He then apparently went crazy. Actual mental illness, which he didn't have any sign of when they were letting him out.
The point he should been locked up is when he ended up in police custody again a while back. It would have been nice if someone had noticed he was batshit insane at that time, held a competency hearing, and locked him up on that while he was helped.
But we stopped caring about the mentally ill in this society a while back.
Actually, they did. And didn't find that he was insane (though by now we've all seen the video where he seems to prove his instability, then there's his friend implying that Clemmons thought he was Christ). We've spent so much time and money locking up non-violent drug users that we've left the mentally ill to rot. A lot of the mentally ill self-medicate as well, so they have been hit even harder by Prohibition 2.0.
Yes there should be a word for it. After all, we've seen that effect for forty years under the war on (some) drugs. Now it gets a laugh when someone asks the president if maybe we can't afford it any longer. It's really sad.
14 year olds are too young to be having sex, whether they think it is fair or not. They don't have the maturity level to understand the repercussions of the activity.
Which is why we should teach them to use a condom if they do decide to have sex. Sure, the human brain isn't fully developed until about age 20 -- but that doesn't mean that all minors cannot understand anything. I think it's ridiculous to try and legislate away biological imperatives. Teaching abstinence-only (not saying that that is cyn1c77's position) to avoid STDs is like teaching people to stop breathing to avoid catching TB.
Way to simplify the situation to your own experience and then extrapolate it to everyone else by calling them stupid!
For me, I found I was a lot more comfortable when I self-medicated with cannabis. Unfortunately, this negates what intellectual progress I have made in understanding non-verbal cues. When I'm sober I do okay. I'm still me, still an aspie, but I feel much more confident in my assesments of situations. It's kind of annoying that the one drug that seems to calm a lot of my symptoms also makes social interaction harder.
A thought occurred to me a while back which was brought to mind by your post. In the Dune series, the Bene Gesserit use a technique (which apparently is called Petit Perception, though I don't recall that phrase from the books) to train their members to read body language. If someone were to actually invent this technique and teach it to people on the ASD then our only drawback would be moot.
The thing about Autism/Asperger's is that it's a spectrum of symptoms. Just like any other disorder (though I hesitate to call it a disorder, it's been mostly a blessing for me -- so "difference" would be more appropriate) not everyone who has it exhibits exactly the same symptoms.
Another thing to keep in mind is that the lack of non-verbal communication goes both ways: not only do people on the spectrum tend to miss non-verbal cues, but they also tend to have a bit of a flat affect. It's not intentional, but unfortunately people often take it for coldness. After repeated misunderstandings a lot of aspies just put up a wall.
I invite the reader put yourself in our shoes for a moment. How would you feel if there were a channel of information that most everyone you meet knows is there, but you just can't catch. Wouldn't that make you anxious? And depressed if you couldn't gather up the courage to make new friends or tried and failed because of misunderstandings?
People on the spectrum don't necessarily need extra help to get along. Maybe a little more direct verbal or written communication, and a little empathy. But that's something that all humans could use, if you ask me.
Heh, I just finally picked up a copy of Bioshock -- so the scene where Andrew Ryan rants about the difference between being a man and a slave (before the protagonist shoves a golf club through his head) just came to mind.
I wonder if part of TFauthor's self-realization didn't come when he started playing the new Action RPG genre and found that he wasn't enjoying it as much. I mean, WTF right, he loved Fallout 2 but couldn't get past the Mirelurks in Fallout 3!
As for this pap about being either performance or mastery based... I don't like putting people into boxes like that. Hell, I have spent fifteen years mastering the guitar so that I can perform for a living. So fuck that shit.
Yeah, that sounds right. The Mythbusters shot an iPod in one of their "What is Bulletproof?" eps and that's what it looked like. I googled around but couldn't find the video or any images online so I guess one will have to take my word for it or buy the DVD.
Somebody shit in your cheerios today? Was is Brangelina? Or maybe Speidi? Though, I guess if we're going to be executing people for using stupid nicknames, it should be someone calling themselves 'rantingkitten' setting the policy.
I have found that his vitriol is reserved for those who are callously indifferent to human life and liberty, and for hypocrites -- regardless of which end of the political spectrum (which, IMO, is basically useless) they occupy. Obviously his show has a point of view, but having watched him for a few years now I believe him to be remarkably fair-minded. I just wish he would lay off the lame impersonations.
I am a "far left" liberal", whatever that means, and I watch Olbermann everyday. He is not a far-left liberal, there are none to be found in the mainstream media. Not even Rachel Maddow is in that category.
Here is how I know: no one in the MSM stood up and said that single-payer should have been the starting point for HCR negotiations, no one in the MSM calls for an end to Prohibition (the War on some Drugs). The only thing I can think of which might qualify is the fact that KO often calls for investigations into government lawbreaking, which reads to me more as a profound respect for the Rule of Law than any personal political beliefs.
Hmm, I'm having a hard time finding the forum thread which discusses it. All I know is that it has been stable since I switched to TKIP only. I'm running v24sp1.
DD-WRT is sweet, I've been using it for a couple of years now. The best feature for me is WDS (a distributed wireless network, I use it to wirelessly bridge my house and recording studio about 75m away). Unfortunately, I found a barely-documented bug which prevents WDS from operating with WPA2-PSK/AES encryption. It tends to lose the connection and not regain it until you stand on one foot and unplug both routers while whistling "God Save the Queen". Apparently the answer is to use TKIP, so now I'm using WPA2-PSK/TKIP. I'm thinking I'll move to RADIUS eventually, once I buy a Snow Leopard Server license;)
Make no mistake, you all bought the same thing as the mac users going from 10.5 to 10.6. It's not a whole new OS - it's the same old OS shipping with a new skin, and few new minor updates.
Really? So it adds 64-bit support (yay >8gb RAM!) and a completely rewritten file manager? It seems like we Mac users got a whole lot more for our $30 than you poor windows users did for 4x the cost.
I've heard the term used before in this context by my local newspaper, but it's stealing from the audio engineering business. Phantom Power has been available in microphone preamps to power condenser (really capacitor, but we still call 'em condensers) mics for 45 years.
hmm... I'm thinking it will be really hard to get the buses to be struck by lightning every time they need to be recharged. Cause how else are you going to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity you need?
How are you planning to generate 1.21 gigawatts in outer space?! I'm sorry. But the only power source capable of generating 1.21 gigawatts of electricity is a bolt of lightning.
Indeed, sometimes they repair stuff for free even after the warranty expires!
My refurbished 15" Macbook Pro had a warranty which expired in March, which of course meant it was time for me to buy a cheap 500gb sata drive and replace the 120gb one it came with. After that the thing would occasionally lock up with some ugly graphics corruption until last month when it stopped booting altogether. I guess there's a reason they void your warranty if you do what I did:) I wore my anti-static strap, but I guess I must have fucked something up.
So I brought it in to the genius bar and talked to a guy about it, told him exactly what had happened -- he told me that apple care would have been a little bit less than the cost of a new logic board. I was totally prepared to pay $350 to get my favorite laptop working again, but they covered it under a "quality program". They even left my data and linux partition intact! I forgive them for reinstalling the vanilla boot program. Oh, and it only took them two days to repair it onsite. The only way to improve this interaction, IMO, would have been an email when the repair was complete. Or I guess offering a bigger hdd in their refurbs for a more reasonable price.
And people wonder why Apple customers go into fanboy crush mode when we talk about our macs!
I just got a 40" 1080p hdtv, and the way I set it up to get around some of these problems was to also connect a 22" DVI display close to the couch. Then I set the two displays to act as separate x sessions, which allows finer control of the settings on each display. I installed mythbuntu, and then set up a guest account which automatically logs in and runs mythtv on the tv. I'm thinking I'll start another x session under my user name for my own stuff which will have a password-protected screen saver. And another one for games:)
This set up worked quite nicely when I had to do a quick spreadsheet last week.
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He then apparently went crazy. Actual mental illness, which he didn't have any sign of when they were letting him out.
The point he should been locked up is when he ended up in police custody again a while back. It would have been nice if someone had noticed he was batshit insane at that time, held a competency hearing, and locked him up on that while he was helped.
But we stopped caring about the mentally ill in this society a while back.
Actually, they did. And didn't find that he was insane (though by now we've all seen the video where he seems to prove his instability, then there's his friend implying that Clemmons thought he was Christ). We've spent so much time and money locking up non-violent drug users that we've left the mentally ill to rot. A lot of the mentally ill self-medicate as well, so they have been hit even harder by Prohibition 2.0.
Yes there should be a word for it. After all, we've seen that effect for forty years under the war on (some) drugs. Now it gets a laugh when someone asks the president if maybe we can't afford it any longer. It's really sad.
14 year olds are too young to be having sex, whether they think it is fair or not. They don't have the maturity level to understand the repercussions of the activity.
Which is why we should teach them to use a condom if they do decide to have sex. Sure, the human brain isn't fully developed until about age 20 -- but that doesn't mean that all minors cannot understand anything. I think it's ridiculous to try and legislate away biological imperatives. Teaching abstinence-only (not saying that that is cyn1c77's position) to avoid STDs is like teaching people to stop breathing to avoid catching TB.
Way to simplify the situation to your own experience and then extrapolate it to everyone else by calling them stupid!
For me, I found I was a lot more comfortable when I self-medicated with cannabis. Unfortunately, this negates what intellectual progress I have made in understanding non-verbal cues. When I'm sober I do okay. I'm still me, still an aspie, but I feel much more confident in my assesments of situations. It's kind of annoying that the one drug that seems to calm a lot of my symptoms also makes social interaction harder.
A thought occurred to me a while back which was brought to mind by your post. In the Dune series, the Bene Gesserit use a technique (which apparently is called Petit Perception, though I don't recall that phrase from the books) to train their members to read body language. If someone were to actually invent this technique and teach it to people on the ASD then our only drawback would be moot.
The thing about Autism/Asperger's is that it's a spectrum of symptoms. Just like any other disorder (though I hesitate to call it a disorder, it's been mostly a blessing for me -- so "difference" would be more appropriate) not everyone who has it exhibits exactly the same symptoms.
Another thing to keep in mind is that the lack of non-verbal communication goes both ways: not only do people on the spectrum tend to miss non-verbal cues, but they also tend to have a bit of a flat affect. It's not intentional, but unfortunately people often take it for coldness. After repeated misunderstandings a lot of aspies just put up a wall.
I invite the reader put yourself in our shoes for a moment. How would you feel if there were a channel of information that most everyone you meet knows is there, but you just can't catch. Wouldn't that make you anxious? And depressed if you couldn't gather up the courage to make new friends or tried and failed because of misunderstandings?
People on the spectrum don't necessarily need extra help to get along. Maybe a little more direct verbal or written communication, and a little empathy. But that's something that all humans could use, if you ask me.
Heh, I just finally picked up a copy of Bioshock -- so the scene where Andrew Ryan rants about the difference between being a man and a slave (before the protagonist shoves a golf club through his head) just came to mind.
I wonder if part of TFauthor's self-realization didn't come when he started playing the new Action RPG genre and found that he wasn't enjoying it as much. I mean, WTF right, he loved Fallout 2 but couldn't get past the Mirelurks in Fallout 3!
As for this pap about being either performance or mastery based... I don't like putting people into boxes like that. Hell, I have spent fifteen years mastering the guitar so that I can perform for a living. So fuck that shit.
Poor guy must be conservative Christian. Good luck, indeed.
Yeah, that sounds right. The Mythbusters shot an iPod in one of their "What is Bulletproof?" eps and that's what it looked like. I googled around but couldn't find the video or any images online so I guess one will have to take my word for it or buy the DVD.
Somebody shit in your cheerios today? Was is Brangelina? Or maybe Speidi? Though, I guess if we're going to be executing people for using stupid nicknames, it should be someone calling themselves 'rantingkitten' setting the policy.
I have found that his vitriol is reserved for those who are callously indifferent to human life and liberty, and for hypocrites -- regardless of which end of the political spectrum (which, IMO, is basically useless) they occupy. Obviously his show has a point of view, but having watched him for a few years now I believe him to be remarkably fair-minded. I just wish he would lay off the lame impersonations.
Here is how I know: no one in the MSM stood up and said that single-payer should have been the starting point for HCR negotiations, no one in the MSM calls for an end to Prohibition (the War on some Drugs). The only thing I can think of which might qualify is the fact that KO often calls for investigations into government lawbreaking, which reads to me more as a profound respect for the Rule of Law than any personal political beliefs.
Thanks for the idea! I'll give it a shot when I have time to flash both routers without bugging anybody.
Hmm, I'm having a hard time finding the forum thread which discusses it. All I know is that it has been stable since I switched to TKIP only. I'm running v24sp1.
DD-WRT is sweet, I've been using it for a couple of years now. The best feature for me is WDS (a distributed wireless network, I use it to wirelessly bridge my house and recording studio about 75m away). Unfortunately, I found a barely-documented bug which prevents WDS from operating with WPA2-PSK/AES encryption. It tends to lose the connection and not regain it until you stand on one foot and unplug both routers while whistling "God Save the Queen". Apparently the answer is to use TKIP, so now I'm using WPA2-PSK/TKIP. I'm thinking I'll move to RADIUS eventually, once I buy a Snow Leopard Server license ;)
Make no mistake, you all bought the same thing as the mac users going from 10.5 to 10.6. It's not a whole new OS - it's the same old OS shipping with a new skin, and few new minor updates.
Really? So it adds 64-bit support (yay >8gb RAM!) and a completely rewritten file manager? It seems like we Mac users got a whole lot more for our $30 than you poor windows users did for 4x the cost.
I've heard the term used before in this context by my local newspaper, but it's stealing from the audio engineering business. Phantom Power has been available in microphone preamps to power condenser (really capacitor, but we still call 'em condensers) mics for 45 years.
hmm... I'm thinking it will be really hard to get the buses to be struck by lightning every time they need to be recharged. Cause how else are you going to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity you need?
How are you planning to generate 1.21 gigawatts in outer space?! I'm sorry. But the only power source capable of generating 1.21 gigawatts of electricity is a bolt of lightning.
What about Norbert Wiener? He was responsible for a number of advances in computing, but nobody knows who he is!
Hm. I thought I remembered Smoke on the Water being in A... But here they're playing it in G.
My refurbished 15" Macbook Pro had a warranty which expired in March, which of course meant it was time for me to buy a cheap 500gb sata drive and replace the 120gb one it came with. After that the thing would occasionally lock up with some ugly graphics corruption until last month when it stopped booting altogether. I guess there's a reason they void your warranty if you do what I did :) I wore my anti-static strap, but I guess I must have fucked something up.
So I brought it in to the genius bar and talked to a guy about it, told him exactly what had happened -- he told me that apple care would have been a little bit less than the cost of a new logic board. I was totally prepared to pay $350 to get my favorite laptop working again, but they covered it under a "quality program". They even left my data and linux partition intact! I forgive them for reinstalling the vanilla boot program. Oh, and it only took them two days to repair it onsite. The only way to improve this interaction, IMO, would have been an email when the repair was complete. Or I guess offering a bigger hdd in their refurbs for a more reasonable price.
And people wonder why Apple customers go into fanboy crush mode when we talk about our macs!
This set up worked quite nicely when I had to do a quick spreadsheet last week.
Or you could go to Home Depot, I was surprised to find they have quite reasonable prices on a bunch of cat5 stuff.
Don't forget Law Enforcement Against Prohibition!
That's an absurd overstatement. Or naive. No public policy of any type can ever truly be a "good idea in virtually every imaginable way."
Actually it's quite possible, you see, because Prohibition is such a bad idea in every imaginable way.