Wow, how do you migraine suffers live, day to day, knowing that at any second a brief glimpse of something might send you into spasms, black out, and need to spend years learning to read and write again?
The stress of knowing that could happen would, gosh, I dunno, give me a migraine or something.
That’s not “standard” for migraine sufferers. That is medically specific to Boo because she has a history of strokes.
While many hackers/pranksters/terrorists/scammers may believe the internet/cybernet is a relatively safe avenue to work and play globally, governmental trends in Europe and the United States have been steadily extending venue barriers and definition of more common criminal offenses.
In an effort to lay groundwork for the situation of this thread, I’ve pulled some information from, yes, the internet:
39-13-101. Assault.
(a) A person commits assault who:
(1) Intentionally, knowingly or recklessly causes bodily injury to another;
(2) Intentionally or knowingly causes another to reasonably fear imminent bodily injury; or
(3) Intentionally or knowingly causes physical contact with another and a reasonable person
would regard the contact as extremely offensive or provocative.
(b) Assault is a Class A misdemeanor unless the offense is committed under subdivision (a)(3),
in which event assault is a Class B misdemeanor.
39-13-102. Aggravated assault.
(a) A person commits aggravated assault who:
(1) Intentionally or knowingly commits an assault as defined in § 39-13-101 and:
(A) Causes serious bodily injury to another; or
(B) Uses or displays a deadly weapon; or
(2) Recklessly commits an assault as defined in § 39-13-101(a)(1), and:
(A) Causes serious bodily injury to another; or
(B) Uses or displays a deadly weapon.
39-13-103. Reckless endangerment.
(a) A person commits an offense who recklessly engages in conduct that places or may place
another person in imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury.
(b) Reckless endangerment is a Class A misdemeanor; however, reckless endangerment
committed with a deadly weapon is a Class E felony.
http://criminal.findlaw.com/crimes/a-z/assault_battery.html
Assault/Battery
In most states, an assault/battery is committed when one person 1) tries to or does physically strike another, or 2) acts in a threatening manner to put another in fear of immediate harm. Many states declare that a more serious or “aggravated” assault/battery occurs when one 1) tries to or does cause severe injury to another, or 2) causes injury through use of a deadly weapon. Historically, laws treated the threat of physical injury as “assault”, and the completed act of physical contact or offensive touching as “battery,” but many states no longer differentiate between the two.
http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/II/ICrimPrev.html
The notion `Internet crime’ might be interpreted in a number of ways. One is to limit it to new forms of crime that can be performed on the Internet. Another is to apply it not only to new forms of crime, but also to variants of existing crimes that are adapted into the Internet context. Finally, it might be used to encompass any criminal activity that involves use of the Internet.
In a recent interview, an Interpol specialist on networked computer crimes was quoted as saying that Interpol divides digital crime into three areas ( Ghosh 1997):
• computer crime, which includes piracy, data-theft and time-theft (computer break-ins);
• computer-related crime, which is mainly bank fraud—“what was a crime earlier with paper, but is now done with a computer,” as Takizawa says; and
• “network crime”: the use of the Internet for transactions that are already illegal—child pornography—or aid illegal activity—often involving the drug trade, customs evasion and money laundering.
This paper generally uses `Internet crime’ in the most open and inclusive sense of the term.
A remarkably wide range of criminal acts are capable of being performed using the Internet. Examples include:
• conspiracy;
• harassment;
• incitement;
• extortion;
• fraud, forgery and falsification;
• tax evasion;
• `computer crimes’ (e.g. harm to data); and
• particular forms of assault.
Some crimes are of limited relevance to the current context. For example, it is difficult to see how robbery, which involves access to a physical person, and break-and-enter offences, which involve access to physical premises, could be performed over the Internet. The notion of `property’ may, however, be undergoing change; for example, hacking is tending to be treated as a form of `data theft’.
Battery, manslaughter and murder would also seem not to be capable of being performed over the Internet. However, the connection to the Internet of computers with robotic capabilities, such as those performing control functions over industrial processes, dams, and critically ill patients, may see such crimes become feasible ( Clarke 1993).
As part of this project, a reference list of relevant laws in Australian jurisdictions has been collated.
Wow, how do you migraine suffers live, day to day, knowing that at any second a brief glimpse of something might send you into spasms, black out, and need to spend years learning to read and write again?
The stress of knowing that could happen would, gosh, I dunno, give me a migraine or something.
That’s not “standard” for migraine sufferers. That is medically specific to Boo because she has a history of strokes.
Yup, Tah’s right. There are certain things I have to avoid to minimise the chances of it happening again, but I know that it’s a minimisation, rather than a prevention. It’s very, very scary, to be honest.
You probably should have played the hero card as soon as you were dealt it. They tend to expire.
I think I was about 11, at the time “playing the hero card” would have meant having your own rocket ship and fighting space tyrants.
I myself regret not making more of a drunken train journey where in defence of a nice girl from my class we met I slew a ferocious and terrible bumble-bee that was terrorising the carriage.
Once, at work, I saw a whole room terrorized by a single wasp. After watching them cringe away and flap at it like a troop of bad Graham Norton imitators for about 5 minutes, I went over, raised my hand under it so that it would settle, blew gently on it to make it stay, walked to a window, opened it and calmly deposited it on the ledge outside (apart from mosquitoes, I don’t kill bugs if I can help it). The lone female sandwich student was well impressed, but I was married by then.
And what the hell kind of insult is ‘moose’?
A very old and childish one of (then) un-topped cruelty. It was to call someone ugly, stupid, smelly, fat and more in one go. And to a twelve-year-old asking someone he respects and admires to be his first serious girlfriend it is utterly, utterly crushing.
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That’s not “standard” for migraine sufferers. That is medically specific to Boo because she has a history of strokes.
Yup, Tah’s right. There are certain things I have to avoid to minimise the chances of it happening again, but I know that it’s a minimisation, rather than a prevention. It’s very, very scary, to be honest.
About 1 in 20 people get migraines, and all of them are at risk of migrainous stroke, but the individual probability is low. Once you’ve had one though, the chances of having another with a subsequent migraine increase dramatically. It’s principally caused by a restriction of blood flow around the brain, called brain ischaemia, and the best treatment is still not to have one[*].
I suffer from migraines too (as does my mother) and part of the information I was given on them warned me to watch for the symptoms of stroke after each incident, which is not what you want to read when you were expecting the doctor to prescribe you some stronger painkillers. For once, I really wished he had said “Take two aspirin and call me in the morning.”
[* Doctors used to prescribe either strong aspirin or mild barbiturates but I don’t think they still do.]
You probably should have played the hero card as soon as you were dealt it. They tend to expire.
I think I was about 11, at the time “playing the hero card” would have meant having your own rocket ship and fighting space tyrants.
I myself regret not making more of a drunken train journey where in defence of a nice girl from my class we met I slew a ferocious and terrible bumble-bee that was terrorising the carriage.
Once, at work, I saw a whole room terrorized by a single wasp. After watching them cringe away and flap at it like a troop of bad Graham Norton imitators for about 5 minutes, I went over, raised my hand under it so that it would settle, blew gently on it to make it stay, walked to a window, opened it and calmly deposited it on the ledge outside (apart from mosquitoes, I don’t kill bugs if I can help it). The lone female sandwich student was well impressed, but I was married by then.
And what the hell kind of insult is ‘moose’?
A very old and childish one of (then) un-topped cruelty. It was to call someone ugly, stupid, smelly, fat and more in one go. And to a twelve-year-old asking someone he respects and admires to be his first serious girlfriend it is utterly, utterly crushing.
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If you’d gotten the wasp with a spaceship there wouldn’t be a dry pair of knickers in the place.
And ‘moose’ sounds like a very childish insult. Not a very good one either.
About 1 in 20 people get migraines, and all of them are at risk of migrainous stroke, but the individual probability is low. Once you’ve had one though, the chances of having another with a subsequent migraine increase dramatically. It’s principally caused by a restriction of blood flow around the brain, called brain ischaemia, and the best treatment is still not to have one[*].
I suffer from migraines too (as does my mother) and part of the information I was given on them warned me to watch for the symptoms of stroke after each incident, which is not what you want to read when you were expecting the doctor to prescribe you some stronger painkillers. For once, I really wished he had said “Take two aspirin and call me in the morning.”
[* Doctors used to prescribe either strong aspirin or mild barbiturates but I don’t think they still do.]
Yup. It seems, sadly, that all the family migraine traits on both sides have funnelled down to me, leading to my having my first stroke at 13. Several other members of my family have experienced temporary neurological side-effects after migraines.
*sigh*
And that’s why this sort of prank upsets me so much, and why I react so emotionally to it.
On the positive side Boo and David, you are at the very least ‘aware’ of your condition and take precautions. What makes the prank here so heinous is that there are too many folks who, until viewing the site, were unaware of any kind of problem and may view it just to ‘see’ what the raucous is about. That’s a very real and present danger to the unwary.
If you’d gotten the wasp with a spaceship there wouldn’t be a dry pair of knickers in the place.
Ah, that’s where I was going wrong! I was trying for the “so one with nature, even bees and wasps adore him” effect when I should have gone down the “I am Flash-Fry Gordon, see me toast this hideous creature with my ‘lightswatter’!” route.
If you’d gotten the wasp with a spaceship there wouldn’t be a dry pair of knickers in the place.
Ah, that’s where I was going wrong! I was trying for the “so one with nature, even bees and wasps adore him” effect when I should have gone down the “I am Flash-Fry Gordon, see me toast this hideous creature with my ‘lightswatter’!” route.
That would have been pretty awesome you must admit.
Although you’d have to be a good shot. Otherwise you might miss the wasp and swat somebody’s arm off.
On the positive side Boo and David, you are at the very least ‘aware’ of your condition and take precautions. What makes the prank here so heinous is that there are too many folks who, until viewing the site, were unaware of any kind of problem and may view it just to ‘see’ what the raucous is about. That’s a very real and present danger to the unwary.
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