The differences between Conservatives and Liberals (1)
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The interesting part of this article is not the topic (a dispute on drug policy in British Columbia), but the insights into the different moral systems of conservatives and liberals (in the Canadian or American sense). Proffessor Jonathan Haidt, a University of Virginia social psychologist, has developed a system to explain the different moral systems of conservatives and liberals. In his view there are five foundations people use to define morality: Harm: whether someone is ...
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/07/shockingly-creative-ads-from-urban.html (12)
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"QUANTUM SHOT" #450linkThese Marketers Would Use ANYTHING!You never know when some viral urban campaign would come around the corner and whack you with some bizarre message. More interesting ones may even capture your thoughts long after the first visual shock subsides. often it's just a smart product placement / promotion, buttr in some cases - truly subversive and genuine urban art.Streets in Portugal seem to be the most often visited by creative mayhem:(once you approach ...
RE: Has Iraq's PM just endorsed Obama? (1)
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Regarding Tim's post below, the New York Times politics blog has a couple of updates on the story including a partial retraction from a spokesman for Mr Maliki. It now seems that his comments had been “as not conveyed accurately regarding the vision of Senator Barack Obama, U.S. presidential candidate, on the timeframe for U.S. forces withdrawal from Iraq,” although the language of the statement is so convoluted that it is difficult to see exactly ...
Has Iraq's PM just endorsed Obama? (1)
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I've just arrived in Washington DC and the talk of the town is this story in Spiegel. Iraq's PM appears to have endorsed Obama's plan for a sixteen month withdrawal plan from Iraq. If true then McCain's message that Obama is taking a risk with the security of Iraq becomes a much harder sell. Marc Ambinder agrees:"This could be one of those unexpected events that forever changes the way the world perceives an issue. Iraq's ...
Major WH Blunder: Emails al-Maliki Story to Reporters (2)
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[From the diaries - BarbinMD] Stupid is as stupid does. The White House this afternoon accidentally sent to its extensive distribution list a Reuters story headlined "Iraqi PM backs Obama troop exit plan - magazine." The story relayed how Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told the German magazine Der Spiegel that "he supported prospective U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's proposal that U.S. troops should leave Iraq within 16 months ... ‘U.S. presidential candidate Barack ...
Now Available: SubSonic 2.1 is Finally Here :) (1)
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Hi all. I'm a bit late but it's never late for good news. It's here, now SubSonic 2.1 has finally arrived. Description SqlQuery, our next-generation querying engine SubStage, a visual configuration management and code generation tool Programmatic migrations between database versions Greatly improved documentation across the entire code base Improvements in performance and stability ...and a massive collection of bug fixes and assorted goodies You can get it from the codeplex website here. Enjoy!
We are so screwed. (5)
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To put that number in human terms, the debt has reached $455,000 per U.S. household.
Tory lead steady in latest ComRes poll (1)
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ComRes have a new poll in the Independent on Sunday. The topline voting intention with changes from the last ComRes poll are CON 45%(-1), LAB 24%(-1), LDEM 16%(-2) (the drop in support for the main parties, interestingly enough, seems to have benefited the Green party, up on 5%, hich will be interesting if it is reflected in any other polls). The poll was conducted between the 16th and 17th July. The Tory lead is steady ...
The Sith Suffered a Grave Defeat Yesterday (1)
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Guido has now had time to fully digest yesterday's report on the Smith Institute. Some comment from the unpopular wing of the blogosphere shows they don't seem to have grasped that the Sith were found to have operated illegally nor have they understood the full ramifications of the Charity Commission's investigative findings:The Institute failed to implement key elements of the 2002 commitments arising from the first investigation.The "predominant involvement of Labour Party politicians in the ...
Where will the money come from? (1)
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Via Iain Dale, it seems that the wheels really are looking slightly loose economy-wise, as the government's borrowing requirement soars.Public sector borrowing rose by more than expected in June, official figures have shown, suggesting the economic slowdown is hitting government coffers.Public sector net borrowing (PSNB) was £9.16bn, a record amount for June and more than analyst forecasts of £7.4bn.Borrowing so far this financial year has reached £24.4bn since April - the biggest quarterly figure since ...
The Chancellor in the Times - still more silly spin (1)
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There was one really encouraging thing in the Chancellor’s remarks to the Times. He thinks oil prices will remain high. As he’s been wrong on practically everything else, that is very encouraging! It is possible the big falls in the oil price this week will trigger further declines and some unwinding of the substantial “investment” positions that many funds have taken in oil. That would help relieve the immediate inflationary pressures, and might persuade eventually ...
The BBC follows the government on the economy (1)
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Yesterday the BBC did move from ignoring the idea of cutting public spending, to mentioning it in pejorative terms. At the same time they started pushing out the government propoganda that the UK exceeding the 40% limit on government borrowing should be viewed alongside Italy where government borrowing is 100% of GDP and France where it is 50%. It’s typical of the lazy or biased reporting we get used to from the BBC on the ...
House prices "to fall for two years" (1)
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The chairman of one of the world's most powerful banks has warned that house prices in the UK and the US are likely to fall for another two years. Sir Win Bischoff, the chairman of the US banking giant Citigroup, has told me that he expects it will take two years for these markets to find a floor. The interview will be broadcast on the News Channel at 22.30 tonight (and at various other times), ...
The Network Firewall is a Consensual Hallucination (2)
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James McGovern asks why we don't see enterprisey folks focusing on SOA *and* security? Well there are a lot of reasons here, but lets look at some facts. Most enterprisey folks look at security in binary terms - inside the firewall or outside the firewall. When a transaction is "inside the firewall" they can do silly things like load all their transaction on to something like MQ Series with no authentication, send it to the ...
Gordon's Imperfect Economic Storm Approaches (1)
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An economic shudder has just run down my spine. I just read THIS on the BBC website. In June public borrowing reached a massive £9.16 billion. That's £9.16 billion of Her Majesty's Pounds. It's also 24% more than Treasury forecasts. In the first quarter of this financial year, the government borrowed more than £24 billion. Annualise it, and the government will be borrowing close on £100 billion this year - a seventh of all government ...
