Posts by Rich Lock
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a swifter root towards universal understanding
Wow, you mean like some sort of '60's love-in type thing? Make love not war?
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in an ideal world an eager-beaver researcher would be assigned to assess the credibility of every academic paper submitted for publication
Well, in the 'ideal world', serious academic papers are submitted to a lengthy process of peer-review before they are considered worthy of publication. If they manage to survive that, then and only then are they considered for publication - they are generally considered to be prima facie 'good science' - no-one has been able to knock them over (yet).
9 times out of 10 (or so my studies have shown....) the reasons for bypassing the peer-review process and going direct to media publication are because:
1) the person in question has a personal agenda, or
2) they are being paid to push a point by a PR company.
As a consequence, academics who bypass the legitiamte process to publish direct in the media tend to become pariahs and/or laughing stocks among their peers.
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The link you are looking for is rigidly comitted. It is iow all about cleaving to an ideology. The further out you go in the political spectrum the more dogmatic the ideology gets and the more you are expected to prove your cojones by cleaving to it.
The centre is populated by those who see the world in shades of grey and that nobody has all the answers. The fringes by those who wish to see the world in a starker contrast and for whom compromise is perhaps the dirtiest word of all.
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity." -
I would have thought feminism would have been about women getting out of that kind of situation, rather than staying in it.
James, I'm not an expert, being a man and all, but last time I checked, none of the first, second, third or fourth waves of feminism came with a code of conduct which all 'members' were required to sign, with clauses and sub-clauses that dictated the conduct of women in all situations.
My impression, as Emma has pointed out, is that it was about giving women a rather broader spectrum of choices than they otherwise would have had - the freedom to make their own choices, decisions, and mistakes, without these being dictated to them.
Oh, and doesn't your home country have some sort of rules about the separation of church and state?
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Talkback is first on the right.
Thought of that a microsecond after I hit post.
Craig - take your points. Just a bit frustrated with swivel-eyed knee-jerk unreasoning lunacy at the moment. And need to vent to complete strangers on the interweb.
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What about the whine?
You're in the wrong place. You want talkback radio. down the street, first on the left.
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The 'broken windows' thing works for graffiti. At least in toilets.
This is one reason I'm not entirely convinced that 'zero tolerance' and 'broken windows' should be dismissed out of hand. I'm not very familiar with the reasearch, but the conclusion seems to be 'not proven to work in isolation from anything else', rather than 'doesn't work at all'.
At the risk of sounding like a law-and-order politician, it does seem to make sense that an area which doesn't look totally post-apocalyptic would be more likely to attract small businesses, first-time buyers looking for something in their price range, etc. And that these invested residents would be more likely to self-police an area, call the cops, and so on. Which in turn would create a positive feedback loop (more businesses and residents).
I'm more shocked that no editor had the good sense and decency to yank it out.
Russell, I'm a pom whose been living over here for about six years. When I first arrived, I was frequently left slack-jawed with amazement at what subject matter was considered within reasonable boundaries for advertising, media commentary, and so on.
One of the first adverts I saw here showed a 'Hiroshima' bomb dropping and a voice-over saying something like: 'Lost your job? Think it was unfair dismissal? Give us a call!'
Call me old-fashioned, but the instant annihilation of several hundred thousand people does not seem to me to be a legitimate equivalent, and 'bad taste' seems to be understating the case somewhat.
And a couple of weeks ago, TV3 ran a puff-piece about the MTV party plane flying off to Sydney. Their background footage to help illustrate this story included footage of one of the 9/11 planes flying into the tower.
Is it just me, or is this so far beyond the boundaries of anything even approaching acceptable that the line is actually somewhere over the horizon?
The footage was still on their website a week ago, if anyone wants to search for it. At least one formal complaint has been lodged, and I would be delighted if anyone wanted to submit some more.
However, given that TV3 are labouring under the misapprehension that Lars's balder, more smug and self-satisfied older brother and his real girl make a great pair of hosts for their morning programme, I'm not going to hold by breath on anything coming of it.
I'm not saying that the UK is squeaky-clean, but there is certain subject matter that is simply off-limits in the UK industry, full stop end of story. And its generally off-limits for good reasons.
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anyone who watched TV1 in the '90's should know... we had several seasons of the Noel Edmonds show... Mr Blobby, Crinkley Bottom, etc
You poor bastards.
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The Noel Edmonds 'Brass Eye' episode that was cut at the last minute by the C4 controllers was hilarious, in a 'what the fu....' kind of way.
But none of you Kiwi's probably have the faintest who cuddly old Noel is.
Russell - the paperwork for whatever has been 'patented' in these pills should be frely available 18 months from the earliest filing date of the application. How what is in the patent relates to the actual street prduct is a different story.