I'm currently raising a boy with it (the fiance's son), and its one of those things that is so interesting because it has such a wide spectrum. At times it can be frustrating, but then we have to remind ourselves that a certain reaction or the way he might interpret certain things are due to being aspie.
Let's not forget that they are also responsible for the death of one of their members, although they escaped the criminal charges, they never escaped the civil charges brought by the family.
I agree with everything you've said. TT-RPGs help me flex my imagination and -that- is the reason I still love to play them to this day. There is nothing like the human interaction that can occur as well that cannot be replicated in a computer generated world, even those of a MUD.
No offense, but if you are using terror tactics to effect how people behave, you are a "terrorist". Let's not mince words and make excuses for these people.
Actually there -is- a story of a father having the option of being with one of his two daughters to have progeny, so once again, it is condoned behavior.
Like it or not, its in there.
Simple, those Greek scriptures are simply Greek translations of those original "laws" set down by a people that needed those laws for basic survival. They are not born from Greek culture. Furthermore, -nowhere- in -Christ's- teachings does he condemn homosexuality. The citing of Paul's letter, to the Corinthians no less, is faulty at best since many scholars also agree that it was most likely -not- Paul who even wrote the letter since the letter was a "well written" piece of work, but upon meeting Paul in the flesh, the Corinthians had a hard time swallowing that it was the same person who'd sent the letter to them.
Yep. In the litany of people whom is disallowed for the bedding so to speak in Leviticus (and they are VERY detailed in this list or possible incestuous relationships), and even though they go over this list at least 4 different times across as many pages to drive the point home, the -only- relationship not specificed as a no-no is that between a father and daughter.
Just a quick few things: Be careful about citing -anything- Josephus said/wrote because religious historians and athropologists have for decades now shown him to have been an opportunist that would re-write religious history at a drop of a hat if it suited him and have found flaw after flaw with many of his writings.
Please also remember that the Laws in Leviticus, although quite stringent are also quite extensive, and evenin all of that, still allow for some strange things, like a father still being allowed to bed his daughter. O.o You know...because that's natural.
Let's not also forget that the ancient greeks were very big on the man-boy relations and have tons of depictions in their art of such things and it wasn't until the introduction of monotheism and the forcing out of their pagan ways did such idologies come into their thinking. Ideologies mind you that come from a culture that for a long time was primarily nomadic/desert people that even when they had settlements were few and far between so keeping an eye to survival and furthering of their species was tantamount, hence any activity that did not involve or end with a new born was deemed wrong, whereas established societies with no worry of population loss (ancient Greek and Roman societies, or even the Ancient Mayans) didn't have that fear, and therefore, homosexuality wasn't deemed "wrong".
Sorry, but the going to Apple argument is a weak one at best. A Mac-mini or hell, even an iMac or Macbook are reasonably priced enough and can get you going with little to no downtime for the switch to be that painful.
I use both macs and PCs and can easily jump between the two. Hell, I'm doing it right now in fact.
"Everyone knows not to transmit confidential information over the phone."
heheheheheh, riiiiiiight. Next you're going to tell me that you've never heard someone talking loudly on their cell in a crowded area about their credit card/bank/work account and never heard them say something that was/could be extremely confidential.
People, for the most part, are stupid. Its this very same stupidity that allows for phishing to be so successful.
Yeah...no slaves or slaves owners alive..you're right.
There are just people that were beaten by cops and dragged through the streets for being black alive today. There are people that remember a friend or loved one that was hung from a tree like a damn pinata at a kids birthday party for a good ol' lynching. There are people alive today that remember what it was like to be treated less than human because that is what the law deemed them to be. There are just people alive today that remember the sting of being called a monkey as they tried to go to school. There are just people alive today that -still- feel the silent oppression and degredation of being made to feel like a criminal or a potential threat simply for the color of their skin. There are just people alive today that can't walk into certain neighborhoods without having a cop hassle them for being there...even if they -LIVE- there.
And don't even being to pretend you have any clue about any of this since your comment alone has shown your ignorance of the subject at large.
No, thats not what I'm saying, but thank you for being so thick.
Like it or not, in a country where people think its a compliment to tell me that "I speak so well", as if I should sound as if English is my second language based soley on my last name and my appearance, images like this convey the story of "White dominance, followed by contention, followed by overt violence/violent response from the black individual against the white, clearly respresenting the white woman as a victim of some kind of greater threat/action.
Conversely if you look at the play by play from the other direction it shows unprovoked agression from the blakc woman against a white woman, followed by further contention, with a final "I am in control and you are clearly not" message, which also doesn't go over well.
All that being said, why does there even -have- to be a struggle between the white and black anything in these ads in the first place? Contention does not breed confidence, especially if its internal strife, which is the other thing these ads convey, and that is coming as someone who has done this for a living.
As for your last comment: there is something very different about someone being scared by your size being the factor and your race. Have you been followed through a store even though a group of loud teens that kept openly joking about shoplifting were in the store at the same time as you, but were not followed around because they were white? have you had cabs pass you by for a white passenger that was further up the block from you even though you too were in a suit and trying to hail a cab for the last 15 minutes? Do cops jump out of unmarked cars and throw you against a parked car and start searching you before ever telling you why they are frisking you, and all you happened to be doing is walking down the street in your neighborhood that you lived in your entire life? Don't try to compare physical size and how that might get you treated differently at times with things that I have to deal with on a daily basis just because of my ethnicity. It only serves to further insult me.
Hrmmm...
no, in one the image sends the message of "Know your place", and the other extreme sends the message/dipiction of "the black brute".
Like it or not, there is some seriously racially charged imagery in those pics and until you've actually walked a mile in the shoes of someone who has been hassled just because of their race you will never "get it".
Think I enjoy having little priviledged white women clutching their purses and looking at me like I might mug them just because I'm Puerto Rican?
Hardware Skills:
The ability to identify, change, upgrade RAM in your own computer.
The ability to identify, change, upgrade a hard drive in your computer.
The ability to take a computer out of a box and set it up either with or without the instructions that come with the computer.
The ability to identify simple hardware problems such as: making sure all components are on and getting power, and that all cables are still connected properly.
The ability to hook up and install a printer locally on your computer.
Hardware Use Skills:
The ability to effectively use/manipulate a mouse and knowing how to clean one (if it is not an optical mouse).
The ability to use a standard keyboard and knowing how to identify when things such as capslock are depressed, or if a key has been held down for too long.
Understanding the difference between single click, double click, and click and drag.
Software Use and Skills:
Understanding the basic layout of the GUI of your chosen OS, with specific attention payed to Knowing how to navigate to your document, harddrive and trash directories.
Knowing how to perform basic word processing and spreadsheet actions through basic text editing programs as well as commercially available software like MS Office, or some other office suite.
Knowing how to perform basic functions such as file creation, folder creation, and the deletion of those files and folders with ease.
Knowing and understanding how to make and send emails and how to configure an email application with or without instructions provided by the ISP.
Understand how to install and uninstall software on the computer.
Understand how to configure and update anti-virus software and how to effectively scan for viruses.
General: Have a basic understanding of computer terms/terminology so communication with tech support is smoother. i.e. - Know that if you are asked what is on your desktop that you do not reply with "A coffee cup and some papers."
Thats just some stuff I can think of off the top of my head, although I think there might be a few more things that I could/should add to that list.
Actually, from a marketing standpoint Revolution could have killed them as a name just as easily in the hands of a pissy yet witty game critic. That aside, although I have to scratch my head about WHY they chose to go with Wii, I have to admit that their elevator pitch from their site has potential to grow into a tight marketing campaign.
Basically, they've been able to (with three letters and a one syllable pronunciation), both visually and verbally convey a concept that has more than one meaning when applied to their product. I'm going to sit back and see just how they use what they've set up to its most effective means before I completely agree that they are crazy for the name choice.
Nah. The patriots of the original colonies knew how to deal with such acts, and it sure as hell wasn't at the ballot box.
I'm just sayin'.
We are getting pushed more and more, but the difference now is that too many people are complacent and only care about their American Idol and not enough about who is pulling their strings anymore.
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http://www.crimelibrary.com/news/original/0107/170 2_canadian_murders.html
She was 12 too. Something tells me that if he parents knew more about her online interactions they might have been more prepared.
I'm currently raising a boy with it (the fiance's son), and its one of those things that is so interesting because it has such a wide spectrum. At times it can be frustrating, but then we have to remind ourselves that a certain reaction or the way he might interpret certain things are due to being aspie.
But could it be that he has Asperger's? http://www.udel.edu/bkirby/asperger/aswhatisit.htm l
It fits on many counts.
Well, ok, more than one, although only one of them got the majority of the press when it happened. :)
Let's not forget that they are also responsible for the death of one of their members, although they escaped the criminal charges, they never escaped the civil charges brought by the family.
*ahemcough*Sodomy is no longer illegal anywhere in the states.*cough*
Yeah, and Dahmer had a great home life growing up. He turned out wonderfully... :/
I agree with everything you've said. TT-RPGs help me flex my imagination and -that- is the reason I still love to play them to this day. There is nothing like the human interaction that can occur as well that cannot be replicated in a computer generated world, even those of a MUD.
No offense, but if you are using terror tactics to effect how people behave, you are a "terrorist". Let's not mince words and make excuses for these people.
Actually there -is- a story of a father having the option of being with one of his two daughters to have progeny, so once again, it is condoned behavior. Like it or not, its in there.
Simple, those Greek scriptures are simply Greek translations of those original "laws" set down by a people that needed those laws for basic survival. They are not born from Greek culture. Furthermore, -nowhere- in -Christ's- teachings does he condemn homosexuality. The citing of Paul's letter, to the Corinthians no less, is faulty at best since many scholars also agree that it was most likely -not- Paul who even wrote the letter since the letter was a "well written" piece of work, but upon meeting Paul in the flesh, the Corinthians had a hard time swallowing that it was the same person who'd sent the letter to them.
Yep. In the litany of people whom is disallowed for the bedding so to speak in Leviticus (and they are VERY detailed in this list or possible incestuous relationships), and even though they go over this list at least 4 different times across as many pages to drive the point home, the -only- relationship not specificed as a no-no is that between a father and daughter.
Just a quick few things: Be careful about citing -anything- Josephus said/wrote because religious historians and athropologists have for decades now shown him to have been an opportunist that would re-write religious history at a drop of a hat if it suited him and have found flaw after flaw with many of his writings. Please also remember that the Laws in Leviticus, although quite stringent are also quite extensive, and evenin all of that, still allow for some strange things, like a father still being allowed to bed his daughter. O.o You know...because that's natural. Let's not also forget that the ancient greeks were very big on the man-boy relations and have tons of depictions in their art of such things and it wasn't until the introduction of monotheism and the forcing out of their pagan ways did such idologies come into their thinking. Ideologies mind you that come from a culture that for a long time was primarily nomadic/desert people that even when they had settlements were few and far between so keeping an eye to survival and furthering of their species was tantamount, hence any activity that did not involve or end with a new born was deemed wrong, whereas established societies with no worry of population loss (ancient Greek and Roman societies, or even the Ancient Mayans) didn't have that fear, and therefore, homosexuality wasn't deemed "wrong".
I wish I had points to mod you up. :)
Heheh, so sad and so very eerie to boot. Seen "Equilibrium"? Yeah, I just love where this country is headed. :/
Sorry, but the going to Apple argument is a weak one at best. A Mac-mini or hell, even an iMac or Macbook are reasonably priced enough and can get you going with little to no downtime for the switch to be that painful. I use both macs and PCs and can easily jump between the two. Hell, I'm doing it right now in fact.
"Everyone knows not to transmit confidential information over the phone." heheheheheh, riiiiiiight. Next you're going to tell me that you've never heard someone talking loudly on their cell in a crowded area about their credit card/bank/work account and never heard them say something that was/could be extremely confidential. People, for the most part, are stupid. Its this very same stupidity that allows for phishing to be so successful.
No honey, its not that I don't love you...I just need stimulation from new things. I didn't cheat on you; I'm a neopheliac. :/
Lame.
Yeah...no slaves or slaves owners alive..you're right. There are just people that were beaten by cops and dragged through the streets for being black alive today. There are people that remember a friend or loved one that was hung from a tree like a damn pinata at a kids birthday party for a good ol' lynching. There are people alive today that remember what it was like to be treated less than human because that is what the law deemed them to be. There are just people alive today that remember the sting of being called a monkey as they tried to go to school. There are just people alive today that -still- feel the silent oppression and degredation of being made to feel like a criminal or a potential threat simply for the color of their skin. There are just people alive today that can't walk into certain neighborhoods without having a cop hassle them for being there...even if they -LIVE- there. And don't even being to pretend you have any clue about any of this since your comment alone has shown your ignorance of the subject at large.
No, thats not what I'm saying, but thank you for being so thick. Like it or not, in a country where people think its a compliment to tell me that "I speak so well", as if I should sound as if English is my second language based soley on my last name and my appearance, images like this convey the story of "White dominance, followed by contention, followed by overt violence/violent response from the black individual against the white, clearly respresenting the white woman as a victim of some kind of greater threat/action. Conversely if you look at the play by play from the other direction it shows unprovoked agression from the blakc woman against a white woman, followed by further contention, with a final "I am in control and you are clearly not" message, which also doesn't go over well. All that being said, why does there even -have- to be a struggle between the white and black anything in these ads in the first place? Contention does not breed confidence, especially if its internal strife, which is the other thing these ads convey, and that is coming as someone who has done this for a living. As for your last comment: there is something very different about someone being scared by your size being the factor and your race. Have you been followed through a store even though a group of loud teens that kept openly joking about shoplifting were in the store at the same time as you, but were not followed around because they were white? have you had cabs pass you by for a white passenger that was further up the block from you even though you too were in a suit and trying to hail a cab for the last 15 minutes? Do cops jump out of unmarked cars and throw you against a parked car and start searching you before ever telling you why they are frisking you, and all you happened to be doing is walking down the street in your neighborhood that you lived in your entire life? Don't try to compare physical size and how that might get you treated differently at times with things that I have to deal with on a daily basis just because of my ethnicity. It only serves to further insult me.
Hrmmm... no, in one the image sends the message of "Know your place", and the other extreme sends the message/dipiction of "the black brute". Like it or not, there is some seriously racially charged imagery in those pics and until you've actually walked a mile in the shoes of someone who has been hassled just because of their race you will never "get it". Think I enjoy having little priviledged white women clutching their purses and looking at me like I might mug them just because I'm Puerto Rican?
Hardware Skills: The ability to identify, change, upgrade RAM in your own computer. The ability to identify, change, upgrade a hard drive in your computer. The ability to take a computer out of a box and set it up either with or without the instructions that come with the computer. The ability to identify simple hardware problems such as: making sure all components are on and getting power, and that all cables are still connected properly. The ability to hook up and install a printer locally on your computer. Hardware Use Skills: The ability to effectively use/manipulate a mouse and knowing how to clean one (if it is not an optical mouse). The ability to use a standard keyboard and knowing how to identify when things such as capslock are depressed, or if a key has been held down for too long. Understanding the difference between single click, double click, and click and drag. Software Use and Skills: Understanding the basic layout of the GUI of your chosen OS, with specific attention payed to Knowing how to navigate to your document, harddrive and trash directories. Knowing how to perform basic word processing and spreadsheet actions through basic text editing programs as well as commercially available software like MS Office, or some other office suite. Knowing how to perform basic functions such as file creation, folder creation, and the deletion of those files and folders with ease. Knowing and understanding how to make and send emails and how to configure an email application with or without instructions provided by the ISP. Understand how to install and uninstall software on the computer. Understand how to configure and update anti-virus software and how to effectively scan for viruses. General: Have a basic understanding of computer terms/terminology so communication with tech support is smoother. i.e. - Know that if you are asked what is on your desktop that you do not reply with "A coffee cup and some papers." Thats just some stuff I can think of off the top of my head, although I think there might be a few more things that I could/should add to that list.
Actually, from a marketing standpoint Revolution could have killed them as a name just as easily in the hands of a pissy yet witty game critic. That aside, although I have to scratch my head about WHY they chose to go with Wii, I have to admit that their elevator pitch from their site has potential to grow into a tight marketing campaign. Basically, they've been able to (with three letters and a one syllable pronunciation), both visually and verbally convey a concept that has more than one meaning when applied to their product. I'm going to sit back and see just how they use what they've set up to its most effective means before I completely agree that they are crazy for the name choice.
Nah. The patriots of the original colonies knew how to deal with such acts, and it sure as hell wasn't at the ballot box. I'm just sayin'. We are getting pushed more and more, but the difference now is that too many people are complacent and only care about their American Idol and not enough about who is pulling their strings anymore.
See? Now you're just thinking rationally about this. Silly you. ;)