alan_cx

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Used to have an entry here, but it got used against me by someone playing the player and not the ball. So, best say nothing. Bummer, aye?
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Comment · 9 years ago
UK too.
Comment · 10 years ago
Simply scroll down and:

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Comment · 10 years ago
Me too, and I still miss it.
Comment · 10 years ago
No idea about research, but my youngest first started playing with a smart phone at about 9 months. Yes, really.

After about a month he could unlock it and launch games. Soon progressed to finding YouTube videos of preschool songs for the alphabet, colours, shapes, etc. He is now 5, and can happily search google for things like mine craft hacks, which he can easily apply, and his current hobby is installing old skool operating systems on Oracle VM. His current favorite sound is the Win 95 start up sound....

He has now got a reading age of about 13, so for example he can read a broadsheet newspaper with out help, he can type anything, but is only just learning to write with a pen. But even that is now happening super quick. He started learning to write 9 months ago and had caught up with his class.

Just by my experience, I'd give them devices as soon as possible, but perhaps remember to get them writing as well.

Why didnt we take care of making sure he could also write? Frankly piss poor parenting on our part.

Comment · 10 years ago
No. Its everything to do with common human empathy. Does that has nothing to do with the US?
Comment · 10 years ago
Oh, just workers rights, human rights, safety regulations, that sort of thing...
Comment · 10 years ago
If that were to happen, I would suggest that an artificial "soul" could or would be created. Once you have that on your hands, things being to get interesting. Ethics, religion law, and so on will have one hell of a job on their hands. Especially when you consider that there would be immediate and obvious military applications.
Comment · 10 years ago
Reading your initial comment, its very hard to believe that. It reads like someone who only believes one side of the narrative.
Comment · 11 years ago
Why? Its an angry comment, but its what very many think. Don't we listen in order to understand that which we don't understand? Is only one view allowed?

15 years of this war on terror, and we have this. Something isn't working, something needs to change. I'd suggest that flagging people we don't like the sound of is one of those things we need to change.

Comment · 11 years ago

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