Children are being tracked by micro-chips embedded in their uniforms in a trial at a secondary school.
The devices are used to monitor pupils’ movements and register their arrival in class on the teacher’s computer. Supply teachers can also be alerted if a student is likely to misbehave.
Also see : Pupils face tracking bugs in school blazers
Only 90%, drat. Knew I should have taken time to work out the multiple pulley lift one properly :/
Anarchism:
A lot of people seem to think it is about doing away with the state.
It ain’t no such thang.
It’s about creating more.
More powerful states.
With solid, intrinsic control over the individual.
Because:
Before it is; or can be… anything else:
Anarchism,
Is a state of mind.
Not (just) the rebellious teenage daughter of order; spray-painting angry, angsty, temporarily-rebellious graffiti on the vicarious façade of our modern-day, commonplace, institutions of inevitably-soul-sucking, wageslaving vulgarity.
But also the Moominmamma.
she can haz wonderful hand bag.
The saga continues… the Whitehouse Office of Administration refuses a Freedom of Information request to try and get information about why the Deep Space Climate Observatory was silently canned.
By DeSmogBlog, now available on a SU near you!
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” ~ Carl Sagan
Why do people kill? Why do we sacrifice ourselves to save others from dying? Why do we close our eyes and try to ignore the suffering going on around us? Why do we feel sympathy, guilt, shame, righteous anger? Why do we act differently in groups than when we are alone?
This blog aims to explore all manner of “moral” behaviors and emotions, investigating the who, the how, the what and, of course, the why. Come along for the ride.
I guess what I’m trying to say is that you can’t change bad human behavior without changing the bad situation. But at the same time, changing the situation won’t fix everything. There will always be bad apples.
In response to these studies, a new physiological model was made, to distinguish between controlled and impulsive aggression. This model drew upon a body of work showing that low serotonin levels led to general impulsive behavior. Researchers surmised that people who were impulsively aggressive had low serotonin levels. People who exhibited dominance behavior, on the other hand, were driven by testosterone. High serotonin levels allowed them to control their impulses and to use their aggression to establish dominance. A study in chimpanzees found that unprovoked assaults and biting was associated not with high testosterone but low serotonin, and that dominance behaviors such as mounting of other males were associated with high testosterone and high serotonin levels.
If you are comfortable with being manipulated by big business hacks, or are just looking for reasons to justify sticking your head in the sand, then this is the site for you.
Oh, and you’ll probably also be glad to know that a recent ‘study’ has proven that if you quit smoking before you are 30, you actually live longer than someone who never smoked at all! No, really…
And while I have your attention, I’ve got this bridge… it used to belong to the ex-minister for finance of Nigeria, and now his family have asked me to help him dispose of it. If you were interested in buying, well, I could let you have it at under 1% of it’s Real Market Value… I know, I know, it sounds too good to be true, but you know how it is, I need to get rid of it quickly as I have this slam-dunk tip on a long shot in the 2:15 at Cheltenham I plan to put money on…
* “Steven J. Milloy is a columnist for Fox News and a paid advocate for Phillip Morris, ExxonMobil and other corporations. From the 1990s until the end of 2005, he was an adjunct scholar at the libertarian think tank the Cato Institute.
Milloy runs the website Junkscience.com, which is dedicated to debunking what he alleges to be false claims regarding global warming, DDT, environmental radicalism and scare science among other topics.[1] His other website, CSR Watch.com, is focused around attacking the corporate social responsibility movement. He is also head of the Free Enterprise Action Fund, a mutual fund he runs with tobacco executive Tom Borelli, who happens to be listed as the secretary of the Advancement of Sound Science Center, an organisation Milloy operates from his home in Potomac, Maryland . “
** “False balance is a term used to describe a perceived or real media bias, where journalists present an issue as being more balanced between opposing viewpoints than the evidence actually supports. Journalists may present evidence and arguments out of proportion to the actual evidence for each side, or may even actually suppress information which would establish one side’s claims as baseless.
An example of issues sometimes handled with false balance are pseudoscience, as when a national nightly news program in the United States gave coverage to a backyard inventor who claimed to have invented a perpetual motion machine; the program presented scientific authorities to explain why such a device was impossible, but since they gave equal time to the claims of the inventor, it may have created a false impression with audiences that his claims might be credible, which they are not. Other issues sometimes handled with false balance are Holocaust denial, Global Warming, and Intelligent Design creationism.
