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Re:Autistic huh?
From techdirt and other places on the net:
Creepy Professor Excuses Upskirt Picture-Taking With Creepy Excuse (Stupidity)
by Timothy Geigner from the seriously-creepy dept on Friday, September 27th, 2013 @ 5:33PMhttp://www.alligator.org/news/campus/article_cd4e3456-2315-11e3-9d20-0019bb2963f4.html
Don Samuelson's attorney can now claim the autism defense:)
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Re:I am attending Western Washington University as
It is, unfortunately, a pissing match that is all the higherups care about. What brings a school money? Students? Naaah. GRANTS bring the school money, for engineering -- And maybe that's only so true because at UF (where I attend for CS), tuition is dirt cheap. It's gone up like... 40% since I started, I think? and is still like $150/cr. And what brings grants? Research and papers and publications and. . .
I've had more mediocre professors at UF than great ones, by far. In the CS department, there's been one good prof, one great prof (He even posts on here, actually...), and one OUTSTANDING -
the polices action prevented civil discourseAnyone with the ability to actually read a situation would see the same. You're deliberately pretending that this was a simply conversation between a concern citizen and John Kerry completely outside of the context of what the forum was for to shore up a weak argument that has no basis in the actual reality of the situation. He was abusing the mike during a Q&A to put forth an agenda, and he behaved poorly when he was asked to do what he was given the mike for and when he was cut off by the moderators. End of story.
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The law usually weighs on the balance of allowing an activity that benefits the community to continue. This is a fine example of it doing so. Kerry's opening statement: "To make sure that is really is a dialogue, I'm gonna try to shorten my comments up front and see if we can't lengthen the amount of time that you all get to ask some questions."
The official position of the host of the event is that the microphone was cut due to use of profanity, but you can listen carefully to the video I already provided to see and hear that no profanity was used.
Also, the host and the police are both saying that they're "not it" when it comes to initiating the removal of the student.
The university does not think that this is a fine example of allowing an activity to continue, their official position is that civil discourse and dialog did not occur, and that this is regretfull for them. They will review their protocols, which they wouldn't do if they were confident that they were clear of any wrongdoing. -
DarkWatch Viral Marketing
At my school (UF) students have been hired to chalk the sidewalks with DarkWatch's logo in order to promote interest in the game.
"Attack! Marketing kicked off a week-long guerilla-marketing campaign Monday for its new first-person shooter video game, Darkwatch."
I'm not sure how much interest some chalk on the sidewalk garnered for the game, but the subsequent article in our free student newspaper surely grabbed attention from the geek crowd -
Re:Things like this will destroy the American econSoon enough American students will not be exposed to scientific methodologies and theory because of the complains of Christian fundamentalists.
It's already happening. This article is about a new law in Florida which has been passed by committee. That law, if put into effect, would allow students in Florida universities sue their professors if their professors teach things that the student doesn't believe in.
This quote from the article quotes Representative Baxley, the sponsor of the bill.
"Some professors say, 'Evolution is a fact. I dont want to hear about Intelligent Design (a creationist theory), and if you dont like it, theres the door,'" Baxley said, citing one example when he thought a student should sue.
Other select quotes :
Rep. Dan Gelber, D-Miami Beach, warned of lawsuits from students enrolled in Holocaust history courses who believe the Holocaust never happened.
Similar suits could be filed by students who dont believe astronauts landed on the moon, who believe teaching birth control is a sin or even by Shands medical students who refuse to perform blood transfusions and believe prayer is the only way to heal the body, Gelber added.
The way things seem to be going, religious nutcases will be the end of the US, one way or another.
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I beg to differKahle makes the following statement:
"We live in an open society in which the concept of widespread knowledge is embraced as a goal of governance,"
Maybe in the overall big picture that is true but in the current political environment that statement is most certainly not true.
The current administration has done and continues to do everything in its power to suppress the flow of knowledge and information. Witness the recent suppression of an EPA-funded study conducted by Harvard which found that the recent changes to rules regarding mercury emissions from U.S. power plants would have health benefits 100 times as great as the EPA said it would .
Why the difference? Because according to the EPA and the Bush administration, more stringent controls would cost too much to industry compared to the public health benefit. Thus the analysis was stripped from the final report even though the findings of the analysis were used in a briefing by the EPA to the Washington Post on February 2nd.
Even outside the administration the flow of knowledge is under attack. Witness the current effort by the Florida legislature to pass legislation which would allow students to sue professors who the students claim were punishing the students for their beliefs. Included would be a situation when a professor challenges a student to explain their theories by using the Socratic method. In other words, simply state you have a belief but you don't have to provide any evidence or rationale to support this belief.
Let us not forget the fiasco in my home state where Intelligent Design is being taught alongside Darwinian Evolution as a valid scientfic theory.
Along those same lines, this very site posted a story yesterday about some IMAX theaters not showing a film because it contained references to evolution.
While Kahles overall sentiment is correct the current political environment is not conducive to the flow of knowledge and won't be for a fairly substantial time.
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Re:I don't get it
If you were a criminal who carries assault rifles, are you going to support the man who is the strongest supporter of executions?
It has been shown in several studies that executions don't lead to lower crime. If criminals don't respond to the presence or lack of the death penalty, why should they care if the candidate supports or opposes the death penalty. It is not like any president are going to change the state or federal laws on the matter in the near future anyway.
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Re: UF SG
Obviously you haven't experienced UF's amazing one-party (oops...unified) student government system. The opposition party, whose name changes every year, usually gets 1 or 2 seats out of about 70 (last election they didn't grab a one) because of stuff like this
This SG also thinks Sugar Ray is the hot new thing resulting in the lamest Gator Growl ever. We've still got football...er...damn! -
WatcH OUT
I have CAPITAL LETTERS and I am NOT AFRAID to USE THEM.
Seriously though. The university isn't taking responsibility for the content being distributed or downloaded: it's just blocking all uses of peer-to-peer applications, even those which aren't illegal; what it's saying, in effect, is that using the school's bandwidth for filesharing applications is no longer permitted. That, of course, raises a different set of questions: what about the student musician or filmmaker who wants to distribute his work to an audience larger than that which he can find on campus, but lacks the means -- or the desire -- to go through normal channels? (Or what about the distribution of uncopyrighted works in general, really -- peer-to-peer does have legally and morally legitimate uses. The editorial mentions this.)
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online acticles from UF's Alligator about Icarus
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online acticles from UF's Alligator about Icarus
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online acticles from UF's Alligator about Icarus
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online acticles from UF's Alligator about Icarus
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Re:Eric should be more careful
When did America become this country of limp wristed wussies
Probably at about the same time Dr. Elders was fired as surgeon general for her comments on masturbation.
I think we have strayed from the teachings of Devo:
When a problem comes along
You must whip it
Before the cream sits out too long
You must whip it
When something's going wrong
You must whip it
now whip it
into shape
shape it up
get straight
go forward
move ahead
try to detect it
it's not too late
to whip it
whip it good
When a good time turns around
You must whip it
You will never live it down
Unless you whip it
No one gets their way
Until they whip it
I say whip it
Whip it good -
New Tech Circus Acts I'd like to seeNew Tech Circus Acts I'd like to see:
- Bill Gates taming a cage full of disgruntled sysadmins
- Bearded Lady Carly Fiorina
- That Dell Guy walking a tight rope of firewire, and fall to his demise
- Larry Ellison sword swallowing act
- Steve Ballmer's team doing the "elephant walk", Fraternity style
- All dotcom/dotbomb boneheads getting shot from a cannon
- Bill Gates taming a cage full of disgruntled sysadmins
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Re:Forget vaccuming.. how about mowing the lawn?Those have been around for thirty years and have been regularly featured in Popular Mechanics or plans in Popular Electronics. At least the controllers have gotten cheaper. A Google search for robotic lawn mower finds several hits:
The most popular design uses X-Acto type blades spring-loaded around the edge of a spinning disk. Cuts grass but spring back against the disk if it hits something more substantial...like shoe leather. Some designs try to detect the edge of uncut grass while others just bop around randomly.
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Re:Forget vaccuming.. how about mowing the lawn?
Well, UF developed one, but I can't say that it's snazzy and such... Plus university students rarely produce mass quantities of such a device...
But, I'm not giving up hope. No, for there is a company once mighty in just matters of the chainsaw... now they too have the mower for nerds.. is now we turn to Husqvarna!
Now if they'd only make a robotic chainsaw too...