Young Master Smeet
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moderator1 wrote:Bill you can be so confusing and hard work on times! There is no 'closed account' option. You go into Edit scroll down and click on the Blocked box. Done.
I can't see a 'blocked' box neither…
Hmm, I can't see a 'close account' option, but couldn' you:1) Put in a dummy email address e.g. made.up@made.up.com2) Tap some random letters into a text editor.3) Copy and paste them into the password field and confirmation4) Save the changes, and delete the random passowordThat way you'd not have password access, and you'd be unable to receive a retrieval email.If you really want to do that.
Well, that's been part of a deliberate policy to 'take peopel out of taxation', I suppose over the last few years. An ideological spin off is that Tories like to quote that percentage of income tax from higher earners to try and portray the idea that the rich do pay their 'fair share' or more (leaving aside that excise duty and VAT and council are paid by everyone and are deeply regressive*). *pay ≠ burden
And, in a re-run of 'the drift back to work' we have BBC journalists tell us that, while a majority of people polled support the strike, that majority is falling.
Quote:It comes as a new poll by Ipsos MORI for the BBC showed the majority of the public still backed junior doctors, although support was not as high since it became an all-out stoppage.Asked whether they supported junior doctors striking while not providing emergency cover, 57% said they would and 26% said they were opposed.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-36134103Now, while the decline might be true, the narrative could be on the public support, rather than the fall…
You were saying? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36126993
Quote:The UK will face a future migration "free-for-all" unless it leaves the European Union, Justice Secretary Michael Gove has warned.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzwL3N5x8G0Hammer, hammer, hammer…
https://twitter.com/MichaelLCrick/status/722789260882026500the Tories are back peddling… And yet it moves…
Well, one journalist has mounted his high horse:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36072119
lindanesocialist wrote:It is the responsibilty of the Internet Committee to make it's documents open to public scrutiny.It's not the job of the EC, neither. For any documents you want to see, email spgb@worldsocialism.org and the HOO or Gen Sec will provide them.This may not happen instantly, because we are a small organisation with few volunteers (and comrades should remember this when expectign standards of bureaucracy comparable to a government department).
Oh, and this is a useful quote:
Quote:Following Bowles (2009) we use “war” to mean relationships in which coalitions of members of a group seek to inflict bodily harm on one or more members of another group; “groups” are independent political units. This definition is broader than many because it includes all kinds of fighting, whether in a surprise attack (raid or ambush), chance meeting, or planned battle. We distinguish “simple” from “complex” war (cf. Kelly 2005 ; Otterbein 2004 ; van der Dennen 2007). Simple (or “primitive”) warfare is a style found in small-scale hunter-gatherer and farmer societies whose communities are not integrated with each other by any political officials. It is dominated by raiding and feuding, is often motivated by revenge, and has few lethal battles, where battles are escalated conflicts between prepared opponents. Complex warfare, by contrast, also sometimes called “real warfare,” “true warfare,” or “ warfare above the military horizon” (Turney-High 1949), occurs in larger societies containing political hierarchies. It includes lethal battles fought by soldiers under orders from leaders, and its goals are typically conquest and/or subjugation. It has no known analogues in chimpanzees or other nonhumans.I'm not sure Wrangham and Glowaki are comparing us genetically to Chimpanzees, but looking at the evolutionary context (and evinced human behaviours compared with Chimpanzees behaviours). At the level of the paper it is presented as an explanatory model, involving a social context of achephalous fissiparous groups. For example:
Quote:An important implication of the chimpanzee model is that if both chimpanzees and humans evolved a tendency to kill members of other groups in safe contexts, the evolutionary psychology of both species should be the same with respect to risk-taking in intergroup aggression. Therefore if humans take more self-sacrificial risks in intergroup aggression than chimpanzees do, the difference is cultural rather than biological. We call this inference the “cultural war-risk hypothesis.”and
Quote:Because this paper focuses on adaptive significance it could in theory be based on data from any species that kills members of neighboring groups in a manner conforming to the imbalance-of-power hypothesis, such as wolves (Canis lupus) appearto do (Mech et al.1998). In practice, however, chimpanzees offer an especially valuable heuristic system not only because their pattern of killing has prompted an explanatory model but also because, like humans but unlike wolves, their groups contain many breeding males. Note that the focus on adaptation rather than phylogeny means that the question of whether the last common ancestor of humans and living apes behaved more like chimpanzees (Wrangham and Pilbeam 2001 )or bonobos (Pan paniscus: de Waal1998) is irrelevant to this paper.moderator1 wrote:Problem is that the IC, or any other sub-committee of the EC, cannot under the rules make charges against a member. Individual members – from any Branch can make a case – under Rule 29 and forward the charge to the Branch for them to deal with but not a sub-committee.There's nothing in rule nor conference resolution, to my understanding, to stop a committee sending a complaint to a branch, nor, as per the recent controversy, to stop the EC sending a complaint likewise.
