I agree. As what the doctors are now saying that is wrong behavior as in not talking, will one day be seen as something that will change later on when in more social environments, just as I did. As for being a leftie, at least you can sit next to your SO at a table and not bump arms while eating.

My son has been diagnosed with autism because he doesn't talk to anybody and he is 3 1/2. The problem is he just doesn't feel like talking. I was the same way when I was a kid. My mom says that I really didn't start talking until I was 5 years old and had started school.

Nowadays that gets you labeled as "Autistic".

At 2 years old, I taught him how to say the alphabet. At 2 1/2 years old I had him writing the alphabet. I don't know many children his age that can write the alphabet even now.

I read to him now every weekend that I have him. As I read the book to him, he points at the correct words that I read. That to me says that he is smarter than average.

If he generally wants something, he will point at it and say nothing. He has done that most of the time in the doctors office when they try to evaluate him. He will speak if made to as when he wants me to pick him up, he will come to me and tug on my arm. I will wait till he says "Up" before I pick him up. I most times have to ask him what he wants a time or two but will usually say it in a minute or two. Oh and his mother only speaks Spanish, so that might also be confusing to him too.

I know that he is smart because his mother will put on a Dora DVD at night for him to go to sleep and turn the volume all the way down not to disturb her other children. He has recently started saying out loud, the entire dialog of the video as it plays when there is no audio. So, not only can he speak, but he can remember the entire spoken content of a 2 hour video at age 3 1/2.

He will be fine, just as I was.

It does not hold true. Gwinnett county, Georgia USA.

Neighbor to the right of my girlfriend shot in the chest in his home January 1st 2013 1am from a 9mm bullet that came through the exterior wall. Dies approximately 1 hour later at hospital.

January 1st 12:30am approximately(half hour earlier), neighbor across the street hearing celebratory gunfire from the apartment complex behind his house, the son of the owner of the house walks outside with fathers 9mm fires 5 shots into the ground emptying the clip in more celebratory gunfire. Then goes back inside. More shots are heard from around the neighborhood.

January 1st 1:15am approximately, Gwinnett county police find 5 casings and 5 spent bullets in the ground, arrest the father, the home owner and registered owner of the gun. The fatally shot bullet is too marred to make a positive match. In court it was determined that the trajectory the bullet took was in a downward path. The owner of the home that got shot and died house is 30 feet higher up on a hill than the neighbor across the street who was shooting into the ground.

The apartment complex behind the house of the neighbor across the street is up on a hill more than 50 to 60 feet up and more than 100 feet away through a bunch of trees. It was determined that the apartment complex was more than 20 feet higher than house of the owner that got shot providing a downward trajectory.

Didn't matter. The father, the home owner and owner of the gun is now serving 3 1/2 years in prison for a murder that he didn't commit. His son, late 20's early 30's should have known better. The father should have known better. It is a very unfortunate series of events that many people involved should have known better.

I don't know the full case but 3 1/2 years for murder doesn't seem like they convicted him on murder charges.

But in this case, the home owner was in fact held liable.

here is a map of the house https://www.google.com/maps?q=...

And anyone good at searching addresses, here is the address of the courts http://www.gwinnettcourts.com/

Or just start your own web site and control who sees it. I did it and run it from my home. You can find it as my log in name plus the dot com. You can even now register a .com address for $10 now. Only people I give access to sign in can see all of it.

I forgot to log in before I posted.

I am not a trained professional athlete and I burned more than 1000 calories in 49 minutes... http://connect.garmin.com/activity/412561866

You are assuming that your ears are as good or better than the average persons ears. What if your hearing isn't as good as even average ears. I have never claimed to have good hearing as I am almost 50 years old. But, I have always been able to tell the difference between compressed and uncompressed audio. Most people can't. I would probably say less than 5% of the population. Does that make me have good ears that I can tell the difference?? Probably not.

Case in point. A number of years ago when I was going to church with an ex-girlfriend, one morning we were running late and had entered the church after it had started. Upon opening the main doors, I could hear this high pitch squeal. As we got closer to the auditorium I made mention to my girlfriend at the time that it was getting loud. She ask what was and I said the squeal. She said "Oh". Upon opening a side door to the auditorium the squeal wasn't deafening but was unpleasant.

I wondered why nobody else was bothered by it. After we sat down, I started looking around to see if anyone else was bothered with it. Out of the 250 to 300 people, I noticed maybe five that were showing signs of covering their ears. Some teenagers, some adults. Half women. Half men. I would occasionally put my fingers in my ears every now and then to take a break from it.

I noticed the guy at the sound board in his mid to late 60's happily oblivious to the high pitch squeal along with the rest of the entire audience.

I would bet dollars to doughnuts that the 5 or so people in the audience that were bothered by the squeal could also tell the difference between compressed and uncompressed.

I fear for the day that I lose the ability to hear high pitch sounds. I know it is coming one day. I fear it because I listen to live music and more so recordings of music, for the clean crispness of music. It will be a sad day for me when it is gone. It is also sad for me to know that most people don't appreciate music as I do because they don't hear it as I do. I am a real believer in FLAC for loss-less. Could I tell if something was better than 44.1k.... probably not.

On the other hand MP3's are probably good enough for every one in that audience that day that didn't have their fingers in their ears. And do you manufacture music for the masses that can't tell the difference or spend lots of money on the manufacture of music for the 1% of people that can truly appreciate it???

3737 days is more than 10 year. That is around 2002 sometime this machine was powered up. I was working for a company then that was still supporting Windows 95 at that time and had several running.

One of the support staffs duties on Friday night was to shut the windows 95 machines down because if we came in Monday morning everyone of them would be sitting at a blue screen. This is the 2001 to 2002 time frame. But it doesn't matter.... I was being funny any way. Nathan

I park 5 miles and some away from work and ride the rest of the way in... http://connect.garmin.com/activity/284217239 I rode in this morning even though it was 22 degrees outside. 10 degrees below freezing. But riding in forces me to ride back to my vehicle the 5 miles and some too.

When people at work complain about having to park at the back of the building and walk from there, I tell them my assigned parking space is 5 1/2 miles away.

I've been doing it for years... I started riding to work in 2006 but I have only had a GPS to record my rides since October 2007 http://connect.garmin.com/activity/162441932

Nathan

That is 3730 more days than Windows 95 could stay up.

If time is money, have it cost some time. No actual money is involved but a few seconds of your life. The 1c click would cost you 1 second with a pop up, the 3c click would cost 3 seconds with a pop up.

Why is that so hard to think about?

Nathan

I've been thinking about something like this for years. What would happen if caffeine suddenly became unavailable or worse illegal?

I spent two to three weeks getting off caffeine. Let me tell you it is a horrible experience. I've never been a big coffee drinker but I do like tea and soft drinks.

The first week is horrible. The second week is excruciatingly horrible. The third week is pretty bad but is survivable with acetaminophen.

The forth week you are able to think again for longer periods than 30 seconds or so with out the feeling of a metal clamp around the inside of your brain. I was also able to stop taking Tylenol. I was caffeine free for about two months before I started drinking tea again. I've stopped completely with the soft drinks though.

I only hope that if I try to stop drinking tea that I won't go through that again.

Just because I decided to stop taking caffeine, didn't remove the desire to continue drinking it.