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Brandi says
This shit is getting way too crazy. With the addition of making money from this stuff I see no end in sight. If all you have to do is accuse the "hive mind" of attacking you even though they don't know/care who you are before you start accusing them of stuff and you will get a ton more hits on your videos…well I can see why people would take advantage of that. It doesn't speak well of them at all but I can see the appeal. Also, if you can deceive your audience into feeling sorry for you and throwing you a few hundred bucks for being a chill girl, hey oh! Cha ching.
I thought it was feminists who were always playing the victim card? Strange.
Illuminata, Genie in the Beer Bottle says
Well, feminists DO play the victim card. Like, when they talk about sexual violence, or equal pay. All just babbling nonsense and playing the victim card. Not like there's mountains of evidence! no no!
But bigots? Well, see, whenever they randomly make up shit about "hiveminds" or "bullying" its automatically true and real and a Major Problem! nevermind they have to lie in order to make those statements. They're the REAL VICTIMS!
And ridiculous crybabies, but that's another story.
Priscilla Parker says
That's not just a tactic feminists use, crying bullying and sexual harassment to get attention and make people feel sorry for them. It's become a defense mechanism to divert attention off of the individual making the claims/accusation and onto the person/persons they perceive as a threat. Like when someone claims you are stalking/raped them or sexually harassed them for by talking to them in an elevator (wtf?) This strategy of using loaded words such as sexual harassment, stalking, raping, blah blah blah as a selling point is retarded but not as retarded as the people who fall for it, EVERYTIME!
Christina, you are the only blogger I can stomach on FTB anymore, please don't ruin it by partaking in drama.
Jafafa Hots says
Like when someone claims you are stalking/raped them or sexually harassed them for by talking to them in an elevator
This strategy of using loaded words such as sexual harassment, stalking, raping, blah blah blah as a selling point is retarded but not as retarded as the people who fall for it, EVERYTIME!
How about when someone joins in with others who've spent over a year deliberately, blatantly lying about an incident to people who know they are lying?
How about when someone is so determined to stir shit that the only contribution they make it to repeat pathetic lies not even CARING that the people they are lying to know it's a lie, all to create drama that they dishonestly, immorally claim to dislike while blaming that the very people they are lying to and about for the drama that they, the liar themselves, deliberately created?
What do you think about THAT, Priscilla?
Wait, I know already – you think it's a great hobby.
Also, what do you think of people who use a disability as a slur?
PP, if you have anything to say that is not a deliberate hypocritical lie, or at least not an ableist insult now would be the time to say it.
We'll wait.
priscilla parker says
I think your response is incoherent. Care to reword it so it makes sense?
LykeX says
I think hes referring to the fact that this:
Like when someone claims you are stalking/raped them or sexually harassed them for by talking to them in an elevator
Never happened and anyone who has bothered to pay attention know that. As a result, we can conclude that you're either hopelessly oblivious or simply dishonest.
F says
Like when someone claims that someone claimed that they were stalked/raped/harassed by someone talking to them in an elevator, is more like it. Better luck next time.
karmakin says
I enjoyed the video. As a sidenote, why do so many Vloggers talk in such an annoying, stilted style? Not you, I like your style but GWW…ugh. Feels so unnatural. It's like they're trying to be super-authoritarian.
Maybe this is wading into the conspiracy weeds (although I don't think that this concept of trolling is ever that outlandish..this is one of the original flavors actually) but what about the possibility that this is a joe job/false flag scenario, where the DMCA reports were put up to actually create strife and conflict? I don't see this as being more out there than the concept of sockpuppetry..in reality it's just a different form, and we know that happens from time to time.
For what it's worth I do think that a lot of what's gone on over the last year or so is due to a relatively small number of trolls working really hard to inflame things (with substantial success) for whatever reason..my guess is a combination self-rightousness and personal entertainment. So I see these DMCA "attacks" as more of the same.
Crissa says
Lecturing tone, reading tone.
It's a common affectation for people who are reading.
Usernames are smart says
Yeah; another telling thing is if the person looks into the camera. There's more of engagement when you see the person in the video looking you "in the eye."
This is one reason why the teleprompters on TeeVee "News" are set up so the talking head has to look directly at the camera when reading his or her lines.
trinioler says
Hey Christina,
I'm the founder of A+scribe, and I was wondering if we could have permission to transcribe your videos?
hannanibal says
Do my eyes deceive me or did you just ask for permission to transcribe a video?
After all your posturing and bitching in this thread http://freethoughtblogs.com/greta/2012/08/30/atheisms-first-project-a-scribe/
it seems you have taken Anna Johnstone's advice after all. Well done you. A little humility suits you well.
Ace of Sevens says
And if you look at that thread, people agreed all along that you should ask permission. Anna Johnstone just didn't like their attitude or something.
Jadehawk says
congratulations. you've completely distorted the actual way that conversation went. from the very beginning, it was said that if the author of a lecture-like video is against transcribing, the video will not be transcribed. The one exception mentioned was when one participant in a discussion with multiple people doesn't agree, while the other people do agree, then according to Canadian law it would still be ok to transcribe it because in that case accessibility would trump a single participant's desire.
hyperdeath says
A little basic reading comprehension would suit you well.
Julien Rousseau says
Do my eyes deceive me
Your eyed did deceive you (and Anna Johnstone)… when you read Greta's thread.
In his first post there Trinioler said:
If someone doesn't want their work transcribed, we won't do so. This would be quite unfortunate.
He then went on to carve an exception (I don't know if he still hold to that) and a lot of people (including you apparently) took that exception to be the rule.
Personally I would prefer to not transcribe a participant in a debate that does not want to be transcribed but instead to sum up their point (which is legal under fair use, imagine if you had to criticise somebody's position without summing it up) and let people know that it is a summing up of course. But that's my preference, nothing more.
And thank you Cristina for the authorisation.
Cristina Rad says
My general rule is that anyone can use my material however they want. Thanks for asking though 🙂
trinioler says
Very glad! Thank you Christina! Fuck the haters, amirite? 🙂
Improbable Joe says
The reality of GirlWritesWhat is that I doubt anyone here had ever heard about her before she started making bullshit comments about her. Further, if she doesn't make hating FtB and Skepchick.org her main reason for living, we'll all move on to other things by tomorrow.
People like this are sure we care about them. When nobody actually cares about them, they start screaming at us until we do, and then they retroactively justify the screaming by the response they eventually get.
Dan M. says
To be fair, I clearly remember having encountered her channel before and having watched at least several minutes of her videos. Mind you, I don't remember anything else from them, but she does meet the minimum standard of having been heard of by a random lurker from FtB.
And then I wandered off because her videos weren't actually interesting.
M. A. Melby says
I heard of GWW way before this.
Beatrice says
This is brilliant. I've heard one of those videos about DMCA and read that bit where she defends domestic abuse before. It was more than enough for me. I thought I couldn't be any more disgusted, but seeing all this… Wow.
That woman really has no shame. She lies and lies badly. I can at least admire a good liar, but shit she's making up is really obvious.
Thanks for this thorough takedown of her arguments. I'm afraid I'd get alcohol poisoning from all the self-medicating if I were forced to slog through her videos.
nohellbelowus says
You rock that outfit, Cristina.
Karl Otterson says
Wow, I had wanted to give you the benefit of the doubt, having only noticed you on pharyngeal this morning, but they are totally right about you. No hell below us, sure. Lately it is the assholes among us that concern me. Content based video, comment on the outfit? Really? You are a prick. Go away.
nohellbelowus says
Sorry, no.
I try, but Cristina's gorgeous blond locks keep pulling me back in.
Anne C. Hanna says
Yuck, you really are a prolific little troll, aren't you? Why is it that just about every time I read the comments on an FTB post these days, I find NHBU creepily sliming all over everything? Blech.
nohellbelowus says
Cockblock alert.
Anne C. Hanna says
Hey, you're the one who thought it was appropriate to bring your genitalia into this conversation, not me.
Usernames are smart says
She's way out of your league, bub. When/if you mature enough to see and treat women as equals, you might have a shot at establishing a meaningful relationship with a woman.
Pop quiz, Timmy: watch a Richard Dawkins or Neil deGrasse Tyson video. Is your first thought, "You rock that suit, Neil," or "I try, but Richard's gorgeous accent keeps pulling me back in"?
If no, then you need to learn to treat women the same. Otherwise you'll never get out of your basement fortress of solitude.
Anne C. Hanna says
Usernames are smart, I've got a stupid question: Am I missing a reference, or do you know for some reason that NHBU's name is Timmy?
nohellbelowus says
I love Dawkins' voice. And Tyson does rock his suits.
Anne C. Hanna says
So go sexually harass them for a while and see how that turns out for you.
athorist says
I think I've figured it out. Is GWW a character from Deus Ex (only with slightly worse voice acting)?
flueedo says
GWW is no Camille Paglia, Esther Vilar or Christina Hoff Sommers, I'll say that much.
I think that, considering the movements at large( the feminist and the mra/mrm/whatever acronym they use), both sides have good points and not so good points, extremists and reasonables.
Why can't we all just get along in our limited time on this earth, that's the ultimate question…
Beatrice says
No, I don't really want to get along with people who want me to subjugate myself to someone. I want those people to fuck the hell off.
Rumtopf says
That's like asking, "why can't all religions be true?", think about it.
markbrown says
I have no desire to get along with rapists, misogynists, MRAs and GWWs thank you very much.
Infophile says
The part about whether women truly owned their sexuality in a patriarchy is only a part of what's wrong with this argument from economics. The thing that struck me immediately is that economics isn't based on surplus primarily, but scarcity. Air is vital to our lives, and we have it in surplus, but that doesn't mean we ever trade it. Gold isn't necessary for anything (at least for most of human history it wasn't; it's used as a conducting material now), but it's formed the core of economic systems solely because of its scarcity. (Some people like how it looks, but you can replicate its appearance with iron pyrite, which is much more common and less valuable.)
In the context of a transaction over sexuality, one could make the argument that a woman's reproductive capabilities are valuable because they're significantly scarcer than a man's reproductive capabilities. A fertile woman can have at most one child per nine months. A fertile man can have one child for every fertile non-pregnant woman he can sleep with. Women's reproductive abilities are scarce, so they're what was bought and sold.
Of course, at this point it comes back to whether or not a woman owns her own reproductive capabilities. In a patriarchal society, they don't. In an egalitarian society, they probably do. I don't know enough on the matter to speculate on how this came about, though, so I'll leave it there for others to fill in or not.
Noadi says
Just a nit-pick but while iron pyrite may have a similar look to gold you can't make the same things with it. Gold is an extremely malleable metal with a melting point that can be achieved with regular fire. Iron pyrite on the other hand is extremely hard and if you melt it the sulfur will separate out of the iron and you're left with plain old iron.
Your economic argument is as bad as your metallurgy because you are unaware of the historical reasons behind it. Arranged marriages was often far more about politics than about childbearing. Using marriage and the resulting children to cement alliances was extremely common especially in feudal societies. It's no coincidence that the beginning of the breakdown of the patriarchal system in our society was at the beginning of the Industrial revolution and the birth of modern capitalism.
karmakin says
Well, economics often gets it wrong because most of the models, as you say were based around scarcity. But when scarcity changes to surplus, things act in very different ways to the same input.
For a very good example of this look at the effects of productivity gains in terms of labor scarcity vs. labor surplus. In a labor/good scarce environment (full employment/shortages of goods) increased productivity will allow firms to make more money, and allow wages to increase while the entire operation still is profitable.
In a labor/good surplus environment, increased productivity will allow employers to employ less, forcing down wages, as they don't need to increase production, as the amount that they sell is independent from production (as they're in a surplus).
Same input, two entirely different reactions.
Now, the caveat to the above is that producers could cut prices and as such sell more, increasing the requirement for labor. Where that falls flat is inequality..and I'm not even talking about the 1% type of inequality. I'm talking middle class/lower class inequality. Something can be more profitable by selling it to only the middle/lower upper class at a higher price than producing more of it and selling it to everybody. This is basically breaking economics as a whole.
And thus ends my little rant on the problems of scarcity/surplus :p
davidmc says
Never 'eard of 'er. She looks like someone being forced to read a list of demands, but agrees with or enjoys some of the content, like the list of bad things happening to single parent kids.
DLC says
Wow. just, freakin wow. That GWW woman is a hundred miles worse than Dinesh D'souza, when it comes to spewing crap.
Ace of Sevens says
If I go on YouTube and say you were mean to me, can I have money? Maybe you hurt my feelings at the party after CONvergence. Or you haven't DMCAed me yet, but I'm pretty sure that you will.
tigzy says
So, GWW expresses her concerns and suspicions about being potentially doxxed by a false DMCA clain, and you, Cristina, treat it with contempt.
GWW expresses fears for the safety of herself and her family, and again, you treat those fears with contempt.
*consults FTB operating manual*
Ah yes: sorry, but you don't get to decide what GWW finds threatening. Neither do you get to decide what her subsequent concerns and reactions should be in the light of her feeling threatened. Seems very close to 'victim blaming' to me.
Usernames are smart says
Viewing comprehension fail. View 08:40-11:21.
TrollScore™: 0/10
William Brinkman says
Wow. Some women really will go a long ways to be liked by sexist men. *shakes head*
As for GWW's assertions about single parents, I think it really depends on how much support the single parent has. When my mother was divorced, she had help from her sister, her parents, and my dad was supportive when it came to raising me. Plus my mother really cared about how well I did.
GWW will be yet another YouTube blog I will avoid. Lift is too short to waste it listening to her.
Brandi says
So how hypocritical can these guys be?
Sexual harassment? What name so? We need hard evidence and lots of it before we take you seriously. Since you don't have hard proof that this guy assaulted you….you are clearly an overreacting feminazi!
Yet this person fabricates a could be scenario and she is a victim? Unless you post videos, most youtubers don't know the ins and outs of filing claims. It was more than likely just some assholes being assholes. Nobody is harassing her family or going after her that we know of. That is one possible reason I suppose but there is nothing pointing towards that. It just happens to be the most dramatic assumption one could draw.
The mental gymnastics required to think like this should win a gold medal.
tigzy says
Sorry Brandi, but – *consults FTB handbook once more* – you don't get to decide if GWW feels threatened; that's up to her. You don't get to decide if she's justified in feeling concerned for her family. Again, that's up to her.
True, the people who filed the claims may have had less malevolent intentions. But as you ought to know, intent isn't magic.
Brandi says
Weird then that others get to decide how women should feel about sexual harassment! Did you bother reading my comment or did ya just skim?
tigzy says
No Brandi, I did indeed read your comment, but as I had mentioned nothing about sexual harassment, I assumed that part was meant for someone else. I'm more concerned at the moment with others deciding on how GWW should feel about the harassment she recently received.
Brandi says
Plus, I never said she can't feel however she wants to feel. What does it matter to me?
What I am boggled by is the rationale of these self acclaimed rational people. If ftb is a hivemind because they typically agree on social justice issues and *gasp* stand up for their colleagues and friends, then what does that make the other side? This is a woman that had some claims filed on her videos. That happens millions of times a day on YT. Instead of waiting to see what actually happened , she invented a scenario that is the absolute most dramatic option and no doubt the totally not hive-minded folks will have her back. There is no evidence of anything whatsoever but I would bet there is a storm of assholes barking about the injustice of it all – based on an imagined scenario.
So – getting DMCA claims and immediately deciding that someone from FTB or a fan is to blame. Not only to blame but they were doing it to get docs. Not only do they want these docs but they want them to spread all over the internet and they will use them to harass her family etc. and so forth. All based on pure speculation and not a damn thing else. I haven't and won't read the comments on her stuff but I will assume, and correct me if I'm wrong, that a fair share of the "ftbullies" folks will back her up without any evidence. They will do that and not think of that as "hive" mentality.
Then on the other hand we have a blogger who was fired from the blogs here. Snuck back on , knowing full well that he wasn't welcome and what he was doing was wrong. Did in fact copy a ton of information and sent some along to other people as well as releasing bits and pieces that would make him look like the victim, and of course nothing that would make him look bad I'm sure. That information that he had included names of people who blog under nyms and ….you know the story, I'm sure.
This was not an imagined thing, it did happen and there is evidence for it. They did not dream it up as a worst case scenario, it actually happened.
Yet when people got upset about this they were mocked and they were overreacting. The other side jumped to the defense of the person who was obviously in the wrong.
It basically just blows my mind that people can act like such blatant hypocrites. Even further they will do these things and act like the people on the other side of the fence are a hive
mind under control of uber bloggers or whatever it is they think.
I am not great at getting my point across most of the time, so I do apologize if that isn't the best description ever. I can't be the only one who looks at these and various other instances that have happened lately and see that many people have chosen a side and facts and evidence don't actually matter to them unless they disagree with you, then you are obviously overreacting until you can "prove it".
tigzy says
Though you state that you never said GWW can't feel how she wants to feel, you do certainly appear to be making a case that her feelings were unjustified in this matter – and therefore claiming, in effect, that GWW should not be feeling as she does, and should not have these concerns about the safety of herself or her family.
Again, you do not get to decide on whether or not GWW should feel threatened in this matter.
markbrown says
Because the first thing you think when you receive a DMCA is "they're coming for my family!". Whereas it's a gross overreaction to be threatened by overly-specific emails expressing concerns for your safety, or upset over obviously insulting t-shirts and jewelry.
Sorry, false equivalence. Please go away, troll.
tigzy says
I see. So in your estimation, a woman saying 'this has made me concerned for the safety of myself and my family' can be blithely dismissed because it doesn't accord with what you would consider a reasonable justification for such fears.
Sorry, Martin, but you don't get to decide – well, you know the rest.
Rumtopf says
So where were you when Rebecca Watson posted examples of ACTUAL rape threats the other day? Oh yeah, you were hoggling away in the Slyme pit dismissing or justifying them all. Her rape threats CLEARLY aren't real rape threats, HER harassment clearly doesn't count, because you say said so!
So much for:
"I see. So in your estimation, a woman saying 'this has made me concerned for the safety of myself and my family' can be blithely dismissed because it doesn't accord with what you would consider a reasonable justification for such fears."
Fuck off, Tigzy, anyone with two seconds spare to google can see what you're really about.
Martin Wagner says
I think tigzy is showing us all just how effective GWW's manipulative language has been, at least to those stupid enough to fall for it. Anyone who remembers junior high school knows full well that it's a common trait of bullies to adopt the language of their victims, in order to divert sympathy their direction. So GWW makes a video talking about getting three DMCA notices on YouTube (which, as Criss points out, loads of people get, as YouTube is apparently eager to hand those out like candy), and, over the course of several minutes, constructs a bizarre scenario that evolves from possible doxxing threat to "my family is in imminent danger!" It's all very Glenn Beck/Alex Jones.
Obediently, tigzy watches it, decides that the scenario GWW has constructed out of whole cloth is equivalent in its threatening nature to the actual, direct, and explicitly detailed threats of rape and murder that Rebecca and other skepchicks have been emailed, and runs over here thinking, haha!, I can catch the FtB'ers in some mad hypocrisy!
The idiocy of it is stunning, but that's what GWW relies on to boost that Paypal balance, I suppose.
Tony •King of the Hellmouth• says
No one is deciding how GWW should feel.
What people are trying to point out to you is that her response to getting DMCA'd 3 times isn't rational. Nor is it consistent. She started off worrying about a doxxing threat and quickly changes that to "I'm worried about my family."
How did her worries evolve?
Why did her worries evolve?
Is her fear about her family actually justified (can a DMCA warning to take down your videos somehow wind up as a threat to her family? If there is a way, she did NOT explain HOW)?
Why does she mention the 'possibility' that it was someone at FtB or Skepchick?
Are there any other possibilities?
Does she have proof?
Or does she just suspicions?
Are they suspicions based on evidence?
Or are they suspicions based on her dislike of FtB or Skepchick?
If she has no evidence, why does she mention FtB or Skepchick at all?
tigzy says
Oops. Called you 'Martin' there by mistake. Sorry – hope you're not offended.
Martin Wagner says
Epic pwnage at the end. Well played.
Jadehawk says
that was awesome. and I envy you your ability to sit through videos like that one by GWW and not have your brain drain out your ears to escape from the horribleness.
gitzy says
Poor tigzy. He thinks he's being clever. 🙁
Tony •King of the Hellmouth• says
You rock that outfit, Cristina.
Of all the things you could have complimented her for, you chose to compliment her appearance?!
Are you trying to let the whole world know you're sexist?
I guess we all should thank you.
Now we know the kind of person we're dealing with.
Tony •King of the Hellmouth• says
I think that, considering the movements at large( the feminist and the mra/mrm/whatever acronym they use), both sides have good points and not so good points, extremists and reasonables.
I really hope you've taken the time to understand the views of feminists and men's rights activists, given this pile of crap you just uttered.
Wait, scratch that.
A rational approach to both philosophies would not lead one to the pile of crap you uttered.
(in case you can't figure it out, I am a man who does not in any way support the ridiculous assertions and vile attitudes found in the 'mens rights movement')
Noadi says
I think some people get the notion that because the MRM occasionally expresses concern over male victims of domestic violence and sexual assault that they actually care about those things. However a movement that ACTUALLY cared about these things would be raising money for shelters for men and campaigning against prison rape but they aren't doing that (I applaud those groups that are, but they aren't run by MRAs). Instead the MRAs use those problems to argue in favor of beating and raping women. Instead of wanting to improve things for men they want to make things worse for women which is not what a movement that actually cares about male victims does. It's the abusers lobby.
Andre says
So any feminist or atheist that fails to raise money is what?
dogeared, spotted and foxed says
Both atheists and feminist groups have several fundraisers every year for various causes which they support. Please show me one fundraiser this year that was put on by an MRA group. And no, trying to latch on to Father's Rights groups won't cut it.
Andre says
That is not what I asked.
If I fail to raise money am I no longer a feminist?
If a women hating MRA raises money is he now in the clear?
And why won't a fathers rights group cut it? Do they not count as wanting equality for men or something?
I do think the MRA movment is full of people who just really don't like feminists and use it as a cover, I even suspect many MRA's were made just for that goal…. I don't really care however.
I support equal rights for men and women and I don't give a flying fuck about "us vs them". If you make a bad argument then its a bad argument, if you make a good one then it is a good one… I don't really care who makes it.
flueedo says
No, to be honest, I haven't taken the time. I called it as I saw it, judging from very superficial impressions about individuals. I don't really know much about mra/mrm or however they call themselves. But I'll certainly be doing some research on them.
Tony •King of the Hellmouth• says
Having just watched the video-Wow. I often get bored listening to speakers, but that was not the case here (at least when you were speaking that is; GWW was noooooooooot quite as interesting…she was a bit too calculated). Though this was a serious topic of discussion, I laughed out loud several times. You managed to mix humor with your frustration to great effect.
As for GWW, one of my burning questions is how she thinks her family could be targeted. It makes *no* sense.
Seeing as she defends domestic violence the answer is probably something my mind wouldn't be able to comprehend.
Steersman says
Certainly an interesting video for many reasons and you make many very good points and many will no doubt sympathize with your comments about all of the drama over this and related issues. And I rather like the closing clip of John the Other which at least raises the question of to what extent GWW might be "banging on the bongo-drum of 'look, how much of a victim I am'" – "Drums Along the Mohawk".
But, having let that cat out of the bag, maybe we can all agree that at least some on each side of this "drama" tend to over-play the "victim card". Seems to me that feelings don't always give a true representation of reality; part of our criticisms of the religious if I'm not mistaken: the feelings are certainly real enough but their correspondence to objective reality is anything but a foregone conclusion. Maybe, like good skeptics, we should all be asking for evidence and be prepared to provide it on request – and without reacting frequently with the shedding of copious quantities of crocodile tears and with charges of "troll!" and the like ….
And, speaking of evidence, while I very much question many of GWW's arguments since many of them appear to be, as you suggest, largely speculations based on a liberal use of a crystal ball, that doesn't appear to be the case for all of them. For instance, while the following links provide some evidence in support of the argument that the differential prevalence of "gendered roles" may have contributed to the fall of the Neaderthals and the rise of homo sapiens, they also show that that is only one possibility among several, agriculture likely to have been a major one: Wikipedia; Science Daily. In addition I would say, have said, that considering the prevalence of such roles even in lower primates, it is a bit of a stretch to argue that that wouldn't still have been the case even with the Neanderthals.
Although, in passing, while you credibly use hypotheticals in some cases – "looks" deliberate as hell [8:49] – one might also argue that you too are apparently "guilty" of periodically relying overmuch on a crystal ball: shameless manipulation [5:14]
However, my primary criticism of your video is based on your comments about my own comment [5:22] about the difference between "may" and "must", apropos of which is this salient definition of the latter:
must 1 (mst):
5. a. Used to indicate inevitability or certainty: We all must die.
b. Used to indicate logical probability or presumptive certainty: If the lights were on, they must have been at home.
So while I will concede that, as you suggested in this video, your characterization of GWW's argument in the previous video – the FreeThoughtSkepchickBlog (??) must be responsible for GirlWritesWhat getting DMCA-ed – and the use of "must" in it is certainly consistent with the second definition (5b), I might be so bold as to suggest that that argument is rather disingenuous to say the least. Seems to me that if you really intended "presumptive certainty" then you would have had no need for that statement in the first place since that since that "presumptive certainty" is essentially the relevant defintion of the word "may" which GWW actually used. Really not cricket – or wise – to change one's horses in midstream, or one's definitions in mid-argument.
Tony •King of the Hellmouth• says
No, to be honest, I haven't taken the time. I called it as I saw it, judging from very superficial impressions about individuals. I don't really know much about mra/mrm or however they call themselves. But I'll certainly be doing some research on them.
{The following is advice based on some of my experiences. I mean no offense with any of my suggestions.}
In my experience online, especially here at FtB, I've found that learning about a topic enables me to speak about it with _some_ degree of knowledge. Many of the bloggers and commenters at FtB value accurate knowledge so you can often find citations to information that is presented. Many times, stated opinions are backed up with links to studies to provide evidence for a particular position. That doesn't mean a commenter has arrived at the correct conclusion (nor does it mean that the material one reads comes from a respectable source). It just shows that you've made an attempt to understand the opinion you have and are trying to show that said opinion is backed up with some sort of evidence.
For instance, I'm not the most political person, so I used to avoid political discussions. I've been educating myself more and more over the past year because there are times I'd like to participate in conversations, but I don't want to speak from ignorance. I've been dipping my toe into political discussions about specific topics that I have read about. That doesn't mean I won't say something stupid (I have and I'm sure I will again in the future). It just means I'm making the attempt to be informed about the subject I'm trying to talk about. I've also found that many people are willing to engage a commenter if it's apparent they've made *some* attempt to inform themselves, even if they don't have the right information (although continued insistence that an individual is right, especially in the face of strong evidence to the contrary, often results in people getting pissed off and dropping politeness)
WRT to learning about Mens Rights Activists, obviously Google can be your friend.
I've found that dropping into The Lounge* (in Pharyngula) and politely asking for a link or two can be effective (that said, no one is obligated to provide assistance). I can think of more than a few people there who are almost always willing to provide links for people to follow. Many people like to read Pharyngula posts, but not respond. For several months, I did that. For me, it was a case of feeling the place out and trying to determine what was acceptable and what wasn't. On almost a daily basis, I found that people would provide links to stories or studies or facts. I've learned so much stuff since I've started reading the blogs at FtB (in fact, I've come to realize there's a metric ton of stuff that I *don't* know).
*The Lounge is a continuous thread for *all topics*, so if you ask a question there, you won't diverge a thread. I've found many bloggers prefer commenters to stay on topic when they respond. In fact, my response to you is probably an example of thread drift.
Dan M. says
I like how at 10:18-10:22 (of this video, I don't know where it is in the original), GWW clearly recognizes that publishing somebody's personal information, without doing any harassment oneself, is dangerous and itself an attack. It's nice to see that admitted for a change by the anti-FtB folks.
Tony •King of the Hellmouth• says
That is not what I asked.
If I fail to raise money am I no longer a feminist?
If a women hating MRA raises money is he now in the clear?
And why won't a fathers rights group cut it? Do they not count as wanting equality for men or something?
You missed a key sentence in Noadi's comment:
I think some people get the notion that because the MRM occasionally expresses concern over male victims of domestic violence and sexual assault that they actually care about those things. However a movement that ACTUALLY cared about these things would be raising money for shelters for men and campaigning against prison rape but they aren't doing that (I applaud those groups that are, but they aren't run by MRAs). Instead the MRAs use those problems to argue in favor of beating and raping women. Instead of wanting to improve things for men they want to make things worse for women which is not what a movement that actually cares about male victims does. It's the abusers lobby.
[emphasis mine]
The point xe makes here is that if the Men's Rights Movement cared about men's rights-in the way that the Feminist Movement cares about women's rights-they would do more than talk. They would raise money for men's shelters or campaign against prison rape (and I believe these are examples; obviously anything substantial that goes beyond expressing concern about male victims of sexual assault would count).
Xe wasn't talking about an individual MRA, but an organization. Feminist organizations show they care about women's issues when they raise money for breast cancer research or help build shelter's for women. That shows an actual commitment to women's rights.
By contrast, the Men's Right's Movement has done…what exactly (other than talk)?
No, whether or not YOU raise money doesn't mean you are/aren't a feminist. But if a Feminist organization didn't raise money or did nothing more than talk about how they're for women's rights, one would be right to question how much they actually care for that cause.
Andre2 says
"(I applaud those groups that are, but they aren't run by MRAs)."
This is the part I don't get… Its like saying those feminists organizations who help are not really feminists. However yes a organization that fails to do anything productive is pretty fishy.
Its just funny and sad how much some of you sound just like them ranting about feminism.
Odd it wont let me post my name
Ace of Sevens says
That's a bad analogy. Ask someone involved with Stop Prisoner Rape is they are a men's rights organization and they'll tell you no.
mofa says
Prove this claim.
intron1 says
You are the best thing about FtB. Both of the polar extremes in this shitstorm have been immovable in opinion and incapable of admitting the other side has any decent thoughts at all. Its been boiled down to "we are right and you are wrong" from both sides. Its been an embarrassment to the skeptical community. Thank you for continuing to be you, for posting the best skeptical/athiest blogs on the internet, and for staying above the ridiculousness while still sharing your ideas about it.
Gweethul says
Cristina, aren't you ashamed and embarassed to be associated with FTB? Don't you feel like you've made a huge mistake by choosing to ally yourself with these small-minded charlatans? Come to your senses! Do the right thing and renounce FTB and Atheism+. Stop being a useful idiot for these fools!
Martin Wagner says
So what flavor is your Koolaid this week?
mofa says
Not the cool aid thing again! This is an outrage! (said in a Tony Harrison voice – The Mighty Boosch BBC TV)
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jose says
The second part of the video is gold. It's curious how to men's rights people, the patriarchy simultaneously doesn't exist and works beautifully to improve the human race's chances of survival. Make up your minds! 🙂
Ana says
I suffer of anxiety because fear of hell(eternal suffering.The problem is that i dont know if such place exist or not,neither how i could avoid it in case it exist.I have no one to talk to.
kosk11348 says
Ana, that's horrible. I wouldn't worry about hell so much. It's a near certainty that it's a complete fabrication. A story to scare children into obedience. Worry about being a good person instead. Don't obey those who make empty threats about things they couldn't possibly know. And it's good to see you reaching out. There are a lot of good online communities you can join to discuss these things with you.
By the way, is Christina still posting here at FTB or what?
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Hi Cristina! Count me as a new fan. In fact I just linked one of your videos on Islam to my friend Lubos Motl's blog. Anyway, here are three positive things to say about God and the Bible which even an atheist — maybe only an atheist? — could love:
Adam and Eve in their historical context.
Abraham "discovers" God in its historical context.
A Marxian interpretation of the Second Coming. (This one for a Chinese audience, which only they might be able to appreciate.)
What do you think?
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mofa says
I can't agree with much that you have to say here. I usually agree with nearly 100% in your typical videos. You probably have receieved some shocking hate mail in your time but I bet GWW is getting 20x as much as you have ever had. There would be Feminists out there who would personally love to rip out her throat and shove it in her mouth. GWW may infact have her own sources of information that you are not privy to. Give her a break and go back to attacking institutions, philosophies and systems that do harm to people. FtB's has almost reached its use by date…time to jump ship Christina – you are too good to be hanging around here.
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In response to her suspicion that the DMCA claims were for the purposes of dox-ing, I would point out that it is understandable, because some people associated with groups such as this one. DO have a history of doxing.
That is not something she just pulled out of her ass.
As to worrying worrying that someone could dox her and then harass her, her employer, or even her family is not altogether unwarranted since it has been attempted numerous times, especially with regard to atheist bloggers/vloggers who are critical of certain feminist/skeptic figures. There has been a history of doxing and then slandering the dissenters; she can understandably be worried about this and feel violated over it.
Lets not ignore the fact that the DMCA claims against her were undeniably bogus; and appear to be the effort of at least two people. That implies that two people discussed taking this action first, and then took that action. This type of action fits the modus opperandi of two specific individuals well known in FTB/A+ communities. So while it is true that she was jumping to conclusions, there was a credible reason for suspicion on her part.
She may have been over-reacting, and upset; but her worries about doxing were not without cause. So she had reason to be scared. I also would point out that her response was mostly defiant, and declared her refusal to be made a victim, rather than crying for sympathy over any perceived victimhood.
As to your reference to anthropologists speaking of the advent of 'patriarchal' society, I'm going to call bullshit on that. The evidence of gendered division of labor is ancient (pre-agricultural) homo sapiens. This is the consensus or most anthropologists. Ancient, pre-agrarian societies were (probably mostly) egalitarian; in that there were no kings or nobles, rich or poor. But women were the gatherers and men were the hunters. There was limited crossover, but this was the norm. Why? Well that goes into the realm of speculation, but the evidence shows an ancient basis for different division of labor based on gender.
Second…anthropologists don't often speak of 'patriarchy'. It is primarily an evidence-based science, and not an identity-based study; Anthropology sometimes has crossover with identity-based studies, but this is also frequently avoided for various reasons. A significant distinction is that empirical and rational sciences do not base their assertions on an unsupportable supposition.
There is reason to believe that political power, when it came to exist, was in the hands of men. But even then, women were the masters of the house. in many societies, in fact, women owned the house and the land and had control over it; The ability of a woman to unilaterally divorce a man and kick him out of the house is not a recent development. Even while men had most political offices and were responsible for the act of creating laws and then enforcing them, it is disingenuous to call this system "patriarchy" when in fact it takes two to tango and women did a large portion of the dancing.
Raudskeggr says
I want to add that, in the links to the articles you mention, you include works by an historian, a psychologist, and a fairly noted feminist writer and psychologist. All fairly well-respected people, but none of them actually scientists.
This makes your calling GWW's assertion "Unscientific bull shit" rather hypocritical.
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The Facebook Privacy Settings You've Lost Forever
While covering Facebook's systematic elimination of privacy, we've been deluged with questions from readers asking how to restore certain Facebook privacy protections. Sadly, many such settings appear to be lost forever. Here are the most glaring examples.
1. Hide group and page memberships
Facebook changed its formal Privacy Policy to say that "pages you are a fan of... and networks" are now totally public information (along with many other things). There's apparently no setting to shield page and network data, which leads to terrible situation like this one, sent in as a reader plea:
All of a sudden my grandmother can see that I belong to the Queer Graduate Student Union and Open Relationships Networking Group. Please help. I can't bring myself to de-friend my grandmother!
UPDATE Dec. 17: We're not sure if this is new, but this can now be changed by going, confusingly, to "Application Settings." Go to the "Settings" menu at the top right of your profile page, then select "Application Settings," then scroll down to "Groups" and select "Edit settings." Set to "Only me" (click to enlarge):
Thanks to the tipster who walked us through this. Sadly, even as one privacy mystery was resolved, we were made aware of another. See below.
2. Block Facebook activity from appearing on your wall
There used to be a setting that allowed users to prevent Facebook activity from automatically showing up on their Facebook wall, thus blocking updates like "John commented on Jane's picture," "John is now friends with Bob," "John is attending Uber Gay Circuit Party 2010," etc. This setting is apparently gone, and you have to remove such notices one at a time.
Writes one tipster:
It is extremely annoying not to mention a complete tell of how often I use Facebook during work hours:)
3. Prevent strangers from friending you
It used to be you could keep non-friends from sending you a Facebook friend requests, although they could confirm. That's not the most, well, social way to use a social network, but judging from our email, it was a frequently used and valued feature. Wrote one Gawker regular:
Before the changes I wasn't searchable on FB and hence friended only those I wanted to friend, in essence, I would initiate the request. But... I am now getting friend requests from people I don't know, or worse, from people I know but I don't want to befriend on FB...
Facebook now makes you offer the "Add friend" option to all friends of friends — you can't restrict any tighter than that, so strangers can still send you friend requests. Screenshot (click to enlarge):
4. Completely hide friends list
Your friends list, too, is considered public information. Though you can remove it from your profile, you can't keep friends of friends from seeing it. They just have to pull up one of your friends' friend list, click you name, and view your friends list.
Writes one reader: "Many of us are concerned, seeing as how there are thousands of people faced with the threat of stalkers." Another, right on cue:
I have been dealing with a deranged, threatening stalker... There is no way of keeping your Friend list private... I have been obsessively reading about this topic [overall Facebook privacy]... To say I'm outraged is an understatement.
We thought Facebook might be improving this, but we continue to receive emails like these, and Facebooks written Privacy Policy still states that friends lists are now public information.
5. Block Wall announcements that you've been tagged in a photo
You can keep photos of yourself out of the "Photos" tab on your profile, even if they've been uploaded by other people. But it seems you can't block from your Wall announcements that you've been tagged in someone else's photo , which sort of defeats the purpose: It leaves your profile as a very convenient central location for any incriminating pictures of yourself.
You can remove each notification manually, but that becomes a game of whack-a-mole.
Wrote one Facebooker:
I've already blocked everyone from viewing photos that I'm tagged in, but I'd prefer that my friends not even see that I've been tagged in the small preview photo that gets posted to my wall every time someone tags me.
UPDATE: According to a helpful tipster, this can be disabled by going to the Settings menu at the top right of your Facebook home page, then to "Application Settings," then the "Photos" application, then click "Edit settings." Then click the "Additional Permissions tab," and there is an option to "Publish to streams." Uncheck this. Like so (click to enlarge):
UPDATE: 6. Profile photo
While it's possible to restrict your profile photo album, your main profile photo is one of the pieces of personal data that was forcibly made public by Facebook when it updated its formal Privacy Policy. The best you can do is upload a fake pic, or remove your profile photo entirely; there's no way to have a profile photo that only your friends see.
And more, we're sure
We'd love to be wrong about any of these privacy rollbacks, so if you know of settings or workarounds we've overlooked, do email us at email@example.com. Conversely, if we've left out a lost privacy option you feel strongly about, let us know about that, too.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (pictured) originally said his social network's privacy changes were intended simplify and enhance the privacy experience on the site. Judging from our inbox, it would seem he's achieved neither.
Past coverage:
The Valleywag Guide to Restoring Your Privacy on Facebook, Dec. 15
Facebook's Great Betrayal, Dec. 14
Facebook CEO's Private Photos Exposed by the New 'Open' Facebook, Dec. 11

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By Kaija Wilkinson
MOBILE, Ala., Feb 14 (Reuters) - Four tugboats were hauling the disabled Carnival Triumph cruise ship slowly into port in Mobile, Alabama, where authorities expected it to arrive on Thursday, carrying more than 4,220 people who have endured days of unsanitary conditions and food shortages.
The 893-foot (272 meter) vessel, notorious for reports of raw sewage from overflowing toilets, has been without propulsion and running on emergency generator power since Sunday, when an engine room fire left it adrift in the Gulf of Mexico.
The ship is operated by Carnival Cruise Lines, the flagship brand of global cruise ship giant Carnival Corp. It left Galveston, Texas, last Thursday carrying 3,143 passengers and 1,086 crew and had originally been due to return there on Monday
There were conflicting reports about the Triumph's expected arrival time in Mobile. But Vance Gulliksen, a spokesman for Miami-based Carnival Corp, said the final leg of the journey was slow.
"The operation is taking longer than we had anticipated but based on current conditions, the ship is expected to be alongside the Mobile Cruise Terminal between 8 and 11 p.m. this evening," Guilliksen told Reuters by email.
He did not elaborate, but Petty Officer Bill Colclough, a U.S. Coast Guard spokesman, said earlier that the Triumph was located about 25 nautical miles south of the sea buoy near the entrance to Mobile Bay.
A Coast Guard cutter has been escorting the Triumph on its long voyage into port since Monday and a Coast Guard helicopter ferried about 3,000 pounds (1,360 kg) of equipment including a generator to the stricken ship on Wednesday.
Earlier this week, some passengers reported on the poor conditions on the Triumph when they contacted relatives and media before their cellphone batteries died.
They said people were getting sick from gut-wrenching odors aboard the sweltering ship, which had no working air conditioning, and said passengers had been told to use plastic "biohazard" bags as makeshift toilets.
In a statement late on Wednesday, Carnival Cruise Lines President and Chief Executive Gerry Cahill said the company had decided to add further payment of $500 per person to help compensate passengers for "very challenging circumstances" aboard the ship.
"We are very sorry for what our guests have had to endure," Cahill said.
Mary Poret, who spoke to her 12-year-old daughter aboard the Triumph on Monday, rejected Cahill's apology out of hand in comments to CNN on Thursday, as she waited anxiously in Mobile with a friend for the Triumph's arrival.
"Seeing urine and feces sloshing in the halls, sleeping on the floor, nothing to eat, people fighting over food, $500? What's the emotional cost? You can't put money on that," Poret said.
The troubles on the Carnival Triumph occurred a little more than a year after 32 people were killed when the Costa Concordia, a luxury cruise ship operated by Carnival Corp's Costa Cruises brand, was grounded on rocks off the Tuscan island of Giglio in Italy.
Carnival said it had initially planned to tow the Triumph into Progreso in Mexico, the closest port to its location early on Sunday when the engine room fire occurred. But the ship drifted about 90 nautical miles north, due to strong currents, before the towing got under way, and that left it stranded roughly midway between Progreso and Mobile.
"It was preferable to head north to Mobile rather than attempt to tow against the currents," Gulliksen said.


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Kristan T. Harris | The Rundown Live
Have you ever wondered how a politician disliked by most could fill a room with screaming supporters giving the perception they have your local communities support?
Look no further than a company called "Crowds on Demand", a company who hires multi-talented actors who are experts of improvisational theatre to provide the illusion of support for a candidate. Nothing draws a crowd, like a crowd.
The company who has provided its services for athletes, artists and fashion people has recently admitted to providing services for both Republican and Democrat candidates.
adamswartCeo and founder Adam Swart was emailed a few questions about his services by activist Ian Cioffi. The company owner was asked if his system is proven to work in U.S. politics?
Swart claimed, he has done work for "dozens of candidates in the US primarily but not exclusively Republican. Mostly they are candidates who suffer from lack of enthusiasm/turnout at rallies and in need of a 'game change'. The candidates have been primarily congressional/senate candidates. We've only worked with one presidential candidate thus far."
So what other benefits could a company of this magnitude offer?
Adam went on to express that they could even go miles further with their expertise and can give a sense of legitimacy for the candidate.
"I have found our approach has led to increased poll numbers and, in many case made the margin of victory for a few reasons:
A) Photo-ops at rallies. Having a diverse group of people (race/gender/age) around the candidate is critical especially for those who are constantly followed by reporters but even for those who only get a couple pieces per day.
B) Enthusiastic crowds bring more media attention and shift the narrative onto grassroots supporters. Press always want to understand why people support candidate x or candidate y. Giving them great footage of enthusiastic supporters speaking about their love for the candidate provides great quotations.
C) Gives a sense of legitimacy for the candidate among their existing supporters. When they see lots of enthusiastic folks at rallies, they feel like they're backing the right horse.
D) Bolsters the candidates' self-confidence. Some candidates knew about the paid crowds and other times we have been hired by outside organizations. In both cases, seeing more supporters gave them the confidence to up their game on stage."
When the founder of Crowds on Demand was asked "what reassurances do you offer that the crowd does not leak the fact that they were paid to arrive?"
Swart responded in an email that "We have all crowd members sign binding non-disclosure agreements. Our crowd members work for us on a regular basis and understand we value discretion given the sensitive nature of the business. The 'leak' issue has only happened on one occasion over the past three years."
Adam Swart believes he is just making fame into a business. He touts that 10 of my guys are more effective than a 100 bodies in a recent interview.
When asked if his business is disingenuous or fake on the speaking on wealth podcast, he responded that "what we do is get people to pay attention to your event, to your product, no ones gonna say they are going to love it, but ordinarily there are many potentially talented artists who we work with, talented fashion people, talented athletes…"
So next time you go to a political rally and see fans so undeniably in love with a candidate with no rational reason, ask yourself is this person being paid to be here? Are you supporting a fake politician?


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Keyun Dickson earned the distinction of becoming the first Zydeco winner of The Big Squeeze in 2010. Dickson hails from Humble, Texas in the greater Houston area. His mother and grandmother were instrumental in his early taking to the accordion at the age of 3. When he was 12, he formed Keyun and the Zydeco Masters. He performs all over the Houston and East Texas regions with his band. He took over the duties of booking Sunday night zydeco jams at Houston club, The Big Easy, when his mentor Mary Thomas (sister of the late Clifton Chenier) stepped down from the role. Website
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A pressure sensor that is implanted into the heart works with an electronic monitoring system that wirelessly measures patient's pulmonary artery pressure. It allows physicians to track the patient's pulmonary artery pressure while they remain at home
Chest pain and shortness of breath are common symptoms that send tens of thousands of heart failure (HF) patients into hospitals each month. Cardiologists at the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute of Northwestern Memorial Hospital may be able to curb such visits for some of their HF patients sinc they recently use a new wireless pressure sensor technology that allows them to track the pulmonary artery pressure of the subjects while these subjects remain at home.
"Some heart failure patients spend a lot of time in and out of the hospital due to chest pain and trouble breathing," says John B. O'Connell, co-director of the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute, director of its Center for Heart Failure and professor of medicine at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. "At any time, such as when the subject is beginning to feel poorly, we immediately get readings of pulmonary pressure. We are hopeful we can avoid a hospitalization by adjusting the subject's medication based on the pressure recording. As we evaluate the CardioMEMS Wireless Pressure Monitoring System, we see great potential to increase convenience to patients and hospital efficiency by cutting back on frequent trips to the emergency room."
The implanted pressure sensor is about the size of a standard paperclip. It is implanted into the subject's pulmonary artery through a catheter-based procedure from the groin region. The technology that allows for subjects to get readings remotely from home is a proprietary electronic monitoring system that works when they lie on a pillow containing an antenna that interacts with the implanted device to get readings on heart and lung pressures. Northwestern Memorial has implanted three subjects to date and seven more are planned as part of the CHAMPION (CardioMEMS Heart Sensor Allows Monitoring of Pressure to Improve Outcomes in NYHA Class III Patients) clinical study.
As O'Connell explains, when your heart doesn't pump normally, adequate blood (oxygen and nutrients) may not reach your body tissues. When this occurs, the body believes that there is not enough fluid inside its vessels. The body's hormone and nervous systems try to make up for this (or compensate) by holding on to sodium and water in the body, and by increasing heart rate -- all of which are symptoms often seen in HF patients, but in many cases, can be managed with medication. The back pressure in the lungs due to the inability of the heart to pump the blood effectively can be measured and transmitted by this device.
With this system, pressure data is transmitted to a secure database that makes the data available to physicians from a proprietary Web site. Data can also be made available to physicians on a handheld device, like a BlackBerry for instance.
For more information about heart failure or this clinical study please visit the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute online at http://www.nmh.org/nmh/heart/index.htm. The device is for investigational use only.
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UN investigators have found 17 new mass grave sites in central Congo and gathered reports of rapes and killings by soldiers that the International Criminal Court should investigate if the government fails to, the UN rights chief said on Wednesday.
The Democratic Republic of Congo's government – which regularly denies allegations of abuses by its soldiers – said it would investigate the reports once it saw the evidence.
UN human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said he had reports Congolese soldiers had dug the grave sites after clashes with the Kamuina Nsapu militia in Congo's central Kasai region in March, according to a statement from his office.
"At least 74 people, including 30 children, were reported to have been killed by soldiers," in the clashes, he said, without giving details on the sources of his information.
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Most of the victims were said to have been killed in their homes as soldiers went door to door looking for militia members, he added.
I will not hesitate to urge … an investigation by an international mechanism, including the International Criminal Court
"It is absolutely vital that the government … takes meaningful steps to ensure that there is (an) … independent investigation," Zeid said. "Should there be no effective national investigation, I will not hesitate to urge … an investigation by an international mechanism, including the International Criminal Court." Government spokesperson Lambert Mende said the UN team should pass its evidence to the justice department. "Then we will start investigations," he added. The government has previously denied that soldiers have used disproportionate force against militia members, who are often armed with machetes and home-made rifles, and said that the militia had dug other mass graves. The UN team has now documented 40 mass grave sites and killings of more than 400 people in Kasai, the focus of the fight against the Kamuina Nsapu militia, since August, when security forces killed its leader, also called Kamuina Nsapu. The militia has been fighting largely to avenge his death. The Kamuina Nsapu uprising, which began in July, has become the most serious threat to President Joseph Kabila, whose decision to stay in power after his mandate ran out in December has stoked lawlessness across the vast central African nation. The government said last week that it had returned Nsapu's body to his village, which had been one of the militia's key demands. However, it was unclear whether this gesture would sooth tensions after such extensive killings.
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Today, Ridge Meadows RCMP are releasing their short Grinch, Christmas-parody film, "Every Who in Ridge Meadows".
"At Ridge Meadows RCMP we wanted to share with our communities a very special holiday Christmas message wrapped up with some good old crime prevention messaging," said a press release from the detachment.
"Every Who in Ridge Meadows" is the storybook tale of the Grinch, his Christmas crime spree and the surprising conclusion.
It features the Grinch, Supt. Jennifer Hyland and other members of the Ridge Meadows RCMP.
"We probably won't be nominated for any film awards but we had a lot of fun putting this eight and a half minute short-film together. We hope it puts a smile on your face," said Hyland.


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By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent
OSLO, April 6 (Reuters) - World powers are running out of time to slash their use of high-polluting fossil fuels and stay below agreed limits on global warming, a draft U.N. study to be approved this week shows.
Government officials and top climate scientists will meet in Berlin from April 7-12 to review the 29-page draft that also estimates the needed shift to low-carbon energies would cost between two and six percent of world output by 2050.
It says nations will have to impose drastic curbs on their still rising greenhouse gas emissions to keep a promise made by almost 200 countries in 2010 to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial times.
Temperatures have already risen by about 0.8 C (1.4F) since 1900 and are set to breach the 2 C ceiling on current trends in coming decades, U.N. reports show.
"The window is shutting very rapidly on the 2 degrees target," said Johan Rockstrom, head of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, and an expert on risks to the planet from heatwaves, floods, droughts and rising seas.
"The debate is drifting to 'maybe we can adapt to 2 degrees, maybe 3 or even 4'," Rockstrom, who was not among authors of the draft, told Reuters.
Such rises would sharply raise risks to food and water supplies and could trigger irreversible damage, such as a meltdown of Greenland's ice, according to U.N. reports.
The draft, seen by Reuters, outlines ways to cut emissions and boost low-carbon energy, which includes renewables such as wind, hydro- and solar power, nuclear power and "clean" fossil fuels, whose carbon emissions are captured and buried.
It said such low-carbon sources accounted for 17 percent of the world's total energy supplies in 2010 and their share would have to triple - to 51 percent - or quadruple by 2050, according to most scenarios reviewed.
That would displace high polluting fossil fuels as the world's main energy source by mid-century.
Saskatchewan Power in Canada will open a $1.35 billion coal-fired electricity generating plant this year that will extract a million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year from its exhaust gases - the first carbon capture and storage plant of its type.
Reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the group meeting in Berlin, will help governments, which aim to agree a deal to slow climate change at a Paris summit in December 2015. Few nations have outlined plans consistent with staying below 2 degrees C.
Another report by the IPCC last week in Japan showed warming already affects every continent and would damage food and water supplies and slow economic growth. It may already be having irreversible impacts on the Arctic and coral reefs.
The new draft shows that getting on track to meet the 2C goal would mean limiting greenhouse gas emissions to between 30 and 50 billion tonnes in 2030, a radical shift after a surge to 49 billion tonnes in 2010 from 38 billion in 1990.
The shift would educe economic output by between 2-6 percent by 2050, because of the costs of building a cleaner energy system based on low-carbon energies that are more expensive than abundant coal, the IPCC said. Capturing carbon dioxide is also expensive, it added.
China and the United States are the top emitters.
One option is to let temperatures overshoot the 2C target while developing technology to cool the planet by extracting greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, the draft says. The draft that would add to risks of warming and push up costs.
Extracting carbon from nature includes simple measures such as planting more trees, which soak up carbon as they grow, or capturing and burying greenhouse gases from electricity-generating plants that burn wood or other plant matter.
A problem is that markets for trading carbon dioxide focus on cuts in emissions at power plants and factories burning fossil fuels, not renewable energies which are viewed as green.
"In Europe there is no incentive" said Jonas Helseth, director of environmental group Bellona Europe who chairs a group of scientists and industry experts looking at burying emissions from renewable energy.
The IPCC draft report is the third and final study in a U.N. series about climate change, updating findings from 2007, after the Japan report about the impacts and one in September in Sweden about climate science.
The September report raised the probability that human actions, led by the use of fossil fuels, are the main cause of climate change since 1950 to at least 95 percent from 90. But opinion polls show voters are unpersuaded, with many believing that natural variations are the main cause. (Reporting By Alister Doyle; Editing by Andrew Heavens)


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- Very slim and lightweight
- Takes advantage of Smart Cover magnets
- Solid and comfortable typing
- Glossy black plastic attracts fingerprints
- No back protection
Our Verdict
Logitech's innovative Ultrathin Keyboard Cover manages to pack great typing into a keyboard that's thinner than the iPad itself.
The Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard Cover is the thinnest iPad keyboard cover I've encountered. Even at its thickest point, the keyboard cover is just shy of the thickness of the third-generation iPad, and it's more tapered, too. More important, the Ultrathin Keyboard Cover ($99 as of May 11, 2012) provided one of the best typing experiences in my recent tests of six models.
The keyboard is cleverly designed, staying on by using the same magnetic hinge and edge magnets that the Apple Smart Cover uses. That also means it provides the same back coverage as the Apple Smart Cover does–none.
To use the keyboard, you have to detach the iPad from the hinge and place it into the slot behind the keyboard. This slot also has magnets in it to hold the iPad in place; the magnets are strong enough that if you pick up the iPad, the keyboard remains attached. To disengage the magnets, you simply tilt the iPad forward, which makes it easy to lift out.
The bottom of the cover is aluminum, which matches the back of the iPad; together, the cover and iPad look like a single integrated unit. The top is a glossy black plastic, which matches the bezel of the black iPad but collects fingerprints like crazy. The matte-black plastic keys stay clean-looking, at least.
On the back of the right side you'll find a connect button, an on/off switch, and a Micro-USB port for charging. The rest of the cover is very clean and minimalist. The lack of rubber feet on the bottom leaves the case feeling a little slippery in the lap; the smoothness seems likely to lead to a scratched-up bottom surface over time.
For such a slim keyboard, the key travel is reasonable: It definitely feels flat compared with thicker keyboards, but it offers a sufficient amount of solid feedback. The keys are spaced as much as they can be within the confines of the iPad's width, and it's enough to not feel cramped. The keyboard deck has zero flex during typing, and the cover has minimal flex in general, noteworthy considering how thin the keyboard is.
You'll find no separate row of function keys. Instead, the number keys double as iPad shortcuts in combination with a function key in the lower-left corner of the keyboard. The keyboard does have home, search, Web, on-screen keyboard toggle, word selection, and cut/copy/paste shortcuts, as well as media playback controls, volume controls, and a lock button.
Logitech has created something unique with this cover. Its use of magnets sets it apart in a world of folio-style keyboard cases, and makes it the thinnest keyboard cover available with such comfortable typing. If you don't mind leaving the iPad's back exposed, or adding a slip cover for transport, this is the iPad keyboard to get.


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The 114-foot-long Manitou sails three times a day out of Traverse City: noon, afternoon and evening, with picnic meals available during the noon and evening sails. Call the Tall Ship Company (13390 S.W. Bay Shore Dr., 231-941-2000, tallshipsailing.com) to make reservations, and half an hour before the scheduled sail, meet the ship's other guests onshore across from the dock. Pack a sweatshirt to prepare for cool, windy gusts, and don't forget to grab a few bucks to tip the crew on your way off the ship.
Some cruises in July and August are specialty cruises: Monday afternoons, local ice cream emporium Moomers brings five flavors for families to enjoy. Wednesday is entertainment night featuring local band Song of the Lakes. Tuesday evenings are tastings of Leelanau Cellars' wines and catered cuisine. Please call for dates and prices.
A long plank decorated with intertwined lights overhead leads out to the boarding area. Board carefully down the wooden plank, then take a seat on this mighty ship. A sapphire blue bay, turquoise sky and cotton-ball clouds create the perfect backdrop for the simple red cedar and pine details onboard.
Join the crew in the onboard duties—grab a line and, hand over hand, raise those heavy sails. Kids can make friends with the captain and take a turn steering the ship. Before you know it, a boxed meal is served—a sandwich, pasta salad and cookie, perhaps—which you can enjoy while the boat cuts across the smooth waters of West Bay. Snuggle into your sweatshirt, the cool wind gusting, the warm sun on your face. Listen to the sound of heavy sails flapping in the breeze and let the lazy rocking of the ship send you into a peaceful state of mind.
QUICK BITE: As no meal is served on board for the 3 p.m. sail, afternoon sailors may want to head downtown for a slow and easy lunch at Patisserie Amie before embarking. Chef Eric Fritch whips up European-style delectables in this tiny French cafe: creamy oeufs brouillés (scrambled eggs), lattes with puffs of fresh whipped cream, and pastries heavy with almond flour and chocolate. (237 Lake Ave., 231-922-9645)
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If Jesus Returned Today
If Jesus returned today would you be ready? Would you be ready to live in a world where God was your only source of life? Where you could no longer get life/identity from other people, your accomplishments, your money, your looks, your relationships, your roles, your job, your house, your clothing, your knowledge, your superiority to someone else or any other thing at all?
Would you really be ready to live in a world where your only reaction could be love? Where whatever happened or whatever another person did, you couldn't be resentful, jealous, seek your own way, hold a grudge, assert your rights or demand immediate change?
Would you be prepared to have your every problem solved by God's comfort? Are you really prepared to come to God with a complaint, a hurt or a problem and instead of having the situation set right, have God say, "all is well. I love you and care for you. Be at peace" without actually changing anything for us?
If Jesus came back today, would you be ready to live at peace with all people? Would you be able to love, value and take joy in those who think differently than you? Whose desires and work is different than your own? Could you find joy in someone sees and experiences God in ways that you do not? Could you humble yourself to learn from them instead of opposing them? Could you love them even when you got nothing in return?
Could you live with only what God has provided and not what you want? If beauty and the fruit of God's creation were all that were available and no thing which took from rather than added to that existed, could you be satisfied? If there was a lot of fruit but little meat? Water in abundance, but no artificially colored and flavored drinks? If you could know and be in contact with all people and places, but rarely, if ever, travel anywhere?
Could you take correction with joy rather than pain? Could you face being told you are wrong and instead of arguing, defending yourself, feeling bad or condemned, be excited at the new truth you have been shown?
Are you able to make God your greatest desire and ambition? Instead of dreaming of awards or degrees or success or a beautiful family, could you spend your days and nights dreaming of ways to draw closer to the King? Could you make all of your choices according to what would amplify love, peace, hope, faith and goodness rather than what would amplify wealth, status, comfort, ease and reputation?
Could you seek relationships for how they will sharpen, grow and change you – iron against iron, deep calling to deep – rather than how they affirm you, how they bring you comfort or ease, how they build you up? Could you persevere through the process with gladness over how you are being refined without resenting what it costs? Could you refrain from doing anything that brings harm to another person – no matter how different or far removed from you – and no matter what suffering you will endure as a result?
If you had children, could you understand that it is a sacred privilege and not a right? Could you see them as equals made vulnerable and trusting you rather than lesser humans with only the rights you deign to give them? Could you understand your work as preparing them to live bearing the image of God rather than as reflections of you? Could you allow them to be who God created them to be rather than pressuring them to be who you think you should be?
Revelation 21:4 says that when the new heaven and new earth are established, the old order will have passed away. And the truth is that for a lot of us, this would be a disaster. We are too attached to the old order. We are taking our life from, shaping our thinking in accordance with, dealing with other people and with God himself according to the old order. The old order has to do with power, prestige, rights, and comfort. It creates hierarchies. It has to do with reward and punishment. It protects us from having to change, put others first, let go of our rights. It privileges being correct over being good. It keeps us from suffering by providing all manner of alternatives to growing up, letting go of what isn't God, changing and becoming wise. The old order is where most people – including Christians – are getting their life, their sense of well being, their identity and purpose.
When Christ returns, all of that will be swept away. All we will have is God alone. All we will be able to act out of is perfect love. For those few who have been on the narrow path of learning perfect love, this will be heaven. But most people will experience it as the lake of fire they must be refined in before they are able to enter into the Kingdom of God on earth.
So, in light of all that, allow me to ask you that classic question – if Jesus returned today, would you be ready?
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they can hear Elvis-movie music
Chazz is watching Girl Happy (1965), starring Elvis and Shelley Fabares.
Shelley Fabares . . . holding a sign announcing I'M EVIL.
It's a scene from the movie Girl Happy, and you can see the image here.
See her in action as Elvis sings The Meanest Girl in Town.
Sillage from the Elvis Hitler song Green Haze mentioned on page 177?
Love will find a way
Pablo Cruise?
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what happened to 'corrupt artifact of...' whatever it was?
Page 115. ""I don't do lunch. Corrupt artifact of late capitalism. Breakfast maybe?"
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paraphrasing Cheech & Chong . . . "I woulda shot him, man."
Anyone know what she's paraphrasing? I couldn't figure this out.
set and setting, as Dr. Tim always liked to say...
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The Fatty Arbuckle Story
Here are all the "story of" films from the "BPX cable channel, which airs film biographies exclusively" (page 93) I could find. They often come, by the way, with disparaging remarks about Horst. Is Pynchon telling us something about Horst, the Biography Channel, film biographies and the people who watch them, perhaps even, Journey into the Mind of P and those who have seen it, etc?
page 94: Owen Wilson as Jack Nicklaus, Hugh Grant in The Phil Mickelson Story
page 94: Christopher Walken, starring in The Chi Chi Rodriguez Story
page 374: Anthony Hopkins in The Mikhail Baryshnikov Story
page 433: Ben Stiller in The Fred MacMurray Story
page 435: Alec Baldwin in The Ray Milland Story
page 466: The Anton Chekhov Story, starring Edward Norton, with Peter Sarsgaard as Stanislavski
Page 476: Leonardo DiCaprio in "The Fatty Arbuckle Story"
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Thursday, February 18, 2010
Vargold: The Wolf-Time
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this looks very promising!ReplyDelete
I've got a post on Vargold thanking you for this plug, James, but I also wanted to express my gratitude here. Gracias!ReplyDelete
Word Verification: "nanater" (sounds like some sort of monstrous anteater to me).
I think you would find that a perusal of BoL would well repay your time. It would certainly be my go to game of the moment for S&S gaming. I look forward to reading this new blog!ReplyDelete
Simon did a really top-notch job with BoL. I spent years pimping it, in its first, free edition. Then, he cleaned it up and started charging money and suddenly it became quite popular.ReplyDelete
There's a lesson there, methinks.
I really like this game (the original free version, as it a little above my price range). Its has few stats (well 16, but nothing too complex), and it lists broadly skilled archetypes (heroic careers) instead of a long list of individual skills. The skills listed under each Career are examples, not the exception. Combat is quick and simple. Spells are open-ended, and the rules are highly customizable. And it counts chainmail bikinis as an appropriate form of protection, and that is cool! ;)ReplyDelete
If you like an easy point-based chargen, and fairly static stats, then this is your game.


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