Thursday Next

That's me... http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-4.62&soc=-1.69 Some questions are a bit confusing... Like "It's ok for a mother to have a job, but her first duty is to be a home maker." OWTTE. If I click "Disagree" does that mean that I disagree that it is ok for her to have a job? Or that I disagree that her first duty is to be a home maker?

If you were to crack the Xbox or PS3 version (not that I'm suggesting you do) you'd find that the same nfo was used for all platforms. The "Insert/Play" gag applies to the console version more than the PC one.

Once you've installed that app though it takes what? Seconds? I never even notice that it does stuff when I connect it, it all just seems to work.

All of the game is optional... No one makes you play it.

It's "not-ruh dam". You pronounce it like Judy Dench has taken a job as a stenographer.

Who are you calling crazy? They were mocking me! With their annoying green and pinkness... One tiny, but HUGE gripe I have with the game is that I completely completed single player, but I think I died trying to get a Riddler trophy in hideout. So now, even though that task is done, the icon still sits there, taunting me. I've tried going back, talking to people, everything, but the icon will not go. I vexes me. I'm terribly vexed.

To use a more extreme example. If you give a guy a gun and watch him shoot someone with it and do nothing to stop him you're considered an accessory to murder. It's a crime in America at least. I think in this case the catholic church are considering themselves accessories to sin. But that's written down in statute. There is a law that states "thou shalt not give a dude a gun so that he may shoot someone." There is not, to my knowledge a commandment that says "You shall spill your seed on the ground, and if you catch anyone else trying to do any different then by jingo you will make it inconvenient for them." unless there is. I mean, if there is a something in the Bible that says "You must enforce God's will." or "You shall not suffer another to act against God's will." then sure, it would mean that the Church would have to break a rule so, there's some element of a case there. But all the Bible I remember from my CofE days was about "Spreading the Word." not "Enforcing the rules."

I don't get what you're missing. Ethan has spelled it out quite a bit but I'll try one more time. By paying for it, they are enabling it. If I gave a drunken bum $10 he'll go buy a bottle of booze with it. That makes me an enabler into something I personally believe is wrong. Many people may turn the other way when someone DOES something they disagree with, but to encourage that by paying for it is quite another thing. I'm missing the bit where giving another person an opportunity to sin is a restriction on your religious expression. Basically, I think that the application of the rule is a load of old bollocks, if the Hospital don't want to provide for their staff to use contraception, then that's obviously legal. It doesn't make it any less of a dick move and in my opinion amounts to them forcing their beliefs on their staff. In my opinion a company forcing its will on individual employees is far worse than forcing a company to allow individual employees to do something that the company may not approve of.

The wage for this should imho be the difference between JSA and minimum wage, JSA should be paid as normal. That way everyone wins. Dean gets more money, effectively making the minimum wage. Tesco get a cheaper workforce since the government pick up the first £45 odd. Government get to put people into jobs and look good. EDIT: Tried to look at the details of that job and it sent me in circles, that is a fucking hideous site.

I think this varies by course more than country. Law involves a lot of rather expensive, terribly heavy books.

Didn't have to grind any trophies apart from getting a lucky coin, which requires gil, time and cellotape, and going 10,000 steps on a chocobo (riding chocos seems counter intuitive when you have to fight enemies to get strongerer) which necessitated an elastic band. Some people struggle with 100 preemptive strikes in a row, I got it through normal play cos I'm a flipping ninja.

79hrs 13mins 48secs. Platted.

Well isn't that a handy get out out clause.

But that's my point. I don't see where it violates their religion. They aren't forced to stock, provide or sell contraceptives, just reimburse people who have already bought them. If you can point out what part of religious dogma prevents this, then I'll happily accept it, but I honestly don't believe that there is any religious rule that prevents a Catholic Hospital from reimbursing someone for having purchased birth control.

In all my days I've never heard even an attempt at a halfway decent explanation for the human appendix or coccyx. Any Christians here fancy a shot at it? Why do we have a stub of a tail and a useless, broken cellulose digester? Oh and you are not allowed to talk about the ineffability of God's plan.

Ummmm... good question. Will check tonight. Or I could plat it tonight and give you the total plat time.

But how is having to pay for an employee to get contraceptives a restriction on the Hospitals religious expression? They should have every right to express through memos, poster campaigns or direct communication, that they consider the use of contraceptives to be against God's will. They just shouldn't have the right to deny that product / service to another, even if they are an employee. Like I said, God didn't do it that way. He left temptation right there in arms reach. Catholic practice seems to indicate that you put temptation there to be resisted (hence altar boys).

That's where the question of Liberty comes up. Just as I would not expect a Jehovah's Witness organization to pay for a blood transfusion or a Christian Scientist organization to pay for anything! I'm not Catholic and I'm not opposed to BC pills but I am opposed to the government telling a church what to do. To me, that's an infringement on one's Liberty! Also, I really think the whole ZOMG! People NEED Birth Control is a rather annoying argument to me because BC generics are quite cheap. Walmart, Target, Walgreens, various grocery stores etc. in the name of Capitalism and competition have these wonderful $4 generics programs that include Birth Control pills (some are $8-$9 apparently) which is less than the copay on most insurance plans. http://i.walmart.com...ricdruglist.pdf http://sites.target....drugs_condition Seriously, this is a great program for more than just BC. A local NY/NE chain of grocery stores (Price Chopper) is even giving away free Diabetes meds and antibiotics! When someone I know had Lyme disease all their meds were free! The catch is of course that while waiting the half hour for them to fill your prescription you'll most likely do your grocery shopping there. Sounds like a good deal to me. Been out of this for a while, so apologies for the late reply but... It may be against the Catholic Dogma to use contraception, but it does not say anywhere that Catholics have a duty to physically stop anyone else from sinning. God gave Adam and Eve free will and then put the Apple tree in their garden and said "This tree over here, don't touch it." So the Catholic Hospital would not be impeded in their religious expression to say, "These contraceptives over here, don't use them." I thought the whole religion thing was about resisting temptation and being tested in your faith and what not.

I'm two trophies away from platinuming this one. imho it's easily in the top 3 FF's to date, possibly even number 1. I've got the collectors edition, but been without internet at home for the past couple of weeks and I have to say that even without the DLC extras it feels like a very complete package. Looking forward to the Sazh DLC. Hopefully we'll get a Snow one too, I want to know what he's been up to while I've been gallivanting up and down the time stream.

I like it. Yay positivity!

I assume you are referring to the part that prohibits passing laws impeding the free exercise of religion. It seems to me that a law prohibiting "no contraceptives on health plan for workers in a Catholic hospital rules" in no way impedes the Catholic Hospital's freedom to express its religion. The Hospital is still free to say that it believes abstinence is the only form of contraception that a good Catholic should use they just can't refuse to help people who think differently.

Turns out one of my friends helped animate this. Small world. EDIT: This guy, incidentally http://www.matthewkeen.co.uk/

Agreed, not discriminatory, just... a bit... mean?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/falklandislands/9083438/Sean-Penn-calls-Prince-Williams-deployment-to-Falkland-Islands-unthinkable.html Native American Politician and Part-Time Actor Sean Penn gives us the benefit of his years of experience in foreign diplomacy insisting that the entirely indigenous population of Argentina hand over the Falkland islands because the UK are a bunch of mean old colonials... They're ours, now piss off.

So basically a tamer form of Judge Dredd? It's actually not far removed from what Japan had according to that beeb article. Cases were presided over by Judges, and even if you confessed the prosecution still had to go through the trial and produce evidence. (In the UK if you plead guilty you skip straight to the sentencing).