Random links
- A Gym Where It Costs You to Skip a Workout
- This actually sounds like a good idea. I wonder how long it would take people to admit defeat and cancel their gym memberships, versus ignoring a smaller monthly fee for a while.
- India's foreign minister criticised for UN speech gaffe
- I'm amused that he not only managed to read the wrong speech, but that it wasn't even his speech (it was from Portugal) and he still took 3 minutes to notice.
- Transgender protection bill approved by Commons
- It seems a little difficult to enforce any sort of ruling about this barring some definition of what exactly constitutes gender identity and gender expression. Here's the actual text of the bill. Given that growing wheat for your own consumption was ruled by the US supreme court to be interstate commerce it seems that there's a lot of leeway in interpreting the law - I'm too lazy to dig for a Canadian example at the moment though.
- Child abuse registry presumes accused are guilty, critics say
- I'm completely unsurprised. Not court ruling required seems almost par for the course for this sort of thing.