By all accounts, the mom DID know what she was doing (or thought, anyway). Talking with a boy at school. The 'talk' went on for some time, very innocently. Until they went nasty with it. And the teenage girl couldn't handle it. Teenage girls are walking bags of hormones. EVERYTHING is drama with them.
By all account, the parents knew she was clinically depressed and apparently did little to monitor that condition. That's negligence. This girl is a statistical aberration. People get trolled on the internet every minute and don't kill themselves. Mean words and backstabby behavior don't make normal teenage girls kill themselves, otherwise we'd have 14 year olds killing themselves in epic proportions.
We do not need to be making laws that restrict speech, that are based on the idea of protecting outliers who represent the subset of humanity who are depressed from themselves. That way leads to all sorts of really bad things.
Tina Meier had left Megan alone on the MySpace account because she had to take her younger daughter to an orthodontist appointment. Megan had promised to sign off as soon as she had finished writing a message. She didn't and things got worse. From everything I've seen, the Meier parents did everything that everyone here has been suggesting, but they lost their daughter anyway.
They trusted a 13 year old girl to do what she was told when she'd previously shown she was untrustworthy in that regard. Bad parenting.
Society still makes a point of trying to mitigate those risks, because civilization acts to protect its weakest and most vulnerable members.
Yes, mitigate. You can't eliminate, and outliers will still exist.
The last thing we need is more laws that attempt to promote the idea that we can legislate every teen into a happy, risk-free life (which is, make no mistake, the illusion that lawmakers want to perpetuate).
The concern here was about people committing over and over again in a short period to fix bugs and thus being rated higher, not that you went "oops" and fixed a bug once or twice.
Don't tell that to the "professional engineers", though. Their head will fly off if they're one of the 80% of those who think that "software engineer" is tantamount to blasphemy.
You may make such a distinction, but most people do not. I, for one, am more than happy for Florida, of all places, to be calling evolution by natural selection a theory.
Besides, Florida is where old people go to die, and Cubans go to bitch about Castro, not exactly the educational center of the US.
Even so, the advent of such huge PIM and shared calendar technology, combined with the increasing use of blackberries, has made some corporate friends of mine never stop working.
The technology enables their work to follow them home.
My father had to turn off his blackberry when he got home because people would keep emailing and asking for meetings and so forth sometimes at horrible hours of night. It is their choice to continue in jobs that encourage this sort of coworker behavior. Then again, if you're working for a very large (multinational?) corporation, the meeting request you just got at 1am may have come from someone in Germany. where it's an acceptable hour to be doing such things.
But, then again, it's obvious that it wasn't a large problem for your father, since he TURNED IT OFF at night. Doesn't sound like it was much of an issue, does it.
Vista SP1 isn't officially released yet, nor is it coming down by automatic updates.
So... why is this story about unreleased software trashing people's systems that they're stupid enough to install software that isn't RTM code being considered news?
Go ahead and come into work with alcohol in your system and see what happens to you. If your supervisor is a dick or the wrong people find out then you can be in some *serious* shit. You seem to think that, by default, people who smoke pot are smoking some magical substance that lasts for days on end. It's no more true than havin' a few beers every night (or every other night, or once a week) lasts until the next day. In moderation, both have about the same effect on peoples' ability to do work (and the pot probably less, though the emphysema will catch up to you with too much use, just like liver problems).
I also greatly prefer how Windows machines render fonts. The themes for OS X are really nice, but (not unlike Linux), eyestrain for me is much more pronounced with OS X than XP. This "Ou" guy is not out in left field on this, though I suspect its more a subjective preference than objective failing.
*shrug* So you hold onto the old address for legacy sake, but you move all new concerns to the new email address. This isn't a situation where it doesn't work at all, just where it kinda works. As time goes on, your old email address becomes less and less used, just like a legacy app.
The only reason not to switch to a non-hotmail account is laziness.
Much of the issue in this particular case is because of dualism, i.e. the idea of a soul. Even if we don't immediately realize it, most of us have an idea of some schmerg that makes me _me_. The idea that a clone of me is the same as me is hard to grasp, because we as individuals don't perceive other individuals as ourselves. As such, this disconnect results in the idea of, for lack of a better term, a "soul" which makes my consciousness a separate existence from another individual, even if that individual is, for all intents and purposes, the same as myself. As such, if Clone A dies and Clone B lives, it is difficult for us to say that "I" still live, since that property of separate consciousness does not exist as a continuum through all clones.
Wrong. Be rational. There are solid engineering and budgetary reasons at work here. No "secrecy" can hide those issues, no matter the classification fo the satellite. Physics, like mathematics, sooner or later breaks attempts at classifying it. And there are limits on the money spent, even in a "black" budget project. If things go bad, you can bet overspending will leak out. Google SBIRS-High for a good example - look at the globalsecurity.org entry (pic is taken looking S from Buckley AFB - I used to live to the west of that hill full of houses in Aurora CO). I always wondered what those were.
Yeah. I don't know if people really realize that outside the US 9/11 just resulted in everyone hoping that the US wasn't gonna throw a tantrum and invade them. Outside of the US, by and large, the "post-9/11 world" is very similar to the pre-9/11 world, warts and all.
Actually, IIRC from my geology courses years ago, there's only one real problematic form of asbestos. There was also in use a safe form of insulation containing asbestos, but since people freaked out about it, and there's a lot of money to be made in asbestos removal, it all got labeled as "bad", and that was that.
You sure they're being throttled, and it's not just the burst speed dying off, or your tcp window sliding narrower as the upstream links dial down your transfer speed?
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By all account, the parents knew she was clinically depressed and apparently did little to monitor that condition. That's negligence. This girl is a statistical aberration. People get trolled on the internet every minute and don't kill themselves. Mean words and backstabby behavior don't make normal teenage girls kill themselves, otherwise we'd have 14 year olds killing themselves in epic proportions.
We do not need to be making laws that restrict speech, that are based on the idea of protecting outliers who represent the subset of humanity who are depressed from themselves. That way leads to all sorts of really bad things.
If you don't think that your child can handle the perils if the intarwebs, don't let them on it.
Don't think you can prevent them from getting access? Better make sure you get them ready, I guess.
New laws aren't the way to handle this.
They trusted a 13 year old girl to do what she was told when she'd previously shown she was untrustworthy in that regard. Bad parenting.
Yes, mitigate. You can't eliminate, and outliers will still exist.
The last thing we need is more laws that attempt to promote the idea that we can legislate every teen into a happy, risk-free life (which is, make no mistake, the illusion that lawmakers want to perpetuate).
The concern here was about people committing over and over again in a short period to fix bugs and thus being rated higher, not that you went "oops" and fixed a bug once or twice.
What stops me from claiming nicks which are not my own?
Oh, and this AC for that matter.
As if engineering didn't exist before someone made it an attainable certificate.
Sure, and I'd agree with you, but I point you here (later in this very discussion) for an example of what I'm referring to.
Don't tell that to the "professional engineers", though. Their head will fly off if they're one of the 80% of those who think that "software engineer" is tantamount to blasphemy.
You may make such a distinction, but most people do not. I, for one, am more than happy for Florida, of all places, to be calling evolution by natural selection a theory.
Besides, Florida is where old people go to die, and Cubans go to bitch about Castro, not exactly the educational center of the US.
...to stop using eBay to sell your used stuff.
Vista SP1 isn't officially released yet, nor is it coming down by automatic updates.
So... why is this story about unreleased software trashing people's systems that they're stupid enough to install software that isn't RTM code being considered news?
Or, ya know, the American Civil War.
Not quite as well taught, but the major powers certain took sides and offered support in that one.
I also greatly prefer how Windows machines render fonts. The themes for OS X are really nice, but (not unlike Linux), eyestrain for me is much more pronounced with OS X than XP. This "Ou" guy is not out in left field on this, though I suspect its more a subjective preference than objective failing.
*shrug* So you hold onto the old address for legacy sake, but you move all new concerns to the new email address. This isn't a situation where it doesn't work at all, just where it kinda works. As time goes on, your old email address becomes less and less used, just like a legacy app.
The only reason not to switch to a non-hotmail account is laziness.
Much of the issue in this particular case is because of dualism, i.e. the idea of a soul. Even if we don't immediately realize it, most of us have an idea of some schmerg that makes me _me_. The idea that a clone of me is the same as me is hard to grasp, because we as individuals don't perceive other individuals as ourselves. As such, this disconnect results in the idea of, for lack of a better term, a "soul" which makes my consciousness a separate existence from another individual, even if that individual is, for all intents and purposes, the same as myself. As such, if Clone A dies and Clone B lives, it is difficult for us to say that "I" still live, since that property of separate consciousness does not exist as a continuum through all clones.
hsdpa's comment made me cry a little inside
(weeping for the chil'en!)
Yeah. I don't know if people really realize that outside the US 9/11 just resulted in everyone hoping that the US wasn't gonna throw a tantrum and invade them. Outside of the US, by and large, the "post-9/11 world" is very similar to the pre-9/11 world, warts and all.
Is everyone besides Zonk on vacation today or what? Geez.
Actually, IIRC from my geology courses years ago, there's only one real problematic form of asbestos. There was also in use a safe form of insulation containing asbestos, but since people freaked out about it, and there's a lot of money to be made in asbestos removal, it all got labeled as "bad", and that was that.
You sure they're being throttled, and it's not just the burst speed dying off, or your tcp window sliding narrower as the upstream links dial down your transfer speed?
It's likely that the article was specifically crafted to avoid mentioning 4chan.