Interesting Links for 02-05-2012
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andrewducker- MPs announce that Rupert Murdoch is not a fit person to run News Corp
- The EU's Common Agricultural Policy is slowly being reformed.
- Unrealistic expectations of relationships are a scourge on society.
- How Marvel took The Avengers from a throwaway reference in Iron Man to a record-breaking movie
- Sleep cancels out obesity gene
- Pakistani province's high court orders government to stop censoring websites illegally
- See which parties voted the way that you would want them to.
- Want to know what TV comes out when? Then this is the most awesome site in the universe.
- The dilemmas of TV filming - camera types are changing, and the different styles cause different emotional effects
- Nine more people arrested for naming a rape victim on Twitter.
- Wormworld saga chapter 3 is out. The art is still gorgeous.
- On rape within the BDSM community
- Have 26 per cent fewer houses been built under the Coalition?
- Consumer ebooks sales increased by 366% in 2011. Still only 6% of physical books.
- Microsoft removes racy apps from Windows Phone store. So glad my apps aren't censored.
- SPDY Performance on Mobile Networks. (From the figures, I think SPDY caches will be damned useful)
- Final Fantasy 13-2 characters model Prada. (Okay, gaming is now officially completely mainstream)
- A computer built into a radiation detector. Gloriously retro-looking
- Android Ported to C# - staggeringly faster
- Vote for the person, not the party, in your local council elections (if you're in a country with a sensible voting system)
- Scottish children drinking less fizzy drinks, drinking lots of alcohol, doing no exercise, are very happy.
- Radical Honesty - a step too far?
- Cutting red tape and taxes will not revive Britain - it's spending it in the best places that will help.
- Neal Stephenson answers interview questions (including the one about his epic battle with William Gibson). Old, but good.
- Protection of Freedoms Act landmark achievement in fight for civil liberties.
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Radical Honesty
Date: 2012-05-04 11:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-02 11:15 am (UTC)If the people running scenes were more active in educating the people - particularly newbie dom men - who are invited it would probably cut down on a lot of sexual assault.
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Date: 2012-05-02 03:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-03 04:32 pm (UTC)But that's a much more difficult proposition.
Education within the community, particularly for newbies, would cut down on nonconsent issues very quickly. Once you had that issue dealth with you then you could work on the the long term issues of weeding out bad doms and empowering subs
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Date: 2012-05-02 11:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-02 11:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-02 11:23 am (UTC)I'm sick of supposedly serious journalists claiming that marriage is superior to non-married cohabiting. Really fucking sick. I think they have the correlation the wrong way around on the break-up stats; but I also really don't fucking care - if your relationship sucks you should end it, and doing so shouldn't be something that draws social ostracisation.
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Date: 2012-05-02 11:34 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-05-02 11:25 am (UTC)Yeah. I wonder what would happen if we had fewer stories about "our eyes met across a crowded room" and more about "and then we put in a lot of effort to understand what made each other happy, and as a reward, it worked really well"... :)
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Date: 2012-05-02 11:49 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2012-05-02 11:32 am (UTC)Oh, that's awesome, I hadn't realised it had been such an ad hoc opportunity, but I'm really impressed that they did manage to assemble a bunch of films that work individually, but aren't wasted if they don't manage to culminate in one super-film.
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Date: 2012-05-02 11:36 am (UTC)Although I seemed to have missed it if the article reported any evidence of that from the study: it claimed there was correlation, but I only saw speculation about causation.
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Date: 2012-05-02 01:49 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2012-05-02 12:07 pm (UTC)Oh dear... it seems my favoured political party would be a lunatic in a box making decisions at random by tossing a coin. This agreed with me more than the next nearest political party (Lib Dem at 44%). Conservatives agreed with me more than Labour which was a surprise.
Then again some of the issue summaries were kind of surprising and rather tangential to what the actual votes were: e.g. "All smoking should be banned" was a vote on advertising and smoking in public places. "Legal Abortion should be limited as far as possible" was in fact a vote to reduce the term from 24 weeks to 12. The one about the "right to strike" was a vote about prison officers (actually I think maybe they should but I do think some professions it's just too dangerous for them to strike, the precedents for a police strike are not good).
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Date: 2012-05-02 12:10 pm (UTC)Sadly, there are no coin-tossing lunatics running for election, so I will probably vote LD->SNP->Lab tomorrow.
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Date: 2012-05-02 12:33 pm (UTC)What's weird is how low down the SDLP were, given that they're supposedly a left-of-centre party.
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Date: 2012-05-02 01:44 pm (UTC)50% Coin toss (really 33%)
28% LDem
24% UKIP
22% PC
19% Con
19% SNP
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Date: 2012-05-02 02:04 pm (UTC)LDem 41%
Green 37%
SNP 35%
Con 33%
Lab 14%
what i want is a party that's unshakeably strong on personal freedom & human rights (after getting into power), economically centre or slightly left of, pro-nuclear, and slightly euroskeptic in the sense of "the EU is good and has its uses, but does it need to do all these things and why should it be an all-or-nothing if-you're-not-with-us-you're-against-us arrangement?".
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Date: 2012-05-02 05:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-02 01:38 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-05-02 03:28 pm (UTC)http://philmophlegm.livejournal.com/235723.html
I was genuinely shocked. And about a third of the people writing those tweets were women.
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Date: 2012-05-02 02:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-02 04:18 pm (UTC)That's really interesting. I think Jeff was exactly right when he said that radical honesty was too extremist to be a sensible lifestyle choice, but that it was seductive because it made us think about all the times we'd like to avoid lying but are afraid it will be impractical, when it can (often but not always) turn out to be useful.
However, I think there's a tendency to overcompensate. The first comment described someone who played the guitar, and everyone automatically told him he was great and he thought about becoming professional, and someone told him that he sucked.
Now, I think that person was sensible to give some accurate feedback. But I also think they were embarrassed to criticise against minor social norms, and hence in an almost self-parody exaggerated what they thought.
After all, they probably mean "suck" compared to a professional player, not compared to an average person (who probably can't play the guitar _at all_), so by suddenly shifting the basis of comparison, they're just making the guitar player defensive and less likely to listen.
It would presumably have been equally true but more accurate to say something like:
"You've picked up the basics but you're not of professional standard"
or "You've picked up the basics, but you would need to dedicatedly practice for several hours a day to approach professional standard."
or "You don't have the natural talent to ever be professional"
or "You're not outstanding in natural talent and don't have much dedication. You're not of professional standard, and I don't know whether or not you could be."
It's hard to combine tact and truth, and often impossible, but I don't think giving up is the correct long-term solution (even though it may be the only expedient option in the short term).