One of the very few negatives of owning your own business is you screw yourself when you take a sick day. :p
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One of the very few negatives of owning your own business is you screw yourself when you take a sick day. :p
On the swing?Quote:
Originally Posted by Psychosplodge
I meant you dont have sick free years accrued here yet?
Gott! What is this madness?
http://www.lounge.belloflostsouls.ne...ine=1416820245
Oh no, but then I don't accrue anything :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Psychosplodge
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Bad! Gott, it isn't even advent (commercial or liturgically speaking).Quote:
Originally Posted by Psychosplodge
Though i need to look for a sufficiently festive pic.
Only one month to go!
Can you add hats to mine for me for when it is actually time? :D
Reminds me.
Must whip round Tesco and buy a half dozen or so advent calendars, then drop them off at the food bank.
Serial - imagine being a kid, and being the only one in your class that doesn't have an advent calendar. Couple of quid to me, quite a lot to them.
Also - have come into work.
Hardcore, that's me.
Also feeling a bit better, but wasn't this morning at all.
Good for you Mystery. [Living kingdom values ;)]
Aww that's adawbs, thanks Gott :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Gotthammer
On the hardcore 'push through the ills', or the foodbank thing?Quote:
Originally Posted by Wolfshade
Food bank donation.
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Gott might have to be the offical Avatar Revisionist for Seasons and EventsQuote:
Originally Posted by Psychosplodge
I like Food Banks.
I may not like that we need them in one of the world's richest countries, but I'm glad they're there.
Having spent a while homeless, it's not much fun!
got a Bolt Action Hetzer yesterday, amazed how small they are, hadn't occurred to me that they wouldn't be 28mm scale. quite nice to have something in a different size though, and it allows a lot more movement on the table if the models are smaller. unfortunately though the bottom of the hull has been cut for some reason, perhaps trying to remove resin lumps, and the entire underside of the hull slopes from left to right looking at the front, so the left hand tracks don't have enough material to actually be glued to.
sigh, I don't even have the space to invest in another game system, what with my D&D book collection, my 40k and Fantasy Figures, not to mention LotR (don't have any Hobbit ones) and my Graphic Novels, and boring regular Novels, and computer and such, there's not much surface in my room left for the cat to lay on!
Priorities are a funny thing. :(
https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hpho...af&oe=551B19DC
[url]http://news.yahoo.com/cleveland-release-video-boy-shot-officer-110012912.html[/url]
Absolutely do NOT play with anything that looks like a real gun in public!
somebody please tell me this isn't true, it is too stupid to be real
[url]http://nationalreport.net/mom-calls-911-on-son-new-self-rape-law/[/url]
Snopes.com is reporting this is a false story.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kirsten
[url]http://www.snopes.com/media/notnews/selfrape.asp[/url]
that is a relief.
said the boy...
*drumroll*
So bad! I can imagine some mom's making that call. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Kirsten
https://38.media.tumblr.com/07a1cdaf...35po1_1280.jpg
[URL="http://thefreethoughtproject.com/suspended-st-louis-officer-speaks-darren-wilson-department/"]Article about the chap on the left[/URL]
well it could be racism, it could be they work for different managers who apply the rules differently, it could be lack of press coverage for the bloke on the left?
Nope, its racism, its too common and too consistent beyond this individual case.
It could be, but then again we're talking a about a country founded on genocide and slavery, and still values human life so little they'll stand and watch you die of easily treatable things for lack of insurance/money.
Genocide of natives and slavery ofblack people, and their lives are devalued more than anyone's. I mean you have white people in America right now literally saying 'but Mike Brown stole some cigars worth five dollars' as justification for his murder. Because a black mans life is worth less than five dollars worth of cigars apparently. Nevermind that he paid for them. Not only that but the cop who executed him has been rewarded with over one million dollars.
Anyone who happens to be in any outgroup is devalued. Just look at the number of people that are killed by being run over and how few of those are ever prosecutted, and yet the narriative that is reported is that the pedestrian dashed out or something like that there is always an excuse, "oh it was low sun" or some other excuse and the killer walks away without an endorsement the police don't investigate it correctly. But have someone steal something or damage property and boom they are all over it like a hot rash. We live in a society that values stuff over lives, that much appears to be universal.
Yes but some outgroups you can opt out of, you can't opt out of being black.
I dont think you can opt out of crossing the road.
Though I'm not convinced the police give a **** about property crime against a member of the public. Now against the state, or a large business, or speeding or murder. That's about what the police do these days isnt it?
Flippantly, ask Michael Jackson that.Quote:
Originally Posted by eldargal
You can't really opt out of walking.
And even if you could, why should you. Or are you saying that descrimination against people that can't change what they are discriminated against are worse than those that choose to be in certain outgroups?
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That also sounds dangerously close to victim blaming, well you chose to be part of that outgroup what do you expect. But I know you wouldn't mean something like that, would you?
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Well she could have not been in an out group?
Actually I was thinking of her. Did you see the animation that went with it? Very moving stuff. Essentially her experiance meant that the definition of hate crime was extended to include such volutnary outgroups
Well as it already included the voluntary religious groups its only fair.
I saw one a few years ago.
She popped up in my head as there were posts on FB yesterday or day before about what would have been her 28th birthday
The whole thing I still can't get my head around. Her and her boyfriend's experiance scares me more than all the cycle collisions I've seen
[URL="http://crooksandliars.com/2014/11/how-robert-mcculloch-hoodwinked-ferguson"]Link to the video and further discussion[/URL].Quote:
Lawrence O’Donnell, an MSNBC dude, just revealed that the prosecutor’s secretary gave the jury an outdated statute that states that police officers can shoot and kill a fleeing suspect simply because they are fleeing. But that was ruled by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional in the 1970s. She gave them an updated copy. When the jurors asked her if Supreme Court rulings override state rulings (for which the obvious answer is yes), she told them “don’t worry about that” instead of saying yes. She told them that they could still use the outdated statute, but that something in it was wrong. She never told them what part of the statute was wrong. She just said “DON’T WORRY ABOUT IT”
SHE GAVE THEM AN OUTDATED STATUTE THAT SAYS A POLICE OFFICER CAN DO EXACTLY WHAT DARREN WILSON DID, AND INSTEAD OF TELLING THEM THAT THAT PART OF THE STATUTE WAS WHAT WAS INCORRECT, SHE TOLD THEM NOT TO WORRY ABOUT IT.
HERE IS A LINK TO THE VIDEO!!
This is how the Grand Jury arrived at their verdict. Early on in the proceedings, Assistant District Attorney Alizadeh handed out copies of a law that was ruled unconstitutional in 1985. In essence it set the bar for use of excessive force lower than is permissible. Simply put, ADA Alizadeh told the jury that it was permissible to shoot a fleeing suspect.
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Tennessee v. Garner made the statute Alizadeh distributed to the Grand Jury unconstitutional, but that didn’t stop her from distributing it to grand jurors at the outset in order to set their minds in a place where Darren Wilson was justified in what he did.
http://crooksandliars.com/files/imag...6_20.41.23.png
Then, at the very end of the proceedings on November 21st, Alizadeh “corrected” the record. Sort of.
http://crooksandliars.com/files/imag...6_21.43.15.png
For the entire proceeding, jurors weighed the evidence in light of a law that was deemed unconstitutional almost 30 years ago. Then they corrected the record at the very end
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Originally Posted by Wolfshade
What scared me was I wasn't surprised when it happened.
Out of interest Gott, do you know why the presecution didn't raise an objection at the start about this?
This also highlights a problem where court rulings change laws, but "law" law isn't updated to meet "case" law.
Part of me is uncomfortable with laws being written and revised by unelected officials...
[url]http://www.nola.com/news/ferguson/ferguson-all-1.pdf[/url]
Might be interesting for people