Admendment #1 which made English the only language to be used in state communications I lost. It when 93/7 for in my county. Now you can't even have state Internet websites or forums in any language other than English. Boo.
I lost on a couple other propositions as well. Oh well.
Gud, I voted against Amendment #1, but I knew it would lose.
I voted for light rail too (year and a half in KC without a car REALLY changed my perspective) but not too surprised it lost. Again. And again. Le sigh.
Everything else went the way I voted.
And let me say, I hated judges on the ballot. I thought I'd educated myself pretty well, but I knew NOTHING about the judges. They don't even put their party affiliation, if any, on the ballot.
My county was 78% Democratic. I was getting Move On and Democratic e-mails that obviously just filled in the county in a national script. They said things like "DeKalb County will go for McCain if you don't act now" and I was thinking "so the temperature is dropping in hell?"
I voted for light rail too (year and a half in KC without a car REALLY changed my perspective) but not too surprised it lost. Again. And again. Le sigh.
That's a tough sell in KC with the lack of population density. I do not envy anyone without a car in KC, this is not a carless friendly city.
Intentional action and Asperger Syndrome
Do people with Asperger Syndrome understand intentional actions in a different way than people without Asperger Syndrome? Edouard Machery, a philosopher of psychology and an experimental philosopher in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, says they do:
I'm not gonna post the whole thing, even though it's just a few more paragraphs. But according to this, people with aspergers see the second case differently from people who don't.
Continuing my long tradition of being a fence-sitter, I can see the second case both ways, but the supposed aspie way makes more sense to me.
Trudeau submitted strips for this week that assumed Obama would win the presidency, and apparently some papers balked at running them.
I was shocked that the Boston Globe (which did run the appropriate Mon and Tue strips) ran the re-run strip yesterday. Luckily, Slate has the daily Doonesbury.
I'm not gonna post the whole thing, even though it's just a few more paragraphs. But according to this, people with aspergers see the second case differently from people who don't.
I don't understand the example they provided at all. Which I guess makes me kinda dumb.
Heh. Rahm Emanuel is pictured holding paczki on his wikipedia page. Which will always make me think of Steph.
I don't understand the example they provided at all. Which I guess makes me kinda dumb.
The second example, I initially felt the same way. Actually, I felt the question was dumb (that it didn't make any sense). But since I was sure it would provide Important Psychological Insights, I pressed on... to where I could see either way of looking at it....
The clerk told the dude that the biggest size was now an extra dollar. He gave the clerk the dollar to get the biggest size. How in any way could this not be intentional? The dollar magically went from his wallet to the clerk's hand?
The clerk told the dude that the biggest size was now an extra dollar. He gave the clerk the dollar to get the biggest size. How in any way could this not be intentional? The dollar magically went from his wallet to the clerk's hand?
The other way of looking at is, the buyer doesn't care that it's an extra dollar. All he cares is that he wants the biggest size. So then he hands her the amount of money required for the large size. Or he hands her a ten and she gives him the appropriate change. The thing is, he decides to do the transaction (not caring about the change in cost) and then the transaction automatically follows.
OK, I'm not explaining it well. But it makes more sense in my head if he just hands her a ten or twenty, and lets her deal with the change.
