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Level: 15 Posts: 5/41 EXP: 16078 Next: 306 Since: 08-17-14 Last post: 3302 days Last view: 1618 days |
Well, I might as well get a little active. I haven't known many people here, so it'll be interesting to see what'll be asked. |
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Super Koopa Level: 58 Posts: 276/842 EXP: 1499929 Next: 77617 Since: 07-31-14 Last post: 309 days Last view: 309 days |
Do you like adult content? |
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Miracles Happen When you believe... Level: 256 Posts: 2031/25311 EXP: 270526135 Next: 1597292 Since: 07-16-12 From: Albany, NY OS: Windows 98 Last post: 359 days Last view: 359 days |
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Level: 15 Posts: 6/41 EXP: 16078 Next: 306 Since: 08-17-14 Last post: 3302 days Last view: 1618 days |
Posted by Tierage No. Posted by Dani Yep. My theme is boss. |
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pancakes Level: 84 Posts: 726/1870 EXP: 5547623 Next: 114329 Since: 01-05-12 From: France Last post: 40 days Last view: 40 days |
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Level: 15 Posts: 7/41 EXP: 16078 Next: 306 Since: 08-17-14 Last post: 3302 days Last view: 1618 days |
Acmlmboard seems to put unwanted space after my h3 tag for some reason.
EDIT: It's fixed. |
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Super Koopa Level: 58 Posts: 277/842 EXP: 1499929 Next: 77617 Since: 07-31-14 Last post: 309 days Last view: 309 days |
Who owns LifeMushroom's Lair? |
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Unspecificed Cooling Off Period. Be Safe Bisexual Empress of the Stolen Title? Level: 143 Posts: 5877/6751 EXP: 35724606 Next: 107202 Since: 07-17-13 Last post: 3420 days Last view: 3327 days |
Why don't you like adult content? ____________________ Sunshine Realm Welcome to Aqmlm's, the only board with Al-Aq'mlmistrators! |
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Level: 15 Posts: 8/41 EXP: 16078 Next: 306 Since: 08-17-14 Last post: 3302 days Last view: 1618 days |
Posted by Tierage Nobody knows. Posted by Squiddy Because I'm not an adult. +1 for logic |
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Koopa Level: 24 Posts: 25/112 EXP: 70854 Next: 7271 Since: 02-11-15 From: Bowling Green, KY Last post: 3489 days Last view: 3447 days |
When does one really become an adult? |
LifeMushroom |
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Level: 15 Posts: 10/41 EXP: 16078 Next: 306 Since: 08-17-14 Last post: 3302 days Last view: 1618 days |
Neuroscientists now know that brain maturation continues far later into development than had been believed previously. Significant changes in brain anatomy and activity are still taking place during young adulthood, especially in prefrontal regions that are important for planning ahead, anticipating the future consequences of one’s decisions, controlling impulses, and comparing risk and reward. Indeed, some brain regions and systems do not reach full maturity until the early or mid-20s. Should this new knowledge prompt us to rethink where we draw legal boundaries between minors and adults?
Maybe, but it’s not as straightforward as it seems, for at least two reasons. First, different brain regions and systems mature along different timetables. There is no single age at which the adolescent brain becomes an adult brain. Systems responsible for logical reasoning mature by the time people are 16, but those involved in self-regulation are still developing in young adulthood. This is why 16-year-olds are just as competent as adults when it comes to granting informed medical consent, but still immature in ways that diminish their criminal responsibility, as the Supreme Court has noted in several recent cases. Using different ages for different legal boundaries seems odd, but it would make neuroscientific sense if we did it rationally. Second, science has never had much of an influence on these sorts of decisions. If it did, we wouldn’t have ended up with a society that permits teenagers to drive before they can see R-rated movies on their own, or go to war before they can buy beer. Surely the maturity required to operate a car or face combat exceeds that required to handle sexy movies or drinking. Age boundaries are drawn for mainly political reasons, not scientific ones. It’s unlikely that brain science will have much of an impact on these thresholds, no matter what the science says. … Children are so variable in their growth and the ways in which cultures understand child development are so different, it is futile to attempt to pin down the “right” age of majority. The Dutch, for example, allow children to drink at the age of 16 but not to drive until they are 19. Even if I thought it was a good idea to lower the drinking age and raise the driving age — and I do — I recognize that the U.S. would never embrace it. We should require all 18-year-olds in America to leave home and give a year to society, either in the military or in community-based projects. I am more concerned with the issue of maturity than I am with the technical age of majority. Researchers and observers have noted that while our children are getting brighter (I.Q. scores have been going up for the last two decades), they are relatively immature for their ages in comparison to earlier generations. Over-protected by their parents and spending vast amounts of time in front of TV, computers and cellphones (over 50 hours a week by middle adolescence, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation), they are less skilled in the world, less able to build friendships and function in groups, and more reliant on their parents. Instead of fiddling with the age of majority, we should encourage our children to grow up, and mandatory service would do just that. We should require all 18-year-olds in America to leave home and give a year to society, either in the military or in community-based projects like tutoring younger children or working in retirement homes or the inner city. The result would be a cohort of more mature 19-year-olds who would make better workers and better citizens. |
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Super Koopa Level: 58 Posts: 287/842 EXP: 1499929 Next: 77617 Since: 07-31-14 Last post: 309 days Last view: 309 days |
Where did you copypaste that from? |
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Level: 15 Posts: 11/41 EXP: 16078 Next: 306 Since: 08-17-14 Last post: 3302 days Last view: 1618 days |
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/30/when-do-you-become-an-adult/ |
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Super Koopa Level: 58 Posts: 288/842 EXP: 1499929 Next: 77617 Since: 07-31-14 Last post: 309 days Last view: 309 days |
Are you ever going to become an adult yourself? |
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Koopa Level: 24 Posts: 32/112 EXP: 70854 Next: 7271 Since: 02-11-15 From: Bowling Green, KY Last post: 3489 days Last view: 3447 days |
Money or power? |
LifeMushroom |
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Level: 15 Posts: 13/41 EXP: 16078 Next: 306 Since: 08-17-14 Last post: 3302 days Last view: 1618 days |
Posted by Tierage It'll be a lot more years, so we'll have to stick around and find out. Posted by Database Money. |
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Super Koopa Level: 58 Posts: 292/842 EXP: 1499929 Next: 77617 Since: 07-31-14 Last post: 309 days Last view: 309 days |
Are you going to act like an adult when you become one? |
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Unspecificed Cooling Off Period. Be Safe Bisexual Empress of the Stolen Title? Level: 143 Posts: 5893/6751 EXP: 35724606 Next: 107202 Since: 07-17-13 Last post: 3420 days Last view: 3327 days |
For dinner, do you like copypasta or creepypasta? ____________________ Sunshine Realm Welcome to Aqmlm's, the only board with Al-Aq'mlmistrators! |
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Koopa Level: 24 Posts: 42/112 EXP: 70854 Next: 7271 Since: 02-11-15 From: Bowling Green, KY Last post: 3489 days Last view: 3447 days |
How many members do personally connect with? |
LifeMushroom |
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Level: 15 Posts: 14/41 EXP: 16078 Next: 306 Since: 08-17-14 Last post: 3302 days Last view: 1618 days |
Posted by Tierage Nope! Posted by Squiddy copypasta ftw Posted by Database None. |
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