Re:Theres no scientific proof for any of this.
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FUCK YOU!!!!!!
Seriously, the phsychological and medical community has settled on a YES answer. These are folks who either: a) Went to Medical school. b) Studied graduate level psychology.
Your tendency towards hubris and arrogance has been noted. Next time, please READ the case FOR before passing judgement. We point to life long experts, you point to your own ignorance.
To a certain extent your "I've noted some symptoms but was able to overcome, therefore your a whining victim" is attributable to narcissitic tendencies. YOU in your limited anecdotal instance could overcome. That doesn't mean that the weight of scientific evidence should be trumped by your uncontrolled, egotistic self observation.
Again... FUCK YOU, GO EDUCATE YOURSELF FIRST!!!
If you DON'T see it still, FUCK YOU EVEN MORE, you havnen't LISTENED.
Re:Theres no scientific proof for any of this.
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Good analogy.
Think of ADD as being in a vaulted church with intense (echoed) acoustics. Everything that's said reverberates and bounces and echoes.
If your not ADD, try turning EAX audio on your sound card to "Cathedral" then try an audio chat with someone while your MP3s are playing. You'll get an idea of what it's like.
Non-ADD is like being in a sound studio with those sound-damening walls. Everything is crisp and clear.
The anti-ADD is probably obsessive compulsive disorder. This is where you are so extraordinarily focused on something and CANNOT stop when you want to (See "As Good As it Gets" for reference). In fact excessive use of stimulants can lead to OCD like behavior (tweaking).
I found that after I started taking Adderall my driving patterns changed. I used to play "Grand Prix" all the time. Now I obey the speed limit and enjoy the scenery. No use endandering others.
When I DON'T take it for some reason (missed the doctor at the office) I find that I start back on the Grand Prix circuit. Fast driving is just plain stimulating, waiting to get their is boring ???
The research pertains to sleep deprivation PERIOD. This can be from stimulants or simple scheduling problems.
Indeed it is necessary to watch your sleep patterns when taking ANY stimulant. That ESPECIALLY concerns the #1 abused drug in our country. No, it's not alcohol, it's caffiene.
People who take prescription stimulants are told by their doctors not to take it after a certain time. You get an idea of your particular situation from experience.
Personally, I got stim-free at least once a week to catch up on any sleep deficit that I may be accumulating through the week.
ADD/HD folk have a natural tendency to self-medicate as their brain is constantly crying out for stimulation. This may initially start with caffiene and cigarettes and progress through marijauna and other "HARD" drugs.
Now, you must remember that your dealing with a segment of people who untreated tend to gravitate towards substance abuse. Studies have been done regarding how ADDers faired when treated with stimulant medication. They found that those treated with stimulants were FAR LESS LIKELY to engage in elicit drug use than untreated ADDers.
See www.chadd.org
The thing about eating healthy is cool. Caffiene does indeed cause a "buzz" that turns into a drain. And eating large amounts of simple carbo-hydrates does lead to energy drains that can mimic the symptoms of genuine ADD.
But the idea that you can wrap this up and explain away all ADD symptoms is pretty BS.
Re:Please be respectful on this topic
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I challenge you to try this with a psychiatrist. He'll see RIGHT THROUGH YOU. ADD/HD people behave in very particular ways to certain stimulus.
You'd have to be a very good actor with a VERY good understanding of the symptoms to pass. You however, have little understanding of the disorder. Otherwise, you wouldn't claim it has "no quantifiable physiological manifestations".
Go ahead, try, I double dog dare you.;-) Beyond that, the stuff isn't cheap and it's likely cheaper to score from a dealer than from a pharmacy (unless your insured that is;-))
This is actually an ADHD symptom. I too have hyper-sensitive ears and used to listen to the TV at three or four notches above mute. Whenever people got remotely louder I used to turn the volume DOWN immediately. Other people watching could not hear AT ALL when I did this.
Likewise, before the Adderrall I had serious trouble talking to someone if their were other voices around or sounds around. The problem isn't in the pickup, it's in the processing. Your catching TOO MANY distracting sounds. You've got too many processes running attempting to decipher TOO MANY things.
If you have ADHD, you can't control this, your brain does this automatically. You know what, I bet you walk really quietly as well, right? This is a hunters behavior you keep your ears on EVERYTHING to scan for prey (or predators) while maintaining yourself as quiet as possible. It comes off looking a bit paranoid at times, but it really isn't.
Then why aren't the various SSRI (Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, etc...) anti-depressants also indicated for attention deficit? Why not simply prescribe Prozac for EVERYTHING, it's off patent so it's a LOT cheaper now (much to the chagrin of Eli Lilly Co.).
I think your conjecture is overly broad and doesn't make ANY sense in ANY context. There are OTHER brain chemicals BESIDES Seratonin. Surely, THEY have some influence on behavior as well.
NEVER go to a doctor and ask for a SPECIFIC medication. This is completely the WRONG FOCUS. You tell the doctor what's going on and why you believe you have xxx condition, he prescribes what's right for you based on his training and experience.
The doctor doesn't come to you and tell you how to write source code, which compiler to use, etc... Don't get all up in his and tell him that you NEED xxx medication.
Re:FOR PARENTS WHO ARE DRUGGING THEIR CHILDREN
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They will address ALL of these issues. This is an organization that is made up of ADDers and their families, not drug companies.
It will also address the Church of Scientology's(El Ron Hubbard (Dianetics (Zimbu the Monkey God))) effort to discredit the entirety of Phsychiatric medicine through proxy sham organizations. Their take is that everyone should be using Dianetics instead of visiting qualified medical doctors.
BTW, when it comes to management of children, doctors really aren't the experts anyway. TEACHERS are the real experts. Until you've dealt with some of these extreme problem children in a classroom situation, you should keep your mouth shut.
Go ahead, go be a sub-teacher for a while. I DARE YOU!!! I DOUBLE DOG DARE YOU!!!!!!! We'll see what YOU think at the end of the first day;-)
When I was an undergrad, I had trouble, and I read the "traditional" books about planning and structure. This is all very Cover-Esque stuff. Make a schedule, prepare a work area, blah, blah, blah, blah. Did all that.
What I found out is after going through these procedures, I would sit in front of my books and my well planned work area and roll my eyes of the text. I would read maybe a paragraph and then my mind would travel someplace else. Again, and again, FOCUS, FOCUS, TRY HARDER, TRY HARDER. All to NO AVAIL!!!!!
Likewise, I would go to lectures and sit quietly, my mind would simply drift off. No sleeping involved, sitting straight and upright, willfully ATTEMPTING to absorb information presented by the professor. The mind just goes and does it's own thing.
What you eventually figure out is that you can only get work done effectively at certain times. The times I could ALWAYS work is NEAR the very end of the deadline. Lots of all-nighters. And you'd be accomplished what I could do in a single 4 hour stretch, what took others 12. This does catch up to you however.
Now, you and others may call me lazy. To that I say... "FUCK YOU - IGNORANT, ARROGANT ASS HOLE!!!!" My mind didn't work right and all your stupid Covey shit just made things worse. It's like advising someone to throw water on a fire and then learning it was a GREASE FIRE!!!!!!
So please, stop advising people to throw water on grease fires. At least try to discover the nature of the blaze before prescribing the method of extinguishment. If your not versed in the various types of fire, you may want to read a book. Be wary though, you may have already burned the necessary volume already through arrogance;-)
It IS a good book. But I personally don't believe that ADD/HD is a genetic defficiency.
Our species evolved on the plains of Africa where the ability to notice both predators AND prey is a BIG advantage. ADDers are both creative AND inventive. We are inherently DIVERGENT in nature and that produces new variations of techniques and practices.
Name ANY truly great inventor, musician, artist and I'll gauruntee that MOST were ADD. Non-ADD folks don't see any need to change things that work just OK. The side effect is that we make shitty accountants and administrators.
The bitch is that our world is structured by those with deep structure, non-ADDers. School is a boring catalogue of disconnected factoids instead of an adventure of knowledge. Both white and blue collar work is often a mechanized process devoid of creativity and individuality. Gone is the endless variation of hunting terrains and creatures that bred the ADD mind.
So... we need drugs to get us by. At least until we get a position with creative control. Even then, secretaries (and wives) help;-)
Re:alternatives and cultural rant ahead...
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in reality, their only problem is probably that they're not properly trained to sit and listen
Yeah, you should know. You've never sat and LISTENED to descriptions of the issue. You need to SIT and LISTEN. In addition, you need to LEARN. If thats not enough, perhaps you should read a book or some scientifically controlled studies.
BTW, LISTENING entails more than waiting for your turn to speak;-)
This book should be the National Anthem for Adults with ADD.
If you read it and DON'T identify with it, you don't have ADD. If you DO identify with it, you DO have it.
Seriously, I think that they should develop some comic books to diagnose kids with ADD. If they identify strongly with ADD characters, thats about the best diagnoses possible.
Of course, this is provided that your not a hypo-chondriate to begin with (see the movie "Bandits" for an excellent example of a hypo-chrondriate potrayed by Billy Bob "Sling Blade" Thornton).
Re:alternatives and cultural rant ahead...
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As a rule putting 5 year olds on psycho-active medications is to be avoided. However, some cases are extreme. I have no idea what such a case entailed and neither do you.
Before second guessing an MD you should: 1) Know all the factors in the case. 2) Have gone to Med School and become equally qualified as the doctor in question.
Seriously the doctor doesn't come around and tell you which compiler switches to turn on for your Linux builds. Why would you be presumptious to second guess their educated opinions?
ADD folks have no lack of "focus" persee. They have an inability to DIRECT one's focus. It's really hard for lay persons to buy because your average ADD can play a video game for 12 hours straight stopping only for caffiene and bathroom breaks.
It really should be called: Directed Focus Deficit... and... Directed Focus Deficit and Bouncing off the Walls;-)
Regarding the caffiene, don't do it. It has a nice kick but quickly drags you down.
By this I take it if I beat the fucking shit out of you, you'll read and contemplate before opening your ignorant hole.
BTW, ADDers excel at high-intensity activities like martial arts. Let me know when you want me to beat you to a pulp and grant you humility;-)
Re:Hasn't really been a problem
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Caffiene and Ritalin/Adderrall is effectively different flavors of stimulants (speed).
The ADD/ADHD brain lacks an "internal" stimulation. Sufferers are forced to look outside for sources of stimulation. For this crowd excellent example in this case is video games or a difficult problem. For others it could be fast driving, para-chuting, base jumping, flying, raving, kick-boxing, etc...
Not all stimulants are created equal however. Caffiene is notoriously ADDICTIVE and while it provides an immediate "kick" it bombs out pretty drastically leaving worse off than you started. Many people suffer migraines if they stop taking caffiene.
In the long run, I would say that caffiene makes ADD symptoms worse. This is from someone who WAS addicted to caffiene. I now take an extended release adderall and it's a world better than a caffinated beverage.
Furthermore, unlike caffiene, ADD prescribed medications are not physically/chemically addictive. That is you don't suffer physical withdrawal (naseau, cramps, migraines) like you do with Caffiene. Those of you scoffing at this remark... just try to go a week without your periodic caffiene "fix" and see what happens;-)
Police officers receive special training that enables them to operate their crusiers in such mode without posing unreasonable risks to safety.
Basically, police on duty are allowed to break MOST traffic regulations. It's not a "I'm above the law" thing. It's a "Overall Public Safety" by allowing an officer to get where he needs to be ASAP.
Seriously, the criminals don't bother with stop signs and other such annoyances. A police officer that is ALWAYS playing civilian is at a serious disadvantage. I would almost consider their "rule bending" as preparation for pursuits when their are on rules at all.
The big exception to all this is that they SHOULDN'T bend the rules when they're OFF-DUTY!!!!! An off-duty officer should strictly obey the law. It AVOIDS inter-jurisdictional scandals when one municipality pulls over an officer from another jurisdiction.
My locality recently had a situation where the Sheriff's brother (also a county cop) was pulled over TWICE for drunk driving by a city cop. Ultimately they brokered a deal where the officer would be able to FINISH his career. Personally, I thought this was BS!!!! A drunk driving officer loses ALL credibility.
Cops who generally flaunt the law should be GONE, PERIOD!!!!!
I think OOP is the worst thing that happened to computer science as it put a new conceptual layer insulating it from the lower conceptual layers. Object reuse is used less often than compiled ANSI C libraries, and it has divided the programmers into application and system programmers.
I don't know about you, but when I was in CS school I took a computer architecture class that was REALLY HARD!!!!! CS deals with the way computers work top to bottom.
OO allows one to works on large systems and stay organized. The CEE and EE guys learn programming as well. But I've always noted that their stuff lacked architecture and high-level organization.
If you want to write drivers, you really should be a CEE type. I think most people naturally fall academically where they are best suited.
Regarding kids, start simple. Think LEGO MINDSTORMS. The benefit is that you get an immediate feedback and a sense of control. As one goes along you can start making decisions (if then) etc...
I played with some of these one day at a library and was a bit dissapointed that it did not allow you to write functions. I wanted to start creating higher level operations out of their in-box primitives. This is where one starts seing the benefit of automation.
I can envision a system like virtual battle bots, where one has to program a bot and them watch it do combat autonomously. After a battle, you'd tweak the code and try again. I would even have a debug window up that stepped through the robots code while it was moving (significantly slowed of course).
Deal with input, decision making, construction of complex movements from strings of simple movements. Etc...
The irony is that the more they do stuff like thid, the more they encourage CD replication. They're just pissing people off and making it more likely that listeners will ripp music instead of buying it.
If they truly wanted to stop piracy, they'd lower their prices. This however, would necessitate cuts of the "hangers on" in the middle who add nothing to music, just leach.
Perhaps we should have a "counter-defense" fund. It would be kinda like a telethon.
Basically, we would all go out of our way to copy 10 times the amount of the settlement in CDs. Don't need them, who cares. Just leave them laying at bus stops or something;-)
He could have pleaded the court to delay the case until summer when he could adequetly mount a defense. I'm certain that such a motion would be granted.
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FUCK YOU!!!!!!
... FUCK YOU, GO EDUCATE YOURSELF FIRST!!!
Seriously, the phsychological and medical community has settled on a YES answer. These are folks who either:
a) Went to Medical school.
b) Studied graduate level psychology.
Your tendency towards hubris and arrogance has been noted. Next time, please READ the case FOR before passing judgement. We point to life long experts, you point to your own ignorance.
To a certain extent your "I've noted some symptoms but was able to overcome, therefore your a whining victim" is attributable to narcissitic tendencies. YOU in your limited anecdotal instance could overcome. That doesn't mean that the weight of scientific evidence should be trumped by your uncontrolled, egotistic self observation.
Again
If you DON'T see it still, FUCK YOU EVEN MORE, you havnen't LISTENED.
Good analogy.
Think of ADD as being in a vaulted church with intense (echoed) acoustics. Everything that's said reverberates and bounces and echoes.
If your not ADD, try turning EAX audio on your sound card to "Cathedral" then try an audio chat with someone while your MP3s are playing. You'll get an idea of what it's like.
Non-ADD is like being in a sound studio with those sound-damening walls. Everything is crisp and clear.
The anti-ADD is probably obsessive compulsive disorder. This is where you are so extraordinarily focused on something and CANNOT stop when you want to (See "As Good As it Gets" for reference). In fact excessive use of stimulants can lead to OCD like behavior (tweaking).
You know,
I found that after I started taking Adderall my driving patterns changed. I used to play "Grand Prix" all the time. Now I obey the speed limit and enjoy the scenery. No use endandering others.
When I DON'T take it for some reason (missed the doctor at the office) I find that I start back on the Grand Prix circuit. Fast driving is just plain stimulating, waiting to get their is boring ???
The research pertains to sleep deprivation PERIOD. This can be from stimulants or simple scheduling problems.
Indeed it is necessary to watch your sleep patterns when taking ANY stimulant. That ESPECIALLY concerns the #1 abused drug in our country. No, it's not alcohol, it's caffiene.
People who take prescription stimulants are told by their doctors not to take it after a certain time. You get an idea of your particular situation from experience.
Personally, I got stim-free at least once a week to catch up on any sleep deficit that I may be accumulating through the week.
www.healthcentral.com
I started reading and identified with the stuff I read. I followed up by reading 5 or 6 books and COMPLETELY identifying with everything in them.
This is 100% BULLSHIT!!!!!!!
ADD/HD folk have a natural tendency to self-medicate as their brain is constantly crying out for stimulation. This may initially start with caffiene and cigarettes and progress through marijauna and other "HARD" drugs.
Now, you must remember that your dealing with a segment of people who untreated tend to gravitate towards substance abuse. Studies have been done regarding how ADDers faired when treated with stimulant medication. They found that those treated with stimulants were FAR LESS LIKELY to engage in elicit drug use than untreated ADDers.
See www.chadd.org
The thing about eating healthy is cool. Caffiene does indeed cause a "buzz" that turns into a drain. And eating large amounts of simple carbo-hydrates does lead to energy drains that can mimic the symptoms of genuine ADD.
But the idea that you can wrap this up and explain away all ADD symptoms is pretty BS.
I challenge you to try this with a psychiatrist. He'll see RIGHT THROUGH YOU. ADD/HD people behave in very particular ways to certain stimulus.
;-) Beyond that, the stuff isn't cheap and it's likely cheaper to score from a dealer than from a pharmacy (unless your insured that is ;-))
You'd have to be a very good actor with a VERY good understanding of the symptoms to pass. You however, have little understanding of the disorder. Otherwise, you wouldn't claim it has "no quantifiable physiological manifestations".
Go ahead, try, I double dog dare you.
This is actually an ADHD symptom. I too have hyper-sensitive ears and used to listen to the TV at three or four notches above mute. Whenever people got remotely louder I used to turn the volume DOWN immediately. Other people watching could not hear AT ALL when I did this.
Likewise, before the Adderrall I had serious trouble talking to someone if their were other voices around or sounds around. The problem isn't in the pickup, it's in the processing. Your catching TOO MANY distracting sounds. You've got too many processes running attempting to decipher TOO MANY things.
If you have ADHD, you can't control this, your brain does this automatically. You know what, I bet you walk really quietly as well, right? This is a hunters behavior you keep your ears on EVERYTHING to scan for prey (or predators) while maintaining yourself as quiet as possible. It comes off looking a bit paranoid at times, but it really isn't.
Ummm,
Then why aren't the various SSRI (Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, etc...) anti-depressants also indicated for attention deficit? Why not simply prescribe Prozac for EVERYTHING, it's off patent so it's a LOT cheaper now (much to the chagrin of Eli Lilly Co.).
I think your conjecture is overly broad and doesn't make ANY sense in ANY context. There are OTHER brain chemicals BESIDES Seratonin. Surely, THEY have some influence on behavior as well.
NEVER go to a doctor and ask for a SPECIFIC medication. This is completely the WRONG FOCUS. You tell the doctor what's going on and why you believe you have xxx condition, he prescribes what's right for you based on his training and experience.
The doctor doesn't come to you and tell you how to write source code, which compiler to use, etc... Don't get all up in his and tell him that you NEED xxx medication.
Please visit www.chadd.org
;-)
They will address ALL of these issues. This is an organization that is made up of ADDers and their families, not drug companies.
It will also address the Church of Scientology's(El Ron Hubbard (Dianetics (Zimbu the Monkey God))) effort to discredit the entirety of Phsychiatric medicine through proxy sham organizations. Their take is that everyone should be using Dianetics instead of visiting qualified medical doctors.
BTW, when it comes to management of children, doctors really aren't the experts anyway. TEACHERS are the real experts. Until you've dealt with some of these extreme problem children in a classroom situation, you should keep your mouth shut.
Go ahead, go be a sub-teacher for a while. I DARE YOU!!! I DOUBLE DOG DARE YOU!!!!!!! We'll see what YOU think at the end of the first day
When I was an undergrad, I had trouble, and I read the "traditional" books about planning and structure. This is all very Cover-Esque stuff. Make a schedule, prepare a work area, blah, blah, blah, blah. Did all that.
... "FUCK YOU - IGNORANT, ARROGANT ASS HOLE!!!!" My mind didn't work right and all your stupid Covey shit just made things worse. It's like advising someone to throw water on a fire and then learning it was a GREASE FIRE!!!!!!
;-)
What I found out is after going through these procedures, I would sit in front of my books and my well planned work area and roll my eyes of the text. I would read maybe a paragraph and then my mind would travel someplace else. Again, and again, FOCUS, FOCUS, TRY HARDER, TRY HARDER. All to NO AVAIL!!!!!
Likewise, I would go to lectures and sit quietly, my mind would simply drift off. No sleeping involved, sitting straight and upright, willfully ATTEMPTING to absorb information presented by the professor. The mind just goes and does it's own thing.
What you eventually figure out is that you can only get work done effectively at certain times. The times I could ALWAYS work is NEAR the very end of the deadline. Lots of all-nighters. And you'd be accomplished what I could do in a single 4 hour stretch, what took others 12. This does catch up to you however.
Now, you and others may call me lazy. To that I say
So please, stop advising people to throw water on grease fires. At least try to discover the nature of the blaze before prescribing the method of extinguishment. If your not versed in the various types of fire, you may want to read a book. Be wary though, you may have already burned the necessary volume already through arrogance
It IS a good book. But I personally don't believe that ADD/HD is a genetic defficiency.
... we need drugs to get us by. At least until we get a position with creative control. Even then, secretaries (and wives) help ;-)
Our species evolved on the plains of Africa where the ability to notice both predators AND prey is a BIG advantage. ADDers are both creative AND inventive. We are inherently DIVERGENT in nature and that produces new variations of techniques and practices.
Name ANY truly great inventor, musician, artist and I'll gauruntee that MOST were ADD. Non-ADD folks don't see any need to change things that work just OK. The side effect is that we make shitty accountants and administrators.
The bitch is that our world is structured by those with deep structure, non-ADDers. School is a boring catalogue of disconnected factoids instead of an adventure of knowledge. Both white and blue collar work is often a mechanized process devoid of creativity and individuality. Gone is the endless variation of hunting terrains and creatures that bred the ADD mind.
So
in reality, their only problem is probably that they're not properly trained to sit and listen
;-)
Yeah, you should know. You've never sat and LISTENED to descriptions of the issue. You need to SIT and LISTEN. In addition, you need to LEARN. If thats not enough, perhaps you should read a book or some scientifically controlled studies.
BTW, LISTENING entails more than waiting for your turn to speak
I THIRD this.
This book should be the National Anthem for Adults with ADD.
If you read it and DON'T identify with it, you don't have ADD. If you DO identify with it, you DO have it.
Seriously, I think that they should develop some comic books to diagnose kids with ADD. If they identify strongly with ADD characters, thats about the best diagnoses possible.
Of course, this is provided that your not a hypo-chondriate to begin with (see the movie "Bandits" for an excellent example of a hypo-chrondriate potrayed by Billy Bob "Sling Blade" Thornton).
As a rule putting 5 year olds on psycho-active medications is to be avoided. However, some cases are extreme. I have no idea what such a case entailed and neither do you.
Before second guessing an MD you should:
1) Know all the factors in the case.
2) Have gone to Med School and become equally qualified as the doctor in question.
Seriously the doctor doesn't come around and tell you which compiler switches to turn on for your Linux builds. Why would you be presumptious to second guess their educated opinions?
This is the misnomer. ADD/HD is misnamed.
... and ... Directed Focus Deficit and Bouncing off the Walls ;-)
ADD folks have no lack of "focus" persee. They have an inability to DIRECT one's focus. It's really hard for lay persons to buy because your average ADD can play a video game for 12 hours straight stopping only for caffiene and bathroom breaks.
It really should be called: Directed Focus Deficit
Regarding the caffiene, don't do it. It has a nice kick but quickly drags you down.
By this I take it if I beat the fucking shit out of you, you'll read and contemplate before opening your ignorant hole.
;-)
BTW, ADDers excel at high-intensity activities like martial arts. Let me know when you want me to beat you to a pulp and grant you humility
Caffiene and Ritalin/Adderrall is effectively different flavors of stimulants (speed).
... just try to go a week without your periodic caffiene "fix" and see what happens ;-)
The ADD/ADHD brain lacks an "internal" stimulation. Sufferers are forced to look outside for sources of stimulation. For this crowd excellent example in this case is video games or a difficult problem. For others it could be fast driving, para-chuting, base jumping, flying, raving, kick-boxing, etc...
Not all stimulants are created equal however. Caffiene is notoriously ADDICTIVE and while it provides an immediate "kick" it bombs out pretty drastically leaving worse off than you started. Many people suffer migraines if they stop taking caffiene.
In the long run, I would say that caffiene makes ADD symptoms worse. This is from someone who WAS addicted to caffiene. I now take an extended release adderall and it's a world better than a caffinated beverage.
Furthermore, unlike caffiene, ADD prescribed medications are not physically/chemically addictive. That is you don't suffer physical withdrawal (naseau, cramps, migraines) like you do with Caffiene. Those of you scoffing at this remark
Police officers receive special training that enables them to operate their crusiers in such mode without posing unreasonable risks to safety.
Basically, police on duty are allowed to break MOST traffic regulations. It's not a "I'm above the law" thing. It's a "Overall Public Safety" by allowing an officer to get where he needs to be ASAP.
Seriously, the criminals don't bother with stop signs and other such annoyances. A police officer that is ALWAYS playing civilian is at a serious disadvantage. I would almost consider their "rule bending" as preparation for pursuits when their are on rules at all.
The big exception to all this is that they SHOULDN'T bend the rules when they're OFF-DUTY!!!!! An off-duty officer should strictly obey the law. It AVOIDS inter-jurisdictional scandals when one municipality pulls over an officer from another jurisdiction.
My locality recently had a situation where the Sheriff's brother (also a county cop) was pulled over TWICE for drunk driving by a city cop. Ultimately they brokered a deal where the officer would be able to FINISH his career. Personally, I thought this was BS!!!! A drunk driving officer loses ALL credibility.
Cops who generally flaunt the law should be GONE, PERIOD!!!!!
Yes, HTML is a very good primer for RPG ;-)
I think OOP is the worst thing that happened to computer science as it put a new conceptual layer insulating it from the lower conceptual layers. Object reuse is used less often than compiled ANSI C libraries, and it has divided the programmers into application and system programmers.
I don't know about you, but when I was in CS school I took a computer architecture class that was REALLY HARD!!!!! CS deals with the way computers work top to bottom.
OO allows one to works on large systems and stay organized. The CEE and EE guys learn programming as well. But I've always noted that their stuff lacked architecture and high-level organization.
If you want to write drivers, you really should be a CEE type. I think most people naturally fall academically where they are best suited.
Regarding kids, start simple. Think LEGO MINDSTORMS. The benefit is that you get an immediate feedback and a sense of control. As one goes along you can start making decisions (if then) etc...
I played with some of these one day at a library and was a bit dissapointed that it did not allow you to write functions. I wanted to start creating higher level operations out of their in-box primitives. This is where one starts seing the benefit of automation.
I can envision a system like virtual battle bots, where one has to program a bot and them watch it do combat autonomously. After a battle, you'd tweak the code and try again. I would even have a debug window up that stepped through the robots code while it was moving (significantly slowed of course).
Deal with input, decision making, construction of complex movements from strings of simple movements. Etc...
The irony is that the more they do stuff like thid, the more they encourage CD replication. They're just pissing people off and making it more likely that listeners will ripp music instead of buying it.
If they truly wanted to stop piracy, they'd lower their prices. This however, would necessitate cuts of the "hangers on" in the middle who add nothing to music, just leach.
Perhaps we should have a "counter-defense" fund. It would be kinda like a telethon.
;-)
Basically, we would all go out of our way to copy 10 times the amount of the settlement in CDs. Don't need them, who cares. Just leave them laying at bus stops or something
Well,
He could have pleaded the court to delay the case until summer when he could adequetly mount a defense. I'm certain that such a motion would be granted.