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Proudhon and Anarchism - L. Gambone
historical paper - about pragmatic anti-utopian anarchist philosophy
Alpha Mummy - Times Online - WBLG: Dilemma: what to do when your child is a bad loser
yawn
Alpha Mummy - Times Online - WBLG: These kids have TOO MANY SODDING TOYS
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I took exactly half the toys, put them in bin-bags, and hid them in the basement.
Crass Stupidity » Royal Mail: It’s All About Money
No concern for customer retention - and no flexibility. And 'Large' stamps, for your 6 mm thick mail, are not sold in shops, only at the increasingly rare Post Office counters. Pah!
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It contains a couple of screws a friend had sent me. I asked why there was insufficient postage on it and was told:
“A lot of people ask that [pause there to see if there's a lesson to be learned by Royal Mail]. It’s because it’s thicker than 5mm…”
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It contains a couple of screws a friend had sent me. I asked why there was insufficient postage on it and was told:
“A lot of people ask that [pause there to see if there's a lesson to be learned by Royal Mail]. It’s because it’s thicker than 5mm…”
YouTube - Batman - by Google search stories
Search, seen as a dynamic story. Funny and strangely compelling 30 second TV ad. A brief glimpse of an option I hadn't seen: image search filtered by colour.
The bank revolt of '09
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tri-state residents are fleeing to low-cost credit unions -- growing the amount of cash on account at the depositor-owned financial institutions by 34.5 percent in June 2009 compared to the year earlier month, according to a new survey.
That's well ahead of the 7 percent gain for all metro area deposits -- consumer, business, trust, etc. -- according to the survey by Chicago-based Moebs Services.
YouTube - Making a proper Doctor Who anime PART 2. ドクター・フー仕掛品のファン・アニメ
60 seconds of high def 4:3 Daleks by Paul "OtaKing" Johnson
YouTube - Making a proper Doctor Who anime PART 3. ドクター・フー仕掛品のファン・アニメ
Another 60 seconds of the 'amateur' anime / doctor crossover. Lots of cybermen.
(Better than pro quality, drawn by an amateur manga and doctor fan.)
YouTube - Making a proper Doctor Who anime. ドクター・フー仕掛品のファン・アニメ
I could not resist this 4 minute fan made hand drawn animation clip inspired the the Third Doctor
A moral conundrum, resolved with scripture : Pharyngula
Interesting debate in the first few dozen comments, though there are many more that I didn't read.
Thank someone that not all fundamentalists are such Pharisees as the creationist debated here, or the world would be in much more trouble.
Lawyer sacked from £150,000 job after DNA is wrongly put on national database | Mail Online
Guilty even when proven innocent :(
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'And my reputation has been tainted purely by a false allegation.'
Ms Elliott was just about to take up working on the government's own national identity card scheme which required the routine checks to be made before she was 'cleared' for the role.
- This stinks - on 2009-11-13
Instant (Bad) Karma | RSands Consulting |Nov 2009
Criticism of Symbian Foundation's strategy for building an open source community.
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Add Sticky NoteBut Android and iPhone are growing by leaps and bounds, largely at the expense of Symbian and Microsoft’s Windows Mobile. Actually, this fact is not lost on Symbian’s backers. Sony Ericsson is launching the Xperia X10 Android-based multimedia smartphone in early 2010. Samsung, according to Korean investment house HTC Investment Securities, is going to ditch Symbian completely, focusing on Android and their own Bada platform, announced today. Even Nokia is hedging their bets, with their new, hotly anticipated N900 tablet running the Maemo mobile Linux platform, and not Symbian OS.
- Really? Isn't the smartphone market is a rising tide that lifts most boats? Most people still don't have smartphones yet. - on 2009-11-11
testimonial evidence (anecdotes) - the skeptics dictionary
concise and clear
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For example, a physician will take anecdotal evidence from a patient about a reaction to a new medication and use that information in deciding to adjust the prescribed dosage or to change the medication. This is quite reasonable. But the physician cannot be selective in listening to testimony, listening only to those claims that fit his or her own prejudices. To do so is to risk harming one’s patients.
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For example, a physician will take anecdotal
evidence from a patient about a reaction to a new medication and use that
information in deciding to adjust the prescribed dosage or to change the
medication. This is quite reasonable. But the physician cannot be selective
in listening to testimony, listening only to those claims that fit his or
her own prejudices.
Schneier on Security: Zero-Tolerance Policies
a system, not a headline
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It's the combination of the four that work: rules plus discretion plus appeal plus audit.
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Zero-tolerance simply means that the discretion of authorities becomes UNAPPEALABLE. Once they've decided to start the turning of the wheel, there is no process to stop it, or to punish the authority for poor use of discretion -- since, nominally, no discretion exists.
It's the exact reverse of what is aimed for -- a blind justice system that is automatic and equitable. By removing discretion, you give authorities infinite discretion.
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Sense About Science | BCA v Singh The Story So Far 3 June 2009
update
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my conclusion remains that there is a lack of evidence supporting the use of chiropractic for treating various childhood conditions.
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Add Sticky NotePossible improvements would be rapid enforced mediation or a "libel small claims court model", as either approach would reduce the disproportionate cost of libel cases compared to the potential damages.
- Singh proposes simple reforms - on 2009-11-09
Sense About Science | The law has no place in scientific disputes
The law should not punish scientific or journalistic scrutiny. Parliament should tighten up this law to punish only malicious attacks on natural persons. We also need to cut the cost of access to the law, and punish vexatious prosecution.
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English libel law, though, can serve to punish this kind of scrutiny
England’s libel laws don’t just gag me, they blindfold you | Simon Singh - Times Online
Do England and Wales really have drastically less free speech and public information about science than other Western countries? It sounds like it.
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Even if a
blogger is 90% confident of victory, there is still a 10% chance of failure,
which is why bloggers often back down, withdraw and apologise for material
they believe is true, fair and important to the public. -
My reason for not backing down
is that I believe my article is accurate, important and a matter of public
interest, as it relates to the use of chiropractic in treating various
childhood conditions, such as asthma and ear infections - 2 more annotations...
Leaked ACTA Internet Provisions: Three Strikes and a Global DMCA | Electronic Frontier Foundation | Nov 3 2009
Looks like this secret deal will curtail the human right to a fair trial in many industrialised countries.
I don't condone unlawful copying, but cutting citizens off from digital democracy for an alleged infringement by a family member or neighbour is far worse.
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