel with it. in india where nobody thought of hinduism as extremist, there's a militant extremist hinduism and it can be true in parts of america there can be an extreme faction of christianity. >> how will this play itself out? is there an end game? >> well, i have always felt, in many of these ancient myths that i tried to use in luka and the fire of life, any situat

i'm political agnostic at best. i don't trust that system.nterested in what happens in our heart and soul, so i thought, "okay," you know, "there's all this stuff going on in mexico and people probably don't think about, and there's these young women who have all this potential and drive but have no way to get at opportunity, and there's a young gay man." and i thought, "wouldn't it be subversive to write a novel for the american popular reader that would have them rooting for people that they wouldn't normally root for?" >> hinojosa: oh, that's so sweet that they're actually rooting. we've got like 30 seconds left... >> oy! >> hinojosa: but i just want to... i want you to say... >> yeah. >> hinojosa: we should be looking for your work upcoming on the big screen? what are we looking at? >> oh, the hummingbird's daughter is being filmed by luis mandoki with... i was busy, so they hired antonio banderas, you know. >> hinojosa: ( laughing ) >> banderas is in. >> hinojosa: and into the beautiful north? >> we're hoping. into the beautiful north is

if every child learns to read they can be platform agnostic, you and i read newspapers, we read magazines, we read our computer screens, on ipads, on kindles, i would hope that every kid in the world can do that but i think there is some notion that there is a magic technology solution we can throw at the developing world is a canard. ittarts with low-ch things like teachers who are trained, librarian who is encourage kids in the habit of reading and systems that make sure we measure performance so we know that the libraries are being used and the kids are taking books home and learning to read. >> charlie: tell me your best story of somebody you have met on this journey. >> it would go back to the village of bahundanda where we did the first library. there are now 16-year-old children who were in kindergarten when with we opened that first library, and i talked to these 16-year-olds now and they are literal and fluent in their mother tongue d in english, and i asked the 10-year-old -- 16-year-old boys what do you want to be when you grow up and they say "i want to be a civil engineer, i

. >> i am agnostic on the goal, i must say. you have seen what a non-nuclear world looks like. it looked like the first half of the last century. it looks like world war one and world war two. of thing that was a very attractive world. i am a bit agnostic about the possibility or the possibility of that as a goal to its -- aspire to. as long as they provide a profound deterrent effect, it seems to me that they are enormously important for us and for many other countries. let me add to that, because the bipartisan strategic commissioned i believe got it right with regard to the goal of nuclear 0, the pie partisan commission saying that it will be feasible with the transformation of the world order. i agree that it will be feasible and even admiral as a goal -- an admirable as a goal. the question in my mind is whether the transformation is feasible. if there is any indication of what might be possible in the future, the answer is that level of transformation is not possible. the league of nations was an effort to create security to end international war. it failed. the united na

. >> i am agnostic on the goal, i must say. you have seen what a non-nuclear world looks like.ed like the first half of the last century. it looks like world war one and world war two. of thing that was a very attractive world. i am a bit agnostic about the possibility or the possibility of that as a goal to its -- aspire to. as long as they provide a profound deterrent effect, it seems to me that they are enormously important for us and for many other countries. let me add to that, because the bipartisan strategic commissioned i believe got it right with regard to the goal of nuclear 0, the pie partisan commission saying that it will be feasible with the transformation of the world order. i agree that it will be feasible and even admiral as a goal -- an admirable as a goal. the question in my mind is whether the transformation is feasible. if there is any indication of what might be possible in the future, the answer is that level of transformation is not possible. the league of nations was an effort to create security to end international war. it failed. the united nations wa

be high-frequency trading has entered the market, we are fairly agnostic to the point that it adds liquidityd doesn't cause undue dislocation on a a given day or week we are okay. we don't believe regulators have the appropriate tools to understand all the things that go on. we are pretty smart and understand a lot that goes on and i am sure there are areas we can't possibly understand today what does concern me is there are nefarious activities and participants who are out there who today are taking advantage of investors'. that is wrong. if you bring nothing to the party in terms of liquidity work efficiency you shouldn't tax investors. there is no purpose. we have concerns about high frequency or any participant manipulating the market. >> two follow-up questions i will ask members of the panel and comment on both of these. some propose there is an ipo crisis that in part is a consequence or outcome of short-term strategies. what link do you see between the dynamics of market fragmentation and difficulties identified particularly in markets sectors that you don't participate in but others

that it is a conversation and we include people of all faiths and no doubt face of we have a is an agnostic and humanist and muslims hindus, buddhists, evangelicals, right wing and left wing, hindus, wiccans -- you name it, we got it. it is a constant conversation. we have a panel questioned. we ask people about their faith or questions about eight every week. this week -- is christmas a christian holiday. the answers have been a really interesting. actually there are more people who celebrate santa claus and shopping than people who actually celebrate the birth of christ, and yet it has become a national holiday and many people -- christmas is my favorite time of year. i have always loved christmas. even as an atheist -- a great tree and an angel and the christmas carols and all those kinds of things. so, we celebrate faith and we want all different views, we want to have people get to understand and learn about other people's points of view. so, if you have a discussion about gays in the military or gay marriage that we did a couple of years ago, bishop eugene robinson, who is a gave bish

that its a conversation and we include people of all faiths and no doubt face of we have a is an agnostic

which is why the google e-book store is so pivotal is that we'll probably moving to more of a device agnostic environment. so, we will see what happens at that, which means you can read your e-book on your laptop and on your phone and on your typepad and everything else. and yet -- go ahead, sorry peter. >> host: i was going to say google e-book launched on december 6 and they've already had 3 million free books downloaded and hundreds of thousands -- they have 3 million books on site for free and hundreds of thousands of books for purchase and are readable on any browser as you mentioned. what is going to be the effective google into the bookmark it? >> guest: i think that -- you know, it's anybody's guess on this, really. it's a whole new frontier. mica is again that if you buy a book like matterhorn, what i would like to see is you buy this 800 page book on the vietnam war and maybe you don't want to schlep it on the train that day. so what would be nice is to be able to read it on your phone or read it on your ipad or on what other device that is while you're on the train so you don't hav

which is why the google e-book store is so pivotal is that we'll probably moving to more of a device agnostic environment. so, we will see what happens at that, which means you can read your e-book on your laptop and on your phone and on your typepad and everything else. and yet -- go ahead, sorry peter. >> host: i was going to say google e-book launched on december 6 and they've already had 3 million free books downloaded and hundreds of thousands -- they have 3 million books on site for free and hundreds of thousands of books for purchase and are readable on any browser as you mentioned. what is going to be the effective google into the bookmark it? >> guest: i think that -- you know, it's anybody's guess on this, really. it's a whole new frontier. mica is again that if you buy a book like matterhorn, what i would like to see is you buy this 800 page book on the vietnam war and maybe you don't want to schlep it on the train that day. so what would be nice is to be able to read it on your phone or read it on your ipad or on what other device that is while you're on the train so you don't hav