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Dec. 18th, 2005
Foursome...
Dec. 18th, 2005 10:11 amFour jobs you've had in your life:
Factory Operative (I swear most of the people I worked with wouldn't have been able to spell their job title)
Computer Operator (the mainframe world's equivalent of shelf-stacking at Tesco, mostly - various companies)
Research Assistant (token compsci in the engineering department at Cambridge)
Perl Developer (various companies again)
( More foursomes... )
Factory Operative (I swear most of the people I worked with wouldn't have been able to spell their job title)
Computer Operator (the mainframe world's equivalent of shelf-stacking at Tesco, mostly - various companies)
Research Assistant (token compsci in the engineering department at Cambridge)
Perl Developer (various companies again)
( More foursomes... )
Yesterday in America
Dec. 18th, 2005 11:09 amFirst, the United States has legitimized torture and secondly, the President has admitted to an impeachable offense:
Under the compromise, anyone charged with torture can defend himself if a "reasonable" person could have concluded they were following a lawful order.
That defense "loophole" totally corrodes the ban. It is the CIA, or the torturing agency, who will decide what a "reasonable" person could have concluded. Can you imagine those agencies in the interrogation business torturing on their own in trying to decide what is reasonable or what is not? What is not "reasonable" if the interrogator (wrongfully or rightfully) believes he has a ticking-bomb situation? Will a CIA or military officer issue a narrow order if he knows his interrogator believes, in this case, torture will work?
The President in authorizing surveillance without seeking a court order has committed a crime. The Federal Communications Act criminalizes surveillance without a warrant. It is an impeachable offense. This was also totally missed by the media.
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Under the compromise, anyone charged with torture can defend himself if a "reasonable" person could have concluded they were following a lawful order.
That defense "loophole" totally corrodes the ban. It is the CIA, or the torturing agency, who will decide what a "reasonable" person could have concluded. Can you imagine those agencies in the interrogation business torturing on their own in trying to decide what is reasonable or what is not? What is not "reasonable" if the interrogator (wrongfully or rightfully) believes he has a ticking-bomb situation? Will a CIA or military officer issue a narrow order if he knows his interrogator believes, in this case, torture will work?
The President in authorizing surveillance without seeking a court order has committed a crime. The Federal Communications Act criminalizes surveillance without a warrant. It is an impeachable offense. This was also totally missed by the media.
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kynetik)Absolutely fantastic shot of me doing poi at the last TG... I look like the biggest poser on the planet :-D
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Woo, yay, houpla!
Dec. 18th, 2005 07:00 pmAfter some confusing moments over the last few weeks, and particularly this week (some entirely my own internal confusion, other bits of confusion at least partially engendered by other people), I now appear to have two girlfriends* . As I've grown rather attached to both of them in the last few months, this makes me very happy.
And lo, there was much fluffiness. And kittens. Etc. :)
This is the first time I've had to deal with two relationships both appearing and growing at pretty much the same time... it's been a very different experience to that of being in one relationship and finding another. I think this has been considerably trickier, although at least part of that was caused by one of the people not having heard of poly before - the explanations seem a bit more emotionally fraught when 'the other person' is neither entirely hypothetical at the time, nor entirely a confirmed part of your life yet.
In other news, I got another middle-of-the-night phone call last night/this morning - 5:36am this time, withheld number again. It's kind of intriguing, but only to the extent that I'll note it here... can't see me deciding to leave the phone unrestricted at night to find out who it is, I like my sleep :) Anyway, they'd leave a message if they wanted me to know - it's obviously either some kind of wind-up or some kind of cock-up.
* fsvo 'girlfriend', given that one of them seems to have a mild objection to labelling relationships at present, and the other one is still a bit wary of the concept of poly but has decided that it's worth exploring the idea more.
And lo, there was much fluffiness. And kittens. Etc. :)
This is the first time I've had to deal with two relationships both appearing and growing at pretty much the same time... it's been a very different experience to that of being in one relationship and finding another. I think this has been considerably trickier, although at least part of that was caused by one of the people not having heard of poly before - the explanations seem a bit more emotionally fraught when 'the other person' is neither entirely hypothetical at the time, nor entirely a confirmed part of your life yet.
In other news, I got another middle-of-the-night phone call last night/this morning - 5:36am this time, withheld number again. It's kind of intriguing, but only to the extent that I'll note it here... can't see me deciding to leave the phone unrestricted at night to find out who it is, I like my sleep :) Anyway, they'd leave a message if they wanted me to know - it's obviously either some kind of wind-up or some kind of cock-up.
* fsvo 'girlfriend', given that one of them seems to have a mild objection to labelling relationships at present, and the other one is still a bit wary of the concept of poly but has decided that it's worth exploring the idea more.