I used to be much more physically awkward and ungainly, but fourteen years of karate training have almost got me down to average clumsiness. MA training is highly recommended, BTW - my dojo is full of programmers and engineers, and my current boss is an aikido instructor. There are a lot of very dangerous geeks out there!
Same thing happened with me, before I started taking TKD I could barely walk through a room without bumping into every piece of furniture around. Now I can do a handspring off of my couch and come up without distrubing the glass table next to it.>:) TKD also did some amazing things for my academic discipline, I started to actually turn in those lame homework assignments...
My 2 year old son was recently diagnosed as possibly autistic, and while it's a terrifying diagnosis -- articles like this are heartening in a couple of ways. First, they show how broad a spectrum of behavior the world 'autism' now encompasses -- you can be called autistic and really be not terribly disabled. The second comforting thing is that people who are 'not normal' can still be capable, self-sufficient people. I am not hung-up on 'normal', I think it is more of a curse than a blessing in this world and the one of the future -- I'm definitely looking forward to what our Thomas is going to do as he grows.
With a possibly autistic child you may see positive benefits from classical music. It tends to help provide a comfort level and ease focusing. Also do everything you can to help his mental development early on in his childhood, this will increase the chances of him being a genius level child. It is rather well documented that synapse connections are formed during early childhood and that you can actually manufacture (For lack of a better term) math geniuses by bombarding them with mathimatical terms and information between the ages of 1 month and 2 years.
Uh, I guess you've never used one then, Gramps. I haven't used a post-it note ONCE since I got my Pilot. And to someone who asked, yes, I DO use notepad.exe to jot notes, so there.
I use Notepad for note taking as well, in fact, behind my browser right now is an 'untitled' notepad page with some notes from last week... I never print anything... But the computer still hasn't beat out the Book for entertainment and sheer volume of knowledge osmosis I can get from it. And the damn monitors hurt my eyes.
If a book is available at Gutenberg's site, I read it online, or have my speech synth read it to me
This is Offtopic and all, but DAMN THE MODERATORS I HAVE KARMA TO SPARE! >:) What speech synth do you use? Mine is terrible it mangles every third word and it's difficult to get it integrated with my web browser... I'd really like to find a nice free one but I'm not above paying 30-40$ for something that will read slashdot to me...
So, despite the way you flippantly dismiss the bank reaction of "it's not that big a problem", that is the correct reaction to have. It clearly is important that the banking system survive Y2k (which it will, as demonstrated above), but any one bank is no big deal. A couple people would lose their jobs, some paperwork would ensue and that would be the end. A Y2k-failed airplane, OTOH, would be a disaster.
I beg to differ. The banking system is in no way garaunteed to survive the coming panic. All it takes is a a large chunk of paniced population removing their cash from the bank to collapse the system. I know I won't have any cash in the bank, just because I don't trust people not to panic and riot. There are plenty of scenarios that could result in the a run on the banks... I wouldn't be so complacent if I were you.
In the US we use an extraordinary invention calle da 'Coin' to operate our payphones. Each 'Coin' represents some fraction of a 'Dollar'. When these 'Coins' are placed in the 'Slot' on the payphone they register as having paid a certain amount of 'Money'. The amount of 'Money' you pay directly relates to how much 'Time' you can 'Talk'. Hopefully that will help clear things up for you 'English People'. >:)
'Single Point of Failure' doesn't mean that there is only one place it can fail. It means that if this One place fails then everything stops working. You can have more that one 'Single Point of Failure' in that you can have multiple critical components which can render the system unusable by failing.
That didn't sound like much of an argument to me. "Know how much I'm making = fair". Huh? The fact is, sales taxes are flat and represent a much greater burden for lower income folks than for the rich. Income taxes at least have the promise of being progressively assessed. That's why you see so many rich folk who want to do away with income tax. Of course they'd rather fund government at the same rate as the minimum wage worker. (And don't pretend for a minute that the rich use government services any less than the poor. Please.)
Tell me again why people shouldn't pay for goods and services they use? If the poor don't want to pay more then they should spend less. Seems sensible to me. The rich buy a LOT more than the poor, so with a sales tax they will still be paying more. I just can't understand the mentality of people who believe that just because someone has more money than you do they should give you some. Admittedly once someone has so much money that they can't possibly spend it all they might as well give some away they shouldn't be required by law to do so.
This is setting myself up for a flame Gotta say it. I love McCain and REALLY wish he would get to be president. It wont happpen but No one cares that our military is so weak and in disrepair its PATHETIC. I know a friend who makes +.50 cents above minimum wage and is better off than one of our other buddies in the ARMY! People in the armed services risk there lives to protect our country! The least people can do is put more funding to our military! If McClain was the republican candidate I would vote for him. Now that I see this It makes me like him all that much more!! Anyhow. Ill stop ranting!
Wrong. We only need 1% of the current military. Heck, with 100 decently armed Jets and half a dozen aircraft carriers we can conquer any nation on earth. Ground troops are obsolete.
. not quite, beacuse poor people will end up spending almost all of there money. if sales tax is at %6, then most poor people will end up paying about %6. whereas rich people will pay less than %1. that dosn't seem very fair to me (and if sales tax were %20 as would be nesisary to fund the whole nation...)
Why does it always sound like people with your stance believe that everyone should end up with the same amount of money after taxes? Do you not realize how absurd you sound? If We taxed everyone in such away that EVERYONE had 50000 of spendable income throughout the year then what would be the motivation to do anything? You would make the same amount of cash as a burger flipper that you would make as a surgeon. People like you don't seem to realize that the reason you have a job is because of some multi-millionaire somewhere who put out a massive amount of cash to start the business you are working at.
As if anyone will notice that their 2000 year bond is more worthless today than yesterday. Inflation has already rendered most of those to be worth nothing.
Every american pays school taxes, whether they send kids to school or not. Why not let parents use this money to pay for a (mucho better) private or parochial education. If a particular family is soo poor that the can't afford to pay taxes at all, let alone private schools, then the taxes of people without school-aged kids will pick up the slack, and many private institutions will provide financial aide for good students who can't afford it. Anything run by the government usually doesn't work, including public schools.
Tell me again why I should be paying for someone elses kids to go to school?
Why would you ever want to sabotage tech research with more government money? The government does most things less efficiently and with a lot more politics than private industry. If the money stays in the hands of the people who earn it, it's going to get spent on what they want, not on the priorities of hundreds of congressmen who have a profile heavily weighted towards lawyers and away from engineering/science/technology.
I can do more good for the cause of science and moon colonies by sending $1000 to a company to build a better rocket motor than sending $10,000 to the government in taxes.
That was kind of my point.... 15% of 1.7 trillion dollars is quite a bit. IF we had the option to give our cash to whoever we wanted then the combined tax dollars of all of us Geeks would have had us living on mars by now.>:)
This information is taken from: http://www.fms.treas.gov/annualreport/annrpt98.p df
The official US treasury report for the year of 1998.
Total taxes recieved by US gov: 1.721 TRILLION dollars
Percentage of taxes paid by: Social Insurance and Retirment Receipts: 33% Individual Income Tax: 48% Corporate Income Tax: 11% Excise Taxes: 3% Other: 5%
Total amount of cash SPENT by the US Gov in 1998: 1.651 TRILLION dollars
Percentage of Spending on: Education, Training, and Social Service: 3% National Defence: 16% Interest on the current debt: 15% Healthcare: 8% Social Security: 23% *Income Security: 14% Medicare: 12% Other: 9%
*Income Security contains welfare, unemployment, and disability.
You can find a lot more detailed info at the address I provided. But that's a general break down of where the money comes from and where it goes. in 1998 there was a small surplus of funds, about 70 billion dollars.
Looking at this I think we could afford to trim 1 percent of the funding off of everything and add it to paying off the national debt... Or thumb our noses at the debt and turn that 15% into serious Tech research.... We'd have moon colonies in no time if we had.15 of 1.5 trillion dollars...
Get the money spend the money save the money invest the money die We also get taxed if we sell something we purchased, as well as the person purchasing it getting taxed. The US Government tends to tax its citizens at every conceivable point along the money trail. You can actually be unemployed and homeless and end up owing the IRS back taxes because you beg on the streets and any cash you get from that is reportable income.>:\
Well yea sorta, but there is a MAJOR problem with that line of though. Because the word nigger means black quite litterly. So using the term nigger to mean a useless person (even if the person is white, and or useless) is essentially making the equation that black=nigger=useless a=b=c so a=c which in this case is competly FALSE. but that is what your implying.
I have never heard anyone else tell me that 'Nigger' literally means black. Negro is black in spanish. But as far as I know Nigger is only a word in the english language that was created out of slang for Negro and then applied to blacks as an insult. I think it does come closer to actually meaning a stupid useless lazy person, it just happened to have been used on blacks first. If you actually have a definition (NOT SLANG!) of the word nigger which indicates it actually does denote race then I'd be very interested in hearing it.
Okay, I don't really want to start anything gnarly here, but... could I please enquire as to why? After all, in a very literal sense, individual human deaths are not the end of the world.
And by the same token torturing a few thousand animals to death for my own amusement isn't going to be the end of the world either. If it's an even trade, which would you rather save? A monkey or a human? If you say a monkey then you're quite insane as special preservation is one of the mechanisms built into us. I personally don't particularly care what happens to the test animals as long as the research is useful... Cosmetics I disapprove of because they are completely useless. Most scientific research I have no problem with. If some PETA nutball wants to come throw blood on me for it I'll apologize to him when he gets out of the hospital.
I agree with you. Attempting to make a program easier to use, might make it harder.
One of the largest complaints about Windows from DOS-users was the lack of control over the system. They considered it too "user-friendly".
Many "newbies" (ie. people that have bought computers during the last four years or so) are also frustrated about Windows, but they hate command-line operating-systems even more.
Maybe we should make a middle-line?
If ther are any coders interested in this I already have the GUI designed (Not in code, in design) so I can show you/tell you how to do it. It's insanely simple to make a perfect GUI, it's the code under it that needs work...
Also, I was wondering on the feasability of a translator that would allow an Orange board (PPC + x86) to run both types of progs through one interface without rebooting. If that could be built in to this GUI then it would be beyond excellent. What I really need is a couple of good graphic artists that I can get to draw the damn thing on photoshop or whatever and 4-5 good coders that can build the guts. I have this excellent vision and no way to implement it.
You all keep illustrating the guys point in an attempt to refute him. He said that it is easier to learn how to change the settings in windows, but it is easier to do so with a command line once you already know. Ex: Which takes more time? Click My Computer, Click C: click Program Files, click Internet Explorer or cd \my computer\program files\internet explorer
It's almost always faster to type than to click, but it's easier to learn where to click than what to type.
How much more intuitive that 'README' and 'INSTALL' can you get?! I mean come on! Is the 'puter supposed to jump up, slap him, and say, 'hey dumbass click this thing!'... ?
Regardless of wether you agree with either of these people:
Most doctors (Real doctors, not shrinks) will tell you that things like Ridilin are over-prescribed to young hyperactive children because their parents don't have time to take care of them or properly discipline them. So they drug them up and send them to school. This is NOT TRUE IN ALL CASES. However it is happening more and more. Within the last 2 years my brother and I helped get one of our friends off of prozac and a bunch of other drugs that he was on. He was totally listless and almost thoughtless when he was drugged, when he was undrugged he was a brilliant artist, a clever conversationalist, and a hyper active goofball. We helped him calm down a little and control his hyperness. He now runs a small organization that is multinational in scope that is all about being silly. He also is taking advanced art classes in florida, he's 17 now. Currently there is a child living up the street from me, up until he was 5 he recieved a lot of attention from his parents constantly, around 5 they stopped paying attention to him. They both got jobs and one of them got addicted to the internet (Addiction is defined for the purpose of this post as neglecting responsibilites in order to be on the 'net) and the kid started doing anything it took to get that attention back. So they started drugging him up. And still ignoring him. I'd guess that probably half the cases of ridlin being prescribed today could be solved with some counseling and therapy with the family.
Ahem, the following is a short list of weapons designed solely to kill:
The Long Bow Rapiers Broadswords Sabres Katana Maces Lances Spears Crossbows Compound Bows. Shuriken
Any anti gun law can also be applied to these. Don't try to tell me I can't kill 5 people with my Katana almost as fast as you can with your.45, because you would be wrong. 5 unarmed people will go down before any of them even think about running away. It also doesn't take that much more skill to kill someone with a Katana than with a gun. The whole 'Designed only to kill' argument is flawed.
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I used to be much more physically awkward and ungainly, but fourteen years of karate training have almost got me down to average clumsiness. MA training is highly recommended, BTW - my dojo is full of programmers and engineers, and my current boss is an aikido instructor. There are a lot of very dangerous geeks out there!
Same thing happened with me, before I started taking TKD I could barely walk through a room without bumping into every piece of furniture around. Now I can do a handspring off of my couch and come up without distrubing the glass table next to it.>:) TKD also did some amazing things for my academic discipline, I started to actually turn in those lame homework assignments...
Kintanon
My 2 year old son was recently diagnosed as possibly autistic, and while it's a terrifying diagnosis -- articles like this are heartening in a couple of ways. First, they show how broad a spectrum of behavior the world 'autism' now encompasses -- you can be called autistic and really be not terribly disabled. The second comforting thing is that people who are 'not normal' can still be capable, self-sufficient people.
I am not hung-up on 'normal', I think it is more of a curse than a blessing in this world and the one of the future -- I'm definitely looking forward to what our Thomas is going to do as he grows.
With a possibly autistic child you may see positive benefits from classical music. It tends to help provide a comfort level and ease focusing. Also do everything you can to help his mental development early on in his childhood, this will increase the chances of him being a genius level child. It is rather well documented that synapse connections are formed during early childhood and that you can actually manufacture (For lack of a better term) math geniuses by bombarding them with mathimatical terms and information between the ages of 1 month and 2 years.
Kintanon
Uh, I guess you've never used one then, Gramps. I haven't used a post-it note ONCE since I got my Pilot. And to someone who asked, yes, I DO use notepad.exe to jot notes, so there.
I use Notepad for note taking as well, in fact, behind my browser right now is an 'untitled' notepad page with some notes from last week...
I never print anything... But the computer still hasn't beat out the Book for entertainment and sheer volume of knowledge osmosis I can get from it. And the damn monitors hurt my eyes.
Kintanon
If a book is available at Gutenberg's site, I read it online, or have my speech synth read it to me
This is Offtopic and all, but DAMN THE MODERATORS I HAVE KARMA TO SPARE! >:)
What speech synth do you use? Mine is terrible it mangles every third word and it's difficult to get it integrated with my web browser... I'd really like to find a nice free one but I'm not above paying 30-40$ for something that will read slashdot to me...
Kintanon
So, despite the way you flippantly dismiss the bank reaction of "it's not that big a problem", that is the correct reaction to have. It clearly is important that the banking system survive Y2k (which it will, as demonstrated above), but any one bank is no big deal. A couple people would lose their jobs, some paperwork would ensue and that would be the end. A Y2k-failed airplane, OTOH, would be a disaster.
I beg to differ. The banking system is in no way garaunteed to survive the coming panic. All it takes is a a large chunk of paniced population removing their cash from the bank to collapse the system. I know I won't have any cash in the bank, just because I don't trust people not to panic and riot. There are plenty of scenarios that could result in the a run on the banks... I wouldn't be so complacent if I were you.
Kintanon
In the US we use an extraordinary invention calle da 'Coin' to operate our payphones. Each 'Coin' represents some fraction of a 'Dollar'. When these 'Coins' are placed in the 'Slot' on the payphone they register as having paid a certain amount of 'Money'. The amount of 'Money' you pay directly relates to how much 'Time' you can 'Talk'. Hopefully that will help clear things up for you 'English People'. >:)
Kintanon
'Single Point of Failure' doesn't mean that there is only one place it can fail. It means that if this One place fails then everything stops working. You can have more that one 'Single Point of Failure' in that you can have multiple critical components which can render the system unusable by failing.
Kintanon
I suggest you apply your I/Q towards basic spelling and grammar before tackling Unix or its derivatives.
Kintanon
That didn't sound like much of an argument to me. "Know how much I'm making = fair". Huh?
The fact is, sales taxes are flat and represent a much greater burden for lower income folks than for the rich. Income taxes at least have the promise of being progressively assessed. That's why you see so many rich folk who want to do away with income tax. Of course they'd rather fund government at the same rate as the minimum wage worker. (And don't pretend for a minute that the rich use government services any less than the poor. Please.)
Tell me again why people shouldn't pay for goods and services they use? If the poor don't want to pay more then they should spend less. Seems sensible to me. The rich buy a LOT more than the poor, so with a sales tax they will still be paying more. I just can't understand the mentality of people who believe that just because someone has more money than you do they should give you some. Admittedly once someone has so much money that they can't possibly spend it all they might as well give some away they shouldn't be required by law to do so.
Kintanon
This is setting myself up for a flame Gotta say it. I love McCain and REALLY wish he would get to be president. It wont happpen but No one cares that our military is so weak and in disrepair its PATHETIC. I know a friend who makes +.50 cents above minimum wage and is better off than one of our other buddies in the ARMY! People in the armed services risk there lives to protect our country! The least people can do is put more funding to our military! If McClain was the republican candidate I would vote for him. Now that I see this It makes me like him all that much more!! Anyhow. Ill stop ranting!
Wrong. We only need 1% of the current military. Heck, with 100 decently armed Jets and half a dozen aircraft carriers we can conquer any nation on earth. Ground troops are obsolete.
Kintanon
. not quite, beacuse poor people will end up spending almost all of there money. if sales tax is at %6, then most poor people will end up paying about %6. whereas rich people will pay less than %1. that dosn't seem very fair to me (and if sales tax were %20 as would be nesisary to fund the whole nation...)
Why does it always sound like people with your stance believe that everyone should end up with the same amount of money after taxes? Do you not realize how absurd you sound? If We taxed everyone in such away that EVERYONE had 50000 of spendable income throughout the year then what would be the motivation to do anything? You would make the same amount of cash as a burger flipper that you would make as a surgeon.
People like you don't seem to realize that the reason you have a job is because of some multi-millionaire somewhere who put out a massive amount of cash to start the business you are working at.
Kintanon
As if anyone will notice that their 2000 year bond is more worthless today than yesterday. Inflation has already rendered most of those to be worth nothing.
Kintanon
Every american pays school taxes, whether they send kids to school or not. Why not let parents use this money to pay for a (mucho better) private or parochial education. If a particular family is soo poor that the can't afford to pay taxes at all, let alone private schools, then the taxes of people without school-aged kids will pick up the slack, and many private institutions will provide financial aide for good students who can't afford it. Anything run by the government usually doesn't work, including public schools.
Tell me again why I should be paying for someone elses kids to go to school?
Kintanon
Why would you ever want to sabotage tech research with more government money? The government does most things less efficiently and with a lot more politics than private industry. If the money stays in the hands of the people who earn it, it's going to get spent on what they want, not on the priorities of hundreds of congressmen who have a profile heavily weighted towards lawyers and away from engineering/science/technology.
I can do more good for the cause of science and moon colonies by sending $1000 to a company to build a better rocket motor than sending $10,000 to the government in taxes.
That was kind of my point.... 15% of 1.7 trillion dollars is quite a bit. IF we had the option to give our cash to whoever we wanted then the combined tax dollars of all of us Geeks would have had us living on mars by now.>:)
Kintanon
Someone should play a game of civ3 or some such game with those % as a guideline, and watch how fast their civ fails
That's an excellent Idea! I think I'll go buy Civ3 this weekend after I get paid and try it.>:)
Kintanon
This information is taken from:p df
.15 of 1.5 trillion dollars...
http://www.fms.treas.gov/annualreport/annrpt98.
The official US treasury report for the year of 1998.
Total taxes recieved by US gov:
1.721 TRILLION dollars
Percentage of taxes paid by:
Social Insurance and Retirment Receipts: 33%
Individual Income Tax: 48%
Corporate Income Tax: 11%
Excise Taxes: 3%
Other: 5%
Total amount of cash SPENT by the US Gov in 1998:
1.651 TRILLION dollars
Percentage of Spending on:
Education, Training, and Social Service: 3%
National Defence: 16%
Interest on the current debt: 15%
Healthcare: 8%
Social Security: 23%
*Income Security: 14%
Medicare: 12%
Other: 9%
*Income Security contains welfare, unemployment, and disability.
You can find a lot more detailed info at the address I provided. But that's a general break down of where the money comes from and where it goes. in 1998 there was a small surplus of funds, about 70 billion dollars.
Looking at this I think we could afford to trim 1 percent of the funding off of everything and add it to paying off the national debt... Or thumb our noses at the debt and turn that 15% into serious Tech research.... We'd have moon colonies in no time if we had
Kintanon
Don't you mean sextuple dip?
We get taxed when we:
Get the money
spend the money
save the money
invest the money
die
We also get taxed if we sell something we purchased, as well as the person purchasing it getting taxed. The US Government tends to tax its citizens at every conceivable point along the money trail. You can actually be unemployed and homeless and end up owing the IRS back taxes because you beg on the streets and any cash you get from that is reportable income.>:\
Kintanon
Well yea sorta, but there is a MAJOR problem with that line of though. Because the word nigger means black quite litterly. So using the term nigger to mean a useless person (even if the person is white, and or useless) is essentially making the equation that black=nigger=useless a=b=c so a=c
which in this case is competly FALSE. but that is what your implying.
I have never heard anyone else tell me that 'Nigger' literally means black. Negro is black in spanish. But as far as I know Nigger is only a word in the english language that was created out of slang for Negro and then applied to blacks as an insult. I think it does come closer to actually meaning a stupid useless lazy person, it just happened to have been used on blacks first.
If you actually have a definition (NOT SLANG!) of the word nigger which indicates it actually does denote race then I'd be very interested in hearing it.
Kintanon
Okay, I don't really want to start anything gnarly here, but... could I please enquire as to why? After all, in a very literal sense, individual human deaths are not the end of the world.
And by the same token torturing a few thousand animals to death for my own amusement isn't going to be the end of the world either. If it's an even trade, which would you rather save? A monkey or a human? If you say a monkey then you're quite insane as special preservation is one of the mechanisms built into us. I personally don't particularly care what happens to the test animals as long as the research is useful... Cosmetics I disapprove of because they are completely useless. Most scientific research I have no problem with. If some PETA nutball wants to come throw blood on me for it I'll apologize to him when he gets out of the hospital.
Kintanon
I agree with you. Attempting to make a program easier to use, might make it harder.
One of the largest complaints about Windows from DOS-users was the lack of control over the system. They considered it too "user-friendly".
Many "newbies" (ie. people that have bought computers during the last four years or so) are also frustrated about Windows, but they hate command-line operating-systems even more.
Maybe we should make a middle-line?
If ther are any coders interested in this I already have the GUI designed (Not in code, in design) so I can show you/tell you how to do it. It's insanely simple to make a perfect GUI, it's the code under it that needs work...
Also, I was wondering on the feasability of a translator that would allow an Orange board (PPC + x86) to run both types of progs through one interface without rebooting. If that could be built in to this GUI then it would be beyond excellent. What I really need is a couple of good graphic artists that I can get to draw the damn thing on photoshop or whatever and 4-5 good coders that can build the guts. I have this excellent vision and no way to implement it.
Kintanon
You all keep illustrating the guys point in an attempt to refute him. He said that it is easier to learn how to change the settings in windows, but it is easier to do so with a command line once you already know.
Ex:
Which takes more time? Click My Computer, Click C:
click Program Files, click Internet Explorer
or cd \my computer\program files\internet explorer
It's almost always faster to type than to click, but it's easier to learn where to click than what to type.
Kintanon
DOS was like this as well. It had cryptic commands and nonintuitive switches. That's what Windows was designed to replace.
For the same reason Linux has X and whatnot.
Kintanon
How much more intuitive that 'README' and 'INSTALL' can you get?! I mean come on! Is the 'puter supposed to jump up, slap him, and say, 'hey dumbass click this thing!'... ?
Kintanon
Regardless of wether you agree with either of these people:
Most doctors (Real doctors, not shrinks) will tell you that things like Ridilin are over-prescribed to young hyperactive children because their parents don't have time to take care of them or properly discipline them. So they drug them up and send them to school. This is NOT TRUE IN ALL CASES. However it is happening more and more. Within the last 2 years my brother and I helped get one of our friends off of prozac and a bunch of other drugs that he was on. He was totally listless and almost thoughtless when he was drugged, when he was undrugged he was a brilliant artist, a clever conversationalist, and a hyper active goofball. We helped him calm down a little and control his hyperness. He now runs a small organization that is multinational in scope that is all about being silly. He also is taking advanced art classes in florida, he's 17 now.
Currently there is a child living up the street from me, up until he was 5 he recieved a lot of attention from his parents constantly, around 5 they stopped paying attention to him. They both got jobs and one of them got addicted to the internet (Addiction is defined for the purpose of this post as neglecting responsibilites in order to be on the 'net) and the kid started doing anything it took to get that attention back. So they started drugging him up. And still ignoring him.
I'd guess that probably half the cases of ridlin being prescribed today could be solved with some counseling and therapy with the family.
Kintanon
Ahem, the following is a short list of weapons designed solely to kill:
.45, because you would be wrong. 5 unarmed people will go down before any of them even think about running away. It also doesn't take that much more skill to kill someone with a Katana than with a gun. The whole 'Designed only to kill' argument is flawed.
The Long Bow
Rapiers
Broadswords
Sabres
Katana
Maces
Lances
Spears
Crossbows
Compound Bows.
Shuriken
Any anti gun law can also be applied to these. Don't try to tell me I can't kill 5 people with my Katana almost as fast as you can with your
Kintanon