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andrewducker

Interesting Links for 29-03-2016

Mar 29, 2016 13:00

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Comments 21

Lynx may be reintroduced to UK after 1,000 years drdoug March 29 2016, 12:32:24 UTC

What? Lynx never went away!
http://lynx.invisible-island.net/current/index.html

Re: Lynx may be reintroduced to UK after 1,000 years andrewducker March 29 2016, 12:35:15 UTC

I'm afraid Patrick Nielsen-Hayden beat you to the same joke over on Twitter...

RE: Re: Lynx may be reintroduced to UK after 1,000 years drdoug March 29 2016, 12:48:46 UTC

Bah! Curse him and his smarter-than-me ways.

Edit: And he did it funnier, damn his eyes.

cartesiandaemon March 29 2016, 12:55:41 UTC

I had no idea what kind of a license was needed for releasing a wild animal into the UK, but I guess I'm glad there *was* a licensing system even as I hadn't thought about it

bart_calendar March 29 2016, 13:04:13 UTC

So the new wave will be for people to text "DTF?" right before they get busy and then start fooling around as soon as they get a "FS" response.

I wonder if they'll make an app for that?

gonzo21 March 29 2016, 13:33:07 UTC

And how long until somebody creates a hack to make it appear as if electronic consent has been given.

bart_calendar March 29 2016, 13:45:05 UTC

Yep, that's the next step.

That said you could really easily do that now anyway, but I suspect the cops would be able to figure it out.

gonzo21 March 29 2016, 14:20:09 UTC

Yep, as soon as a victim says they have no memory of signing a sex agreement form or somesuch, the whole document becomes worthless.

I suspect the same argument might apply to electronic consent. If somebody was too drunk to meaningfully sign a contract, then the contract isn't valid.

So I'm not sure what the answer is. A signed contract with a witness cosigning that the signee is capable of making an informed decision when they signed?

Thread 5

danieldwilliam March 29 2016, 13:59:06 UTC

Those new rape "rules" appear to be guidelines for prosecutors rather than actual rules.

gonzo21 March 29 2016, 14:21:34 UTC

Yeah, just shifting the burden of proof from victim onto accused a bit more. Which seems all for the good.

danieldwilliam March 29 2016, 14:35:11 UTC

No, specifically not doing that.

gonzo21 March 29 2016, 14:38:42 UTC

Oh, did I read it wrong then? My understanding was that accused would have to demonstrate that informed consent was sought and given? Rather than victims having to prove they didn't consent.

Thread 5

bart_calendar March 29 2016, 14:01:52 UTC

The number of red flags that woman ignored in the rapist husband story is astounding.

(Not victim blaming, just saying "holy shit love is blind.")

alitheapipkin March 29 2016, 14:10:16 UTC

Yeah, poor woman, she's right that he picked a vulnerable target. The bit I found really sad was that she was still talking about not knowing he was a rapist after she'd found out that he'd raped her at least once.