Interesting Links for 28-10-2011
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andrewducker- French government 'banning vegetarianism' in school canteens
- Wheat is EVIL. Apparently.
- Samuel L. Jackson Is the highest-grossing actor of all time.
- Sentencing laws: Mandatory life and public protection. A difficult balancing act
- Livejournal apparently having massive privacy/security issues right now.
- An explanation of the latest Livejournal security/privacy mess.
- Ex-Prime Minster's claim £1.7million for "public duties".
- Company makes children's toys out of their own drawings. Almost offensively cute.
- Google's latest response on pseudonyms on G+
- Google+ is now available with Google Apps (migration tool coming soon)
migration - Samsung overtakes Apple in smartphone sales. We'll see how they are once the 4S figures come in.
- How the new public sector pensions will work
- UK clocks change trial being considered - moving us onto Central European Time.
- Google Denies Requests To Remove Videos of Police Brutality
- Wired Readers Suggest The Greatest Geek Books of All Time. They are clearly old.
- Directors' pay rose 50% in past year.
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Date: 2011-10-28 11:34 am (UTC)http://www.deadline.com/2011/10/warners-pulling-harry-potter-out-of-circulation-dec-29-with-12-1b/
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Date: 2011-10-28 11:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-28 11:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-28 11:40 am (UTC)(You don't need one if you get a paid account, which isn't expensive.)
They're having problems importing from LJ at the moment, due to the recent security changes, but I'm sure they'll get that fixed.
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Date: 2011-10-28 11:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-28 12:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-28 12:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-28 12:17 pm (UTC)And yes, the French take school dinners, and the quality of food in general, very seriously.
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Date: 2011-10-28 12:21 pm (UTC)Had a look at the import. Does it convert all the privacy settings on each post too?
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Date: 2011-10-28 12:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-28 12:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-28 12:34 pm (UTC)And the 'chicken' thing is pretty universal; I heard similar stories happening to my dad's students on their exchange years in France.
Though I don't think it's that chicken is not perceived as 'meat'. Rather, it's the word that's routinely translated as 'meat' really means 'red meat'. It's as if someone said, 'I don't eat game', and you said, 'That's okay, I'll make beefburgers'.
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Date: 2011-10-28 12:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-28 12:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-28 12:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-28 12:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-28 12:44 pm (UTC)The supposed ban on ketchup is in fact a far more reasonable "you can't have ketchup all the goddamn time, this is France, not the US, and kids need to learn about French food traditions, which don't involve ketchup all the bloody time".
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Date: 2011-10-28 12:51 pm (UTC)In addition to the "won't eat" people, what about the "can't eat" people? They say that they can only offer one meal option per day. Do they take equal care for gluten intolerant children? For lactose intolerant children? What about nut allergies? Are they just going to decide that everyone who isn't catered for by their particular diet just has to go elsewhere?
I recall my school offering many different options, with separate salad bar and snack bar. It seems that France's restrictions are more like sheer bloody mindedness than due to any practical reasoning.
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Date: 2011-10-28 12:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-28 01:50 pm (UTC)Also, am I the only person in the world that thinks it'd be much easier just to tell businesses to open 8am–4pm instead of changing the time zone over? I don't get why we can't just do it that way.
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Date: 2011-10-28 01:51 pm (UTC)I can believe there are people who gain 40 pounds in a year, though I don't think its very common for non-dieters. However, year after year? 200 pounds in five years? Rare. 400 pounds in 10 years? Hardly anyone.
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Date: 2011-10-28 01:54 pm (UTC)Apple make a decent profit on each device sold, Samsung don't, so market share as raw numbers-of-units is a little misleading.
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Date: 2011-10-28 02:08 pm (UTC)B) The fun of programming a calendar/appointments system that dealt with that, so that my recurring 10am meeting becomes a recurring 11am meeting when the changeover happens would be fun. But almost certainly harder than the current system was to write.
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Date: 2011-10-28 02:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-28 02:14 pm (UTC)B) I'm more postulating this as an answer to the idea of staying permanently on BST, rather than as a method for going one hour forward/one hour backward. But I'm sure that it wouldn't be an insurmountable challenge – you just set the Daylight Savings flag to automatically minus 1 from every time instead of keeping the time the same but setting an offset against GMT. If iCal can change appointment times based on timezone (which it can, without any issues), then this can be implemented easily.