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May. 15th, 2014 11:45 am- Is anyone interested in visiting the Toy and Game Expo in early July this year?
- I hate booking job interviews for Mondays, because then it ruins my weekends with stress. Can't be helped I suppose. On the up-side, I won't need to be walking around with my phone glued to my side for the next four days, waiting for a phone call without knowing when it will arrive.
- Before anyone asks, I have no opinion on that budget because I'm trying not to think about it for knowing it will only depress me.
- The Story Behind the Worst Movie on IMDB
Crowdsourcing can be a tremendously powerful way to get a consensus understanding of the world. Because the sample size is so large, there’s an assumption that whatever it yields is robust and true. But even with oversight, aggregated rankings are subject to unforeseen biases. Crowds are always big — but they’re not always wise. Sometimes it’s impossible to control which crowds are being sourced.
- I did one of those "what's your faith" quizzes on the internet and got given Universal Unitarianism as my ideal faith. Followed by Paganism and Secular Humanism. That sounds exactly right to me actually.
Then I did the quiz again giving all the answers I was raised with, and got Roman Catholicim. Yes, I know exactly how to give all the right answers; I was always a good Catholic girl. Until I wasn't. :)
- Men of a Certain Age
While it is one thing for the women of Australia to be offended by their exclusion, it is quite another for all of us to see our future endangered by a narrow band of conservative older men set on returning us to a past that can no longer exist.
- This is interesting: Lessons from Christian camp's gay discrimination
Corporations with religious roots cannot expect to apply to themselves the same sorts of exemptions that are intended to defend the beliefs and consciences of individuals... The provisions of the Equal Opportunity Act regarding religious freedom for persons (s.77) could not be applied to corporations at all.
So something like what the AFA is trying to pull in Mississippi, wouldn't fly in Australia.
Moreover, The President of the Court of Appeal suggested the doctrine that really deserved protection was simply the belief of church members that determined their own marital lives, not a blanket understanding about sex in general that had to be applied to a wider public.
In other words: Don't believe in gay marriage? Don't marry a member of the same sex. But that's as far as your rights go.
I'm liking the way Australian law is going here.
- I hate booking job interviews for Mondays, because then it ruins my weekends with stress. Can't be helped I suppose. On the up-side, I won't need to be walking around with my phone glued to my side for the next four days, waiting for a phone call without knowing when it will arrive.
- Before anyone asks, I have no opinion on that budget because I'm trying not to think about it for knowing it will only depress me.
- The Story Behind the Worst Movie on IMDB
Crowdsourcing can be a tremendously powerful way to get a consensus understanding of the world. Because the sample size is so large, there’s an assumption that whatever it yields is robust and true. But even with oversight, aggregated rankings are subject to unforeseen biases. Crowds are always big — but they’re not always wise. Sometimes it’s impossible to control which crowds are being sourced.
- I did one of those "what's your faith" quizzes on the internet and got given Universal Unitarianism as my ideal faith. Followed by Paganism and Secular Humanism. That sounds exactly right to me actually.
Then I did the quiz again giving all the answers I was raised with, and got Roman Catholicim. Yes, I know exactly how to give all the right answers; I was always a good Catholic girl. Until I wasn't. :)
- Men of a Certain Age
While it is one thing for the women of Australia to be offended by their exclusion, it is quite another for all of us to see our future endangered by a narrow band of conservative older men set on returning us to a past that can no longer exist.
- This is interesting: Lessons from Christian camp's gay discrimination
Corporations with religious roots cannot expect to apply to themselves the same sorts of exemptions that are intended to defend the beliefs and consciences of individuals... The provisions of the Equal Opportunity Act regarding religious freedom for persons (s.77) could not be applied to corporations at all.
So something like what the AFA is trying to pull in Mississippi, wouldn't fly in Australia.
Moreover, The President of the Court of Appeal suggested the doctrine that really deserved protection was simply the belief of church members that determined their own marital lives, not a blanket understanding about sex in general that had to be applied to a wider public.
In other words: Don't believe in gay marriage? Don't marry a member of the same sex. But that's as far as your rights go.
I'm liking the way Australian law is going here.
