Bzzt. Wrong. You don't teach right from wrong by just telling them that a specific action is right or wrong. You do it by talking to them about it, and talking about what the ramifications of actions would be, how they would feel about those ramifications, and how they would feel about being on the other side of the situation.
So, I DID talk to him about WHY something is right or wrong. That is how I know he understood it. In our house, "Because I said so" is a taboo phrase. If you teach your kid to THINK instead of just OBEY, you would be amazed at what their congestive abilities are.
It is really sad that our culture has taken such a hard stance on dumbing down our children. It is also why we had to teach our child that we must often hide our intelligence. That it is great to be smart, and being smart will give us advantages, but that much of our population is hostile towards it, so we need to be careful about who we allow to see it.
I stand by what I said. You did not address the "birthday next week" statement. While talking may be used to 'trick' people, it is also used to communicate. I 4 year old that describes what they are going to do days in advance, and then carries it out is certainly "planning". Honestly, if they are describing the next few minutes they are "planning". If you are using some non-english made up version of the word that requires planning over a period of years for it to count as "planning", then being 4 doesn't come into the equation, as a good majority of adults cannot plan beyond a week or a month.
Your understanding of 4 year olds seems to line up with someone that spends more time talking AT children then talking WITH them.
I have to agree with the other posters. This is a stupid idea. The are easy to break. Easy to find for those that don't like the idea of them existing. They don't hold a particularly large amount of data. The fixed location makes them useless as a dead drop.
The way a non-stupid person would do this is to set up a wireless router. This way two anonymous people could exchange data and no one would be able to tell where or who they were beyond being in the general vicinity. It would also actually be able to hide. As long as they could get power to it, it could be just about anywhere, so it would take a fair amount of effort to make sure you had the skill and equipment to actually find the thing. If you want storage, just use a router that has NAS capabilities.
I kind of like the idea of an anonymous way for citizens to share data, but gluing USB sticks on walls is not the way to do it.
Yes, the judge sounds like an idiot, but I have met many "prudent" four year olds. I have known, and was, a four year old that had no problem crossing busy streets by myself. There is a distinct lack of quality parenting these days, and the attitude that children are physically incapable of learning is right in there. I don't know if it is the cause or effect, but there is definitely a correlation.
The belief in the Easter Bunny is a perfect example of the lack of understanding adults have in children. There is literally a worldwide conspiracy to convince 4 year olds that the Easter Bunny is real. Not just those around the child, but complete strangers are in on the conspiracy. It is more 'prudent' for a person that has had that level of conspiracy directed at them to believe in the Easter Bunny than it is for you and I to believe we have landed on the moon. And yet we do believe man has landed on the moon. What percentage of the people you have met would tell you that the moon landing was faked? I will bet that it is higher than the percentage of people that would admit to a 4 year old that the Easter Bunny isn't real.
Just look at the number adults that believe in the Easter Zombie. That is at least as ridiculous as the Easter Bunny.
Bingo! The funny thing is that a majority of the people who live here don't understand it either. Heck, not only are our cultures different, but even our economies are different. Just look at the comments in electric car threads. There are people in the US that regularly pay less than $0.10 per kwh of electricity. Some claim as little as $0.01 on off peak times. Here in California, you can often pay $0.32 - $0.42/kwh. We also don't all speak the same language as much as one would think. TV English is understood by all, but go to some parts of the country, and the accents and local slang is so thick that it could be debatable whether they are even speaking the same language.
While I disagree with how 'concrete' they have to be, A parent putting their kids on a bike have the responsibility to make "Don't run the bike into people and things" high up on the list.
That being said, as I understand it, this woman was on the verge of death anyway. At least close enough that getting hit by a 4 year old on a bike with training wheels would kill her. The parents (and lesser extent, child) have about as much responsibility as if they had bumped into a person who decided to where a razor blade necklace and died from the incident.
From the sounds of it, the parent is responsible for the injury, but the death was the result of preexisting medical conditions.
And 40 year olds often believe in flying bird men, zombies, all powerful invisible sky men, and talking snakes. That doesn't mean that they don't have the brain capacity to form a criminal level of intent. My child (now 6), certainly understood good and evil, as well as legal and illegal by the age of 4. While he didn't particularly understand legal and illegal, he did understand right and wrong at the age of 1. It is environment that would leave a 4 year old unable to form a criminal level of intent. Not genetics.
You either have no experience with children, or have only had experience with retarded children. 5 year olds are ABSOLUTELY capable of planning. So are 4 year olds, 3 year olds, and an awful lot of 1 and 2 year olds. Have you never seen a 4 year old putting together a Hotwheels track and explain to you how it is the car is going to travel through all of hills and turns? Have you never listened to one explain how their birthday next week is going to go?
Your claim is simply ludicrous, and quite frankly dangerous.
You are correct, and your point about the other car is very important. The GP basically suggests that cars should not drive themselves because human drivers are worse at driving.
Well, that's pretty naive. Of course the Supreme Court makes laws. Haven't you ever heard of the "Interstate Commerce Clause"? Maybe your are confused because there was a similarly named clause in the Constitution. The one that is reference now is not the same law, as the Constitution definitely was not written to give the Federal Government authority over anything that might have to do with money that could one day cross a state border.
Well, given the common explanation that the reason the iPhone has never had a replaceable battery is because Apple engineers couldn't figure out how to make it work, I'm not entirely surprised that they can't figure this one out.
On a more serious note, this is obviously a BS excuse. blocking light is just not that hard of a problem to solve. This is the kind of problem that should delay the product by all of about 3 hours while you decided whether you will put a piece of black paper, a piece of black plastic, or paint on the inside of the case.
Go no more 'stems from the concepts of life and death than chess or checkers.' Claiming that it is superior, even in a 'fuzzy' way is applying meaning where their is none. Unless you are going to claim that Go is about becoming good at genocide, while chess is about subduing your enemies without genocide.
Go also has a definition to it's goal. "Remove all of your opponents pieces". Go is won by defeat of your opponent. Period.
There are reasons that Go is superior to Chess though. The rules are simpler, and the permutations are greater while offering just a complex strategy. They are different games though. Chess takes relatively complex arbitrary rules and works out strategy from their, and Go takes simple rules an works out strategy from that point. If I had to pick only one game per group, would rather see my engineers playing Go and my lawyers playing Chess.
People also don't seem to get that while previous immigrants did go though a segregation phase, that is generally a temporary state. Do you know which of your neighbors were from German decent vs. English vs. Irish vs. Italian..etc...etc...? Do you even care? Unless they self segregate, likely not. Although when their nationality came here in large groups, they were likely shunned. Speaking the same language helped integrate them. Learning the local norms helped integrate them. As a society, we all took what we liked of what they brought, and shunned what we didn't. As immigrants, they did the same. In a pretty short period of time, "They" became "Us", and that is a good thing.
Likewise unless you're a hyper-power, or have a nice stash of nukes, your strong military may be a threat to others and therefore you may be more likely to be attacked, not less.
Unless you have a strong military, your strong military may be an inducement to an attack? Please rethink this ridiculous comment.
I happen to think he is wrong, but you shame yourself with your response. You turned "Likewise unless you're a hyper-power" into "Unless you have a strong military". The parent poster was being quite clear about what he was saying, and you went out of your way to 'misunderstand' him.
His example was wrong (although the overall point is debatable), and you argued it by trying to twist his words, implying that you don't have (one of the many) legitimate arguments to it.
There really is not a difference between jail breaking your phone to allow you to run pirated games, and selling Xbox 360 mods to allow you to install whatever apps you like. I don't know what unapproved apps are available for the 360, but I still run XBMC on my XBox1. In fact, XBMC has always been the most used app on my Xboxes.
Because the Apple II and Atari 400/800 were not the dominant gaming platform at the time. The Atari 2600 was. In '83 the C64 became the dominant gaming platform. Later the NES became the dominant gaming platform. What part of that is difficult to understand, or is a "hole".
And since you don't seem to know it, the C64 was also a cartridge based system. The difference between "console" and "computer" has always been more marketing that technical.
Yes, I mean carbohydrates, as they ARE sugars. And, no, they do not digest in just about the right amount of time for meal intervals, unless you are one of the people that are eating 6 meals a day. Pretending that complex sugars are not sugar doesn't make it so, any more than the other poster that was claiming high fructose corn syrup wasn't sugar because it didn't come from cane.
The fact remains, most of the things you cited are normal and convenient if you're used to them.
Sure, you can get used to the unintuitive interface of the MacOS UI. Your statement is telling of the UI though. It is something you have to get used to because, contrary to the urban myth, the Mac's UI is not intuitive.
Yes. I do. They would want to buy Adobe, because they want Flash, and have failed to take that market with their competitor. They wanted their own Flash, and have failed to succeed. It isn't the first time either. They tried to compete with Flash when it first came out, and failed. I don't remember the product name as it has been a long time...Sparkle...Sprinkle...Something like that. Anyone else remember the name of MS's first attempt to compete with Flash?
Yeah, but using my waffle iron doesn't make me want to kill myself either, but that doesn't make it a good groupware product. There is only one reason that MS hired Ozzie. It was because he started Notes. Whether that was to remove him from Lotus, or to get his resources at MS, Microsoft clearly thinks Notes/Domino is a great product.
High fructose corn syrup is not cane sugar yet it is sugar. Only someone that doesn't understand what sugar is would think that because Brazil produces "Cane Sugar" that they somehow have greater access to sugar than people in the US who live in a country that produces huge amounts of High Fructose Corn Syrup. Also know as sugar.
Fiber is basically indigestible matter. While it may fill you up, that is all it does. Most of the need for fiber is to offset a bunch of the negative effects of the currently recommended primarily sugar diet.
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Bzzt. Wrong. You don't teach right from wrong by just telling them that a specific action is right or wrong. You do it by talking to them about it, and talking about what the ramifications of actions would be, how they would feel about those ramifications, and how they would feel about being on the other side of the situation.
So, I DID talk to him about WHY something is right or wrong. That is how I know he understood it. In our house, "Because I said so" is a taboo phrase. If you teach your kid to THINK instead of just OBEY, you would be amazed at what their congestive abilities are.
It is really sad that our culture has taken such a hard stance on dumbing down our children. It is also why we had to teach our child that we must often hide our intelligence. That it is great to be smart, and being smart will give us advantages, but that much of our population is hostile towards it, so we need to be careful about who we allow to see it.
That's what parents who don't want to teach their children right from wrong tell themselves.
I stand by what I said. You did not address the "birthday next week" statement. While talking may be used to 'trick' people, it is also used to communicate. I 4 year old that describes what they are going to do days in advance, and then carries it out is certainly "planning". Honestly, if they are describing the next few minutes they are "planning". If you are using some non-english made up version of the word that requires planning over a period of years for it to count as "planning", then being 4 doesn't come into the equation, as a good majority of adults cannot plan beyond a week or a month.
Your understanding of 4 year olds seems to line up with someone that spends more time talking AT children then talking WITH them.
I have to agree with the other posters. This is a stupid idea. The are easy to break. Easy to find for those that don't like the idea of them existing. They don't hold a particularly large amount of data. The fixed location makes them useless as a dead drop.
The way a non-stupid person would do this is to set up a wireless router. This way two anonymous people could exchange data and no one would be able to tell where or who they were beyond being in the general vicinity. It would also actually be able to hide. As long as they could get power to it, it could be just about anywhere, so it would take a fair amount of effort to make sure you had the skill and equipment to actually find the thing. If you want storage, just use a router that has NAS capabilities.
I kind of like the idea of an anonymous way for citizens to share data, but gluing USB sticks on walls is not the way to do it.
Yes, the judge sounds like an idiot, but I have met many "prudent" four year olds. I have known, and was, a four year old that had no problem crossing busy streets by myself. There is a distinct lack of quality parenting these days, and the attitude that children are physically incapable of learning is right in there. I don't know if it is the cause or effect, but there is definitely a correlation.
The belief in the Easter Bunny is a perfect example of the lack of understanding adults have in children. There is literally a worldwide conspiracy to convince 4 year olds that the Easter Bunny is real. Not just those around the child, but complete strangers are in on the conspiracy. It is more 'prudent' for a person that has had that level of conspiracy directed at them to believe in the Easter Bunny than it is for you and I to believe we have landed on the moon. And yet we do believe man has landed on the moon. What percentage of the people you have met would tell you that the moon landing was faked? I will bet that it is higher than the percentage of people that would admit to a 4 year old that the Easter Bunny isn't real.
Just look at the number adults that believe in the Easter Zombie. That is at least as ridiculous as the Easter Bunny.
Bingo! The funny thing is that a majority of the people who live here don't understand it either. Heck, not only are our cultures different, but even our economies are different. Just look at the comments in electric car threads. There are people in the US that regularly pay less than $0.10 per kwh of electricity. Some claim as little as $0.01 on off peak times. Here in California, you can often pay $0.32 - $0.42/kwh. We also don't all speak the same language as much as one would think. TV English is understood by all, but go to some parts of the country, and the accents and local slang is so thick that it could be debatable whether they are even speaking the same language.
While I disagree with how 'concrete' they have to be, A parent putting their kids on a bike have the responsibility to make "Don't run the bike into people and things" high up on the list.
That being said, as I understand it, this woman was on the verge of death anyway. At least close enough that getting hit by a 4 year old on a bike with training wheels would kill her. The parents (and lesser extent, child) have about as much responsibility as if they had bumped into a person who decided to where a razor blade necklace and died from the incident.
From the sounds of it, the parent is responsible for the injury, but the death was the result of preexisting medical conditions.
And 40 year olds often believe in flying bird men, zombies, all powerful invisible sky men, and talking snakes. That doesn't mean that they don't have the brain capacity to form a criminal level of intent. My child (now 6), certainly understood good and evil, as well as legal and illegal by the age of 4. While he didn't particularly understand legal and illegal, he did understand right and wrong at the age of 1. It is environment that would leave a 4 year old unable to form a criminal level of intent. Not genetics.
You either have no experience with children, or have only had experience with retarded children. 5 year olds are ABSOLUTELY capable of planning. So are 4 year olds, 3 year olds, and an awful lot of 1 and 2 year olds. Have you never seen a 4 year old putting together a Hotwheels track and explain to you how it is the car is going to travel through all of hills and turns? Have you never listened to one explain how their birthday next week is going to go?
Your claim is simply ludicrous, and quite frankly dangerous.
It is the experience that matters. I'd take a road full of 20 year olds with 5 years experience than a bunch of 40 year olds with 0 any day.
You are correct, and your point about the other car is very important. The GP basically suggests that cars should not drive themselves because human drivers are worse at driving.
Well, that's pretty naive. Of course the Supreme Court makes laws. Haven't you ever heard of the "Interstate Commerce Clause"? Maybe your are confused because there was a similarly named clause in the Constitution. The one that is reference now is not the same law, as the Constitution definitely was not written to give the Federal Government authority over anything that might have to do with money that could one day cross a state border.
Well, given the common explanation that the reason the iPhone has never had a replaceable battery is because Apple engineers couldn't figure out how to make it work, I'm not entirely surprised that they can't figure this one out.
On a more serious note, this is obviously a BS excuse. blocking light is just not that hard of a problem to solve. This is the kind of problem that should delay the product by all of about 3 hours while you decided whether you will put a piece of black paper, a piece of black plastic, or paint on the inside of the case.
Go no more 'stems from the concepts of life and death than chess or checkers.' Claiming that it is superior, even in a 'fuzzy' way is applying meaning where their is none. Unless you are going to claim that Go is about becoming good at genocide, while chess is about subduing your enemies without genocide.
Go also has a definition to it's goal. "Remove all of your opponents pieces". Go is won by defeat of your opponent. Period.
There are reasons that Go is superior to Chess though. The rules are simpler, and the permutations are greater while offering just a complex strategy. They are different games though. Chess takes relatively complex arbitrary rules and works out strategy from their, and Go takes simple rules an works out strategy from that point. If I had to pick only one game per group, would rather see my engineers playing Go and my lawyers playing Chess.
People also don't seem to get that while previous immigrants did go though a segregation phase, that is generally a temporary state. Do you know which of your neighbors were from German decent vs. English vs. Irish vs. Italian..etc...etc...? Do you even care? Unless they self segregate, likely not. Although when their nationality came here in large groups, they were likely shunned. Speaking the same language helped integrate them. Learning the local norms helped integrate them. As a society, we all took what we liked of what they brought, and shunned what we didn't. As immigrants, they did the same. In a pretty short period of time, "They" became "Us", and that is a good thing.
Likewise unless you're a hyper-power, or have a nice stash of nukes, your strong military may be a threat to others and therefore you may be more likely to be attacked, not less.
Unless you have a strong military, your strong military may be an inducement to an attack? Please rethink this ridiculous comment.
I happen to think he is wrong, but you shame yourself with your response. You turned "Likewise unless you're a hyper-power" into "Unless you have a strong military". The parent poster was being quite clear about what he was saying, and you went out of your way to 'misunderstand' him.
His example was wrong (although the overall point is debatable), and you argued it by trying to twist his words, implying that you don't have (one of the many) legitimate arguments to it.
There really is not a difference between jail breaking your phone to allow you to run pirated games, and selling Xbox 360 mods to allow you to install whatever apps you like. I don't know what unapproved apps are available for the 360, but I still run XBMC on my XBox1. In fact, XBMC has always been the most used app on my Xboxes.
I tried that a couple of months ago, and still don't have access. Anyone know how long it takes to actually get access to it?
Because the Apple II and Atari 400/800 were not the dominant gaming platform at the time. The Atari 2600 was. In '83 the C64 became the dominant gaming platform. Later the NES became the dominant gaming platform. What part of that is difficult to understand, or is a "hole".
And since you don't seem to know it, the C64 was also a cartridge based system. The difference between "console" and "computer" has always been more marketing that technical.
Yes, I mean carbohydrates, as they ARE sugars. And, no, they do not digest in just about the right amount of time for meal intervals, unless you are one of the people that are eating 6 meals a day. Pretending that complex sugars are not sugar doesn't make it so, any more than the other poster that was claiming high fructose corn syrup wasn't sugar because it didn't come from cane.
The fact remains, most of the things you cited are normal and convenient if you're used to them.
Sure, you can get used to the unintuitive interface of the MacOS UI. Your statement is telling of the UI though. It is something you have to get used to because, contrary to the urban myth, the Mac's UI is not intuitive.
Yes. I do. They would want to buy Adobe, because they want Flash, and have failed to take that market with their competitor. They wanted their own Flash, and have failed to succeed. It isn't the first time either. They tried to compete with Flash when it first came out, and failed. I don't remember the product name as it has been a long time...Sparkle...Sprinkle...Something like that. Anyone else remember the name of MS's first attempt to compete with Flash?
Yeah, but using my waffle iron doesn't make me want to kill myself either, but that doesn't make it a good groupware product. There is only one reason that MS hired Ozzie. It was because he started Notes. Whether that was to remove him from Lotus, or to get his resources at MS, Microsoft clearly thinks Notes/Domino is a great product.
OK, I'll take the last word.
High fructose corn syrup is not cane sugar yet it is sugar. Only someone that doesn't understand what sugar is would think that because Brazil produces "Cane Sugar" that they somehow have greater access to sugar than people in the US who live in a country that produces huge amounts of High Fructose Corn Syrup. Also know as sugar.
Fiber is basically indigestible matter. While it may fill you up, that is all it does. Most of the need for fiber is to offset a bunch of the negative effects of the currently recommended primarily sugar diet.