I myself expierienced this after moving on to third level education. I can't exactly describe why now, but at the time, about six months after starting university, I was keenly aware that my mind had "changed" somehow. I was viewing the world very differently. I put this down as a consequence of moving from an enviornment where permission had to be given in order to urinate, to a place where no one really cared whether I turned up for class or not.
This occurred again after I moved out of the barent's basement, but in a subtly different way. Suddenly I began to view the opposite sex in a whole new way.
Yes, the average age of puberty is lower today than it was centuries ago.
But where's the proof of this? How do we know that medieval physicians applied the same critera that we do? They may have been influenced by cultural factors: "There' no way that child has hit puberty".
We know that young men gained citizenship at ludicrously early ages in ancient societies. Perhaps this is a better indicator.
It might be a hormonal effect caused by the reduced age of the parent, to whom the child is with all their lives. There may be an evolutionary mechanism to speed the development of young when the parent is itself relivitevly young.
I'm just throwing random rubbish out here by the way.
I saw a beautiful woman. She was no such thing: A 12-year old girl, and had already been the target of multiple, completely inappropriate advances by men and boys.
A pity she never realised that it only takes a few makeup tricks and the right clothes to make you look either years younger or years older.
If she was a 12 year old, who looked like a 20 year old, then she was only exaserbating the problem by walking around in a 20 year olds apparel.
The purpose of the original post was, in part, to draw parallels between the pseudoscience of ID and this article linking violence to video games.
If you're offended by this, then quite frankly, that offends me.
I'm tired of persistent ID'ers and their vacuous refrains. We're not going to listen to your asinine diatribes without pointing out that they are in fact asinine. Fundamentalism is an evil, evil thing.
Why would religious groups attack the Big Bang theory?
Because of oil!!! The pretemporal cosmos has billions of barrels of untapped oil reserves just waiting to be liberated. Did I say oil reserves? I meant Iraqis^H^H^Hsolar systems.
how long did that take surely we were not flying from the creation point faster then light.. even if we did, it still would have taken us time to fly here, thus the light that we are seeing from the stars could not possibly be from the creation of the universe...
Nice try. You forgot about time dilation. Those far away stars and galaxies are flying away from us at such a high speed that relative to us, they are expieriencing time dialation.
Thus while 13 billion years have passed in our own time frame, only a fraction of that will have passed in a galaxy that is travelling fast enough relative to use.
Of course, according to that galaxy, 13 billion years have passed for them, and only a fraction of that for use. If you can't wrap your head around this, you can either read books to educate yourself, or just pray and continue to wallow in your own ignorence.
Wasted?! This sycophant is probably earning a six figure salary and hob-nobs with ultramarine-blue bloods every fortnight. All at the tender age of 24.
The only loser here is his misfortunate young wife, who's had her salad days cut short so she can stay at home and raise this monstrosities offspring and service him sexually wherever and whenever he chooses.
That (more and more) companies think they own employees, rather than that they pay for their time....Not that any of this is a new idea on their part --- think company towns or migrant worker camps --- but technology now is making the "dream" a possibility, though hopefully not a reality.
Slavery is becoming more and more feasable in today's world. Arguably, boned labour has already returned. It won't become widespread, just rare enough for those who engage in it to cream enormous profits.
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I think it's more that the article is saying that patent trolls are not going out of their way to be evil. They were just born that way.
This is it. This is the big one.
An open source VOIP app that just plugs into your browser. Now, the only question is, does it support SMTP style aliases?
I myself expierienced this after moving on to third level education. I can't exactly describe why now, but at the time, about six months after starting university, I was keenly aware that my mind had "changed" somehow. I was viewing the world very differently. I put this down as a consequence of moving from an enviornment where permission had to be given in order to urinate, to a place where no one really cared whether I turned up for class or not.
This occurred again after I moved out of the barent's basement, but in a subtly different way. Suddenly I began to view the opposite sex in a whole new way.
Guys might be able to damage the body, but girls damage the mind.
Each is equally capable of both. I assure you.
Yes, the average age of puberty is lower today than it was centuries ago.
But where's the proof of this? How do we know that medieval physicians applied the same critera that we do? They may have been influenced by cultural factors: "There' no way that child has hit puberty".
We know that young men gained citizenship at ludicrously early ages in ancient societies. Perhaps this is a better indicator.
It might be a hormonal effect caused by the reduced age of the parent, to whom the child is with all their lives. There may be an evolutionary mechanism to speed the development of young when the parent is itself relivitevly young.
I'm just throwing random rubbish out here by the way.
After all, if it is old enough to bleed, it's old enough to breed. ;-)
Actually no. The first menstrual flow is no indication of fertility as it may be several years after this when regular ovulation actually occurs.
Plus you're a pervert.
I saw a beautiful woman. She was no such thing: A 12-year old girl, and had already been the target of multiple, completely inappropriate advances by men and boys.
A pity she never realised that it only takes a few makeup tricks and the right clothes to make you look either years younger or years older.
If she was a 12 year old, who looked like a 20 year old, then she was only exaserbating the problem by walking around in a 20 year olds apparel.
How would anybody know unless a gay person wore a sign or shouted it out to everyone around him?
They would see him holding hands with his partner, DUH!!
So I'm offended by ignorant people on both sides.
The purpose of the original post was, in part, to draw parallels between the pseudoscience of ID and this article linking violence to video games.
If you're offended by this, then quite frankly, that offends me.
I'm tired of persistent ID'ers and their vacuous refrains. We're not going to listen to your asinine diatribes without pointing out that they are in fact asinine. Fundamentalism is an evil, evil thing.
Jack Thompson, is that you?
Everything he touches turns to dust! Dusssssstt....
How is that mathematically possible?
Post your email address freely across the net to find out!
With the steadily decreasing quality of the content coming out of mainstream studios, is it any wonder than player made content is on the up?
Rampant speculation? Check.
Pseudoscientific Terms? Check.
Pictures of Latest Games? Check.
Complete Lack Of Hard Data Whatsoever? Check.
Congradulations audience. YHJBT.
Would someone please explain to me what this is doing on Slashdot?
For those who are anti-Bush, do not believe the Clinton was not part of the power party, either.
Triple negative! Followed by postfix conjugation!! That's like 1,000,000,000 Grammar nazi points!!!!
Same people believe the Columbine rampage was somehow explainable.....
Fixed a typo for you there. Also, turns out they think the same thing about the universe.
Why would religious groups attack the Big Bang theory?
Because of oil!!! The pretemporal cosmos has billions of barrels of untapped oil reserves just waiting to be liberated. Did I say oil reserves? I meant Iraqis^H^H^Hsolar systems.
how long did that take surely we were not flying from the creation point faster then light.. even if we did, it still would have taken us time to fly here, thus the light that we are seeing from the stars could not possibly be from the creation of the universe...
Nice try. You forgot about time dilation. Those far away stars and galaxies are flying away from us at such a high speed that relative to us, they are expieriencing time dialation.
Thus while 13 billion years have passed in our own time frame, only a fraction of that will have passed in a galaxy that is travelling fast enough relative to use.
Of course, according to that galaxy, 13 billion years have passed for them, and only a fraction of that for use. If you can't wrap your head around this, you can either read books to educate yourself, or just pray and continue to wallow in your own ignorence.
Honestly, I think the news story here is that an idiot 24 year old kid got appointed into a job way over his head and acted like a moron.
This story's meaning just broke the sound barrier going over your head.
Did it ever occur to you that 24 year olds don't just get appointed to such jobs out of nowhere. He was posted for a reason. This is probably it.
such a young life, wasted
Wasted?! This sycophant is probably earning a six figure salary and hob-nobs with ultramarine-blue bloods every fortnight. All at the tender age of 24.
The only loser here is his misfortunate young wife, who's had her salad days cut short so she can stay at home and raise this monstrosities offspring and service him sexually wherever and whenever he chooses.
Now that's a wasted life.
Or you can get usernames and passwords here.
That (more and more) companies think they own employees, rather than that they pay for their time....Not that any of this is a new idea on their part --- think company towns or migrant worker camps --- but technology now is making the "dream" a possibility, though hopefully not a reality.
Slavery is becoming more and more feasable in today's world. Arguably, boned labour has already returned. It won't become widespread, just rare enough for those who engage in it to cream enormous profits.
All advertising is deceptive. 110% of SPAM is completely deceptive.
Fixed a few typos for you.
Hence the problem. What the linux/Unix world does not get is the word intuitive.
They get the word, they're just too lasy to code basic MSPaint style tools into the GIMP is all.