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Facebook permits businesses and others that you clicked Like for to post their own material and make it look like you're posting it instead. And they conider this to be a feature, rather than a bug.
Recall when an author attempted to recreate the poses for women found on fantasy and romance covers and found out that most of them defied physics and the bending of the body. Well, now he's done the male poses, and finds them so much more comfortable than the female ones. That said, women in those poses demonstrate even more what kind of unnatural this is. Not that it's going to stop anyone...no matter how many times you say how awful the boobs-and-butt pose is, it will always show up in promo posters.
In the United States, a federal judge extended the temporary restraining order against a law that would have closed down the sole abortion clinic in Mississippi, but did not say how long that order would be extended by.
More on Willard "Mitt" Romney's visit to the NAACP - reaction shots, and the choice quote where TINSTAAFL comes out. Also, all the reasons why most of the conent of Things Romney Should Say To The NAACP is racist, almost to the fascinating degree...but the cynicism of the modern age prevents fascination.
As a not actually a response response, John McCain points out that he passed on Mitt Romney for the VP bid in 2008 because Sarah Palin was the better candidate, in his opinion. Ouch, burn?
The man who shot Trayvon Martin expressed some remorse at the result, including some amount of saying that it was "God's Plan" that this happened. I cannot has sympathy for this, considering there were more than enough opportunities for Mr. Zimmerman to avert the situation that he caused.
As it turns out, allowing lesbian and gay servicemen to marry has not, in fact, resulted in the chaplain corps being forced to officiate for ceremonies they don't believe in.
In technology, meet the experiment that discovered the particle that we're pretty sure is the Higgs boson.
The inherent danger of using a corporate API that hasn't been developed by your corporation.
Using the distortion of the magnetic field that buildings generate to accurately locate onselef inside them, which could make for a map app, f'rex, that you can use to find your way to the office inside the building that a different map app got you to. (Unifying them in the map app would be best, of course.)
The physics of a flying cape...that will kill the wearer if it behaved according to real physics, and a laser eye that will give vision to those with faulty retinas.
Humanty 2, deadly diseases zero - a tropical disease is about to face the reality of extinction.
Last out, someone who nearly-perfected counterfeiting United States currency because he understood it as a work of art, and then got mixed up with the people who want such an artist to work for them.
Also, a browser that uses the TOR network by default (and yes, it's available for iProducts).
In opinions, a suggestion for conscription of the civilian poopulation into mandatory service, either military or infrastructure-related, with government benefits awaiting those that complete, and an option for those who wish to opt-out that they promise to basically not ask the government for anything for the rest of their life.
Ana Mardoll, who is excellent for all sorts of things including Twilight and Narnia deconstuctions, has been blogging her experiences with what appears to be narcotic-induced depression. In the first entry, The Spiral Of Suck, Where The Depressed Become Certain Things Are Wrong And It's All Their Fault. Installment two is The Theory of Relativity, By Which The Depressed Continually Downplay Their Hurt By Comparing It To Someone Else, who is always selected because their hurt is worse than the person making the comparison. In both cases, a possible remedy is much the same - many and frequent declarations of unconditional love and assurances.
The Weirdo converses about the changing role of men in society, and the lack of sane direction for those men in the middle of all the changes.
Also, a couple of different perspectives on the Fifty Shades phenomenon - Katrina Lumsden pointing out that the problem with the novel is not the titilating stuff, but the plot as a "bad men can be changed" story, and The Weirdo pointing out that these things are not new and that women have been reading Fifty Shades stuff for a long time without it causing society to unravel.
Reviewing a work on IQ that claims we're getting smarter...excepting that the methodology behind both the study and IQ tests in general pretty well contaminate the conclusion
An alternate reading of Brave that makes Merida a transgender boy born a girl, and adds the extra dimension of the problem of your mother representing all the things you DO NOT WANT.
Out of opinions, the necessity of students to challenge teacher, and often, the excellent scholarship resulting from it.
Last for tonight, solving problems like the throwing of relativistic baseballs and the probability of whether or not someone could guess their way to a perfect score on the SAT. It's What If, from xkcd.
Facebook permits businesses and others that you clicked Like for to post their own material and make it look like you're posting it instead. And they conider this to be a feature, rather than a bug.
Recall when an author attempted to recreate the poses for women found on fantasy and romance covers and found out that most of them defied physics and the bending of the body. Well, now he's done the male poses, and finds them so much more comfortable than the female ones. That said, women in those poses demonstrate even more what kind of unnatural this is. Not that it's going to stop anyone...no matter how many times you say how awful the boobs-and-butt pose is, it will always show up in promo posters.
In the United States, a federal judge extended the temporary restraining order against a law that would have closed down the sole abortion clinic in Mississippi, but did not say how long that order would be extended by.
More on Willard "Mitt" Romney's visit to the NAACP - reaction shots, and the choice quote where TINSTAAFL comes out. Also, all the reasons why most of the conent of Things Romney Should Say To The NAACP is racist, almost to the fascinating degree...but the cynicism of the modern age prevents fascination.
As a not actually a response response, John McCain points out that he passed on Mitt Romney for the VP bid in 2008 because Sarah Palin was the better candidate, in his opinion. Ouch, burn?
The man who shot Trayvon Martin expressed some remorse at the result, including some amount of saying that it was "God's Plan" that this happened. I cannot has sympathy for this, considering there were more than enough opportunities for Mr. Zimmerman to avert the situation that he caused.
As it turns out, allowing lesbian and gay servicemen to marry has not, in fact, resulted in the chaplain corps being forced to officiate for ceremonies they don't believe in.
In technology, meet the experiment that discovered the particle that we're pretty sure is the Higgs boson.
The inherent danger of using a corporate API that hasn't been developed by your corporation.
Using the distortion of the magnetic field that buildings generate to accurately locate onselef inside them, which could make for a map app, f'rex, that you can use to find your way to the office inside the building that a different map app got you to. (Unifying them in the map app would be best, of course.)
The physics of a flying cape...that will kill the wearer if it behaved according to real physics, and a laser eye that will give vision to those with faulty retinas.
Humanty 2, deadly diseases zero - a tropical disease is about to face the reality of extinction.
Last out, someone who nearly-perfected counterfeiting United States currency because he understood it as a work of art, and then got mixed up with the people who want such an artist to work for them.
Also, a browser that uses the TOR network by default (and yes, it's available for iProducts).
In opinions, a suggestion for conscription of the civilian poopulation into mandatory service, either military or infrastructure-related, with government benefits awaiting those that complete, and an option for those who wish to opt-out that they promise to basically not ask the government for anything for the rest of their life.
Ana Mardoll, who is excellent for all sorts of things including Twilight and Narnia deconstuctions, has been blogging her experiences with what appears to be narcotic-induced depression. In the first entry, The Spiral Of Suck, Where The Depressed Become Certain Things Are Wrong And It's All Their Fault. Installment two is The Theory of Relativity, By Which The Depressed Continually Downplay Their Hurt By Comparing It To Someone Else, who is always selected because their hurt is worse than the person making the comparison. In both cases, a possible remedy is much the same - many and frequent declarations of unconditional love and assurances.
The Weirdo converses about the changing role of men in society, and the lack of sane direction for those men in the middle of all the changes.
Also, a couple of different perspectives on the Fifty Shades phenomenon - Katrina Lumsden pointing out that the problem with the novel is not the titilating stuff, but the plot as a "bad men can be changed" story, and The Weirdo pointing out that these things are not new and that women have been reading Fifty Shades stuff for a long time without it causing society to unravel.
Reviewing a work on IQ that claims we're getting smarter...excepting that the methodology behind both the study and IQ tests in general pretty well contaminate the conclusion
An alternate reading of Brave that makes Merida a transgender boy born a girl, and adds the extra dimension of the problem of your mother representing all the things you DO NOT WANT.
Out of opinions, the necessity of students to challenge teacher, and often, the excellent scholarship resulting from it.
Last for tonight, solving problems like the throwing of relativistic baseballs and the probability of whether or not someone could guess their way to a perfect score on the SAT. It's What If, from xkcd.
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Date: 2012-07-20 10:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-20 12:12 pm (UTC)And I suppose you could view it as prejudice against young people-- nothing they could be doing with their time is as important as what some older adults think they ought to be doing.
A minor point, but wouldn't conscription also set up conscripts for extra-legal abuse, considering that it's a job which is hard to leave?
As for Brave, am I the only one who noticed that the younger brothers aren't being raised at all? Their age is vague-- they look like they're about six, but I think their ability to plot is more like age eight or so, but I'm not an expert on this.
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Date: 2012-07-20 02:17 pm (UTC)I think we're just supposed to see them as the comedic relief in a "boys will be boys" sense, but yes, they're not being raised, really, and it's probably because the dad encourages this (and I'll very the culture does, too) by seeing them that way as well. Merida, as a girl-bodied person, though, has to be raised with no freedoms except the acceptable ones or her society has problems (as evidenced later in the movie).