It is refreshing to read an article in mainstream media that explains correlation and causality in such a clear way. More people need to read this -- I've posted it on my twitter and will report in my LJ. Thanks!
Scotland in black and white: the golf course one is particularly telling.
Ofcom: hurrah. But how do we fit all the mobiles in 07, and need three digits for landlines? 03 for pseudo-local business lines sounds like a good idea.
I can't remember which Predator film is which, or which I've seen.
Oh, hm. I agree letting people in prison vote is probably a good idea, but I genuinely didn't think it was a problem at the moment, so I was surprised to see the change made until I saw it had come from Europe. I'm also trying to think, of all the random stories about human rights imposed from Europe, if there were any I disagreed with, and I don't think there were, which seems quite positive!
I've seen a theory (probably in The Brain that Changes Itself, a book about neuroplasticity) that autism could be caused by early exposure to white noise.
The hypothesis is that brains develop to pull signal out of experience but white noise has no signal, and brains get miswired.
I did a couple of comparison shots using Edinphoto's archive when I was bored one summer - have a look here for the flickr set. It's really good fun. I bet there's some sort of phone app you can use to do this nowadays.
So, if digital files are not considered "tangible goods", and we do not get the same protection when buying them, logically copyright infringement can't be considered stealing, and the owners can't expect the same protection when we do so. It goes both ways.
"Dr. Volk and her colleagues found that living within 309 meters of a freeway (or just over 1000 feet) at birth was associated with a two-fold increase in autism risk. [....] The researchers found no consistent pattern of association of autism with proximity to a major road."
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A freeway is not a major road? Ohhhkay. Or do I mean 'Very well.'
And yet the public (and arguably some members of the government, at least when caught on camera) still expect the banks to provide low interest credit (credit here meaning "people spending money they don't have") to individuals and small businesses and free banking.
Apparently the small business are "struggling" because the photogenic ones interviewed can't get credit. Whether or not they're telling the whole story (some evidence suggests they're usually not), if THEY are struggling and expect someone else to bail them out, why not the banks? If those people think that the banks should suffer, why should the banks suffer but their badly thought-out business be bailed out?
Sure, the banks are all up shit creek, and it's a mess mostly of their own doing (though not entirely, the mess was entirely government and public-backed from the lowest to the highest level), that doesn't mean you can expect things to go back to how they were.
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Scotland in black and white: the golf course one is particularly telling.
Ofcom: hurrah. But how do we fit all the mobiles in 07, and need three digits for landlines? 03 for pseudo-local business lines sounds like a good idea.
I can't remember which Predator film is which, or which I've seen.
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The hypothesis is that brains develop to pull signal out of experience but white noise has no signal, and brains get miswired.
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A freeway is not a major road? Ohhhkay. Or do I mean 'Very well.'
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Apparently the small business are "struggling" because the photogenic ones interviewed can't get credit. Whether or not they're telling the whole story (some evidence suggests they're usually not), if THEY are struggling and expect someone else to bail them out, why not the banks? If those people think that the banks should suffer, why should the banks suffer but their badly thought-out business be bailed out?
Sure, the banks are all up shit creek, and it's a mess mostly of their own doing (though not entirely, the mess was entirely government and public-backed from the lowest to the highest level), that doesn't mean you can expect things to go back to how they were.