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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Aspies vs auties? Why? |
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Posted: 29 May 2008, 8:09 am
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Replies: 45
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| I use Aspergers to describe myself; this is for social reasons. Most people have heard of, and have a stereotype of, autism. I'm usually a long way from said stereotype, and I use the word Aspergers instead because no one knows what Aspergers is. Those people who have heard of it will have a better ... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Preferred email client |
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Posted: 01 May 2008, 7:08 am
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Replies: 22
Views: 2,670
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| I use Thunderbird. It does the job and that's the most praise I have for it. I also use Gmail, but I prefer Thunderbird for managing my email. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: On disproving religion. |
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Posted: 01 May 2008, 7:02 am
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Replies: 104
Views: 7,691
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| Disproving religion cannot work, by definition. Religion is a set of beliefs that you accept on faith - without proof. A religion that offers proof is not a religion. If you require proof to accept a religion, then you obviously don't believe in that religion - and never will. An atheist might see r... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: What's your favorite programming language? |
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Posted: 18 Apr 2008, 1:27 am
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Replies: 37
Views: 6,417
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| I use Common Lisp, although Arc looks cool and is developing fast. I like how lisp lets you define your own abstractions. For example, I've seen people define their own object system and syntax for it in less than a page of code - something much more like C++/Java than the Common Lisp Object System,... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is AS actually trendy? |
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Posted: 07 Apr 2008, 7:09 am
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Replies: 41
Views: 4,045
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| I f*****g hope not. This isn't going to be a popular opinion, but if I could take away my AS and all of the things that come with it, I would. I hope it's not "trendy". I don't have the right concepts to even begin thinking about that. I mean, where's the dividing line between me and my Aspergers? W... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: random quotes |
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Posted: 07 Apr 2008, 6:54 am
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Replies: 35
Views: 2,391
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"The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away. Puzzling."
- Robert M. Pirsig, "Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance." |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Sytles of music you HATE |
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Posted: 07 Apr 2008, 6:17 am
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Replies: 108
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| Most of the popular stuff played on the radio seems horrible. There's exceptions - The Edge has played Blindspott, Salmonella Dub, and Fat Freddy's Drop - but mostly it's crap. I don't listen to the radio anymore, I have other ways to find new music without having to sift through the irritating s**t... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: xkcd Appreciation Thread |
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Posted: 07 Apr 2008, 5:50 am
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Replies: 9
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First, xkcd is really really awesome. And they have cool forums.
But please, please don't post comics with half the joke missing. The alt text when you mouseover the image is often funnier than the actual comic. |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Flash sould die a flaming death |
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Posted: 02 Apr 2008, 12:25 am
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Replies: 16
Views: 1,913
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| Keep in mind that flash is the only way to do animation on the web, except for animated .gifs, and those have serious problems from a content and marketing point of view (limited colours, no real transparency). If animated .png or .svg files become popular (and get browser support from Microsoft), I... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: What is your dream computer? |
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Posted: 13 Mar 2008, 2:11 am
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Replies: 56
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| I never said I wanted it for gaming, and almost all recent games only run on windows. |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: What is your dream computer? |
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Posted: 07 Mar 2008, 2:35 am
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Replies: 56
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I want to build one of these.
Except replace the 2 gig / dual core / 250GB with 4 gig / quad core / 1TB. On each motherboard. |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: I was in the school paper and it was not fun! |
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Posted: 01 Mar 2008, 6:53 am
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Replies: 16
Views: 2,107
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| I understand. I got into the school newsletter recently because I came second in this inter-school computer programming competition. I wasn't misquoted, he just took everything I said out of context and changed the meaning of what I said that way, and omitted all the important sentances. |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Realplayer or Windows Media Player |
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Posted: 01 Mar 2008, 6:43 am
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Replies: 57
Views: 5,521
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Realplayer or Windows Media Player?
WINAMP |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Jobs for a teen with AS? |
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Posted: 05 Feb 2008, 1:32 am
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Replies: 9
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| If you're looking for a part time job while at school or studying, it's really difficult to find a aspie-friendly one. The only jobs I can find, aged 18 with no qualifications (except high school) are all retail jobs, working at the Warehouse or McDonalds. Paper boy might be good, but the people I k... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: what are you listening to THIS VERY SECOND? |
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Posted: 22 Jan 2008, 8:21 am
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Replies: 63,463
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Post a book you're reading |
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Posted: 22 Jan 2008, 8:13 am
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Replies: 4,751
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| I'm about halfway through Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid. It's extremely slow going - the book is about 700 pages and filled with big and complex ideas. It seems to be a philosophical and scientific collection of related thoughts on intelligence and recursion. |
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