XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   On 1/22/2014 4:37 AM, J. Clarke wrote:   
   > In article <52df571a$0$52815$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>, dtravel@sonic.net   
   > says...   
   >> On 1/21/2014 7:46 PM, Greg Goss wrote:   
   >>> "John F. Eldredge"  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Several years back, something got royally screwed up in the Google Maps   
   >>>> database.  If I recall correctly, going from one particular town to   
   >>>> another in Scotland showed, correctly, a land trip of about 20 miles.   
   >>>> Going in the reverse direction showed a trip of several hundred miles,   
   >>>> passing through three different countries and involving two trips across   
   >>>> the North Sea.   
   >>>   
   >>> I forget whether it was Google Maps, or some predecessor mapping   
   >>> internet program, but I was once told to turn left from one car ferry   
   >>> onto another near Nanaimo.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> --   
   >> The 'Enterprise' crew in the 2009 Star Trek are adrenaline addicted,   
   >> hyper-active teenagers with ADD whose Ritalin got replaced with   
   >> methamphetamine, displaying a level of discipline that a Somali pirate   
   >> wouldn't tolerate.   
   >   
   > While searching for new material in your post I noted your sig.   
   >   
   > Replacing an ADDer's Ritalin with methamphetamine would make little   
   > difference in behavior--amphetamines are also effective treatments for   
   > ADHD. Desoxyn, which is FDA-approved for treatment of ADHD, is mostly   
   > methamphetamine.   
   >   
   > While I agree with your general assessment of the movie, as an ADDer I   
   > must protest the incorrect view of the effect of stimulant medications   
   > on those of us who have it.   
   >   
   Ya, I've had others point that out and I certainly don't mean to offend   
   real world suffers of ADD such as yourself.  But I also haven't figured   
   out a substitute for methamphetamine that would give the same message.   
   All the real world stuff that I've been told about that would actually   
   make it worse is stuff that uneducated John Q Public would think of as   
   calming agents.   
      
   As for the lack of a reply, I hit the send button by accident before typing.   
      
   Maybe "unmedicated hyper-active...."   
      
   --   
   The 'Enterprise' crew in the 2009 Star Trek are adrenaline addicted,   
   hyper-active teenagers with ADD whose Ritalin got replaced with   
   methamphetamine, displaying a level of discipline that a Somali pirate   
   wouldn't tolerate.   
      
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