Way to totally dismiss not only the entire study, but the whole academic discipline in which it resides.
You're right, tho, just dismissing it out of hand is way easier than actually reading the study (20 frakin pages! Who has time for that?) or discussing any of the points it brings up.
Wow, victim blaming at it's finest. She didn't let anything happen to her. This was done to her by people in authority, people she's been told her whole life to trust, respect and obey, and given that this girl had no history of discipline problems, I'd say she learned the "follow the rules, do as you're told" lesson pretty dammed well. At some point, one of the adults, one of the people in fucking charge, should have stopped and asked, "Is it right that we force a child to strip nude to satisfy our (highly unsubstantiated and to this point wholly disproved) theory?" This case, with the way they threatened and used their positions of power and authority to assault this girl has way more in common with a relative or family friend sexually abusing a child than any of the faculty involved care to contemplate. Same dynamic of power and powerlessness at play. Do kids who get raped by their parents or aunts or uncles "let" it happen to them too?
The point of the shoes is that they're a little more dignified than bolting a tracking device to their wrist. My only experience with Alzheimers was with my great grandmother, but due to confusion and dementia, she often didn't realize she was ill and would resent efforts to keep her safe. If you tried to force her to wear a bracelet or something it would have gotten ugly. The shoes are very innocuous and the patient may not even realize or remember they have GPS and not object to them.
I'm concerned about the pictures that myfoxny.com obtained. Of the 8 individual people shown in the 12 photos (a few people appear twice) 6 are very clearly black or minority. 130 ATMs robbed in 50 cities, you only get security photos of 8 people and nearly all of them are minority? I don't think so.
My 2nd gen 2 gig iPod nano froze yesterday. Came back after a soft boot to discover the battery was almost completely dead; was a little less that 50% when I last put it too sleep.
English spelling and pronunciation are as strange as they seem because of the printing press. William Caxton brought the first printing press to England in the mid to late 1400s. One effect of introducing printing to a language is that it tends to fossilize spelling in a manner particular to the time and the place where the printing is done. Since Caxton was in London in the late 15th century, spelling began to be standardized (generally) in the way that 15th century Londoners spoke. The problem, however, is that while spelling was fossilized, speech was not; it continued to evolve and change in the way that language does, so we have +/- 600 of language change that's trying to be mapped onto spelling conventions that haven't moved nearly as fast (spelling conventions have evolved, just not at the same pace as spoken conventions). People have, throughout the history of English, and most of them have not been particularly successful.
My wife has been playing WoW for more than a year and I miss her terribly, as do our 2 young children. Do you think that I'd be able to see her, or at least talk to her again soon?
Sincerely,
A WoW Widower.
It wasn't that there were fewer vehicles than he remembers, or fewer vehicles than you'd think to see in an active base in the middle of active combat, it's that there were none. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. Not so much as a pickup truck parked outside a barracks. No people or any kind of equipment visible at all, in any capacity, anywhere in the base.
And BTW, I know the pics aren't in real time.
I have a friend who recently got back from a tour of duty in Iraq. He had not heard of Google Earth, so I showed it to him and he wanted to look up some of the bases he was stationed at. He found them, and they were not blurred, but they were empty. There were no vehicles, aircraft or people anywhere. He pointed out what was armored motor pool and said, "That should be full of tanks, there's usually a line of aircraft at either end of the runway." He pointed out the parking lot at the mess hall and rec center that was completely devoid of any cars or people. So, while the image wasn't blurred, it was definitely edited.
What if friends down the street say "oh dude I have a Mac/XP and it works fine for me"
I have a mac and got iTunes 8 a day or 2 ago, and it does not work fine on my system. It's a lot slower than 7, particularly the new "Grid View" which is so slow and choppy as to be unusable (at least for me) The new Genius system is interesting, seems to do a good job of putting together a random playlist that's actually pretty harmonious (as opposed to the jarring, discordant change-ups you get when putting the whole playlist on shuffle) but to get Genius, you have to opt in and allow Apple to scan your library and add it to their database. iTunes will then periodically phone home to Apple with updates about your playlist and listening habits. And the Genius sidebar? Nothing but ads from the iTunes Music Store keyed to whatever song you've currently got highlighted.
Anyone know off hand what the papers and articles he cites are all about? I'm curious to know what questions The Saturday Evening Post, Mark Twain and Who's Who's in America might answer, especially since they were common enough to be included in the FAQ.
I second that. I do tier 1 stuff for a large national grocery chain, and ELO brand screens are in all of our pharmacies, fuel center POS and self check out registers. Not to knock the market share of the DS, but I'll bet that way more people have used a touch screen self check out register than played extensively with a DS
that the site should be pre-screened to ensure it's not going to be running ads alongside the content that will harm or impugn the dignity of the congress.
. ..but tries to ensure that there will be some level of decorum and good taste.
It's far too late to be worrying about the "dignity of congress" and if they're really worried about decorum and good taste, then maybe they can start with treating the American Electorate with the dignity and respect we deserve.
The first time I lost a disc, I went to the website, found the form and filled it out. I expected a reply a long the lines, "Thank you. We will process this form within the next 5 business days and be in touch with you shortly." I thought the "I lost the disc" excuse had to be the oldest in the book and there was no way I was going to get away with not paying for it.
What I got instead was, "Thank you. The next movie in your queue is on it's way." A jaw dropping amount of trust, especially when you consider the rampancy of things like DRM, unfair EULAs/Terms of Service, contracts designed to screw the customer.
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Way to totally dismiss not only the entire study, but the whole academic discipline in which it resides. You're right, tho, just dismissing it out of hand is way easier than actually reading the study (20 frakin pages! Who has time for that?) or discussing any of the points it brings up.
From TFA: "The study only included visible characters that were clearly human."
Wow, victim blaming at it's finest. She didn't let anything happen to her. This was done to her by people in authority, people she's been told her whole life to trust, respect and obey, and given that this girl had no history of discipline problems, I'd say she learned the "follow the rules, do as you're told" lesson pretty dammed well. At some point, one of the adults, one of the people in fucking charge, should have stopped and asked, "Is it right that we force a child to strip nude to satisfy our (highly unsubstantiated and to this point wholly disproved) theory?" This case, with the way they threatened and used their positions of power and authority to assault this girl has way more in common with a relative or family friend sexually abusing a child than any of the faculty involved care to contemplate. Same dynamic of power and powerlessness at play. Do kids who get raped by their parents or aunts or uncles "let" it happen to them too?
The point of the shoes is that they're a little more dignified than bolting a tracking device to their wrist. My only experience with Alzheimers was with my great grandmother, but due to confusion and dementia, she often didn't realize she was ill and would resent efforts to keep her safe. If you tried to force her to wear a bracelet or something it would have gotten ugly. The shoes are very innocuous and the patient may not even realize or remember they have GPS and not object to them.
Why do people who understand the limitations of GPS always seem to think those limitations preclude GPS as being a solution to anything?
I'm concerned about the pictures that myfoxny.com obtained. Of the 8 individual people shown in the 12 photos (a few people appear twice) 6 are very clearly black or minority. 130 ATMs robbed in 50 cities, you only get security photos of 8 people and nearly all of them are minority? I don't think so.
My 2nd gen 2 gig iPod nano froze yesterday. Came back after a soft boot to discover the battery was almost completely dead; was a little less that 50% when I last put it too sleep.
English spelling and pronunciation are as strange as they seem because of the printing press. William Caxton brought the first printing press to England in the mid to late 1400s. One effect of introducing printing to a language is that it tends to fossilize spelling in a manner particular to the time and the place where the printing is done. Since Caxton was in London in the late 15th century, spelling began to be standardized (generally) in the way that 15th century Londoners spoke. The problem, however, is that while spelling was fossilized, speech was not; it continued to evolve and change in the way that language does, so we have +/- 600 of language change that's trying to be mapped onto spelling conventions that haven't moved nearly as fast (spelling conventions have evolved, just not at the same pace as spoken conventions). People have, throughout the history of English, and most of them have not been particularly successful.
My wife has been playing WoW for more than a year and I miss her terribly, as do our 2 young children. Do you think that I'd be able to see her, or at least talk to her again soon? Sincerely, A WoW Widower.
Who knew you could actually learn something on Slashdot?
It wasn't that there were fewer vehicles than he remembers, or fewer vehicles than you'd think to see in an active base in the middle of active combat, it's that there were none. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. Not so much as a pickup truck parked outside a barracks. No people or any kind of equipment visible at all, in any capacity, anywhere in the base. And BTW, I know the pics aren't in real time.
I have a friend who recently got back from a tour of duty in Iraq. He had not heard of Google Earth, so I showed it to him and he wanted to look up some of the bases he was stationed at. He found them, and they were not blurred, but they were empty. There were no vehicles, aircraft or people anywhere. He pointed out what was armored motor pool and said, "That should be full of tanks, there's usually a line of aircraft at either end of the runway." He pointed out the parking lot at the mess hall and rec center that was completely devoid of any cars or people. So, while the image wasn't blurred, it was definitely edited.
What if friends down the street say "oh dude I have a Mac/XP and it works fine for me"
I have a mac and got iTunes 8 a day or 2 ago, and it does not work fine on my system. It's a lot slower than 7, particularly the new "Grid View" which is so slow and choppy as to be unusable (at least for me) The new Genius system is interesting, seems to do a good job of putting together a random playlist that's actually pretty harmonious (as opposed to the jarring, discordant change-ups you get when putting the whole playlist on shuffle) but to get Genius, you have to opt in and allow Apple to scan your library and add it to their database. iTunes will then periodically phone home to Apple with updates about your playlist and listening habits. And the Genius sidebar? Nothing but ads from the iTunes Music Store keyed to whatever song you've currently got highlighted.
Anyone know off hand what the papers and articles he cites are all about? I'm curious to know what questions The Saturday Evening Post, Mark Twain and Who's Who's in America might answer, especially since they were common enough to be included in the FAQ.
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I second that. I do tier 1 stuff for a large national grocery chain, and ELO brand screens are in all of our pharmacies, fuel center POS and self check out registers. Not to knock the market share of the DS, but I'll bet that way more people have used a touch screen self check out register than played extensively with a DS
There's really nothing wrong with mixing your etymologies. Check out this list for a dozen or so mulatto words that you probably use daily.
that the site should be pre-screened to ensure it's not going to be running ads alongside the content that will harm or impugn the dignity of the congress.
. . .but tries to ensure that there will be some level of decorum and good taste.
It's far too late to be worrying about the "dignity of congress" and if they're really worried about decorum and good taste, then maybe they can start with treating the American Electorate with the dignity and respect we deserve.
The first time I lost a disc, I went to the website, found the form and filled it out. I expected a reply a long the lines, "Thank you. We will process this form within the next 5 business days and be in touch with you shortly." I thought the "I lost the disc" excuse had to be the oldest in the book and there was no way I was going to get away with not paying for it. What I got instead was, "Thank you. The next movie in your queue is on it's way." A jaw dropping amount of trust, especially when you consider the rampancy of things like DRM, unfair EULAs/Terms of Service, contracts designed to screw the customer.
What with their wanting to allow people at Gitmo access to something that resembles due process, they're obviously in league with the terrorists.