While they are filming he is continually aware of them, so even though he can only remember a few seconds or so into the past, his memory all the time is that they're OK to be there. He might not be able to remember why, but he'll have a continuous thread of thought saying it's OK.

What kills me is when his wife leaves the room and comes back. That right there, that's real love. For her to be able to cope with what's going on...

It's the skate area of Cannery Park in Hayward, CA.

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You can see in the pic that the kid wasn't running in the area where you are supposed to skate. You can see that he was going right toward a set of picnic tables. You can even see the rails (coping) attached to the concrete in one area that aren't there in the area where the kid was running. I'll give you that he's pretty close but it's still entirely on the skater.

I just gonna say one last time that I'm not trying to justify the actions of this kid's mother. I'm just saying that, bottom line, hitting the kid was absolutely the skater's fault.

He was a nice guy and apologized, he didn't deserve to be hit. That said, I think her reaction was pretty normal. Most people wouldn't have acted on it but I'm really amazed at how surprised so many people are.

Is the kid alright? Probably. But I see that guy barrel into him and just can't imagine how fucking worried and angry I would be if it were my own son.

Privacy and freedom are orthogonal. Privacy both grants freedom and takes it away. You're talking like there is a clear path for a centrist to take on this matter. My thought experiment was meant to expose a hypocrisy in too commonly held ideals. "Information should be free!" is often taken to mean that we should be able to access whatever information we want. On the other hand, "big brother" is a pejorative describing dystopian violations of individual privacy that reasonable people holding the former position often use.

We can't have it both ways. Either we get to know what people are up to (e.g. terrorists, banks, lobbyists, politicians, government agencies, etc) while coping with oversight of our own activities. Or we lock down all the information and cope with the inevitable cheat avoiding detection.

You can play the game of trying to break it down case by case, but the fact is surveillance can't really be implemented piecemeal. Once you decide to collect the information, you sort of get what you get.

This was amazing!

Many mental 'illnesses' can lead to sensory hallucinations, and it's likely that everyone knows someone with some such condition. There are neuroscientific reasons for these hallucinations, where sensory information is cross-linking with different portions of the brain. A person experiencing this is certainly abnormal, though the result can be harnessed as advantageous for a person to gain superhuman powers. A person who hallucinates halos of color around numbers gains an extra pneumonic for remembering them, a person who perceives a halo of color around people gains insight towards some of their own hidden feelings toward that person.

Many of us have problems dealing with traumatic events, or finding a healthy way to emotionally cope with problems. Some of us find healthy ways, and many of us don't, though it's an internal struggle for all of us. In her case, her condition let's her have an EXTERNAL struggle with her problems, which she uses as a tool to help her cope with otherwise unmanageable emotional issues.

Kudos to her for helping to remove some of the stigma for some of these mental disorders! I wish she could expand her horizon to people with other disorders, to help them achieve the same level of understanding and benefit.

He's not wrong, but praying is just another form of venting and/or getting shit off your chest.

There's nothing wrong with it and internally, it could be beneficial as a form of coping/stress management. The problem is when you honestly think it has an effect externally.

It sounds like you're in the medical profession and know your stuff. I wanted to respond to this comment though because it makes perfect sense from the medical industries point of view. I understand why it would be common sense to classify such behavior as an illness, and I understand why that is the standard perspective, but I think chingalera's point, and one I agree with on several levels, was that it might not be (an illness).

You (I'm assuming) belong to an institution that has the authority on the definition, so today we live with the perspective that people with different forms of mental process have a disability because that "illness" does not allow them to function painlessly within modern society. It's a disruptive abnormality that needs attention and proactive care to correct.

Now, you could also very easily make the point that modern society is the construct, the abnormal element, and similar to what other people are saying already, the mental illness is a coping mechanism, or an "evolution", or a side effect of being conformed to this way of life that very, possibly, maybe, is not healthy or a natural state of existence for our current arrangement of biological systems.

Without getting into a multitude of specifics, when I look at it that way and all the issues we have in our lives, the Human Condition's complete lack of forward progress despite our civil growth, and also consider the fact that I, you, and everyone we know, spend the vast majority of their waking life dedicated to actions that other people tell us we must undertake under penalty of violence or imprisonment, I don't think it's an illness.

I agree that it's very unhealthy to live in that state, but I think it is strongly disputable between the cause manifesting itself internally to the individual, or within the environment they inhabit.

If as a cop you can't cope with a mouthy, pregnant woman without electrocuting her over a minor vehicle incident then you should not be a cop.
These guys clearly don't have the common sense, empathy or physical capabilities for the job.

I can't believe all of the things they say about me
Walk in the room they throwing shade left to right
They be like, "Ooh, she serving face"
And I just tell 'em cut me up and get down
They call us dirty 'cuz we break all your rules down
And we just came to act a fool, is that all right?
(Girl, that's alright)
They be like, "Ooh, let them eat cake."
But we eat wings and throw them bones on the ground

[Pre-Chorus]
Am I a freak for dancing around?
Am I a freak for getting down?
I'm coming up, don't cut me down
Yeah I wanna be, wanna be

[Verse 2]
Is it peculiar that she twerk in the mirror?
And am I weird to dance alone late at night?
And is it true we're all insane?
And I just tell 'em, "No we ain't" and get down

I heard this life is just a play with no rehearsal
I wonder will this be my final act tonight
And tell me what's the price of fame?
Am I a sinner with my skirt on the ground?

[Hook]
Am I a freak for dancing around?
Am I a freak for getting down?
I'm coming up, don't cut me down
Yeah I wanna be

[Verse 3]
Hey brother can you save my soul from the devil?
Say is it weird to like the way she wear her tights?
And is it rude to wear my shades?
Am I a freak because I love watching Mary? (Maybe)

Hey sister am I good enough for your heaven?
Say will your God accept me in my black and white?
Will he approve the way I'm made?
Or should I reprogram the programming and get down?

[Hook]

[Spoken Word]
Even if it makes others uncomfortable
I wanna love who I am
Even if it makes other uncomfortable
I will love who I am

[Breakdown: Erykah Badu]
Dance 'til the break of dawn
Don't mean a thing, so duh
I can't take it no more
Baby, we in tuxedo groove
Monae and E. Badu
Crazy in the black and white
We got the drums so tight
Baby, here comes the freedom song
Too strong we moving on
Baby there's melody
Show you another way
This joints for fight unknown
Come home and sing your song
But you gotta testify
Because the booty don't lie

No, no, the booty don't lie
Oh no, the booty don't lie

[Verse 4: Janelle Monae]
Yeah
Yeah, let's flip it
I don't think they understand what I'm trying to say

I asked a question like this
"Are we a lost generation of our people?
Add us to equations but they'll never make us equal.
She who writes the movie owns the script and the sequel.
So why ain't the stealing of my rights made illegal?
They keep us underground working hard for the greedy,
But when it's time pay they turn around and call us needy.
My crown too heavy like the Queen Nefertiti
Gimme back my pyramid, I'm trying to free Kansas City.

Mixing masterminds like your name Bernie Grundman.
Well I'm gonna keep leading like a young Harriet Tubman
You can take my wings but I'm still goin' fly
And even when you edit me the booty don't lie
Yeah, keep singing and I'mma keep writing songs
I'm tired of Marvin asking me, "What's Going On?
March to the streets 'cuz I'm willing and I'm able
Categorize me, I defy every label
And while you're selling dope, we're gonna keep selling hope
We rising up now, you gotta deal you gotta cope
Will you be electric sheep?
Electric ladies, will you sleep?
Or will you preach?"

Religion is bullshit, yes. But we humans seem to have an innate need for ritual for some things. Funerals are a way to cope with death, say goodbye, remember/honor someone, etc. I've been to funerals. Funerals aren't for the dead, and they aren't a bad thing.

iirc he is a scholar of JRR. He read a lot of it after the accident that killed his father and brothers and it helped him cope.

It would be correct to say that it's more complicated than that...

With the exception of the Tier 1 ISPs, who were able to use their market position to force everybody else to pay to peer with them, ISPs will generally pay for all traffic that leaves their network. There are no data caps for ISPs, they pay for usage and then take the average data costs and use that as part of their pricing determination for their customers.

Even aside from that though, due to contention (see @charliem's comment above) there simply isn't enough kit installed to cope with all users downloading as much as they can all at once. You could look at a single fixed cost gigabit line (lets say it costs $1024 pcm) as actually having a cost of 0.31c/gigabyte transferred, whether or not you actually use it. Extra data transfers over that line don't actually cost any more until you exceed the link capacity, then you have increased costs.

What your ISP is selling you is actually a share of a link. They don't have to charge for usage, but they have to pay for it regardless... all that changes is how they bill their customers. Since 1% of residential customers generate approx 90% of the traffic, it is a bit fairer to charge for usage, otherwise 99% of the customers are subsidising the 1% who generate most of the costs for the ISP.

That is true. But. Peak transfer speeds are not in any way linked to total amount of data downloaded over time. This is what i meant that data caps are artificial, designed for two purposes: to coax users to download less in hopes that it will help peak transfer rates (it will) but the main reason is just more profit.

Correct me if i'm wrong but ISPs do NOT have data caps in their contracts, it's flat rate as no one can predict the total amount of data transferred in n amount of time. Data caps belong to the 90s.when infrastructure couldn't cope with many users.

This is by no means universally true, and I doubt it's even universally true in the U.S.

Even in a world with no peering charges, if everyone starts downloading all the time then additional kit is required to cope with the increased peak bandwidth requirements. No ISP's have enough capacity for everyone to use all their bandwidth at once, the better ones are just closer.

Where did you get the idea that data transmission is free?

"Animal" in space story with a happy end, niiiice.
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(GoPro is coping RedBull marketing strategy: Support small independent projects with high fun factor. That's not bad.)

Well I don't know what else to say except my Dad died last July and, yeah, I had no clue how I was going to feel about it. I'm having trouble coping and I'm having trouble letting people know that I'm having trouble coping, which I'm sure isn't helping but I don't know how, except maybe telling some strangers on the Internet.