I enjoy telling the pharmacist that it's okay, I already have autism.
---
It concerns me that there's a growing distrust of medicine. Every day it seems there are more and more people who insist, "Doctors don't know anything." It's a very disturbing phenomenon that's getting people killed.
The medical community needs to start doing something about this.
Most gag order statutes have been voided for being unconstitutional.
---
What the NSA is actually doing is blatantly ignoring our bill of rights. These gag orders are not legal because they are not constitutional, regardless of what the NSA insists.
I would like them to see them -- and the court officials that go along with their little scheme, pay for their crimes against humanity (and yes, that's what it actually is). Hilarious that this organization has become the very monster it was created to destroy: a terrorist network.
Suicide definitely isn't cowardly or selfish. In fact, it's incredibly hard to actually go through with. Is it a defense to try to guilt these people into not killing themselves? It's a shame really, guilt is one of the feelings that can lead them to suicide.
Your insistence to be there for your friend is a greatly admired and definitely a wonderful thing. Your friend is lucky to have someone like you.
Even for my friends there's nothing I can do even though I understand what they're going through. Being supportive is really all you can do.
One of the kinds of deep running insanities inside of me is called social anxiety (SA, for short). It's a very debilitating demon that's very nature prevents you from going out and getting the help so desperately require (not that the help is going to be terribly effective, SSRIs are a lackluster treatment, tbh).
One of the things that people like me (but not necessarily me) take offense to is normal people equating their petty little social insecurities with our living hell. So while it may be true you need to have the will to change to really get better (always good advice), I cannot help but laugh at your ignorance. If it were really as easy as a bit of bulking I'd imagine SA to be one of the rarer mental illnesses rather than being stuck in the top five. And yes, attractive people have it to.
If you want to play the comparison game, your discomfort is a small hill, and ours is a mountain.
I think one of the best things to do is offer your condolences without saying you understand, because you don't. You can't possibly understand the sheer unimaginable terror that runs through our heads and drives many of us to suicide.
In a somewhat inspirational essay This is Water, David Foster Wallace deconstructs this kind of thinking into what it really is: a limited and narrow worldview where only you are the focus and others are "in your way".
Humorously, xkcd points out that everyone else tends to think the exact same thing. That they're the brilliant, smart one and everyone else is a stupid and mindless automaton. It can only stem from a complete lack of empathy. Perhaps that driver who is going ten mph below the speed limit has general anxiety disorder and is only trying to get to work to the best of his ability.
Everyone else is stupid and you're the brilliant one... Except you're not.
Sir Ken Robinson lays out a pretty convincing reason why. Or I can simply fall back on an old Einstein quote about judging fish climbing trees.
It's not voluntary if there's negative repercussions if you don't do it.
For the record, these internships were internships in name only. They were long hour, monotonous assembly line jobs, nothing more. Just because you call forced labor something different does change the fact it's forced labor.
"Forced labor" under international standards means all work or service which is exacted from any person under the menace of any penalty for its nonperformance and for which the worker does not offer himself voluntarily, and includes indentured labor. "Forced labor" includes work provided or obtained by force, fraud, or coercion...
Threats of university punishment if the internships is not taken is a kind of coercion, therefore making this sort of behavior slave labor.
Do note that I said allegations in my previous post, which are quite legitimate claims. These aren't just being made up to try to trash Apple.
Slashdot Mirror
I enjoy telling the pharmacist that it's okay, I already have autism.
---
It concerns me that there's a growing distrust of medicine. Every day it seems there are more and more people who insist, "Doctors don't know anything." It's a very disturbing phenomenon that's getting people killed.
The medical community needs to start doing something about this.
Most gag order statutes have been voided for being unconstitutional.
---
What the NSA is actually doing is blatantly ignoring our bill of rights. These gag orders are not legal because they are not constitutional, regardless of what the NSA insists.
I would like them to see them -- and the court officials that go along with their little scheme, pay for their crimes against humanity (and yes, that's what it actually is). Hilarious that this organization has become the very monster it was created to destroy: a terrorist network.
Nah.
The best approach for dealing with piracy is making your content easily accessible, hassle-free (i.e., no DRM), and offered at a fair price.
Suicide definitely isn't cowardly or selfish. In fact, it's incredibly hard to actually go through with. Is it a defense to try to guilt these people into not killing themselves? It's a shame really, guilt is one of the feelings that can lead them to suicide.
Your insistence to be there for your friend is a greatly admired and definitely a wonderful thing. Your friend is lucky to have someone like you.
Even for my friends there's nothing I can do even though I understand what they're going through. Being supportive is really all you can do.
I can just get rid of it by thinking really hard?
Oh boy I wish I thought of that!
It's wonderful being normal, isn't it?
One of the kinds of deep running insanities inside of me is called social anxiety (SA, for short). It's a very debilitating demon that's very nature prevents you from going out and getting the help so desperately require (not that the help is going to be terribly effective, SSRIs are a lackluster treatment, tbh).
One of the things that people like me (but not necessarily me) take offense to is normal people equating their petty little social insecurities with our living hell. So while it may be true you need to have the will to change to really get better (always good advice), I cannot help but laugh at your ignorance. If it were really as easy as a bit of bulking I'd imagine SA to be one of the rarer mental illnesses rather than being stuck in the top five. And yes, attractive people have it to.
If you want to play the comparison game, your discomfort is a small hill, and ours is a mountain.
I think one of the best things to do is offer your condolences without saying you understand, because you don't. You can't possibly understand the sheer unimaginable terror that runs through our heads and drives many of us to suicide.
He gave up a 200k cushy job in Hawaii and is now eating ramen noodles out of a cup in some hidden back alley.
Hmm...
Has work so drained your soul that you have forgotten how to live?
In a somewhat inspirational essay This is Water, David Foster Wallace deconstructs this kind of thinking into what it really is: a limited and narrow worldview where only you are the focus and others are "in your way".
Humorously, xkcd points out that everyone else tends to think the exact same thing. That they're the brilliant, smart one and everyone else is a stupid and mindless automaton. It can only stem from a complete lack of empathy. Perhaps that driver who is going ten mph below the speed limit has general anxiety disorder and is only trying to get to work to the best of his ability.
Everyone else is stupid and you're the brilliant one... Except you're not.
Sir Ken Robinson lays out a pretty convincing reason why. Or I can simply fall back on an old Einstein quote about judging fish climbing trees.
Well that's the hope.
A fully automated factory would be totally awesome.
Patent #49382
Thing that does other things.
You have a right to protect your life too, but that doesn't mean you can go around putting everyone you think is reaching for a gun in a headlock.
There needs to be heavy punitive measures against this sort of thing.
If it's more sanctions it's working.
So they don't own the genes, they own a procedure.
I find it odd they could patent something they didn't invent.
The IRS doesn't levy taxes. Congress does.
Like the F-35?
It can't even go to warp.
The only part that sucks is finding seeders for my torrents.
Yeah Cisco totally hooked me up with this $22 000 router. What a bargain!
I have a solar panel just in case all the major cities are wiped out.
That way I'll still have the internet. Right?
It's not voluntary if there's negative repercussions if you don't do it.
For the record, these internships were internships in name only. They were long hour, monotonous assembly line jobs, nothing more. Just because you call forced labor something different does change the fact it's forced labor.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/11/technology/foxconn-said-to-use-forced-student-labor-to-make-iphones.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
According to the department of labor, slave labor is
"Forced labor" under international standards means all work or service which is exacted from any person under the menace of any penalty for its nonperformance and for which the worker does not offer himself voluntarily, and includes indentured labor. "Forced labor" includes work provided or obtained by force, fraud, or coercion ...
Threats of university punishment if the internships is not taken is a kind of coercion, therefore making this sort of behavior slave labor.
Do note that I said allegations in my previous post, which are quite legitimate claims. These aren't just being made up to try to trash Apple.
It's not really spin, he does have a point. The manufacturing is done by outside contractors, that's where the slave labor allegations come in.
Yeah, this may strike down the bill, but it shows how they really feel about it.
The death of Aaron Swartz wasn't enough to show them that they lost their humanity.