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andrewducker

Interesting Links for 13-01-2015

Jan 13, 2015 11:00

Finally, a guide to successfully interrogating terrorists
(tags: terrorism interrogation psychology )
We have experienced anarchy like this before. We should not over-react to it
(tags: liberal anarchy terrorism violence law politics )
£300 for a job reference is the latest outrage in the exploitation of interns
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kalimac January 13 2015, 14:07:11 UTC

"We have experienced anarchy like this before. We should not over-react to it "

I agree, but it should be noted that we over-reacted to it then, too. In the US the most subsequently infamous manifestations of that over-reaction were the Palmer raids (which gave his start to an eager young enforcer named J. Edgar Hoover) and the Sacco-Vanzetti case. How well are those known in the UK?

andrewducker January 13 2015, 14:16:15 UTC

Not at all, in my case!

bart_calendar January 13 2015, 14:30:10 UTC

Hoover would have happened no matter what. The mob needed someone in that office who would leave them alone and would have manipulated things until they found that person no matter what.

And that's the one thing that was good about Hoover. He understood that nobody was every going to stop gambling and prostitution and other vice and that someone was going to try to make money off of it, so spending lots of resources trying to stop it was a bad idea.

Of course it helped that at the time the mob was pretty much lockstep in line with his general life beliefs - that communism was bad, that liberals were bad, that black people needed to be contained, that drug addiction in poor neighborhoods would keep the poor from voting/being a a pain in the ass, etc...

kalimac January 13 2015, 14:37:36 UTC

Space: the final frontier.

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harvey_rrit January 13 2015, 15:45:33 UTC

No, really.

Apologize for your kids.

Then leave with them.

I know plenty of kids who do not act like that.

As for Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 9, I grew up in a town severely afflicted with the White Supremacist disease, and none of those things were valid, and all needed to be apologized for.

And often imprisoned for.

octopoid_horror January 13 2015, 18:07:12 UTC

Saints Row 2 (more so than the other games in the series, although they're pretty close) essentially has the perfect character creation system. You choose your body type, you choose your voice and while playing the game you can choose clothes. None of these limit the others. So if you want to have an obese male body, with a 50s housewife haircut, with a female voice, wearing a mixture of male and female clothing - you can do that ( ... )