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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: new sci fi show with AS Character |
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Posted: 04 Jul 2010, 8:28 am
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No no no.
There are two actors in the article: Actor David Strathairn will play someone with a sociopathic skill, whereas Ryan Cartwright (another actor) has allegedly signed up to play a member of the team with Asperger's syndrome with build in wifi. |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: POLL! aspergers only forum? |
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Posted: 16 May 2010, 1:18 am
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Also, what would you do with people who are dx'd with HFA? Especially when it's a difference that makes not difference in reality?
In my case my official dx is HFA, but the advice and literature about Asperger is more relevant than anything about (classical) Autism. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Does life really get easier when you leave school? |
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Posted: 05 May 2010, 4:04 am
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| I'm 35. Life never seems to get easier, just different. |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Aspie Computer Guys: Recommend A Netbook for me please. |
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Posted: 08 Mar 2010, 4:57 am
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| I have bought a MSI U100 2 years ago, which turned out be have been less then useful. I found out I really can't work with Windows, its loud, bossy, buzzy and often it seems purposely counter-intuitive. I'm a more a Unix (FreeBSD/Apple Mac OS X) person I guess... I'm going to install FreeBSD on it a... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Shoes... but why? |
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Posted: 15 Feb 2010, 11:03 pm
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I personally don't wear shoes at home, but I can imagine that maybe someone who has really cold feet (e.g. bad circulation) would like to wear shoes indoors just to keep warm?
But, in that case, I would rather think about installing an underfloor heating system of something. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Abiogenesis |
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Posted: 29 Dec 2009, 5:00 am
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| You'll get a shorter answer because WP has just lost over an hour's typing by telling me it's too busy just after I clicked "Submit" and not going back to my message after. It eat three of my posts as well. How do you know two species are closely related? Without referring to genetic similarities, ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Funniest questions people have asked you about AS |
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Posted: 27 Dec 2009, 6:17 am
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| "Do you have a soul?" 8O Apparently, Martin Luther said back in medieval times that autistics (or at least, people assume by the description he gave that he was talking about autistics) don't have souls, and there's still some that believe it. Might be Jehova's Witnesses - not sure, exactly. If I'v... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Abiogenesis |
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Posted: 26 Dec 2009, 8:08 pm
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| OK. So trivial means the simplest in form. No, that has nothing to do with it. It's trivial to make an unordered pile of books, but its also trivial to make an ordered pile of books. What's not trivial is writing a pile of books. If something seems a particular way, that does not make it so. At the... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: You Might be an Aspie if... |
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Posted: 25 Dec 2009, 7:24 pm
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| You might be an aspie if you consider the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures the best thing on television during the christmas holidays. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Abiogenesis |
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Posted: 24 Dec 2009, 8:02 pm
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| Actually, whether you metaphysically infer a common designer or a common ancestor, the percentage of genes in common more physically relates to the percentage of biochemical processes in common. There is a difference. When you assume descent from a common ancestor, with modification, then you must ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Sell the Vatican feed the world?? |
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Posted: 23 Dec 2009, 8:12 am
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| I personally don't expect the vatican to survive the next century, perhaps not even the next decade or 2. I don't think that the money for the foreclosure will be used to feed the poor. The same might even apply to nearly every large religious organization? Especially the political active religions ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Abiogenesis |
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Posted: 23 Dec 2009, 5:37 am
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| Previously, you defined self-organization to be something that can only be created by an intelligent agent. I did not. I said that the only know source of organization is an intelligence. (Self-organization might be possible if the "self" was intelligent enough? Maybe, I doubt it, but it could) In ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Abiogenesis |
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Posted: 22 Dec 2009, 5:19 am
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| Previously, you defined self-organization to be something that can only be created by an intelligent agent. I did not. I said that the only know source of organization is an intelligence. (Self-organization might be possible if the "self" was intelligent enough? Maybe, I doubt it, but it could) Thi... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Abiogenesis |
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Posted: 21 Dec 2009, 8:40 am
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| What does this 95% identical really mean? Why "identical" and not "similar"? How "identical" are the following strings? S1: ABCDEFGHIJ S2: ABBBBCDEFGHIK S3: ABCDDEFFFGHIJ S4: JIHGFEDBCA S5: ABCDE00000FGHIJ |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Abiogenesis |
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Posted: 21 Dec 2009, 3:32 am
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| With regard to the percentages of similarity being thrown about, I did look into it. What I wrote seems to be correct. You only get >95% between Humans and Chimps if you first filter out about 98.5% of our DNA that doesn't code for any protein, then only count the occurrence of genes that produce id... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: The microsoft "i'm a pc" commercials |
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Posted: 21 Dec 2009, 2:50 am
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| The Get a Mac commercials at least make sense, the two actors are playing (anthropomorphically) a (MS Windows) PC and a Mac, so it make perfect sense when they say "I'm a Mac" or "I'm a PC". The Microsoft "I'm a PC" doesn't make any sense: They let [b]users[/i] say that they are a PC?. I want to scr... |
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