Interesting Links for 11-07-2014

[andrewducker]

• The '10,600 people died within six weeks of being declared fit to work by Atos' stat is simply wrong
  (tags: welfare death UK )
• PornHub begs users to stop uploading video clips of Brazil getting beaten 7-1
  (tags: porn football funny )
• Study cracks how the brain processes emotions
  (tags: emotion brain )
• Game of Thrones author rebuffs health fears

Comments

[bart_calendar]

Sucks for the 43 year olds.

[andrewducker]

I assume the limit Will go up as the writer ages.

Which should keep me safely on the sexy side :-)

[bart_calendar]

He's already in his mid 50s.

[del_c]

You're not helping my confusion as to which link each comment is about.

[supergee]

Ann Coulter may have cured me of football chauvinism, but at least the people who like real football don't mistake it for sex.

[channelpenguin]

damn! My birthday was last month. *That* explains it....

[sad-43-yr-old-face-making]

[nancylebov]

Just a minute.... The Winds of Winter is done, but it's not going to be published for a year and a half?

[newandrewhickey]

The article doesn't say it's done.
That said, Charles Stross seems to deliver his books to his publisher about a year before publication, and his books are much shorter (probably requiring less work) and also not the kind of book that entire companies' balance sheets rest on, so not requiring precise scheduling.
Come to that, I delivered my own first draft of my recent novel to the publisher a year ago, and the second draft in February, and still don't have a publication date, so I don't think an eighteen-month gap for something they want to get *right* is unreasonavle...

[andrewducker]

What makes you think it's done?

lies and statismagicians

[snarlish]

oh boy this article.

On the one hand, the headline is correct. On the other: The Big Issue did not say this; other groups have. Chivers also reveals that the DWP's own publication of this stat leaves it open to interpretation, and the actual number of those who have died due to being classed 'fit to work' is not held by them: the closest one can get is the stat of those who have died and had benefits removed, some of which must be after benefits were removed, as sadly noted in the test cases.

Even one person is too many.

(grr, typing and deleting more rant.)