Interesting Links for 20-01-2012
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andrewducker- Metropolitan Police wins appeal over 2009 G20 'kettling' tactics
- Nuke support in UK hits record high
- Anglo-Scottish grid link approved to allow new renewable energy schemes
- What it's like for graduates being recruited into the banking industry
- More women became UK professors
- The UK Defence Review produces a template of how armed forces would look in an independent Scotland.
- Top Income Tax Rate: How's 83% Sound?
- Meghalaya, India: Where women rule, and men are suffragettes
- Are There Fundamental Laws of Cooking?
- Does marriage really make people happier?
- Why the feds smashed Megaupload
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Date: 2012-01-20 10:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-20 11:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-20 11:24 am (UTC)I know that personally when I was married I was miserable. Now with Rome Girl we semi-cohabitate (she's here about five to six months of the year) and much happier.
(In fact, Rome Girl has said her dream is for us to make enough money so that we could have separate yet nearby apartments. Given that we are both freelance writers, however, having that kind of money is not apt to happen in the near future.)
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Date: 2012-01-20 11:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-20 11:44 am (UTC)Hell, when I was married every time we went out and my wife was the designated driver and therefore not drinking everyone would ask her if she was pregnant and generally not believe her when she said "no."
When I was married if I went out several nights in a given week with my friends and my wife didn't feel like going out, people would ask me if we were having problems in our relationship. Because Rome Girl and I aren't married we don't get those kinds of questions. When you are married people feel the need to invite both of you to events, even if it's well known that one of you would really rather not go. So you end up hanging out with one of your spouses friends who you hate on a regular basis. But if you are not married society says it's totally OK for your spouse's friend to just invite your spouse.
Plus, when you are married there is a generally a feeling of "God if this ever goes bad and I want to get out of it it's going to be really hard and people will feel sorry for me" that you don't get when you are not married. Knowing that you won't have to call a lawyer if things get bad can, I think, help prevent things getting bad.
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Date: 2012-01-20 04:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-20 12:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-20 12:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-20 12:32 pm (UTC)I am getting a picture of him trying to appear cynical and wordly-wise and not quite succeeding.
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Date: 2012-01-20 01:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-20 01:39 pm (UTC)He does sound young.
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Date: 2012-01-20 01:46 pm (UTC)It's why the SNP want independence, so that they'll be at the top rather than the bottom, and can stop being crushed and start crushing!
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Date: 2012-01-20 01:50 pm (UTC)In all seriousness - I think the weak are to be nurtured if they can be made strong and protected if they can not be made strong and it is the duty of the strong to forbear from mis-using* their strength.
*The definition of mis-use being the subject of some discussion I understand.
It's why the SNP want independence, so that they'll be at the top rather than the bottom, and can stop being crushed and start crushing!
LOL - perhaps I should take out membership whilst there is still a chance to look like a volunteer and not a collaborator.
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Date: 2012-01-20 05:47 pm (UTC)I've known many highly intelligent people with the sense of a dead badger. it's terrifying.
[I've also suffered a few breakdowns via epic stress. Ho hum]
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Date: 2012-01-20 12:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-20 12:29 pm (UTC)There is so much grid improvement or re-enforcement work that has to happen before we can stick a load of windfarms etc in the north of Scotland. Not surprising as most of the grid in Scotland is designed to shift power around the Central Belt and the bits for shifting power from Highland hydro plants is full.
It’s going to take years to do all the work even if they all had planning permission gifted by the zoning permit fairies overnight.
There is even talk of a big undersea cable from Peterhead to the Thames to bypass the congestion.
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Date: 2012-01-20 02:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-20 05:52 pm (UTC)as the LHC does it's funky high-energy thing, there sits a generation of string theorists etc hoping desperately that some cool things are found for them to apply their jolly cunning minds to.... because it's either that or become an accountant.
it's basic intellectual death.