And then the family must have constructed a very watertight background, all the way down to age 2. In reality, as opposed to your simple thoughts, those stories end up with all kinds of discrepancies. Point in case, one of the players talked about in this story was busted several years ago, precisely because of all the inconsistencies. He tried to fake a lot of symptoms etc on stream. Yet when he took his Adderall, he was displaying symptoms to the medicine utterly inconsistent with what someone with ADD or ADHD would get. In fact, he got, on stream, symptoms that someone without ADD or ADHD would get from Adderall or amphetamine.

ADD/ADHD does not mean that you become inattentive at everything. One of the things with ADD/ADHD is that if something DOES catch your attention, you can do it for hours on end, particularly if it stimulates the brain. It's the mundane routine stuff that tends to be discarded, like household chores etc.

In my personal experience, Strattera interferes with my ability to perform in some sports, while it helps with my daily life, such as doing household chores.

Once again, that's a standard situation that students are taught as a matter of basic instruction. The impulse control, memory etc are things that no matter of hard conviction can affect. Also, as I mentioned, there's the interview with family etc, including childhood behaviour etc.

Also, broad spectrum screening is standard in serious testing.

"Again, those tests give the same results for ADD and stress. If you weren't diagnosed with ADD/ADHD when you were 6, as an adult is an "undiagnosable" condition."

And you are wrong on both counts, once again. Some types of stress have some symptoms that overlap with ADD(far less for ADHD). However, with the battery of tests I mentioned, as well as blood tests etc, you get completely different aggregate profiles. Also, various neurological disorders can appear or disappear with major metabolism changes associated with age, and if you couple that with an unhealthy living style, of course the risks are increased.

Also, EEG has been used for decades, and CAT or similar scans have been used for the really difficult cases for at least a decade, so you are not as up-to-date as you like to believe.

Unless you belong to a group that is less than a percent of the population, catching someone pretending is pretty easy for a serious tester, since a serious test battery includes memory, reaction and impulse control tests for example, interviews with family, blood tests etc. Here in Sweden, EEG etc are slowly getting used for testing too.

Now, if you just go to an average US clinic, on the other hand, yeah, then it gets easier, since they earn more the more patients they prescribe to etc, but that's a completely different issue altogether than what you alluded to.

Actually, there are a whole lot of tests other than just the questionnaire, when performed by serious testers: Impulse control tests, memory tests, reaction tests etc etc.

Gamers who have actual ADD/ADHD would benefit from not taking meds when competing in games like these, since these games are heavily dependant on fast reflexes, and those with ADD/ADHD have their reaction/impulsiveness slowed down as one of the effects of these meds due to the different neurochemistry, while those who don't have ADD/ADHD benefit from taking these substances, because they react faster/become more impulsive(and more aggressive)

Gah, thanks for reminding me... My father being a train buff, and his father working on the railroad for 45 years, I should have remembered to bring that up.

Such techniques are used in live environments today, such as factories, oil platforms etc. In fact, I'd be surprised if SpaceX DIDN'T have at least 6+ microphones or other vibration sensors relaying telemetry, and baselines from previous launches to compare with. With that baseline, you can tell if it happens to be a turbopump that malfunctions. Hell, if a strut or something would break in my brothers boat, we hear it immediately, because the overall vibration and thus overall boat noise will be altered.

Also, they clearly have decent bandwidth to the rocket during launch, given that they can have video feeds etc, and you can easily get multiple audio telemetry feeds to take less bandwidth than even a low-res video feed.

Using sound to probe structures, materials and devices is a pretty ancient technique, it's just advanced with the tools available. Stonemasons used to check blocks of stone to locate faults by tapping on them and listening for sounds that would indicate cracks or other faults. One of my grandfathers tried to teach me how to listen for potential rot zones in wooden walls when I was a kid also. Now, with modern tools, we can just do it much faster, and with more precision.

The Super Tucano for example. A modernized Bronco would also have been useful.

You would not have the 30mm penis extender, true, but instead you get a lower stall-speed, better combat radius, each plane is cheaper to build, own and run, less noisy, FAR better avionics, simpler maintenance, requiring fewer service hours, and the pilot has better visibility.

The lower stall speed is important because that allows you to target and lay down fire more accurately, the improved visibility for the pilot lets you pick out targets more easily and reduce the risk of friendly fire etc.

If an airspace is contested enough to keep the AC-130's out, it's contested enough to keep the A-10's out.

Any AA from the 80's or later will kill them easily.

But for every situation where the A-10 has done "well", there have been cheaper, more easily maintained options, with better time-on-station. Also, with better night operations capabilities etc. In a situation like Syria, the A-10 would have been outmatched, and the syrian conflict hasn't exactly involved state-of-the-art anti-air assets.

Most of the love for the A-10 is just wanking over the gun, and that just gets in the way of reasonable decisions.

The A-10 is useless if you fight an opponent that has 80's or more modern anti-air weapons, and don't even think about flying it when you don't have air superiority. The SU-25 has served as an excellent example of what happens when you go up against an opponent with decent anti-air capabilities: CAS planes like A-10 and SU-25 are hopelessly outmatched

If you have troubles putting together IKEA furniture, I imagine Duplo LEGO would be out of your league too...