It's a joke, jokes don't have to be 100% accurate descriptions of reality. In fact if all jokes have to be 100% accurate descriptions of reality, after a while they might... stop being funny.
They know exactly when and where it happened because it is burned in their brains.
Except the scientific study of trauma suggests that this isn't how trauma memory works: you can start here - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...
Now a naive reading of this particular article might be that the alleged trauma victim here is making things up, but the reference in the article to 'memory amplification' of trauma, relies of course, on there being a trauma to begin with!
So while I'm certain you do know a statistically significant number of rape victims, this 'burned in their brains' is not how time operates on memory of trauma.
ah, so now the problem is in the past not the present. cwl, progress then, the sky isn't falling chicken little, no need to worry your pretty little head!
they have multiple pedophile grooming gang trials going on at the same time, all with Muslim defendants, because then people might become aware of the fact that there's a real problem in the UK with immigrants raping British children and with the police and social services refusing to take any such allegations seriously
bit confused, 'multiple trials' or 'refusing to take such allegations seriously'? which one?
“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
It's hard to imagine Karl Popper - who coined the term 'Open Society' which Soros named his Open Society Foundations after - having a similarly disconnected view of morality where it doesn't matter if you collaborate with evil because if you didn't do it someone else would.
of course it's hard to imagine, because the karl popper in your head is an adult karl popper, not a child; esp. not a child all fucked up by living in fucking nazi germany!
Came back to point out that some of the commenters appear to be right, the full text of the ban makes it difficult for the US to vote for ot without admitting they shouldn't have a death penalty at all. My source neglected to mention that! My bad.
That said, for the record I think the death penalty is unjustifiable anyway.
Dr. Melik: You mean there was no deep fat? No steak or cream pies or... hot fudge? Dr. Aragon: Those were thought to be unhealthy... precisely the opposite of what we now know to be true.
No, you are dependent for your own safety in every situation you mention except foreign terrorist states (unless you willingly go to one).
Why are 'foreign terrorist states' deemed out of my control but companies doing things I can't see, using processes I can't find out about; not out of my control?
I control companies and other potential bad actors, by living in a country that regulates business, monitors the environment, punishes harmful behaviour and does all this with a government. Because I am not equal in power to a big company but a government bloody should be!
A basic income should allow a worker to tell his or her employer where to get off if they mistreat their workers, and take their labour elsewhere. Surely the libertarian dream?
A basic income means that employers need only pay small wages in order to attract workers, in fact, no minimum wage would be necessary.
Small businesses could start up and workers take a risk by joining the business for stock instead of pay and still afford to live.
Many more people could try that business they always thought about but couldn't risk their family's future on.
Of course the massive wealth inequality we have today would have to go, because the money necessary for a basic income is in the hands of the billionaires and the hands of the big corps.
We know there is enough money in total, because we are always being told that if everyone works hard enough they can all have nice houses, pensions etc. implying that there is sufficient money for said.
Unfortunately a basic income is also a big boon to rapacious capitalist types:) because now they can ramp up the prices of things since poor people who previously didn't have money, now do, and also the cost of housing will shoot up. Inflation then reduces the basic income to less than what is needed to live. Price control is necessary for basic needs and utilities. Not so libertarian!:)
Experiments in basic income prove little unless they are on the scale of an actual nation state and there is tight control of immigration, for example no EU state could try this while the unemployed of every other EU state can just pop over and claim it! The EU as a whole could though if it managed to get a grip on all that tax avoidance.
I'm a lefty, I love the idea of a basic income, I believe that if it worked it would markedly increase the freedom of all those current 'wage slaves' who know they are never going to be a CEO because, well, how many CEOs can there be? But the necessary changes in the behaviour of people and businesses, and the alterations to tax codes and housing policy might very well be too big a change to institute at once; and like an unstable equilibrium, I fear that a basic income would fail rapidly if there aren't some strict controls in place, and those with the 'active consent' of the vast majority of the population.
(Of course the NSA would like to be able to, and works hard to break your encryption. That's their job. But it seems they think they are better at it than the bad guys, and weak encryption would make it dangerously simple for the bad guys to break our encryption).
Which is why I find it odd that instead of trying to introduce backdoors, governments don't just try to keep encryption to a level where only nation states have the resources to crack it. I don't have to worry about ordinary criminals cracking my communications with my bank etc. and if the government is trying to crack that in realtime then perhaps I have bigger problems?
I'm not saying this is workable or sensible, just that it makes a much better pitch for the powers that be in their "omg think of the children, terrorists, badgers etc." spiel as it doesn't seem to have the built in mathematical impossibility of Theresa May's position.
What I really don't get is fans of out-of-state teams referring to their team as, "we," as if they have some connection with the team other than buying their merchandise and rooting for their success.
ultimately i see the only (unlikely) solution being the federated approach to social media and content serving a la disapora et al. with better upload bandwidth in home connections and perhaps ipv6 giving permanent addresses (isps willing) then content creators can negotiate themselves with advertisers, or perhaps form collectives to do so.
early on in the progression from the origins of the interwebs we went down the wrong trouser leg of time and allowed the concept of 'decentralisation' to be replaced with its opposite. imho:)
Slashdot Mirror
And no, xkcd, everybody doesn't do that.
It's a joke, jokes don't have to be 100% accurate descriptions of reality.
In fact if all jokes have to be 100% accurate descriptions of reality, after a while they might... stop being funny.
Yes, but at whom?
What did you do that your parents never trust you?
You don't have parents do you :)
They know exactly when and where it happened because it is burned in their brains.
Except the scientific study of trauma suggests that this isn't how trauma memory works:
you can start here - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...
Now a naive reading of this particular article might be that the alleged trauma victim here is making things up, but the reference in the article to 'memory amplification' of trauma, relies of course, on there being a trauma to begin with!
So while I'm certain you do know a statistically significant number of rape victims, this 'burned in their brains' is not how time operates on memory of trauma.
flat out refused
ah, so now the problem is in the past not the present. cwl, progress then, the sky isn't falling chicken little, no need to worry your pretty little head!
they have multiple pedophile grooming gang trials going on at the same time, all with Muslim defendants, because then people might become aware of the fact that there's a real problem in the UK with immigrants raping British children and with the police and social services refusing to take any such allegations seriously
bit confused, 'multiple trials' or 'refusing to take such allegations seriously'?
which one?
I am not willing to take any slowdown to my routine.
dude! you're not supposed to just tell everyone you're the flash!
“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
I just 'upgraded' my mother
You just upgraded your mother?
That's a bit oedipal isn't it?
| So what you're saying is 60% of the time somebody kills another person, they killed themselves.
I agree and so do I. Now get out of my head; it's crowded enough.
I'm spartacus! And so am I!
It's hard to imagine Karl Popper - who coined the term 'Open Society' which Soros named his Open Society Foundations after - having a similarly disconnected view of morality where it doesn't matter if you collaborate with evil because if you didn't do it someone else would.
of course it's hard to imagine, because the karl popper in your head is an adult karl popper, not a child; esp. not a child all fucked up by living in fucking nazi germany!
Came back to point out that some of the commenters appear to be right, the full text of the ban makes it difficult for the US to vote for ot without admitting they shouldn't have a death penalty at all. My source neglected to mention that! My bad.
That said, for the record I think the death penalty is unjustifiable anyway.
snake
The US just voted against a UN ban on just that, i.e. it is the official position of the US that it is cool with killing people for being gay.
http://www.newnownext.com/u-s-...
snake
Dr. Melik: You mean there was no deep fat? No steak or cream pies or... hot fudge?
Dr. Aragon: Those were thought to be unhealthy... precisely the opposite of what we now know to be true.
You make an interesting point which has only two tiny flaws:
1. It's bollocks - http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/A...
2. It's bollocks - https://lifestyle.walsallhealt...
snake
Once you figure the correct type of dagger (both blade and handle), the number and color of required candles, you should be set.
I assume you have to have the proper dribbly wax?
snake
No, you are dependent for your own safety in every situation you mention except foreign terrorist states (unless you willingly go to one).
Why are 'foreign terrorist states' deemed out of my control but companies doing things I can't see, using processes I can't find out about; not out of my control?
I control companies and other potential bad actors, by living in a country that regulates business, monitors the environment, punishes harmful behaviour and does all this with a government. Because I am not equal in power to a big company but a government bloody should be!
snake
A basic income should allow a worker to tell his or her employer where to get off if they mistreat their workers, and take their labour elsewhere. Surely the libertarian dream?
A basic income means that employers need only pay small wages in order to attract workers, in fact, no minimum wage would be necessary.
Small businesses could start up and workers take a risk by joining the business for stock instead of pay and still afford to live.
Many more people could try that business they always thought about but couldn't risk their family's future on.
Of course the massive wealth inequality we have today would have to go, because the money necessary for a basic income is in the hands of the billionaires and the hands of the big corps.
We know there is enough money in total, because we are always being told that if everyone works hard enough they can all have nice houses, pensions etc. implying that there is sufficient money for said.
Unfortunately a basic income is also a big boon to rapacious capitalist types:) because now they can ramp up the prices of things since poor people who previously didn't have money, now do, and also the cost of housing will shoot up. Inflation then reduces the basic income to less than what is needed to live. Price control is necessary for basic needs and utilities. Not so libertarian! :)
Experiments in basic income prove little unless they are on the scale of an actual nation state and there is tight control of immigration, for example no EU state could try this while the unemployed of every other EU state can just pop over and claim it! The EU as a whole could though if it managed to get a grip on all that tax avoidance.
I'm a lefty, I love the idea of a basic income, I believe that if it worked it would markedly increase the freedom of all those current 'wage slaves' who know they are never going to be a CEO because, well, how many CEOs can there be? But the necessary changes in the behaviour of people and businesses, and the alterations to tax codes and housing policy might very well be too big a change to institute at once; and like an unstable equilibrium, I fear that a basic income would fail rapidly if there aren't some strict controls in place, and those with the 'active consent' of the vast majority of the population.
snake
(Of course the NSA would like to be able to, and works hard to break your encryption. That's their job. But it seems they think they are better at it than the bad guys, and weak encryption would make it dangerously simple for the bad guys to break our encryption).
Which is why I find it odd that instead of trying to introduce backdoors, governments don't just try to keep encryption to a level where only nation states have the resources to crack it. I don't have to worry about ordinary criminals cracking my communications with my bank etc. and if the government is trying to crack that in realtime then perhaps I have bigger problems?
I'm not saying this is workable or sensible, just that it makes a much better pitch for the powers that be in their "omg think of the children, terrorists, badgers etc." spiel as it doesn't seem to have the built in mathematical impossibility of Theresa May's position.
snake
What I really don't get is fans of out-of-state teams referring to their team as, "we," as if they have some connection with the team other than buying their merchandise and rooting for their success.
as expressed here by mitchell and webb:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
snake
Cold refrigerator box?
You were lucky!
I lived in a paper bag in septic tank...blah blah...
Documentary voice - Now let us all bow our heads in payment...
Slartibartfast - Just don't nod...
https://books.google.co.uk/boo...
snake
ultimately i see the only (unlikely) solution being the federated approach to social media and content serving a la disapora et al.
with better upload bandwidth in home connections and perhaps ipv6 giving permanent addresses (isps willing) then content creators can negotiate themselves with advertisers, or perhaps form collectives to do so.
early on in the progression from the origins of the interwebs we went down the wrong trouser leg of time and allowed the concept of 'decentralisation' to be replaced with its opposite. imho :)
to be honest i would suggest GTFO followed by FOAD; people who FOAD and then GTFO well... always remember to double tap!
if it's not nuclear powered then i'm not interested!
http://gb.imdb.com/title/tt007...
snake