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News Mondays!
Aug. 7th, 2006 10:58 amLet's wrangle us up some stuff!
-Heee! 'The most secure Windows platform EVAH' pwned! It's not that I hate Windows especially--I use a PC, and I am too lazy to look into an alternate OS. But Microsoft can always use a few lessons about what hubris gets them.
-Further proof that all will love Google and despair! Or, just, you know, love it. Bonus points for the use of the word "dodgy" about spy-ware laden websites. Dodgy! I love the BBC.
-For the love of Baby Jesus, STOP TAKING TEENAGERS' WORD FOR IT! This reads like another "AAAAH!!! LOOK AT THE DEGENERATE YOOOOOOUTH" "scientific" "study." Before it even got to its method, I was going, "I need PubMed, and I need it now."
What was its rigourous method? "The study is based on a 2001 telephone survey of 1,461 youths when they were between the ages of 12 to 17. They were interviewed again in 2002 and 2004.
Among teens who listened to high amounts of explicit music, 51 percent went on to initiate intercourse by the follow-up call, said Steven Martino, a psychologist and lead researcher of the study with the Rand Corp. in Pittsburgh. Among kids who listened to low amounts of such music, 29 percent initiated sex by the call in 2002.
( You better believe there's a rant behind this cut. )
-Dude, chiiiiiiiill. It's Madonna. Doing this shit is just what she DOES.
“It is disrespectful, in bad taste and provocative. Being raised on a cross with a crown of thorns like a modern Christ is absurd. Doing it in the cradle of Christianity comes close to blasphemy,” said Father Manfredo Leone of the Santa Maria Liberatrice church in Rome. “This is a blasphemous challenge to the faith and a profanation of the Cross. She should be excommunicated. To crucify herself in the city of Popes and martyrs is an act of open hostility,” said Vatican Cardinal Ersilio Tonino.
Maybe it's just me, but I don't believe in one land being holier than another. I'm not one for religious mysticism that associates a stronger connection to the power of God/Allah with a place (and if I were to pick? Italy: so not the Holy Land). I believe this world went through dramatic changes to make the place suitable for life, and life took about 2 billion years to get to evolution's worst mistake (us, duh). Us associating some sort of holy power concentrated in the cradle of civilization is redonkulous. We came from Mesopotamia, so it's sort of precious to us, I get it. Doesn't mean your prayers go farther or, Allah forbid, it's worth killing people over (though clearly the events of the past weeks prove I am not in the majority in thinking this).
-And, lastly, a bit of happier news. They're damned right: the Federal government will never figure out a way to make health care more affordable. Congress has been delegating power to the states on everything to avoid contentious issues hurting entrenched elected officials (like equal rights for homosexual couples, the continued right for a woman to have an abortion, you know, those things we're told "will never change" but that the fundie-driven GOP was trying its damnedest to?), so why not on health care?
Know what most cheered me in that? The emphasis on prevention with health care. Punish people who don't keep doctors' appointments, yes. Push through legislation to encourage (ugh, much as I hate it) exercise and eating right to avoid the complications we know are linked to obesity and diabetes (which are so vast and definitely contribute to our health care work-load). Get people healthy to start, get them comfortable with using health care so they will use it before a problem passes the manageable stage into the serious, heavy-bill, long-term care stage (if possible).
Now, if only we could convince the Red Staters that applying the same philosophy toward Sex Ed would result in fewer unwanted pregnancies and cases of STD infection, we'd probably have an even more robust health care nation still.
-Heee! 'The most secure Windows platform EVAH' pwned! It's not that I hate Windows especially--I use a PC, and I am too lazy to look into an alternate OS. But Microsoft can always use a few lessons about what hubris gets them.
-Further proof that all will love Google and despair! Or, just, you know, love it. Bonus points for the use of the word "dodgy" about spy-ware laden websites. Dodgy! I love the BBC.
-For the love of Baby Jesus, STOP TAKING TEENAGERS' WORD FOR IT! This reads like another "AAAAH!!! LOOK AT THE DEGENERATE YOOOOOOUTH" "scientific" "study." Before it even got to its method, I was going, "I need PubMed, and I need it now."
What was its rigourous method? "The study is based on a 2001 telephone survey of 1,461 youths when they were between the ages of 12 to 17. They were interviewed again in 2002 and 2004.
Among teens who listened to high amounts of explicit music, 51 percent went on to initiate intercourse by the follow-up call, said Steven Martino, a psychologist and lead researcher of the study with the Rand Corp. in Pittsburgh. Among kids who listened to low amounts of such music, 29 percent initiated sex by the call in 2002.
( You better believe there's a rant behind this cut. )
-Dude, chiiiiiiiill. It's Madonna. Doing this shit is just what she DOES.
“It is disrespectful, in bad taste and provocative. Being raised on a cross with a crown of thorns like a modern Christ is absurd. Doing it in the cradle of Christianity comes close to blasphemy,” said Father Manfredo Leone of the Santa Maria Liberatrice church in Rome. “This is a blasphemous challenge to the faith and a profanation of the Cross. She should be excommunicated. To crucify herself in the city of Popes and martyrs is an act of open hostility,” said Vatican Cardinal Ersilio Tonino.
Maybe it's just me, but I don't believe in one land being holier than another. I'm not one for religious mysticism that associates a stronger connection to the power of God/Allah with a place (and if I were to pick? Italy: so not the Holy Land). I believe this world went through dramatic changes to make the place suitable for life, and life took about 2 billion years to get to evolution's worst mistake (us, duh). Us associating some sort of holy power concentrated in the cradle of civilization is redonkulous. We came from Mesopotamia, so it's sort of precious to us, I get it. Doesn't mean your prayers go farther or, Allah forbid, it's worth killing people over (though clearly the events of the past weeks prove I am not in the majority in thinking this).
-And, lastly, a bit of happier news. They're damned right: the Federal government will never figure out a way to make health care more affordable. Congress has been delegating power to the states on everything to avoid contentious issues hurting entrenched elected officials (like equal rights for homosexual couples, the continued right for a woman to have an abortion, you know, those things we're told "will never change" but that the fundie-driven GOP was trying its damnedest to?), so why not on health care?
Know what most cheered me in that? The emphasis on prevention with health care. Punish people who don't keep doctors' appointments, yes. Push through legislation to encourage (ugh, much as I hate it) exercise and eating right to avoid the complications we know are linked to obesity and diabetes (which are so vast and definitely contribute to our health care work-load). Get people healthy to start, get them comfortable with using health care so they will use it before a problem passes the manageable stage into the serious, heavy-bill, long-term care stage (if possible).
Now, if only we could convince the Red Staters that applying the same philosophy toward Sex Ed would result in fewer unwanted pregnancies and cases of STD infection, we'd probably have an even more robust health care nation still.
