I can see orange and I can see green, just the same as you do. I do not have any problem until you write with one colour on top of the other. Although I can still, quite clearly, see the two colours, I have trouble reading the writing. The colours blur into each other. It is not a problem that I have ever had in a real life situation. The two colours have to be of the same shade to create a problem or I can read the writing by the contrast. If I had not found out that I am colourblind, during a medical, I would never have experimented with such things and would not have known that I had any loss at all.
In real life, the advantages of the extra night vision do get noticed. Therefore I am at an advantage.
I 'CAN' see colour. Maybe you find it hard to understand but I thought that I had explained. I still have the cones in my eyes and they see the same colour that you see. When I get to a red light, just like you, I see a red light. I see the same colours, exactly the same as you see them. Unless you write in coloured dots on a background of coloured dots, I will not have any problem. I have yet to find this a problem but I often gain from the advantages.
First off, I am colourblind. Unlike in the casual 10% of cases, I am not just colourblind to one or two combinations but to them all. I am an extreme case. Would I want to see colours like everyone else? No way. Why would I?
Colourblindness is not a loss of something. I can still see colour just like you do but if someone writes on an orange piece of paper with a green pen, I cannot read it. I do not often find this a problem. Until someone asked me to read numbers written in dots amongst other coloured dots, I was unaware that I was colourblind. I had always thought that my eyes were much better than everyone else's as I knew that my nightvision etc. was far better than most people. I had never had a problem with reading numbers written with dots before and do not see that as a great problem in life. Nightvision is a far greater asset.
In your eyes you have rods and cones. The rods see contrast and the cones see colour. I have far more rods than you and less cones. Therefore I can see contrast far better than you but the colour is not as clear. I still see the same colour as you do but when there is a mass of different colours I cannot seperate them as well. But I can see the shapes in that mass of colour that you cannot see. This is why colourblind people are best as bomb aimers, they are not deceived by camoflage.
I think that overall I am a winner and would laugh at the idea of a cure. Why would I want your inferior eyesight?
Read all these stories and accept that iPhones bring very bad kharma. They are cursed and should be avoided. The Nokia ju ju has brought his wrath upon those that own one and the Great God of Sony - The Son of Eric is searching out and blighting the lives of all those found to worship the lesser god Ah Pole.
Take this warning and behave wisely. Nokia is the greater god and the N97 rocks.
I think that I should be in their target group. My MBP was stolen and I am looking for a replacement. I accept the need for a 'real' computer at home but need something to travel with as I work away from home all the time. I think that the MBP Air is getting a little dated and thought that this would be something new. I am not concerned about the price, just that it is not capable of doing any real work. If this had had the MBP Air inside I would have probably paid $1500 happily and maybe more with lot of grumbling. I will settle for the MBP Air and I suppose that that is really what takes me out of the target group in that I will still buy apple and this gadget is will get new customers that do not have a clue what a computer is but might be happy with an overgrown phone.
Inside every fat person there is a thin person and a lot of chocolate...
Big boned is just another way of saying 'it isn't my fault I eat too much'. There is no such thing in reality. If you start overeating at an early enough age you will develope a larger frame to suit your fat body.
Most of us have watched the fatty squeezing down the aisle and dreaded the idea of them sitting next to us. Why should I have to put up with someone like him taking up my space on an already cramped airline seat?
If the goods where made on the company's own production line, that would be theft rather than counterfeit. The products made in that factory belongs to the company regardless of quality control or time of manufacture.
Most people do not think they are going to kill anyone when they do drive a car but these people accept that they will kill people and work out what is acceptable risk.
If one person in one hundred thousand starts to glow in the dark and dies, it is considered an acceptable risk for everyone except that person. No one can prove that that cancer that killed that person was caused by the leak so they can get away with it. It is statistically insignificant. I do not like to think that manslaughter is insignificant but these people think that way.
I love MacBooks but outside that comment, I agree with you. I often confuse people when they cannot understand why a fanboy hates the iPhone, iPood etc. but it is such a different thing. I use the BSD underlying the MacBook to do exactly what I want. I do not have to do what is expected of me by Apple in any way. It is a well made and well designed piece of kit... but everything else they bring out seems so riddled with lock down that I would not even accept it if it was given to me (unless the offer allowed me to sell it). I prefer the Nokia N97, which does everything I want, to the iPhone which will only do what I am allowed to do. Why would I need an iPod when the phone does all that as well.
This was a terrible missed opportunity. If they had made this around a low power, OSX based computer it would rock, but an oversized phone??? If they had based it on the MB Air it would have been a huge step forward, I would want one, but this object serves no purpose to me.
How will you feel when you get arrested for possession of photos of your own children playing in the paddling pool without enough clothes on to cover the dignity that they do not yet have. The whole situation is stupid. My mother has photos of me when I was a child playing almost naked, aged 3. Will my mother get arrested?
We have entered an age where we are too frightened to smile at a child in case someone thinks we are perverts. It is stupid and although I accept that we need to address the problems and protect the child, this current behaviour is harming the children as they cannot play like children and enjoy their childhood in the way they should.
In Britain it is hard to get male teachers to work with young children because of the fear of being prosecuted for touching them when they climb all over you. The children need good male role models but any man that has worked with children knows that the stupidity has made this too dangerous.
Many years ago I grabbed a female student (aged 14) who had climbed out onto an upstairs window ledge and dragged her back into the room. There were witnesses, so the end result was OK but there had to be an inquiry because I had touched her by grabbing her around the waist. If I had let her jump I would have probably got 6 months sick leave and counseling. I realised then that we are no longer protecting the children but we have entered the realm of witch hunt.
This guy just got burnt as a witch.
The real threat is that the real perverts will get lost amongst the stupid witch hunt.
The issue is not whether or not they have immunity but what they have immunity from. They will only get the same level of immunity as Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission. They still have to pay their parking tickets. They cannot have their records seized. This is the blindingly obvious requirement for an unbiased international police force. A requirement that any clear thinking person would expect them to have in any country in which they operate. Only the xenophobic would expect their country to be exempt.
and when they tried to save Sigourney Weaver by uniting her with her avatar but failed because she had left it too late, I knew how he was going to live happily ever after with Ms Smurff...
I grew up in a world where the people on the other side of the Iron Curtain had no freedom and where subjected to arrest and detention for any criticism of the government. People there could be arrested and put in strange prisons outside of the legal system. Stopped and searched using obscure references to 'enemy of the state' (sort of translates to terrorist). We were all shocked at the things that happened on the other side of the iron curtain and thought that such things could never happen in our society...
Sorry??? where is this 'free government' of which you speak? I remember reading about such things in philosophy but I do not know of any in the real world.
I do not see it as wanting For Profit to fail so much as the destructive forces of a particular For Profit company needs to be curbed. OO is an inferior product [dons helmet and flame proof suit] and as such is not a real threat to M$ in the business arena. M$ want to stop people from illegal copying and that will force those that use illegal copies of M$ office at home to switch to OO for home use where it is perfectly suitable. Your son does not need all the M$ macros and corporate compatibility for his homework but M$ do not want to lose the users that are currently using illegal copies, they want them to pay. The truth is that there is no point in them paying when there is a free product that does all that they need to do. So M$ will try to destroy OO with smear campaigns and that is what is wrong. They have always used underhand techniques to compete with Linux, not because Linux is better or worse, but because that is how they operate. If they want to stop people like me from bitching, then all they have to do is start competing by making their product the one of choice rather than the only choice. I am not anti-M$, I use it at work all the time and I am using it atm at home. I do not want to see them disappear but I do not think that they are the best and I would rather that competition was fair and correct.
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??? Only by sadistic eye doctors. No one else could ever know.
I can see orange and I can see green, just the same as you do. I do not have any problem until you write with one colour on top of the other. Although I can still, quite clearly, see the two colours, I have trouble reading the writing. The colours blur into each other. It is not a problem that I have ever had in a real life situation. The two colours have to be of the same shade to create a problem or I can read the writing by the contrast. If I had not found out that I am colourblind, during a medical, I would never have experimented with such things and would not have known that I had any loss at all.
In real life, the advantages of the extra night vision do get noticed. Therefore I am at an advantage.
I 'CAN' see colour. Maybe you find it hard to understand but I thought that I had explained. I still have the cones in my eyes and they see the same colour that you see. When I get to a red light, just like you, I see a red light. I see the same colours, exactly the same as you see them. Unless you write in coloured dots on a background of coloured dots, I will not have any problem. I have yet to find this a problem but I often gain from the advantages.
First off, I am colourblind. Unlike in the casual 10% of cases, I am not just colourblind to one or two combinations but to them all. I am an extreme case. Would I want to see colours like everyone else? No way. Why would I?
Colourblindness is not a loss of something. I can still see colour just like you do but if someone writes on an orange piece of paper with a green pen, I cannot read it. I do not often find this a problem. Until someone asked me to read numbers written in dots amongst other coloured dots, I was unaware that I was colourblind. I had always thought that my eyes were much better than everyone else's as I knew that my nightvision etc. was far better than most people. I had never had a problem with reading numbers written with dots before and do not see that as a great problem in life. Nightvision is a far greater asset.
In your eyes you have rods and cones. The rods see contrast and the cones see colour. I have far more rods than you and less cones. Therefore I can see contrast far better than you but the colour is not as clear. I still see the same colour as you do but when there is a mass of different colours I cannot seperate them as well. But I can see the shapes in that mass of colour that you cannot see. This is why colourblind people are best as bomb aimers, they are not deceived by camoflage.
I think that overall I am a winner and would laugh at the idea of a cure. Why would I want your inferior eyesight?
My Linux runs Linux and has already booted !!!
Read all these stories and accept that iPhones bring very bad kharma. They are cursed and should be avoided. The Nokia ju ju has brought his wrath upon those that own one and the Great God of Sony - The Son of Eric is searching out and blighting the lives of all those found to worship the lesser god Ah Pole.
Take this warning and behave wisely. Nokia is the greater god and the N97 rocks.
I think that I should be in their target group. My MBP was stolen and I am looking for a replacement. I accept the need for a 'real' computer at home but need something to travel with as I work away from home all the time. I think that the MBP Air is getting a little dated and thought that this would be something new. I am not concerned about the price, just that it is not capable of doing any real work. If this had had the MBP Air inside I would have probably paid $1500 happily and maybe more with lot of grumbling. I will settle for the MBP Air and I suppose that that is really what takes me out of the target group in that I will still buy apple and this gadget is will get new customers that do not have a clue what a computer is but might be happy with an overgrown phone.
Boycott? I am more likely to fly with them now I realise that I am less likely to have someone like him squeezed into the seat next to me.
Inside every fat person there is a thin person and a lot of chocolate...
Big boned is just another way of saying 'it isn't my fault I eat too much'. There is no such thing in reality. If you start overeating at an early enough age you will develope a larger frame to suit your fat body.
Most of us have watched the fatty squeezing down the aisle and dreaded the idea of them sitting next to us. Why should I have to put up with someone like him taking up my space on an already cramped airline seat?
If the goods where made on the company's own production line, that would be theft rather than counterfeit. The products made in that factory belongs to the company regardless of quality control or time of manufacture.
... I do not have a car!
Most people do not think they are going to kill anyone when they do drive a car but these people accept that they will kill people and work out what is acceptable risk.
If one person in one hundred thousand starts to glow in the dark and dies, it is considered an acceptable risk for everyone except that person. No one can prove that that cancer that killed that person was caused by the leak so they can get away with it. It is statistically insignificant. I do not like to think that manslaughter is insignificant but these people think that way.
I love MacBooks but outside that comment, I agree with you. I often confuse people when they cannot understand why a fanboy hates the iPhone, iPood etc. but it is such a different thing. I use the BSD underlying the MacBook to do exactly what I want. I do not have to do what is expected of me by Apple in any way. It is a well made and well designed piece of kit... but everything else they bring out seems so riddled with lock down that I would not even accept it if it was given to me (unless the offer allowed me to sell it). I prefer the Nokia N97, which does everything I want, to the iPhone which will only do what I am allowed to do. Why would I need an iPod when the phone does all that as well.
This was a terrible missed opportunity. If they had made this around a low power, OSX based computer it would rock, but an oversized phone??? If they had based it on the MB Air it would have been a huge step forward, I would want one, but this object serves no purpose to me.
How will you feel when you get arrested for possession of photos of your own children playing in the paddling pool without enough clothes on to cover the dignity that they do not yet have. The whole situation is stupid. My mother has photos of me when I was a child playing almost naked, aged 3. Will my mother get arrested?
We have entered an age where we are too frightened to smile at a child in case someone thinks we are perverts. It is stupid and although I accept that we need to address the problems and protect the child, this current behaviour is harming the children as they cannot play like children and enjoy their childhood in the way they should.
In Britain it is hard to get male teachers to work with young children because of the fear of being prosecuted for touching them when they climb all over you. The children need good male role models but any man that has worked with children knows that the stupidity has made this too dangerous.
Many years ago I grabbed a female student (aged 14) who had climbed out onto an upstairs window ledge and dragged her back into the room. There were witnesses, so the end result was OK but there had to be an inquiry because I had touched her by grabbing her around the waist. If I had let her jump I would have probably got 6 months sick leave and counseling. I realised then that we are no longer protecting the children but we have entered the realm of witch hunt.
This guy just got burnt as a witch.
The real threat is that the real perverts will get lost amongst the stupid witch hunt.
What will they make of 'Team America'?
Obama Choosing NOT To Go To the Moon
but would we stagnate if Obama went there?
That's like the British government suing anyone who does things based on William Shakespeare because he was English.
Please stop giving them ideas, they are bad enough already.
The issue is not whether or not they have immunity but what they have immunity from. They will only get the same level of immunity as Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission. They still have to pay their parking tickets. They cannot have their records seized. This is the blindingly obvious requirement for an unbiased international police force. A requirement that any clear thinking person would expect them to have in any country in which they operate. Only the xenophobic would expect their country to be exempt.
and when they tried to save Sigourney Weaver by uniting her with her avatar but failed because she had left it too late, I knew how he was going to live happily ever after with Ms Smurff...
Weed - 'look at the pretty colours' :-D
... with lots of pretty effects, and the plebs love it. Valium for the eyes.
I grew up in a world where the people on the other side of the Iron Curtain had no freedom and where subjected to arrest and detention for any criticism of the government. People there could be arrested and put in strange prisons outside of the legal system. Stopped and searched using obscure references to 'enemy of the state' (sort of translates to terrorist). We were all shocked at the things that happened on the other side of the iron curtain and thought that such things could never happen in our society...
Bush was a very strong leader but completely insane...
Obama is weak but very sane...
I am not sure that America can survive either any more.
Sorry??? where is this 'free government' of which you speak? I remember reading about such things in philosophy but I do not know of any in the real world.
I do not see it as wanting For Profit to fail so much as the destructive forces of a particular For Profit company needs to be curbed. OO is an inferior product [dons helmet and flame proof suit] and as such is not a real threat to M$ in the business arena. M$ want to stop people from illegal copying and that will force those that use illegal copies of M$ office at home to switch to OO for home use where it is perfectly suitable. Your son does not need all the M$ macros and corporate compatibility for his homework but M$ do not want to lose the users that are currently using illegal copies, they want them to pay. The truth is that there is no point in them paying when there is a free product that does all that they need to do. So M$ will try to destroy OO with smear campaigns and that is what is wrong. They have always used underhand techniques to compete with Linux, not because Linux is better or worse, but because that is how they operate. If they want to stop people like me from bitching, then all they have to do is start competing by making their product the one of choice rather than the only choice. I am not anti-M$, I use it at work all the time and I am using it atm at home. I do not want to see them disappear but I do not think that they are the best and I would rather that competition was fair and correct.