Monday, November 11, 2013
Whoever ends up owning the three plots, the Nisga’a will always retain ultimate title to the land. Homeowners will pay Nisga’a taxes, be subject to Nisga’a laws and if they die without a will, the property reverts to Nisga’a ownership. If the house is in the way of a public works project, the Nisga’a will even have the power of expropriation.
this paragraph is absolutely true, as it relates to the nisga'a.
it's absolutely false as it relates to reserve lands that harper wants to mess around with with his private property act. as the crown has allodial title to reserve lands, converting them to private property would be catastrophic.
bit of a bait and switch, here. don't compare the two situations. not comparable.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/11/08/b-c-first-nation-leads-historic-and-controversial-move-toward-aboriginal-private-home-ownership/
this paragraph is absolutely true, as it relates to the nisga'a.
it's absolutely false as it relates to reserve lands that harper wants to mess around with with his private property act. as the crown has allodial title to reserve lands, converting them to private property would be catastrophic.
bit of a bait and switch, here. don't compare the two situations. not comparable.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/11/08/b-c-first-nation-leads-historic-and-controversial-move-toward-aboriginal-private-home-ownership/
the kid upstairs is going to go through the floor.
she's autistic. which seems to mean she doesn't have a clear understanding of herself in a spatial context. she's also a little overweight. but, the issue (regardless of weight) is not understanding how to walk without stomping.
she's not just creaking the floor. she's breaking wood planks. you can hear them snap as she stomps around. and i mean STOMP around.
see, as annoying as it's going to be for me to deal with a hole in the ceiling, i'm kind of more concerned that she's going to hurt herself and i don't really know how to bring that up. i'm going to guess that actually reversing the stomping is going to require some careful and patient coaching, that it's going to be frustrating for everybody and that it might actually be impossible to change habitually, in the long term.
i wouldn't even be thinking about this if it were just the sound. i'd just be 'whatever. let the kid stomp.'. but, it really is predictable that she's going to stomp right through a wood plank at some point. so, i kind of feel obligated to point it out.
it's just....how do you do this....
i'm not concerned about offense. no, really, i'm not. i don't care about that. it's more that if i'm going to bother taking the time to offend them, i want to make sure that they actually listen rather than just get offended and then not do anything. see, and i know that humans aren't particularly intelligent creatures - i know that they tend to irrationally react to certain things on an emotional level, ignore anything approaching a rigourous analysis and then consciously decide to *not* follow through with a logical reaction, apparently purely out of spite for reason.
i have to say something to somebody. suggestions?
mom
Bring it to the attention of your landlord...
jessica amber murray
yeah, see, the landlord is the tenant's brother, and the stomper's uncle. the brother seems to be a little challenged as well, but not as much.
it might be the best option, i agree. but i'm no closer to a tactic.
"your niece is going to stomp through the floor" is blunt. i like blunt. but i don't want to piss him off too badly, unless i'm sure he's going to listen (at which point, the piss off will necessarily be temporary - logic will prevail).
i should also point out that he owns this place, specifically, so that his mentally challenged brother and niece have an affordable place to stay. so, if i bring it up, it has to be with the sole intent of therapy.
mom
Just explain to him the way you explained it on here....
jessica amber murray
i think what i need is less an angle and more the right context. just bringing it up at the right time kind of thing.
she's autistic. which seems to mean she doesn't have a clear understanding of herself in a spatial context. she's also a little overweight. but, the issue (regardless of weight) is not understanding how to walk without stomping.
she's not just creaking the floor. she's breaking wood planks. you can hear them snap as she stomps around. and i mean STOMP around.
see, as annoying as it's going to be for me to deal with a hole in the ceiling, i'm kind of more concerned that she's going to hurt herself and i don't really know how to bring that up. i'm going to guess that actually reversing the stomping is going to require some careful and patient coaching, that it's going to be frustrating for everybody and that it might actually be impossible to change habitually, in the long term.
i wouldn't even be thinking about this if it were just the sound. i'd just be 'whatever. let the kid stomp.'. but, it really is predictable that she's going to stomp right through a wood plank at some point. so, i kind of feel obligated to point it out.
it's just....how do you do this....
i'm not concerned about offense. no, really, i'm not. i don't care about that. it's more that if i'm going to bother taking the time to offend them, i want to make sure that they actually listen rather than just get offended and then not do anything. see, and i know that humans aren't particularly intelligent creatures - i know that they tend to irrationally react to certain things on an emotional level, ignore anything approaching a rigourous analysis and then consciously decide to *not* follow through with a logical reaction, apparently purely out of spite for reason.
i have to say something to somebody. suggestions?
mom
Bring it to the attention of your landlord...
jessica amber murray
yeah, see, the landlord is the tenant's brother, and the stomper's uncle. the brother seems to be a little challenged as well, but not as much.
it might be the best option, i agree. but i'm no closer to a tactic.
"your niece is going to stomp through the floor" is blunt. i like blunt. but i don't want to piss him off too badly, unless i'm sure he's going to listen (at which point, the piss off will necessarily be temporary - logic will prevail).
i should also point out that he owns this place, specifically, so that his mentally challenged brother and niece have an affordable place to stay. so, if i bring it up, it has to be with the sole intent of therapy.
mom
Just explain to him the way you explained it on here....
jessica amber murray
i think what i need is less an angle and more the right context. just bringing it up at the right time kind of thing.
Some Egyptian journalists made little effort to conceal their bias during the session. They joined in anti-Brotherhood chants with the plaintiffs' lawyers, who held up photos of one of the men killed during the December clashes, journalist Hussein Abu Deif. During the nine-minute recess, one journalist even scrambled on top of the wooden pews and attempted to launch a shoe at Morsy's defense team, which had accused Egyptian media of being bought by the United States. He was soon wrestled to the ground by security forces.
this isn't about farming, it's about attacking the local poor. if these capitalist assholes want to actually help (they don't), what they should do is fuck off and let people redevelop the land independently.
http://io9.com/people-are-building-enormous-farms-in-the-ruins-of-detr-1457044514
http://io9.com/people-are-building-enormous-farms-in-the-ruins-of-detr-1457044514
i think the soldiers that exist on the supply side make any demands for lower prices a type of consumer-driven fascism that is entirely inconsistent with any kind of socialism.
this was entirely predictable, even years ago. the hierarchy that chavez left behind was absolutely dependent on his altruism. any kind of even marginally less enlightened fool - and that would be a compliment if directed at maduro - would inevitably interpret taking control of that system as inheriting a fascist dictatorship.
we'll find out how much of a socialist veneer he wants to hang on to, and we'll find out just how ideological the venezuelan masses really are. but i'm fully expecting this to end up more like franco's spain than castro's cuba.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/11/09/venezuela-seizes-stores/3486581/
this was entirely predictable, even years ago. the hierarchy that chavez left behind was absolutely dependent on his altruism. any kind of even marginally less enlightened fool - and that would be a compliment if directed at maduro - would inevitably interpret taking control of that system as inheriting a fascist dictatorship.
we'll find out how much of a socialist veneer he wants to hang on to, and we'll find out just how ideological the venezuelan masses really are. but i'm fully expecting this to end up more like franco's spain than castro's cuba.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/11/09/venezuela-seizes-stores/3486581/
so, as was predictable, what's happened in syria is that the saudis have taken over the military command (they were already the dominant planners), and the israelis are providing (limited) air support instead of the americans. classic proxy war.
the israelis don't generally take the time to care about what the un does or does not think.
the israelis don't generally take the time to care about what the un does or does not think.
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/sports/2013/11/08/Ousted-President-Mubarak-says-Egypt-can-bounce-back-against-Ghana.html
http://physics.aps.org/synopsis-for/10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.181302
http://phys.org/news/2013-11-explore-natural-solution-household-plumbing.html
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=what-is-4-d-printing-manufacturing&WT.mc_id=SA_Facebook
http://phy.so/302782222
http://phy.so/302789393
http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2013/nov/05/india-rocket-mars-isro-video
this is basically stating that some types of solar panels can convert sound waves into electricity. of course, it's always going to be a net loss. but the idea that noise pollution (ambient sounds that are created as a byproduct of something else) could possibly be used to generate electricity is an interesting one. that's energy that is being lost from some other process...
http://phy.so/302942703
http://www.nature.com/news/neuroelectronics-smart-connections-1.14089
http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/11/06/a-shot-in-the-dark-detector-at-uw-on-the-hunt-for-dark-matter/
http://phy.so/303045944
http://phy.so/303036284
http://phys.org/news/2013-11-artificial-heart-human-future-robots.html
http://phy.so/303101283
http://www.astrobio.net/exclusive/5785/moonlight-and-mortality
http://www.nature.com/news/fountain-of-youth-gene-unleashes-healing-power-1.14128?WT.mc_id=FBK_NPG_1311_NatureNews
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/november-2013/ultra-high-energy-neutrinos
http://www.nature.com/news/hubble-space-telescope-spots-unprecedented-comet-with-six-tails-1.14133
http://www.nature.com/news/specials/neuroscience2013/index.html
http://physics.aps.org/articles/v6/122
http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.7494
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/morsi-trial-if-a-court-can-exemplify-the-divisions-of-a-nation-this-one-did-for-egypt-8921397.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7-G9VrJr_k
http://physics.aps.org/synopsis-for/10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.181302
http://phys.org/news/2013-11-explore-natural-solution-household-plumbing.html
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=what-is-4-d-printing-manufacturing&WT.mc_id=SA_Facebook
http://phy.so/302782222
http://phy.so/302789393
http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2013/nov/05/india-rocket-mars-isro-video
this is basically stating that some types of solar panels can convert sound waves into electricity. of course, it's always going to be a net loss. but the idea that noise pollution (ambient sounds that are created as a byproduct of something else) could possibly be used to generate electricity is an interesting one. that's energy that is being lost from some other process...
http://phy.so/302942703
http://www.nature.com/news/neuroelectronics-smart-connections-1.14089
http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/11/06/a-shot-in-the-dark-detector-at-uw-on-the-hunt-for-dark-matter/
http://phy.so/303045944
http://phy.so/303036284
http://phys.org/news/2013-11-artificial-heart-human-future-robots.html
http://phy.so/303101283
http://www.astrobio.net/exclusive/5785/moonlight-and-mortality
http://www.nature.com/news/fountain-of-youth-gene-unleashes-healing-power-1.14128?WT.mc_id=FBK_NPG_1311_NatureNews
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/november-2013/ultra-high-energy-neutrinos
http://www.nature.com/news/hubble-space-telescope-spots-unprecedented-comet-with-six-tails-1.14133
http://www.nature.com/news/specials/neuroscience2013/index.html
http://physics.aps.org/articles/v6/122
http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.7494
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/morsi-trial-if-a-court-can-exemplify-the-divisions-of-a-nation-this-one-did-for-egypt-8921397.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7-G9VrJr_k
i have some ideological problems with modelling....
to clarify: the article bounces between 'surface temperatures have slowed their rate of increase' and 'global warming has paused' type statements. the former is true: surface warming is still happening, and the warming is still increasing, but the *rate* is not increasing. it's a linear increase, rather than an exponential one.
that doesn't question the idea, and the magazine deserves a talking to for trying to capture the skeptic market, really. it just questions the perfection of the models.
but the perfection of the models was never in doubt. we all know better than to trust the weather forecast, right?
it's a non-issue, except to point out that the models are constantly being improved.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=has-global-warming-paused
to clarify: the article bounces between 'surface temperatures have slowed their rate of increase' and 'global warming has paused' type statements. the former is true: surface warming is still happening, and the warming is still increasing, but the *rate* is not increasing. it's a linear increase, rather than an exponential one.
that doesn't question the idea, and the magazine deserves a talking to for trying to capture the skeptic market, really. it just questions the perfection of the models.
but the perfection of the models was never in doubt. we all know better than to trust the weather forecast, right?
it's a non-issue, except to point out that the models are constantly being improved.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=has-global-warming-paused
Economist Jean-Paul Fitoussi told the daily Libération: “Europe is plunging into an endless spiral, with explosive levels of unemployment in Greece, Spain, and even Italy. Can democracy survive when 60 percent of youth have no job? The probability of a social explosion is increasing each month.”
see, *that* is a group of people that, unlike unionized wage slaves focused on feeding their kids, actually has some legitimate revolutionary potential.
wish i was there...
hopefully, that kind of unemployment rate is on it's way here to southern ontario, though.
see, *that* is a group of people that, unlike unionized wage slaves focused on feeding their kids, actually has some legitimate revolutionary potential.
wish i was there...
hopefully, that kind of unemployment rate is on it's way here to southern ontario, though.
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