Interesting Links for 25-09-2013

[andrewducker]

• Labour comes out against both Sodomy and Robin Hood.
  (tags: pornography uk labour OhForFucksSake )
• Caffeine consumption slows down brain development
  (tags: caffeine children brains )
• Stealing magic has become a commonplace crime. Teller, a man of infinite delicacy and deceit, decided to do something about it.
  (tags: magic copyright )
• THE CUTEST

Comments

Robin Hood

[danieldwilliam]

On the basis of that report I’m not sure about voting Labour at the next election

Re: Robin Hood

[andrewducker]

Yup, that made about as much sense as the original speech did :->

Seriously, it felt like the clumping foot of fascism.

"Letting people see porn will cause some people to become scared, and therefore we should ban it, because otherwise Hitler!"

[gonzo21]

How dare you criticise! Criticism is one of the leading causes of Hitler!

[andrewducker]

What terrifies me is that some people believe this.

Energy Price Freeze

[danieldwilliam]

I think the government could make a price freeze stick for a year or two. Longer than that and we probably start to run in to issues with fuel costs and security of supply.

But it should focus the attention of the major players in one of the least well functioning markets in the UK.

[gonzo21]

Not to worry, I expect our political overlords will probably decide sometime soon that electricity is the leading cause of internet, therefore electricity causes Hitler, therefore poor people should no longer expect to have access to electricity.

[danieldwilliam]

I think it undeniable that there is strong correlation between electricity and the interent. No one I know without electricity has access to the internet.

Furthermore Electricty = Science = Atheism = Hitler.

QED.

[gonzo21]

Simply reading this has made me 23% more Hitler.

I demand action immediately!

[xenophanean]

That Telegraph "article" is written in a "style" which I normally associate with "bullshit". It more properly belongs in the Daily Mail.

[andrewducker]

Please criticise content. If there's something wrong in there, then point it out. Simply pointing and shouting doesn't do anything for anyone.

[xenophanean]

The problem with the style was implied in the post. Using other people's quotes in a snide manner, because the reader clearly knows-what-that-means, and occasionally quoting stuff which looks like it's the author's opinion, not actually a quote, to make it sound authoritative:

"Labour is also considering changes to planning laws to force rural residents accept building developments and more compulsory purchase orders, leading to warnings of a “Stalinist attack on property rights”."

Who's warning of a Stalinist attack on property rights?

I can go on, it's not the only problem with the article.

[andrewducker]

Much better!

I agree that that's rubbish - if you're going to quote someone then name your sources, otherwise you could be (and quite possibly are) just making shit up.

[rhythmaning]

David Blunkett going on about pornography. Clearly his he is too preoccupied with it!

sin of Sodom

[apostle_of_eris]

Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. - Ezekiel 16:49