Moonlapse

Well, it will have to be done anyways for security reasons.

Its a bug in this version of Invision, apparently the fix is to upgrade to the newest version of Invision, which will bring on another wave of new bugs and problems I'll have to setup a test forum to carry out a test upgrade so it may be a week or two before this particular problem is fixed.

I'll check into it!

Get some rest and give it a few days.

Adolescence was still a well-defined (psychological) concept prior to child labor laws. The name for the concept was "Youth", which was distinct from childhood and full adulthood. Again, while the legal rights of adolescents (or 'youth') has varied over centuries, there is clearly recognizable adolescent behavior going back to the ancient world. If we think about it a little, I'm sure people can dig up good Roman references to the risk-taking, sexual exploration, and rebellion of young people who were becoming adults (whether their parents and society liked it or not). Off the top of my head, I recall one of Cicero's Philippics chastising Antony for his adolescent escapades with Curio. In the Greek comedies, there is also a terrific scene depicting young lovers being interrupted by three old hags; a scene that would be situationally identical to the horror of finding your grandmother's friends flirting with your teen boyfriend via MySpace. Yes, this is obvious, but its not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about a sociological/psychological classification which arose in the late 19th/early 20th century to describe dependent, institutionalized young adults who are prevented from participating in adult life. Adult life had started in the teens up until this point. Of course there are similarities between young adults of antiquity and adolescents of today, that's common sense. The difference is that young adults of antiquity were engaged in business and family, whereas adolescents of today are prevented from doing so and exist as a physically mature (or maturing) person in the same dependent and submissive situation that they have been in from birth. Adolescents are old children, created by arbitrary social and legislative limitations. Some people never mature out of adolescence.

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You tell 'em, NN! -- Nephele (Who wonders whether Moonlapse is ever going to let her 'gram him...) Hey, I finally got around to reading this thread! (I've had several days off) Do you still have my array of assorted alpha-characters? I'll have to look around for a good kiddie picture....

Here's an interesting synopsis of Hall's 'Adolescence.' http://www.wier.ca/~daniel_schugurensky/as...1/1904hall.html Before this, adolescence as we think of it was not a defined concept, children became adults at ages much younger than we think of as 'adult' today.

I'm not sure if you are referring to the biological or conceptual aspect. This is from Elwood P. Cubberley's (Stanford's Dean of Education and Houghton Mifflin textbook editor) book 'The History of Education' page 475, published in 1920: I'll refrain from contradicting every point made in the paragraph.

High five!

Nice job. Keep it up.

Absolutely. Adolescence as we know it has only existed for about a century, out of countless years of human existence. However, childhood and dependency has been artificially prolonged far in our adulthood for social reasons and people should be aware of the consequences of changing things like this. I wouldn't say that kids should be suddenly unhindered, but the limitations set in place over the last 100 years should be gradually reversed. The biggest obstacle is our school system, just take a look at how quickly people became adults before the Civil War and scientific social control. If anyone wants to understand the current situation, read Adolescence by Granville Stanley Hall (an important figure in American education and psychology) first published in 1904. That comment from Philosopher King is ironic: Petitio principii at its best. Apparently this person learned about credit cards but not about common sense. Everyone learns the hard way, the earlier the better. The best way to avoid causing yourself harm is to learn to avoid it as early as possible. Children are better equipped to learn and adjust to these things than a 20-something year old adolescent. Teenagers don't understand repercussions because they have been insulated from responsibility.

There's a problem in every subject, not just geography. But at least these people are socially conditioned, right?

You have to have a special talent to make that kind of deadpan nonsense.

Actually, I would be willing to believe that methane levels have more of an effect on temperature than CO2 generated by cars (if everyone stopped driving, it would have little effect on CO2 production). Increases in CO2 at this point have a very weak effect because most of the wavelengths that react with CO2 are already being absorbed, which is why he have a habitable (and relatively stable) climate to begin with. I think the article is crap though, because it really doesn't tell me anything.

Don't forget about the Martian genocide.

All I ask of anyone concerning global warming is this: Please don't try to fix it by giving regulatory power over energy to unelected supranational groups.

How can you live a full life if you never go hungry? Anyone here who has lived on $0.10 ramen or has attempted to make a meal out of old condiments can tell you how much more savory good food is forever afterwards.

I've disabled the Amazon ads until their ad server is working correctly. Apparently the ad will prevent the page from loading if it can't load itself. I'm working on some way to prevent this from happening again.

It's specifically Russell's opinion that I'm curious about. However, I would like to read another 'survey.' Thanks for the pointer, I'll head that direction.

VTC seems to be in need of some help.

That is great. Well done!

Best wishes!

Holding a beer in one hand and a pizza with the other. Yeah, that would be masterful. ...which I happen to be having for dinner! Perhaps this is a sign that I should photograph naked women.