a three year old has considerably less in the way of reasoning and communication skills than slightly older children
Yeah that's one way of putting it. My wife works at a nursery where most of the 3 year olds can't even feed or dress themselves, never mind display any reasoning or communication skills.
Kids turn out all right, unless they have really fucked up parents that don't trust them and have to keep tabs on them everywhere.
And therefore, m'lud, I put it to you that by being an entirely uninterested parent, not caring about what your children do at all, you will in fact achieve the best possible outcome for them. Which is why my clients, Mr Slob and his partner, deliberately failed to feed, clothe, house or educate their many offspring, all because they selflessly wanted the best for them.
Lying and deceiving your parents is a normal part of growing up, and the point of spying on your kids is not to prevent them from being normal, but to protect them from real dangers.
No, you're wrong. There is a huge difference between your kids doing dodgy stuff you're not aware of and their doing dodgy stuff which you know about but tacitly condone.
For example, when I was young almost everyone engaged in underage drinking (this is in the UK, so not that difficult then). Parents didn't mind as long as you didn't come home too late and/or too drunk. But if they'd had some sort of tracking device so they could see which pubs you were in, or CCTV footage of you getting in fights and being sick in public, that would be a different matter.
And anyway, it is the "real dangers" that you can't do anything much about. If they're going to be raped, murdered, go and work as a crack whore, or whatever, there's not a lot you can do about it.
My 2yo got an iPod touch ($300) and still has it 2.5 years later as his most prized possession. We have never had to tell him to keep track of it, he loves it that much. It's not for every kid though.
My kids don't have prized possessions, just stuff they find interesting ways of breaking.
Now that I have children of my own, my view that the majority of problems that parents have with their kids are problems generated by the parents has only been confirmed.
You're the exception that proves the rule then. I used to think this was broadly true when I was younger, but now I have kids myself, I can see how they can be utterly selfish, self-obsessed, incapable of deferred gratification and just plain ignorant about reality.
She said I never would wander off after that, and if I acted bad, she would tell me she was leaving..and I'd cry and promise to act right..etc.
What the fuck?
What's wrong?
It's not generally considered best parenting practice to threaten your kids with being abandoned, which I imagine is what GP thought you meant by "she would tell me she was leaving", although possibly you just meant she would be leaving with you.
Actually violence against children has been going down for a long time now. But the 24-hour news cycle has made abductions and other horrors seem like a common thing. You're a helluva lot safer as a kid alone in the mall today that you were 20-40 years ago.
Now then now then now then, kids in those days listened to showaddywaddy and have Jim fix it for them.
I know showaddywaddy's the one people always use for Jimmy Savile impersonations, but it would have been funnier if you'd said Gary Glitter.
If you watch a movie that you downloaded from a torrent site on your home-designed-and-built-from-scratch computer you are still just consuming that product the same as someone who pays to watch it on a dumb TV.
A pen and paper (remember those) is ideal for note taking, especially if you want to include charts, graphs, math, etc., take notes in a non-linear way, or need to make quick annotations to notes taken earlier.
Appending to or editing previous notes is exactly where pen and paper fail. If you need to go back and insert an additional two (or any N) lines of text in to a place where there's only one (or any N-1) blank lines, you have a problem.
I find that the use of an asterisk and "PTO" usually solves this alleged problem.
I'm glad to see that they are working more on this. The more we understand about the effects of solitude, the better we will be able to combat them. Glad we're getting this out of the way so that when propulsion and radiation shielding are ready, so are the people that will use them.
If you want to see the effects of solitude, why not just lock people up in solitary confinement in a prison for a few months? It needn't be wasted time just sitting there staring at the walls, as I'm sure you could give them a pile of relevant tasks to do
I don't see why you need to build a replica spacecraft to see how people respond to being locked up for a long time.
I am a native English speaker, and I often have trouble reading archaic English texts.
Shakespeare (around 1600) and the King James Version of the Bible (1611) come to mind.
Apart from the use of the long S, thou/thee and having superfluous e's on the end of words, the 1611 KJV bible is not at all difficult to read. My problems came when trying to read Chaucer (Fourteenth Century) which is much more like a half-foreign language at first, although you do get used to it after a while.
It makes me wonder, did someone "translated" it into modern English?
No, it's just that Seventeenth Century English wasn't that different from modern English. By that point, spellings and punctuation were largely regularised (unlike in say the Sixteenth Century).
The Gutenberg version is in html, which might sound nice until you realize that you can't bookmark the page. As if you're going to read this on one sitting or something. To have any real value it needs to be epub, so it can be read using ereader software.
As this sounded somewhat unlikely, I went to the page, bookmarked it, closed it then opened it from the bookmark. So I'd say that you can bookmark the page, although maybe you meant something other than what I did?
There is an old saying that when you're in a hole it's a good idea to stop digging.
If you have reached adulthood and never come across the long S before, you are not well educated. Attempting to describe this as "specialized knowledge" just makes you look more silly.
It's not reasonable for an entire country to suffer because of a handful of people.
If the ISPs are blocking child pornography, who exactly is suffering apart from the consumers of (illegal) child pornography, about whose "right" to view child pornography I personally don't give a flying fuck?
Fuck off, you do not hold any copyrights yourselves, therefore you are NOT LEGALLY QUALIFIED TO COMPLAIN.
Yours Sincerely,
Everybody.
As the discoverer of this amazing legal loophole, I trust you have informed the ISPs concerned so that they can rebuff teh evil BPI with a few well chosen words?
Unless you think that people are going to stop watching films or listening to popular music, then no, the film and music industries are not going to disappear.
I know people on slashdot think that everything can be made for free, but especially in the case of films, that simply isn't true. The industries are there because one man and his laptop can't make a big glossy Hollywood film.
As to whether big glossy Hollywood films need to be made, that is a different question. But as an awful lot of people seem to prefer Transformers 3 to re-watching a Kurosawa or Tarkovsky classic, I'd say they have their followers.
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a three year old has considerably less in the way of reasoning and communication skills than slightly older children
Yeah that's one way of putting it. My wife works at a nursery where most of the 3 year olds can't even feed or dress themselves, never mind display any reasoning or communication skills.
Kids turn out all right, unless they have really fucked up parents that don't trust them and have to keep tabs on them everywhere.
And therefore, m'lud, I put it to you that by being an entirely uninterested parent, not caring about what your children do at all, you will in fact achieve the best possible outcome for them. Which is why my clients, Mr Slob and his partner, deliberately failed to feed, clothe, house or educate their many offspring, all because they selflessly wanted the best for them.
Personally, I think you are crossing a line, and invading her privacy
No, she's a child. There is a reason why, in civilised countries, you have reduced rights and responsibilities until you reach the age of majority.
A 13 year old is certainly not an adult, and a 10 year old is just a child.
Apologies to all the genius teenagers on here, but as a rule it's true.
Lying and deceiving your parents is a normal part of growing up, and the point of spying on your kids is not to prevent them from being normal, but to protect them from real dangers.
No, you're wrong. There is a huge difference between your kids doing dodgy stuff you're not aware of and their doing dodgy stuff which you know about but tacitly condone.
For example, when I was young almost everyone engaged in underage drinking (this is in the UK, so not that difficult then). Parents didn't mind as long as you didn't come home too late and/or too drunk. But if they'd had some sort of tracking device so they could see which pubs you were in, or CCTV footage of you getting in fights and being sick in public, that would be a different matter.
And anyway, it is the "real dangers" that you can't do anything much about. If they're going to be raped, murdered, go and work as a crack whore, or whatever, there's not a lot you can do about it.
My 2yo got an iPod touch ($300) and still has it 2.5 years later as his most prized possession. We have never had to tell him to keep track of it, he loves it that much. It's not for every kid though.
My kids don't have prized possessions, just stuff they find interesting ways of breaking.
until they turn location services off....
Or, if they're one of my kids, leave it in their desk at school, in someone else's school bag, up a tree in the playground...
small children take care of things the way that their parents teach them to take care of things
I can't believe you can say that with a straight face.
Now that I have children of my own, my view that the majority of problems that parents have with their kids are problems generated by the parents has only been confirmed.
You're the exception that proves the rule then. I used to think this was broadly true when I was younger, but now I have kids myself, I can see how they can be utterly selfish, self-obsessed, incapable of deferred gratification and just plain ignorant about reality.
What's wrong?
It's not generally considered best parenting practice to threaten your kids with being abandoned, which I imagine is what GP thought you meant by "she would tell me she was leaving", although possibly you just meant she would be leaving with you.
Actually violence against children has been going down for a long time now. But the 24-hour news cycle has made abductions and other horrors seem like a common thing. You're a helluva lot safer as a kid alone in the mall today that you were 20-40 years ago.
Now then now then now then, kids in those days listened to showaddywaddy and have Jim fix it for them.
I know showaddywaddy's the one people always use for Jimmy Savile impersonations, but it would have been funnier if you'd said Gary Glitter.
If you watch a movie that you downloaded from a torrent site on your home-designed-and-built-from-scratch computer you are still just consuming that product the same as someone who pays to watch it on a dumb TV.
A pen and paper (remember those) is ideal for note taking, especially if you want to include charts, graphs, math, etc., take notes in a non-linear way, or need to make quick annotations to notes taken earlier.
Appending to or editing previous notes is exactly where pen and paper fail. If you need to go back and insert an additional two (or any N) lines of text in to a place where there's only one (or any N-1) blank lines, you have a problem.
I find that the use of an asterisk and "PTO" usually solves this alleged problem.
The problem is they'd probably decide that Mars was a gay planet and refuse to set foot on it.
I'm glad to see that they are working more on this. The more we understand about the effects of solitude, the better we will be able to combat them. Glad we're getting this out of the way so that when propulsion and radiation shielding are ready, so are the people that will use them.
If you want to see the effects of solitude, why not just lock people up in solitary confinement in a prison for a few months? It needn't be wasted time just sitting there staring at the walls, as I'm sure you could give them a pile of relevant tasks to do
I don't see why you need to build a replica spacecraft to see how people respond to being locked up for a long time.
If you want to immerse yourself in the world of Hooke, Pepys, Newton et al., you should read "The Baroque Cycle".
Especially if you've got a month's solitary confinement coming up and want something to keep you occupied.
Not everyone loved Hooke either, because he spent far too much time drinking and whoring
I didn't know it was possible to spend too much time drinking and whoring.
I am a native English speaker, and I often have trouble reading archaic English texts. Shakespeare (around 1600) and the King James Version of the Bible (1611) come to mind.
Apart from the use of the long S, thou/thee and having superfluous e's on the end of words, the 1611 KJV bible is not at all difficult to read. My problems came when trying to read Chaucer (Fourteenth Century) which is much more like a half-foreign language at first, although you do get used to it after a while.
It makes me wonder, did someone "translated" it into modern English?
No, it's just that Seventeenth Century English wasn't that different from modern English. By that point, spellings and punctuation were largely regularised (unlike in say the Sixteenth Century).
The Gutenberg version is in html, which might sound nice until you realize that you can't bookmark the page. As if you're going to read this on one sitting or something. To have any real value it needs to be epub, so it can be read using ereader software.
As this sounded somewhat unlikely, I went to the page, bookmarked it, closed it then opened it from the bookmark. So I'd say that you can bookmark the page, although maybe you meant something other than what I did?
It’s the same user. Probably trolling.
No, to give him the benefit of the doubt, I think he's just incredibly stupid.
There is an old saying that when you're in a hole it's a good idea to stop digging.
If you have reached adulthood and never come across the long S before, you are not well educated. Attempting to describe this as "specialized knowledge" just makes you look more silly.
It's the fucking capitalist pseudo-free market that's the problem, despite the bleatings of American libertarians.
It's not reasonable for an entire country to suffer because of a handful of people.
If the ISPs are blocking child pornography, who exactly is suffering apart from the consumers of (illegal) child pornography, about whose "right" to view child pornography I personally don't give a flying fuck?
Fuck off, you do not hold any copyrights yourselves, therefore you are NOT LEGALLY QUALIFIED TO COMPLAIN.
Yours Sincerely,
Everybody.
As the discoverer of this amazing legal loophole, I trust you have informed the ISPs concerned so that they can rebuff teh evil BPI with a few well chosen words?
Unless you think that people are going to stop watching films or listening to popular music, then no, the film and music industries are not going to disappear.
I know people on slashdot think that everything can be made for free, but especially in the case of films, that simply isn't true. The industries are there because one man and his laptop can't make a big glossy Hollywood film.
As to whether big glossy Hollywood films need to be made, that is a different question. But as an awful lot of people seem to prefer Transformers 3 to re-watching a Kurosawa or Tarkovsky classic, I'd say they have their followers.