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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2012-05-23 12:00 pm
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[personal profile] thejeopardymaze 2012-05-24 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Fat tax: Well I don't agree with the blame on fat for causing fatness, but what I'm really worried is how this kind of thing affects people with epilepsy-who are not just kids-who rely on fat heavy ketogenic diets. Why is their right to treatment without extra penalties not considered? It's incredibly stupid.


Nine year old shaming school: I'm willing to bed if she was a US student she'd be penalized by the school system if not outright be kicked out and forced to change districts due to Zero Tolerance.


I Don't Respect Your Beliefs: I tend to see these things as more of an ideology problem, and stupid ideologies are in practically every power structure to control people. In addition I was never impressed with the film Dogma. Not because I'm a bitter ex-Catholic (well I am an ex-Catholic, but it was very religion-light), but it doesn't really challenge institutional structures.
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[identity profile] steer.livejournal.com 2012-05-23 11:44 am (UTC)(link)
Which TV shows have the highest body count?

Hitchhikers. Entire human race (less two) destroyed in first episode. Entire universe destroyed in subsequent episode.

Still going to suffer from the Gorilla-arm problem.

I am glad someone else still remembers this. When I was an undergraduate it was the canonical example of bad UI design which looks cool on paper. Seemingly half the world doesn't remember this -- or at least the half that designs UI in film and games. (I wince every time I watch Joker use the console in Mass Effect -- his arm is half suspended in the air all day and he has those brittle bones. He's got to be in agony by the end of shift.)

[identity profile] strawberryfrog.livejournal.com 2012-05-23 12:06 pm (UTC)(link)
The Incredible realtime lighting demo crashes my browser (Firefox on ubuntu)

[identity profile] naath.livejournal.com 2012-05-23 01:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Non-stick coating> cool!

[identity profile] nancylebov.livejournal.com 2012-05-23 02:33 pm (UTC)(link)
The fat tax piece is a good start, but it leaves out the effects of a fat tax on non-fat people, the question of whether eating less fat is a reliable method of losing weight, and whether losing weight is a reliable method of improving health.
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[identity profile] inamac.livejournal.com 2012-05-23 03:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Which TV shows have the highest body count?

It's a bit of a cheat to put two vampire shows in there isn't it?

So that's why Midsomer Murders never sold to the US. Couldn't stand the competition.

Angry Birds and murder

[identity profile] sandy666.livejournal.com 2012-05-23 04:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, Coronation Street was used to plan a murder recently. Some kid/young man got the idea from Coronation Street and decided to apply what he learnt from the show on his parents.

If Coronation Street can inspire I murder, then I guess anything can. However, I would have thought it Coronation Street would inspire murder.

[identity profile] octopoid-horror.livejournal.com 2012-05-23 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Isn't it in the food industry's interest for customers to be unable to use the last amount of sauce in the bottle and so, over a lifetime, buy more bottles of sauce than they would have needed if they had been able to use all of it?
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