Interesting Links for 15-7-2011

[andrewducker]

• The Things (Peter Watts short story about The Thing)
  (tags: short_story scifi PeterWatts)
• Getting to Crazy - Is the mainstream waking up to the truth about the Republicans?
  (tags: politics usa republicans economics)
• Mozilla demos BrowserID. The latest attempt to get rid of passwords and store identity in the browser.
  (tags: security browser authentication mozilla firefox identity browserid)
• In other evil Tory news: Poor to be banned from bringing spouses to the UK from overseas. Right of appeal also to be dropped.
  I mean, really. Are they suggesting these things just to get them blocked?
  (tags: conservatives immigration politics evil uk)
• Award winning author abandons writing to be a teacher, explains why.
  (tags: writing teaching stress life business)
• Gene found that produces higher levels of food cravings in Europeans
  (tags: food genetics)
• Gamers With Disabilities Battle Indifferent Industry
  (tags: disabilities gaming computer_games)
• More information about the brain's network connections revealed
  (tags: brain psychology neuroscience)

Comments

[andrewducker]

Okay, so not as evil as I thought.

I still object to the dropping of appeals though - the whole point of appeals is to apply scrutiny to decisions that may well be wrong. If a percentage of people are winning their appeal that tells me that the initial decisions _are_ sometimes wrong, and thus an appeal process is necessary.

[andrewhickey.livejournal.com]

Oh absolutely. Appeals processes should be sacrosanct.

And you know my opinion - we should have basically open borders, and put the money we currently spend on keeping people out into helping people who are here integrate instead (ESOL classes and so on).

But the main point seems to be a non-story - or at worst, some kind of harmonisation of Commonwealth immigration rules to be closer to non-Commonwealth ones.