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From: Conor on 17 Mar 2010 07:37 On 17/03/2010 10:03, Ret. wrote: > Conor wrote: >> On 16/03/2010 13:09, Ret. wrote: >> >>> What is *not* acceptable is for a carer/driver to park in a disabled >>> bay, and then go shopping while leaving the actual badge holder sat >>> in the car. >>> >> But it isn't against the rules. > > Yes it is: > No it isn't. I have a blue badge and I checked the booklet before making that post. Did you? I can post it word for word if you'd like. -- Conor I'm not prejudiced. I hate everyone equally.
From: Conor on 17 Mar 2010 07:39 On 17/03/2010 10:10, Ret. wrote: > It has nothing to do with intelligence Conor - it has everything to do > with the biological limitations of the human brain. Rubbish. I can put a RJ45 connector on CAT6 in about 15 seconds, almost without thought. I expect it'd take you a good few minutes concentrating extremely hard. -- Conor I'm not prejudiced. I hate everyone equally.
From: Conor on 17 Mar 2010 09:40 On 17/03/2010 12:05, ChelseaTractorMan wrote: > On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:42:52 +0000, Conor<conor(a)gmx.co.uk> wrote: > >> I can walk about 1/2 mile without pain normally. If I'm carrying >> anything, even a light 2kg bag, that reduces to about 50ft. > > this is back pain? No. Its pain down both legs, across my hips but the cause is in my lumbar. > If it is and there isn't a rock solid diagnosis > that it cannot be fixed (or is being fixed) try an osteopath If you > have not already), they can often make quite a difference to these > things, could make it half as bad or even totally inder control. There is a rock solid diagnosis. Basically because I've already had the two discs below the one thats now failed operated on, its inoperable. In the words of the neurosurgeon I saw 9 months ago: "Anyone who has a double open laminectomy at the age of 20 is going to have grief for the rest of their life." -- Conor I'm not prejudiced. I hate everyone equally.
From: Conor on 17 Mar 2010 13:53 On 17/03/2010 16:57, ChelseaTractorMan wrote: > On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:40:50 +0000, Conor<conor(a)gmx.co.uk> wrote: > >> There is a rock solid diagnosis. Basically because I've already had the >> two discs below the one thats now failed operated on, its inoperable. In >> the words of the neurosurgeon I saw 9 months ago: "Anyone who has a >> double open laminectomy at the age of 20 is going to have grief for the >> rest of their life." > > I have replied to your email address (I hope) Indeed you have. -- Conor I'm not prejudiced. I hate everyone equally.
From: Conor on 17 Mar 2010 13:56
On 17/03/2010 17:08, Ret. wrote: > Sorry Conor, you cannot escape from the simple fact that the human brain > is useless at multi-tasking: > Can you tie a shoelace whilst holding a conversation? Yes. > So Nass and his colleagues, Eyal Ophir and Anthony Wagner, set out to > learn what gives multitaskers their edge. What is their gift? > > "We kept looking for what they're better at, and we didn't find it," > said Ophir, the study's lead author and a researcher in Stanford's > Communication Between Humans and Interactive Media Lab. Here's a clue: They can do one of the tasks so well and have done it for so long that it requires little attention to complete. > June 07, 2004 > Brains Can Not Process Two Tasks In Parallel > Faced with two tasks to do at once the brain appears to switch back and > forth between them rather than thinking about them in parallel. > Agreed. See above. > In other words - when the brain is concentrating on auditory input > (mobile phone conversation), the ability to respond to visual stimulus > (something happening in the road ahead), is impaired. > Only to you. I seem to have little problem doing it. For example, take amateur radio. Whilst operating and having a conversation, I'm on the laptop filling in a log and finding out about the person I'm talking with. -- Conor I'm not prejudiced. I hate everyone equally. |