i completely agree on this one. i always thought one of the best features of segfault was their option to let the readers rate the stories in a really simple way (1-10, and so forth). i don't think i'd like a horribly complex system, just something that might weed out the "this was posted already!" or "this really sux! post something interesting!" comments. if the users could rate the stories somewhere else, they wouldn't have to post these comments in the main threads.
i meet every requirement except for the dysfunctional home and the gender. all i can say is thank whatever i'm not in high school anymore! and i thank it again that my little brother has somehow managed to meld his "above-average intelligence" with a socially acceptable attitude. i don't know how he did it, but if it keeps him from being subjected to this, i'll stop pestering him to become a geek like the rest of my family!
that's funny...i always looked at it as just the opposite.
to me, nerds were people who had general knowledge about many topics/areas/discliplines. geeks were the specialized ones. there were computer geeks, english geeks, history geeks, etc, but a nerd was someone who was just sort of smart and knew a lot about a lot. wouldn't necessarily go anywhere, but knew a lot. i always thought of "geek" as a subset of "nerd."
i just wanted to say thank you for pointing this out. i would have posted it myself, except you got to it first;)
the judge indeed did know what he was talking about, and i will admit to being quite dismayed at the *general* tone of many of the comments i saw here on/. soon after the original article.
indeed it is posted under "humor." whaddya know? and here i thought he was serious.
i think roblimo and the rest of the/. operators should've looked at this more carefully. yes, it is posted under humor, but many people are not taking it as such (obviously). and i think they should have expected that. to post something that, truthfully, is this offensive on/. is asking for trouble. some people will take this advice to heart.
as a woman, i find it offensive, yet i can see the humor in it. as a woman and a regular/. reader, i find it dangerous. i expect more from people who tout moderation of posts.
It seems to me that most people posting on this are arguing that society should allow the parents to euthanize their "severly handicapped child." But, what about parents that don't want to? There have also been posts by parents who have told us about their own children who would have been euthanized under this system, but were not, and ended up leading a "normal" (or close to) life.
What concerns me is that, if this practise is allowed, will parents be also able to still choose NOT to euthanize these infants. I, personally, am against this practise and would not choose it for my own child, but I can understand why someone would. If I allow them to euthanize their child, will they allow me to keep mine alive?
Maybe I've just read/watched too much science fiction (Gattaca and a certain Star Trek episode come to mind), but if we create a choice, we have to see that it remains a CHOICE between at least 2 alternatives.
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Am I a geek? I've read both the articles posted on/. about geeks and autism so far, and both times I read through the list of supposed symptoms and said to myself "yup, that's me." Except for one thing: I suck at math, and I've never written a line of code in my entire life (well, ok, that's not true. But near enough). I even *gasp* use windows. All the same, I am a loner, always have been; I've been chastised countless times for not being able to read people's emotions, I had the whole "social outcast" thing going in high school. I'm getting my BA in Classics right now. School is my life. I go for books (mostly), not computers. So, what am I? Am I to be disdained as one of the non-geek masses? Is it possible to be a non-computer geek? The fun part about it all is, because I'm female, and don't already have the background, no one who I've met so far has the time to spend on a newbie who can't self-teach from a book. Else there would be no way you could keep me from using Linux. Except that laptops are weird about stuff like that. *sigh*
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i completely agree on this one. i always thought one of the best features of segfault was their option to let the readers rate the stories in a really simple way (1-10, and so forth). i don't think i'd like a horribly complex system, just something that might weed out the "this was posted already!" or "this really sux! post something interesting!" comments. if the users could rate the stories somewhere else, they wouldn't have to post these comments in the main threads.
i meet every requirement except for the dysfunctional home and the gender. all i can say is thank whatever i'm not in high school anymore! and i thank it again that my little brother has somehow managed to meld his "above-average intelligence" with a socially acceptable attitude. i don't know how he did it, but if it keeps him from being subjected to this, i'll stop pestering him to become a geek like the rest of my family!
that's funny...i always looked at it as just the opposite.
to me, nerds were people who had general knowledge about many topics/areas/discliplines. geeks were the specialized ones. there were computer geeks, english geeks, history geeks, etc, but a nerd was someone who was just sort of smart and knew a lot about a lot. wouldn't necessarily go anywhere, but knew a lot. i always thought of "geek" as a subset of "nerd."
i just wanted to say thank you for pointing this out. i would have posted it myself, except you got to it first ;)
/. soon after the original article.
the judge indeed did know what he was talking about, and i will admit to being quite dismayed at the *general* tone of many of the comments i saw here on
indeed it is posted under "humor." whaddya know? and here i thought he was serious.
/. operators should've looked at this more carefully. yes, it is posted under humor, but many people are not taking it as such (obviously). and i think they should have expected that. to post something that, truthfully, is this offensive on /. is asking for trouble. some people will take this advice to heart.
/. reader, i find it dangerous. i expect more from people who tout moderation of posts.
i think roblimo and the rest of the
as a woman, i find it offensive, yet i can see the humor in it. as a woman and a regular
It seems to me that most people posting on this are arguing that society should allow the parents to euthanize their "severly handicapped child." But, what about parents that don't want to? There have also been posts by parents who have told us about their own children who would have been euthanized under this system, but were not, and ended up leading a "normal" (or close to) life.
What concerns me is that, if this practise is allowed, will parents be also able to still choose NOT to euthanize these infants. I, personally, am against this practise and would not choose it for my own child, but I can understand why someone would. If I allow them to euthanize their child, will they allow me to keep mine alive?
Maybe I've just read/watched too much science fiction (Gattaca and a certain Star Trek episode come to mind), but if we create a choice, we have to see that it remains a CHOICE between at least 2 alternatives.
This kind: http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/28/crab.nebula/
Am I a geek? I've read both the articles posted on /. about geeks and autism so far, and both times I read through the list of supposed symptoms and said to myself "yup, that's me." Except for one thing: I suck at math, and I've never written a line of code in my entire life (well, ok, that's not true. But near enough). I even *gasp* use windows. All the same, I am a loner, always have been; I've been chastised countless times for not being able to read people's emotions, I had the whole "social outcast" thing going in high school. I'm getting my BA in Classics right now. School is my life. I go for books (mostly), not computers. So, what am I? Am I to be disdained as one of the non-geek masses? Is it possible to be a non-computer geek? The fun part about it all is, because I'm female, and don't already have the background, no one who I've met so far has the time to spend on a newbie who can't self-teach from a book. Else there would be no way you could keep me from using Linux. Except that laptops are weird about stuff like that. *sigh*