I wouldn't even go as far as the genes (I'm assuming that you are serious; I think it was a feeble attempt at humor). Autistic fellows really don't care what looks good to others or is "good interior design". They pick something that their sensory idiosyncrasies dictate and run with it, Martha Stewart be damned.
Exactly what I was thinking. I went to the article to see what the 5 were and didn't really glean much more information out of it than what was in the summary.
I think a set of possible scripts would actually make things more realistic. In reality a team goes according to script. They might have contingency plans. The more trained and prepared the more contingency plans and the more they will follow those plans. I would expect the SAS to be much more accurate when everything goes wrong than the common soldier. The less trained and prepared the less contingency plans and the more they will panic and deviate from the plan when things go wrong. I think a good selection of scripted reactions which can be limited to approximate lack of training, and higher "under pressure" accuracy could enhance realism.
I think the point is regulation is only as good as the regulators. If the regulators aren't worth their salt, then regulation won't do jack. If we aren't going to regulate properly, then there isn't much point talking about how "deregulation is bad", or "we need more regulation"
Coal to methane, interesting. Methane is kind of implicated in the odor of flatulence, but it comes from it's own charcoal filter. I guess it should be odorless then?
I would have to agree wholeheartedly. This guy looks like a real dirt bag.
Based on what the article says about him and his facebook/myspace profile picture, this guy is a real winner. I don't know if the guy was packing or not (I'm kind of inclined to think he wasn't), but I think the he could have gotten away with worse. A cop that is more juiced than any major league baseball player, he talks about being motivated by something like Training Day, and he talks about getting the most out of hitting a cuffed suspect because you are going to get in trouble for it(read: he likes hitting defenseless guys). The lawyer had his work done for him.
I also don't buy for a second that he is going to be a good little boy online. I can't take that part of the story seriously after seeing that "look at what steroids did for me" picture on myspace and facebook.
I just used google earth to plot a 1/4 mile path at the church where my scout troop meets so the scouts can satisfy a fitness requirement. I guess preventing exercise will insure they stay soft targets. Maybe they should get drawings at the recorder's office blurred as well. We can't have any public information available to terrorists.
I absolutely agree. A coworker at a job I used to have had his name on a patent. He got a quarterly royalty check, and he will for life whether he still works there or not. That seems like an effective incentive to me.
Thinking about looking at graded quizzes and turning them back in makes me wish I had a cell phone camera when I was in school. I could have sat in the back taking pictures to prepare for the final. I still ended up forgetting most of it anyway. It would have saved a bunch of time.
Right. I'm a bad parent. I didn't think to tell my son specifically that it is not OK to take the car for a drive. I didn't tell him that OUR car was not HIS car, so he therefore should not take it. I didn't realize (and he may have not been diagnosed at the time of the incident, so we might not have known what we were working with yet)he was so literal that he would, for example, kick his sister right after being told not to hit his sister ("I didn't hit her; I kicked her). I didn't know at the time that I needed to give him a laundry list of do's and don't's that just made sense to me. Yes, not knowing the specifics of how to prevent something that never occurred to me makes me a bad parent. You win. I'm a bad parent. I don't put [I]any[/I] more effort into raising my son with special needs, and I use his "disability" as a constant crutch for low expectations.
Since you are likely less able to notice, that post was dripping with sarcasm. Thanks for calling me a bad parent for something that happened before we knew what we were dealing with. I missed that part in the manual they gave us when we got the kids.
Those are very valid points. As usual the "news" omits almost all pertinent details and leaves us with the "sensational" "GTA taught me to jack my parents' car" BS. The whole question of why he didn't wake up mom is the big question in my mind. Having seen plenty of examples of the results of questionable movie and video game parenting, I have a hard time being so optimistic that the kid's motives were so pure that he didn't want to wake up a sleeping parent. But at the same time, those same kids playing against a stacked deck can still be that sweet and innocent.
Kids shift blame all the time. It's not something that is necessarily done consciously, but it doesn't persist if you as a parent don't let it. The kid did something that is obviously wrong. Whether it was something conscious or not, he tried to pass it off as normal, "hey, it's in the game". He in essence was saying that when he wants to get from point A to point B the normal thing to do is just grab the nearest car (if he really got it from the game he would have jacked the neighbor's car, not his parents' Taurus) and drive. I don't know, maybe I'm jaded from raising kids and seeing all strata of parental offerings. I'm sorry, I don't like it when a kid does something wrong and tries to shift blame whether they say "he/she/it made me do it" or not. Funny enough I don't like it when that same kid's parents do the same thing. I don't like it when these snotty nosed kids grow up to be adults that blame all their problems on someone else.
And on the topic of shame on me for "not reading the article" where in the hell did you get that he was going to school because he wanted to eat breakfast? I saw missing the bus, and parents were sleeping (which brings up the question of why the kid didn't wake up sleeping parent to take him to school), but no mention of being poor or hungry.
I don't mean to imply that the game taught him any kind of motor skill. All I meant with that was that the game could have conditioned him to think that taking a car when he needs one is normal regardless of any social/legal rights and wrongs.
Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are expressed so differently in each individual (5 ASD nephews plus my AS son, each is different some dramatically so). In my son's case he has had some problems with getting that a lot of behaviors are socially wrong. Even now at almost 12. He would, however, be able to make the association that the stealing a car stimulus invokes the getting chased by the cops response. That would rule out an ASD for this kid. My point is there are neurological conditions that could explain this kid's behavior, but he probably is just a stupid kid (we all were once) compounded with stupid parents (unless we shockingly aren't getting the whole story).
If GTA is your baby sitter and you have already learned to not accept responsibility for your actions at 6, then yes, I'm going to say that yes the kid is not likely to be a productive member of society. I dare him to prove me wrong.
Not that I disagree with you. I agree in almost all counts, but there are cases where the obvious social "rights" and "wrongs" are not so obvious. To my oldest they are obvious. To my child with Asperger's Syndrome they are not so obvious. He in fact decided to take the car for a drive once (probably at about this same age). He was able to unlock the car, put the key in the ignition and put it into neutral. He didn't have starting the car figured out, so it just rolled until the topography stopped it.
My son didn't end up hurting anyone or doing any property damage, but to him it wasn't obvious that what he was doing was wrong. I could see a small possibility of the kid in the story in a sense being conditioned to joyride in his parents' car from playing GTA, but that assumes that the kid has some neurological condition apart from stupid parents. He might have still done this, but the likelihood could increase if he is playing games that portray it as normal.
Ultimately the kid has stupid parents. They don't have the sense to raise a productive member of society. I think the story further illustrates their stupidity in their passing the buck to the game. He learned that behavior from them and/or they are enablers for his perpetuating that "skill" learned elsewhere. If it was just a story of some kid that fundamentally had a problem differentiating "right" and "wrong" jacking his parents' car and hitting a pole we have no story (unless some advocacy group wants to raise awareness for his condition). Instead we have the hackneyed story of "the game made me do something stupid, and the parents who enabled me."
I can't stop thinking about how the wind energy generated at low energy consumption times would be perfect for generating the hydrogen for hydrogen fuel cells. There is an energy surplus that would be going nowhere, and hydrogen generation requires more energy than it produces. If only hydrogen fuel cells were "here".
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I wouldn't even go as far as the genes (I'm assuming that you are serious; I think it was a feeble attempt at humor). Autistic fellows really don't care what looks good to others or is "good interior design". They pick something that their sensory idiosyncrasies dictate and run with it, Martha Stewart be damned.
I still have a Pavlovian flinching response when I visit slashdot on April 1st thanks to the ponies. Not so subtle, but oh so effective.
Exactly what I was thinking. I went to the article to see what the 5 were and didn't really glean much more information out of it than what was in the summary.
Send in the Cylons? This is the UN. They're all toasters.
I think a set of possible scripts would actually make things more realistic. In reality a team goes according to script. They might have contingency plans. The more trained and prepared the more contingency plans and the more they will follow those plans. I would expect the SAS to be much more accurate when everything goes wrong than the common soldier. The less trained and prepared the less contingency plans and the more they will panic and deviate from the plan when things go wrong. I think a good selection of scripted reactions which can be limited to approximate lack of training, and higher "under pressure" accuracy could enhance realism.
I think the point is regulation is only as good as the regulators. If the regulators aren't worth their salt, then regulation won't do jack. If we aren't going to regulate properly, then there isn't much point talking about how "deregulation is bad", or "we need more regulation"
Coal to methane, interesting. Methane is kind of implicated in the odor of flatulence, but it comes from it's own charcoal filter. I guess it should be odorless then?
I would have to agree wholeheartedly. This guy looks like a real dirt bag.
Based on what the article says about him and his facebook/myspace profile picture, this guy is a real winner. I don't know if the guy was packing or not (I'm kind of inclined to think he wasn't), but I think the he could have gotten away with worse. A cop that is more juiced than any major league baseball player, he talks about being motivated by something like Training Day, and he talks about getting the most out of hitting a cuffed suspect because you are going to get in trouble for it(read: he likes hitting defenseless guys). The lawyer had his work done for him.
I also don't buy for a second that he is going to be a good little boy online. I can't take that part of the story seriously after seeing that "look at what steroids did for me" picture on myspace and facebook.
What's even funnier is how significantly Pakistan leads the world in searches for "men kissing" as per Google Trends.
I just used google earth to plot a 1/4 mile path at the church where my scout troop meets so the scouts can satisfy a fitness requirement. I guess preventing exercise will insure they stay soft targets. Maybe they should get drawings at the recorder's office blurred as well. We can't have any public information available to terrorists.
I absolutely agree. A coworker at a job I used to have had his name on a patent. He got a quarterly royalty check, and he will for life whether he still works there or not. That seems like an effective incentive to me.
A critically acclaimed video game turned movie will go a long way towards legitimacy.
Speaking of appropriate names, Windows 7 Starter suggests that the default shell would be spidersolitaire.exe.
Thinking about looking at graded quizzes and turning them back in makes me wish I had a cell phone camera when I was in school. I could have sat in the back taking pictures to prepare for the final. I still ended up forgetting most of it anyway. It would have saved a bunch of time.
To up the ante on this, if you put a "C" with a circle around it, you have in essence given it a copyright. You own the rights to them.
Right. I'm a bad parent. I didn't think to tell my son specifically that it is not OK to take the car for a drive. I didn't tell him that OUR car was not HIS car, so he therefore should not take it. I didn't realize (and he may have not been diagnosed at the time of the incident, so we might not have known what we were working with yet)he was so literal that he would, for example, kick his sister right after being told not to hit his sister ("I didn't hit her; I kicked her). I didn't know at the time that I needed to give him a laundry list of do's and don't's that just made sense to me. Yes, not knowing the specifics of how to prevent something that never occurred to me makes me a bad parent. You win. I'm a bad parent. I don't put [I]any[/I] more effort into raising my son with special needs, and I use his "disability" as a constant crutch for low expectations.
Since you are likely less able to notice, that post was dripping with sarcasm. Thanks for calling me a bad parent for something that happened before we knew what we were dealing with. I missed that part in the manual they gave us when we got the kids.
Those are very valid points. As usual the "news" omits almost all pertinent details and leaves us with the "sensational" "GTA taught me to jack my parents' car" BS. The whole question of why he didn't wake up mom is the big question in my mind. Having seen plenty of examples of the results of questionable movie and video game parenting, I have a hard time being so optimistic that the kid's motives were so pure that he didn't want to wake up a sleeping parent. But at the same time, those same kids playing against a stacked deck can still be that sweet and innocent.
Kids shift blame all the time. It's not something that is necessarily done consciously, but it doesn't persist if you as a parent don't let it. The kid did something that is obviously wrong. Whether it was something conscious or not, he tried to pass it off as normal, "hey, it's in the game". He in essence was saying that when he wants to get from point A to point B the normal thing to do is just grab the nearest car (if he really got it from the game he would have jacked the neighbor's car, not his parents' Taurus) and drive. I don't know, maybe I'm jaded from raising kids and seeing all strata of parental offerings. I'm sorry, I don't like it when a kid does something wrong and tries to shift blame whether they say "he/she/it made me do it" or not. Funny enough I don't like it when that same kid's parents do the same thing. I don't like it when these snotty nosed kids grow up to be adults that blame all their problems on someone else.
And on the topic of shame on me for "not reading the article" where in the hell did you get that he was going to school because he wanted to eat breakfast? I saw missing the bus, and parents were sleeping (which brings up the question of why the kid didn't wake up sleeping parent to take him to school), but no mention of being poor or hungry.
I don't mean to imply that the game taught him any kind of motor skill. All I meant with that was that the game could have conditioned him to think that taking a car when he needs one is normal regardless of any social/legal rights and wrongs.
Especially when Apple is involved.
Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are expressed so differently in each individual (5 ASD nephews plus my AS son, each is different some dramatically so). In my son's case he has had some problems with getting that a lot of behaviors are socially wrong. Even now at almost 12. He would, however, be able to make the association that the stealing a car stimulus invokes the getting chased by the cops response. That would rule out an ASD for this kid. My point is there are neurological conditions that could explain this kid's behavior, but he probably is just a stupid kid (we all were once) compounded with stupid parents (unless we shockingly aren't getting the whole story).
If GTA is your baby sitter and you have already learned to not accept responsibility for your actions at 6, then yes, I'm going to say that yes the kid is not likely to be a productive member of society. I dare him to prove me wrong.
Not that I disagree with you. I agree in almost all counts, but there are cases where the obvious social "rights" and "wrongs" are not so obvious. To my oldest they are obvious. To my child with Asperger's Syndrome they are not so obvious. He in fact decided to take the car for a drive once (probably at about this same age). He was able to unlock the car, put the key in the ignition and put it into neutral. He didn't have starting the car figured out, so it just rolled until the topography stopped it.
My son didn't end up hurting anyone or doing any property damage, but to him it wasn't obvious that what he was doing was wrong. I could see a small possibility of the kid in the story in a sense being conditioned to joyride in his parents' car from playing GTA, but that assumes that the kid has some neurological condition apart from stupid parents. He might have still done this, but the likelihood could increase if he is playing games that portray it as normal.
Ultimately the kid has stupid parents. They don't have the sense to raise a productive member of society. I think the story further illustrates their stupidity in their passing the buck to the game. He learned that behavior from them and/or they are enablers for his perpetuating that "skill" learned elsewhere. If it was just a story of some kid that fundamentally had a problem differentiating "right" and "wrong" jacking his parents' car and hitting a pole we have no story (unless some advocacy group wants to raise awareness for his condition). Instead we have the hackneyed story of "the game made me do something stupid, and the parents who enabled me."
I can't stop thinking about how the wind energy generated at low energy consumption times would be perfect for generating the hydrogen for hydrogen fuel cells. There is an energy surplus that would be going nowhere, and hydrogen generation requires more energy than it produces. If only hydrogen fuel cells were "here".
That's a lot of latex for 125 people in one year. What kind of research are they conducting there?