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According to the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, Article 7:
All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law.
This is certainly not the only article that looks "somewhat strange" when set up against actual practices, and even sometimes the literal laws, of quite a few Western countries.
(And for you non-Europeans: We have an alternate set of European universal human rights which are quite similar to the UN version, with an additional provision: "except if a democratic nation denies you these universal, inalienable rights". So we may criticize other nations for not honoring human rights, even if you cannot demand these rights for ourselves.)
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jschell wrote: And you absolutely definitely do not want to get involved in child custody cases.
I am fascinated by the Zuni Children’s Code, Title IX of the Zuni Tribal Code[^]: If it is necessary to remove a child from his parents, according to §9-2-2, "All placement decisions should support the child’s affiliation with Pueblo or Indian culture". It goes on to list a 5-level prioritized list to guide who should take care of the child.
A similar list for who can adopt a Zuni child is found in §9-11-1.
The Zuni Children's code has a few other notable rights:
§9-2-3 B.6: A minor shall be given the opportunity to engage in physical exercise for at least one hour every day.
§9-2-3 B.2: a minor shall be allowed to wear his hair as he chooses (I guess that this comes as a response to white man's schools trying to eradicate the native culture, in which forceful haircutting of native boys to give them a 'white' hairstyle was a well known element).
The Zuni Children's code was 'Final-Approved April 2006'; that is 17 years ago, but I saw drafts several years earlier; these ideas were well established more than 20 years ago. Even today, the Norwegian Child Protective Services (and I would guess in the majority of Western cultures) show no trace of wanting the child to remain in contact with his relatives and their culture; it is more like the opposite: The child is 'protected' by having all his roots torn off. There are some proposals nowadays to give Norwegian children the right to an hour of daily physical exercise, but it is still just an informal proposal, not integrated in any proposed children's code. We might hope to get there maybe 25 years after Zuni children earned this right.
If you get involved in child custody cases with the goal of 'saving' a child from the 'savages' by providing a safe, 'white' environment for him, then you are definitely in conflict with the Zuni Children's Code. I am quite sure that the Zuni are not the only ones having seen how whites have hurt native culture by taking native kids into white custody, and do not want that practice to continue.
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That cool girl from Brazil has checked out at 83. Her recording of The Girl from Ipanema with Stan Getz is just unforgettable.
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"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Agreed. Sad for us oldies to see familiar names leave us. Saw Stan Getz in concert about a hundred years ago.
>64
User: Technical term used by developers. See idiot.
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I saw Getz live in Stockholm, 1989. Great gig. When the boats in the harbour just behind the scene heard his final tone, they honked back, and an improvised "conversation" energed!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Absolutely great song, which I first heard somewhere around 1963 while moored in San Pedro (Los Angeles) docks.
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Another one of those! 
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Lost today.
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 wrong choices...
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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My two regular starters made it an anagram. Then I guessed wrong...
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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didn't think I'd make it
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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Jeremy Falcon
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Hadn't thought much about it until I started getting more into graphic "transforms" and trying to keep the terminology "correct". I found this style guide useful.
Welcome - Microsoft Style Guide | Microsoft Learn
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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I was talking about the corner of a rectangle. That's about as much as I will say about who or what's "right".
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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What if the rectangle identifies as a triangle?
Ok, I'll shut up now. 
Jeremy Falcon
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That's a polygon ... and it still has "top and left" coordinates, width and height. As does an ellipse. i.e. You always have to be aware of the virtual "bounding box" no matter how often you rotate, translate, skew or scale.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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I think you missed the point... I can't really expand on it since it's the lounge, so I'll be vague and just say that we all agree that male and female are both humans. So, nobody refutes your point. But, your point missed my point.
Jeremy Falcon
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