She seems to think most politicians are APD. She claims that it's what makes them good politicians. She cites Jimmy Carter as someone who's not enough of a sociopath.
If you think about it, that explains an awful lot.
There's some question in my mind as to what this test is really telling about bosses. There's a difference between true psychopathy and psychopathic traits.
Anti-Social Personality Disorder (formerly known as psychopathy) is a DSM-4 disorder that has a wide variety of presentations. "Psychopaths" is quicker to type.
Normally, people think of psychopaths as con-men and serial killers. These are the ones that are noticed by the system. What about those who aren't? These are referred to as "functional" psychopaths.
An advertisement, placed in newspapers and designed to appeal to psychopaths by presenting their features in a good light by saying they needed someone who wasn't tied down, loved adventure and excitement, etc., led to the discovery that there are many psychopaths out there.
These are people who are highly motivated by money or power, willing to take risks, view people as tools to be manipulated and used, and appear charming. Is it any wonder that bosses, politicians, and others are functional psychopaths?
But is someone truly a psychopath just because they have some of the traits?
Police and other public safety personnel tend to score high on the psychopathic deviancy scale on the MMPI (a standard psychological personality test), but not as high as the psychopathic criminals they must deal with.
I believe the inventory referred to in this article simply tests for psychopathic traits, or at least their appearance. Whether these folks are truly psychopathic would require far more in-depth investigation.
Some bosses are psychopaths. But some may simply act that way.
Yeah, because those paedophiles need to share their tips and tricks amongst each other after "work"
It sounds like you've had a terrible experience, and I'm truly sorry to hear that. If that's what happened to you, I hope you were able to get someone to listen to you and get the abuser thrown out of the program and incarcerated. I wish you well in working through what must be a terrible experience.
I was part of a church committee that worked on policies designed to prevent children being abused. The church worked hard to make sure the children are safe. Background checks are run on leaders. Spot checks are made on classrooms by roving leaders. All classroom doors have windows and must remain unlocked. Leaders must not be alone with an individual student at any time.
Any accusation of abuse of any kind results in the local police being called immediately and an investigation initiated with full cooperation of the church.
Pedophiles are a problem. They are attracted to work with youth in the church, scouting programs, and teaching positions. They must be stopped.
To assume that all who work with children are pedophiles is unfair to the people who care for the wellbeing of these children and are willing to give of their time and their hearts.
It's also makes recruiting volunteers far more difficult and helping children almost impossible. Who wants to volunteer when the immediate assumption is you might be a pervert?
Children can no longer be hugged for fear that such contact might be misconstrued, The results of all this can be heartbreaking. Imagine having a child so happy to see you that they run up to give you a hug. As a responsible leader, you must step back and block the attempted hug. The smaller kids don't understand that. They wonder what they did wrong. How do you explain what you just did to a three or four year old?
Most blogs are both drivel and worthwhile, depending upon the individual reading them (including mine). They become worthwhile in context.
If a friend is going through cancer treatment, her blog is worthwhile. If you find a youth group leader like yourself and can learn from his posts, his blog is worthwhile. A mother fighting for her health so that she can take care of her two sons and husband can share insights that are worthwhile. Someone fighting depression might have a worthwhile blog. A grandmother might have a view of the world that makes her blog worthwhile, just to get a different view. Perhaps a blog by someone who totally disagrees with you will be worthwhile, just to stretch your mind.
I've just described why I read the blogs on my blog roll. You can choose differently.
Top political blogs? You can find them easily among Technorati's top 100 list. Tags at Technorati will let you pick out specialties like science or "Master Blasters" or diabetes or the Tour de France. Google will turn up blogs if you search right, which is the trick for using Google.
"Worthwhile" is a much more difficult variable to calculate than "bandwidth." Perhaps it's the sheer variety of blogs that makes them interesting, because they are so individual and someone, somewhere will speak to your mind or your heart.
Worthwhile is what's worthwhile to you, and maybe to very few others. Not everyone will agree, and that's not a bad thing.
No, this one was right to left. I even checked to make sure of right and left. It's a steady dot, but it's barely there in the video we see. If there's a video of the post-sep. E.T., it's clear as a bell. Well, at least it was on TV.
3:49 in the video (you probably have to enlarge the screen to as big as your monitor will take), if you look at the orbiter forward attachment (upside down "v") that's sort of "pink" with a "blue bottom" to the "v" (since it's upside down, the "blue" is at the top). Just below the blue on the left hand side, you'll see a little dot come out from behind the shuttle forward attachment. There's very little in this video -- it continued across the screen for a while after the E.T. sep.
The E.T. is no longer accelerating (except for a very small negative acceleration from drag and some downward component from gravity)so it's possible the dot is in a lot closer and is some sort of debris. I'm still not clear on why it would be moving right to left, if that's what it is.
I forgot to mention: I think that's the dot visible right at the end of the clip on Ecliptic's website. It's there for 3, maybe 5 seconds at the end. There's not much of it in the video.
One other possibility is that it's a piece of E.T. debris. If it is, it would have had to fly away from the shuttle significantly to produce such pronounced right-to-left motion.
I think it was when the E.T. tank had separated, you could see a dot that appeared to be in the distance moving from right to left above the curvature of the Earth. The speed appeared to be steady, but I didn't time it and it appeared slow. Just guessing, the dot was:
chase plane
reflection off of something
satellite
launch debris
SRB
It was there for a chunk of time. If it was a chase plane, it was darn high up and moving very fast in a weird geometry. If it was a reflection, it's strange, since it was so small and didn't look like a flare. If it's a satellite, it's very low (milsat dipping low for observation of the shuttle?). If it's a satellite high up and far around the earth, it's moving far too fast (I think). If it's launch debris, why does it appear to be moving perpendicular to the shuttle at a constant velocity? If it was an SRB, those things coast a lot longer than I thought and go a lot higher than I thought.
I didn't record it, but I'm sure it's on someone's VCR or Tivo. I'm not trying to claim it's a UFO or proof they faked the shuttle launch. I'm just not sure what it was. I've tried to find out a number of ways, but with the emphasis on the foam falling off the E.T., no one seems to care.
I thought that NASA engineers documented everything.
That they didn't know the depth of the material bothered me, and that was the answer I found.
You're right, it doesn't make sense. Do you know how high the paperwork on one tile stacks? They must know. Al they would have to do is use a new piece of filler, trim, and then measure what's left! You mean NASA, home of OCD, didn't?
It's a good decision from the viewpoint that they need experience doing this and it's a great excuse.
One major consideration was the possibility of damaging the oribter in an unnecessary repair. I hope it's unlikely. These guys aren't exactly like me doing plumbing, so that should help.
It's a pity they couldn't have mounted a "scratch shuttle" for this flight and flown it with "scratch monkeys."
(Am I now so old that no one else will get the joke?)
The pressure of the orbiter moving at 25x the speed of sound when it hits the atmosphere is what causes the heating - similar but much greater magnitude than pumping a bicycle pump.
The cloth can erode at that temperature and pressure, though. They found 1/4 in. fragments sticking out before, but no one knos if they fragments were larger in orbit.
This may be a non-problem found in the pressure to find problems, and if they seriously ding the orbiter during repair, a non-problem can turn into a real one.
"Hon, I'm going to the protest march against the online porn tax now."
Few people are going to want to stand up and protest against this. It's a tactic that our government uses against us more and more -- because it works.
I don't think the tax bothers me as much as the tactics. Even then, I'm being a bit of a hypocrite. I used to be a paramedic. We got some of our funding through taxes on alcohol and cigarettes. Alcohol and cigarettes caused a lot of our calls (and a lot of CPR, and a lot of calls to the coroner), so I didn't mind. The taxes were put in place because the politicians knew there weren't enough people being taxed to fight it.
I guess I just object to being manipulated, but not enough to turn down the money.
I thought Larry Flynt was dead. Shows what I know about porn.
Ok, Larry Flynt will, and that will make it all that much harder for others to oppose the tax. "Oh, so you're supporting that "Penthouse" fellow in the wheelchair?"
I wonder how Congress would feel about an "adulterer's fee"? If you are going to commit adultery, you have to pay the government $.02. I bet our dear politicians would fund their own salaries that way!
Of all the engineers and scientists and doctors that I know, all find their writing skills to be far more important than their math skills. They all wind up writing documents to get funds and report findings; most barely use calculus in their jobs and only one uses numerical methods for solving partial differential equations -- and he only uses that in his high power rocketry hobby.
A computer programmer I know wishes he'd skipped his Fortran and Cobol classes for a technical writing class, but that might be damning by faint praise.
Astronomers were using too short a time span between pictures for them to see the change in position of something 51 AU out from the sun. The angle of the orbit to the ecliptic made it harder to find, too.
Since this was found so easily, one has to wonder just how many of them there are out there. This might be only the first of many.
This, by the way, is an excellent reason to call these things TNOs (Trans-Neptunian Objects). Who wants to memorize the 85 planets of our solar system?
The age of the universe is 13.8 billion years, plus or minus a couple hundred billion.
With those error bars and the question of "was it exactly 6 days, or like 5.95 days" I decided it wasn't worth going back and reworking the calculation.
Sure:
The speed at which God would be moving that would result in 13.8 billion years passing in 6 days is 0.99999999999999999999999929053887c.
All things considered, 0.9999999999999999999999993 is good enough for sig. figs.
I used the Lorentz transformation and solved for v/c.
I needed to know the ratio of the two time periods. 13.8 billion *365/6 gives you the ratio of days. I'm ignoring leap years, but it's insignificant.
Now, that's a large number, and you take the reciprocal, square it, and then subtract it from one. The square root of that should give you v/c.
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She seems to think most politicians are APD. She claims that it's what makes them good politicians. She cites Jimmy Carter as someone who's not enough of a sociopath.
If you think about it, that explains an awful lot.
Anti-Social Personality Disorder (formerly known as psychopathy) is a DSM-4 disorder that has a wide variety of presentations. "Psychopaths" is quicker to type.
Normally, people think of psychopaths as con-men and serial killers. These are the ones that are noticed by the system. What about those who aren't? These are referred to as "functional" psychopaths.
An advertisement, placed in newspapers and designed to appeal to psychopaths by presenting their features in a good light by saying they needed someone who wasn't tied down, loved adventure and excitement, etc., led to the discovery that there are many psychopaths out there.
These are people who are highly motivated by money or power, willing to take risks, view people as tools to be manipulated and used, and appear charming. Is it any wonder that bosses, politicians, and others are functional psychopaths?
But is someone truly a psychopath just because they have some of the traits?
Police and other public safety personnel tend to score high on the psychopathic deviancy scale on the MMPI (a standard psychological personality test), but not as high as the psychopathic criminals they must deal with.
I believe the inventory referred to in this article simply tests for psychopathic traits, or at least their appearance. Whether these folks are truly psychopathic would require far more in-depth investigation.
Some bosses are psychopaths. But some may simply act that way.
It sounds like you've had a terrible experience, and I'm truly sorry to hear that. If that's what happened to you, I hope you were able to get someone to listen to you and get the abuser thrown out of the program and incarcerated. I wish you well in working through what must be a terrible experience.
I was part of a church committee that worked on policies designed to prevent children being abused. The church worked hard to make sure the children are safe. Background checks are run on leaders. Spot checks are made on classrooms by roving leaders. All classroom doors have windows and must remain unlocked. Leaders must not be alone with an individual student at any time.
Any accusation of abuse of any kind results in the local police being called immediately and an investigation initiated with full cooperation of the church.
Pedophiles are a problem. They are attracted to work with youth in the church, scouting programs, and teaching positions. They must be stopped.
To assume that all who work with children are pedophiles is unfair to the people who care for the wellbeing of these children and are willing to give of their time and their hearts.
It's also makes recruiting volunteers far more difficult and helping children almost impossible. Who wants to volunteer when the immediate assumption is you might be a pervert? Children can no longer be hugged for fear that such contact might be misconstrued, The results of all this can be heartbreaking. Imagine having a child so happy to see you that they run up to give you a hug. As a responsible leader, you must step back and block the attempted hug. The smaller kids don't understand that. They wonder what they did wrong. How do you explain what you just did to a three or four year old?
It's messed up, but it's what must be done.
It's going to.
Someone is going to link to the original post on their blog. That article will be recopied a few times until any link to Slashdot is lost.
Some news reporter, hoping to pick up on the "next big thing" will take it to be a legitimate report.
When you watch the cable news and see an over-hyped story about a car that runs on water, ask yourself if it started out as a joke on Slashdot.
If a friend is going through cancer treatment, her blog is worthwhile. If you find a youth group leader like yourself and can learn from his posts, his blog is worthwhile. A mother fighting for her health so that she can take care of her two sons and husband can share insights that are worthwhile. Someone fighting depression might have a worthwhile blog. A grandmother might have a view of the world that makes her blog worthwhile, just to get a different view. Perhaps a blog by someone who totally disagrees with you will be worthwhile, just to stretch your mind.
I've just described why I read the blogs on my blog roll. You can choose differently.
Top political blogs? You can find them easily among Technorati's top 100 list. Tags at Technorati will let you pick out specialties like science or "Master Blasters" or diabetes or the Tour de France. Google will turn up blogs if you search right, which is the trick for using Google.
"Worthwhile" is a much more difficult variable to calculate than "bandwidth." Perhaps it's the sheer variety of blogs that makes them interesting, because they are so individual and someone, somewhere will speak to your mind or your heart.
Worthwhile is what's worthwhile to you, and maybe to very few others. Not everyone will agree, and that's not a bad thing.
The V is upside down. Look by the V at the 3:49 time and watch the last few seconds and you should see it. It is a bit hard to see.
No, this one was right to left. I even checked to make sure of right and left. It's a steady dot, but it's barely there in the video we see. If there's a video of the post-sep. E.T., it's clear as a bell. Well, at least it was on TV.
The E.T. is no longer accelerating (except for a very small negative acceleration from drag and some downward component from gravity)so it's possible the dot is in a lot closer and is some sort of debris. I'm still not clear on why it would be moving right to left, if that's what it is.
There's a normal explanation; I just don't know what it is, and I'm curious.
One other possibility is that it's a piece of E.T. debris. If it is, it would have had to fly away from the shuttle significantly to produce such pronounced right-to-left motion.
I think it was when the E.T. tank had separated, you could see a dot that appeared to be in the distance moving from right to left above the curvature of the Earth. The speed appeared to be steady, but I didn't time it and it appeared slow. Just guessing, the dot was:
It was there for a chunk of time. If it was a chase plane, it was darn high up and moving very fast in a weird geometry. If it was a reflection, it's strange, since it was so small and didn't look like a flare. If it's a satellite, it's very low (milsat dipping low for observation of the shuttle?). If it's a satellite high up and far around the earth, it's moving far too fast (I think). If it's launch debris, why does it appear to be moving perpendicular to the shuttle at a constant velocity? If it was an SRB, those things coast a lot longer than I thought and go a lot higher than I thought.
I didn't record it, but I'm sure it's on someone's VCR or Tivo. I'm not trying to claim it's a UFO or proof they faked the shuttle launch. I'm just not sure what it was. I've tried to find out a number of ways, but with the emphasis on the foam falling off the E.T., no one seems to care.
Thanks for the help.
That they didn't know the depth of the material bothered me, and that was the answer I found.
You're right, it doesn't make sense. Do you know how high the paperwork on one tile stacks? They must know. Al they would have to do is use a new piece of filler, trim, and then measure what's left! You mean NASA, home of OCD, didn't?
This bothers me a lot now.
As it turns out, the material is often "jammed" in between the bricks and there's no record of how much they put in.
One major consideration was the possibility of damaging the oribter in an unnecessary repair. I hope it's unlikely. These guys aren't exactly like me doing plumbing, so that should help.
It's a pity they couldn't have mounted a "scratch shuttle" for this flight and flown it with "scratch monkeys."
(Am I now so old that no one else will get the joke?)
The pressure of the orbiter moving at 25x the speed of sound when it hits the atmosphere is what causes the heating - similar but much greater magnitude than pumping a bicycle pump.
The cloth can erode at that temperature and pressure, though. They found 1/4 in. fragments sticking out before, but no one knos if they fragments were larger in orbit.
This may be a non-problem found in the pressure to find problems, and if they seriously ding the orbiter during repair, a non-problem can turn into a real one.
"Hon, I'm going to the protest march against the online porn tax now."
Few people are going to want to stand up and protest against this. It's a tactic that our government uses against us more and more -- because it works.
I don't think the tax bothers me as much as the tactics. Even then, I'm being a bit of a hypocrite. I used to be a paramedic. We got some of our funding through taxes on alcohol and cigarettes. Alcohol and cigarettes caused a lot of our calls (and a lot of CPR, and a lot of calls to the coroner), so I didn't mind. The taxes were put in place because the politicians knew there weren't enough people being taxed to fight it.
I guess I just object to being manipulated, but not enough to turn down the money.
I thought Larry Flynt was dead. Shows what I know about porn. Ok, Larry Flynt will, and that will make it all that much harder for others to oppose the tax. "Oh, so you're supporting that "Penthouse" fellow in the wheelchair?" I wonder how Congress would feel about an "adulterer's fee"? If you are going to commit adultery, you have to pay the government $.02. I bet our dear politicians would fund their own salaries that way!
If you oppose it, then you must be someone who preys on children, right?
Great tactics on the part of the Senator. Think of the children!
A computer programmer I know wishes he'd skipped his Fortran and Cobol classes for a technical writing class, but that might be damning by faint praise.
This sucker is 51 AU out (Earth 1 AU, Pluto ~40). The time period was simply too short for significant motion to show up. Everyone missed it. Oops.
The orbit's a bit strange too, didn't help.
Since this was found so easily, one has to wonder just how many of them there are out there. This might be only the first of many.
This, by the way, is an excellent reason to call these things TNOs (Trans-Neptunian Objects). Who wants to memorize the 85 planets of our solar system?
It's sort of like the periodic chart wars for us chemists....
With those error bars and the question of "was it exactly 6 days, or like 5.95 days" I decided it wasn't worth going back and reworking the calculation.
Well, that and it's a joke....
Sure: The speed at which God would be moving that would result in 13.8 billion years passing in 6 days is 0.99999999999999999999999929053887c. All things considered, 0.9999999999999999999999993 is good enough for sig. figs. I used the Lorentz transformation and solved for v/c. I needed to know the ratio of the two time periods. 13.8 billion *365/6 gives you the ratio of days. I'm ignoring leap years, but it's insignificant. Now, that's a large number, and you take the reciprocal, square it, and then subtract it from one. The square root of that should give you v/c.
That's the speed at which 4.5 billion years passes in 7 days. (6 days working plus one of rest).