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andrewducker) wrote2012-03-07 11:00 am
andrewducker) wrote2012-03-07 11:00 am
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Interesting Links for 07-03-2012
- Ken Clarke defends secret courts. I, of course, think they're an awful idea.
- 6 Things Rich People Need to Stop Saying
- Jews in Scotland may be disenfranchised by a Saturday vote.
Is there a reason why voting has to happen on one day? Give people a week to vote, with daily updates on the ongoing count!
- Kids born later in the year more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD
- Govt. agencies, colleges demand applicants' Facebook passwords. (And they can, frankly, fuck off)
- Dammit, I find myself largely in agreement with esr on Hollywood, piracy and the internet
- A man who informed police when he found child abuse images on his computer has not been allowed to be alone with his daughter for four months.
- How I became Amazon’s pitchman for a 55-gallon drum of personal lubricant on Facebook
- On Writers Block
- I hadn't realised that Gillian Anderson stood on a box for The X-Files
- Either be offensive, or don't be offensive. Being offensive and then pretending you weren't is just dumb.
- Rather than a mansion tax we should be sorting out council tax
- Romney vs Mr Burns - can you tell which quote belongs to which one?
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The UK is lucky that their student athletes are actually student athletes and not simply fund raising machines.
The real fault of this is the NFL. When they decided that all professional football players had to have university degrees that encouraged universities to build stadiums so they could have the players the NFL wouldn't accept yet, make money off the games and then give the football players meaningless degrees four years later.
Eventually they realized that it was a waste to simply make money off of this during football season and just expanded the practice to their other sporting programs.