This is just FUD. Texting will not 'dumb down' teenagers, just as telephone, T.V., and computers have not 'dumbed down' earlier generations. This is just the standard reaction from 'adults' who seem unable to change anymore, when something new gets popular with the 'youth'.
Most people prefer 'ease of use' over 'security' (of course, until something 'bad' happens). They would prefer an unlocked door over the trouble of having to find the keys and unlocking the door every time they want to enter their house, until they get robbed of course. Sad but true, but it appears to be human nature.
Im sorry, but I completely missed what you said there. I guess that is because 'language reflecting the social and environmental changes' and 'social and environmental changes affecting the language' mean pretty much the same to me, or are at least two sides of the same coin. Oh well... perhaps that just is because English is not my native language, which, silly me, I never should have learned in the first place in order to keep my native language 'pure' and 'static'.
Well sadly, human beings and the language they use to express themselves in is not static, no matter how much you would want it to be. the reason you can't comfortably read a 300 years old text is bevause 300 years ago, not only the language but also the people and their mindsets were very different from today. The language is just a reflection of those social and environmental changes.
Well that's just 'natural evolution' of the language. Language is not something that is fixed in stone for all etermity, rather, it is a continuously changing entity.
If the kid wants to text, then let em text. Just as long as it doesn't take such ridiculous amounts of time that it starts to negatively affect other area's, like school, playing with friends, socializing, sleeping, growing up, learning how to walk, etc.
Does this imply that bullying someone (especially underage or pre-teen childeren), by including but not limited to, claiming that 'The world would be a better place without you', up till the point that they feel so miserable that they commit suicide, is somehow not illegal and cannot be punished by law ?
Actually, Lithium doesn't address 'regular' depression or anxiety, instead it makes people with heavy mood swings (heavy, unrealistic ups, followed by heavy downs, followed by... you get the idea...) more 'stable', with lower, more realistic 'ups', and higher more 'normal' downs. Some antidepressants do address anxiety as well though, like for example Anafranil (Clomipramine) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clomipramine or Seroxat (paroxetine) .
From the referenced article :
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What Smolyaninov is describing is an optical analogue of the Big Bang in which a spacetime is created along with the particles to populate it. "The characteristic feature of this phase transition appears to be a kind of toy "big bang"," he says.
In principle that's an experiment that could be done in the lab in which you could watch the Big Bang in action.... "... which is 'close enough' for me...
Having nuclear waste and reactor failure or leakage on Earth clearly isn't good enough, we need to spread this wonderful creation throughout the Multiverse !
The Constant Gardener is a 2001 novel by John le Carré. It tells the story of Justin Quayle, a British diplomat whose activist wife is murdered. Believing that there is more behind the murder, he seeks to uncover the truth behind her death, and finds an international conspiracy of corrupt bureaucracy and pharmaceutical money. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Constant_Gardener)
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This is just FUD. Texting will not 'dumb down' teenagers, just as telephone, T.V., and computers have not 'dumbed down' earlier generations. This is just the standard reaction from 'adults' who seem unable to change anymore, when something new gets popular with the 'youth'.
Dshield.org ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DShield
Most people prefer 'ease of use' over 'security' (of course, until something 'bad' happens). They would prefer an unlocked door over the trouble of having to find the keys and unlocking the door every time they want to enter their house, until they get robbed of course. Sad but true, but it appears to be human nature.
Nope, only 'dead' languages are static, like for example, Latin.
With hindsight, I agree with you. If I could mod up the parent poster, I would.
Im sorry, but I completely missed what you said there. I guess that is because 'language reflecting the social and environmental changes' and 'social and environmental changes affecting the language' mean pretty much the same to me, or are at least two sides of the same coin. Oh well... perhaps that just is because English is not my native language, which, silly me, I never should have learned in the first place in order to keep my native language 'pure' and 'static'.
And what exactly, pray tell, is wrong with teaching 5 year olds sex ed ?
Well sadly, human beings and the language they use to express themselves in is not static, no matter how much you would want it to be. the reason you can't comfortably read a 300 years old text is bevause 300 years ago, not only the language but also the people and their mindsets were very different from today. The language is just a reflection of those social and environmental changes.
Well that's just 'natural evolution' of the language. Language is not something that is fixed in stone for all etermity, rather, it is a continuously changing entity.
If the kid wants to text, then let em text. Just as long as it doesn't take such ridiculous amounts of time that it starts to negatively affect other area's, like school, playing with friends, socializing, sleeping, growing up, learning how to walk, etc.
Does this imply that bullying someone (especially underage or pre-teen childeren), by including but not limited to, claiming that 'The world would be a better place without you', up till the point that they feel so miserable that they commit suicide, is somehow not illegal and cannot be punished by law ?
Are you sure that you don't mean serotonin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serotonin#Antidepressants, which is one of the main factors involved in depression ?
Actually, Lithium doesn't address 'regular' depression or anxiety, instead it makes people with heavy mood swings (heavy, unrealistic ups, followed by heavy downs, followed by... you get the idea...) more 'stable', with lower, more realistic 'ups', and higher more 'normal' downs. Some antidepressants do address anxiety as well though, like for example Anafranil (Clomipramine) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clomipramine or Seroxat (paroxetine) .
From the referenced article : " ...
What Smolyaninov is describing is an optical analogue of the Big Bang in which a spacetime is created along with the particles to populate it. "The characteristic feature of this phase transition appears to be a kind of toy "big bang"," he says.
In principle that's an experiment that could be done in the lab in which you could watch the Big Bang in action. ... " ... which is 'close enough' for me...
Having nuclear waste and reactor failure or leakage on Earth clearly isn't good enough, we need to spread this wonderful creation throughout the Multiverse !
If you're convinced that one man can't make any difference then you're way too cynical for me.
... And You Are US...
WTF is 'Digsby' ?
And here I was thinking that the total life span of a fruit fly was even less than the average time a human sleeps per day...?
The Constant Gardener is a 2001 novel by John le Carré. It tells the story of Justin Quayle, a British diplomat whose activist wife is murdered. Believing that there is more behind the murder, he seeks to uncover the truth behind her death, and finds an international conspiracy of corrupt bureaucracy and pharmaceutical money. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Constant_Gardener)
A free lightweight network intrusion detection system for UNIX and Windows (http://www.snort.org/) should be able to detect any anomalous behavior.
rofl. Yo, mod this up Funny +17 :)
Damn, missed it by an inch/microsec... :(
Srry, just had to say that sometime ...
... with Red Hat Developer Studio ? No contest.