“Only borrow money to pay for things that increase in value.”
Seth’s Blog: Personal finance advice
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The astounding simplicity of this idea, and the inability of so many to grasp it, compels me to to reblog it, and to urge you to do the same.
Thou shalt not annoy on Youth Day
Extraordinary new powers will allow police to arrest and fine people for “causing annoyance” to World Youth Day participants and permit partial strip searches at hundreds of Sydney sites, beginning today.
“Causing annoyance” could include handing out condoms at protests, or wearing an anti-Catholic t-shirt.
Civil libertarians said they had never seen anything like the new powers and believed they are more extreme and broader in scope than those used during last year’s APEC summit and the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
Bigger and better, baby!
The president of the NSW Bar Association, Anna Katzmann, SC, described the regulations as “unnecessary and repugnant”.
Duh.
Surely there are already laws in the NSW Criminal Code that can account for anything that might actually be, you know, illegal, that people might do? On the other hand, sitting back confidently and saying “no, we’re pretty sure that all our existing law and order provisions are sufficient for the protection of everyone involved” isn’t being seen to be doing something. And if there’s anything that people like more than not hearing about politicians at all, it’s hearing about politicians doing something.
“We have these cultural beliefs that children are the key to happiness and a healthy life, and they’re not.”
Florida State Professor Robin Simon
Of course kids aren’t the key to happiness, any more than any other thing you could do, or be, or buy, or have, is the key to happiness.
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Skinny bloke and his wife pregnant; are paid $100,000 for amazing acomplishment
Some bloke who plays tennis and his ex-soapie star wife were paid $100,000 by a magazine for simply allowing them to announce the fact that said bloke and sheila are pregnant for the second time.
Do you think if I got a publicist I could get a mid five figure deal for pics of my kid?
Dear Lazy Tumblr
By default disqus wants you to throw in their code at the end, before the {/block:Posts} so every single post type gets the default treatment of the disqus comments and comment box. But if you wanted to enable it for certain types of posts you would throw in the code that disqus gives you not before the {/block:Posts} but before the blocks you wanted to enable commenting for.
But there’s two bits of code disqus wants you to include. The first bit does the comments (x) part, and the second bit does the actual comment form.
The comments (x) part can go, as you said, inside the the {regular} block, instead of after all the post type blocks. But the part that makes the actual comment form has to go inside the {permalink} block, which renders on ever post-type’s permalink page. If the comment form code goes inside the {regular} block, then it’ll render a comment form on the main page as well as the permalink page.
It seems that what I’m asking for requires some CSS-fu of the sort that Paul Giacherio’s siloTheme uses, or Nostrich uses on Peacock Tail, to get different styling on the main page and the permalink page, but then goes further and has different styling on the permalink page, depending on the post type.
Hmm… I know I left my too hard basket around here somewhere.
