Shouldn't school officials deal with problems by the least intrusive means possible? Once the laptop surveillance was enabled, the first few pictures would have established the laptop's location. But they continued to take 400 snapshots over the course of 2 weeks! The only rational explanation for the continued surveillance is pure voyeurism -- and I expect that is what the student's lawyer will argue in court.
Suposedly some students did complain about the webcam LED coming on at odd times, and were told it was just a glitch in the system, nothing to worry about. This was a claim by another student at the school, so take it with a grain of salt. Yes, I certainly hope one cannot energize the CCD without also energizing the LED, but this would have been just a flash of less than a second every 15 minutes. Remember, the software was designed not to make thieves suspicious.
Massive Collective Stupidity by Adults that Should have Known Better! You are grossly overestimating the intelligence of the average school administrator!
I don't believe that such as thing as absolute morality exists. However, there is such a thing as contractual morality (it is wrong to cheat on your spouse because you have an implicit contract that you won't. If you and your spouse have an agreement that sleeping around is ok, then it is not immoral). So, if something offends your sense of right and wrong, DON'T DO IT! But you have no right to bitch about other people doing something that does not harm you. (Your moral indignity is a harm you impose on yourself.)
I believe Chiropractors may also be good for fixing pinched nerves (anecdotal evidence from my father). However, I think Chiropractors grossly overstate the number of conditions that can be helped by spinal manipulation, and that telling the truth was an affirmative defense against slander claims in this case.
You can program for 80 hours a week, but you cannot do that for too many weeks in a row. If you tend to write code in spurts with lots of down time in between, then I'd say you're pretty normal. I also believe good managers realize that writing code is not a steady, 9 to 5 thing.
I cannot say that this is the direction in which all human evolution will flow. I can only hope that this is the direction that it will flow! Your daughter is already much more enlightened than many people that will judge her as being different and abnormal. Send her to the music camps, enjoy her, love her, and protect her from those much less enlightened. As genetic "defects" go, this is one of the best ones to have. You just have to accept that in some ways she is less than average, but in other ways far better. People with Williams are incredibly cute, loving, and a joy to be around! In many ways you are very lucky, especially if the health risks are manageable.
Yes, people with Williams Syndrome are at risk of being taken advantage of. And most still live at home with their parents. This is partially due to lower IQ, but mostly due to being too trusting and gullible, as you suggest.
I disagree -- babies prefer to look at people that look like their parents! I don't believe babies have any awareness of their own skin color. My daughter has a white father and black mother. She looks just like her mother, but prefers to hang out with people that look like her father, with which she is much more strongly bonded.
It took its time but it made an everlasting change to me, and now I can talk about things openly, be social and be friendly to people. Please immediately surrender your nerd card and slashdot id... you clearly do not belong here!;-)
No, they wouldn't... they have better hearing, and frequently ADHD, which I've heard doctors describe as the inability to ignore stimuli. So, they are much more aware of their surroundings then normal people. Although they don't have instinctive fears, they can be pretty easily trained to recognize a threat. Somebody pointing a gun at you is not exactly as subtle social cue.
I agree, Williams Syndrome makes people cute, loving, gregarious, and frequently very musical. I'd call it a beneficial mutation, except that it also carries with it substantial health risks. My interest in Williams stems from my daughter, who exhibits most of the mental symptoms of Williams Syndrome, but as far as I can tell, none of the physical ones. She has no fear of walking up to strangers and hugging them (which made several men uncomfortable) or asking strange kids to play. (She was criticized by the Lutheran preschool for hugging other children's fathers). She gets along with people of all races, ages, or disabilities. She is teaching herself music. But mostly, she lives for social interaction. She doesn't have Williams; in fact she has better motor skills than most people. But she does have ADD, and her being "different" causes her to have problems with some teachers who cannot accept the fact that she does not fit into their narrowly conceived notions of what a "normal" kid should be like. They are right -- she isn't normal; she is much better than that.
What? No skyscrapers being erected, high-speed trains plunging into tunnels, oil pumps, rockets taking off, or volcanoes exploding? How terribly unimaginative of them!
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Shouldn't school officials deal with problems by the least intrusive means possible? Once the laptop surveillance was enabled, the first few pictures would have established the laptop's location. But they continued to take 400 snapshots over the course of 2 weeks! The only rational explanation for the continued surveillance is pure voyeurism -- and I expect that is what the student's lawyer will argue in court.
Suposedly some students did complain about the webcam LED coming on at odd times, and were told it was just a glitch in the system, nothing to worry about. This was a claim by another student at the school, so take it with a grain of salt. Yes, I certainly hope one cannot energize the CCD without also energizing the LED, but this would have been just a flash of less than a second every 15 minutes. Remember, the software was designed not to make thieves suspicious.
she... was making fun of the kids and families
Gee, a public servant with utter contempt for the people she is being paid to serve... what a surprise!
Massive Collective Stupidity by Adults that Should have Known Better! You are grossly overestimating the intelligence of the average school administrator!
I don't believe that such as thing as absolute morality exists. However, there is such a thing as contractual morality (it is wrong to cheat on your spouse because you have an implicit contract that you won't. If you and your spouse have an agreement that sleeping around is ok, then it is not immoral). So, if something offends your sense of right and wrong, DON'T DO IT! But you have no right to bitch about other people doing something that does not harm you. (Your moral indignity is a harm you impose on yourself.)
I can hear it right now too... Damn, what is that couple next door doing?!?
Must just be you... I have to listen to women complaining about having too many orgasms all the time!
You say that as if you think it's a bad thing!
Actually, it was Facebookers thinking this bill would make it illegal to poke her online that forced the change...
I think the ALA here is seeing a "suggestiveness" due to the cigarette appearance, and it doesn't have anything to do with nicotine
Yeah, they look pretty phallic to me, too.
their entire lively hoods crumble before their very eyes their 'hoods are no where near as lively as some of the 'hoods we have here in the states!
I believe Chiropractors may also be good for fixing pinched nerves (anecdotal evidence from my father). However, I think Chiropractors grossly overstate the number of conditions that can be helped by spinal manipulation, and that telling the truth was an affirmative defense against slander claims in this case.
Couldnt them had included...Had you been knowing English long?
See now, if you did away with the VAT, you wouldn't have this problem, would you?
You can program for 80 hours a week, but you cannot do that for too many weeks in a row. If you tend to write code in spurts with lots of down time in between, then I'd say you're pretty normal. I also believe good managers realize that writing code is not a steady, 9 to 5 thing.
I cannot say that this is the direction in which all human evolution will flow. I can only hope that this is the direction that it will flow! Your daughter is already much more enlightened than many people that will judge her as being different and abnormal. Send her to the music camps, enjoy her, love her, and protect her from those much less enlightened. As genetic "defects" go, this is one of the best ones to have. You just have to accept that in some ways she is less than average, but in other ways far better. People with Williams are incredibly cute, loving, and a joy to be around! In many ways you are very lucky, especially if the health risks are manageable.
From a Buddhist perspective, Williams people are genetically predisposed to being more enlightened.
If he has daughter, she will have a vagina... with one of those, she can get all the 9" penises she wants!
Yes, people with Williams Syndrome are at risk of being taken advantage of. And most still live at home with their parents. This is partially due to lower IQ, but mostly due to being too trusting and gullible, as you suggest.
"Your data suggest little to no automatic preference between European American and African American."
Interesting... Apparently I have Williams Syndrome.
I disagree -- babies prefer to look at people that look like their parents! I don't believe babies have any awareness of their own skin color. My daughter has a white father and black mother. She looks just like her mother, but prefers to hang out with people that look like her father, with which she is much more strongly bonded.
It took its time but it made an everlasting change to me, and now I can talk about things openly, be social and be friendly to people. Please immediately surrender your nerd card and slashdot id... you clearly do not belong here! ;-)
No, they wouldn't... they have better hearing, and frequently ADHD, which I've heard doctors describe as the inability to ignore stimuli. So, they are much more aware of their surroundings then normal people. Although they don't have instinctive fears, they can be pretty easily trained to recognize a threat. Somebody pointing a gun at you is not exactly as subtle social cue.
I agree, Williams Syndrome makes people cute, loving, gregarious, and frequently very musical. I'd call it a beneficial mutation, except that it also carries with it substantial health risks. My interest in Williams stems from my daughter, who exhibits most of the mental symptoms of Williams Syndrome, but as far as I can tell, none of the physical ones. She has no fear of walking up to strangers and hugging them (which made several men uncomfortable) or asking strange kids to play. (She was criticized by the Lutheran preschool for hugging other children's fathers). She gets along with people of all races, ages, or disabilities. She is teaching herself music. But mostly, she lives for social interaction. She doesn't have Williams; in fact she has better motor skills than most people. But she does have ADD, and her being "different" causes her to have problems with some teachers who cannot accept the fact that she does not fit into their narrowly conceived notions of what a "normal" kid should be like. They are right -- she isn't normal; she is much better than that.
What? No skyscrapers being erected, high-speed trains plunging into tunnels, oil pumps, rockets taking off, or volcanoes exploding? How terribly unimaginative of them!