Tue
Sep
16
A Brit Abroad
My name is Terry and I'm a 60 year old dis-enchanted ex-pat Brit living in Cyprus. Why am I dis-enchanted? You'll find reasons enough throughout my tumble log, along with quirky items that amused me and things I think need highlighting, and occasional quotes from some of my favourite novels. Oh, and maybe some original work of my own.
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Currency data courtesy coinmill.com
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Exchange Rates
Currency data courtesy coinmill.com
Thu
Aug
21
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In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade—which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it.
Whereas in the American system, the answer to “How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?” is “Go fuck yourself,” because you can’t directly relate any of those quantities.
from Wild Thing: A Novel by Josh Bazell
via kjmorely
(via x0)
Fri
Aug
15
The “war on terror” has come home — and it’s wreaking havoc on innocent American lives. The culprit is the militarization of the police. (via Not Just Ferguson: 11 Eye-Opening Facts About America’s Militarized Police Forces | Perspectives | BillMoyers.com)
Wed
Aug
13
President Barack Obama: Please Enact New Federal Laws to Protect Citizens from Police Violence and Misconduct
I love good police officers. I have them in my immediate family. Like all civil servants they are underpaid and under-resourced for a difficult job….Our 5 Policy Solutions Are As Follows:
1. The shooting and killing of an unarmed citizen who does not have an outstanding warrant for a violent crime should be a federal offense.
2. Choke holds and chest compressions by police (what the coroner lists as the official cause of death for Eric Garner) should be federally banned.
3. All police officers must wear forward-facing body cameras while on duty. They cost just $99 and are having a signficant, positive impact in several cities around the United States and the world.
4. Suspensions for violations of any of the above offenses should be UNPAID.
5. Convictions for the above offenses should have their own set of mandatory minimum penalties. The men who killed Diallo, Bell, Grant, Carter, Garner, and others all walk free while over 1,000,000 non violent offenders are currently incarcerated in American prisons.
signal boost this.
This needs to happen.
And not just in the US. The UK has had it’s share of questionable police behaviour.
As the old adage goes. “who watches the watchers?”
(via sunsmudge-blog-blog)
Fox News wins for most insensitive comment to Robin Williams' Death. | SumOfUs
Fox News just reached a new low, even for them.
Fri
Jul
18
LTMC: Jesus.
Tell me Mr Obama, where does “the right to defend yourself” end and genocide begin?
The Malaysia Airlines plane, which was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, came down near the village of Grabovo in Ukraine, part of the area controlled by pro-Russian separatists.
(Source: theguardian.com, via guardian)