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Posting more stuff - 11-12 May 02011
May. 13th, 2011 07:59 amGreetings - we begin today by highlighting a draft of a paper talking about how teenagers understand privacy...and how much they would like to be able to control it better, but they lack the options and the political clout to be heard. Also, see Doctorow's take on the work. The authors are looking for feedback, although I have no idea whether that means in a professional, academic sense, or in a practical, does-this-hang-together-and-make-sense way, or in a teenagers-please-tell-us-whether-we're-right-or-not sense (probably all three), so peruse. It's thirty pages that will help you understand better how things that seem like oversharing ("teens don't care about privacy") may have instead been an intersection of two things that weren't supposed to meet (Oh, hi, girlfriend. I see you've met my...boyfriend, already.)
Elsewhere, what happens when the frustration of having children that interrupt adult time boils over into full-scale resentment.
Finally, a response to a piece that was offensive in the way it treated the person it was trying to profile, using the wrong pronouns, making snide statements about lack of conformity to roles, and dismissing someone who is more complex than their pigeonholes as making it all up.
Out in the world today, A protest against the use of the word "slut" as a shorthand for "women who dress in such a way to invite themselves to be raped" had good turnout in Toronto. The original remark that sparked the protest was an advisory from a police officer for women "to avoid dressing like sluts" so as to keep themselves safe from rapists. As one might guess, it did not go over well, as victim-blaming generally does not sit well.
The Iraqi Prime Minister made his clearest overtures to allowing United States troops to stay past their scheduled departure of 31 December of this year, although he did so by saying he would ask if the political blocs of the country wanted U.S. troops to stay. He declined to answer whether he personally wished for U.S. troops to remain. With reseach making a hypotehsis that the dust of Iraq and Afghanistan, containing heavy metals, bacteria, and fungi that cause illness, could be the reason for many ailments in veterans of those conflicts.
Wikileaks cables indicate several countries are engaged in a resource struggle on who can extract the most out of the Arctic region while the ice sheets there are in retreat.
As analysts continue to pore over the documents associated with Osama bin Laden, expect many releases about potential plots with potentially big death tolls.
Domestically, the former Assistant Attorney General who started a blog against the openly gay University of Michigan student body president is claiming he's the real victim, an example made so that people won"t question the Homosexual Agenda. Truthfully, if QUILTBAG people really held that kind of power over the rest of us, I would think they would have used it by now to make the world safer for themselves.
Cicadas! Another 13-year nap completed, Brood XIX is ready to make some mating noise.
After complaints about the guidance issued by the Navy about chaplain and facility use, the Navy has halted that guidance from going into effect. Taking that one step further, a Republican-controlled comittee voted to add amendments to a defense policy bill that would also require the four chiefs of the armed services to sign off that a gay ban would not harm their units, and to legally bar chaplains and bases from being involved in gay marriages even when openly QUILTBAG servicemen are allowed.
The Congress is looking for ways to limit the implementation of the New START treaty signed by the Presidents of Russia and the United States and already ratified by the Senate, over fears that the agreement is significantly harmful to the ability of the United States to blow the world up many times over.
In technology, the source code of the ZeuS crimeware kit is now available, if you know where to look, which could result in lots of script kiddies trying their hands, but also security experts and coders being able to patch their OSes so as to render the kit useless.
In opinions, Mr. Trzupek takes the decreasing presence of Christians and the violence against them in countries such as Egypt and Iraq as proof positive that Islam is forever The Bloodthirsty Intolerant Religion and that brutal strongmen are preferrable to Islamic governments, because brutal dictators crack down on everyone equally horribly.
The chairman of the Boeing company responds to allegations about improper practice and the decisions that built a plant in North Carolina, claiming that he doesn't hate unions, but that he just couldn't work with the ones he had - they wouldn't budge for him, so he had no choice but to build elsewhere. Furthermore, he suggests the Natinoal Labor Relations Board overstepped themselves in recommending that he not follow the capitalism impulse and put his plant where they wanted it to go.
Mr. Stossel believes that Ron Paul, were he to run for President in this cycle, would do a lot better than before, and quotes from Mr. Paul that his opponents are using fear tactics instead of actual arguments to counter his libertarian ideas. We'll pair that with Mr. Solway's insistence that "democratic socialism" is nothing more than the vampirism of the government sucking the blood from a dwindling class of producers to give it to a greater class of fledglings, err, dependents.
Finally, The Girl Who Waited. For quite some time, in fact, before the person who said he would return came back. And news on the death of Obi-Wan Kenobi, galactic terrorist.
Elsewhere, what happens when the frustration of having children that interrupt adult time boils over into full-scale resentment.
Finally, a response to a piece that was offensive in the way it treated the person it was trying to profile, using the wrong pronouns, making snide statements about lack of conformity to roles, and dismissing someone who is more complex than their pigeonholes as making it all up.
Out in the world today, A protest against the use of the word "slut" as a shorthand for "women who dress in such a way to invite themselves to be raped" had good turnout in Toronto. The original remark that sparked the protest was an advisory from a police officer for women "to avoid dressing like sluts" so as to keep themselves safe from rapists. As one might guess, it did not go over well, as victim-blaming generally does not sit well.
The Iraqi Prime Minister made his clearest overtures to allowing United States troops to stay past their scheduled departure of 31 December of this year, although he did so by saying he would ask if the political blocs of the country wanted U.S. troops to stay. He declined to answer whether he personally wished for U.S. troops to remain. With reseach making a hypotehsis that the dust of Iraq and Afghanistan, containing heavy metals, bacteria, and fungi that cause illness, could be the reason for many ailments in veterans of those conflicts.
Wikileaks cables indicate several countries are engaged in a resource struggle on who can extract the most out of the Arctic region while the ice sheets there are in retreat.
As analysts continue to pore over the documents associated with Osama bin Laden, expect many releases about potential plots with potentially big death tolls.
Domestically, the former Assistant Attorney General who started a blog against the openly gay University of Michigan student body president is claiming he's the real victim, an example made so that people won"t question the Homosexual Agenda. Truthfully, if QUILTBAG people really held that kind of power over the rest of us, I would think they would have used it by now to make the world safer for themselves.
Cicadas! Another 13-year nap completed, Brood XIX is ready to make some mating noise.
After complaints about the guidance issued by the Navy about chaplain and facility use, the Navy has halted that guidance from going into effect. Taking that one step further, a Republican-controlled comittee voted to add amendments to a defense policy bill that would also require the four chiefs of the armed services to sign off that a gay ban would not harm their units, and to legally bar chaplains and bases from being involved in gay marriages even when openly QUILTBAG servicemen are allowed.
The Congress is looking for ways to limit the implementation of the New START treaty signed by the Presidents of Russia and the United States and already ratified by the Senate, over fears that the agreement is significantly harmful to the ability of the United States to blow the world up many times over.
In technology, the source code of the ZeuS crimeware kit is now available, if you know where to look, which could result in lots of script kiddies trying their hands, but also security experts and coders being able to patch their OSes so as to render the kit useless.
In opinions, Mr. Trzupek takes the decreasing presence of Christians and the violence against them in countries such as Egypt and Iraq as proof positive that Islam is forever The Bloodthirsty Intolerant Religion and that brutal strongmen are preferrable to Islamic governments, because brutal dictators crack down on everyone equally horribly.
The chairman of the Boeing company responds to allegations about improper practice and the decisions that built a plant in North Carolina, claiming that he doesn't hate unions, but that he just couldn't work with the ones he had - they wouldn't budge for him, so he had no choice but to build elsewhere. Furthermore, he suggests the Natinoal Labor Relations Board overstepped themselves in recommending that he not follow the capitalism impulse and put his plant where they wanted it to go.
Mr. Stossel believes that Ron Paul, were he to run for President in this cycle, would do a lot better than before, and quotes from Mr. Paul that his opponents are using fear tactics instead of actual arguments to counter his libertarian ideas. We'll pair that with Mr. Solway's insistence that "democratic socialism" is nothing more than the vampirism of the government sucking the blood from a dwindling class of producers to give it to a greater class of fledglings, err, dependents.
Finally, The Girl Who Waited. For quite some time, in fact, before the person who said he would return came back. And news on the death of Obi-Wan Kenobi, galactic terrorist.
