Interesting Links for 16-8-2011

[andrewducker]

• Self-Care - why it's important to look after yourself, and some tips on how to go about it.
  (tags: advice self_help)
• Microsoft to shut down Microsoft Reader support - yet another reason not to buy anything with DRM on it
  (tags: microsoft ebooks drm EpicFail)
• Mum-of-two, not involved in disorder, jailed for FIVE months for accepting shorts looted from shop.
  (tags: riots crime law uk)
• Personal Responsibility: The IDS Way - "Someone Told Me I Could"
  (tags: disabilities conservatives)
• Ineffective Pick-Up Lines for the Modern Internet Persona.
  (tags: internet socialmedia funny dating)
• Obese people who are otherwise healthy live just as long as their slim counterparts, and are less likely to die of cardiovascular causes.
  (tags: weight health)
• Jailhouse phone calls reveal why domestic violence victims recant
  (tags: abuse relationships crime psychology)
• How Glasgow is being transformed for the filming of World War Z.
  (tags: zombies glasgow movies)
• The government's own research shows that cutting the benefits of problem families doesn't work
  (tags: welfare riots society uk)
• Google just bought Motorola
  (tags: motorola mobile_phones google android patents)

Comments

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

Poor people will eventually steal if they feel there is no way out for them.

Make them more poor and they will just still more.

[undeadbydawn.livejournal.com]

that's why fines are so effective.


oh, wait

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

So, healthy people live longer than unheathy ones - hardly earth-shattering!

[lebeautemps.livejournal.com]

Five months in jail, for shorts? Sounds like the police raided the flat and CPS just decided to get the other occupant for whatever they could. Shorts? REALLY?

So, we're jailing non-violent cash-strapped mums as secondary criminals but handing out community service to violent offenders as primary criminals.

Rule of Law my arse.

[kashandara.livejournal.com]

Is the amazing jailhouse reveal actually all that surprising? Having seen several friends go back into abusive relationships, it's generally because of emotional blackmail so it seems logical that would follow through to what would best change their minds about criminal proceedings too... Or was I just not following the normal thinking process?

[andrewducker]

For some reason, hardboiled cops underestimate the naivety/emotional attachment of people in these relationships, and thus assume that they must have been bullied into taking people back, rather than it being because they thought they could change them. After all, who could be _that_ dumb?

(Everyone I know, including me.)

[kashandara.livejournal.com]

Ah, I guess that me thinking differently to Law Enforcement isn't all that surprising. They're often trained to deal with violence and criminal behaviour, not psychology and real people emotional messiness I fear.

[undeadbydawn.livejournal.com]

one of the most tragic relationships I ever encountered [you're aware of it] involved an amazingly intelligent woman putting up with absurd amounts of grief because, effectively, she refused to believe that it would never get any better.

once out of the relationship, the recognition of what she'd effectively forced herself to endure was utterly heartbreaking.

[andrewducker]

Sadly, altogether too common.

[undeadbydawn.livejournal.com]

oh, hang on: Microsoft did a Reader a thingy?

[missedith01.livejournal.com]

It heartens me that the police had some complaints, at least.

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

Re: Personal Responsibility: Here in the U.S., at least, I think that "handicap-accessible" loos are commonly viewed as open to everyone, with handicapped people given priority. I think of myself as being reasonably considerate, and don't hesitate to use them. Absent Pressing Necessity (which, at age 82, sometimes applies) I'd wave a wheelchare-bound person ahead of me, of course, and my first choice would be to use an ordinary stall.

Mind you, I cannot understand the psychology of "I'm too Important to press the 'Flush' lever". And I'm not beyond suggesting that I might use some of the contents of that WC to do some Wiccan Working.