How would you get informed consent out of an infant? And I don't see how this is any worse than mom and dad popping in the home movies of little junior taking his first bath -- and showing his prom date.
I don't think evolution has anything to do with babytalk at all. And as far as everyone else's natural instincts -- after seeing what can pass for "common sense" in the world, then "yes", I think I do know better.
My logic was that the child hears "normal" adult speech everywhere else to the point of being immersed in it. Conversations between my wife, myself, my kids, and anyone else are all "normal" speech. Baby talk isn't reinforced at all, whereas "normal" speech is.
We also started teaching the little one ASL (American Sign Language) because kids can more easily communicate. They know what they want to say long before their little mouths and vocal cords can form the proper words.
At a year old my little one could not only say they wanted a drink, but would specify milk, water, orange juice or apple juice and would correct us if we brought the wrong one. All that in ASL, long before any comprehensible speech.
Because normal speech is what the child hears when anyone else converses. If I or my wife are speaking to each other, or to the other kids, or on the phone, etc. it is all "normal" speech. I assumed, rightly or wrongly, that "baby talk" would add an element of confusion for the child as it isn't reinforced by what they are immersed in.
I'm still working on "expose the childhood". Do you mean "exploit"? I'm hoping you didn't mean "expose the manhood", then he would not only need Freud, but a good lawyer!
Your post is an anecdote. He collected data. This is a story, and there an important difference.
As for not being obvious about the short sentences... with my youngest son (4th child, now 20 months old), I made the conscious decision not only "no baby talk", but talk in full sentences just like I do to adults.
I may say things 3 different ways, as well as point, draw and demonstrate but I still talk in normal adult-level conversation. You know, one step above PC tech support.:-)
I remember Volcker. He was one of Carter's men that Reagan retained. There have been many books written on Volker as head of the Fed, and not all agree on the motives and methodologies.
Had action been taken sooner, the relief might have come while Carter was still in office and Reagan might not have won. Who knows.
I still say that if the primary objective of a central bank is to maintain the stability of the currency, the Federal Reserve has done a poor job.
Although Mercury is not tidally locked to the Sun, its rotational period is tidally coupled to its orbital period. Mercury rotates one and a half times during each orbit. Because of this 3:2 resonance, a day on Mercury (sun rise to sun rise) is 176 Earth days long.
Actually, he's scheduled for next Thursday on the puppy clubbing list. Apple is running a bit behind with both Steve Jobs and possibly Jonathan Ive out.
The recessions of the 1970s and 1980s were fairly painful to people at the time. Add in the oil crisis of the the 1970s and it wasn't pretty at all. There were plenty of others.
While Wikipedia splits them at 1930, if you want to compare the results of the Fed's presence, start the split at 1913.
It is hard to make and apples-to-apples comparison by straight numbers, because of the differences in the way various numbers (like employment stats) were figured. Also, the differences in the economy and the "speed" at which things happen in todays world of modern communication are factors.
I'm not against Central Banking, per se. I just don't believe the "independent" Fed is either effective or in the bests interest of the nation.
Watch "Money as Debt", "Money as Debt 2" and "The Secrets of Oz" for an enlightening argument on the alternative of Congress directly issuing currency as value, instead of borrowing it as debt.
You can find them on YouTube, if you don't want to buy the DVDs on my say so.:-)
My point was, the evidence of the past 2 centuries does not bear out your argument. The advent of central banking in the United States has not significantly reduced the number of nor severity of economic "panics".
You linked to a list of bank panics of the 19th Century, but neglected to differentiate between the ones that occurred with and without central banks. You also didn't compare and contrast to a list of bank panics in the 20th Century, after the creation of the Fed.
You said "this was bad" and "here is the fix", but didn't actually look at any evidence of whether or not the fix WORKED. And in this last post you resort to ad hominem attacks.
Except we had the First Bank of the United States and the Second Bank of the United States, which were essentially central banks and they didn't help.
And the Fed not only didn't help avert the Great Depression, they admitted to making it worse thru over contraction of the monetary supply.
Considering the number of recessions, the modern name for bank panic, after the creation of the Fed, what exactly is your argument? They certainly haven't either slowed down or flattened out the severity of any, including the current, the ones in the 1980s and all the ones past.
I've also noticed that compared to a microwave oven, tablets are mediocre at thawing frozen dinners.
You just need to boost the power of the WiFi signal. There's an app for that. If that doesn't work, there are a couple OEM wifi mini-pci cards that have higher power outputs that might do the trick.
Pictures I'm not overly concerned about, because I tag them properly with EXIF information. Besides date and event, I'll put in people's names and notes.
My main file server, where anything not in immediate use is stored, is organized mostly for human convenience. That is, a tree-hierarchy of folders.
media media/video media/video/movies media/video/tv media/video/shorts media/video/educational media/audio media/audio/music media/audio/drama media/audio/comedy media/audio/educational media/pictures media/pictures/family (with various subfolders like "zoo", "picnic", "christmas 2010", etc.) documents documents/work/[person's name] documents/school/[person's name] documents/misc web/[site name] programming/[person's name]/project family history/ misc/
At the end of the year, or when I do a mass data import, I spend more time getting the meta-data and tags correct than anything else. All of my audio and video are properly tagged. Ditto for any documents.
Almost all video is accessed with "smart" programs, like Amarok or XBMC which automatically pull in things like lyrics, trailers, cover art, etc. That stuff is almost never accessed thru the directory tree. The interfaces on the programs are way too good -- assuming the stuff is properly tagged.
The web and programming folders are basically.tar.gz files that are backed up and copied over (drag-n-drop via smb mounted share). They're archives of whatever project someone is working on their local system. I've set up cron/scheduled tasks to update those daily on everyone's PCs, even the kids.
Most media folders are read-only, to prevent accidental deletion. My account is the master and I can upload stuff there, but I don't want accidents from people wanting to just watch a movie. 600+ DVDs/BluRays, including movies, educational & television shows all on a 2 Tb file server in h.264 format. All *music* is FLAC format, with Amarok auto-transcoding if people want to transfer to an iPod. All other audio, like drama/comedy/educational is 128 Kbps MP3 for ease of streaming. And old comedy albums aren't exactly THX-quality to begin with.
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A brilliant troll, this post. Pick the one movie that comes the closest to getting it right and see how many slashdotters choke on their replies.
Much more fun to interrupt their proxy-penis waving with a few well placed headshots.
"Dual $700 cards, huh? How come you still suck?" *BOOM* headshot
How would you get informed consent out of an infant? And I don't see how this is any worse than mom and dad popping in the home movies of little junior taking his first bath -- and showing his prom date.
I don't think evolution has anything to do with babytalk at all. And as far as everyone else's natural instincts -- after seeing what can pass for "common sense" in the world, then "yes", I think I do know better.
My logic was that the child hears "normal" adult speech everywhere else to the point of being immersed in it. Conversations between my wife, myself, my kids, and anyone else are all "normal" speech. Baby talk isn't reinforced at all, whereas "normal" speech is.
We also started teaching the little one ASL (American Sign Language) because kids can more easily communicate. They know what they want to say long before their little mouths and vocal cords can form the proper words.
At a year old my little one could not only say they wanted a drink, but would specify milk, water, orange juice or apple juice and would correct us if we brought the wrong one. All that in ASL, long before any comprehensible speech.
Because normal speech is what the child hears when anyone else converses. If I or my wife are speaking to each other, or to the other kids, or on the phone, etc. it is all "normal" speech. I assumed, rightly or wrongly, that "baby talk" would add an element of confusion for the child as it isn't reinforced by what they are immersed in.
Do you mean Freud, as in Sigmund Freud?
I'm still working on "expose the childhood". Do you mean "exploit"? I'm hoping you didn't mean "expose the manhood", then he would not only need Freud, but a good lawyer!
Your post is an anecdote. He collected data. This is a story, and there an important difference.
As for not being obvious about the short sentences... with my youngest son (4th child, now 20 months old), I made the conscious decision not only "no baby talk", but talk in full sentences just like I do to adults.
I may say things 3 different ways, as well as point, draw and demonstrate but I still talk in normal adult-level conversation. You know, one step above PC tech support. :-)
You might want to actually READ the one in the U.S. for an answer to that. Specifically Article V, Amendment.
http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html#Article5
I remember Volcker. He was one of Carter's men that Reagan retained. There have been many books written on Volker as head of the Fed, and not all agree on the motives and methodologies.
Had action been taken sooner, the relief might have come while Carter was still in office and Reagan might not have won. Who knows.
I still say that if the primary objective of a central bank is to maintain the stability of the currency, the Federal Reserve has done a poor job.
The bulk of legislators and judges are/were lawyers. The entire system is designed to perpetually create work for lawyers.
Supply and Demand be damned, this is a command economy in this respect with the legislators and judges creating more demand every day.
I'm sorry, but if you're trying to garner sympathy for workers being displaced by technology, you're going to have to do better than lawyers.
Paraphrasing an old joke,
Q. What do you call an out of work lawyer?
A. A good start.
I don't know. I was hoping you'd read it and tell me. :-)
Well, in the tradition of something as old school as the timezone database, why don't you RTFA?
No.
Although Mercury is not tidally locked to the Sun, its rotational period is tidally coupled to its orbital period. Mercury rotates one and a half times during each orbit. Because of this 3:2 resonance, a day on Mercury (sun rise to sun rise) is 176 Earth days long.
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/mercury.htm
Actually, he's scheduled for next Thursday on the puppy clubbing list. Apple is running a bit behind with both Steve Jobs and possibly Jonathan Ive out.
Can you imagine Hugo Chavez with his 5-10 hour speeches broken into 140 characters?
Unlimited text messaging would soon become a human right in Venezuela!
I beg your pardon, but the art of haberdashery has evolved considerably in Luxembourg! This beastly chappeau on Princess Alexandra not-with-standing.
No, not really. You sound young. :-)
The recessions of the 1970s and 1980s were fairly painful to people at the time. Add in the oil crisis of the the 1970s and it wasn't pretty at all. There were plenty of others.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recessions_in_the_United_States
While Wikipedia splits them at 1930, if you want to compare the results of the Fed's presence, start the split at 1913.
It is hard to make and apples-to-apples comparison by straight numbers, because of the differences in the way various numbers (like employment stats) were figured. Also, the differences in the economy and the "speed" at which things happen in todays world of modern communication are factors.
I'm not against Central Banking, per se. I just don't believe the "independent" Fed is either effective or in the bests interest of the nation.
Watch "Money as Debt", "Money as Debt 2" and "The Secrets of Oz" for an enlightening argument on the alternative of Congress directly issuing currency as value, instead of borrowing it as debt.
You can find them on YouTube, if you don't want to buy the DVDs on my say so. :-)
My point was, the evidence of the past 2 centuries does not bear out your argument. The advent of central banking in the United States has not significantly reduced the number of nor severity of economic "panics".
You linked to a list of bank panics of the 19th Century, but neglected to differentiate between the ones that occurred with and without central banks. You also didn't compare and contrast to a list of bank panics in the 20th Century, after the creation of the Fed.
You said "this was bad" and "here is the fix", but didn't actually look at any evidence of whether or not the fix WORKED. And in this last post you resort to ad hominem attacks.
Except we had the First Bank of the United States and the Second Bank of the United States, which were essentially central banks and they didn't help.
And the Fed not only didn't help avert the Great Depression, they admitted to making it worse thru over contraction of the monetary supply.
Considering the number of recessions, the modern name for bank panic, after the creation of the Fed, what exactly is your argument? They certainly haven't either slowed down or flattened out the severity of any, including the current, the ones in the 1980s and all the ones past.
I believe his exact argument was "KaChing!" with some fist pumping gestures.
Bah! The wireless is only in the 2.4 GHz spectrum. They left out the 802.11a/n 5 GHz bits.
Can you tell me if the wifi is provided by a mini-PCI or mini-PCIe card? If so, I could replace it with something proper that does both 2.4 & 5 GHz.
I've also noticed that compared to a microwave oven, tablets are mediocre at thawing frozen dinners.
You just need to boost the power of the WiFi signal. There's an app for that. If that doesn't work, there are a couple OEM wifi mini-pci cards that have higher power outputs that might do the trick.
Pictures I'm not overly concerned about, because I tag them properly with EXIF information. Besides date and event, I'll put in people's names and notes.
Tags are fantastic, if you use them.
My main file server, where anything not in immediate use is stored, is organized mostly for human convenience. That is, a tree-hierarchy of folders.
media
media/video
media/video/movies
media/video/tv
media/video/shorts
media/video/educational
media/audio
media/audio/music
media/audio/drama
media/audio/comedy
media/audio/educational
media/pictures
media/pictures/family (with various subfolders like "zoo", "picnic", "christmas 2010", etc.)
documents
documents/work/[person's name]
documents/school/[person's name]
documents/misc
web/[site name]
programming/[person's name]/project
family history/
misc/
At the end of the year, or when I do a mass data import, I spend more time getting the meta-data and tags correct than anything else. All of my audio and video are properly tagged. Ditto for any documents.
Almost all video is accessed with "smart" programs, like Amarok or XBMC which automatically pull in things like lyrics, trailers, cover art, etc. That stuff is almost never accessed thru the directory tree. The interfaces on the programs are way too good -- assuming the stuff is properly tagged.
The web and programming folders are basically .tar.gz files that are backed up and copied over (drag-n-drop via smb mounted share). They're archives of whatever project someone is working on their local system. I've set up cron/scheduled tasks to update those daily on everyone's PCs, even the kids.
Most media folders are read-only, to prevent accidental deletion. My account is the master and I can upload stuff there, but I don't want accidents from people wanting to just watch a movie. 600+ DVDs/BluRays, including movies, educational & television shows all on a 2 Tb file server in h.264 format. All *music* is FLAC format, with Amarok auto-transcoding if people want to transfer to an iPod. All other audio, like drama/comedy/educational is 128 Kbps MP3 for ease of streaming. And old comedy albums aren't exactly THX-quality to begin with.