mike carey

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No, the tree looked like a eucalypt and the street sign a standard Australian one, so I did a quick search. My sister has a 'lifestyle block' not too far from there.

Ah, Wedderburn in country Victoria!

@DonaldTramp , I've said it before, I say it again, I loooooove your nickname!

Because he's serving breakfast? Or is breakfast.

Only for three days, Truereview.

That is wildly inappropriate. Proving an accusation is false is almost impossible and if the evidence doesn't stack up it's easy enough for the police or the [crown/state/district] prosecutor to say so and not proceed. If the police don't believe a claim they have no right to insist that the complainant recant their complaint. As in this case, the prosecutors should keep the details on file in case better evidence comes up.

I think we need to be careful to distinguish between what courts do and what police investigors do. In a trial there is and should be a presumption of innocence. Where an alleged crime is being investigated, whether it's because there is physical evidence of something that may be a crime, or because there's a complaint that what may be a crime has happened, the task of the police investigator is to establish the facts, not to make any assumptions about the guilt or otherwise of any people who might be linked to the event. In doing so, they have to remember the level of proof they have to establish, and that is that the person is guilty beyond reasonable doubt. In the case of an alleged sexual assault, the person making the complaint is entitled to be believed in their claim that something has happened, but the investigator should make no assumptions about guilt or innocence. Whether it is assault, sexual assault or rape, or something else [or indeed that no offence has occurred], is what the investigator has to determine from interviews and/or physical evidence, and in some cases the starting point will be that something physical happened between two individuals.
 
Believing a complainant is accepting that it is their perception of what has happened, nothing more. It does not mean accepting that their perception is objectively true or that if they have accused someone that the person is guilty. Beyond anything else, the police should be aware that aggressive questioning based on an assumption of guilt is likely to result in tainted evidence that is inadmissable in court.

A thoughtful article about 'rape culture' from the victim of an assault.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/12/i-didnt-understand-culture-until-i-was-attacked?CMP=share_btn_tw

They'd be in trouble in NC or anyplace else with anti-trans bathroom legislation. I guess Scots should boycott NC as well.

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'Irony day' sounds like 'a rainy day'.

I think we need to be careful to distinguish between what courts do and what police investigors do. In a trial there is and should be a presumption of innocence. Where an alleged crime is being investigated, whether it's because there is physical evidence of something that may be a crime, or because there's a complaint that what may be a crime has happened, the task of the police investigator is to establish the facts, not to make any assumptions about the guilt or otherwise of any people who might be linked to the event. In doing so, they have to remember the level of proof they have to establish, and that is that the person is guilty beyond reasonable doubt. In the case of an alleged sexual assault, the person making the complaint is entitled to be believed in their claim that something has happened, but the investigator should make no assumptions about guilt or innocence. Whether it is assault, sexual assault or rape, or something else [or indeed that no offence has occurred], is what the investigator has to determine from interviews and/or physical evidence, and in some cases the starting point will be that something physical happened between two individuals.
 
Believing a complainant is accepting that it is their perception of what has happened, nothing more. It does not mean accepting that their perception is objectively true or that if they have accused someone that the person is guilty. Beyond anything else, the police should be aware that aggressive questioning based on an assumption of guilt is likely to result in tainted evidence that is inadmissable in court.

JD, just tell him you are happy no matter how his life works out but that you love him and don't need all the details of his life. Tell him he doesn't need to prove anything to you. He doesn't need to tell you how successful he had been because you like him whether he has been successful or not.

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A Ten Commandments app sorta rings alarm bells for me!

A Ten Commandments app sorta rings alarm bells for me!

If you're on a Windows device look for Character Map in the programs. Some computers have keyboard short cuts but I can't make them work. In the mean time, à á â ç è é ñ ï ó

I'm a little questioning of the whole idea of cultural appropriation, and if it is a thing, where does it start and end. Some cultural expressions may be seen as defining a particular cultural group, but others are just something that members of the group like. Anglo-Australians and -Americans have 'appropriated' food culture from every immigrant group. What is the line, if there even is one, between cultural appropriation and adopting and adapting an idea? Can it be respectful, or is it always a type of theft? Oh, and on dreads, who do they belong to? Are they Afro-Caribbean culture that African Americans have appropriated? Are they part of an Ethiopian culture that Jamaicans appropriated? Or are they all of the above as well as being a hippy cultural artefact used by all sorts of people? I think in Bieber's case it is an affectation.

I'm a little questioning of the whole idea of cultural appropriation, and if it is a thing, where does it start and end. Some cultural expressions may be seen as defining a particular cultural group, but others are just something that members of the group like. Anglo-Australians and -Americans have 'appropriated' food culture from every immigrant group. What is the line, if there even is one, between cultural appropriation and adopting and adapting an idea? Can it be respectful, or is it always a type of theft? Oh, and on dreads, who do they belong to? Are they Afro-Caribbean culture that African Americans have appropriated? Are they part of an Ethiopian culture that Jamaicans appropriated? Or are they all of the above as well as being a hippy cultural artefact used by all sorts of people? I think in Bieber's case it is an affectation.

I'm a little questioning of the whole idea of cultural appropriation, and if it is a thing, where does it start and end. Some cultural expressions may be seen as defining a particular cultural group, but others are just something that members of the group like. Anglo-Australians and -Americans have 'appropriated' food culture from every immigrant group. What is the line, if there even is one, between cultural appropriation and adopting and adapting an idea? Can it be respectful, or is it always a type of theft? Oh, and on dreads, who do they belong to? Are they Afro-Caribbean culture that African Americans have appropriated? Are they part of an Ethiopian culture that Jamaicans appropriated? Or are they all of the above as well as being a hippy cultural artefact used by all sorts of people? I think in Bieber's case it is an affectation.

I'm a little questioning of the whole idea of cultural appropriation, and if it is a thing, where does it start and end. Some cultural expressions may be seen as defining a particular cultural group, but others are just something that members of the group like. Anglo-Australians and -Americans have 'appropriated' food culture from every immigrant group. What is the line, if there even is one, between cultural appropriation and adopting and adapting an idea? Can it be respectful, or is it always a type of theft? Oh, and on dreads, who do they belong to? Are they Afro-Caribbean culture that African Americans have appropriated? Are they part of an Ethiopian culture that Jamaicans appropriated? Or are they all of the above as well as being a hippy cultural artefact used by all sorts of people? I think in Bieber's case it is an affectation.