Lol, sounds like another opportunity! Head out to the next anti-nuclear rally and get people to sign a petition to shut down this unshielded fusion reactor. It's exposing us to several types of radiation every day, even as we speak! It causes severe burns on many people every day! Many species won't come out of their burrows because of it! While you're at it, you can ask them about their opinion of dihydrogen-monoxide.
I wonder what their sleep patters were like when they were teenagers. When I was in high school, I needed at least 10 hours, and preferred 12. Now that I'm almost 40, I can easily operate on 3 or 4 hours, routinely get 6, and sleeping in on saturday is 8 or 9.
What about not-so-smart unqualified workers? Would you allow them in? Even if it put a present european out of work only because the immigrant is cheaper? That's what they're doing here.
I'm not sure how it is in europe, but the idea that immigration is intended to only allow the best and brightest into your country so that your country innovates and stays competitive and fills jobs that go unfilled is purely propaganda here. I've trained my replacement before and know many others who have also.
In the US, it's about driving down wages. That's all. If it stops me from working, I don't care. I'll go on wellfare and the foreigners' taxes can pay me to sit at home and do what I want all day.
I'm an avid woodworker with a dozen 400lb+ machines in my garage/woodshop. One of the manufacturers, grizzly iirc, has started including tilt sensors on the outside of the crates since many of the machines are tall and/or top-heavy. This is specifically to bust the shipper, not the customer. And it gives the customer something else to note on the bill of lading when the machine arrives.
For us it's better than ever. Sometimes 2 or 3 times a day. These days she wants it more than me.
2. She get's fat (probably you too)
She wasn't exactly thin to start. But I gained almost 100lbs over the first 10 years, then I lost 60 of that. It's a fact of life though. You both get older. She has children. Many people gain weight... even if they're not married. If fitness matters to you, then make it continue to matter and be with someone who cares about it also.
3. All your money starts disappearing for no apparent reason.
I'm the bad one here. She's brutally practical and laughs at women with 100 pairs of shoes and $500 hand bags. It's not uncommon for my wife to give the cashier a 1" thick stack of coupons and save 50% on the groceries.
4. You will be surrounded by strange and insufferable relatives from some place you have never heard of.
Her family is nuts, but mine is worse.
5. You will get to drive the old car.
For my wife, a car is a toaster. As long as it's reliable, she doesn't care. I drive a 1 year old 350Z.
6. Gaming did you say? That won't last long. "I can't believe you are going to play on the computer AGAIN. You just played last week!"
I just started playing Oblivion for the second time through (This time as a mage). My wife likes the game consoles because it gets me out of the computer room and the kids like to watch. She does get jealous of the computer. But i told her to come in and interrupt me any time she feels that way.
7. She will start asking you if she looks fat, despite the fact she is perfectly aware of #2
My wife never asks me this. I think she's very aware of what she looks like.
8. She won't cook (See #1) and she won't be able to make a decent dinner.
ok, you got me there. up until the last couple years, my wife couldn't cook to save her life. But recently she's gotten a lot better. I talked up the idea of how cooking is all about heat transfer vs time and how it's bad to be distracted, then she quit burning things. I have three teenage daughters though and they all cook better than my wife. So it's a non-issue now.
9. You will have to leave the house when her literary friends come over to discuss the life analogies in some gay French author's book.
We have common friends and interests.
10. LAN parties? No Fucking Way in her house!
I haven't had a lan party in years (since doom and quake time) but she didn't seem to mind back then.
Don't be normal. If you think being aspie is bad, neurotypicals are infinitely worse off. They even believe their own crud, half the time, believe it or not.
To me it feels like that twilight zone episode where they removed the bandages from that beautiful woman, but the hideous doctors and nurses were revolted by how disfigured she was. There's power and logic in how we operate. But they'll never see it and accept us. And since there are more of them, they'll always rule the world and make life hell for us.
AS is about polarizing abilities. Good abilities become great. But bad abilities become dysfunction. Normal is the middle of the bell curve, and we ain't there.
The software I write are works of art. But few have the capacity to understand it. I have other abilities, like I can speak french and japanese. I also have nearly all of the lyrics from all popular music from about 1980 until about 1992 memorized. But it's all parlor tricks. Personally, I'd rather be a happy, clueless NT.
If the rest of the country is like the chicago suburb I live in, there's a bank every 50 feet. Of course, no sidewalks mean you need to drive there anyway.
All the street signs can be encoded in braille in the reflective dots between the lanes. They can just open the door and run their fingers on the ground while they drive.
Maybe it will help them to stay in their lane too.
I know you were trolling, but I need to respond. I have AS. My father has it. My grandfather had it. And my son and one of my daughters have it. Believe me, it's real. I'm nearly 40. I'm just now feeling like I'm getting a handle on social skills. I believe I'm now entering the realm of the merely poor people-skilled humans. But it's much more than a lack of people skills. I have problems experiencing any emotion except anger. Sometimes I know what I'm feeling. Sometimes I feel something specific (like jealousy or embarrassment for example) but interpret it as a generic "bad". Sometimes I can't identify it at all. And sometimes I feel nothing when something should be there. Even when I know exactly what I'm feeling, 80% of the time, I express it incorrectly. Normal people can't read me either. They think I'm angry when I'm not, or feel completely blind-sided when I am angry. Behaviors that are natural and automatic for neurotypicals are learned behaviors for me. And if I haven't learned them, I execute them wrong or not at all. I have problems with executive function meaning that it's difficult or impossible to plan and organize some things. It explains why I always scored sky-high on aptitude tests in school, but always got bad grades. My spacial relations, problem solving, design abilities, and speech/linguistics are way out there. I always impress people with it. But my memory is beyond terrible. I can remember hardware addresses of computers I used 20 years ago, but can't remember what I had for breakfast a couple days ago. I also have sensory problems, mainly with touch and hearing. I have problem filtering out background noises and focusing on specific people talking. I have no idea what they're saying. Yet my hearing tests out perfect. When it happens, it's like my wife has switched to a foreign language. My gait is visibly wrong, which is common. I also have the theory of mind problems (mind-blindness). It's sometimes nearly impossible for me to understand at all how someone else feels unless something nearly identical has happened to me. As a coping mechanism, I have a long mental list of things that I know make people feel bad. When someone expresses sadness to me because of one of these things, I fake the empathy back to them. It works most of the time. And I intend the same things for them as someone who actually feels bad for them. I really want them to feel better. But inside me, I feel mostly nothingness.
Asperger's Syndrome and other autism spectrum disorders are real. I've benefited partially from it. But for the most part it sucks. I would give anything to be normal.
Somewhere in a mall out there (I dare not google now because I'm at work) is a store called "Kids Exchange". Write the sign in all capital letters and make the store front entrance too narrow to fit the space between the words and you get something quite different.
The possibilities are endless. I have a terrible memory, so I'm always looking for ways to help with that. Facial recognition software could identify someone you're talking to. Information about them could be displayed to you, like birthdays, wife/kids names, notes you've taken in the past, etc. Whatever you look at (using eye tracking) could do an information lookup and display all sorts of information, or whisper it in your ear.
The computer could listen to your conversations and pick out and remember interesting facts. If they tell you their address or phone number, it simply gets recorded for your later use without you intervening.
Storage capacities are likely to get so high that you can just record video of everything you see all the time.
The eye tracking in the device could operate like a bluetooth mouse. Just look at the icon and blink. The device could superimpose a keyboard display over your vision so you can type in text privately. Or just speak what you want to type.
Then there's live real time language translation. I know babelfish sucks, but it's better than nothing. My french is ok, but not perfect. It would help me greatly to look up words in real time when I need them. You could learn a language a lot faster this way.
What would be really cool is a language name that doesn't get mangled by search engines and dice.com because it contains symbols. Just do a google search for C# to see what I mean.:-/
This reminds me of the origins of the word "irregardless". Of course, many English Nazis will tell you that this is not a word. But I disagree! During the War of 1812, many guard ships that were stationed in the Great Lakes were diverted to the Gulf of Mexico to fight the British. This alarmed the residents of New York who, fearing a British attack, questioned the intelligence of leaving the Erie Guardless.
P.S. The spell checker thinks irregardless is not misspelled.:-/
Just get a real floppy drive off of ebay. You can throw together a small windows or linux box to help with communications. A 1.2meg floppy drive will write 360k floppies. They may not stand the test of time, but it should work. 360k floppy drives are on ebay right now.
I have a catweasel board (dags) in an old machine that I use to help with the classic computing. It will write working c64 disks with a PC high density floppy drive. I also write amiga double density 3.5" disks with a high density drive. Works great. The catweasel will also read mac and apple 2 floppies, but no write support yet. You can also download huge disk image libraries with bittorrent. Just have a look at isohunt.
I'm also willing to bet there's a packet driver/ftp solution to your file problem if you can find an old network board or something assuming you can get around the chicken or egg problem of needing a disk to get a disk. Maybe you can find an old ISA hard drive controller and matching disk. You could format it in another computer, then transplant it. If you can find an ISA IDE controler, cdrom drives should work also. ISA scsi controllers exist also. And lastly, if you do find that ISA IDE controller, you can get a compact flash to ide adapter and boot the machine off of that. I do that with two of my amigas now.
There's a huge classic computing community. Just look around.
Or better still, have a good long think about what you're doing wrong. Over the course of my life, I've come across any number of people who have a tendency towards sequential fallings-out with one person after another, who project the "fault" as being the other's.
This is a common symptom of Asperger's Syndrome. In the general population, it affects about 1 in 250 people. But when you focus on men of northern european descent, the numbers are much higher. Then when you focus on IT and engineering in general, my gut tells me that the numbers are more like 1 in 8.
What happens to them is that they have two fatal flaws. First, they're unable to see situations from their boss' (or anyone's) perspective. Second, their impaired social abilities make them display emotions differently and appear angry when they're not, making it difficult or impossible for other people to read them correctly. They're also unable to comprehend and successfully navigate office politics, causing them to not defend themselves when they should or become overly defensive when they shouldn't. They can stab people in the back while meaning no harm and not understanding why someone would be angry at them over this, or even that they're angry at all.
These things get the relationship off to a bad start, then it goes downhill from there. The initial level of impairment and how much they've overcome determines how much time passes before the inevitable. For me, it was around 6 months, like clockwork. Luckily, after about 20 years, I've largely defeated it, partially through learning by brute force trial and error, partially by becoming a consultant.
AS sucks, mainly because those affected appear mostly normal. Please learn to recognize the signs in other people and cut them some slack. And if you think you have it, pick up Tony Atwood's book: The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome. This book could save your job and your marriage.
When my wife and I first read these instructions way back, we laughed out loud, then decided never to buy CFLs. Over the last 15 years, we've lost count of the number of light bulbs our kids have broken. The idea of having each one be a potential (even likely) exposure to hazardous materials for the family and the house is just not acceptable. We live in chicago. Every time I read "open the windows for 15 minutes or more", my response is, "In January when it's -10?" So much for energy savings.
I have so many what-ifs for this it's ridiculous. What if it's January? What if we have a bagless vacuum cleaner? What if you don't see the breakage before a kid/pet gets into it? (ever had broken glass from a lightbulb in your foot? It's happened to all of us.) What if you don't have the required jar or plastic bag handy? What if you don't have the required tape handy? What if the tape lifts the finish from your wood floors? What if residue remains in your carpet? What if you miss a spot cleaning? What if you don't find the broken light in your kids' room until the next day?
I'm also a woodworker. Incandescent light bulbs aren't just nice, they're required for some things. Turning for example, creates a wagon-wheel effect from the flickering of florescent bulbs.
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Lol, sounds like another opportunity! Head out to the next anti-nuclear rally and get people to sign a petition to shut down this unshielded fusion reactor. It's exposing us to several types of radiation every day, even as we speak! It causes severe burns on many people every day! Many species won't come out of their burrows because of it! While you're at it, you can ask them about their opinion of dihydrogen-monoxide.
I wonder what their sleep patters were like when they were teenagers. When I was in high school, I needed at least 10 hours, and preferred 12. Now that I'm almost 40, I can easily operate on 3 or 4 hours, routinely get 6, and sleeping in on saturday is 8 or 9.
Maybe it was a nuclear explosion on the surface of the planet. IIRC, something similar happened to our moon back in 1999.
If you use Ebay's definition of rare, you're likely to find one in every solar system.
...as they do not have the written consent of every customer.
I bet your consent to indefinite storage is written into the contract you get when you sign up.
What about not-so-smart unqualified workers? Would you allow them in? Even if it put a present european out of work only because the immigrant is cheaper? That's what they're doing here.
I'm not sure how it is in europe, but the idea that immigration is intended to only allow the best and brightest into your country so that your country innovates and stays competitive and fills jobs that go unfilled is purely propaganda here. I've trained my replacement before and know many others who have also.
In the US, it's about driving down wages. That's all. If it stops me from working, I don't care. I'll go on wellfare and the foreigners' taxes can pay me to sit at home and do what I want all day.
I'm an avid woodworker with a dozen 400lb+ machines in my garage/woodshop. One of the manufacturers, grizzly iirc, has started including tilt sensors on the outside of the crates since many of the machines are tall and/or top-heavy. This is specifically to bust the shipper, not the customer. And it gives the customer something else to note on the bill of lading when the machine arrives.
I've been married 16 years.
My Advice...don't get married. It's a trap.
What happens when you get married:
1. Sex stops
For us it's better than ever. Sometimes 2 or 3 times a day. These days she wants it more than me.
2. She get's fat (probably you too)
She wasn't exactly thin to start. But I gained almost 100lbs over the first 10 years, then I lost 60 of that. It's a fact of life though. You both get older. She has children. Many people gain weight... even if they're not married. If fitness matters to you, then make it continue to matter and be with someone who cares about it also.
3. All your money starts disappearing for no apparent reason.
I'm the bad one here. She's brutally practical and laughs at women with 100 pairs of shoes and $500 hand bags. It's not uncommon for my wife to give the cashier a 1" thick stack of coupons and save 50% on the groceries.
4. You will be surrounded by strange and insufferable relatives from some place you have never heard of.
Her family is nuts, but mine is worse.
5. You will get to drive the old car.
For my wife, a car is a toaster. As long as it's reliable, she doesn't care. I drive a 1 year old 350Z.
6. Gaming did you say? That won't last long. "I can't believe you are going to play on the computer AGAIN. You just played last week!"
I just started playing Oblivion for the second time through (This time as a mage). My wife likes the game consoles because it gets me out of the computer room and the kids like to watch. She does get jealous of the computer. But i told her to come in and interrupt me any time she feels that way.
7. She will start asking you if she looks fat, despite the fact she is perfectly aware of #2
My wife never asks me this. I think she's very aware of what she looks like.
8. She won't cook (See #1) and she won't be able to make a decent dinner.
ok, you got me there. up until the last couple years, my wife couldn't cook to save her life. But recently she's gotten a lot better. I talked up the idea of how cooking is all about heat transfer vs time and how it's bad to be distracted, then she quit burning things. I have three teenage daughters though and they all cook better than my wife. So it's a non-issue now.
9. You will have to leave the house when her literary friends come over to discuss the life analogies in some gay French author's book.
We have common friends and interests.
10. LAN parties? No Fucking Way in her house!
I haven't had a lan party in years (since doom and quake time) but she didn't seem to mind back then.
Marriage: you're doing it wrong.
Actually, the Mesopotamians probably walked there...
So... they're actually from Pedestria?
Don't be normal. If you think being aspie is bad, neurotypicals are infinitely worse off. They even believe their own crud, half the time, believe it or not.
To me it feels like that twilight zone episode where they removed the bandages from that beautiful woman, but the hideous doctors and nurses were revolted by how disfigured she was. There's power and logic in how we operate. But they'll never see it and accept us. And since there are more of them, they'll always rule the world and make life hell for us.
AS is about polarizing abilities. Good abilities become great. But bad abilities become dysfunction. Normal is the middle of the bell curve, and we ain't there.
The software I write are works of art. But few have the capacity to understand it. I have other abilities, like I can speak french and japanese. I also have nearly all of the lyrics from all popular music from about 1980 until about 1992 memorized. But it's all parlor tricks. Personally, I'd rather be a happy, clueless NT.
There's a bad joke about driving near fish markets here somewhere, but I'll let it go.
If the rest of the country is like the chicago suburb I live in, there's a bank every 50 feet. Of course, no sidewalks mean you need to drive there anyway.
All the street signs can be encoded in braille in the reflective dots between the lanes. They can just open the door and run their fingers on the ground while they drive.
Maybe it will help them to stay in their lane too.
I know you were trolling, but I need to respond. I have AS. My father has it. My grandfather had it. And my son and one of my daughters have it. Believe me, it's real. I'm nearly 40. I'm just now feeling like I'm getting a handle on social skills. I believe I'm now entering the realm of the merely poor people-skilled humans. But it's much more than a lack of people skills. I have problems experiencing any emotion except anger. Sometimes I know what I'm feeling. Sometimes I feel something specific (like jealousy or embarrassment for example) but interpret it as a generic "bad". Sometimes I can't identify it at all. And sometimes I feel nothing when something should be there. Even when I know exactly what I'm feeling, 80% of the time, I express it incorrectly. Normal people can't read me either. They think I'm angry when I'm not, or feel completely blind-sided when I am angry. Behaviors that are natural and automatic for neurotypicals are learned behaviors for me. And if I haven't learned them, I execute them wrong or not at all. I have problems with executive function meaning that it's difficult or impossible to plan and organize some things. It explains why I always scored sky-high on aptitude tests in school, but always got bad grades. My spacial relations, problem solving, design abilities, and speech/linguistics are way out there. I always impress people with it. But my memory is beyond terrible. I can remember hardware addresses of computers I used 20 years ago, but can't remember what I had for breakfast a couple days ago. I also have sensory problems, mainly with touch and hearing. I have problem filtering out background noises and focusing on specific people talking. I have no idea what they're saying. Yet my hearing tests out perfect. When it happens, it's like my wife has switched to a foreign language. My gait is visibly wrong, which is common. I also have the theory of mind problems (mind-blindness). It's sometimes nearly impossible for me to understand at all how someone else feels unless something nearly identical has happened to me. As a coping mechanism, I have a long mental list of things that I know make people feel bad. When someone expresses sadness to me because of one of these things, I fake the empathy back to them. It works most of the time. And I intend the same things for them as someone who actually feels bad for them. I really want them to feel better. But inside me, I feel mostly nothingness.
Asperger's Syndrome and other autism spectrum disorders are real. I've benefited partially from it. But for the most part it sucks. I would give anything to be normal.
Somewhere in a mall out there (I dare not google now because I'm at work) is a store called "Kids Exchange". Write the sign in all capital letters and make the store front entrance too narrow to fit the space between the words and you get something quite different.
The possibilities are endless. I have a terrible memory, so I'm always looking for ways to help with that. Facial recognition software could identify someone you're talking to. Information about them could be displayed to you, like birthdays, wife/kids names, notes you've taken in the past, etc. Whatever you look at (using eye tracking) could do an information lookup and display all sorts of information, or whisper it in your ear.
The computer could listen to your conversations and pick out and remember interesting facts. If they tell you their address or phone number, it simply gets recorded for your later use without you intervening.
Storage capacities are likely to get so high that you can just record video of everything you see all the time.
The eye tracking in the device could operate like a bluetooth mouse. Just look at the icon and blink. The device could superimpose a keyboard display over your vision so you can type in text privately. Or just speak what you want to type.
Then there's live real time language translation. I know babelfish sucks, but it's better than nothing. My french is ok, but not perfect. It would help me greatly to look up words in real time when I need them. You could learn a language a lot faster this way.
What would be really cool is a language name that doesn't get mangled by search engines and dice.com because it contains symbols. Just do a google search for C# to see what I mean. :-/
Sinners go to /dev/null
...where they're tormented by daemons forever?
This reminds me of the origins of the word "irregardless". Of course, many English Nazis will tell you that this is not a word. But I disagree! During the War of 1812, many guard ships that were stationed in the Great Lakes were diverted to the Gulf of Mexico to fight the British. This alarmed the residents of New York who, fearing a British attack, questioned the intelligence of leaving the Erie Guardless.
P.S. The spell checker thinks irregardless is not misspelled. :-/
I once asked my daughter to bring me a Fly Swatter. She brought me some Ice Water. (this is true, it's a long-standing family inside joke)
Just get a real floppy drive off of ebay. You can throw together a small windows or linux box to help with communications. A 1.2meg floppy drive will write 360k floppies. They may not stand the test of time, but it should work. 360k floppy drives are on ebay right now.
I have a catweasel board (dags) in an old machine that I use to help with the classic computing. It will write working c64 disks with a PC high density floppy drive. I also write amiga double density 3.5" disks with a high density drive. Works great. The catweasel will also read mac and apple 2 floppies, but no write support yet. You can also download huge disk image libraries with bittorrent. Just have a look at isohunt.
I'm also willing to bet there's a packet driver/ftp solution to your file problem if you can find an old network board or something assuming you can get around the chicken or egg problem of needing a disk to get a disk. Maybe you can find an old ISA hard drive controller and matching disk. You could format it in another computer, then transplant it. If you can find an ISA IDE controler, cdrom drives should work also. ISA scsi controllers exist also. And lastly, if you do find that ISA IDE controller, you can get a compact flash to ide adapter and boot the machine off of that. I do that with two of my amigas now.
There's a huge classic computing community. Just look around.
Or better still, have a good long think about what you're doing wrong. Over the course of my life, I've come across any number of people who have a tendency towards sequential fallings-out with one person after another, who project the "fault" as being the other's.
This is a common symptom of Asperger's Syndrome. In the general population, it affects about 1 in 250 people. But when you focus on men of northern european descent, the numbers are much higher. Then when you focus on IT and engineering in general, my gut tells me that the numbers are more like 1 in 8.
What happens to them is that they have two fatal flaws. First, they're unable to see situations from their boss' (or anyone's) perspective. Second, their impaired social abilities make them display emotions differently and appear angry when they're not, making it difficult or impossible for other people to read them correctly. They're also unable to comprehend and successfully navigate office politics, causing them to not defend themselves when they should or become overly defensive when they shouldn't. They can stab people in the back while meaning no harm and not understanding why someone would be angry at them over this, or even that they're angry at all.
These things get the relationship off to a bad start, then it goes downhill from there. The initial level of impairment and how much they've overcome determines how much time passes before the inevitable. For me, it was around 6 months, like clockwork. Luckily, after about 20 years, I've largely defeated it, partially through learning by brute force trial and error, partially by becoming a consultant.
AS sucks, mainly because those affected appear mostly normal. Please learn to recognize the signs in other people and cut them some slack. And if you think you have it, pick up Tony Atwood's book: The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome. This book could save your job and your marriage.
When my wife and I first read these instructions way back, we laughed out loud, then decided never to buy CFLs. Over the last 15 years, we've lost count of the number of light bulbs our kids have broken. The idea of having each one be a potential (even likely) exposure to hazardous materials for the family and the house is just not acceptable. We live in chicago. Every time I read "open the windows for 15 minutes or more", my response is, "In January when it's -10?" So much for energy savings.
I have so many what-ifs for this it's ridiculous. What if it's January? What if we have a bagless vacuum cleaner? What if you don't see the breakage before a kid/pet gets into it? (ever had broken glass from a lightbulb in your foot? It's happened to all of us.) What if you don't have the required jar or plastic bag handy? What if you don't have the required tape handy? What if the tape lifts the finish from your wood floors? What if residue remains in your carpet? What if you miss a spot cleaning? What if you don't find the broken light in your kids' room until the next day?
I'm also a woodworker. Incandescent light bulbs aren't just nice, they're required for some things. Turning for example, creates a wagon-wheel effect from the flickering of florescent bulbs.
amazon has feet?
Yes. They are unde-feet-ed.
... even if it is a bit assholeish. It sends a loud and clear message to the NC government that the legislation will hurt local businesses.