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andrewducker) wrote2017-09-20 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 20-09-2017
- HMRC will focus on mass market schemes after successful first anti-avoidance panel ruling
- (tags: tax uk )
- Before You Spend $2 Billion on Your Own Submarine, Read This
- And if you were wondering what to get me for Christmas...
(tags: transport submarine ocean luxury ) - Brontosaurus raised from dead, as scientists rule dinosaur did exist
- (tags: dinosaurs zombies )
- Sex, aggression controlled separately in female brains, but overlap in male brains (in mice)
- (tags: aggression sex mice brain )
- Red squirrels winning battle with greys in Aberdeen woods
- (tags: Scotland squirrel nature GoodNews )
- Take the impossible “literacy” test Louisiana used to give black voters.
- (tags: racism voting usa viaSwampers )
- A Proterra electric bus just drove 1,100 miles on a single charge
- (tags: bus transport electricity )
- Stirling, the university that broke the mould, turns 50
- (tags: Scotland University history )
- Scotland's rental rules are changing from December
- (tags: Scotland rental law )
- Neo-Nazi site finds home in Iceland
- (tags: Iceland web nazis freespeech )
- Feeling bad about failure is part of how we learn to do better
- I know too many people for whom this reaction is clearly extreme.
(tags: failure psychology emotion ) - On punching Nazis
- (tags: nazis freespeech violence )
- Are all space-capitalists Jewish?
- (tags: Jews stereotypes scifi )
- Edinburgh’s unbuilt Inner Ring Road
- (tags: Edinburgh transport history scotland )
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(Or, what element of Jewish culture one might "borrow" that weren't a strong part of the Ferenghi / Space-Jew riff and where that might take one with different Jews-In- SPAAAACE.)
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They start from, in my opinion, a dodgy, and unexamined, jurisprudential axiom that free speech is absolute. It's an absolute in the best known written constitution in the anglo-sphere. That doesn't mean that it has to be absolute.
I think one should be very, very careful in restricting speech.
I think if you are trying to classify behaviour that is clearly X as Y so that you can ban it (or punch it) without having to ban X then I think you will ultimately cause yourself more difficulties in the long run.
I'm okay with restricting speech that advocates for genocide or the subjugation of people based on their ethnicity and other popular Nazi tunes. I'm also okay with saying fascists have a long history of starting their politcal aspirations a long, long way beyond what is acceptable so, no, no one can be a fascist or advocate for fascism and that is a limit on the freedom of speech.
Feeling bad about failure is part of how we learn to do better
I also wonder, the article summarises the positive effects as "tried harder next time". I hope they were more clearly unambiguously positive in the actual study, "tilt harder" is not always the answer to failing to defeat the windmill.
Scotland's rental rules are changing from December
Re: Scotland's rental rules are changing from December
HMRC will focus on mass market schemes after successful first anti-avoidance panel ruling
Employer: Oh, it's not *payment*. It's just gold that we gave someone in exchange for the work they did for us.
HMRC: Yes, that is literally the oldest form of payment in existence.
I'm pleased there is more focus on banning avoidance. I'd forgotten the government could do things I was pleased about!
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But apparently that's not quite what happened. Now I'm confused.
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My first thought was 'I'd watch that movie.'
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