So the colleges that do this don't have consumer power? It's how these textbooks work. Don't you think they would have done it already with the online material at colleges and universities?
The educational publishing business is rather unique.
You really think there are no copyright issues with copying stuff back and forth like that?
Most online materials that go hand in hand with my textbooks are password protected, and not downloadable. It's not like they are downloading a huge huge txt file.
What about the poor children? Sure, pay for internet at home, but sometimes these families go for some time without electric. Then what? Can't use it, can't charge it. What about risk of mugging? There is a dollar value, you can figure in you have to replace X due to theft, but what about the damage to body, and mind, when that happens?
And what about rural areas with shitty connections?
The other night a number of students of mine had an assignment due, and we all had to use noodletools, which is fantastic, but online only.
Mediacom went out for much of the area, for much of the night. Way too many of us suffered from lack of sleep waiting for the internet to come back on, so we could finish our work.
I would have gone to the downtown campus of my school? BUt they use mediacom. Library? Mediacom? Free wireless? Mediacom.
Oh, and imagine reading textbooks on a netbook. I'm on one now and I don't relish the thought.
That seems kind of selfish, making people chase you down like that. Why does the other person have to do the work? What if they are calling to do you a favor or something for you? How awful!
And leave a text? I have no way to leave a text for someone.
I'd much rather get a voicemail, than a text, and I conduct a lot of my life via voicemail.
The robitussin doesn't work for CHILDREN. The referenced articles did not state anything about adults. I've not seen research that said anything to the contrary -- I wouldn't mind it, though.
If it IS vinyl flooring, it isn't from the kid, it's from pregnant mom, I think.
Although we didn't have vinyl floors (and because of insurance screw-ups, didn't get my son properly vaccinated well until after he was full blown autistic), I was exposed to a lot of toxins (airborne) during my pregnancy.
But the interesting thing is, in retrospect, he had signs of autism almost immediately after birth. Part of autism (which he has to the point where he cannot speak, and most likely will never live independently) can be sensory problems, and his are oral/eating related.
He would not breastfeed. He would not take food from a bottle. He could not leave the hospital for two weeks because of this. Even when he got home, formula or breastmilk would pour down his face as much as it would pour into his mouth.
I've spoken to other parents who saw signs, small ones, very very early on. Yes, my kid did have a bit of that 'developing ok and then all of a sudden went backwards' stuff, but he was already a bit off, I think. And he still does that today -- over the summer, without school, he lost the ability to communicate completely. It's just that parents seem to notice that first change.
So vinyl floors? A bit of a reach. Something happening during pregnancy? A possibility. Toxins? A possibility. But my wood floors didn't 'save' my son.
Good point. I know a number of female lawyers, and I can think of at least two that got pregnant during law school. They still managed to finish, and work afterwards. Medicine (and not just doctors, but nurses, physical therapists, OTs, SLPs, and so on) is very time intensive, too. Nursing clinicals often start before 6am -- VERY hard to do if you have school aged children. But a lot of nursing students are parents.
I wonder what fields of law female lawyers are drawn towards -- it might add some insight to the discussion. If it is stuff like public defense, or family law or things like that, does it mean that they are going towards the 'helping fields' just like women who go into education, early childhood, social work, and medicine do? Or are they more random in their law career choices?
I had the ability, I just don't LIKE it.
I never thought I'd have children, and I do.
My career switch is nursing, which is science intensive, and math intensive. Nursing is a lot more than bringing a tray and sticking a needle in your arm.
I suppose in the past I could have been a doctor (too old now). But there is something in me that draws me emotionally to nursing.
The hours of school do interfere with child care, and it's been a lot of juggling, including my husband taking off of work for six weeks for a summer course I wanted to take. So you can't really say it is the time, either, since a lot of parents (usually mothers) do a career switch to nursing.
A lot of it has to do with how many women are wired. I bet if I had an interest, I'd do great in something tech related. (Had my first computer in the 70s, my dad the engineer taught me basic programming, something I continued through high school.) I just don't have that interest. I like people. I think I'd be a great nurse. The work I've done so far has been very enjoyable. Knowing, too, that there is a shortage does help from the practical side of things. If I did go a different way, would I have job security? I don't know.
Why are MDs fighting against PAs and NPs and midwives?
That is another way to lighten the load, and increase access and quality of care to people, but the AMA is NOT friendly to anyone encroaching on their territory, even if the evidence points towards those other titles being competent, and even excelling at what they do. And now they want NPs to get PhDs. Anything to get them out of patient care!
Here, at least, nursing pays a lot better than social work, and there are quite a lot of loan forgiveness programs out there. Nursing school is an ASN or BSN -- should cost as much as social work, except of course the bit of money you have to pay for uniforms and stethoscopes and the like...
We had a similar problem. Couldn't afford to bank it, in our case, and we couldn't find anyone to take it. The kits they send out to people banking them cannot be sent out to those donating it, the people taking donations don't do that.
Even the ones with your shrink suck.
I took one that made it sound like I was bi-polar. Asked if anyone said I talked too fast. Of course; I just moved from NYC to the Midwest. EVERYONE thought I talked too fast.
And if you've ever been down or blue? DEPRESSION. Even if you had good reasons, like a divorce, or death, or something similar.
I walked away from that shrink and never looked back. Being from NYC makes you manic, and miscarrying makes you depressive.
Your father was wrong.
I somehow am not allowed to play M rated games, despite being 40 years old, if I have children with me?
Am I not allowed to buy alcohol, birth control or donuts, either?
Granted, your dad worked at Wal-Mart, which probably wouldn't sell me the birth control with or without children...but the point is, I am a mature, responsible adult, and I like to play video games. I also have the self control to play them appropriately, and don't need some stranger deciding for me that I'm not allowed to own it.
As you said, there is such a thing as games for adults. As an adult, I should be allowed to play that game, without interference from your father. Unless he felt like babysitting for me for free? Special needs child as well, he'd need additional training, much more than his Wal Mart job!
Ridiculous. You should be embarrassed to tell this story. Your father is an ass.
Facebook is filled with networks of mothers. A lot of ads cater to them. They make money off of mothers.
I cannot believe the number of ignorant comments to this thread -- more so than the average slashdot thread. But then, this is one where women would understand more than men, and parents more than people who are childfree.
Still, I'd expect at least a few more enlightened people who understand basic human biology, laws pertaining to breastfeeding, the amount of women (especially mothers) who are are the internet, and other things outside the little slashdot world. I was wrong. I'm used to diversity, I guess.
I suggest the mothers contact the people who are paying facebook to reach us. Why should we buy products from companies that support a place like facebook? Mothers are a POWERFUL force as far as consumers are concerned. This might not end the way some of you expect it will.
YEah, my neighsbor said he pissed in public and got arrested and put on the list.
LAter on I found he sexually assaulted a 14 year old -- after he was picked up again for assaulting a 16 year old.
But hey, yeah, he "pissed on a bush".
I can understand not trusting the government, but that doesn't mean that you can trust the criminal, either. Don't let your hate for the government mean your common sense goes out the window.
They already KNOW some causes of autism. It's a spectrum, and the symptoms that cause it are a list of behaviors, some of which have known triggers. Rhett's Syndrome, Fragile X syndrome are two that come to mind off the top of my head. I know another child that had a surgical injury that caused autistic behaviors.
If autism were a disease, then it would be easy to say 'let's find the cause'. But given the scope and definition of autism, I would find it very hard to say that we could find 'the cause'. Maybe we can find more causes, which would be great. They suspect a few different things for my own child.
Oh, and it isn't just the media. I've gone to seminars and conferences, with doctors and PhDs who are still spouting 'it could be the shots'. It couldn't have been that with my son, though. That much we DO know.
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Have a hard time sympathizing though, to be honest.
I commend you for wanting to get your child a computer. Kids like to mimic what adults do -- it is an important part of child development. As long as you don't direct the play too much, it is just as valuable as when your kid 'cooks dinner' or 'dos laundry' or 'gardens' or what have you.
Computers aren't some sort of evil out to kill your child. The people here who are terrified of children and computers really need to get their heads away from the screen and accept that computers are simply another tool that people use. I know you want to keep your computer mystique to yourselves, but get over it.
It's not like handing the kid a power saw or the keys to a car. As long as the OP understands that the computer might be broken, and doesn't get upset, then it should be just fine.
And lapware is just as much fun to bond with as reading a book together. And yes, I did both.
The one child without early exposure or interest in computers (out of my three) is actually the one with the severe developmental delays.
And yet we don't have doctors presiding over any cases involving medicine.
Other complex cases (more complex than computer things like this -- this is even something *I* understand) manage just fine without special courts. There shouldn't be a need for a computer court if courts handle all sorts of complexities out there.
There are a lot of 'hard' things out in the world, besides computers. Really.
As a nursing student, I mark up my textbooks a lot. I put lecture notes next to the diagrams, I highlight, I draw arrows, I add to the diagrams. I do the practice problems. I circle things. SOme people like to keep their books pristine for resale, but not me.
Also, since nursing involves taking boards at the end of school, I want to keep those books for reference. Those notes I scribbled in will still matter down the road.
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So the colleges that do this don't have consumer power? It's how these textbooks work. Don't you think they would have done it already with the online material at colleges and universities? The educational publishing business is rather unique.
You really think there are no copyright issues with copying stuff back and forth like that? Most online materials that go hand in hand with my textbooks are password protected, and not downloadable. It's not like they are downloading a huge huge txt file.
What about the poor children? Sure, pay for internet at home, but sometimes these families go for some time without electric. Then what? Can't use it, can't charge it. What about risk of mugging? There is a dollar value, you can figure in you have to replace X due to theft, but what about the damage to body, and mind, when that happens? And what about rural areas with shitty connections? The other night a number of students of mine had an assignment due, and we all had to use noodletools, which is fantastic, but online only. Mediacom went out for much of the area, for much of the night. Way too many of us suffered from lack of sleep waiting for the internet to come back on, so we could finish our work. I would have gone to the downtown campus of my school? BUt they use mediacom. Library? Mediacom? Free wireless? Mediacom. Oh, and imagine reading textbooks on a netbook. I'm on one now and I don't relish the thought.
I must be the most powerful person on slashdot.
That seems kind of selfish, making people chase you down like that. Why does the other person have to do the work? What if they are calling to do you a favor or something for you? How awful! And leave a text? I have no way to leave a text for someone. I'd much rather get a voicemail, than a text, and I conduct a lot of my life via voicemail.
LA Times blog ok? http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/04/amazon-deranks-gayfriendly-books-the-twitterverse-notices.html
The robitussin doesn't work for CHILDREN. The referenced articles did not state anything about adults. I've not seen research that said anything to the contrary -- I wouldn't mind it, though.
If it IS vinyl flooring, it isn't from the kid, it's from pregnant mom, I think. Although we didn't have vinyl floors (and because of insurance screw-ups, didn't get my son properly vaccinated well until after he was full blown autistic), I was exposed to a lot of toxins (airborne) during my pregnancy. But the interesting thing is, in retrospect, he had signs of autism almost immediately after birth. Part of autism (which he has to the point where he cannot speak, and most likely will never live independently) can be sensory problems, and his are oral/eating related. He would not breastfeed. He would not take food from a bottle. He could not leave the hospital for two weeks because of this. Even when he got home, formula or breastmilk would pour down his face as much as it would pour into his mouth. I've spoken to other parents who saw signs, small ones, very very early on. Yes, my kid did have a bit of that 'developing ok and then all of a sudden went backwards' stuff, but he was already a bit off, I think. And he still does that today -- over the summer, without school, he lost the ability to communicate completely. It's just that parents seem to notice that first change. So vinyl floors? A bit of a reach. Something happening during pregnancy? A possibility. Toxins? A possibility. But my wood floors didn't 'save' my son.
Good point. I know a number of female lawyers, and I can think of at least two that got pregnant during law school. They still managed to finish, and work afterwards. Medicine (and not just doctors, but nurses, physical therapists, OTs, SLPs, and so on) is very time intensive, too. Nursing clinicals often start before 6am -- VERY hard to do if you have school aged children. But a lot of nursing students are parents. I wonder what fields of law female lawyers are drawn towards -- it might add some insight to the discussion. If it is stuff like public defense, or family law or things like that, does it mean that they are going towards the 'helping fields' just like women who go into education, early childhood, social work, and medicine do? Or are they more random in their law career choices?
I had the ability, I just don't LIKE it. I never thought I'd have children, and I do. My career switch is nursing, which is science intensive, and math intensive. Nursing is a lot more than bringing a tray and sticking a needle in your arm. I suppose in the past I could have been a doctor (too old now). But there is something in me that draws me emotionally to nursing. The hours of school do interfere with child care, and it's been a lot of juggling, including my husband taking off of work for six weeks for a summer course I wanted to take. So you can't really say it is the time, either, since a lot of parents (usually mothers) do a career switch to nursing. A lot of it has to do with how many women are wired. I bet if I had an interest, I'd do great in something tech related. (Had my first computer in the 70s, my dad the engineer taught me basic programming, something I continued through high school.) I just don't have that interest. I like people. I think I'd be a great nurse. The work I've done so far has been very enjoyable. Knowing, too, that there is a shortage does help from the practical side of things. If I did go a different way, would I have job security? I don't know.
Why are MDs fighting against PAs and NPs and midwives? That is another way to lighten the load, and increase access and quality of care to people, but the AMA is NOT friendly to anyone encroaching on their territory, even if the evidence points towards those other titles being competent, and even excelling at what they do. And now they want NPs to get PhDs. Anything to get them out of patient care!
Here, at least, nursing pays a lot better than social work, and there are quite a lot of loan forgiveness programs out there. Nursing school is an ASN or BSN -- should cost as much as social work, except of course the bit of money you have to pay for uniforms and stethoscopes and the like...
We had a similar problem. Couldn't afford to bank it, in our case, and we couldn't find anyone to take it. The kits they send out to people banking them cannot be sent out to those donating it, the people taking donations don't do that.
They said differently in 2001. Interesting.
Even the ones with your shrink suck. I took one that made it sound like I was bi-polar. Asked if anyone said I talked too fast. Of course; I just moved from NYC to the Midwest. EVERYONE thought I talked too fast. And if you've ever been down or blue? DEPRESSION. Even if you had good reasons, like a divorce, or death, or something similar. I walked away from that shrink and never looked back. Being from NYC makes you manic, and miscarrying makes you depressive.
Your father was wrong. I somehow am not allowed to play M rated games, despite being 40 years old, if I have children with me? Am I not allowed to buy alcohol, birth control or donuts, either? Granted, your dad worked at Wal-Mart, which probably wouldn't sell me the birth control with or without children...but the point is, I am a mature, responsible adult, and I like to play video games. I also have the self control to play them appropriately, and don't need some stranger deciding for me that I'm not allowed to own it. As you said, there is such a thing as games for adults. As an adult, I should be allowed to play that game, without interference from your father. Unless he felt like babysitting for me for free? Special needs child as well, he'd need additional training, much more than his Wal Mart job! Ridiculous. You should be embarrassed to tell this story. Your father is an ass.
Look into how much Facebook makes off of (nursing) moms. It's not too smart to upset them. I'm sure the ads I see are a LOT different than you do.
Facebook is filled with networks of mothers. A lot of ads cater to them. They make money off of mothers. I cannot believe the number of ignorant comments to this thread -- more so than the average slashdot thread. But then, this is one where women would understand more than men, and parents more than people who are childfree. Still, I'd expect at least a few more enlightened people who understand basic human biology, laws pertaining to breastfeeding, the amount of women (especially mothers) who are are the internet, and other things outside the little slashdot world. I was wrong. I'm used to diversity, I guess. I suggest the mothers contact the people who are paying facebook to reach us. Why should we buy products from companies that support a place like facebook? Mothers are a POWERFUL force as far as consumers are concerned. This might not end the way some of you expect it will.
YEah, my neighsbor said he pissed in public and got arrested and put on the list. LAter on I found he sexually assaulted a 14 year old -- after he was picked up again for assaulting a 16 year old. But hey, yeah, he "pissed on a bush". I can understand not trusting the government, but that doesn't mean that you can trust the criminal, either. Don't let your hate for the government mean your common sense goes out the window.
They already KNOW some causes of autism. It's a spectrum, and the symptoms that cause it are a list of behaviors, some of which have known triggers. Rhett's Syndrome, Fragile X syndrome are two that come to mind off the top of my head. I know another child that had a surgical injury that caused autistic behaviors. If autism were a disease, then it would be easy to say 'let's find the cause'. But given the scope and definition of autism, I would find it very hard to say that we could find 'the cause'. Maybe we can find more causes, which would be great. They suspect a few different things for my own child. Oh, and it isn't just the media. I've gone to seminars and conferences, with doctors and PhDs who are still spouting 'it could be the shots'. It couldn't have been that with my son, though. That much we DO know.
Have a hard time sympathizing though, to be honest.
Plenty of forever stamps here. No idea why you can't find them. They even sell them online.
I commend you for wanting to get your child a computer. Kids like to mimic what adults do -- it is an important part of child development. As long as you don't direct the play too much, it is just as valuable as when your kid 'cooks dinner' or 'dos laundry' or 'gardens' or what have you. Computers aren't some sort of evil out to kill your child. The people here who are terrified of children and computers really need to get their heads away from the screen and accept that computers are simply another tool that people use. I know you want to keep your computer mystique to yourselves, but get over it. It's not like handing the kid a power saw or the keys to a car. As long as the OP understands that the computer might be broken, and doesn't get upset, then it should be just fine. And lapware is just as much fun to bond with as reading a book together. And yes, I did both. The one child without early exposure or interest in computers (out of my three) is actually the one with the severe developmental delays.
And yet we don't have doctors presiding over any cases involving medicine. Other complex cases (more complex than computer things like this -- this is even something *I* understand) manage just fine without special courts. There shouldn't be a need for a computer court if courts handle all sorts of complexities out there. There are a lot of 'hard' things out in the world, besides computers. Really.
As a nursing student, I mark up my textbooks a lot. I put lecture notes next to the diagrams, I highlight, I draw arrows, I add to the diagrams. I do the practice problems. I circle things. SOme people like to keep their books pristine for resale, but not me. Also, since nursing involves taking boards at the end of school, I want to keep those books for reference. Those notes I scribbled in will still matter down the road.