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"Inside Job" alleges that Frederic Mishkin was paid $135,000 by the previous Icelandic regime to lie in a report about how sound the Icelandic economy was. It is interesting to see how defensive he becomes while being interviewed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5msVl3oZl4U

"Mishkin was confirmed as a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve on September 5, 2006 to fill an unexpired term ending January 31, 2014. On May 28, 2008, he submitted his resignation from the Board of Governors, effective August 31, 2008, in order to revise his textbook and resume his teaching duties at Columbia Business School." from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Mishkin#Career

I really like the part where his textbook is more important than his job at the Federal Reserve. I trust this guy. Really.

Now it looks like other Universities are taking disclosure seriously: http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2011/04/13/inside-job-prompts-new-look-conflict-interest-policy. Which may be why UT is floating its witches with its ducks now. Which coincidentally makes me happy.

Since its premiere this semester, only one iPod Shuffle has been sold. Four, however, have been stolen.

Whoever came up with this idea should be fired, bankrupted and exiled.

Dude, you think sentences of that construction are hard to follow? "Christopher, the son of Samuel L. Jackson, has never been more effeminate, and is now poised to win the local drag queen competition." I don't need to take that sentence to an editor to know there's nothing wrong with it.

Why not, you ask? Because back in the day, I myself was a managing editor of the Columbia Daily Spectator , the undergraduate student newspaper of Columbia University. Prior to that, I had scored a 1600 on the SAT and an 800 on the SAT-II Writing. Big whoop. Honestly, nobody gives a flying fuck about these things, and I only bring them up because I noticed you'd done likewise, you say, in order to feed a "troll" (i.e., me). Fuck you very much.

What are all these comments about 'science' being demonstrated by provable theories/laws/etc? A quick search of the posts revealed not one mention of Godel's Incompleteness Theorem. If that theorem does not give one pause for thought, then one is profoundly ignorant. It's impact? Well:

a) NOT everything that is true is provable. There might be a God and that God may well have designed the universe. A scientist might poo-poo the concept as a religious loop hole. But a scientist should also know that there will be non-God related truths that will not be provable. Will those be poo-poo'ed as well? Or are those acceptable because there aren't religious overtones?

b) Arguments that we get unforeseen complexity without design are flawed. The complexity is unforeseen, but simple experiments suggest that there is design i.e. the simple intial rules. There have to be some rules and where did those come from? The source may be undeterminable from within this system (universe).

Most posts seem to be a knee-jerk reaction against religion. But religion, philosophy, and science cannot help but be profoundly intertwined. Anyone who has excelled in any of those fields knows this.

Rather than condemn Intelligent Design off-hand, read about it. Think about it. (Can you see where it's roots are? Maybe Aristotle , Aristotle
.) Then at least you can condemn it intelligently.

The Columbia University i2hub network got shut down by the MPAA, after some exec at the MPAA (an alumnus) read about Columbia's i2hub network in an editorial in the Columbia student newspaper. So perhaps you can ultimately blame the **AA's awareness of copyright infringement on i2 on some dopey student editorial I can't find that article from the Columbia Spectator online anymore, but here is a foreboding article from March 29 that is in some ways a follow-up to that other article:

Subpoena throws i2hub security into doubt

Interesting excerpt...

If the subpoena identifies i2hub as the file-sharing software that the Columbia student employed, it would mark the first time the RIAA had detected copyright infringement over i2hub.

Because the first i2 user to be subpoenaed was a Columbia student, this lends evidence to the notion that it was through Columbia, or at least because of Columbia that the **AA did its dirty work. Several more students here have been sued

yeah but After recent crackdowns at Columbia and Princeton , i2hub users might twice about the use of the P2P Direct Connect hub. With letter's of intent to subpoena having been received at several other universities including Carnegie Mellon, many questions are being raised targeting the source of the crackdown. How did the RIAA gain access to a Internet2 connection. Are universities cooperating in the access. How will the long hidden Direct Connect community respond?

When was the last time you heard of a Democratic initiative?

The draft?

As in the Columbia Spectator...

The OSCE was actually invited by the State Department (unlike the attempted invitation of the United Nations by Democrats in the House) and has observed elections in the US before, such as during the 2002 mid-terms and the California gubernatorial race. Indeed, the former Bush, in 1990, signed the Copenhagen Document which stated that signers (such as the US) may "invite observers from any other [OSCE] participating States ... to observe the course of their national election proceedings."

That brown-nosing, third-rate rag is indeed published by a crew of smug bastards, the smuggest and most bastardly of whom have comprised the managing boards of the past several years. However, curiosity compels me to ask: What caused you to undertake this Google-bombing campaign?

It's not just on farms, either. Did you hear about this ("Teachers College Student Dies in Freak Accident," Columbia Daily Spectator)?

Apparently almost 300 objects carrying stray current--metal grates, service boxes, even lamp poles--have been identified around the city since this article was written. IIRC, there was even 120 volts found to be running through a lamppost one block from Times Square. This according to the NYT.

Just another thing to consider as you walk to work tomorrow...

yours

I'm studying at Columbia University, and (surprise surprise) this is starting to become a big issue here too. There have been a number of articles about it in the school newspaper over the past few months. One pretty scary statistic they quoted is that "a recent study by the National Association of College Stores found that the amount the average New York college student pays for textbooks has increased 41 percent in the last five years". (emphasis mine)

[Link to article in Columbia Spectator]

One thing that's sprouted recently at Columbia is a direct student-to-student text exchange service, which basically cuts out middlemen and shipping times/costs. I've found that it works great due to the tiny size of the Columbia campus and lack of afforable off-campus housing (hey, it's NYC) - virtually everyone using the service is within walking distance, making transactions a breeze. I've managed to save a fair bit of cash each semester thanks to it.

[Link to DogEars site]

Columbia has also declined to ban Napster. The campus press published a story about it. The staff editorial of the day was in favor of not banning Napster, but there was a dissenting piece also.
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Columbia has also declined to ban Napster. The campus press published a story about it. The staff editorial of the day was in favor of not banning Napster, but there was a dissenting piece also.
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Columbia has also declined to ban Napster. The campus press published a story about it. The staff editorial of the day was in favor of not banning Napster, but there was a dissenting piece also.
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Columbia has also declined to ban Napster. The campus press published a story about it. The staff editorial of the day was in favor of not banning Napster, but there was a dissenting piece also.
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Columbia is refusing to give in as well, saying:

"Columbia University supports academic freedom and individual responsibility and does not preemptively review or monitor the contents of the files of its faculty, students, or staff that are accessible on the University network. ... The University also does not block the use of any particular method of communicating or transferring information such as ftp, http, Napster, gnutella, e-mail, web drives, irc, etc., all of which can be and are used for legitimate communication and file exchange""

Isn't it nice when administrators actually get it?
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