There was a story in Oakland a few years ago of a guy who was sick of people stealing his stereo. So he got this great idea, weld some razor blades to the back of the receiver and on the edge of the amps. As far as I know he is serving a 3-4 year sentence for assault with a deadly weapon.
This is less and less true with advanced fly by wire systems. While it was always true when the devices were mostly analog and mostly true in the interim, the fully digital flight systems that are being deployed today are embarrassingly more simple to control than their predecessors. Besides physical attributes such as height, weight, reaction time and eye sight the pilots of today are little more than flying geeks controlling 20-30 on board flight computers through a GUI. Since these pilots do not ever dogfight anymore and with radar evasion/absorption/scattering technology I would say that the average caliber of pilot has decreased over the years and with the advent of entire squadrons of UAVs I would doubt to see fighter pilots last through another major conflict like WWII. Way cheaper to hire a bunch of 18 year kids and throw them in a shack somewhere to control hordes of UAVs that are cheap enough to replace.
I return hardware that has zip ties on it and we specifically tell suppliers this before any contracts along with a few dozen other stipulations. To me it is too dangerous to have deployed when I can't trust the damn techs not to take out their 30 dollar Gerber knife and ruin thousands of dollars of equipment by nicking a live wire.
Yeah and what is up with the DnD folks being all teetotalers now?
Back in my day, we were taking LSD, smoking pot and drinking Pig's Eye beer and coffee for days up in Minnesota during the cold cold winter. We had vampire the masquerade as well as our own material, DnD 2nd Ed rules and Rift stuff usually appearing 36-48 hours in, after the 2nd or 3rd tab this usually devolved into legions of naked vampire women fucking and sucking their way across the land while our tank upgraded from being a Paladin to a debauched Juicer and I usually ended up either being a Malkavian (crazy) vampire who thought he was Santa Claus and carried a 10 foot tall flaming chainsaw that played Xmas tunes or a Glitter Boy with 6 arms and 2 Rail Guns.
I went to a 3rd Ed DnD game recently with some co-workers in their early 20's and they became angry at me when I wanted to attempt to mate with the Orc with my evil chaotic evil monk instead of fighting it. The entire night, the whole 2 hours they did not fuck with the GM once, the GM read his story like a script and they talked mostly about television shows and work drama. I never went back even though they asked. Reason they were lame, methinks it was the fact that they were drinking iced green tea and water and no sugary, fatty or salty snacks. They had fucking herbed goat's cheese and those Scandinavian hard tack crackers. Yeah sure if I eat enough cheeseburgers I'll roleplay eating crackers with smelly white curd on them, but don't make me eat the props.
Look at law enforcement. Through citizen measures the modern police force is trained to deal with 4 kinds of crime.
1. Drugs from massive increases in the war on drugs to mandatory sentences. Most of the cost of sentencing those criminals will be paid back into the pockets of jailers, administrators, judges, cops and other industries that feed, cloth, and charge 20 dollars a phone call to a 50 year old man incarcerated for half of his adult life for doing drugs.
2. DUIs and Traffic Enforcement. This is big big bucks to most counties as the average corrupt county can make almost as much writing tickets as they do on sales tax but not property taxes, yet. DUIs in Oregon for instance can be given at 0.1 if the officer testifies you were impaired. There are almost no dash cams in Oregon so good luck on getting the DUI taken off because you can't even get the accusation of one taken off.
3. Gangs, which is not always tied in with drugs. Some police forces now actively intimidate any one that dresses like a gangster like following them in cars, pulling them over for driving a low-rider and other profiling.
4. Morality police, which throw homeless people in jail for sleeping on the sidewalk or breaks down camps of homeless people. Takes down signs/ads which are lewd or lascivious. Arrests a disproportionate amount of strip bar customers for DUIs ( this happened in Arizona in the late 1990's from Mormon police ).
Back even in the 70's this started to change for the worst because before that after the 1930's and into the late 50's I would say we had a golden age of policing that saw a more equitable prosecution of the law and even though there were terrible racial persecutions back than, at least sometimes they police were just following antiquated laws and procedures instead of hiding their true racist/sexist/moral prejudices under a shiny badge.
I spent 10 years going to catholic school and I still have tons of xtian friends. Yes, there are congregations that are progressive even gay friendly nowadays but the vast majority I have encountered amongst blue collar workers are like this to some extent. I have as much against the abrahamic religions as I do against the pirates from Peter Pan. In all 3 of the main religions in the Abrhamic faiths I still see a community that encourages others to get married, procreate and the like. This is usually facilitated with people with their own agendas at the top of the pecking order in the cult/religion as well as local cult members/followers. Jewish women who do this are called Matchmakers. There is a long history of this in both xtian and islamic faiths as well.
So like the Pope says you can't have sex till you get married but followers at the local level do things like help women get married who are pregnant and out of wedlock discreetly or do as I say and encourage women to meet single men in the congregation who are giving the local parish/church/synagogue/mosque a lot of mullah. Not to say that women will not try to snag an elgible engineer/geek on their own or that the revealing of your personality is a revelation to all who meet you but there is a lot of machinations going on at your local church that you seem blithely unaware of. Remember, churches still have more real day to day power over people's lives even in some places in the US, sadly and those old women you see play Bingo every Thursday might usually have more control over the flock than the pastor/priest.
Oh come on, some of those Bunsen burner cuties in biology or chemistry aren't too bad. At least when they geek out you can't really argue with them because you have no idea what they are talking about.
Try Meetup.com. Combine things like worshiping the Flying Spaghetti Monster with some pints with a group that includes some nice lady atheists or whatever THAN go home and talk to them on the forums to plan another adventure. Don't abandon your skills, some chicks dig people that step into any forum with a flame-proof suit of armor made of logic, debate skills and the hard-earned experience a place like Slashdot can give you over the years. The kind of chick you want should look at your 4-digit ID and think of you like some girls think of astronauts or firefighters. Yeah, lol.
Hold your nose and try church. If you can absolutely not lose the weight and want to get married/have kids I've never seen a better place than going into a working class church as a geek/engineer and start volunteering. I'm absolutely serious about this. Your intellect, your manners, your upbringing and your mullah is going to be on the minds of all the old women matchmakers who control the women's volunteer orgnizations and they will find you someone. She may not be the brightest, she may be as plain as a whitewashed wall but she will more than likely be devoted. It is the closest thing to arranged marriages in the US amongst non-immigrant populations.
This sounds horrible if you are an atheist but look at it from a Darwinist perspective. If you want to reproduce and enjoy seeing your grandkids grow up you really should try to have kids before you are 40 or so.
Divorce allows people to reclaim their individuality. Staying in a loveless marriage destroys ego and self-respect and I think more people should get divorced honestly. I hate seeing people spend 10k's of dollars on counseling when what they need is a new partner or for many just some time alone.
The people that I know who I think of as always in relationships often have been in a steady one for their entire adult lives and have no idea on how to determine for themselves what they want in life without consulting someone else. Anecdotally, a friend of mine who got divorced a few years ago moved in with me for 6 months while he got back on his feet. The first few months he cried himself to sleep more nights than not but one day he became almost serenely happy and it should of set off alarm bells but it didn't. I became his surrogate wife he would explain to me his day, what he wanted in life, his private thoughts, what we should do together in the future as friends etc. At approx 6 months he moved out to his own apartment and he started inviting me to functions at his house like 5 days a week, constantly calling me and emailing me ( I am not on Facebook ) and this did not stop till he got engaged to someone who I think is even more codependent then he is. Honestly, I like living alone and dating sporadically as I go to Grad School. Who the fuck wants to carry someone around like baggage while they get settled in on their careers? Peers I suppose, are more important to me then pussy.
This is terrible advice. I would know I spent 10 years hanging out in bars, sleeping my way to the bottom and I attempted relationships with 2 out of the dozens of drunk and smelly bar flies. Both after about 6 months went full tilt batshit insane on me.
Best places I have found to meet chicks is in class at a university, or try meetup.com for something you enjoy doing or just get the fuck out of your house and go to places where people are not drinking themselves to death. If you are resorting to sleeping with people out of a bar in your 30's you are a loser. Spend money on a good prostitute, it will feel 10x better.
I seriously would not go out with anyone in any of my current social circles and pollute the already incestuous nature of them. Too much fucking drama dating people who have to be around, bars are full of fail/losers and libraries are manned by militant vegans with teethed vaginas around here. So dating sites are seriously the best choice out there atm.
Introverts do not need lower levels of stimulation they need lower levels of stimulation from other people. If intellect determines the amount of and variety of stimulation that is needed than you are going to find a lot more Renaissance types amongst extroverts and more savant folks among introverts. Introverts in other words, can entertain/satisfy/challenge themselves be it working alone on a project at work/home/school, reading a book/article/website or just sitting somewhere silently thinking about something. Extroverts need to constantly be with other people to build up and maintain their sense of identity and worth because they can't sustain themselves mentally for days, weeks or months alone like an introvert can. Introverts may be unable to sustain a level of constant socialization that some cliques require but extroverts often break just as easily when they are taken away from their ability to socialize.
When some of my friends divorced recently they split up their friends with the man getting less friends than when he started the relationship 10 years ago. Not a single woman he knew and only 4 of the men ( including me ) would hang out with him after the divorce. He was called a loser and delusional and people would turn up their noses at me if I mentioned him in conversation. Yeah, he is a douchebag wannabe writer/singer-songwriter but he is a working musician and that is a lot more than I can say for his ex who is an un-employed real estate developer. 10 months ago he could not take all of his former friends making fun of him on Facebook, live shows and the like and drank himself to a stroke at the age of 34 alone in his parent's house. To entertain himself as a recluse he required netflix, World of Warcraft, HDTV Cable and stacks of comic books. He weighed over 300 lbs at the time and I was one of the only people besides his family to talk to him for months. He never left the house except to buy cigarettes, fast food or beer. The stroke effected mostly his ability to manipulate numbers which has made him amelodic so he is getting into the local experimental music scene. He is now at a svelte 180 or so and is a self-entertaining introvert. His new apartment has 2 bookshelves, a couch, a bed, 5 writing/computer desks and no TV. People knock of his door and he pretends he is not home. Whereas before he would blah blah blah about what he was going to do, or did or wanted to do ad inifinitum, when he goes out now he now he just stares blankly off into space most of the time or gets up and leaves in the middle of a conversation if he wants to work on something or is just bored with people.
It is amazing to me how cruel extroverts can be to their own kind. Us introverts need to stick together.
Yes, he seems ardently ignorant almost proudly stupid of the reality of this but the numbers of 'reverse-discrimination' are rising rapidly esp in the social sciences and some aspects of education policy making. Yes, men were once dominant in both social work and all levels of education save teaching but that has changed drastically in the past 40 years. The instance with the fire department testing reaching the Supreme Court is one case out of 1000's that are filed each year that any news media outlet dare report on due to the entrenchment and reinforcement of bias against 'white males' in some fields.
Ah, I had a girlfriend with AS. Taught her how to make 5 dishes more than the 3 dishes she knew before she left me to move back into her parent's house because she could not stand moving every 3-6 months with me anymore. If you like something enough just find someone patient enough to teach you, you might be amazed what you can do.
Try mechanical and electrical engineering reference material. The encyclopedias/handbooks are about 250 megs a piece. Before I would have to lug around my laptop everywhere I went now I can carry my pocket sized Sony e-book reader with an omnibus of engineering material with me everywhere I go. My entire library has over 200k volumes and is encroaching over 1.5 terrabytes currently. I have an ardent belief that the Library of Alexandria must never be allowed to happen again, and the only way I know that can happen is if we decentralize our electronic libraries as thoroughly as we have paper ones.
Sweet Zombie Jesus can't they cancel Foxnews and pay these fine voice actors what they are worth? I don't know anyone that watches Foxnews here in Portland.
Why would you buy something that you can't back up your books on? With even other DRM-laden readers out there this can't happen because they all have memory slots that would allow you to have multiple places where you keep anything you buy. My Sony Ebook reader has 32 gigs of books ( mostly pirated ) that is 16x the amount you can get on the Kindle.
I would say that depending on the graduate program there are far more people with severe mental issues than in any undergrad program. In fact some disciplines seem to have more than their fair share of a specific disease/disorder. CS of course has their share of aspergers. For example, I know 3 archaeologists/physical anthropologists that all have severe devastating OCD to the point that when the 2 who are still in college know that when they have to work together their systems of organizing/ritual must come together in a strange synchronization/dance and uneasy trust to work. One will pick up every single artifact and hold it over their head to examine it when the pass by it in a store room, the other one is into lists that span multiple comp books like a codex to a secret library. Together they have published 2-3 papers and I would say (IAMNAAOPA) above par for the journals they publish in.
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There was a story in Oakland a few years ago of a guy who was sick of people stealing his stereo. So he got this great idea, weld some razor blades to the back of the receiver and on the edge of the amps. As far as I know he is serving a 3-4 year sentence for assault with a deadly weapon.
This is less and less true with advanced fly by wire systems. While it was always true when the devices were mostly analog and mostly true in the interim, the fully digital flight systems that are being deployed today are embarrassingly more simple to control than their predecessors. Besides physical attributes such as height, weight, reaction time and eye sight the pilots of today are little more than flying geeks controlling 20-30 on board flight computers through a GUI. Since these pilots do not ever dogfight anymore and with radar evasion/absorption/scattering technology I would say that the average caliber of pilot has decreased over the years and with the advent of entire squadrons of UAVs I would doubt to see fighter pilots last through another major conflict like WWII. Way cheaper to hire a bunch of 18 year kids and throw them in a shack somewhere to control hordes of UAVs that are cheap enough to replace.
I return hardware that has zip ties on it and we specifically tell suppliers this before any contracts along with a few dozen other stipulations. To me it is too dangerous to have deployed when I can't trust the damn techs not to take out their 30 dollar Gerber knife and ruin thousands of dollars of equipment by nicking a live wire.
Yeah and what is up with the DnD folks being all teetotalers now? Back in my day, we were taking LSD, smoking pot and drinking Pig's Eye beer and coffee for days up in Minnesota during the cold cold winter. We had vampire the masquerade as well as our own material, DnD 2nd Ed rules and Rift stuff usually appearing 36-48 hours in, after the 2nd or 3rd tab this usually devolved into legions of naked vampire women fucking and sucking their way across the land while our tank upgraded from being a Paladin to a debauched Juicer and I usually ended up either being a Malkavian (crazy) vampire who thought he was Santa Claus and carried a 10 foot tall flaming chainsaw that played Xmas tunes or a Glitter Boy with 6 arms and 2 Rail Guns. I went to a 3rd Ed DnD game recently with some co-workers in their early 20's and they became angry at me when I wanted to attempt to mate with the Orc with my evil chaotic evil monk instead of fighting it. The entire night, the whole 2 hours they did not fuck with the GM once, the GM read his story like a script and they talked mostly about television shows and work drama. I never went back even though they asked. Reason they were lame, methinks it was the fact that they were drinking iced green tea and water and no sugary, fatty or salty snacks. They had fucking herbed goat's cheese and those Scandinavian hard tack crackers. Yeah sure if I eat enough cheeseburgers I'll roleplay eating crackers with smelly white curd on them, but don't make me eat the props.
I am mesmerized by tit bouncing on horseback. There I admit it.
Look at law enforcement. Through citizen measures the modern police force is trained to deal with 4 kinds of crime.
1. Drugs from massive increases in the war on drugs to mandatory sentences. Most of the cost of sentencing those criminals will be paid back into the pockets of jailers, administrators, judges, cops and other industries that feed, cloth, and charge 20 dollars a phone call to a 50 year old man incarcerated for half of his adult life for doing drugs.
2. DUIs and Traffic Enforcement. This is big big bucks to most counties as the average corrupt county can make almost as much writing tickets as they do on sales tax but not property taxes, yet. DUIs in Oregon for instance can be given at 0.1 if the officer testifies you were impaired. There are almost no dash cams in Oregon so good luck on getting the DUI taken off because you can't even get the accusation of one taken off.
3. Gangs, which is not always tied in with drugs. Some police forces now actively intimidate any one that dresses like a gangster like following them in cars, pulling them over for driving a low-rider and other profiling.
4. Morality police, which throw homeless people in jail for sleeping on the sidewalk or breaks down camps of homeless people. Takes down signs/ads which are lewd or lascivious. Arrests a disproportionate amount of strip bar customers for DUIs ( this happened in Arizona in the late 1990's from Mormon police ).
Back even in the 70's this started to change for the worst because before that after the 1930's and into the late 50's I would say we had a golden age of policing that saw a more equitable prosecution of the law and even though there were terrible racial persecutions back than, at least sometimes they police were just following antiquated laws and procedures instead of hiding their true racist/sexist/moral prejudices under a shiny badge.
I spent 10 years going to catholic school and I still have tons of xtian friends. Yes, there are congregations that are progressive even gay friendly nowadays but the vast majority I have encountered amongst blue collar workers are like this to some extent. I have as much against the abrahamic religions as I do against the pirates from Peter Pan. In all 3 of the main religions in the Abrhamic faiths I still see a community that encourages others to get married, procreate and the like. This is usually facilitated with people with their own agendas at the top of the pecking order in the cult/religion as well as local cult members/followers. Jewish women who do this are called Matchmakers. There is a long history of this in both xtian and islamic faiths as well.
So like the Pope says you can't have sex till you get married but followers at the local level do things like help women get married who are pregnant and out of wedlock discreetly or do as I say and encourage women to meet single men in the congregation who are giving the local parish/church/synagogue/mosque a lot of mullah. Not to say that women will not try to snag an elgible engineer/geek on their own or that the revealing of your personality is a revelation to all who meet you but there is a lot of machinations going on at your local church that you seem blithely unaware of. Remember, churches still have more real day to day power over people's lives even in some places in the US, sadly and those old women you see play Bingo every Thursday might usually have more control over the flock than the pastor/priest.
Oh come on, some of those Bunsen burner cuties in biology or chemistry aren't too bad. At least when they geek out you can't really argue with them because you have no idea what they are talking about.
What do you do if you go to bed with 2 women and a billy goat. What is the 3rd appendage you chew off?
Try Meetup.com. Combine things like worshiping the Flying Spaghetti Monster with some pints with a group that includes some nice lady atheists or whatever THAN go home and talk to them on the forums to plan another adventure. Don't abandon your skills, some chicks dig people that step into any forum with a flame-proof suit of armor made of logic, debate skills and the hard-earned experience a place like Slashdot can give you over the years. The kind of chick you want should look at your 4-digit ID and think of you like some girls think of astronauts or firefighters. Yeah, lol.
Hold your nose and try church. If you can absolutely not lose the weight and want to get married/have kids I've never seen a better place than going into a working class church as a geek/engineer and start volunteering. I'm absolutely serious about this. Your intellect, your manners, your upbringing and your mullah is going to be on the minds of all the old women matchmakers who control the women's volunteer orgnizations and they will find you someone. She may not be the brightest, she may be as plain as a whitewashed wall but she will more than likely be devoted. It is the closest thing to arranged marriages in the US amongst non-immigrant populations.
This sounds horrible if you are an atheist but look at it from a Darwinist perspective. If you want to reproduce and enjoy seeing your grandkids grow up you really should try to have kids before you are 40 or so.
Divorce allows people to reclaim their individuality. Staying in a loveless marriage destroys ego and self-respect and I think more people should get divorced honestly. I hate seeing people spend 10k's of dollars on counseling when what they need is a new partner or for many just some time alone.
The people that I know who I think of as always in relationships often have been in a steady one for their entire adult lives and have no idea on how to determine for themselves what they want in life without consulting someone else. Anecdotally, a friend of mine who got divorced a few years ago moved in with me for 6 months while he got back on his feet. The first few months he cried himself to sleep more nights than not but one day he became almost serenely happy and it should of set off alarm bells but it didn't. I became his surrogate wife he would explain to me his day, what he wanted in life, his private thoughts, what we should do together in the future as friends etc. At approx 6 months he moved out to his own apartment and he started inviting me to functions at his house like 5 days a week, constantly calling me and emailing me ( I am not on Facebook ) and this did not stop till he got engaged to someone who I think is even more codependent then he is. Honestly, I like living alone and dating sporadically as I go to Grad School. Who the fuck wants to carry someone around like baggage while they get settled in on their careers? Peers I suppose, are more important to me then pussy.
This is terrible advice. I would know I spent 10 years hanging out in bars, sleeping my way to the bottom and I attempted relationships with 2 out of the dozens of drunk and smelly bar flies. Both after about 6 months went full tilt batshit insane on me.
Best places I have found to meet chicks is in class at a university, or try meetup.com for something you enjoy doing or just get the fuck out of your house and go to places where people are not drinking themselves to death. If you are resorting to sleeping with people out of a bar in your 30's you are a loser. Spend money on a good prostitute, it will feel 10x better.
I seriously would not go out with anyone in any of my current social circles and pollute the already incestuous nature of them. Too much fucking drama dating people who have to be around, bars are full of fail/losers and libraries are manned by militant vegans with teethed vaginas around here. So dating sites are seriously the best choice out there atm.
Sounds like a Leonard Cohen song called the Sisters of Mercy.
OMG, there is too much geek! Did someone snuff out all the Jocks?
Introverts do not need lower levels of stimulation they need lower levels of stimulation from other people. If intellect determines the amount of and variety of stimulation that is needed than you are going to find a lot more Renaissance types amongst extroverts and more savant folks among introverts. Introverts in other words, can entertain/satisfy/challenge themselves be it working alone on a project at work/home/school, reading a book/article/website or just sitting somewhere silently thinking about something. Extroverts need to constantly be with other people to build up and maintain their sense of identity and worth because they can't sustain themselves mentally for days, weeks or months alone like an introvert can. Introverts may be unable to sustain a level of constant socialization that some cliques require but extroverts often break just as easily when they are taken away from their ability to socialize.
When some of my friends divorced recently they split up their friends with the man getting less friends than when he started the relationship 10 years ago. Not a single woman he knew and only 4 of the men ( including me ) would hang out with him after the divorce. He was called a loser and delusional and people would turn up their noses at me if I mentioned him in conversation. Yeah, he is a douchebag wannabe writer/singer-songwriter but he is a working musician and that is a lot more than I can say for his ex who is an un-employed real estate developer. 10 months ago he could not take all of his former friends making fun of him on Facebook, live shows and the like and drank himself to a stroke at the age of 34 alone in his parent's house. To entertain himself as a recluse he required netflix, World of Warcraft, HDTV Cable and stacks of comic books. He weighed over 300 lbs at the time and I was one of the only people besides his family to talk to him for months. He never left the house except to buy cigarettes, fast food or beer. The stroke effected mostly his ability to manipulate numbers which has made him amelodic so he is getting into the local experimental music scene. He is now at a svelte 180 or so and is a self-entertaining introvert. His new apartment has 2 bookshelves, a couch, a bed, 5 writing/computer desks and no TV. People knock of his door and he pretends he is not home. Whereas before he would blah blah blah about what he was going to do, or did or wanted to do ad inifinitum, when he goes out now he now he just stares blankly off into space most of the time or gets up and leaves in the middle of a conversation if he wants to work on something or is just bored with people.
It is amazing to me how cruel extroverts can be to their own kind. Us introverts need to stick together.
Yes, he seems ardently ignorant almost proudly stupid of the reality of this but the numbers of 'reverse-discrimination' are rising rapidly esp in the social sciences and some aspects of education policy making. Yes, men were once dominant in both social work and all levels of education save teaching but that has changed drastically in the past 40 years. The instance with the fire department testing reaching the Supreme Court is one case out of 1000's that are filed each year that any news media outlet dare report on due to the entrenchment and reinforcement of bias against 'white males' in some fields.
Didn't they secede from the union over slavery? I don't think I would like to live where there is still slavery, that sounds horrible.
What stops them from deleting the books the moment it connects to the internet?
Ah, I had a girlfriend with AS. Taught her how to make 5 dishes more than the 3 dishes she knew before she left me to move back into her parent's house because she could not stand moving every 3-6 months with me anymore. If you like something enough just find someone patient enough to teach you, you might be amazed what you can do.
Try mechanical and electrical engineering reference material. The encyclopedias/handbooks are about 250 megs a piece. Before I would have to lug around my laptop everywhere I went now I can carry my pocket sized Sony e-book reader with an omnibus of engineering material with me everywhere I go. My entire library has over 200k volumes and is encroaching over 1.5 terrabytes currently. I have an ardent belief that the Library of Alexandria must never be allowed to happen again, and the only way I know that can happen is if we decentralize our electronic libraries as thoroughly as we have paper ones.
Sweet Zombie Jesus can't they cancel Foxnews and pay these fine voice actors what they are worth? I don't know anyone that watches Foxnews here in Portland.
Why would you buy something that you can't back up your books on? With even other DRM-laden readers out there this can't happen because they all have memory slots that would allow you to have multiple places where you keep anything you buy. My Sony Ebook reader has 32 gigs of books ( mostly pirated ) that is 16x the amount you can get on the Kindle.
I would say that depending on the graduate program there are far more people with severe mental issues than in any undergrad program. In fact some disciplines seem to have more than their fair share of a specific disease/disorder. CS of course has their share of aspergers. For example, I know 3 archaeologists/physical anthropologists that all have severe devastating OCD to the point that when the 2 who are still in college know that when they have to work together their systems of organizing/ritual must come together in a strange synchronization/dance and uneasy trust to work. One will pick up every single artifact and hold it over their head to examine it when the pass by it in a store room, the other one is into lists that span multiple comp books like a codex to a secret library. Together they have published 2-3 papers and I would say (IAMNAAOPA) above par for the journals they publish in.