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Old 06-25-2011, 12:13 PM   #1
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According to the Daily Fail, you may be a neer-do-well cyberterrorist if you own anything in the following image...



Sh*t, I am pretty sure I have a desk fan too...

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Old 06-25-2011, 01:05 PM   #2
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Sh*t, I am pretty sure I have a desk fan too...
Let alone a keyboard, mouse and mousepad
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Old 06-25-2011, 07:42 PM   #3
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A Cat. A warning to all feline lovers.
Hang on, maybe there's more than 1 pussy in the picture..?
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Old 06-25-2011, 08:30 PM   #4
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my god I have a pin sentry so best hide that bastard incase i get accused of breaking into the CIA.
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Old 06-26-2011, 03:10 AM   #5
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Nice cat.
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Old 06-26-2011, 04:20 AM   #6
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This case is a very sad demonstration of how mental health and communication difficulties in childhood can contribute to kids going off the rails

I also particularly dislike the description of a fellow arrestee as an "Asperger’s sufferer". Life can be hard for people with autism, but it doesn't have to be and not every body "suffers" with it. Lots of the kids I work with are very happy with who they are, and it's everybody else (who has to do all that strange social interaction stuff) who is suffering
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Old 06-26-2011, 05:45 AM   #7
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This case is a very sad demonstration of how mental health and communication difficulties in childhood can contribute to kids going off the rails

I also particularly dislike the description of a fellow arrestee as an "Asperger’s sufferer". Life can be hard for people with autism, but it doesn't have to be and not every body "suffers" with it. Lots of the kids I work with are very happy with who they are, and it's everybody else (who has to do all that strange social interaction stuff) who is suffering
Yeah, "Asperger's sufferer", while these kids can do stuff many "normal" people can't. The only thing backward is the culture that doesn't take advantage of the capabilities of all the different "sufferers".
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Old 06-26-2011, 07:19 AM   #8
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Yeah, "Asperger's sufferer", while these kids can do stuff many "normal" people can't. The only thing backward is the culture that doesn't take advantage of the capabilities of all the different "sufferers".
Exactly! Wendy Lawson has a really interesting take on this very thing. She says it's not being "different" that causes distress to the autistic individual, but they way that others react to them.

I guess people are frightened when people don't interact in the ways they expect, and then they make assumptions about that person's abilities. It's like the "don't walk" scene in Rainman.
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Old 06-26-2011, 12:09 PM   #9
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There isn't a coder alive (nor dead!) that doesn't fall somewhere within the bounds of ASD.
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Me thinks I had better take down the pics of my geek-o-sphere before I land myself on a cyberterrorist watch list...
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Old 06-28-2011, 11:39 PM   #11
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Me thinks I had better take down the pics of my geek-o-sphere before I land myself on a cyberterrorist watch list...
Don't worry, it's just the Daily Mail's Cyberterrorist Watch List, and anyone who has ever been within 5 metres of a person who's not the colour of wallpaper paste is on that.
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