I know a few dozen people who have self-diagnosed themselves as having Asperger's by reading the DSM and saying to themselves, "Hey, that's ME!" Some of these people are essentially dislikable, but many of them are not. A couple of them are even charming in a shy sort of way. They are odd, don't fit in, have social troubles, etc and most of them find this troublesome. They are wingnuts and nuerotics, but they are not actually aspies.
My oldsest friend has actually been diagnosed and is on disability because he cannot perform really useful work and/or interact with people. Unlike the self-diagnosers he can creep people out just by saying hello to them, he isn't just "odd," dislikable or lacking social skills, he's clearly "wrong." People clutch their children to them when he walks by because he even moves creepy in ways that cannot be easily defined.
But here's the thing, even though he can now talk (at tedious length) about being an Aspie he thinks he's charming - while he casually picks up someone's personal diary and starts reading it aloud in a public setting. He would have read the DSM and been absolutely clueless that he exhibited. He can say "I don't fit in," but he doesn't know he doesn't fit in.
The real Aspie does not whine about not fitting in; he lacks the capacity to know he doesn't fit in. That's what makes him an Aspie. He walks around saying "What the fuck is wrong with them?" when people clutch their children to them when he walks by, assuming he even notices (my friend didn't know people do this until one man actually yelled at him "Stay away from my kids or I'll beat the crap out of you, you fucking creep!"). The difference between the socially awkward geek and the socially retarded Aspie is night and day when you put them next to each other. The socially awkward can go to charm school and learn; the Aspie cannot. He does not see what he is supposed to be learning and thus cannot even reproduce it on a purely mechanical level. His eyebrows or something will continue to act fucking creepy.
One may exhibit every symptom of Asperger's to some degree or other without actually having it. It is defined by the incapacity for socialization.If you haven't been diagnosed but think you're an Aspie, you're probably just a jerk who can learn to behave better if you really want to.
The classic Aspie isn't the socially awkward tech geek; it's the socially agressive Robert Johnson who died of trying to pick up other men's wives right in front of them; without the slightest realization that he was doing something risky. He died clueless of why he died, even while the guy knifing him was screaming "Stay away from my woman, you fucking asshole!"
The thing is (as Linus has demonstrated), is that if you know what you're doing you can add this stuff. ..
In other words to use Gnome you either have to be the of complete fucking idiot that the Gnome developers code against or someone who can write interface code; with little in between.
. ..yet dare criticize OS X on slashdot and you invoke the wrath of Apple zealots . ..
Sometimes they are complete fucking idiots who can throw all the hissy fits they want without it making any nevermind to me. Hissy fits do not modify my thoughts, they just make the hissy fitter look like a complete fucking idiot. I tend to avoid OSX for many of the same reasons that I refuse to use Gnome. When I do use it it is to make something difficult easier.
Gnome likes to make stupidly simple things stupidly difficult. If I have to drop to command line to get things done, what the hell is the point of Gnome in the first place? Once in command line I might just as well stay there or load up a GUI that actually does shit.
We British do not have a constitution (not a written one anyway) so we basically don't have ANY rights, but try and do things which are against our view of fairness and we'll all be up in arms about it.
See The Battle of Lexington and Concord. Might not hurt to read the Grumpy Old Sod either; the British don't seem to "get up in arms" the way they used to. Must be the effect of all that government controled TV.
Just what sort of "arms" do you expect to get up in anyway, after they take away all your pointy kitchen tools?
Anyway i see no way for me to finish this train of thought so I'll just stop now.
I'm still waiting for you to start one. A train is, at minimum, two interconnected things.
I'm reasonably forthright in my distaste for Manhattan, yet as a musician I find myself going there at every reasonable opportunity. Why? It ain't for the "scene," it's because that's where they keep the money. I go to Staten Island because that's where they keep the musical instruments because Manhattan is where they keep the money. I go to Queens . . .
I didn't bring up Apple because only a Complete Retard (anyone who doesn't use a Mac and actually undocks from the Mothership (iPod) just to talk on the phone) doesn't take it as an axiom that Apple did it first.
That's a rather strange reason to dismiss a case, as it violates the letter of the law.
If this were a theft you would be correct. It is not. It's a copyright violation; where intent to distribute/a dollar threshold determines whether the case is criminal or merely a civil matter.
What the judge is saying is that based on the evidence it is unlikely that a crime has actually been commited by the accused and thus it is not worth putting the governement to the time and expense of an investigation to support a criminal proceeding.
Bear in mind that the prosecution had, at the time of the hearing, dropped the accusation that he had himself "pirated" the software and instead he was merely accused of using it for a week.
Making this sort of judgement is part of the job of judge; and why we call them "judges."
back in the 1980s people communicated via bulletin board systems over 300 baud modems
Back in the 1960s we talked to each other.
But then those were the dark, miserable days. Everyone was unhappy, all the time. Large scale events could not be organized. Virally promoted events did not exist. Just watch the movie Woodstock and you'll see how miserable and alone we all were.
No, I could not now exist in that world again. I would have to kill myself first, because the Internet is serious fucking business.
Andorra must finally pay! America needs to show that it can still kick European butt for home security and morale. Break the Axis of the Completely Helpless!
But, ummmmmmmmm, be sure to disable the Q-Bomb first this time.
The funny part is that until the 1970s it was the US that was the "rogue" nation on the international blacklist (and even had the gall to be proud of it), because it still held somewhat to the quaint ideas delineated in the Bill of Rights which are antithetical to a "guild" system of intellectual property.
Europe is the crucible from which "modern" (it's really fuedal, thus old fashioned, but what the hell. Nobody remembers anything before last Thursday anyway) copyright law was cast, but it's the converts that are almost always the biggest PITA fanatics; especially if there's money and power in it for them.
...they'll run into patent problems with patents held by Oracle, Sybase, and MS.
The priciple patent base of RDBMSs is actually held by IBM, many of which have actually expired. In any case there is a known solution to most patent issues. We call it "money."
Linux is only free if your time is worthless
Windows TCO is only lower if your data is worthless.
Question:. ..why can come content just dissapear w/o a problem, but the other is then escalated into a problem?
Answer:. ..the copyright owner says, stop it. ..
Have you got any other questions you'd like to answer before you pose the question?
Oh, I know how you're going to respond, but I just couldn't resist taking that whack at you; you stuck your head up for it, but. . .
The answer is still the same: It's up to the copyright holder how to deal with it. If the copyright holder is content with the content being taken down then that's as far as it will go. If they want a bit of blood, they will demand it.
Why are they asking for a bit of blood in this case, but not others? Because the source was not just some random punk who ripped something from the TV and uploaded it; it was one of their own. Someone who by virtue of being employed by them or one of their agents to look after their interests went against them.
They were happy enough to take Caesar's coin, but then rendered unto someone else. That is a hanging offense.
. ..what percentage of parents are terrified of social networking sites these days?
I went to MySpace once (to look up info on a band that had asked me to hire on), not realizing what I was going to be subjected to. I expect I'll be in therepy for PTSD for the rest of my life, but the doctors say I may well recover partial sight in as little as another year or three.
Before my optical nerves shut down and the screaming started I had rather come to the conclusion that it is we who need protecting from the kids.
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I know a few dozen people who have self-diagnosed themselves as having Asperger's by reading the DSM and saying to themselves, "Hey, that's ME!" Some of these people are essentially dislikable, but many of them are not. A couple of them are even charming in a shy sort of way. They are odd, don't fit in, have social troubles, etc and most of them find this troublesome. They are wingnuts and nuerotics, but they are not actually aspies.
My oldsest friend has actually been diagnosed and is on disability because he cannot perform really useful work and/or interact with people. Unlike the self-diagnosers he can creep people out just by saying hello to them, he isn't just "odd," dislikable or lacking social skills, he's clearly "wrong." People clutch their children to them when he walks by because he even moves creepy in ways that cannot be easily defined.
But here's the thing, even though he can now talk (at tedious length) about being an Aspie he thinks he's charming - while he casually picks up someone's personal diary and starts reading it aloud in a public setting. He would have read the DSM and been absolutely clueless that he exhibited. He can say "I don't fit in," but he doesn't know he doesn't fit in.
The real Aspie does not whine about not fitting in; he lacks the capacity to know he doesn't fit in. That's what makes him an Aspie. He walks around saying "What the fuck is wrong with them?" when people clutch their children to them when he walks by, assuming he even notices (my friend didn't know people do this until one man actually yelled at him "Stay away from my kids or I'll beat the crap out of you, you fucking creep!"). The difference between the socially awkward geek and the socially retarded Aspie is night and day when you put them next to each other. The socially awkward can go to charm school and learn; the Aspie cannot. He does not see what he is supposed to be learning and thus cannot even reproduce it on a purely mechanical level. His eyebrows or something will continue to act fucking creepy.
One may exhibit every symptom of Asperger's to some degree or other without actually having it. It is defined by the incapacity for socialization.If you haven't been diagnosed but think you're an Aspie, you're probably just a jerk who can learn to behave better if you really want to.
The classic Aspie isn't the socially awkward tech geek; it's the socially agressive Robert Johnson who died of trying to pick up other men's wives right in front of them; without the slightest realization that he was doing something risky. He died clueless of why he died, even while the guy knifing him was screaming "Stay away from my woman, you fucking asshole!"
KFG
Race is a social construction.
I'm an Orc, you insenstive clod.
KFG
They should get together with all the MySpace retards.
It's called LiveVideo.
KFG
I wasn't aware that "groupies" were a media metric of success. How many football-fields or Libraries-of-Congress is that equivalent to?
If all the groupies were laid end to end; I wouldn't be a bit surprised.
KFG
The thing is (as Linus has demonstrated), is that if you know what you're doing you can add this stuff. . .
.yet dare criticize OS X on slashdot and you invoke the wrath of Apple zealots . . .
In other words to use Gnome you either have to be the of complete fucking idiot that the Gnome developers code against or someone who can write interface code; with little in between.
. .
Sometimes they are complete fucking idiots who can throw all the hissy fits they want without it making any nevermind to me. Hissy fits do not modify my thoughts, they just make the hissy fitter look like a complete fucking idiot. I tend to avoid OSX for many of the same reasons that I refuse to use Gnome. When I do use it it is to make something difficult easier.
Gnome likes to make stupidly simple things stupidly difficult. If I have to drop to command line to get things done, what the hell is the point of Gnome in the first place? Once in command line I might just as well stay there or load up a GUI that actually does shit.
KFG
. . .it's rather probably the result of a lack of handguns. . .
Indeed, it's a well known fact that before the invention of handguns you people were complete fucking wussies.
Hammers existed before nails; your ancestors used them to hit each other over the head. The tool is not the cause.
KFG
We British do not have a constitution (not a written one anyway) so we basically don't have ANY rights, but try and do things which are against our view of fairness and we'll all be up in arms about it.
See The Battle of Lexington and Concord. Might not hurt to read the Grumpy Old Sod either; the British don't seem to "get up in arms" the way they used to. Must be the effect of all that government controled TV.
Just what sort of "arms" do you expect to get up in anyway, after they take away all your pointy kitchen tools?
Anyway i see no way for me to finish this train of thought so I'll just stop now.
I'm still waiting for you to start one. A train is, at minimum, two interconnected things.
KFG
. . .show me some of these huge security holes while you're at it.
v ista/buyorupgrade/genuine/default.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windows
KFG
I'm reasonably forthright in my distaste for Manhattan, yet as a musician I find myself going there at every reasonable opportunity. Why? It ain't for the "scene," it's because that's where they keep the money. I go to Staten Island because that's where they keep the musical instruments because Manhattan is where they keep the money. I go to Queens . . .
Yeah, right. Get real.
KFG
But what about Naomi?
KFG
Xerox did it first.
Look Grandma, here's one now.
KFG
I didn't bring up Apple because only a Complete Retard (anyone who doesn't use a Mac and actually undocks from the Mothership (iPod) just to talk on the phone) doesn't take it as an axiom that Apple did it first.
KFG
The batch run is going a bit slow today; hair clog. Somebody hand me the plunger so I can flush the system.
KFG
If they throw a little carbon tracer dye in the water they would end up with a "black adder".
KFG
I wonder how long it will take for it to become vaporware...
/ HistoryPt2.htm
A steamy boondoggle has already been done. Babbage got there first:
http://www.computersciencelab.com/ComputerHistory
KFG
That's a rather strange reason to dismiss a case, as it violates the letter of the law.
If this were a theft you would be correct. It is not. It's a copyright violation; where intent to distribute/a dollar threshold determines whether the case is criminal or merely a civil matter.
What the judge is saying is that based on the evidence it is unlikely that a crime has actually been commited by the accused and thus it is not worth putting the governement to the time and expense of an investigation to support a criminal proceeding.
Bear in mind that the prosecution had, at the time of the hearing, dropped the accusation that he had himself "pirated" the software and instead he was merely accused of using it for a week.
Making this sort of judgement is part of the job of judge; and why we call them "judges."
KFG
The way Microsoft has turned the government against the people is a good example of how rotten the company is . . .
Once again Microsoft fails to be the actual innovator; they're just ripping off Disney.
KFG
back in the 1980s people communicated via bulletin board systems over 300 baud modems
Back in the 1960s we talked to each other.
But then those were the dark, miserable days. Everyone was unhappy, all the time. Large scale events could not be organized. Virally promoted events did not exist. Just watch the movie Woodstock and you'll see how miserable and alone we all were.
No, I could not now exist in that world again. I would have to kill myself first, because the Internet is serious fucking business.
KFG
In memory of the USS Maine.
Andorra must finally pay! America needs to show that it can still kick European butt for home security and morale. Break the Axis of the Completely Helpless!
But, ummmmmmmmm, be sure to disable the Q-Bomb first this time.
KFG
More secure and accurate as well, so it'll never happen.
KFG
. . .bipartisan. . .
slang; the Fascistic Asshat Party.
KFG
The funny part is that until the 1970s it was the US that was the "rogue" nation on the international blacklist (and even had the gall to be proud of it), because it still held somewhat to the quaint ideas delineated in the Bill of Rights which are antithetical to a "guild" system of intellectual property.
Europe is the crucible from which "modern" (it's really fuedal, thus old fashioned, but what the hell. Nobody remembers anything before last Thursday anyway) copyright law was cast, but it's the converts that are almost always the biggest PITA fanatics; especially if there's money and power in it for them.
KFG
...they'll run into patent problems with patents held by Oracle, Sybase, and MS.
The priciple patent base of RDBMSs is actually held by IBM, many of which have actually expired. In any case there is a known solution to most patent issues. We call it "money."
Linux is only free if your time is worthless
Windows TCO is only lower if your data is worthless.
KFG
Question:. . .why can come content just dissapear w/o a problem, but the other is then escalated into a problem?
.the copyright owner says, stop it. . .
Answer:. .
Have you got any other questions you'd like to answer before you pose the question?
Oh, I know how you're going to respond, but I just couldn't resist taking that whack at you; you stuck your head up for it, but. . .
The answer is still the same: It's up to the copyright holder how to deal with it. If the copyright holder is content with the content being taken down then that's as far as it will go. If they want a bit of blood, they will demand it.
Why are they asking for a bit of blood in this case, but not others? Because the source was not just some random punk who ripped something from the TV and uploaded it; it was one of their own. Someone who by virtue of being employed by them or one of their agents to look after their interests went against them.
They were happy enough to take Caesar's coin, but then rendered unto someone else. That is a hanging offense.
KFG
. . .what percentage of parents are terrified of social networking sites these days?
I went to MySpace once (to look up info on a band that had asked me to hire on), not realizing what I was going to be subjected to. I expect I'll be in therepy for PTSD for the rest of my life, but the doctors say I may well recover partial sight in as little as another year or three.
Before my optical nerves shut down and the screaming started I had rather come to the conclusion that it is we who need protecting from the kids.
KFG