Posts by Neil Graham
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BitTorrent kindof makes it redundant, except for the six o'clock news.
The six o'clock news is doing a stunning job at making itself redundant.
As for The Listener, we still get it, but it's kind of paying for what we'd like the Listener to be, hoping that if we stick in there maybe it'll get better.
So when does Public Address Magazine hit the shelves anyway?
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I do think it'd be funny if Obama rung up McCain and offered him the entire Obama campaign fund to start up a charity if he dropped out of the election.
The outrage would at least be mitigated by the prospect of no campaign ads.
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Indeed, that's pretty much the crux of it: that photographic porn requires an actual real incident to photograph or film. But writing?
I think there is a reason that they are gunning for writing. How long before there is a photographic child porn case where the defence is "It's all CG" Having a picture won't be proof of anything.
Brett Easton Ellis' American Psycho on closed shelf. That book is, as Emma puts it, well outside my 'squick thresh-hold' -- not least for the lengthy description of the woman who is murdered by having a nail gun inserted in her vagina, then mutilated after she's been repeatedly raped and brutalised.
Never read it, not keen to. I thought it must have led to an interesting thanksgiving dinner conversation in the Bale/Steinem household though.
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according to my on-tap stats guru, that would be a fairly fundamental mistake. i.e one you'd not find among decent analysts
Yup. Now for bonus points, do you think you can find a statistical correlation between newspaper stories about studies and fundamental mistakes?
What kind of carrot/stick/magic wand would be needed to get all news stories regarding such studies to include a reference to where one can obtain the source document.
And while I'm at it, if they could be forced to say what they mean by average and if they mean Mean then include the standard deviation.
ah, sweet, sweet fantasyland
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No, they'd have re-weighted the data.
You hope. The Mental Health Survey says they did weighting in their methodology section, but as for the substance portion, presumably they just lifted that section tor the WHO report.
The data may have been weighted at that stage, or they may have done the weighting themselves, I wouldn't be prepared to put money on it though.
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As it's Friday here's a thing.
This bunch have made something that looks as though it has potential.
...and congrats on the 20 years. My SO and I are passing our longer together than apart point in the next year or so. 'tis indeed a good thing™.
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The Yulia story was so strange. From the (directed? dear god, I hope so) body language of the couple to the reporter seemingly about to explode at the end.
and dude, eyebrow trim. Especially if you going to do the backlit extreme closeup.
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Kicked a migrant 1041km
They all seem exceptional individuals, if they are representative then They're doing very well. If they are not representative they'll do more harm than good with the game.
It puts me in mind of drugs campaigns that are worthless because they depict the extremes as the effects if the mainstream.
I guess for those, and indeed the global warming issue, they should just stick to the real evidence. If your view has a case it will reveal itself. If you can only make it by looking at little portions and generalising to the whole, maybe you just might be wrong.
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It always bugged me that O'Conner would defend officers on issues before any of the facts regarding the case were clear.
To an extent I could accept it in the role of an advocate where he had to always support the officer in question, until he chose to go against the policewoman moonlighting as a prostitute.
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If Clinton did take the nomination with a large load of superdelegates, The truly fascinating result would be for Obama to run as an independent.
A lot of Republicans won't vote this election because things havn't gone so well for their ideas recently. That'll make McCain's result lower than his polling (people will say if asked, but not be enthused enough to actually vote). Add to that the people who feel McCain isn't really a Republican and the 'Not that woman" vote.
Obama might, just maybe, be able to win a split vote. Certainly a better chance than anyone else for +-50 years.
Of course Nader on the Daily show last night showed that the system is rigged against that. [sigh] forget I said anything.