BTW, i love how you state everything as fact when you have no evidence to back up your claims. Lack of evidence to the contrary is not evidence for your claims.
Recover as in it took me 30 years, same 30 years it took me to recover motor skills in the right side of my body. My 5 polio vaccines had thimerosal, yes 5 when only 3 are needed and none should be given if there is a severe reaction to the first vaccine, which of course i had.
Autism is something you can recover from since it really is just a different way of perceiving and focusing, something that we should in fact all be capable of doing.
Wouldn't the really stupid ones be the ones opting for the immunizations and thereby weakening the gene pool?
Emotions aside, it seems logical to me to let the weak die off for the betterment of humanity,...even if i would probably be currently dead if people thought like that earlier, or in an iron lung, instead i just had to deal with partial paralysis from the polio vaccine.
Well, as long as we all BELIEVE the toxicity is lower, that definitely satisfies my scientific skepticism.
Maybe, just maybe, some of us are more susceptible to toxic things (bell curve anyone)? Coming from someone who has gotten severely sick after each of my immunizations with thimerosal, losing my ability to speak and becoming autistic. Then again, that's just anecdotal, which means about as much as my recovery.
Maybe because how people feed their body is a reflection of how they interact with the world around themselves. Those who don't treat their body properly, nor care about learning how, to really shouldn't be living for very long.
I picked up my iGo bluetooth keyboards for $20USD. Unless you're talking about fancy non-portable keyboards which sort of defeats the purpose of a pocketable internet tablet.
Sure you start off with rags, but that's what leveling up is for.
Duh! We don't run around killing monsters nowadays because all the high level hero's in the past exterminated them!
random ghosting and backlight flicker bothers you but not the persistant, umm, what's that word that means opposite of random, refresh rate of crt's doesn't? Funny, i'm the exact opposite.
cause we all use our lcd's at an angle...
Anyways, while i love the colour rendition of crt's (and the ability to use dreamcast lightguns...) i rather use an lcd than expose myself to the seizure producing refresh rates of a crt. ymmv.
The question is not whether they're happy with the cameras for business purposes, after all most consumers are happy with the quality of any point and shoot camera. The question is are they happy with the cameras for artistic purposes.
I still find it annoying as hell that you can't capture RGB at each pixel (except for foveon) and so have to choose which kind of degradation/approximation of reality to use. I keep finding myself buying cameras and then returning them because they're just never up to what i'm expecting. Beats sniffing all those chemicals though and much easier to dodge and burn, though i have really fond memories of the dark room. Still, I'm more content with pencil and paper than most digital cameras for capturing a scene. Then again, i'm just like those grammar pedants.
In canada our Royal college of physicians and what not really sucks. I worked for the government and when they wanted to get rid of me, you know for complaining about health and safety issues in the workplace that would have cost them money to fix, they sent me to one of their health canada doctors. The guy basically twisted everything i said, blatantly made up some lies, and declared me unfit for work. Something both my work and this doctor have done before. Took my union and I forever to get them to accept 3 other doctors testimony that there was absolutely nothing wrong with me.
When i tried to complain to the college about the doctor, their response was 'well, he was trying his best', and that was that. So basically they didn't care that he made up lies, misdiagnosed, and was incapable of taking a patient history accurately because after all 'he was trying his best'.
I think the whole point is that they can make money from it.
A cheaper solution which i'm going to be experimenting with in earthquake prone mexico is building a zero energy home using 18"-24" rammed earth walls doped with lime and placing chicken wire inside both sides of the frame to embed it directly into the wall as it's being constructed. There's some evidence to suggest such a method will render an earthquake proof wall, though nobody has quite done it in this manner before, and give it a couple of years and no wrecking ball is going to tear it down either.
Top it off with a self-supporting roof and the most danger you'll be in is from falling books... and that 30' crevasse opening under your feet, but you can't solve everything in a day:)
If i could find a non-leaching easy to construct plastic (easy for an uneducated native as i want all my structures to be buildable by hand) i might try out the concentric rings idea to absorb and deflect seismic waves.
You don't get it do you? There is no superiority because you're on one side of the spectrum or another. We are all primitive in some aspects. Come on, i couldn't even read a clock till i was in university and only learned the months of the year in my thirties! Heaven forbid if you ask me how many days each month has though!
Although if pressed i'd have to say that the superior ones would be those who can traverse the spectrums at will, an ability i'd love to have, hell i can't even keep my 3d vision on all day long, i keep zoning out into 2d land.
And if you couldn't tell, i still can't fully comprehend grammar and syntax, but at least i'm no longer speaking in lyrics or dialogue from obscure 80's songs or tv shows:)
Perhaps you don't buy it because you can't hear it, but that doesn't mean that everybody perceives the world like you do.
I'm pretty sure everybody knows at least one person who would be bothered by the 'flashing' of old fluorescents or the flickering of CRT's. True, for the vast majority of humans 24 frames per second, or a 60hz display is fine and they perceived old fluorescents as a continuous emission of light, but not everybody perceives that way.
As a side note, i've tend to notice that those who 'see the bigger picture' are not likely to be affected by this, while those immersed in details suffer more from this. Just like with old DLP projectors, if you just sat and drank in the whole scene you'd be fine, while those individuals whipping their head around to try and focus on different elements of the scene would perceive the dreaded rainbow effect.
I wish! They thought i was retarded at first because i really couldn't follow along with the other kids. This was in the late seventies before they knew much about autism.
Let me tell you, life didn't get anywhere resembling normal until i started to learn about meditation and slowing down mental and sensory activity. Which didn't help my image either in high school, college, or university as i would put myself into a trance so i could bare to listen to the teachers extremely slow talking and extremely slow delivery of knowledge, which to everybody else just looked like i was asleep with my head on the table.
I'm also pretty sure that anybody else with a high IQ will agree, it doesn't grant you social skills and so you can clearly tell you aren't superior. In fact, i used to always feel inferior of people who could just strike up a conversation with anybody and would admire those with less mental gifts but with such determination that they would achieve what ever their dreams were.
I'm sure there are others who can hear it as well, senses vary from individual to individual. For example, some autists are so zoomed into detail that they get lost going from the kitchen to the bathroom. Distance is experienced relative to sampling units of our senses or Level of Detail.
When i was younger i had an extremely hard time with grammar and syntax, i couldn't hear syllables. For me, the 'distance' between each syllable was so immense and i heard so many 'stops' within the syllable itself, that i just never heard what others were hearing, i.e., the breaks within the syllables and surrounding the syllables were perceived as such great distances that i couldn't differentiate the two. On the other side of things, i could hear the nuances so well that i was able to parrot foreign languages and accents, then again lots of autists have echolalia. And yes, i wanted to kill the person who thought 24 frames per second was all you needed for the illusion of movement. Thankfully, as i've gotten older, i've learned how to zoom in and out both with my auditory, visual, gustatory, and tactile senses. Still need to work on my olfactory.
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BTW, i love how you state everything as fact when you have no evidence to back up your claims. Lack of evidence to the contrary is not evidence for your claims.
Autism is something you can recover from since it really is just a different way of perceiving and focusing, something that we should in fact all be capable of doing.
Why is it that humans tend to believe that they aren't subject to the laws of physics?
Emotions aside, it seems logical to me to let the weak die off for the betterment of humanity,...even if i would probably be currently dead if people thought like that earlier, or in an iron lung, instead i just had to deal with partial paralysis from the polio vaccine.
Maybe, just maybe, some of us are more susceptible to toxic things (bell curve anyone)? Coming from someone who has gotten severely sick after each of my immunizations with thimerosal, losing my ability to speak and becoming autistic. Then again, that's just anecdotal, which means about as much as my recovery.
Probably because he's talking about CHINESE grad students in CHINA and not grad students at Stanford in the US..
little people with little lives i guess :)
I guess there are a lot of mods out there who want all the benefits of a good life without any of the hard work!
It's not me who disapproves, it's nature.
Maybe because how people feed their body is a reflection of how they interact with the world around themselves. Those who don't treat their body properly, nor care about learning how, to really shouldn't be living for very long.
I picked up my iGo bluetooth keyboards for $20USD. Unless you're talking about fancy non-portable keyboards which sort of defeats the purpose of a pocketable internet tablet.
Sure you start off with rags, but that's what leveling up is for. Duh! We don't run around killing monsters nowadays because all the high level hero's in the past exterminated them!
random ghosting and backlight flicker bothers you but not the persistant, umm, what's that word that means opposite of random, refresh rate of crt's doesn't? Funny, i'm the exact opposite.
cause we all use our lcd's at an angle... Anyways, while i love the colour rendition of crt's (and the ability to use dreamcast lightguns...) i rather use an lcd than expose myself to the seizure producing refresh rates of a crt. ymmv.
I still find it annoying as hell that you can't capture RGB at each pixel (except for foveon) and so have to choose which kind of degradation/approximation of reality to use. I keep finding myself buying cameras and then returning them because they're just never up to what i'm expecting. Beats sniffing all those chemicals though and much easier to dodge and burn, though i have really fond memories of the dark room. Still, I'm more content with pencil and paper than most digital cameras for capturing a scene. Then again, i'm just like those grammar pedants.
When i tried to complain to the college about the doctor, their response was 'well, he was trying his best', and that was that. So basically they didn't care that he made up lies, misdiagnosed, and was incapable of taking a patient history accurately because after all 'he was trying his best'.
Only in canada.
Then again, that would totally do away with western architecture... probably a good thing!
A cheaper solution which i'm going to be experimenting with in earthquake prone mexico is building a zero energy home using 18"-24" rammed earth walls doped with lime and placing chicken wire inside both sides of the frame to embed it directly into the wall as it's being constructed. There's some evidence to suggest such a method will render an earthquake proof wall, though nobody has quite done it in this manner before, and give it a couple of years and no wrecking ball is going to tear it down either.
Top it off with a self-supporting roof and the most danger you'll be in is from falling books... and that 30' crevasse opening under your feet, but you can't solve everything in a day :)
If i could find a non-leaching easy to construct plastic (easy for an uneducated native as i want all my structures to be buildable by hand) i might try out the concentric rings idea to absorb and deflect seismic waves.
So, you only pretend to have morals if others play the same game?
Although if pressed i'd have to say that the superior ones would be those who can traverse the spectrums at will, an ability i'd love to have, hell i can't even keep my 3d vision on all day long, i keep zoning out into 2d land.
And if you couldn't tell, i still can't fully comprehend grammar and syntax, but at least i'm no longer speaking in lyrics or dialogue from obscure 80's songs or tv shows :)
I'm pretty sure everybody knows at least one person who would be bothered by the 'flashing' of old fluorescents or the flickering of CRT's. True, for the vast majority of humans 24 frames per second, or a 60hz display is fine and they perceived old fluorescents as a continuous emission of light, but not everybody perceives that way.
As a side note, i've tend to notice that those who 'see the bigger picture' are not likely to be affected by this, while those immersed in details suffer more from this. Just like with old DLP projectors, if you just sat and drank in the whole scene you'd be fine, while those individuals whipping their head around to try and focus on different elements of the scene would perceive the dreaded rainbow effect.
ah, you must be a scientist from the 20th century. Care to back up your assertion with anything besides your ego?
Let me tell you, life didn't get anywhere resembling normal until i started to learn about meditation and slowing down mental and sensory activity. Which didn't help my image either in high school, college, or university as i would put myself into a trance so i could bare to listen to the teachers extremely slow talking and extremely slow delivery of knowledge, which to everybody else just looked like i was asleep with my head on the table.
I'm also pretty sure that anybody else with a high IQ will agree, it doesn't grant you social skills and so you can clearly tell you aren't superior. In fact, i used to always feel inferior of people who could just strike up a conversation with anybody and would admire those with less mental gifts but with such determination that they would achieve what ever their dreams were.
When i was younger i had an extremely hard time with grammar and syntax, i couldn't hear syllables. For me, the 'distance' between each syllable was so immense and i heard so many 'stops' within the syllable itself, that i just never heard what others were hearing, i.e., the breaks within the syllables and surrounding the syllables were perceived as such great distances that i couldn't differentiate the two. On the other side of things, i could hear the nuances so well that i was able to parrot foreign languages and accents, then again lots of autists have echolalia.
And yes, i wanted to kill the person who thought 24 frames per second was all you needed for the illusion of movement. Thankfully, as i've gotten older, i've learned how to zoom in and out both with my auditory, visual, gustatory, and tactile senses. Still need to work on my olfactory.