This is also wrong in some parts. As a former special education teacher and currently a social worker working with autistic children, I can tell you that most autistic children do not show the "genius" for one or two things. That is a stereotype. What most people are referring to when they speak of this is neither Asperger's or autism, but a related disorder on the PDD spectrum referred to as savant syndrome.
Your description of the difficulties in social functioning for PDD spectrum children was spot on.
Never said there was. Merely pointed out that they CAN ask you legally, and you CAN refuse, legally.
That said, I really don't see what the big deal is. It's ten seconds out of my day, and I don't think my refusal makes any kind of point one way or the other - I'm not "rebelling against the man" or "protecting my liberties." I'm making some goofy employee's life harder. If I don't want to subject myself to it, I'll go shop at an alternative (preferably local) retailer.
In regards to the airline ID check that started this whole thread, I also don't see what purpose is served by fighting it. Unless he's trying to point out their futility in the first place - I really don't think TSA is all that well-trained and I know I can take most of them. But it's been four years, and everyone should either know what's required of them or arrange alternative transportation. Honestly.
Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. If you object to something a corporation does, you vote with your pocketbook. And it decreases your own stress level, which is always preferable.
As far as I know, no, you don't HAVE to show it. It's one of those gray areas. They have the right to ask you - you aren't protected from their search - but that same lack of state-sponsored status means you can tell them to f--- off. It's up to them whether they decide that's grounds to suspect you of shoplifting, detain you and call the police. I'd imagine that they rarely would because it's not worth their time and effort.
Yeah, you ARE aware that, since Fry's is private property, they CAN ask to see your receipt, right? Same at Costco. I asked my father and uncle, both lawyers, to investigate this, and it is PERFECTLY legal for companies to ask you for your receipt and to inspect your bag. Their property, their rules - they are not agents of the state and you are therefore NOT protected from search and seizure.
You are neither hard nor protecting your rights when you refuse to show them your receipt.
Seriously. As a former special education teacher and now a social worker specializing in behavior modification, I'd say this covers every teaching method known to man.
So, now we can not only patent new ideas on how to conduct business, but also we can patent teaching methods? I'm patenting arithmetic and calculus RIGHT NOW.
Any reasonable quantitative or qualitative researcher will tell you that one's paradigm and theoretical point of view will color one's research. As the October 2000 issue of Forbes ASAP magazine shows, if you ask 50 people from the fields of science, history, media, religion, business, technology, and popular culture what "truth" is or means, you'll get 50 different answers.
As Michael Quinn Patton puts it, "Truth, in this case, means reasonably accurate and believable data rather than data that are true in some absolute sense."
The doctrine of "fairness" then, that found its roots in investigative journalism is not out of place in scientific research: it assumes multiple realities or perspectives, it is adversarial (any good research should be able to stand up in the face of critiques), and acknowledges that the investigator's (be they journalistic or scientific) views and mere presence may color the results.
It is quite simply the understanding that "objectivity" does not and cannot exist in any human enterprise. We can only strive to acknowledge our own biases in research and must therefore work to ensure that they do not color our data as much as possible. This is why there are multiple methods for ensuring credibility and validity. We must prove that our evidence is credible, and therefore it must stand up to the critiques by people who do not share our paradigm's point of view.
The point is not to be anti-truth (there is no one universal truth, as much as we may wish it so), but rather pro-meaningfulness. By acknowledging both the weaknesses AND strengths of our data and our analysis, we can focus on the really important questions.
The problem is not subjectivity, but rather that subjectivity has such a negative connotation. Rather, we must focus on "critical persuasivBeness" as Barone says. Science is great not because it finds the "truth", but because it conducts research using methods that produce results that stand up to criticism and testing. The beauty of Age of Enlightenment thought - rational, scientific, epistemological - is that EVERYTHING is questionable.
There is no "truth" in any kind of scientific research, just things that we can't prove wrong.
I say this as someone currently conducting research.
I must first off compliment Mr. Emmert and the other developers of City of Heroes for crafting an outstanding and overall FUN game.
What is the creation process the team goes through to come up with the in-game events? Having not been in the beta and too busy to take part in the Rularuu invasion, I spent much of Halloween "trick or treating" with my friends and beating up werewolves and the like. It was the most fun I've had in a game, ever, and earned my everlasting loyalty to this game. This is one player who will not be jumping ship for World of Warcraft.
Do you have a team of writers who come up with the concepts, and then on to storyboarding and coding? Are there any plans for more scripted, involved events in the future? Do you plan to keep up with the updates as well? Your customer support staff is fabulously responsive, and the updates are fantastic. Any details on the upcoming DVD version? I understand there might be some "perks" for those who purchase it?...
Thanks again.
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I'm seconding this question. It's very intelligent, and nation-states (or lack thereof) do appear to be a recurring theme in his works.
Actually, the better question is: When will it be unsafe to drink the coffee, water, etc. at work, eat the free donuts, or even breathe the air? Corporations will drug us without our consent to become workaholic corporate slave monkeys!!! Those of us that aren't already, that is.
However, by this same logic, if I go and copyright my name - James Elliott - then David James Elliott, star of JAG, should pay me money or stop using my name since it is so similar!
What's next? Jerry Falwell files injunctions against other Jerry Falwells?
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This is also wrong in some parts. As a former special education teacher and currently a social worker working with autistic children, I can tell you that most autistic children do not show the "genius" for one or two things. That is a stereotype. What most people are referring to when they speak of this is neither Asperger's or autism, but a related disorder on the PDD spectrum referred to as savant syndrome.
Your description of the difficulties in social functioning for PDD spectrum children was spot on.
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Right.
Never said there was. Merely pointed out that they CAN ask you legally, and you CAN refuse, legally.
That said, I really don't see what the big deal is. It's ten seconds out of my day, and I don't think my refusal makes any kind of point one way or the other - I'm not "rebelling against the man" or "protecting my liberties." I'm making some goofy employee's life harder. If I don't want to subject myself to it, I'll go shop at an alternative (preferably local) retailer.
In regards to the airline ID check that started this whole thread, I also don't see what purpose is served by fighting it. Unless he's trying to point out their futility in the first place - I really don't think TSA is all that well-trained and I know I can take most of them. But it's been four years, and everyone should either know what's required of them or arrange alternative transportation. Honestly.
Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. If you object to something a corporation does, you vote with your pocketbook. And it decreases your own stress level, which is always preferable.
The same law that allows citizens' arrests.
As far as I know, no, you don't HAVE to show it. It's one of those gray areas. They have the right to ask you - you aren't protected from their search - but that same lack of state-sponsored status means you can tell them to f--- off. It's up to them whether they decide that's grounds to suspect you of shoplifting, detain you and call the police. I'd imagine that they rarely would because it's not worth their time and effort.
Yeah, you ARE aware that, since Fry's is private property, they CAN ask to see your receipt, right? Same at Costco. I asked my father and uncle, both lawyers, to investigate this, and it is PERFECTLY legal for companies to ask you for your receipt and to inspect your bag. Their property, their rules - they are not agents of the state and you are therefore NOT protected from search and seizure. You are neither hard nor protecting your rights when you refuse to show them your receipt.
Seriously. As a former special education teacher and now a social worker specializing in behavior modification, I'd say this covers every teaching method known to man. So, now we can not only patent new ideas on how to conduct business, but also we can patent teaching methods? I'm patenting arithmetic and calculus RIGHT NOW.
Any reasonable quantitative or qualitative researcher will tell you that one's paradigm and theoretical point of view will color one's research. As the October 2000 issue of Forbes ASAP magazine shows, if you ask 50 people from the fields of science, history, media, religion, business, technology, and popular culture what "truth" is or means, you'll get 50 different answers. As Michael Quinn Patton puts it, "Truth, in this case, means reasonably accurate and believable data rather than data that are true in some absolute sense." The doctrine of "fairness" then, that found its roots in investigative journalism is not out of place in scientific research: it assumes multiple realities or perspectives, it is adversarial (any good research should be able to stand up in the face of critiques), and acknowledges that the investigator's (be they journalistic or scientific) views and mere presence may color the results. It is quite simply the understanding that "objectivity" does not and cannot exist in any human enterprise. We can only strive to acknowledge our own biases in research and must therefore work to ensure that they do not color our data as much as possible. This is why there are multiple methods for ensuring credibility and validity. We must prove that our evidence is credible, and therefore it must stand up to the critiques by people who do not share our paradigm's point of view. The point is not to be anti-truth (there is no one universal truth, as much as we may wish it so), but rather pro-meaningfulness. By acknowledging both the weaknesses AND strengths of our data and our analysis, we can focus on the really important questions. The problem is not subjectivity, but rather that subjectivity has such a negative connotation. Rather, we must focus on "critical persuasivBeness" as Barone says. Science is great not because it finds the "truth", but because it conducts research using methods that produce results that stand up to criticism and testing. The beauty of Age of Enlightenment thought - rational, scientific, epistemological - is that EVERYTHING is questionable. There is no "truth" in any kind of scientific research, just things that we can't prove wrong. I say this as someone currently conducting research.
I must first off compliment Mr. Emmert and the other developers of City of Heroes for crafting an outstanding and overall FUN game. What is the creation process the team goes through to come up with the in-game events? Having not been in the beta and too busy to take part in the Rularuu invasion, I spent much of Halloween "trick or treating" with my friends and beating up werewolves and the like. It was the most fun I've had in a game, ever, and earned my everlasting loyalty to this game. This is one player who will not be jumping ship for World of Warcraft. Do you have a team of writers who come up with the concepts, and then on to storyboarding and coding? Are there any plans for more scripted, involved events in the future? Do you plan to keep up with the updates as well? Your customer support staff is fabulously responsive, and the updates are fantastic. Any details on the upcoming DVD version? I understand there might be some "perks" for those who purchase it?... Thanks again.
I'm seconding this question. It's very intelligent, and nation-states (or lack thereof) do appear to be a recurring theme in his works.
Actually, the better question is: When will it be unsafe to drink the coffee, water, etc. at work, eat the free donuts, or even breathe the air? Corporations will drug us without our consent to become workaholic corporate slave monkeys!!! Those of us that aren't already, that is.
However, by this same logic, if I go and copyright my name - James Elliott - then David James Elliott, star of JAG, should pay me money or stop using my name since it is so similar! What's next? Jerry Falwell files injunctions against other Jerry Falwells?