Quite possibly. My objection to twitter is the same as all bandwidth-limited Web 2.0 solutions; shorter messages encourage bad grammar and worse content.
And at 120 chars, that makes the bad grammar and worse content *very bad*.
Yes, but they do have some good points: 1. autistic spectrum disorders ARE sex discrimative- males are diagnosed 3 to 1 (could be it just affects females differently, could be the conspiracy theory that autism is just an attempt by feminists to drug Normal American Boy Syndrome out of existence, but the statistic is true). 2. Autism does, for those of us who are higher functioning and/or can use computers as an alternate form of communication, contain some gifts that would be very useful to NT society if autistic people were placed properly by human resources and we had the same protection as any other disability under the ADA. Our ability to be more objective than an NT for instance, or to be more attuned to patterns in data.
Having said that, there are a hell of a lot of self-diagnosed posers in the neurodiversity movement, including a few homosexuals who would like to co-opt the ND movement's position for their own agenda- so in that way, you're completely right.
I do too- and I'm also quite on the fence about the whole neurodiversity thing. I'm a little more on their side than on the "Stop Autism Now!" or "Autism Speaks" side of things for two reasons that are completely subjective: 1. I'm too old for their chelation and other eastern medicine techniques to do any good. 2. My son has CP not autism.
For my brother and his eldest son- they're more the cure side of things. And yes, my Asperger's diagnosis does contain real neurological disorders- disgraphia, SPD, nerve ending over and under stimulation problems.
I'm pretty high functioning though. I hold down jobs for two to three years at a time, I'm rather successful at my chosen profession, etc.
So your problem with the free market is that you can't take your totally subjective tastes and standards and force them down other people's throats?
More that other people's totally subjective tastes and standards prevent me from being able to buy what I want at all. For instance, there is no reason somebody who can't handle even the moderate impact of bicycle exercise can't get an electric drive, rechargeable zero-impact pedal generator moped. Except they claim there's no market for it. Or similarly, why a fisherman can't get an electric boat with an anchor line wave generator. The technology exists- but these products aren't on the market.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a consumer minority too, and it does suck. But it's not a problem specific to markets. If a planning authority dictated that resources be allocated to create quality products to fulfill our uncommon demands, there wouldn't be enough well-packaged utter crap to go around for everyone else.
If we had centrally supplied distributed just-in-time factory tech (which we do, but of course, the market won't allow it because it's too low-efficiency) we wouldn't have a resource allocation problem to begin with.
It would also help if I didn't have disgraphia as one of my Asperger's symptoms (I'm as likely to slice my palm off as to get that recipe right!).
Still, it should be simple enough for anybody with the knife skills, it's only a chicken breast stuffed with American Processed cheese, coated in panko and deep fried until the cheese vaporizes- served with Tonkatsu sauce.
I always thought that was weird to- until I realized he really *meant* maybe (as in, synonym of possibly), as opposed to "may be" (as in synonym of "might be").
His wife was his waitress- she was a bit of an odd duck by American standards as well. Your best chance of getting the order right was to use the menu and point at what you wanted- her thick accent combined with her use of Engrish would almost certainly mess it up.
That reminds me of a slightly lower functioning autistic (I have Asperger's and I'm into the neurodiversity movement) on youtube as of late- who insists that her behavior MUST be interpreted as communication because she's "communicating" with her environment (water, wind, sunlight, etc). Apparently nobody ever taught her that communication had to be two way with another sentient mind....
I like that- it explains quite succinctly the main problem I've seen with the free market (that which is good, does not sell; that which is utter crap in a nice package, you'll earn millions off of).
His grammar was fitting for a man whose first language had a different grammar structure entirely. I suspect strongly that the poem was his own translation.
I miss his Chicken Cheese Katsu, both dinner and lunch versions. When I was contracting at Tek I'd go to his restaurant every day, and I was lucky enough to try everything on his menu.
I wish I had his knife skills- it's hard to cut a pocket in a boneless chicken breast.
Nothing quite so exotic- the salt is going to end up a toxic byproduct of this process. The rest is just solar-based distillation- salt water + algae + sun -> fresh water + ethanol, which is then further distilled down into it's component parts.
No need to pump the salt water out- ethanol has a lower boiling point, so you simply boil it out of the tank- leaving the salt water behind to grow more algae. The ocean only is the initial input- from there on out, the tank produces ethanol until the algae dies.
Also, how do you aquaculture tuna and keep the meat tasty? The reason tuna is so tasty is because of migrations thousands of miles long- which any aquaculture operation isn't going to have.
That last bit is likely not far from the truth. Tuna is already a kind of superfish- they're a red meat fish with fast-twitch muscles that allow them to swim at up to 60 MPH for some breeds.
If the Japanese try to improve on them, we're going to need steel nets to catch them as they end up with southern migration patterns around both S. America and Africa......
Given the number of pensioners unable to afford basic lifesaving medications due to his fraud, murder is just a matter of time and an unavoidable risk of Madoff's crime.
What they all deserve is the guillotine. We were supposed to have done away with the idea of nobility being able to take everybody else for a ride with the French Revolution.
It's not secular- it's overtly Catholic. So you KNOW things are getting bad when the Mullahs would rather people watch 9 hours of myths inspired by Catholic theology than protest in the streets.
I can see that in the American Black community pretty easily (in fact, I've got a theory about American culture and the destruction of Fatherhood in general that cuts across race lines, but affects African Americans especially due to the interruption in fatherhood during slavery). But other populations?
Only if you read the book of Genesis like a Catholic does- as an allegorical story explaining many things about the natural world and how to live in it.
Otherwise, no. And in fact, for the racists out there, this proves once and for all that Africans, of the three groups, are the most evolved, with the most diversity. The other two groups are subgroup descendants of the Africans.
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I knew there was a reason I avoided IRC! I prefer my electronic communications to be asynchronous.
Quite possibly. My objection to twitter is the same as all bandwidth-limited Web 2.0 solutions; shorter messages encourage bad grammar and worse content.
And at 120 chars, that makes the bad grammar and worse content *very bad*.
Yes, but they do have some good points:
1. autistic spectrum disorders ARE sex discrimative- males are diagnosed 3 to 1 (could be it just affects females differently, could be the conspiracy theory that autism is just an attempt by feminists to drug Normal American Boy Syndrome out of existence, but the statistic is true).
2. Autism does, for those of us who are higher functioning and/or can use computers as an alternate form of communication, contain some gifts that would be very useful to NT society if autistic people were placed properly by human resources and we had the same protection as any other disability under the ADA. Our ability to be more objective than an NT for instance, or to be more attuned to patterns in data.
Having said that, there are a hell of a lot of self-diagnosed posers in the neurodiversity movement, including a few homosexuals who would like to co-opt the ND movement's position for their own agenda- so in that way, you're completely right.
I do too- and I'm also quite on the fence about the whole neurodiversity thing. I'm a little more on their side than on the "Stop Autism Now!" or "Autism Speaks" side of things for two reasons that are completely subjective:
1. I'm too old for their chelation and other eastern medicine techniques to do any good.
2. My son has CP not autism.
For my brother and his eldest son- they're more the cure side of things. And yes, my Asperger's diagnosis does contain real neurological disorders- disgraphia, SPD, nerve ending over and under stimulation problems.
I'm pretty high functioning though. I hold down jobs for two to three years at a time, I'm rather successful at my chosen profession, etc.
So your problem with the free market is that you can't take your totally subjective tastes and standards and force them down other people's throats?
More that other people's totally subjective tastes and standards prevent me from being able to buy what I want at all. For instance, there is no reason somebody who can't handle even the moderate impact of bicycle exercise can't get an electric drive, rechargeable zero-impact pedal generator moped. Except they claim there's no market for it. Or similarly, why a fisherman can't get an electric boat with an anchor line wave generator. The technology exists- but these products aren't on the market.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a consumer minority too, and it does suck. But it's not a problem specific to markets. If a planning authority dictated that resources be allocated to create quality products to fulfill our uncommon demands, there wouldn't be enough well-packaged utter crap to go around for everyone else.
If we had centrally supplied distributed just-in-time factory tech (which we do, but of course, the market won't allow it because it's too low-efficiency) we wouldn't have a resource allocation problem to begin with.
It would also help if I didn't have disgraphia as one of my Asperger's symptoms (I'm as likely to slice my palm off as to get that recipe right!).
Still, it should be simple enough for anybody with the knife skills, it's only a chicken breast stuffed with American Processed cheese, coated in panko and deep fried until the cheese vaporizes- served with Tonkatsu sauce.
I always thought that was weird to- until I realized he really *meant* maybe (as in, synonym of possibly), as opposed to "may be" (as in synonym of "might be").
His wife was his waitress- she was a bit of an odd duck by American standards as well. Your best chance of getting the order right was to use the menu and point at what you wanted- her thick accent combined with her use of Engrish would almost certainly mess it up.
That reminds me of a slightly lower functioning autistic (I have Asperger's and I'm into the neurodiversity movement) on youtube as of late- who insists that her behavior MUST be interpreted as communication because she's "communicating" with her environment (water, wind, sunlight, etc). Apparently nobody ever taught her that communication had to be two way with another sentient mind....
I like that- it explains quite succinctly the main problem I've seen with the free market (that which is good, does not sell; that which is utter crap in a nice package, you'll earn millions off of).
His grammar was fitting for a man whose first language had a different grammar structure entirely. I suspect strongly that the poem was his own translation.
I miss his Chicken Cheese Katsu, both dinner and lunch versions. When I was contracting at Tek I'd go to his restaurant every day, and I was lucky enough to try everything on his menu.
I wish I had his knife skills- it's hard to cut a pocket in a boneless chicken breast.
This was on the menu of my favorite Restaurant throughout the 1990s in Beaverton, OR (It died when Tektronix scaled back):
Eight out of ten people are normal
One maybe genius,
One maybe crazy,
I hesitate to call myself genius,
That leaves only one choice
Easily the most creative Japanese/American fusion chef I've ever met.
Ocean salt isn't pure NaCl anymore- if it ever was. It's contaminated with mercury and gold and lead and a ton of other stuff.
What do we do with the excess salt?
Nothing quite so exotic- the salt is going to end up a toxic byproduct of this process. The rest is just solar-based distillation- salt water + algae + sun -> fresh water + ethanol, which is then further distilled down into it's component parts.
No need to pump the salt water out- ethanol has a lower boiling point, so you simply boil it out of the tank- leaving the salt water behind to grow more algae. The ocean only is the initial input- from there on out, the tank produces ethanol until the algae dies.
Also, how do you aquaculture tuna and keep the meat tasty? The reason tuna is so tasty is because of migrations thousands of miles long- which any aquaculture operation isn't going to have.
That last bit is likely not far from the truth. Tuna is already a kind of superfish- they're a red meat fish with fast-twitch muscles that allow them to swim at up to 60 MPH for some breeds.
If the Japanese try to improve on them, we're going to need steel nets to catch them as they end up with southern migration patterns around both S. America and Africa......
There is one sure way to protect stupid people from evil people- reenact family death penalties to eliminate evil from the genetic pool.
Given the number of pensioners unable to afford basic lifesaving medications due to his fraud, murder is just a matter of time and an unavoidable risk of Madoff's crime.
What they all deserve is the guillotine. We were supposed to have done away with the idea of nobility being able to take everybody else for a ride with the French Revolution.
It's not secular- it's overtly Catholic. So you KNOW things are getting bad when the Mullahs would rather people watch 9 hours of myths inspired by Catholic theology than protest in the streets.
I can see that in the American Black community pretty easily (in fact, I've got a theory about American culture and the destruction of Fatherhood in general that cuts across race lines, but affects African Americans especially due to the interruption in fatherhood during slavery). But other populations?
Only if you read the book of Genesis like a Catholic does- as an allegorical story explaining many things about the natural world and how to live in it.
Otherwise, no. And in fact, for the racists out there, this proves once and for all that Africans, of the three groups, are the most evolved, with the most diversity. The other two groups are subgroup descendants of the Africans.
You could say the same thing about all technology. I don't see you living in a cave.
You have no idea where I live- and in fact, have no evidence THAT I live.
I mean, we did fine there for 2.9 million years didn't we?
Yes, we did. In fact, if anything, progress has largely caused more problems than it has solved.
I guess we should just halt all progress but where we are now is just good enough isn't it?
Actually, in the last 140 years or so, we've progress past the point where it was "good enough" into "causing harm to our own species".