*nods* politically they have to punish him, though it would not be the first time the US has quietly let a citizen off the hook when a weak forign government screams bloody murder.
The bigger problem, if this medication played a role, is going to be the drug company. There have been numerous cases where a psychotic incident involving murder has been plausibly linked to a medication, but they have never survived court since drug companies do NOT want that kind of liability, so they fight tooth and nail.. and to be blunt, the medical industry is a lot stronger then the federal government. So it is very unlikely we will ever see a court approved link between this medication and a murder.
It is a useful umbrella though. Autism comes in many forms, and one problem that 'high functioning' autistic people have had for many years is this 'you are not as bad off as this extreme case, so you are fine!' when in fact they do have neurological problems that impact their life.
Also, to be blunt, the 'anti-social behavior' meme is a media creation, not the medical definition. Being diagnosed as on the autism spectrum takes a lot more then being 'anti-social'. I can also attest at just how significant treatment and support of the higher functioning people can be in improving their lifes.. 'snake oil' generally involves not actually doing anything.
I am skeptical that introversion is being misdiagnosed as aspergers in any significant numbers. Social dysfunction (or shyness) is one of the publicly visible elements, but it is not the only diagnostic criteria and does not even have to be present for a positive hit. The tests don't even really focus on that part all that much and mostly look at things like thought patterns and difficult with things like focus, black&white thinking, literalism, etc.
There is a segment of the population that believes unnatural 'energy' is making us sick... so magnetic fields and radio waves going the 'wrong direction', things like that. It is kinda hard to nail down exactly what they mean, but they have plenty of anecdotal 'evidence' and that is all they ever seem to need.
Ahm... looking at the DoE's stats, it looks like nationally about a dozen new coal fired plants go online per year, so they are still being built in significant numbers.
There are studies going on, but I have not heard of conclusive results yet. There was an interesting one a while back though that found, when the same diagnostic criteria are applied, we see similar rates of autism in developing countries and subsistance communities, so that at least indicated the opposite.
If I recall correctly though the rates were a little different, so autism was a little higher in the developing world, but not by huge amounts, so it indicated it was quite possible that chemical pollution (or some specific chemical that children/mothers are commonly exposed to) might trigger or exacerbate rates. It has also been speculated that changes in dating/breeding patterns (higher probablity of males and females with mild disorders forming relationships) could cause a higher rate of genes getting together.
Actually, the 'corporate personhood' in the US started as an outgrowth of how British law handled the issue, so the basic framework did indeed come form England.
Money is just tokenized power, control is another. Powerful people seek, well, power, and being able to control how people use what you sell gives just as much of a high has making lots of money off of it. That power then translates to respect within your community, which results in promotions and options at other companies.
In other words, once you realize that the motivations are not corporate profit but instead individual advancement and status, such behavior seems a lot less insane. This is also the core of the MPAA/RIAA's behavior, both are industries where careers are made or broken by reputation, so control/power are more important to the individual then group profit.
This has been a good example of slippery slope.. they used that excuse at first and now that people have gotten used to the caps (or at minimal are not fighting them as hard) they change the reason in order to start using them the way they were intended.. cutting out competition.
I see many who feel 'ladyboy' and 'newhalf' are just as offensive as 'shemale', essentially leaving the trans community with no non-offensive (english) word for such people, which I tend to interpret as their existence being offensive.
It might be an element of the groups I have dealt with, who tend to be pretty big on the 'gender binary' concept, so things like genderqueer/adrogynous/etc are attacked as hurting the absolutism they seek. Very similar to the attacks I see from gays against bi peeps since they see bisexually somehow underpinning both their normalcy and genetic argument. On the trans end it often seems to come down to clinging to the imagery of it being a simple birth defect, and thus there are still only two sexes and they simply have a correction to make.. anything inbetween threatens this idea.
Yep, you get that basic effect in most minority groups.. people within the group trying to associate themselves with the mainstream by demonstrating that they hate the same people the 'normal' people do, or being able to point to others saying 'see, we are not perverts, THEY are the real ones! we are normal just like you!'.
This has, unfortunately, become a real problem with the gay right's movement over the last two decades, which often puts me in a rather uncomfortable position of supporting their cause yet not wanting to support the professional activists/groups due to their attacks on groups they want to cast off now that they have some power....
Not only that, but there have been historical cases of the US government overthrowing entire governments at the rest of US companies. There were quite a few nasty cases of agricultural importers wanting to keep near slave labor and using the CIA or military to get rid of reform governments.
I will take China's tactic of hacking the US's tacit of assassination (character or literal) and overthrowing any day.
Actually, in general, the trans community (US) wants nothing to do with such people, they are pretty ostracized and many trans peeps consider their very mention (not by just term, but their existence) to be offensive.. so they are generally not welcome under the 'transgendered' umbrella.
That has been my general experience too, TPB has malware on it, but does a better then average job of policing it, which makes singling them out seem a little suspicious.
It really seems like the studios are using threats of various laws as tokens in negotiating favorable terms in business deals rather then as tools for actually protecting their IP.
Because the US is the defaco ruler of the internet.. enough of it is hosted here, or requires name resolution through US services, that as far as the DoJ is concerned it has domain over the whole thing. So unless Japan asks the DoJ nicely to do mean things to a US company... it is unlikely to have an impact.
I have also been playing EvE for a long time, and would REALLY love for Notch to take a shot at giving EvE a run for its money. CCP is a little too used to no real competition and could REALLY use some. Plus I could see Notch taking a 'graphics are secondary' approach rather then CCP's 'graphics are uber important ooh look at the shiney!'.
An EvE like game focusing on trade and war rather then pewpew could be awesome.
Though rather importantly, once you have that $40 disk you can watch it any time. One of the downsides of the streaming services is content can disappear at any time, sometimes part way through watching a series (has happened to me twice now). Until such services deal with that problem, physical media will continue to have that edge.
It is not that the CG fooled 'lots' of people,.. like blurry bigfoot videos it simply preyed on existing social divisions. It was a narrative that appealed to a certain group of people and they set up the same battle lines they always stand behind. It could have been a still photograph and people still would have ranted about it being real.
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That is my guess. Scientifically they behaved fine, but the PR in the mainstream press might have been a bit uncomfortable.
*nods* politically they have to punish him, though it would not be the first time the US has quietly let a citizen off the hook when a weak forign government screams bloody murder.
The bigger problem, if this medication played a role, is going to be the drug company. There have been numerous cases where a psychotic incident involving murder has been plausibly linked to a medication, but they have never survived court since drug companies do NOT want that kind of liability, so they fight tooth and nail.. and to be blunt, the medical industry is a lot stronger then the federal government. So it is very unlikely we will ever see a court approved link between this medication and a murder.
'natural state' is meaningless, humans are part of nature.
Everyone knows that if you can not use it to build a robot it isn't technology.
It is a useful umbrella though. Autism comes in many forms, and one problem that 'high functioning' autistic people have had for many years is this 'you are not as bad off as this extreme case, so you are fine!' when in fact they do have neurological problems that impact their life.
Also, to be blunt, the 'anti-social behavior' meme is a media creation, not the medical definition. Being diagnosed as on the autism spectrum takes a lot more then being 'anti-social'. I can also attest at just how significant treatment and support of the higher functioning people can be in improving their lifes.. 'snake oil' generally involves not actually doing anything.
I am skeptical that introversion is being misdiagnosed as aspergers in any significant numbers. Social dysfunction (or shyness) is one of the publicly visible elements, but it is not the only diagnostic criteria and does not even have to be present for a positive hit. The tests don't even really focus on that part all that much and mostly look at things like thought patterns and difficult with things like focus, black&white thinking, literalism, etc.
There is a segment of the population that believes unnatural 'energy' is making us sick... so magnetic fields and radio waves going the 'wrong direction', things like that. It is kinda hard to nail down exactly what they mean, but they have plenty of anecdotal 'evidence' and that is all they ever seem to need.
Ahm... looking at the DoE's stats, it looks like nationally about a dozen new coal fired plants go online per year, so they are still being built in significant numbers.
There are studies going on, but I have not heard of conclusive results yet. There was an interesting one a while back though that found, when the same diagnostic criteria are applied, we see similar rates of autism in developing countries and subsistance communities, so that at least indicated the opposite.
If I recall correctly though the rates were a little different, so autism was a little higher in the developing world, but not by huge amounts, so it indicated it was quite possible that chemical pollution (or some specific chemical that children/mothers are commonly exposed to) might trigger or exacerbate rates. It has also been speculated that changes in dating/breeding patterns (higher probablity of males and females with mild disorders forming relationships) could cause a higher rate of genes getting together.
Actually, the 'corporate personhood' in the US started as an outgrowth of how British law handled the issue, so the basic framework did indeed come form England.
Careful, they might sieze your machine for having kitty porn on it then, which they would then claim with a strait face was 'technically true'.
Money is just tokenized power, control is another. Powerful people seek, well, power, and being able to control how people use what you sell gives just as much of a high has making lots of money off of it. That power then translates to respect within your community, which results in promotions and options at other companies.
In other words, once you realize that the motivations are not corporate profit but instead individual advancement and status, such behavior seems a lot less insane. This is also the core of the MPAA/RIAA's behavior, both are industries where careers are made or broken by reputation, so control/power are more important to the individual then group profit.
This has been a good example of slippery slope.. they used that excuse at first and now that people have gotten used to the caps (or at minimal are not fighting them as hard) they change the reason in order to start using them the way they were intended.. cutting out competition.
I see many who feel 'ladyboy' and 'newhalf' are just as offensive as 'shemale', essentially leaving the trans community with no non-offensive (english) word for such people, which I tend to interpret as their existence being offensive.
It might be an element of the groups I have dealt with, who tend to be pretty big on the 'gender binary' concept, so things like genderqueer/adrogynous/etc are attacked as hurting the absolutism they seek. Very similar to the attacks I see from gays against bi peeps since they see bisexually somehow underpinning both their normalcy and genetic argument. On the trans end it often seems to come down to clinging to the imagery of it being a simple birth defect, and thus there are still only two sexes and they simply have a correction to make.. anything inbetween threatens this idea.
Yep, you get that basic effect in most minority groups.. people within the group trying to associate themselves with the mainstream by demonstrating that they hate the same people the 'normal' people do, or being able to point to others saying 'see, we are not perverts, THEY are the real ones! we are normal just like you!'.
This has, unfortunately, become a real problem with the gay right's movement over the last two decades, which often puts me in a rather uncomfortable position of supporting their cause yet not wanting to support the professional activists/groups due to their attacks on groups they want to cast off now that they have some power....
Not only that, but there have been historical cases of the US government overthrowing entire governments at the rest of US companies. There were quite a few nasty cases of agricultural importers wanting to keep near slave labor and using the CIA or military to get rid of reform governments.
I will take China's tactic of hacking the US's tacit of assassination (character or literal) and overthrowing any day.
Actually, in general, the trans community (US) wants nothing to do with such people, they are pretty ostracized and many trans peeps consider their very mention (not by just term, but their existence) to be offensive.. so they are generally not welcome under the 'transgendered' umbrella.
That has been my general experience too, TPB has malware on it, but does a better then average job of policing it, which makes singling them out seem a little suspicious.
Not surprising in the least.
It really seems like the studios are using threats of various laws as tokens in negotiating favorable terms in business deals rather then as tools for actually protecting their IP.
Because the US is the defaco ruler of the internet.. enough of it is hosted here, or requires name resolution through US services, that as far as the DoJ is concerned it has domain over the whole thing. So unless Japan asks the DoJ nicely to do mean things to a US company... it is unlikely to have an impact.
Not exactly an MMO...
I have also been playing EvE for a long time, and would REALLY love for Notch to take a shot at giving EvE a run for its money. CCP is a little too used to no real competition and could REALLY use some. Plus I could see Notch taking a 'graphics are secondary' approach rather then CCP's 'graphics are uber important ooh look at the shiney!'.
An EvE like game focusing on trade and war rather then pewpew could be awesome.
Though rather importantly, once you have that $40 disk you can watch it any time. One of the downsides of the streaming services is content can disappear at any time, sometimes part way through watching a series (has happened to me twice now). Until such services deal with that problem, physical media will continue to have that edge.
It is not that the CG fooled 'lots' of people,.. like blurry bigfoot videos it simply preyed on existing social divisions. It was a narrative that appealed to a certain group of people and they set up the same battle lines they always stand behind. It could have been a still photograph and people still would have ranted about it being real.
Since when is AP 'state controlled'? They are one of the oldest, most respected, and impartial news sources around.