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A supplement for the D20 modern gaming system that covers abortion clinics. Which have always been a mainstay of any game I've played in. My head just exploded.
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Ok - so can anyone tell me why their crime rate is declining?
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If you've ever thought that maybe Right Wingers thought that marriage was all about controlling women - then this will prove you right!
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"Daddy!" announces Kurtzhau heading for my cupb... I mean executive study space. "Now it's time for us to see what that Roman General looked like with his arrow kit so we can do the big battle!"
"Who?"
"Besilarius," he says with great firmness.
"Oh, Belisarius...?"
"Yes, Daddy, the one on the walls of Rome who shot the Barbarian chieftain at the start of the battle that was like Helms Deep."
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A New York court has ruled that 13 year-old Brittany Donovan may proceed with a lawsuit against the company that sold her mother, Donna, sperm that caused her to be born with Fragile X Syndrome, a devastating genetic disorder that causes mental retardation and developmental disorders.
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The disorder is modeled after post-traumatic stress disorder because it too is a response to a trauma that endures. People with PTSD are left fearful and anxious. Embittered people are left seething for revenge.
"They feel the world has treated them unfairly. It's one step more complex than anger. They're angry plus helpless," says Dr. Michael Linden, a German psychiatrist who named the behavior.
Embittered people are typically good people who have worked hard at something important, such as a job, relationship or activity, Linden says. When something unexpectedly awful happens -- they don't get the promotion, their spouse files for divorce or they fail to make the Olympic team -- a profound sense of injustice overtakes them. Instead of dealing with the loss with the help of family and friends, they cannot let go of the feeling of being victimized. Almost immediately after the traumatic event, they become angry, pessimistic, aggressive, hopeless haters.
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Supports networking, digital cinema resolution (4096x2160 @ 24Hz).
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Using the HTML5 Video tag. This could be a game-changer...
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Ouch, ouch, ouch
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When I was a teenager, I went to a boarding school for blind children where the sound of wildly rushing male and female hormones could be heard on every corridor. I particularly remember a new girl arriving. No one took much notice in her first few weeks... until one lad said they'd heard she was blonde.
She may have been a quiet shrinking violet but she suddenly started getting a lot of attention after her hair colour was made known. Of course, few of her admirers could see her crowning glory, or even knew that blonde was a kind of light yellowy brown, but because "blondes" are talked about as desirable, and dare I say thought more attractive than darker haired people, she became very popular.
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Date: 2009-05-29 11:09 am (UTC)I also like bitterness as PTSD. Explains a lot. :D
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Date: 2009-05-29 12:13 pm (UTC)There is little mention of any actual research or epidimological studies done to validate the position. It's more then likely just another "female sexual dysfunction".
As the manics said:- "We need and we are taught to need another invented disease".
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Date: 2009-05-29 11:29 am (UTC)Hmmmm... In terms of social justice, healthcare etc the Dutch have a fairly sweet deal (glibbly, it's why they are so tall).
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Date: 2009-05-29 11:12 pm (UTC)Secondly, we only know about this because presumably the Dutch govt. has released the statistics ergo we know about it through their hyperbole.
Also why would crime rates across the World, or even just Europe, show any form of uniform decline? I mean we are building prisons the Dutch demolishing them...
It's plausable that there is a lower amount of young men around in Europe and thus crime rates are uniformly dropping. Or that the Dutch legal system is now perhaps favouring more community based punishments.
But if they are closing and demolishing prisons there is likley a strong case that their crime rate is dropping.
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Date: 2009-05-30 12:00 am (UTC)Um, yes?
I acknowledge this. I suspect that theirs is dropping, and I know ours is dropping as well, which is the point I was making.
We are building prisons due to a sentencing policy that is putting more and more people away, hence media hyperbole—I'm assuming you've read the stats same as I have, I don't know much about the Dutch stats, but I suspect that their system of Govt leads to a more open discussion on issues rather than a race to the most populist that ours does.
That's a question that economists and criminologists are still arguing over—the direct correlation to abortion legalisation outlined in Freakonomics isn't generally accepted, but nor has it been completely refuted, and it's not my field so I tend to spend less time following the minutae of the discussion. It is a weird correlation though, and it is broadly similar across most of the world.
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Date: 2009-05-29 12:03 pm (UTC)Doesn't the whole case hedge on a paradoxical notion that the girl could have existed without these genetic issues in the form she is now? I mean wouldn't someone else just exist???
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Date: 2009-05-29 11:52 am (UTC)You missed the geekiest entry...
Date: 2009-05-29 05:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-30 02:29 am (UTC)Ok - so can anyone tell me why their crime rate is declining?
Is this sarcasm?
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Date: 2009-05-30 05:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-30 06:23 am (UTC)Could be a coincidence, without more numbers it's hard to say - why when that has been the state of the law would there only be a decline instead of a sharp drop-off in crime, etc, etc. Although my theory would also allow for a more permissive culture making for a less criminal population, but that's my personal politics and based (like the rest of this theory) on conjecture.
As to how that relates to Belgium, I don't know. Does Belgium have a crime increase rate that's steeper than the 'average' in Europe? I believe an increase is the norm in the central countries (and, y'know, most places), am I wrong? Belgium might have the same crime rates as somewhere next door (that isn't Holland) and just be coping really badly.
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Date: 2009-05-30 02:54 pm (UTC)It's not actually legal in the Netherlands by the way - they just have a policy of non-enforcement.
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