Interesting Links for 21-12-2017

[andrewducker]

Islamic instant divorce not legal under EU law

(tags: law Europe divorce islam )

BBC to air more religious programming

(tags: bbc religion )

Google will turn on native ad-blocking in Chrome on February 15

(tags: google chrome adblock advertising )

Who's work is entering the public domain in 2018?

(tags: copyright )

EU takes first step towards sanctions against Poland to stop drift towards authoritarianism

(tags: poland europe )

Lightwear: Introducing Magic Leap's Mixed Reality Goggles

(tags: augmentedreality Technology thefuture )

The Russian Embassy asked Channel 4 to FactCheck William Hague. Here’s what we found

(tags: russia facts )

Game of Thrones: Scientists use model to explain Westeros’s strange climate and extended seasons

(tags: gameofthrones climate simulation )

Britain is, and was, deluded about its negotiating power with the EU

(tags: UK europe )

BBC criticised for labelling England games as ‘Scottish productions’

(tags: Scotland BBC OhForFucksSake )

Scientists finally establish why there is no life on Mars

(tags: mars space )

Higher class is directly associated with a lower propensity to reason wisely in interpersonal situations.

(tags: class conflict society )

Struggling to get your kids to eat healthy? 'Don't give up!' researchers say

(tags: children food )

Scotland investigates how to modernise elections (online voting is still a terrible idea)

(tags: voting Scotland )

Donald Trump threatens to cut aid to countries over UN Jerusalem vote

(tags: usa aid Israel OhForFucksSake )

Berlin's Plan to Become a City for Cyclists

(tags: germany cities cycling )

Guy Gavriel Kay’s The Fionavar Tapestry Set for TV Treatment

(tags: tv books fantasy )

Police made appalling errors in using internet data to target suspects

(tags: police uk OhForFucksSake )

Comments

[naath]

So the ECJ have decided that foreign countiers can marry people but not divorce them, which I assume means non-zero people now have entirely unclear marital status...


Deciding that people who thought they were divorced aren't is ... incomprehensible to me. But then the entire system is barely comprehensible anyway, why should the law be interested in making people remain in relationships they want to leave, and how does that promote my human rights.

[andrewducker]

In this case it's protecting the human rights of a woman who had entered into a relationship with property and other legal rights associated with it. And who has had it stripped away against her wishes.

[naath]

As I understand it sharia law provides clear rules on the division of marital assets...

[zotz]

Not that unusual. Shaw or Wells or Russell or someone got married then divorced in Russia to show how civilised and reasonable their laws on it were, to find later that they were still regarded as married in the US.

This British case from 2014 also concerns a Russian wedding and divorce, although the divorce wasn't recognised in the UK for a different reason.

[miss_s_b]

There are so many OhForFucksSake tags these days :(

[cmcmck]

Since Google's own adblocker blocks ads pretty effectively anyway- even the ones asking you to switch off the adblocker (dream on guys) what me worry?

[calimac]

I fear that too many parents will take "Don't give up!" to mean "Force that child to sit at the table until they eat that food or hell freezes over, whichever comes first," even though that's not what the researchers mean. Heck, too many parents do that already.

[ninetydegrees]

*nods* My parents did that: it only led me to eat unhealthy food for a long while as soon as I was living on my own, until I discovered that I did like healthy food, just not the one I was forced to eat as a child. I still hate the things I hated as a kid because, to me, they taste disgusting.

[calimac]

What I've found is that the sheer horribleness of the taste of those foods has faded somewhat over the year. I still don't like them, but now I could force them down if I had to. The irony is that now that I'm not a child, I no longer have to eat anything I don't want to. (Why have I tried these foods again, then? Politeness, as a guest in someone's house.)

[ninetydegrees]

Chrome, always doing what other browsers do already ages later...

(Psst. Whose work not who's work)