Tell that to schizophrenics who would have killed themselves or someone else if it wasn't for modern antipsychotics.
There are millions of people around the world who have been helped with SSRI antidepressants. Along with support, these drugs can get someone from feeling suicidal, or wanting to kill their own child, to becoming functioning and working through their issues with a mind not afflicted with mental illness.
No-one gets incentive payments. I really hate this about Slashdot. (I wonder if it's the Aspegers?) So many people have these irrational conspiracy theories. Psychiatrists are people who did medicine and find mental illness interesting. They generally want to help people - generally they're opposed to giving people unnecessary medication.
Doctors in NZ don't get paid (or any other benefits) for prescribing medication unnecessarily. (I'm sure they don't in the US either). Yet those in our mental facilities are still on medication - and are a lot better off than they would have been in the days before these drugs existed.
You speak with the sanctimony of some narrow-minded, conspiracy theorist, douchebag. I find it sad to see that a lot of the shorter UIDs tend to be like this. It worries me a little, but hopefully I'm not going to be some bitter, anti-science, anti-progress, anti-money weirdo when I'm your age.
Get an education. Stop overvaluing your own baseless opinion.
Sugar comes from plants, which release nectar, which bees drink and incorporate into honey! Do you think honey is some uncharacterised organic substance or something?
And, I'm not sure why you're buying in on this unscientific "honey is a miracle cure for everything" trip that hippies and stupid middle-aged women like to waste their money on. Honey is not magic - it is mostly sugar.
My son was diagnosed with it in Kindergarten and at age 11 he is finally coming around to being able to not embarrass himself too much in social situations, though he still has a lot of work to do in dealing with social norms, like dealing with things that make him upset...however like others have said above I consider it an advantage to him since his cognitive abilities in most everything are 2-3 grade levels above normal due to the way he views and processes information, especially stuff that is nothing but facts or manipulations thereof (e.g. math)
I often wonder what could have been done to help me at age 11. I don't regard myself, twenty years older, as having Aspergers, but I definitely had social problems and am sure I would have been diagnosed with Aspergers if at school nowadays.
I wouldn't want to change anything about my distant past, as I quite like where I am today - and as every geek knows, going back in time and changing the past can have dramatic consequences. Would I have been better off if I was more social as a kid? Would I have learned less in school? Would I have had a lower IQ (but higher 'EQ')?
I wonder at that age whether anyone could have taught me social skills in fit in better at intermediate school (middle school). Or whether it would have just gone over my head and I would have continued to be a nerd. Is it something we have to learn by trial and error? Or can a caring person teach us to be more normal?
There is one thing I'd take as a lesson though. Likely many of us, we were probably put up a class in school - because we were academically quite strong. My problem with this is as an already socially disadvantaged kid, I was put in a class where I didn't know everyone, and everyone had a year's advantage of social development. It also meant a year's physical development too - so I was automatically behind further in sport. I can't guarantee that this advancement didn't help me more than hinder overall - but if I had a kid who got good marks, but was a bit socially awkward, I'd let them stay in the lower class.
Whereabouts? Granted, I don't work in an office tower, but I've never seen one. In fact, I don't actually think I've seen any smart elevators at all!
They just seem to respond to a call button, and go to the floors that people have selected. Once at the final floor the elevators just seems to hand around on the floor it stopped on. Same when I've travelled to the US.
The smartest thing I've seen elevators do is return the the ground floor (or lobby, or whatever the busiest floor is) to wait.
That's because there are none. Seriously, start taking your schizophrenia meds, because no-one is out to get you. No-one cares what websites you visit. It will not affect your life in any meaningful way.
The perfect, unquestionable reason to justify the right-wing death squad execution of reputation, privacy, anonymity, innocence before proven guilt...
That stuff is actually left-wing. Right-wingers would want less government involvement with our personal computers and internet use. Lefties tend to want the government to decide what private citizens can and can't do, and enjoy making laws to restrict personal freedoms.
It can't be anyone from the UK. And it can't be Germany (they're not allowed to own Nazi paraphernalia) . It's not Thailand (don't insult Royalty there!). It's not China.
I guess Canada and New Zealand are potential contenders. We don't have much problems with restriction of free speech in NZ, but we don't have the US Constitution that means all of our citizens know that it is something to fight for. Not sure about Canada.
the universe is friggin' huge and I kinda doubt the conditions in the LHC are universally unique. And yet we never observed that kind of matter before?
It's because the universe is huge that we not seen every type of particle that might exist somewhere in this huge universe.
Exactly. Stupid judges in Australia obviously understand nothing about the internet, and have no common sense.
(So they're pretty much like NZ judges.)
How is Google going to investigate whether all these libel claims are true? I guess Santorum can get the Aussie Google fixed up pretty quickly now.
The court case could have made Google remove it (as at that stage has been proven libel), but to make them pay such an exorbitant fine (way more than damages) to this guy (who be all accounts is a scumbag) is disgusting.
Australia seems to be going downhill. People insult the US, but free speech is better entrenched there than anywhere else.
Try boycotts of the Saudi Arabia. Besides oil, their biggest export and tourism attraction is the religion. Prevent 2 billion muslims from doing their sacred hadj in the name of women's rights, see a world war 3 unfold.
Well, let them go there. Don't let them come back.
About 5 months ago I bought a new dehumidifier. I used it for about a week to get the excess manufacturing chemicals off the coils (or whatever), but, as a nerd, I could not pass up this opportunity to taste a sample. I knew the water should be clean enough after its week of use, and new enough not yet be filled with too much algae and mould - I would not get the chance again.
It tasted much like tap water, maybe a slightly different smell. I probably only had a couple of glasses worth, drinking direct from the bucket. Anyway, I'm still al#$%#$NO CARRIER
Thanks ACs. I still probably won't try it again, as I didn't find it any fast, and hated that auto-updater that ran constantly in the background it installed.
(I'm not sure if it still does that either, but I'm happy with FF at moment.)
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You're sad.
Tell that to schizophrenics who would have killed themselves or someone else if it wasn't for modern antipsychotics.
There are millions of people around the world who have been helped with SSRI antidepressants. Along with support, these drugs can get someone from feeling suicidal, or wanting to kill their own child, to becoming functioning and working through their issues with a mind not afflicted with mental illness.
No-one gets incentive payments. I really hate this about Slashdot. (I wonder if it's the Aspegers?) So many people have these irrational conspiracy theories. Psychiatrists are people who did medicine and find mental illness interesting. They generally want to help people - generally they're opposed to giving people unnecessary medication.
Doctors in NZ don't get paid (or any other benefits) for prescribing medication unnecessarily. (I'm sure they don't in the US either). Yet those in our mental facilities are still on medication - and are a lot better off than they would have been in the days before these drugs existed.
You speak with the sanctimony of some narrow-minded, conspiracy theorist, douchebag. I find it sad to see that a lot of the shorter UIDs tend to be like this. It worries me a little, but hopefully I'm not going to be some bitter, anti-science, anti-progress, anti-money weirdo when I'm your age.
Get an education. Stop overvaluing your own baseless opinion.
Honey IS sugar.
Sugar comes from plants, which release nectar, which bees drink and incorporate into honey! Do you think honey is some uncharacterised organic substance or something?
What the hell?! Do you actually believe what you're saying?
Plenty of bread manufacturers put additional ingredients into bread. Why? Because it makes more profit.
Here's a commercial company that has honey in its bread:
http://www.tiptopbread.co.nz/ViewProduct.aspx?product=10
They're not some independent manufacture, probably the most widely known bread/icecream company in NZ.
Here are some other companies where bread contains things that are expensive:
http://www.ploughmansbakery.co.nz/
http://www.vogels.co.nz/products/Bread/Original-Bread?c=1&r=1
And, I'm not sure why you're buying in on this unscientific "honey is a miracle cure for everything" trip that hippies and stupid middle-aged women like to waste their money on. Honey is not magic - it is mostly sugar.
My son was diagnosed with it in Kindergarten and at age 11 he is finally coming around to being able to not embarrass himself too much in social situations, though he still has a lot of work to do in dealing with social norms, like dealing with things that make him upset...however like others have said above I consider it an advantage to him since his cognitive abilities in most everything are 2-3 grade levels above normal due to the way he views and processes information, especially stuff that is nothing but facts or manipulations thereof (e.g. math)
I often wonder what could have been done to help me at age 11. I don't regard myself, twenty years older, as having Aspergers, but I definitely had social problems and am sure I would have been diagnosed with Aspergers if at school nowadays.
I wouldn't want to change anything about my distant past, as I quite like where I am today - and as every geek knows, going back in time and changing the past can have dramatic consequences. Would I have been better off if I was more social as a kid? Would I have learned less in school? Would I have had a lower IQ (but higher 'EQ')?
I wonder at that age whether anyone could have taught me social skills in fit in better at intermediate school (middle school). Or whether it would have just gone over my head and I would have continued to be a nerd. Is it something we have to learn by trial and error? Or can a caring person teach us to be more normal?
There is one thing I'd take as a lesson though. Likely many of us, we were probably put up a class in school - because we were academically quite strong. My problem with this is as an already socially disadvantaged kid, I was put in a class where I didn't know everyone, and everyone had a year's advantage of social development. It also meant a year's physical development too - so I was automatically behind further in sport. I can't guarantee that this advancement didn't help me more than hinder overall - but if I had a kid who got good marks, but was a bit socially awkward, I'd let them stay in the lower class.
They're run by Muslims.
True, but that is a large proportion of computer users.
Whereabouts? Granted, I don't work in an office tower, but I've never seen one. In fact, I don't actually think I've seen any smart elevators at all!
They just seem to respond to a call button, and go to the floors that people have selected. Once at the final floor the elevators just seems to hand around on the floor it stopped on. Same when I've travelled to the US.
The smartest thing I've seen elevators do is return the the ground floor (or lobby, or whatever the busiest floor is) to wait.
Well don't buy it! And you explain the 1 dislike on his YouTube clip!
I thought his mini arcade thing was awesome!
Oh no! Not the websites I visit! People will realise that I post on Slashdot!
That's because there are none. Seriously, start taking your schizophrenia meds, because no-one is out to get you. No-one cares what websites you visit. It will not affect your life in any meaningful way.
The perfect, unquestionable reason to justify the right-wing death squad execution of reputation, privacy, anonymity, innocence before proven guilt...
That stuff is actually left-wing. Right-wingers would want less government involvement with our personal computers and internet use. Lefties tend to want the government to decide what private citizens can and can't do, and enjoy making laws to restrict personal freedoms.
None.
People have diverse opinions about things, based on their own experiences. Other than the Apple promoters, I doubt anyone is being paid.
I'd be interested to know this too.
It can't be anyone from the UK. And it can't be Germany (they're not allowed to own Nazi paraphernalia) . It's not Thailand (don't insult Royalty there!). It's not China.
I guess Canada and New Zealand are potential contenders. We don't have much problems with restriction of free speech in NZ, but we don't have the US Constitution that means all of our citizens know that it is something to fight for. Not sure about Canada.
I'm forgoing mod points to tell you... You're awesome!
I wish you were president.
the universe is friggin' huge and I kinda doubt the conditions in the LHC are universally unique. And yet we never observed that kind of matter before?
It's because the universe is huge that we not seen every type of particle that might exist somewhere in this huge universe.
Exactly. Stupid judges in Australia obviously understand nothing about the internet, and have no common sense.
(So they're pretty much like NZ judges.)
How is Google going to investigate whether all these libel claims are true? I guess Santorum can get the Aussie Google fixed up pretty quickly now.
The court case could have made Google remove it (as at that stage has been proven libel), but to make them pay such an exorbitant fine (way more than damages) to this guy (who be all accounts is a scumbag) is disgusting.
Australia seems to be going downhill. People insult the US, but free speech is better entrenched there than anywhere else.
The treat their children like women too.
Try boycotts of the Saudi Arabia. Besides oil, their biggest export and tourism attraction is the religion. Prevent 2 billion muslims from doing their sacred hadj in the name of women's rights, see a world war 3 unfold.
Well, let them go there. Don't let them come back.
Where could you get UV light from in the desert?
About 5 months ago I bought a new dehumidifier. I used it for about a week to get the excess manufacturing chemicals off the coils (or whatever), but, as a nerd, I could not pass up this opportunity to taste a sample. I knew the water should be clean enough after its week of use, and new enough not yet be filled with too much algae and mould - I would not get the chance again.
It tasted much like tap water, maybe a slightly different smell. I probably only had a couple of glasses worth, drinking direct from the bucket. Anyway, I'm still al#$%#$NO CARRIER
Sorry but ALL religion is insidious and evil. It is a means of control for the unintelligent and mentally lazy.
Completely true. But some religions are worse than others - and Islam is terrible.
Thanks ACs. I still probably won't try it again, as I didn't find it any fast, and hated that auto-updater that ran constantly in the background it installed.
(I'm not sure if it still does that either, but I'm happy with FF at moment.)
In Firefox, just select the url, right click, and "Open Link in New Tab".
You can't do this in Chrome (last time I tried about a year ago) which is one of the reasons I stayed with FF.
(I didn't actually read the article, but thanks!)
Well, I guess that's why she picked religious belief! It's a great way to scare of those who are afraid of offending a religion.