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  1. goldendawn

    Spain to recognise ape rights

    But does recognising ape-rights affect the state of health care in Spain? I don't see how the two are linked. If the Spanish government is complacent about health care then it deserves criticism for complacency about health care - it doesn't deserve criticism for recognising the rights of apes.
  2. goldendawn

    Spain to recognise ape rights

    You could alot say that alot of other issues need to be adressed before you adress a single one of them - and hence nothing will ever be achieved. There will always be some domestic issue taking priority over animal rights, but I don't see how passing laws about animal rights means that domestic...
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    Spain to recognise ape rights

    Spain is taking the initiative. Don't forget that Spain is right on top of Africa - I don't know what they have planned, but I'm quite sure it connects to their geography. I'm very impressed with Spain.
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    Spain to recognise ape rights

    I don't see what's so embarrasing about laws that enshrine the protection of the great apes (or of any animal, for that matter). These are complex, feeling beings who deserve protection from violence. It makes me sad; we're so wrapped up in ourselves, in our own amusements, that we lose empathy...
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    I hate eStudent!

    Yeah, they've fixed it thrice already, haha - but it keeps stuffing up. It won't accept my password or my mquid. It's very confusing.
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    I hate eStudent!

    The bloody thing isn't letting me log on - this is the third time it's done this to me, even after I've spoken to the IT people. I simply don't know what to do! Any ideas, people?
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    Homosexuality in Australia

    Even so, the classification of homosexuality as a mental disorder, pre 70's, was based on biased information. Evelyn Hooker showed that it was impossible to classify homosexuality as a mental or social disorder, or as an emotional problem. She imagined that if gays were so pathological, their...
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    Any GREEK students (ancient, middle, modern - whatever pops your cork)?

    Translation of Mesomedes 'Hymn to the Sun' I translated the first half of Mesomedes 'Hymn to the Sun' - a piece of music from the second century AD, written with in ancient Greek notation system. Along with 'Hymn to Nemesis' and 'Hymn to the Muse and Kalliope', also by Mesomedes, it is one...
  9. goldendawn

    Important - Please Read

    I LOVE the eagle-snake with lightning power - the awesome Quezacotl, and I also love Diablo, though he was a bitch to beat.
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    Do your parents approve?

    My mum's a progressive Greek, haha. Rather than wanting me to do things the good ol' Greek way, she thinks I should be out having a good time - which I'm not, so she thinks I'm really quite boring, lolz. Well, it's all her fault anyway - she's given me no reason to rebel :p.
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    New Moderator

    Congrats Rob :). Put those trolls in their place :p.
  12. goldendawn

    Review the last book you read

    PRINCE CASPIAN - C.S Lewis Prince Caspian is the third book in Lewis' much loved and lauded series, The Chronicles of Narnia. Whilst waiting at a (mostly) deserted train junction, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy are summoned by magic. Finding themselves once again in the enchanted kingdom of...
  13. goldendawn

    Why do you read?

    I'm not alone :D.
  14. goldendawn

    Why do you read?

    :p - the book has to be fun, first. Would you read something you don't enjoy?
  15. goldendawn

    Special Provisions

    Can't you read, or are you naturally this moronic? If you'd read my post, you'd see that I can't improve my handwriting. My motor planning skills are in the 13th percentile, you dickhead. As for improving my handwriting, heaven knows, I've tried - six years of occupational therapy. I don't...
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    Special Provisions

    Well, it's very simple, really. When no-one can read what you write, then they can't mark your work. When they can't mark your work, you can't show what you've learnt. You also can't get marks or a decent UAI, and that means no University. And if you're not having a cry about it, why bring it up...
  17. goldendawn

    Telling someone you Love them?

    I think it means that they're not really sure what you are meaning, or what to make of it. 'Love' is such a loaded and complicated word (the semantics of which, I assure you, have been debated since ancient times). If I were them, I'd be thinking - 'wow, am I sure enough of my own feelings?'...
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    Why do you read?

    I think that some people simply don't want to feel like they've been duped by a craze. On the other hand, I think it is specious to assume that a book is bad or good simply because it's popular, just as it is specious to assume that a book is bad or good simply because it's obscure. The only way...
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    Special Provisions

    I was granted special provisions to use a computer in the 2004 HSC (my handwriting is worse than illegible), but I had to get a detailed clinical psychologists report to justify it - it showed that the disparity between my verbal skills and my spatial skills (including motor planning, which...
  20. goldendawn

    It's a day before your exam...

    Go through all your notes and organise your information and evidence (primary and secondary) into topic headings (use the syllabus guide thingo). Then, once it's all together, and it may take a while, look at just your topic headings and ask yourself what you know about those topics. If you find...
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