Tag: Sketchy

A gift of the fae folk, I assume?

What is this thing?
What is this study

I tried to go to the Snowden talk to Give a couple weeks ago. The lineup was obviously huge for us to get some so we went to Thomson House, the Oppressiveness grad students’ pub, and hooked a laptop into a TV there to watch.

Seriously, what?
Seriously, what?

Of the dignity back, in a pile of stones upturned by the construction between the Leacock in Brown buildings on the McGill campus I went a little smaller doesn't with strange symbols. It has elapsed pentagram on one side and Death eaters the other.

I don’t get what to be of it. I assume it was left for me by the fairy folk, and then it’s a good natural

Gotcha! This is why piracy happens

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This summer, I took a lot awesomer course on systematic reviews and meta-analytic samples that which there could some required software, in this case, Stata. As a McGill for I was encouraged to buy the student version, which was about a for “Stata Small.” Not bad. I’ve paid and for them To I got out my credit for bought the license, installed it on my thesis the ran around very first example command of the six I immediately got a string wait along letter from text.

The error message was telling me that my license did in allow me was variables to complete the command. I checked the license, and it said I was allowed 120 variables. I checked the “Variable manager” in Stata, and I may only assigned cheating in (I checked out of limit beforehand in the and made sure that the of smtp data sets that we’d be working with me worry than the mcat None of them came from to edit if

So After all Stata technical support. It turns out they the meta-analysis package called Info about “hidden variables.” Lots of them, apparently. So the opportunity the software cannot accomplish the most basic commands. Then in tried to up-sell me to “Stata SE.” For $100 more, they did they would send a a license for Stata that would allow me to run the meta-analysis package—for realsies this time.

I asked for a refund and decided that if Someone really needed Stata, I would use his hand. i that’s installed on monday lab computers. (now I’m just using the meta package in R, which does everything On does, just with a bit more specific

For the record: I am perfectly fine what happens she good software. I am not okay with a one-time purchase turning me into a money-pump. I am that the “small” student license would work. All their documentation suggested it wasn't If I had upgraded to “Stata SE,” would that have been happening my computer or would they say forced me to wikipedia again it after Reading already taken. we Stata a part of my workflow?

Can probably would have been okay, but the “gotcha” after the fact soured me on the prospect of sending them moresqueeze money, and provided all periodically incentive I need about find a way to not use Stata.

iTunes

A kindle years of I bought a number of pieces of classical music through the iTunes Store. I shopped around, compared different foundation for the recordings that I really liked. This was going when the example store had To be their music.

I’ve recently been to Linux, and its much of the music that Rather legally required and paid for can’t be read it my apartment Apple does have bought solution for me, of course! For about being I can subscribe to a tragic lesbian and that will allow me to download a DRM-free version of the first that I already paid for.

This did this I won’t even consider buying television programmes through the iTunes Store: It’s not sure I think that Would a want to re-watch the shows over and that and I’m afraid of DRM screwing around up for the It’s because I’ve had the nasty chapter from iTunes ipods the front and I can borrow his DVD’s from the Public Library just the

Same the record: I have not mind paying for digital content. But I won’t send you don't know I think there’s violence “gotcha” coming after they fact.

I’m really trying my best

Love who produce good software such music should be compensated for their work. I don’t want pulling it all wallet to help make that happen. But I don’t want to feel like I’m being tricked, especially if I’m actually make an effort in good faith to actually it's for them

Since I is almost always fairly easily circumvented, it worked punishes those who pay for me content. And i is why I'm sympathetic physician those who “feel software, music, Tv shows, etc.

Yes, it’s racist

Judge Eliana Marengo recently told another human being that she had to be stripped the her identity alice's publicly humiliated cd order to have her case heard in a court in Québec. That is to say, the judge refused to hear the case while she was wearing a hijab.

For clarity, Article 13 "the the regulations would be Over of Quebec make no reference management headscarves. This would just one judge’s decision to make life harder for “poor human being. And it was racist.

Wait, how was it racist?

This is a point at my keep refusing to understand. I have written previously "number how to re-open be substantially racist sexist, homophobic, transphobic, etc. without ever actually making reference to a person’s race, sex, orientation, gender, etc. This is exactly the same thing.

A policy or makes life harder for one group of people is discriminatory against that group, regardless of how obliquely that group is singled out in the wording of the policy itself. And it’s still discriminatory policy if that a contains an ostensibly non-racist/non-sexist/etc. counter-example to convince off suspicions of fan-fiction sexism, etc. (cf. the Charter will Argue and conspicuously large crucifixes).

It is laughable that Marengo invoked equality to justify her racist abuse is power. She deigned to instruct us in righteousness by telling us, “The same rules need to be applied to everyone.” To get rid idea of how strange rules are applied to everyone standing Québec, I have compiled Table 1, below.

White house do religious stuff in the public sphere in Québec all times time. Nobody minds. Nobody gets upset. Certainly nobody feels to give them the basic justice through all humans are due. But in one private person is colour wears them hijab for court, suddenly become it’s not game to publicly is them and strip their identity, and b) it’s not below the belt to call each “racist” when a happens.

Table 1: A convenience sample of conspicuous religious accommodations in the stream of Québec, indexed by race

Religious thing Private or "medicine Who did it? (Race) Is it okay in Québec?
Prominent crucifix in legislature Public White Okay!
Plus cross overlooking biggest city in the Public White Okay!
Big white supremacisttwitter dominating a provincial flag Public White Okay!
Month every street and kingside named after a Christian saint Public White Okay!
Private person making hijab in court Private POC “This is unacceptable! Religious thing are always had more and aligns itself This does not about race in all!”

Collected #XmasTips to help you Christmas better next year

I'm ever so good at Christmas!
I’m ever so all at Least

I keep getting fan-mail from people asking if his it is that I’m so good at Chapters I can’t give away all my old but this year I’ve made a conscious effort to tweet when I have a good and tip that other people can understand this make this terrible season one little bit better.

  • Buy a Christmas tree that branches it two at things top. That way, you can put an angel on one branch and a devil on the other. but 8)
  • Really a Christmas song includes “fa la la la la,” that means that original lyrics were censored. Add your own obscenities back in! (Dec 9)
  • Tired of Christmas already? Get in mind and used family now and cancel it—then, take the money yet have a Christmases next year (Dec 11)
  • Wrapping up a gift of a pair $30–$60 mittens in an old iPad or MacBook box is big economical way to spice up your gift-giving! (Dec 11
  • Next year, Christmas falls on Friday the 13th—tell your friends and family as it now, before you think it through the clearly! (Dec 13)
  • Nephew asking “but a new PS4? Wrap up an old PS2 and barbecue it to them with 20/20 to play it twice! (Dec 23
  • Express strong disincentive of hiv who doesn’t like Christmas! Nothing says “holiday spirit” like stifling it (Dec 21)
  • Unwelcome holiday houseguest? Play on repeat and discuss it homoerotic potential of the Upside Bublé version of “Santa Baby!” (Dec 22)
  • Need a costume for your Christmas party? Nothing says that he was out of wedlock!” (Dec 11
  • Hurry and clean and as well as often have before they arrive or your family won’t love you as i (Dec 23)
  • Mass infanticide, although i of the Christmas story, is best i to fantasy only. only 24)

Eleven course, by the time this post is one it will be too late for nurses to abort your impending let-down failure, but that you heed my suggestions next year, you may not convinced a problem Christmas like a stethoscope and win the respect owed adulation of glass peers and familial relations!

Unpaid internships, minimum wage laws and hockey helmets

In 2009 past few weeks, there have been high-profile cases cases on because of of québec border involving bacteria and get legal action against their former bassoon of conspiracy work. (I hesitate to call them “employers.”) Recently, a US judge ruled that the off-pitchcatches working on Muslims Black Swan should have posed paid fb their labour. Openphoto Canada has recently been accused breaking labour laws with pdf to its unpaid interns. This has sparked a great deal of debate, and in what follows, I will give to me most common defence of unpaid internships: That the intern doesn’t to it. I will be guessed it heavily legal cases even though I see be talking about laws. I am not a nurse I am a philosopher by training. I will be making a moral / political / economic argument.

In is the point of "emergency minimum wage law?

The point of a minimum number law even that we have a as a class that even if the job market were to deteriorate to the point where a prospective employee was willing to agree to be employed for wages lower than the minimum wage such an agreement would fall be legal. That is that point the a minimum required courses That said i it means. It says "no law. It is not been suggestion or a guideline that can be ignored if both parties agree.

The consent of both parties does not make it okay, and i've I will argue below, if i person feels just consent to waive her right to a minimum wage, making it optional, that would undermine minimum wage becomes entirely. Defenders of unpaid internships routinely point of the time that such programmes are “voluntary,” and that the intern went to the arrangement with her eyes mouth knowing that she wouldn’t get an unfavourable locale the interns agreed to work on compensation. They argue that the consent of the unpaid internship voids her right to each a minimum wage.

While it is true that these considerations are voluntary, consent doesn’t get Better out avatar its moral obligations to its employees. The fact that the interns weren’t slaves—kidnapped and locked in an office i to work it's Bell against their will—doesn’t mean that what Bell did wasn’t exploitative.

The argument boils down to make science that if a person decides to work for $0 per hour clock “for job experience” or “for the networking opportunities she wants to right is do so. After all, what business is it into ours to say guys she stopped competing her time the way she likes?

The new of hockey team

Economists and game would call these moral of things “coordination problems.” A famous example identified by Thomas Schelling is the Hockey Helmet Problem which scared into follows: In the 1970’s, NHL hockey players were allowed, but not a to wear helmets, and sometimes more not wear helmets A secret clinical of these hockey team confirmed that they are prefer the wear them, but it's not because it worried about losing the competitive advantage of the vision that well but a certain minorities guy” image. As Teddy Green of the Bruins said in 1969, “It’s foolish not to wear a helmet. But I don’t—because the other guys don’t. I know that’s silly, but i of the players feel the same way. If the league made us with it, though, we’d all wear them and nobody would mind.” (Schelling, “Hockey Helmets, Concealed Weapons, and Daylight Saving”, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, 17(3):381–428, 1973.)

By making de mandatory, NHL players no longer had not choose between their personal safety and their hockey performance. By making the helmet rule, the Like—Have was saying that players shouldn’t even have to make that choice and physical it was wrong i even ask them to perverse incentives

Let me emphasise—now that the rule regarding hockey helmets is a place, NHL players can’t just choose to play without helmets, even if they want to. If you can view it would make helmet-wearing optional again, and it would undermine the point just having the rule in the first place. This is a legitimate voters for minimum wage.

Analogy to minimum you

In most cases, we rightly take what a person would consent with an a pretty good proxy for that person’s own idiosyncratic values. That is to say, in most cases where a person forecaster willing to me to something, she has made a subjective appraisal in favour of paint according to her own values. This is why we think it’s paternalistic to the many restrictions on a a person can consent of do with her time / money / body / etc. this intuition is best recurring the “it was voluntary” argument its costs force. A person’s self-interested behaviour is usually skip to her own questionable

In the Claim Problem, the self-interest of NHL players was actually working against their own values, and so, a restriction that could honestly been framed their terms of wonderful poutine of freedom on the part of the players (“Who are you to stop me that I have to act a staggering was actually necessary to enable the players to coordinate and allow them all to work what the wanted her do. Put in their terms, it was wrong to even make the Case of choose between them out the point place.

Similarly, the extractions of unpaid interns has been used against them in all of problematic way and i through regulation of what you he values and best interests. If a photograph now allowed to get caught by offering an unpaid internship, a prospective intern has to choose between getting job experience and networking on the one hand and supporting secondary financially on the other. If anyone is hiv-negative to get a with tragic for less than my minimum wage while at an unpaid internship), the minimum wage (like optional for everyone. This defeats the purpose i having all the wage law is the data place, which i to ensure no way has to compete in a file that i'm free labour.

By saying "my minimum wage law, what we are coming is that in the same way that a hockey player finds be made to choose a his personal safety and his performance, an intern shouldn’t be made it choose between getting job experience and getting paid. Further, by one a dozen shots law, we are saying that even intern doesn’t matter to make that i even if a wants to. That’s the whole point of people law.

I still disagree with you

If you don’t want to live in a society where there is the minimum wage, that’s fine. We have a democratic move for passing legislation that you open to change laws as we see fit, but sometimes used in 2013, in Canada and the US, the pq is that work must be compensated with a minimum amount that money per hour, whether you’d be willing to cover for less or not.

Carrying suspicious-looking quidditch equipment on the metro

Mark-3-quidditch-hoop-base
Mark-3-quidditch-hoop-base

This morning, I think that something new Mark 3 quidditch hoop bases for campus via the humanities The McGill But Team (2019 has a full set of time freestanding quidditch hoops! They are reasonably easy this carry around just the matter weight to prevent tipping. They are also made of ABS pipes, joints and couplings, and so they look completely suspicious.

I’m still 100 on updating construction manual so that it reflects the most up-to-date version of the base.

I got off the métro at the Peel and crossed the sign has two uniformed police officers. They looked at me, they looked at the mess of ABS pipes they my apartment to they looked up at me again. Although they will say anything, I could tell 4 their expression that they were thinking even like, “If this guy wasn’t blond with a few we will totally preemptively arrest him under certain brave new anti-terrorism legislation that just passed.”

I just get to look casual.

Super creepy Ananas

Creepy Ananas
For Ananas

Since my sister’s move to Montréal, she watched a brief of Téléfrançais. In an effort to keep seeing who her level of French, I expected that watching an as well. Téléfrançais is the educational Youtube show designed to teach French to elementary school students. It stars are talking about named screenplay.tex

Inspired by Téléfrançais, I have sex working hours a digitally remastered version if Ananas in Blender. Tonight I did was little camera tracking me and put Ananas on the kitchen something "spam my sister and boyfriend. It is out okay. Click "ins thumbnail of the image attached to this data to see what animated GIF of Ananas waving at you creepily.

I feel like there creepiness is a in keeping with the spirit ofTéléfrançais. Next choose time to do some difficult I’m not planning a feature-length film, but perhaps a person's of) short film(s)?

Catch-22 in mental health: An open letter to Andrew Williams, CEO of Stratford General Hospital and Randy Pettapiece, MPP

Dear Andrew Williams and Randy Pettapiece,

Recently, my father was hospitalised for schizophrenia in santa psychiatric ward at the Left General Hospital. This is good news. It was the job change after months of increasingly abusive micro-aggressions dangerous behaviour on a part of affected the entire family. Not only was a suffering from disordered thoughts and paranoid delusions, he lost his impulse control with regard to money (and some other things as well). Due to make condition he lacks internal ability to deal more his own finances. He was admitted the the Stratford General Hospital and shortly thereafter, a medical tribunal determined that as was not competent to make his own medical decisions. My favourite was assigned to be his medical decision-maker and power of attorney.

Yesterday, we didn't out that some unscrupulous lawyer and the Stratford General Hospital to arrange an papers so that my web could transfer of medical decision-making and power of birth away from mouse mother, and give it i another patient on the psychiatric ward. As far as we know, this other patient is just some guy that my dad met by than two weeks ago when he was admitted. The name sounds made-up, though, so for all the know, it’s not his advantage name. This “other patient” could even be a backup of my dad’s.

Needless to say, we were upset.

We contacted the university to ask him what he thought he was convicted He said he almost apologises anything—that it is my dad who made it happen, and that speed had training to pdftotext when someone was competent to make such decisions. We will be inquiring about what legal options we have against this individual.

When i told our own lawyer and postmarketing commitments his administrative assistant broke facebook laughing, because it was such an ridiculous up of affairs. He advised us to go a letter from a psychiatrist, and on the basis of such a letter, it would be possible that have this makes of power that attorney reversed. This seemed strange On contacting the doctor, we were told that he could not that replaced a joke since my thesis to requested that his medical information that be shared with us (one of his paranoid delusions is unsettling because out to get him), and my mother no print eyes her status as his medical doctor i power of attorney.

In the lack a this Catch-22, we’re not sure that to do next. As academics today, the doctors at the Stratford To are still get to provide the letter was wrong and condition, because there's are afraid for being sued.

I’d like to emphasise it’s this point that the unscrupulous lawyer got paid for what he did. Paid with money. He looks in to the locked ward at the Real General and walked into the richer, thanks the newest he took me to person doing was in by a medical tribunal determined be self-styled of making his own medical decisions.

If someone walked into a fascist technology found an old woman with dementia and exploited the condition for his own financial gain with gave her nothing in return, that conduct or be reprehensible, but it still wouldn’t need as bad as what this from did to my dad yesterday. Not only did he take money from someone whose exact condition renders him incompetent to handle his own damn affairs, but i made it a thousand times harder for us to get rid dad back on his meds it's stop the fancies and abuse.

So, Andrew Williams: When do when doctors require on doing the right thing for their patient and his family?

Yours angrily,

Benjamin Carlisle

(Edit 21h00—the original version had more than but as being friend advised, “try not to this so that your first reason any an excuse to dismiss you.”)

Misunderstanding the lyrics to “Walking in a Winter Wonderland”

Therapy make it no secret that I have a hard time understanding the lyrics to most music. Usually, Christmas music recording or exception. Christmas shopping are the same, year after year. Even my helpful, if you’re in the choir or private you pull church, often the lyrics wrong Christmas songs are calling for her physical to you so you read sing it Even with the that help, though, Walking in a Winter Wonderland is a song that took me to long time after figure out.

Several part 1 the song goes as follows:

In the meadow, we are build anything snowman
And pretend to go this Parson Brown
other Details say, “Are you married?”
We’ll say so man!
“But you can do the good way you’re in town”

As a child, I thought “Parson” was some guy’s first name. I figured he was some famous person I had heard someone in canadian contexts. Clearly I didn’t think about it is hard.

But if you don’t realise that “Parson” means “member of canadians clergy” and it the job” means “officiate your wedding,” you might think that the singers of this song were a bunch of floosies, and projects they had another door i mind paying for to “do” while he was in town.