In 15 minutes they diagnosed me with ADHD and got me a prescription for the drugs (which I don't take) - while I was 20 years old.
If all the diagnosises are made that quickly then I'd be pretty worried about it.
Diagnosing ADHD takes a lot longer than 15 minutes, and, in my experience, even then it's easy to question the diagnosis. My daughter was diagnosed with it about 8 years ago, but it took me a long time to accept that she wasn't just a typical bright kid. At 14, though, when she's rebelling against just about everything else, she doesn't question whether she ought to be on Concerta.
The thing about parenting is that with any big decision, one is always questioning whether it was the right one. We do the best we can and hope for the best. I believe that the questioning doesn't end until the child is grown and living on his own, and seems to be happy with life.
Entitlement. People feel that it's their right to drive unhindered without the government checking to see if they're sober or not.
I'd buy that explanation if it were the other way around -- Alaska just getting around to ignition interlocks, but New York having had them for years -- but given New York's propensity to liberal/left politics, I don't think government intrusion is the reason for the delay in imposing ignition interlocks.
FWIW, I think I'd have a greater tendency to acquire a drinking problem in Alaska than New York. Maybe there are fewer drunks there?
I can remember lots of these symptoms back in the day when the only radio waves in the area came from the low-powered AM station on the edge of town and the occasional military jet. Gee, if only we had known!
I agree. It ticks me off that we are stuck with unnecessary tire inflation detection hardware because people insisted on driving a Ford Explorer like it was a sports car.
The web site may be there, but the program will not be continued for the 2010 tax year (filing in 2011). I've already confirmed that with my state legislator and let him know of my disappointment. I encourage other Virginians to do the same.
The boars are not radioactive. Only elements that emit radiation are radioactive. The boars are contaminated.
If they're contaminated, what is it they're contaminated with, if it's not radioactive material of some kind? (I mean, they still wouldn't be kosher even if they weren't contaminated, but I'm just trying to understand the semantics in play here.)
Virginia used to have a web-based filing program, iFile. After successfully running the program for four or five years, the legislature voted to do away with it this year, even though I'm sure it had paid for itself and was generating significant cost savings for the state. The sad part to me is that most Virginians seemed to have been unaware of it, as I haven't found anyone else who is even remotely bothered by it. They already pay for Tax Cut or something like that. <sigh>
It costs 44 cents in postage to mail a letter to the editor. Why not charge the same amount for each letter? If the post office is missing out, someone ought to make money on it. Besides, paying for postage has never stopped me or other nut jobs, so why do they think a one-time charge of 99 cents will?
When I was a student journalist in high school and college 30-some years ago, we had a thing for the camera called a telephoto lens. I guess photojournalists don't have such a thing any longer. So much for the advances of technology.
IANAL, but I don't believe that tax status (i.e., mortgage deduction) is a protected class. Also, the EEOC q-and-a page doesn't list sexual orientation as being a class that is protectedby federal law, although some states and localities offer such protection. (I'd be surprised if Californica weren't one of these states.)
Whatever, I salute Google for having the cojones to make this move. Besides, it should be entertaining just for all the heat and light that will be generated. I'd love it if Facebook were to follow suit.
Of course it's an alien planet! It's not Earth, for crying out loud!
What's next, an article headlined Canada Full of Foreigners? (I'm writing from the U.S. perspective, which is that all other countries are full of foreigners.)
I believe (and expect I will be corrected) that the interference in DTV is the rain droplets, since it seems like my reception problems occur even in heavy mist, when there's no lightning anywhere in the region.
BTW, who's broadcasting with mere tens of kilowatts? When I was looking at television transmitter info before the Big Switch, they all seemed to be using hundreds of thousands of watts. Several of the stations were at a full megawatt for their digital signal, which is pretty disgusting when I consider that the first nuclear power plant I heard of only produced about one megawatt.
(Some of the web pages I found while looking for this article indicate that it's too unreliable, but I'm amazed that [1] I remembered reading the article 40 years ago and [2] Google actually scanned it and put it online.)
Because a future with Microsoft is as horrible to contemplate as a future run by Cardassians.
I dunno about that. From what I keep reading about Apple concerning DRM and restrictions on which applications can run on Apple devices, I believe I'd just about rather have Microsoft. Thank God for Linux. (Well, thank Linus and a few thousand others, actually.)
One good thing about this is that it gives me another argument to postpone buying my daughter a laptop: "Well, honey, we don't know what kind of computer they'll require when you enter high school."
I didn't get the patch; however, I don't have the browser toolbar installed at all. I am reluctant to install anyone's toolbar because it gives them another point of entry into my privacy. It seems that this time, the paranoia paid off.
Anti-piracy controls on Win7 are far from perfect. We have only three machines with Win7, and yet we experienced a total of four times so far a black background and a screen that our product key was invalid. A call to Microsoft has always solved the issue, but it's still a hassle.
The anti-piracy controls are probably the biggest thing that drive me to use Linux and other open source. And yet, I've never seen it happen on XP machines that I've been acquainted with.
Let us not forget, California shares their DNA database with the federal government. There is no requirement that the national DNA database honor an expungement.
The bill that passed has language requiring the federal government to expunge the DNA record upon receipt of official notice of acquittal or overturned conviction. That, at least, is something to say for it. But it still gets my goat that one has to *ask*.
I didn't read through the entire bill, but the part I read talked about people arrested for sexual crimes and murder -- nothing about burglary that I could see. The biggest problem I have with it is that while it has a process for expungement of people who are acquitted or whose guilty verdict is overturned, I didn't see anything in there requiring states to initiate the process when one of these events occurs.
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In 15 minutes they diagnosed me with ADHD and got me a prescription for the drugs (which I don't take) - while I was 20 years old.
If all the diagnosises are made that quickly then I'd be pretty worried about it.
Diagnosing ADHD takes a lot longer than 15 minutes, and, in my experience, even then it's easy to question the diagnosis. My daughter was diagnosed with it about 8 years ago, but it took me a long time to accept that she wasn't just a typical bright kid. At 14, though, when she's rebelling against just about everything else, she doesn't question whether she ought to be on Concerta.
The thing about parenting is that with any big decision, one is always questioning whether it was the right one. We do the best we can and hope for the best. I believe that the questioning doesn't end until the child is grown and living on his own, and seems to be happy with life.
Entitlement. People feel that it's their right to drive unhindered without the government checking to see if they're sober or not.
I'd buy that explanation if it were the other way around -- Alaska just getting around to ignition interlocks, but New York having had them for years -- but given New York's propensity to liberal/left politics, I don't think government intrusion is the reason for the delay in imposing ignition interlocks.
FWIW, I think I'd have a greater tendency to acquire a drinking problem in Alaska than New York. Maybe there are fewer drunks there?
I can remember lots of these symptoms back in the day when the only radio waves in the area came from the low-powered AM station on the edge of town and the occasional military jet. Gee, if only we had known!
I was thinking something along the same line.
I agree. It ticks me off that we are stuck with unnecessary tire inflation detection hardware because people insisted on driving a Ford Explorer like it was a sports car.
The web site may be there, but the program will not be continued for the 2010 tax year (filing in 2011). I've already confirmed that with my state legislator and let him know of my disappointment. I encourage other Virginians to do the same.
The boars are not radioactive. Only elements that emit radiation are radioactive. The boars are contaminated.
If they're contaminated, what is it they're contaminated with, if it's not radioactive material of some kind? (I mean, they still wouldn't be kosher even if they weren't contaminated, but I'm just trying to understand the semantics in play here.)
Virginia used to have a web-based filing program, iFile. After successfully running the program for four or five years, the legislature voted to do away with it this year, even though I'm sure it had paid for itself and was generating significant cost savings for the state. The sad part to me is that most Virginians seemed to have been unaware of it, as I haven't found anyone else who is even remotely bothered by it. They already pay for Tax Cut or something like that. <sigh>
It costs 44 cents in postage to mail a letter to the editor. Why not charge the same amount for each letter? If the post office is missing out, someone ought to make money on it. Besides, paying for postage has never stopped me or other nut jobs, so why do they think a one-time charge of 99 cents will?
I wonder what it does for a passerby who is a crossdresser or transgendered.
When I was a student journalist in high school and college 30-some years ago, we had a thing for the camera called a telephoto lens. I guess photojournalists don't have such a thing any longer. So much for the advances of technology.
IANAL, but I don't believe that tax status (i.e., mortgage deduction) is a protected class. Also, the EEOC q-and-a page doesn't list sexual orientation as being a class that is protectedby federal law, although some states and localities offer such protection. (I'd be surprised if Californica weren't one of these states.)
Whatever, I salute Google for having the cojones to make this move. Besides, it should be entertaining just for all the heat and light that will be generated. I'd love it if Facebook were to follow suit.
I'm going to share that one with my friend who gave me the "other countries are full of foreigners" joke. Thanks!
Of course it's an alien planet! It's not Earth, for crying out loud!
What's next, an article headlined Canada Full of Foreigners? (I'm writing from the U.S. perspective, which is that all other countries are full of foreigners.)
Where I'm living it seems like there are more girls in "Boy" scouts then there are boys now.
Where do you live that the Boy Scouts allow girls?
I believe (and expect I will be corrected) that the interference in DTV is the rain droplets, since it seems like my reception problems occur even in heavy mist, when there's no lightning anywhere in the region.
BTW, who's broadcasting with mere tens of kilowatts? When I was looking at television transmitter info before the Big Switch, they all seemed to be using hundreds of thousands of watts. Several of the stations were at a full megawatt for their digital signal, which is pretty disgusting when I consider that the first nuclear power plant I heard of only produced about one megawatt.
I've not heard of one tornado warning yet. *crosses finge[r.]
Get an old analog set and use the Weller Method.
(Some of the web pages I found while looking for this article indicate that it's too unreliable, but I'm amazed that [1] I remembered reading the article 40 years ago and [2] Google actually scanned it and put it online.)
Prithee be true.
Because a future with Microsoft is as horrible to contemplate as a future run by Cardassians.
I dunno about that. From what I keep reading about Apple concerning DRM and restrictions on which applications can run on Apple devices, I believe I'd just about rather have Microsoft. Thank God for Linux. (Well, thank Linus and a few thousand others, actually.)
One good thing about this is that it gives me another argument to postpone buying my daughter a laptop: "Well, honey, we don't know what kind of computer they'll require when you enter high school."
I didn't get the patch; however, I don't have the browser toolbar installed at all. I am reluctant to install anyone's toolbar because it gives them another point of entry into my privacy. It seems that this time, the paranoia paid off.
The anti-piracy controls are probably the biggest thing that drive me to use Linux and other open source. And yet, I've never seen it happen on XP machines that I've been acquainted with.
It's called beer goggles.
When teachers didn't want to be tested as they claimed that testing was a poor indicator of someone ability. Go Figure.
s/someone/someone's/
s/Go Figure/Go figure/
We hope so, eh?
Thank you.
Let us not forget, California shares their DNA database with the federal government. There is no requirement that the national DNA database honor an expungement.
The bill that passed has language requiring the federal government to expunge the DNA record upon receipt of official notice of acquittal or overturned conviction. That, at least, is something to say for it. But it still gets my goat that one has to *ask*.
I didn't read through the entire bill, but the part I read talked about people arrested for sexual crimes and murder -- nothing about burglary that I could see. The biggest problem I have with it is that while it has a process for expungement of people who are acquitted or whose guilty verdict is overturned, I didn't see anything in there requiring states to initiate the process when one of these events occurs.