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[identity profile] gonzo21.livejournal.com 2012-05-04 11:12 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, the story about PE putting girls off exercise baffled me a bit too, in my experience PE lessons put *everybody* off exercise. With the possible exception of the one or two kids in each year who were really good at sports, on whom the PE teachers put all of their focus, while the rest of us proles were ridiculed, bullied and generally treated like shit.

... I have zero respect for any of the PE teachers I had at school.

One of them even gave me detention once because I had the temerity to have a letter from my doctor excusing me from doing sports that day because I had a chest infection.

[identity profile] bracknellexile.livejournal.com 2012-05-04 11:31 am (UTC)(link)
"PE lessons put girls off exercise (and me. I hated them.)"

I'm fairly sure I'm not parsing this the way it was intended :)

[identity profile] bart-calendar.livejournal.com 2012-05-04 11:39 am (UTC)(link)
Coming here from FetLife caused me to read the CBT headline with a completely different meaning than intended.

All I could think was "I've never tried CBT, but I think it would keep me awake!"

[identity profile] philmophlegm.livejournal.com 2012-05-04 11:42 am (UTC)(link)
Fair play to the Guardian for publishing that article on Mr Murdoch. Unlikely to be a popular viewpoint with its readership. I wonder if William Shawcross will now be subject to the same level of abuse that Louise Mensch was, or does that only happen to women?
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[personal profile] i_kender 2012-05-04 11:54 am (UTC)(link)
YAY new Culture novel! I LOVED the last one :)

[identity profile] naath.livejournal.com 2012-05-04 12:03 pm (UTC)(link)
MPs' pay...

I think MPs should be paid the national minimum wage and if they have a requirement for a second home it should be at the level the council would provide for a single person (their family, if they have one, should be living in the primary home). They should be able to expense only the cost of public transport between their homes (not private car use). (I know MPs also have office related expenses, which they still need to have paid).

This isn't because I think MPs are vastly overpaid fatcats; it's because these people set what the minimum wage is, they set what level of accommodation is deemed to be acceptable, they don't actually run the public transport network but they do dictate much of its funding. I want MPs to experience just how bad life on what they have determined is "enough" money, "enough" house space.

[identity profile] steer.livejournal.com 2012-05-04 12:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I am pretty sure that in Europe the ruling is that an IP address is personally identifiable information. A few years ago we were collecting a major database of internet traces for researchers and needed to know what level of anonymisation was suitable.

Now obviously if it was legal for me to publish a plain IP address and every IP address it connects to people would raise hell.

The main law we had to deal with was the one about the release of personally identifiable information. Hence we had to ensure that the IP addresses were suitably anonymised.

Without that legal protection (that the IP address counts as personally identifiable information) I'm not sure there would be much to stop an intermediate carrier (say your ISP) from publishing all the IP addresses you connect to. (They would not because it would be commercial suicide -- nonetheless it is good to have legal protection in place to stop this).

My point is that completely decoupling IP address from personal identity might have unexpected and bad consequences in european law.

[identity profile] nancylebov.livejournal.com 2012-05-04 02:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Related to the quiet hands link: Try to Feel It My Way by Suzette Haden Elgin, about people who are "touch dominant"-- who have touching things as a major way of getting information and feeling comfortable in the world.

[identity profile] eatsoylentgreen.livejournal.com 2012-05-04 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I hated gym class too. Except once, where they had us do circuit training. They laid out gym class, had us running in circles, calisthenics, working out with weights... I got in such good shape during that unit, when they just said "here's the space, go to it."
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