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Comment Re:Watch the messenger (Score 1) 457

I got one of the new HP HD netbooks on sale from Amazon. Pays high def video fine from the net or from an external source. Not keen on games so that doesn't bother me. But for the $350 I paid (aus) i'd take this over an ipad. Trying to use an ipad at uni for lectures would just piss me off. With this I sit down take notes on open office and record the lecture with my built in mike for later use and can tap into the myuni resources that go with the lecture without fucking around or having to charge it for the whole day I'm on campus or carry round a spare keyboard (let alone trying to use that touchscreen keyboard.) My only complaint about this netbook would be the gloss screen which is a pain in the ass in direct sunlight.

Comment Re:I'm a voter... (Score 1) 98

You are completely correct sir. I stand corrected. I was trying to refer to the fact that both sides voted down the bill of rights that the democrats put forth. I seem to recall our pollies decided that having judges rule on issues connected to a bill of rights. Somehow I think a bill of rights would be safer in the hands of some of our less salubrious judges like Enfield than abbot or Krudd.

Comment Re:I'm a voter... (Score 3, Interesting) 98

I normally vote labour, unless this gets scrapped by labour they won't get my vote. I'll probably move to the US with my partner if this ever comes in over here. Add to that the reluctance for the Australian government, liberal and labour, to adopt a bill of rights or constitution and it looks like my home is becoming somewhere I don't want to call home or raise my family.

Comment Re:BBC already wrote good article on this (Score 1) 294

I'd actually say its current use is pretty close to its intended one. from the oed: A cultural element or behavioural trait whose transmission and consequent persistence in a population, although occurring by non-genetic means (esp. imitation), is considered as analogous to the inheritance of a gene. 1976 R. DAWKINS Selfish Gene xi. 206 The new soup is the soup of human culture. We need a name for the new replicator, a noun which conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation. ‘Mimeme’ comes from a suitable Greek root, but I want a monosyllable that sounds a bit like ‘gene’. I hope my classicist friends will forgive me if I abbreviate mimeme to meme... It should be pronounced to rhyme with ‘cream’. Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches. 1976 New Scientist 9 Dec. 619/2 A rational person who hasn't acquired any variety of the God meme described by Richard Dawkins. 1986 Canad. Jrnl. Zool. 64 1576 Congruence of the patterns of morphometric and cultural evolution in these islands suggests..that the differentiation has been influenced by a colonization history involving restricted gene and meme flow between archipelagos, subsequent drift, and possibly founder effects. 1993 Wired Feb. 132/2 I'm not sure what happens to such a culture when radical Maoism is replaced by the far more seductive meme of Western consumer culture. 1998 D. BRIN Heaven's Reach 27 On all other dimensional planes, memes could only exist as parasites, dwelling in the host brains or mental processes of physical beings.

Comment Of Course Games are political (Score 1) 244

Just look at Leisure Suit Larry. If that wasn't a cunning ploy to keep geeks out of bars, leave them contained in basements rather than seducing real women, I don't know what is. All nerds now know that women are evil and conniving. They'll take your apple and your money and leave you tied to a bed for room service to find you.

on the plus side at least this demonstrated to one man how to avoid such situations.

Comment Re:I call Lies! (Score 2, Informative) 18

I'm pretty heavilly inked, while I could never fall asleep during a tattoo I dated a chick that did. Some women have incredibly high pain thresholds and this chick may have been one of them. However, There are almost no artists that don't work off stencils first so the customer can see what they're going to be wearing. I've only ever had one artist work freehand on me and it looked good in the end but I was fucking nervous while he was doing it. The Tattoos on this bird are real, you can see how they've scabbed up so they're probably 2 days old in the photo, maybe a little more. Also the bruising on the face is consistant with other fresh facial tat's I've seen on some of my mates. I reckon she was trashed (and therfeore the artist would have breached his code of conduct over here in Oz, not sure about belgium though) or got in trouple from her old man and is trying to bullshit her way out of it. My monies on the latter. Most tattooists I've met or been cut by have a strong set of ethics and are extremely proud of their work, to the extent that that's whay they call themselves professional tattoo ARTISTS. That aside i reckon they look good on her, but in twenty years she'll look like an ex con after they've faded. Then again she'll look like shit after laser removal, that shit leaves nasty scars.

Comment Re:To avoid this.. (Score 1) 396

Yeah but if you toe that line what about mainstream gay authors like Clive Barker, or say books by Poppy Z Brite which deal with homosexual themes? The former by Barker don't actively deal with homosexuality as a central theme. While Brite uses homosexuality metaphorically to demonstrate the diversity of youth. Meanwhile B.E. Ellis's American Psycho never made it onto the blacklist. You gotta have consistency and it's hard to attain with the arts where many of the creators come from what could be considered the fringe.
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Japan Imposes "Fine On Fat" 1271

An anonymous reader writes "A recently-introduced law in Japan requires all businesses to have mandatory obesity checks (video link) for all their employees and employees' family members over the age of 40, CNN reports. If the employee or family member is deemed obese, and does not lose the extra fat soon, their employer faces large fines. The legislated upper limit for the waistline is 33.5" for men, and 35.5" for women. Should America adopt universal health insurance, could we live to see the same kind of individual health regulations imposed on us by the government? By comparison, the average waistline in America in 2005 was 39 inches for men, 37 inches for women."

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