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I see far too many people who should be intelligent enough to know better within the tech industry who buy all this neuro-linguistic programming, New Age horseshit. Isn't there anyone out there in Web 2.0® land who believes in that funny thing called reality? Tony Robbins is infamous for running seminars which taught people how to do carnival stunts like &lt;a href=&quot;http://skepdic.com/firewalk.html&quot;&gt;firewalking&lt;/a&gt;, and selling them a nice line of bullshit on top about unlocking your personal motivation - rather than revealing the far more interesting and simple explanation - that wood and charcoal are very poor conductors of heat and your feet aren't much better 'cos there's a thick layer of skin on your sole. A friend of mine &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skeptic.org.uk/pub/nick_firewalk.htm&quot;&gt;did a firewalk&lt;/a&gt; a while back, and it required no New Age bullshit or motivational rubbish from Tony Robbins type hucksters. It's called physics, kids, and it bloody well works." created="Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:36:15 GMT"/>		<outline text="On the same note, that sham artist Sylvia Browne recently visited Boston and &lt;a href=&quot;http://skepchick.org/blog/?p=206&quot;&gt;Rebecca the Skepchick&lt;/a&gt; was in the audience. I particularly like the description of Browne as being equivalent to &quot;a mutant bullfrog&quot; and a &quot;soul sucking harpy&quot;. If napalm has a purpose, Sylvia Browne surely is it." created="Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:29:12 GMT"/>		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randi.org/jr/2006-12/120106dumb.html&quot;&gt;James Randi&lt;/a&gt; has some real kooks in this week's Swift - including Uri Geller, 'bioenergetics', Miss Cleo's (aka. Youree Dell Harris) psychic phone transcript, an &quot;intuitive healer&quot; from Phoenix, Arizona, another psychic from Florida who has been imprisoned for being a scam artist, and coverage of the Bob Averill story - the guy that got expelled from art school for telling another student that leprecauns aren't real." created="Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:22:45 GMT"/>		<outline text="Practical justice" created="Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:55:51 GMT">			<outline text="You know that &quot;innocent until proven guilty&quot; thing. It is just a principle. In reality, it doesn't usually quite pan out that way." created="Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:55:56 GMT"/>			<outline text="Salon has an article by Jody Jenkins &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2006/07/18/photos/index.html&quot;&gt;describing the state bureaucracy rumbling on it's accusatory, never-apologise mode&lt;/a&gt;." created="Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:05:10 GMT"/>			<outline text="I think that if the government had to pay the victims of false allegations, we'd see a far better hit rate amongst the police and the various bureaucratic enterprises." created="Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:06:05 GMT"/>			<outline text="What you'd do is simple - if the offence has a monetary tariff, you'd pay back, say, a third of it to the falsely accused victim. And you'd up that to two-thirds plus costs if it gets to court." created="Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:07:42 GMT"/>			<outline text="If it's an imprisonable offence, pay the people about £500 for each year on the maximum tariff (and cap 'life' at 25 years for the purpose of compensation) - and reduce that to £250 if it doesn't get to court." created="Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:09:01 GMT"/>			<outline text="That way if you are accused of, say, murder, you'd get £6,250. And if it goes to court and you are found innocent, you'd get £12,500." created="Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:10:17 GMT"/>			<outline text="It's &lt;i&gt;far too easy&lt;/i&gt; for the government to launch criminal investigations against people - and there's no motivation for them to get it right. It seems that more stringent punishment is necessary for things like police and government corruption, bribe-taking, evidence planting and - oh, shooting innocent people on Tube trains." created="Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:12:46 GMT"/>			<outline text="The scales of justice are heavily weighted on the side of the government. And what's really galling about that is that we all end up funding this incompetent machine." created="Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:14:11 GMT"/>			<outline text="Be sure to read the Jenkins article the whole way through. If it doesn't make you angry, you need to check and make sure you've got a pulse." created="Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:15:04 GMT"/>			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haloscan.com/comments/tommorris/practicalJustice34135/&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCount('practicalJustice34135');&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haloscan.com/tb/tommorris/practicalJustice34135/&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCountTB('practicalJustice34135'); &lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"/>			</outline>		</body>	</opml>