Hope they have lots of parking space for those airplanes, because they're going to pile up fast. And they're also going to be out of circulation for who knows how long?
The military doesn't seem to have the same extensive behavioral problems. Then again, when people join the military, it's not just a job and a paycheck/
I disagree. There should be an elevation of discipline that should start with a written warning and ending with suspension and/or loss of their job should the issue be repeated. The loss of their pension and benefits will be intensive enough to keep it from happening.
Bullcrap. With greater power comes greater responsibility. Showing you can't handle the power responsibly is just cause for being fired, same as any other job (if not more so because we're talking about people armed with guns, tasers, pepper spray, etc).
Or do you consider everyone with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as insane?
Yes, they have a mental disorder and thus are classified insane.
Just because you take offence of the word doesn't mean it has changed or should change its meaning.
All people who are insane have a mental disorder, but not everyone who has a mental disorder is insane.
Look at any trial where they're trying to decide if the accused was insane, as opposed to just having a mental disorder.
Considering that 18.6% of adults have a mental illness in any particular year, you may want to reconsider your position. Even if we limit ourselves to serious mental illness, that's still more than 1 in 25 people. Serious mental illness does not equate to insanity. People with PTSD, Major Depressive Disorder, Anxiety Disorder, etc. do not suffer from a "serious break with reality". They are not insane.
I don't particularly see how Manning "perceives himself" has anything to do with this. The statue is about how we perceive Manning, and it's as the man who released important information about US corruption to the world, no matter how insane Manning may have gone since being illegally held in solitary.
First, if the statues were to be about how we perceive the protagonists, the voting would probably have Assange cast as a horse's rear end.
Second, the American Psychiatric Association now no longer labels transsexuals as having a "gender identity disorder". Only took them 40 years to give transsexuals the same consideration they gave the rest of the LGBT. Also, even if this were not the case, there's a difference between having a mental disorder and being insane. Or do you consider everyone with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as insane?
The idea for the statue came from Mr Dormino and Charles Glass, an American author, journalist and broadcaster. British journalist Vaughan Smith, with whom Mr Assange stayed while he was on bail in 2010, is organising the Kickstarter campaign.
It's a dumb idea on the face of it. And if the intention is to "honor" or otherwise commemorate the three, they're doing it wrong:
Mr Dormino faced a difficult decision over how to depict Ms Manning, who was known as Bradley Manning when convicted of espionage for passing classified documents to WikiLeaks. The former soldier will be shown as she appeared "at the time when the facts took place", the organisers wrote in reply to a question on the Kickstarter page. "This is also motivated by the fact that the artist could not get enough portraits of her actual look to make a realistic portrait."
What, as an artist he couldn't just extrapolate, or use the pic on wikepedia on how manning perceives herself?
Why not. Actually, I downloaded the Android Studio 1.0 to see if it was any better than the beta version (which kind of sucked, but that's just my opinion). Haven't gotten around to installing it yet, though.
Not to Godwin a discussion, but same argument for the research the Nazis did on twins. Some of it is good, useful information. But nobody will touch it because of its source.
The same happened with the post-war discovery of their research into how immersion in ice-cold water affected humans, by forcing jews to sit immersed in ice-cold tubs (and adding more ice as the ice melted). This started a debate about whether it would be ethical to use the results in studies on how to deal with hypothermia.
On a side note, related to your original post, I think we're very close to "peak app." Everyone and their dog who is getting downsized, right-sized, fired, is chasing the "I'll make an app" mirage. Just look at recent "ask slashdot" questions...
When there are too many apps in a category, instead of taking the time to explore, you're just going to try the ones with the most users, so the more apps there are, the less effectively new ones can compete. The first mover advantage is SO gone.
That isn't going to help with today's users (esp. kids). The way they take pics and videos, they're going to constantly be deleting old stuff to make room.
8 gig used to be unimaginably large. Now it's the bare minimum. Give them 64 gig, they'll fill it up - videos they've shot, videos from youtube, whatever. Video (esp. cat videos) will always expand to exceed capacity.
What if those communications are contained in your phone, tablet, laptop or home computer. Sounds like they can seize all that without a warrant as well...
IDE menus and status bars don't take up that much room on a 26" screen, so a fair amount of the "real content" is going to be above eye level, as opposed to a few inches in landscape mode (and I would prefer that that be below eye level as well but maybe that's just me). Wait until your peripheral vision starts going and you might agree with me (same as 2 monitors is becoming a bit of a problem as well).
I don't get the "it causes neck strain" argument. My eyes rotate so I can look up and down. Don't yours?
Try looking significantly above eye level for long periods of time. It's the same thing as all those people who were using monitor stands "back in the day".
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Hope they have lots of parking space for those airplanes, because they're going to pile up fast. And they're also going to be out of circulation for who knows how long?
I suffer from some mental issues (agorafobia, social anxiety). And I do consider myself a little bit insane !
Neither of those mental disorders qualifies as insanity.
The problem is that by the time a state of emergency is declared and the logistics set up, it will be too late.
The military doesn't seem to have the same extensive behavioral problems. Then again, when people join the military, it's not just a job and a paycheck/
I disagree. There should be an elevation of discipline that should start with a written warning and ending with suspension and/or loss of their job should the issue be repeated. The loss of their pension and benefits will be intensive enough to keep it from happening.
Bullcrap. With greater power comes greater responsibility. Showing you can't handle the power responsibly is just cause for being fired, same as any other job (if not more so because we're talking about people armed with guns, tasers, pepper spray, etc).
Unlike members of the LGBT, pedophiles who act on their urges cause lasting harm to their victims, who are by definition incapable of consent.
Yes, they have a mental disorder and thus are classified insane.
Just because you take offence of the word doesn't mean it has changed or should change its meaning.
All people who are insane have a mental disorder, but not everyone who has a mental disorder is insane.
Look at any trial where they're trying to decide if the accused was insane, as opposed to just having a mental disorder.
Considering that 18.6% of adults have a mental illness in any particular year, you may want to reconsider your position. Even if we limit ourselves to serious mental illness, that's still more than 1 in 25 people. Serious mental illness does not equate to insanity. People with PTSD, Major Depressive Disorder, Anxiety Disorder, etc. do not suffer from a "serious break with reality". They are not insane.
1. How many people would even bother taking it to court?
2. The requirement to be hooked up to the muni water system was upheld.
If females were truly tougher or more resilient than males, shouldn't it have been me who died an untimely death and not my sister?
Here, let me fix that for you ...
If females were truly tougher or more resilient on average than males, shouldn't it have been me who died an untimely death and not my sister?
Averages describe a population. What you're describing is individuals. Variances in individuals in a population allow for both to be true.
It's one of those YMMV things.
But you're right when people continue to suppose that evolution has a "purpose," as if there's some guiding will or something.
I don't particularly see how Manning "perceives himself" has anything to do with this. The statue is about how we perceive Manning, and it's as the man who released important information about US corruption to the world, no matter how insane Manning may have gone since being illegally held in solitary.
First, if the statues were to be about how we perceive the protagonists, the voting would probably have Assange cast as a horse's rear end.
Second, the American Psychiatric Association now no longer labels transsexuals as having a "gender identity disorder". Only took them 40 years to give transsexuals the same consideration they gave the rest of the LGBT. Also, even if this were not the case, there's a difference between having a mental disorder and being insane. Or do you consider everyone with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as insane?
FTFA:
The idea for the statue came from Mr Dormino and Charles Glass, an American author, journalist and broadcaster. British journalist Vaughan Smith, with whom Mr Assange stayed while he was on bail in 2010, is organising the Kickstarter campaign.
It's a dumb idea on the face of it. And if the intention is to "honor" or otherwise commemorate the three, they're doing it wrong:
Mr Dormino faced a difficult decision over how to depict Ms Manning, who was known as Bradley Manning when convicted of espionage for passing classified documents to WikiLeaks. The former soldier will be shown as she appeared "at the time when the facts took place", the organisers wrote in reply to a question on the Kickstarter page. "This is also motivated by the fact that the artist could not get enough portraits of her actual look to make a realistic portrait."
What, as an artist he couldn't just extrapolate, or use the pic on wikepedia on how manning perceives herself?
Why not. Actually, I downloaded the Android Studio 1.0 to see if it was any better than the beta version (which kind of sucked, but that's just my opinion). Haven't gotten around to installing it yet, though.
you are welcome to your anal leakage.
Citation required or put a plug in it! And no butts!
So maybe you should complain to them instead of spamming stories? Or are you waiting for Bennett Whats-his-name to comment?
The Nazi "experiments" were hardly "scientific", or even "sciency."
Not to Godwin a discussion, but same argument for the research the Nazis did on twins. Some of it is good, useful information. But nobody will touch it because of its source.
The same happened with the post-war discovery of their research into how immersion in ice-cold water affected humans, by forcing jews to sit immersed in ice-cold tubs (and adding more ice as the ice melted). This started a debate about whether it would be ethical to use the results in studies on how to deal with hypothermia.
^^^ Nice.
On a side note, related to your original post, I think we're very close to "peak app." Everyone and their dog who is getting downsized, right-sized, fired, is chasing the "I'll make an app" mirage. Just look at recent "ask slashdot" questions ...
When there are too many apps in a category, instead of taking the time to explore, you're just going to try the ones with the most users, so the more apps there are, the less effectively new ones can compete. The first mover advantage is SO gone.
8 gig used to be unimaginably large. Now it's the bare minimum. Give them 64 gig, they'll fill it up - videos they've shot, videos from youtube, whatever. Video (esp. cat videos) will always expand to exceed capacity.
What if those communications are contained in your phone, tablet, laptop or home computer. Sounds like they can seize all that without a warrant as well ...
IDE menus and status bars don't take up that much room on a 26" screen, so a fair amount of the "real content" is going to be above eye level, as opposed to a few inches in landscape mode (and I would prefer that that be below eye level as well but maybe that's just me). Wait until your peripheral vision starts going and you might agree with me (same as 2 monitors is becoming a bit of a problem as well).
And when you throw them in jail they post about their "living the good life" smoking pot and drinking $250 bottles of cognacon facebook. Of course, they haven't met up with this Canadian street gang yet.
i think he is saying you need to use an IBM model M
Doesn't everybody? (sigh)
I don't get the "it causes neck strain" argument. My eyes rotate so I can look up and down. Don't yours?
Try looking significantly above eye level for long periods of time. It's the same thing as all those people who were using monitor stands "back in the day".
Write louder, I'm going deaf!
IS THIS BETTER ???
It's like tires - you need to rotate them in the opposite direction once in a while :-)