dusqi

Congrats all who got in! Life starts at uni :) You have to start again.

My flaws? Sometimes I'm tempted to post my flaws on an internet forum despite knowing that employers search the internet to find details about candidates. Just sayin' :P

Yes, so then the prosecution changed it to rape by deception - part of a "plea bargain" - I'm not familiar with criminal procedure. But the essential point is that she obviously felt humiliated and probably stupid, and wanted to get revenge any way she could. I hope that there's some way to counter-sue her for making up the initial charges (as well as getting this 'rape by deception' thing reversed).

You should never look at the blast as at night even for just a 1 megaton device it can blind you up to 53 miles away: http://www.wikihow.com/Survive-a-Nuclear-Attack

Here is some further information on the story: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/07/rape-by-deception-ctd.html#more

I am subscribed to Time magazine. It costs me a stupidly small amount, something like 30p per issue. I can't send a letter for that cheap.

Ah, sorry that I missed it! And thanks to you too for helping our research :)

Heh, indeed I am, didn't want to advertise my own website (again) though... But since you mentioned it ;) http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2490151219 (you can help our research if you participate :) We have lots more tests as well as a Big 5 one) Also, I feel continually guilty for my app having an estimate of one's Jungian Type. It's only there because people are so familiar with it, I'd love to get rid of it, but customer demand and all that... It is our way of transitioning people over to the new system.

THIS ^^ Then again, I say it every time there's one of these Jungian Type posts and they still keep coming. I do personality research myself. The Myers-Briggs is almost 50 years old, before people had computers to do proper statistical analyses. Instead they based it on Jung's theories of personality, going back to 1921. Contrary to popular understanding, psychology has moved on a long way from the time of Jung and Freud talking about psychosexual development and other rubbish.

Can't say I say eye to herr often. Who was it who told reese off in off topic like 5 years ago? That was my favorite post on these forums. You know i never got a chance to hit on meesy, merciful was always in my way - that pic of you dusqi was from your trip to america yes? Nah, that was when Mad visited London, which was a year before I visited her. It is in London zoo. It is probably apt that the first place we met is where they also keep the monkeys :)

Hahaha, yeah. I have pictures of everyone. Knew they'd come in handy for blackmail one day :D My time has come!!

Heh, yo Rizla. Good to see you, hope life is treating you well! What were you in Africa for? Darkwebz still lives :) Edit: Btw (this is probably breaking a million tip.it rules) remember this ;) (Nov 2004)?

I had high hopes for Gordon Brown when he came into power. He wasn't slick but he was going to clean up politics, scrap ID cards, care more about social justice, etc.etc. The high hopes were dashed when ID cards continued, 10p tax rate went, expenses scandals - and he instead spent his time trying to perfect that ridiculous smile. His heart was generally in the right place as chancellor, and I think that this is demonstrated by the fact that he has chosen to stay on as an MP rather than jet around the world giving paid speeches like Blair. However, he was just not an effective Prime Minister.

I am not against religious education of all faiths. If anything is likely to break the hold that religion has on children, it is showing them that there are lots of other religions that believe various things just as fervently as their parents believe whatever religion they follow. It is harder to believe that your religion is the one true faith when you see that it has the same kinds of stories and long equivocal history that many other religions have. I am against the subtle bias for one religion that pervades many schools: singing hymns, thanking God for this and that. The subtle bias that takes (whichever) God for granted.

I often use the analogy that cellphones are like one of those tamagotchis. You have to carry it around everywhere and they constantly beep at you because they want attention (someone texted/called), or because they want food (charging). In that sense they do own you - they beep, you attend, they want feeding, you charge them. If you don't then that's your (social) life over.

From the news, my understanding is that AV would change very little in terms of the number of seats in the House of Commons. Apparently the Libs might get another 30 seats, giving them 13% of the seats with 23% of the vote. And, really, if it was going to change anything, the Conservatives wouldn't offer it. Anyway, voting reform aside, it sounds from the media as if Lib-Lab talks have broken down (as someone here mentioned, Labs don't want PR either) and Lib-Con is the only game left. Hopefully the Libs will be able to take the edge off of the Conservatives' most extreme policies (tax breaks for millionaires...)

Within the next 12 months probably. Maybe even as soon as November. I just hope to God we'll have electoral reform by then... Fat chance. The referrendum will get shot down in flames by the murdoch controlled media. It'll never happen. I don't agree with this. The Cons are against it, but that's only 38% or so of the vote. Libs are obviously for it, as are the supporters of the smaller parties. Lab is mixed. But one thing this underestimates is the number of people who would like to vote for smaller parties like UKIP, the Greens, even the BNP - but don't do it because they're unlikely to win in their area. They know that they'll always have a tough job of winning anything and their vote will always be wasted unless PR comes in. Edit: Then again, it wouldn't be the first time I was disappointed by the general population's susceptibility to Murdoch's media.

Libs had to offer Cons the option of "trying to form a government". I suspect this is just Clegg making a public offer so that he looks like he gave them a chance. The same thing applies to Cameron making public statements offering various things to the Libs. He wants the media story to be that the Cons made significant sucessions to the Libs but they refused. In the end it seems to me that the intractable issue is that the Cons will never offer meaningful voting reform because then they'd never be in government again. Libs will then speak to Lab. They'll want Gordon Brown to step down because otherwise they'll be seen to be propping up an unpopular leader. Gordon won't want to do it, possibly his party will want him to. I don't know whether the Libs will settle for a coalition including Gordon Brown as PM, and I don't know whether Lab would be able to get rid of Gordon if he doesn't agree to go. This also has the disadvantage in that the various regional parties will need to be involved, and that will involve concessions to them that English people won't like. If that doesn't work then it only leaves the Tories with a minority government. That's a massive problem because they'll never be able to get their cuts through facing all of the other left-wing parties. Why would anyone defect from their party to afflict tax increases and spending cuts? I agree with Krugman - somehow, everyone lost (apart from the Green party).

Here's why you shouldn't trust The Sun <Link Removed> For those who can't click on the link, I have copied the text below: Here are my problems with this unbelievable article: #1 Neither Labour nor the Lib Dems have a policy on Page 3 girls. It does not grace their manifestos. They would not act swiftly to ban it. This is just a lie. #2 Are they seriously comparing having topless girls in a newspaper with the Bill of Rights and the Constitution? #3 They obviously think that all of their readers are retarded if this is going to sway their voting intentions. Why would you read something that patronises you so much? It's the third issue that really gets me. Murdoch has complete contempt for his own readers. He herds them like cattle to the slaughter. ~~~ If the Lib Dems went into a coalition with Labour, I suspect that they'd want Gordon Brown to step down. He is too unpopular and the Lib Dems wouldn't want to be seen to be propping him up. Heck, even Labour want Gordon Brown to step down, on the basis of their various attempted coups over the last year. Removed the link, even though they aren't the focus, nude links aren't allowed. - Danq OK, but just to confirm, this is a real article. You can search Google for the link if you don't believe it (I wouldn't have believed it) - dusqi

I usually enjoy staying up ridiculously late watching the polls come in. It's like watching a football match with all the emotions going up and down and the scores coming in. Unfortunately this Friday I have to be up very early.for an all-day event, so I will instead try to get up at 6am to see how it has gone before I have to leave the house.

Good website. My constituency is labeled as a "very safe" Labour seat. I don't really know how much individual seats swing, so perhaps I'm being naive, but there is a new Labour candidate as opposed to our long-standing MP, so I wonder how far this affects voting in an individual constituency. Presumably people would be more likely to switch to a new party when they don't have any personal loyalty to the new candidate? (it would still require the Labour vote to drop by 18% though...)

I don't like all this anti-Europe talk. Europeans come here to work, they do jobs that UK people wouldn't do otherwise and they work hard and for cheap. That helps the British businesses that employ them. Similarly, if I want to go and live in Spain or Germany or France, I can. I would like a closer political relationship with Europe also, because it's all very well to talk about keeping sovereignty, but that is becoming more and more worthless as America and Asia grow as blocs. We saw what happened with Iraq - that was a sovereign Britain without dignity. Sure, the UK has lots in common with the US, especially when it has a Democrat President, but it seems to me that the long term trend is for America to do an increasing number of things that the UK does not agree with.

I find this "slip" interesting because all of the comments I have seen on FB and this board have been positive (admittedly a small and biased sample of young people). Lots of people saying things like "I'd say the same thing" and "people are allowed to get annoyed". Gordon clearly wasn't going to be winning any Tory voters over anyway, so this slur on right-wing people who dislike immigrants might play well to his party's base, and they're the people he needs to consolidate to stop this turning into a disaster for Labour. I will be interested to see how the polls react to this. Unfortunately for Gordon it probably means that his political career is over. Even a Lib Dem + Labour coalition is likely to insist that Gordon steps down.

The problem is that they have leverage now. With them being involved this time they would cry foul if they were excluded in the future and they would use the newspapers to attack and claim that Labour (or whoever they're against at the time) are afraid of them and the hard questions. It's really a case of 'you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't." There are other legitimate reasons to exclude them, apart from their bias and unprofessionalism. Low viewing figures, for example, which leaves out people who don't have digital TV. The headlines would only be fleeting in the Murdoch newspapers, and we know that they'd write negative headlines about whoever they didn't like anyway. Wiki says: "In the 2005 general election, the party received 0.7% of the vote but had no candidates elected to Parliament." The BNP gets far more than 0.7% of the news coverage though. Sure, a lot of it is bad, but one could argue that this reflects public opinion. Compare this to the Lib Dems, who got 22.1% of the vote, but until these TV debates have had very little coverage at all in the newspapers.

dbl post - apologies