Posts by Riddley Walker
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great article m
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yep, the rot started when they hired Prof Fred Shook as a consultant on how to americanize their news and turn it from the BBC model to the Dr Phil model.
My fav is My Side bias
me too, because my side isn't biased ;-)
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yes you can't really expect PBS and audience maximization programming to coexist in the same channel, except in rare circumstances. the dividend requirement is a blunt, foolish accountacy method of pretending to require accountability.
Andrew S, there is rather a lot on this in these PA threads if you'd like to read through them here, and here are good places to start. But in short, the s59 bill doesn't impact on the likelihood of whether parents will be prosecuted, it just removes a particular defence for those the Police have decided to press charges against. There is as much chance of parents being charged now for the example you cite as there will be after it is passed. Suggestions to the contrary are all part of the bill's opponents' misinformation campaign.
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I wonder where he learned that hitting people and using objects to hit people is an effective way to get what he wants
i guess he just wanted to show that he cared about them
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Mother, i think a lot of people's gripes with weather forceasting accuracy can be attributed to Confirmation Bias, which funnily enough is the very reason why we need the inferential statistics forecasting is based on.
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Which is more likely: that thousands of the world's most brilliant scientists, have failed to spot this stunningly fundamental error in their methodology? Or that you don't understand very much about statistical analysis?
oh 3410 now you're just resorting to that other really offensive f word, fact. i think your detractors would prefer if you just stuck to the emotive, ignorant and uniformed modes.
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jonkey steers, dave. you know that
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There are more people being harmed by alcohol than party pills
yes, at least 1000% more at a conservative estimate.
the msm coverage of this and other party pill hysteria pieces has been ridiculous. i can't help but wonder how much banning party pills would help recover the liquor industry's sales figures.
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mmmm, steers
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well hamish our thunderbird toys and hobby hoses were made of gravel mind.
i had a Man From Uncle 'journal' i think they called them, sort of a hardcover magazine for kids.
btw andrew, look out for father merc, he's a planning to bring you in.