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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Topic not specified |
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Posted: 14 Mar 2009, 7:13 am
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| Thanks for that! There is a surprisingly small amount of information about what that lateral fissure represents in non-human brains. Googled [autistic dolphin]. Couldn't count on five hands the number of links to sites that said "dolphin therapy works for autistic kids!". Sigh! The complete lack of... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Microsoft force-installs Firefox extension!! ! |
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Posted: 14 Mar 2009, 6:14 am
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| PhaethonH, I dont want to beat this to death I also get the idea that you are trying to find any little thing that may be wrong so you can justify your hatred toward ms? No, not in this case. Nit-picking this sort of thing is petty at best; it's a years old habit I'm trying to break out of. Fundame... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Topic not specified |
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Posted: 13 Mar 2009, 10:48 pm
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| good question. do dolphins have the equivalent of a sylvian fissure? are there records of dolphins whose brains have anomalies in their sylvian fissures? do they exhibit repetitive/fixative behaviour or do they simply not survive due to lack of gregarious behaviour? i may have used the word gregari... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Microsoft force-installs Firefox extension!! ! |
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Posted: 13 Mar 2009, 10:07 pm
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| Yes, a list of updates comes up, with a discription of each of them. One update usually only does one thing. You check the updates you want to install, and ignore the rest. If a update comes up that you never want to install, and it bothers you that you see it every time, all you do is right click ... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Microsoft force-installs Firefox extension!! ! |
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Posted: 13 Mar 2009, 5:36 pm
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TallyMan wrote: This is a six week old thread that has just resurfaced again. 
D'oh. Now I understand some people's vindictive streak against thread resurrections.  |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Topic not specified |
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Posted: 13 Mar 2009, 5:33 pm
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| since it's topic unspecified, we can post about anything, right? Have you ever been to the ocean? Isn't it huge? I wonder what's in it. I've seen some of the stuff that lives in there but not all of it. Well, since this thread is under General, I expect there to be some expectation to be vaguely re... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Microsoft force-installs Firefox extension!! ! |
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Posted: 13 Mar 2009, 5:21 pm
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| Also, didnt I just explain this in your other thread? about blocking a update Now that you bring this up [again], my curiosity in Windows Update has been piqued. Now, I imagine that in a set of updates, theoretically the entire set is "required" to synchronize "the entire OS" -- i.e. nominally the ... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Vista is ret*d |
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Posted: 12 Mar 2009, 11:19 pm
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| Seriously, the people on this forum really make me blow a gasket sometimes. First of all, Vista is different to XP. GET. [expletives deleted by lau] OVER. IT. It's newer, expect [expletives deleted by lau] to be different. There's always some moaning and groaning at any transitional stages. Man, I ... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Light |
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Posted: 12 Mar 2009, 9:55 pm
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| Colour is perceived based on how much each receptor is stimulated. For example, violet is perceived when the red and blue receptors are stimulated by about the same amount. There are actually two ways of accomplishing this: ⋅ combine a red light (650 nm) and a blue light (475 nm) in about... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Light |
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Posted: 12 Mar 2009, 8:12 am
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| I'm getting a few mixed massagers hear, so I made this thread to patch a few things up: 1. Can Light be bent? First I'm being told that light always travels in straight lines and can never bend, but then I get told that light can easily be bent by black holes and changes in density. They can't both... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Topic not specified |
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Posted: 12 Mar 2009, 5:55 am
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b9 wrote: it would be funny if this thread became one of those wildly successful 500 page threads. I'm not aware of any 500-page threads. What can drive a thread that long? |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: What if the Bible was true? |
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Posted: 12 Mar 2009, 5:52 am
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| The waters of the Flood would be the same waters that fill the current sea basins and trenches. If the surface of the Earth were level, all points equidistant from Earth's center, then how deep would the ocean that covers the Earth be? let V = total volume of water on Earth = 1.3380e6 km^3 (http://... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: What if the Bible was true? |
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Posted: 11 Mar 2009, 7:01 am
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| [snip] Wow, he must have been very good at stashing animals since even my smallest possible Ark was 60 000 m3. ^^ And what the heck happend to all plants and trees? Mustn't he have had some of those too? [snip] ((4π(12756+8,848)^3/3) - (((4π(12756)^3/3) = 18 104 444 580 km3. = 18 104 444 ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I can't mke up my mind anymore |
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Posted: 05 Mar 2009, 8:53 pm
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| This post in short: labels don't matter, addressing the symptoms is what matters most. I have to agree with Fo-Rum here. I don't know where on the spectrum I am, or even if I'm on it. But because of WrongPlanet, what I do know are that (a) I am not alone in the problems I deal with, (b) the problem... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Does it feel this way to anyone? |
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Posted: 05 Mar 2009, 8:14 pm
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| Does it feel like to any of you people expect others to read their minds and be psychics? What I mean by knowing how they are feeling without them telling you and knowing what they mean when they use double meanings and expect you to read between the lines and they say things and expect you to do t... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: "Putting the cart before the horse" |
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Posted: 07 Feb 2009, 1:12 am
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| (direct link fail due to my low post count) There's a web site, "usingenglish" under the "com" TLD, with a link to English Idioms under the "English Language Reference" block/section. There's an entry for "putting the cart before the horse", browseable under 'P' or search in the text box. Seems like... |
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