Interesting Links for 22-07-2012
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andrewducker- Sadly, Nation Knows Exactly How Colorado Shooting's Aftermath Will Play Out
- Railworks Train Simulator: An Awesomely Stupid Review
- They Live cosplay
- Barack Obama Names Alan Moore Official White House Biographer
- “The Life and Works Of Alan Moore” On Mastermind - how many did you know (about 4 for me)
- Naked rambler Stephen Gough arrested again. I am full of fury and despair
- The lost decade of digital music sales
- June global temperatures fourth highest on record
- Anxiety disorders in poor moms likely to result from poverty, not mental illness
- Some ideas for improving Britain's relations with Europe. Why they may not work
- Reign of the giant insects ended with the evolution of birds
- Private hospital told doctors to delay NHS work to boost profits
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Date: 2012-07-22 03:48 pm (UTC)Why?
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Date: 2012-07-22 03:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-22 05:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-22 05:20 pm (UTC)I find the idea that we should censor other people offensive.
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Date: 2012-07-22 05:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-22 05:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-22 05:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-23 08:48 am (UTC)I refuse to draw a line, because I see no logic for preferring a line in position X over a line in position Y. It is MY BODY, and I will show the world as much or as little of it as I choose; you get to look away if you don't like it.
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Date: 2012-07-23 03:52 pm (UTC)I can understand the value of not drawing a line, and I appreciate that as a position, but I still think the situation is more nuanced than that. This is the shouting-fire-in-a-crowded-theatre debate. Your right to throw a punch ends one inch away from my face; we're talking about photons here, which makes it more difficult.
I've not seen your face (or hair) so I can't answer your question. Perhaps you have a swastika tattooed on it. If so I would defend your right to freedom of expression, but I would expect you to understand that you are, probably deliberately, being offensive to many people.
Do I have the right to express myself, in song, outside your bedroom widow at 2am? Does it make any difference if the song is political or has artistic merit?
If you're naked in public and I don't want to see it, and I turn away as is my right, then do you have the right to run around the front and waggle at me?
Did Richard Herring have the right to make that rohypnol joke last week?
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Date: 2012-07-23 04:04 pm (UTC)My appearance is no more or less offensive than that of millions of other women; and yet if I went out dressed as I am (trousers, shirt) in the streets of Kabul or Tehran I'd be risking arrest (or worse) for my immodest state of dress.
Anxiety disorders in poor moms likely to result from poverty, not mental illness
Date: 2012-07-22 05:33 pm (UTC)I think I could spend ten minutes at Tim Hortons and find at least fifty people to tell them that poverty contributes to anxiety and the poor moms are most likely to be affected.
Knowing where the rent money, food money, and utility money were coming from would probably do much more good than medications.
It's a bit like concluding that water is wet and apples grow on apple trees.
Re: Anxiety disorders in poor moms likely to result from poverty, not mental illness
Date: 2012-07-22 06:12 pm (UTC)Having the science to back up that position is incredibly handy.
Re: Anxiety disorders in poor moms likely to result from poverty, not mental illness
Date: 2012-07-23 12:55 am (UTC)Or that the Earth is flat, or that the continents have been fixed in their current positions in perpetuity.
There have been many things that people have known to be true, that people find obvious, that weren't actually true. Other things that were true but many people didn't believe.
This is in the latter case. Having research and evidence to back things up makes it a lot easier to persuade policy makers, especially if said policy makers are from the sort of background that thinks poverty is not being able to afford the school fees.
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Date: 2012-07-23 09:51 am (UTC)I hope he doesn't whine about having troubles finding a job.
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Date: 2012-07-22 05:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-22 05:08 pm (UTC)Only had a teeny bit of testing (I set up a Wordpress and ran tests until it worked), but it should be ok.
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Date: 2012-07-22 05:50 pm (UTC)My plan is to have a weekly roundup of ecological news for my blog, "Nature Intrudes."
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Date: 2012-07-22 09:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-22 11:25 pm (UTC)