Another thing to keep in mind is that the Apollo program built a huge "poverty elimination program" essentially on the land of the Johnson family ranch.
One of America's great exports of the past century has been pop culture. While Europe was making our theater look like grade school plays, and Asia's traditional culture made our people look like cavemen with hats, Hollywood was busy getting out in front of the "recorded entertainment" industry, and has remained a couple of decades ahead of the rest of the world ever since.
That disparity means that everyone knows American pop culture, while most other places local pop culture doesn't export much at all. Notable exceptions for English rock bands, Anime, and other niches.
USA has actually spent much of the last 70 years holding back its own development so it could support its allies in Western Europe and East Asia against USSR and China...
You do realize that the dominance of USA for the last 70 years has more to do with it not being one of the countries on the territories of which large-scale armed conflicts were fought during that period, right?
Also interpretable as political savvy on the part of the colonists, getting out of an obvious hot-spot and isolating enough to avoid the inevitable coming storm.
Some luck involved in being the first with "the Bomb" didn't hurt, either.
I know, in 1991 I arrived in Germany with my Visa card and could only use it to get cash from certain banks in the center of very large cities, and not for purchases anywhere. I understand it's gotten a little better, but still not accepted the way it is in the US. MasterCard was better in Germany, and the reverse in France.
Travel is pay-as-you-go, decide to drive to the beach, pay $40 in gas to drive to the beach - enjoy the weekend, done.
Subscriptions are insidious grinding things that get forgotten and pile up to much larger sums than you realize.
We've had a $15/month data plan on the iPad for 4 months now, virtually zero use of it during that time, but we plan to have a need for it in October/November... we'll see how that goes, if not we'll kill it, but only after blowing $90 on the idea that it would be cool to have 3G data access on the iPad.
Nice thought, but hard (and unfair) to put such decisions on young kids. My parents included me in the decision to skip 2nd grade, in retrospect it was probably the biggest and most painful mistake of my life, but it sounded great at the time. I had just turned seven.
Many of these more radical interventions are being proposed for kids that are 2.
So suppose the autistic person can do seven different types of that kind of creativity. None of them help with a date. He might indeed be willing to trade those kinds of calculations for "slowing down" and "magically" seeing better social results.
He might, one definition/distinction I read between autism and Aspergers was that a true autistic wouldn't care, where an aspie would give anything to be "more normal."
Diversity is strength, suppression of diversity has led to some dark places.
I like coverage that works where I live, $70/mo is Verizon's "family shareable" dataplan. We're dabbling with $15/mo for AT&T data on the iPad only, and in 3 months of paying for it haven't used it for anything other than the obligatory "let's see if we can get maps while we drive." Yup, can get maps while we drive. Great, too bad I know pretty much all the roads I use in the 3 states we travel in, without maps.
Oh you pretty things (oh you pretty things) Don't you know you're driving your Mamas and papas insane Oh you pretty things (oh you pretty things) Don't you know you're driving your Mamas and papas insane Let me make it plain You gotta make way for the homo superior
With 1/50 male children being diagnosed "on the Autisim spectrum," the category catches a wide variety of people these days, with a lot of variation in social and abstract intellectual functioning.
If you gain social intelligence at the cost of creativity, have you been improved?
If you can suddenly understand the opposite sex and get them to sleep with you quickly, but no longer do basic math in your head, is that a good trade?
Problem with brain re-wiring is that you won't often "unlock a secret room full of new abilities", more often you'll open a new processing section that needs training and demands resources from other functions.
Luddite with no data plan here... any kind of data plan that I would consider worth having runs $70+/month - $840/year, I don't really care if the phone is free, I don't want to sign up for a multi-thousand dollar future debt.
If they'd sell me an iPhone with voice only service and let me access WiFi only for my data, I'd be on-board, even at $600 up front, but between now and retirement, a data plan looks like it might add up to the equivalent of a nice cabin cruiser, or a condo on the beach - is checking Google while you're waiting for the check in a restaurant really that valuable to you?
If you've made it to 40 and never gotten into a job that you eventually wanted to leave: congratulations.... and, I hope you realize that there is as much luck as skill in that accomplishment.
If the new job is only 10% more money and 20 minutes less driving per day, forget about it. That 20 minutes/day can be eaten in a heartbeat by a sucky job that demands you stay late too much. I'm assuming your current pay meets your needs and you can (if you choose) put a little aside for retirement/vacation, whatever. If so, 10% more isn't going to change your life, and you can even end up burning that extra money on things that a sucky job demands of you that a fun one doesn't (end up paying professionals to fix the car/house due to time-stress from work, more expensive travelling vacations because you "need" them, etc.)
Now, if your current job pays $45K/yr and the alternative is $195K.... that's serious, change your life bank that - if you could stick it out for 2 years - would really make a positive change in the years following, and who knows - the $195K job might be fun once you get into it, too.
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Another thing to keep in mind is that the Apollo program built a huge "poverty elimination program" essentially on the land of the Johnson family ranch.
Provide a chair and sit next to it while you use it.
Those old wall mount phones never got dropped, and very rarely got wet.
One of America's great exports of the past century has been pop culture. While Europe was making our theater look like grade school plays, and Asia's traditional culture made our people look like cavemen with hats, Hollywood was busy getting out in front of the "recorded entertainment" industry, and has remained a couple of decades ahead of the rest of the world ever since.
That disparity means that everyone knows American pop culture, while most other places local pop culture doesn't export much at all. Notable exceptions for English rock bands, Anime, and other niches.
USA has actually spent much of the last 70 years holding back its own development so it could support its allies in Western Europe and East Asia against USSR and China...
You do realize that the dominance of USA for the last 70 years has more to do with it not being one of the countries on the territories of which large-scale armed conflicts were fought during that period, right?
Also interpretable as political savvy on the part of the colonists, getting out of an obvious hot-spot and isolating enough to avoid the inevitable coming storm.
Some luck involved in being the first with "the Bomb" didn't hurt, either.
I know, in 1991 I arrived in Germany with my Visa card and could only use it to get cash from certain banks in the center of very large cities, and not for purchases anywhere. I understand it's gotten a little better, but still not accepted the way it is in the US. MasterCard was better in Germany, and the reverse in France.
Here in America the merchant is mostly on the hook for credit transaction problems.
A year ago, processing 0.00001% of the world's commerce was 700MB - how big would it be if they handled Visa's global transaction volume?
But, will Verizon support an iPhone with voice only service? They surely won't subsidize it with a voice only contract.
Travel is pay-as-you-go, decide to drive to the beach, pay $40 in gas to drive to the beach - enjoy the weekend, done.
Subscriptions are insidious grinding things that get forgotten and pile up to much larger sums than you realize.
We've had a $15/month data plan on the iPad for 4 months now, virtually zero use of it during that time, but we plan to have a need for it in October/November... we'll see how that goes, if not we'll kill it, but only after blowing $90 on the idea that it would be cool to have 3G data access on the iPad.
Nice thought, but hard (and unfair) to put such decisions on young kids. My parents included me in the decision to skip 2nd grade, in retrospect it was probably the biggest and most painful mistake of my life, but it sounded great at the time. I had just turned seven.
Many of these more radical interventions are being proposed for kids that are 2.
So suppose the autistic person can do seven different types of that kind of creativity. None of them help with a date. He might indeed be willing to trade those kinds of calculations for "slowing down" and "magically" seeing better social results.
He might, one definition/distinction I read between autism and Aspergers was that a true autistic wouldn't care, where an aspie would give anything to be "more normal."
Diversity is strength, suppression of diversity has led to some dark places.
I like coverage that works where I live, $70/mo is Verizon's "family shareable" dataplan. We're dabbling with $15/mo for AT&T data on the iPad only, and in 3 months of paying for it haven't used it for anything other than the obligatory "let's see if we can get maps while we drive." Yup, can get maps while we drive. Great, too bad I know pretty much all the roads I use in the 3 states we travel in, without maps.
Judging by the article, any human trials of this are 20+ years out.
Oh you pretty things (oh you pretty things)
Don't you know you're driving your
Mamas and papas insane
Oh you pretty things (oh you pretty things)
Don't you know you're driving your
Mamas and papas insane
Let me make it plain
You gotta make way for the homo superior
David Bowie 1971
Alcohol also removes the social inhibition - regardless of neurotype.
With 1/50 male children being diagnosed "on the Autisim spectrum," the category catches a wide variety of people these days, with a lot of variation in social and abstract intellectual functioning.
Not all autistics are democrats.
Define improved.
If you gain social intelligence at the cost of creativity, have you been improved?
If you can suddenly understand the opposite sex and get them to sleep with you quickly, but no longer do basic math in your head, is that a good trade?
Problem with brain re-wiring is that you won't often "unlock a secret room full of new abilities", more often you'll open a new processing section that needs training and demands resources from other functions.
Family of 5, adds up to $200/month on my calculator - for a service that doesn't work when we travel on weekends? No thanks.
Luddite with no data plan here... any kind of data plan that I would consider worth having runs $70+/month - $840/year, I don't really care if the phone is free, I don't want to sign up for a multi-thousand dollar future debt.
If they'd sell me an iPhone with voice only service and let me access WiFi only for my data, I'd be on-board, even at $600 up front, but between now and retirement, a data plan looks like it might add up to the equivalent of a nice cabin cruiser, or a condo on the beach - is checking Google while you're waiting for the check in a restaurant really that valuable to you?
No "nuclear option" on Android in your version?
If you've made it to 40 and never gotten into a job that you eventually wanted to leave: congratulations.... and, I hope you realize that there is as much luck as skill in that accomplishment.
If the new job is only 10% more money and 20 minutes less driving per day, forget about it. That 20 minutes/day can be eaten in a heartbeat by a sucky job that demands you stay late too much. I'm assuming your current pay meets your needs and you can (if you choose) put a little aside for retirement/vacation, whatever. If so, 10% more isn't going to change your life, and you can even end up burning that extra money on things that a sucky job demands of you that a fun one doesn't (end up paying professionals to fix the car/house due to time-stress from work, more expensive travelling vacations because you "need" them, etc.)
Now, if your current job pays $45K/yr and the alternative is $195K.... that's serious, change your life bank that - if you could stick it out for 2 years - would really make a positive change in the years following, and who knows - the $195K job might be fun once you get into it, too.
**Vertical farms
***Nuclear powered LEDs
****GM organisms with manifold productivity per unit input energy
*****Soylent Green
It is also expected to make a measurable blip on GDP when iPhone 5 is released.
All those fruit-heads signing up for $2500 in contract debt at once, looks real good on the quarterly statement.
Cubes would add a whole new dimension, most people would be too shallow to handle it.