I like them. Really I do. But, in years past, those carols have started as early as the week BEFORE Thanksgiving. The radios played two or three songs, then a carol. A couple more songs, then a carol. The news, and then a carol. Some commercials, and another carol. To make matters worse, every fourth or fifth carol was "Jingle Bells", done by various artists.
THEY DROVE ME FREAKING NUTS!!!!
This year has been exceptionally good. I've heard Christmas carols, since the week AFTER Thanksgiving. The stations are doing quite well, with only one carol for every five or more songs. And, there are a variety of Christmas songs.
So far, it has been a good holiday season, in my part of the world. The carols are there, but they don't intrude on every thing else.
Correction. Hyperactivity was treated with - uhhh - dammit - can't remember the name of the drug right now. The stuff was basically a tranquilizer, it made the kids into dopey zombies, lethargic little turds. Still thinking, resorting to Google - - -
I'm simply experiencing a mental block at the moment, and I'm failing to find the stuff that was commonly prescribed in the middle to late '70's. Need something to jog my memory.
Here's one set of search terms I used: www.google.com/search?q=history+of+ADHD&oq=history+of+ADHD&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60l3.3579j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Today's prison populations - indeed, prison populations at any time in US history - may be poor examples to work with.
Remember that the vast majority of our prison population consists of drug users, drug pushers, drug manufacturers, etc. There is nothing inherently evil in the distribution, sales, or use of drugs for recreational use. I would say that it's stupid, but it's not evil. One need not actually be a criminally minded person to get involved in drugs.
That said - I wouldn't really expect that most criminals are true sociopaths. There are plenty of people who have simply made bad decisions. Crimes of passion, for instance. Person comes home from a hard day's work to find the spouse "entertaining", loses it, and commits murder, spur of the moment. Lots of people make bad decisions, but aren't sociopaths. Such people, when caught and convicted, pay their dues, and move on as best they can, becoming contributing members of society again.
But, the papers are filled with instances of people who are given chance, after chance, after chance - only to prove that they should have been executed after their first conviction.
Some rat bastard - in Little Rock I think - was recently paroled after serving time for aggravated assault and battery and attempted murder on his ex-wife. That, after years of physical and emotional abuse aimed at her. He spent about half a day outside of prison, when the cops were called to the ex-wife's home, to find her murdered.
You are free to abdicate your responsibilities, here, in the US of A. And, there are plenty of authoritarian assholes who are perfectly happy to take advantage of that fact.
It doesn't change the fact that you are responsible (or at the least share responsibility) for the end results of that abdication. Future generations will judge us for our failure to act responsibly.
No, the site doesn't become "unusable" with the beta. It's different, it takes a bit of getting used to, but it is definitely usable. I've noted elsewhere that member's user numbers don't appear on the beta. Some other things are odd. But you can use the site just fine with the beta. Good grief - this isn't 1999 any longer. If you're going to use a nerd site, act at least nerdy enough to make the site work for you.
That "clean slate" you mention lasts for only a short time. By age two, children begin learning life's important lessons. By age five, they are beginning to apply some of those lessons. By age ten, they are applying most of life's lessons. By age twelve to fifteen, they are physically and sexually mature, and they are manipulating the world around them just as any adult.
Clean slate. Are we going to pretend that children don't learn to be greedy little creatures until age 18 or 21? Do you suppose that no child is a murderous beast until he reaches age 25?
Studies, you ask for? There are orphanages all around the world. Plant yourself in one, and study to your heart's content. You can and will discover saintly conduct, as well as demonic. Both are relatively rare, with more or less "balanced" individuals making up most of the population. The famous (or infamous) bell curve applies here, just as it applies in so many other places.
Pick an orphanage, or a school, or any other institution, and study those kids for a lifetime. You WILL meet one or more who should have been drowned while they were still little.
Apply any scientific labels that make you feel comfortable. I don't much care about all that. At the end of your studies, you should be able to point to one or more who could have, under the proper set of circumstances, become another Hitler or Stalin or Pol Pot. You apply your labels, and the rest of us will just simplify things, and call them "evil". It matters little to us that they were taught to be evil, or if the evil is genetic, or if they were possessed by supernatural beings. The end result is that their lives are worthless, and they are drains on society with no redeeming value.
Nope. It is your responsibility as a citizen to participate in the militia. Just as it is your responsibility to participate in elections, and to assist valid law enforcement efforts if/when required. With every right, comes responsibility. There is no right to evade responsibility, unless you wish to be judged "incompetent". If that be the case, then you have the right to be housed in a nice clean padded room for the rest of your life.
That really is such a chore - recompiling your application to work with the new kernel. Such a terrible chore. It takes literally HOURS for a large application. Minutes at least for a medium sized app, several seconds for the smallest. Gods, I don't know how a "developer" can be expected to go to such trouble!/sarcasm
You twit, if you didn't intend to actually SUPPORT your application, then you shouldn't have put the damned thing up for public consumption. Your nerd/geek/developer card is hereby revoked, you putz!
Your parent's PC(s) don't hold any credit card numbers, or personal information that might embarrass them? Not even a baby picture of a (gasp) nude child which might mark them as (GASP) pedophiles?
Well, actually, if I were to accidentally bump my head or something, and suddenly found myself incapable of administering a computer, I do have one son whom I could trust. The other two are computer nitwits. Not computer illiterates, but nitwits. They KNOW that certain things are dangerous, but they just don't care. The smart mouth tweeners you mention, to be precise.
Our number one hobby involves hurtling down the highway in vehicles weighing a ton and a half (or more) at insane speeds, while distracting ourselves with various toys. The death toll from that hobby is higher by a couple orders of magnitude.
I have other hobbies as well, which include breathing and eating.
While you are correct, you're apparently skipping the bit that has already been pointed out multiple times above. All able bodied males between the ages of 18 and 40 are indeed members of the militia. By definition, all males become members upon reaching age 18.
I already responded to Ecuador. Here, I'll argue that we don't have a "well regulated militia". Our county seats should be responsible for ensuring that young men are actually trained to handle their weapons. County governments should be drilling young men in the basics. We don't see that happening. The militia is in fact very poorly regulated. The only "well regulated" bodies of men under arms, are the National Guard, the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines - along with the various police forces. The general militia gets no training, no regulation, no oversight, nothing.
"No doubt you're one of the idiots who believe that Sandy Hook was a real incident as well..."
So, you're claiming that Sandy Hook didn't happen. If so, why are you even concerned about another shooting in Colorado? These shootings must all be pretend incidents, which have no impact on you or me. Jeez, Louise, the media can be manipulated of course. In fact, it is manipulated by both sides on every issue. But, FFS, if you really think that Sandy Hook didn't happen, then you've got your head inserted into one of your orifices.
Slashdot Mirror
http://striderweb.com/blog/2011/07/on-e-readers-and-the-future-of-the-baen-free-library/
Mounting evidence at Baen Books.
http://baen.ghostwheel.com/#RIAA
The more stuff they give away, the more money they make. Rest in peace, Jim Baen.
An observation on Christmas carols:
I like them. Really I do. But, in years past, those carols have started as early as the week BEFORE Thanksgiving. The radios played two or three songs, then a carol. A couple more songs, then a carol. The news, and then a carol. Some commercials, and another carol. To make matters worse, every fourth or fifth carol was "Jingle Bells", done by various artists.
THEY DROVE ME FREAKING NUTS!!!!
This year has been exceptionally good. I've heard Christmas carols, since the week AFTER Thanksgiving. The stations are doing quite well, with only one carol for every five or more songs. And, there are a variety of Christmas songs.
So far, it has been a good holiday season, in my part of the world. The carols are there, but they don't intrude on every thing else.
Uh-huh - a lot of independent research suggests that food colorings and preservatives either cause or affect ADD and similar problems.
Correction. Hyperactivity was treated with - uhhh - dammit - can't remember the name of the drug right now. The stuff was basically a tranquilizer, it made the kids into dopey zombies, lethargic little turds. Still thinking, resorting to Google - - -
This page says benzedrine, but that's not the trade name with which I am (was) familiar. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3000907/
From this page, I recognize adderal and ritalin, but that's not what I'm searching for. http://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/guide/adhd-stimulant-therapy
I'm simply experiencing a mental block at the moment, and I'm failing to find the stuff that was commonly prescribed in the middle to late '70's. Need something to jog my memory.
Here's one set of search terms I used: www.google.com/search?q=history+of+ADHD&oq=history+of+ADHD&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60l3.3579j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Exactly. Pharma doesn't want to cure any damned thing. They want us to be hooked on their (supposed) treatments of symptoms.
We all need to develop an aversion to drugs. "Just say NO" to everything - legal or otherwise.
Today's prison populations - indeed, prison populations at any time in US history - may be poor examples to work with.
Remember that the vast majority of our prison population consists of drug users, drug pushers, drug manufacturers, etc. There is nothing inherently evil in the distribution, sales, or use of drugs for recreational use. I would say that it's stupid, but it's not evil. One need not actually be a criminally minded person to get involved in drugs.
That said - I wouldn't really expect that most criminals are true sociopaths. There are plenty of people who have simply made bad decisions. Crimes of passion, for instance. Person comes home from a hard day's work to find the spouse "entertaining", loses it, and commits murder, spur of the moment. Lots of people make bad decisions, but aren't sociopaths. Such people, when caught and convicted, pay their dues, and move on as best they can, becoming contributing members of society again.
But, the papers are filled with instances of people who are given chance, after chance, after chance - only to prove that they should have been executed after their first conviction.
Some rat bastard - in Little Rock I think - was recently paroled after serving time for aggravated assault and battery and attempted murder on his ex-wife. That, after years of physical and emotional abuse aimed at her. He spent about half a day outside of prison, when the cops were called to the ex-wife's home, to find her murdered.
Do you have your own spoon, or can I offer you one?
You are free to abdicate your responsibilities, here, in the US of A. And, there are plenty of authoritarian assholes who are perfectly happy to take advantage of that fact.
It doesn't change the fact that you are responsible (or at the least share responsibility) for the end results of that abdication. Future generations will judge us for our failure to act responsibly.
Both issues are cultural, and both issues are health related. Sorry, but no one is conflating anything, IMO.
No, the site doesn't become "unusable" with the beta. It's different, it takes a bit of getting used to, but it is definitely usable. I've noted elsewhere that member's user numbers don't appear on the beta. Some other things are odd. But you can use the site just fine with the beta. Good grief - this isn't 1999 any longer. If you're going to use a nerd site, act at least nerdy enough to make the site work for you.
That "clean slate" you mention lasts for only a short time. By age two, children begin learning life's important lessons. By age five, they are beginning to apply some of those lessons. By age ten, they are applying most of life's lessons. By age twelve to fifteen, they are physically and sexually mature, and they are manipulating the world around them just as any adult.
Clean slate. Are we going to pretend that children don't learn to be greedy little creatures until age 18 or 21? Do you suppose that no child is a murderous beast until he reaches age 25?
Studies, you ask for? There are orphanages all around the world. Plant yourself in one, and study to your heart's content. You can and will discover saintly conduct, as well as demonic. Both are relatively rare, with more or less "balanced" individuals making up most of the population. The famous (or infamous) bell curve applies here, just as it applies in so many other places.
Pick an orphanage, or a school, or any other institution, and study those kids for a lifetime. You WILL meet one or more who should have been drowned while they were still little.
Apply any scientific labels that make you feel comfortable. I don't much care about all that. At the end of your studies, you should be able to point to one or more who could have, under the proper set of circumstances, become another Hitler or Stalin or Pol Pot. You apply your labels, and the rest of us will just simplify things, and call them "evil". It matters little to us that they were taught to be evil, or if the evil is genetic, or if they were possessed by supernatural beings. The end result is that their lives are worthless, and they are drains on society with no redeeming value.
Nope. It is your responsibility as a citizen to participate in the militia. Just as it is your responsibility to participate in elections, and to assist valid law enforcement efforts if/when required. With every right, comes responsibility. There is no right to evade responsibility, unless you wish to be judged "incompetent". If that be the case, then you have the right to be housed in a nice clean padded room for the rest of your life.
That really is such a chore - recompiling your application to work with the new kernel. Such a terrible chore. It takes literally HOURS for a large application. Minutes at least for a medium sized app, several seconds for the smallest. Gods, I don't know how a "developer" can be expected to go to such trouble! /sarcasm
You twit, if you didn't intend to actually SUPPORT your application, then you shouldn't have put the damned thing up for public consumption. Your nerd/geek/developer card is hereby revoked, you putz!
I always thought "pear shaped" was a description of a catastrophe.
www.google.com/search?q=things+went+pear+shaped&oq=things+went+pear+shaped&aqs=chrome..69i57.3339j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Your parent's PC(s) don't hold any credit card numbers, or personal information that might embarrass them? Not even a baby picture of a (gasp) nude child which might mark them as (GASP) pedophiles?
Sorry, but your assertion is terribly naive.
Well, actually, if I were to accidentally bump my head or something, and suddenly found myself incapable of administering a computer, I do have one son whom I could trust. The other two are computer nitwits. Not computer illiterates, but nitwits. They KNOW that certain things are dangerous, but they just don't care. The smart mouth tweeners you mention, to be precise.
Exactly - we should just ban all the accouterments of civilization, and allow the little savages to grow up in a "safe" environment.
Our number one hobby involves hurtling down the highway in vehicles weighing a ton and a half (or more) at insane speeds, while distracting ourselves with various toys. The death toll from that hobby is higher by a couple orders of magnitude.
I have other hobbies as well, which include breathing and eating.
Are you going to take away all of my hobbies?
You mean like Chicago?
While you are correct, you're apparently skipping the bit that has already been pointed out multiple times above. All able bodied males between the ages of 18 and 40 are indeed members of the militia. By definition, all males become members upon reaching age 18.
You've made some thought provoking posts above - but here, you're headed out into the Twilight Zone.
I already responded to Ecuador. Here, I'll argue that we don't have a "well regulated militia". Our county seats should be responsible for ensuring that young men are actually trained to handle their weapons. County governments should be drilling young men in the basics. We don't see that happening. The militia is in fact very poorly regulated. The only "well regulated" bodies of men under arms, are the National Guard, the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines - along with the various police forces. The general militia gets no training, no regulation, no oversight, nothing.
What Cardcaptor has already stated. All males between the ages of 18 and 40 are indeed members of the militia, by definition.
If you want to talk about the militia, I will entertain arguments that our militia is poorly regulated. You'll get far more mileage out of that.
"No doubt you're one of the idiots who believe that Sandy Hook was a real incident as well..."
So, you're claiming that Sandy Hook didn't happen. If so, why are you even concerned about another shooting in Colorado? These shootings must all be pretend incidents, which have no impact on you or me. Jeez, Louise, the media can be manipulated of course. In fact, it is manipulated by both sides on every issue. But, FFS, if you really think that Sandy Hook didn't happen, then you've got your head inserted into one of your orifices.