Publish your evidence. Scan the letter and put it on a web site. Put a recording of the threat up on Youtube.
I'm not saying these scientists are lying, but I'm fucking fed up with serious accusations being made without evidence. And if you're telling the truth but you're too scared to pipe up because you want to put your career first (even though all your efforts will be in vain), you're part of the problem.
Ah, OK, so you're speaking from a position of complete ignorance about how academia works, and just making shit up to prove a point. Well done. Did you know capitalists ALL eat puppies for breakfast? Every last one. I read it somewhere on echo-chamber-for-my-worldview.com.
And no one is "policing" you, ya paranoid little crybaby. You can say "nigger" as much as you want. But political correctness means you have to take responsibility for your actions, and that includes responsibility for the speech you choose to utter. And if you behave like a cunt, you'll be treated like a cunt.
Which apparently is worse than lynching. Because deliberately nasty people shouldn't have their feelings hurt - only the targets of nastiness. Do you want me to kiss that swastika tattoo better, baby? Are you feeling all oppressed because nobody listens to your crackpot ideas? Aww:(.
Now get off the government-created Internet, you useless leech!
I played a few months ago, and it was nothing like that. Most rares and a lot of common legendaries were worth fuck all on the AH, and nobody bought them.
if you want a good chance to have your funding approved either you are a hotshot with a big name or you say what politically correct people want to hear
Ahahahahah, OK, I get it, you're annoyed that you can't get funding to promote your bullshit, and like a whiny teen, you're going to blame it on THE MAN being against you. It's not your fault, fred. It's not that you lack ability or are just too lazy. It's that THE SYSTEM is against you:(. Awww baby.
"Political correctness" is bigotry in its purest form.
OK, buddy. Lynching is a less pure form of bigotry than wanting people not to go around saying "nigger". Gotcha.
For example if you point in a study even with a considerable amount of evidence that women are in average worse in ANY given task you can say bye bye to your academic funding.
That's simply not true. You will lose funding if you come up with bullshit reasoning to further your agenda, but as long as your methodology is sound, you'll be fine. A lot of crappy pseudo-academics and incompetent researchers lose their shit and blame the system when they come up with bullshit and the community don't buy it, but that's another matter.
For example, I was just reading a 2007 study by Prof. Thomas on racial bias in jurors. It showed that ethnic minority jurors were more likely to be racist than white jurors in specific cases. Far from ending her career, the innovative and well-argued report has fed back both into the academic community and into the English justice system.
nd exactly because it is true that is the only thing you can say about my statement. You can't really find such differences, mainly because they do not exist.
No, it's because "newspeak" is using duplicitous words for things, whereas "political correctness" means avoiding bigotry and rudeness. It's like saying you'd be hard pressed to find the difference between chocolate and aeroplanes, and then tlling telling me my argument is weak when I don't detail the differences.
I really want to not use a "cloud device" at school at all. And certainly not as a substitute for real textbooks, which I like to feel and scrawl on and hold open at awkward angles.
And I say that as someone who brought a Psion palmtop computer to school when everyone else was still on pen+paper and thought me a dork for doing so.
It certainly has a lot to do with punishments, and in many many ways. It ends careers, kicks people from jobs, punishes children in schools
Wait a moment - you're saying that being impolite can affect your professional and academic prospects? Well, isn't that news!
and even puts people in jail as in this case.
Arresting someone for making shooting motions has nothing to do with political correctness and everything to do with fucked up US gun culture and the kneejerk response.
One would be hard pressed to find
Typing "one would be hard pressed to" isn't even close to evidence.
I've seen a private dentist nearly every time. And NHS dentists are just private businesses with an NHS contract, where the payments are shared between you and the government. Recent changes to payment structure have encouraged dentists to do slapdash NHS work, but even that's a symptom of the profession - contrast my GP, who already appreciates that he's well-paid, and actually spends his time maximising his productivity rather than squeezing out every last penny.
I read this article on some self-absorbed 'reason' site (any time a site explicitly describes itself with words like "reason"/"logic/"truth", you can take them as seriously as a site which uses phrases like "the way""the path"/"the light") about how common hypothesis testing is ALL WRONGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG - never mind how in practice it confirms well enough the intended outcome.
Are there any good dentists in the UK? I used to think it was some antiquated stereotype that British people have poor dental health, but I've honestly never found a good dentist in the UK. And some of my dullest schoolchums went on to be dentists, eradicating confidence I might otherwise have in the profession's standards.
Fuck the "property holders", seriously. The equipment is there to produce, people are willing to produce, yet someone arbitrarily assigned the privilege to restrict others' behaviour is not letting production happen.
Political correctness is institutionalised politeness.
It rarely has anything to do with "punishment", though certainly ostracising might be involved - you know, like the ostracising this idiot deserves for being a dork waving his iPhone around "shooting" people. Although merely having an iPhone might be sufficient.
Capitalism has failed everywhere where it was tried. Most remaining capitalists are people of low intelligence.
FTFY. Or, more accurately, very impure variants of both capitalism and communism have been tried in various places - communism barely at all, and capitalism kind of - and both have ended up in every case with mixed economies.
I've lived through a depression caused by an oil crisis, if you're referring to the late '70s? I also experienced some of the final decade of a contemporary dictatorship, being half Spanish. Since then I've done business from the US to the Philippines - mostly selling accountancy support software, of all things. My mother was a high-up at Datsun, and used to visit Japan and the USSR from time to time - so I've got quite a few second hand accounts of your arch-nemesis, too. (This is why it cracked me up to read a comparison between '70s Britain and the USSR - no one's usually that stupid.)
I had an Trotskyite phase when I'd memorise Marx, and a Maggie phase where I even went around quoting Rand - but never had much time for Hayek, as the man lacks a consistent basis for his philosophy, handwaving that economic knowledge necessarily lies in the minds of the many. If you want me to re-read a kids' book, I'll have to wait until it's next time to babysit some of the younger family members:).
Because South Korea is Thatcherite, while North Korea is a social democracy, right?
Of course, if you're going to use metrics as stupid as "amount of wasted light energy", I'm not sure what you're even doing on a geek site.
You win the prize for the least bright person I've ever had an on-going conversation with on Slashdot. Thanks for giving me a little extra bit of Saturday evening entertainment:).
Devoid of argument, you're using hand-waving labels and pathetic playground insults to substitute for an argument. It must really suck to live a life combining religious adherence to a failed selfish ideology and bouts of emotional anger. I feel genuinely sorry for you.
Would you like a hug? You're human, and I love you as much as any of us deserve to be loved.
Eh, there was loads written about the "myth of full employment" in the late '70s and early '80s. I have a thesis by my uncle sitting opposite. Increased efficiency simply means fewer people are required to do what society demands. Jobs are always created and destroyed, but similar jobs tend *not* to replace them - you have an increasingly unskilled casual labour force of a sort which wouldn't have been dreamt of in the couple of decades post-WW2.
Very few jobs are required. You're probably a useless chair-warmer, as are most of the people on this site. The post is accurate.
And nobody "has" to innovate - we could just make do with a lot less, still live in unprecedented comfort, and work a few hours a week.
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And who in their right mind is going to do that, when they could get paid to do something else?
This, pretty much. People who only do things for money will want as much money as they can get.
People who are doing it for love don't really care about the money.
This is just another bunch of leechy entrepreneurs wanting something they can collect an eternal cut from.
Publish your evidence. Scan the letter and put it on a web site. Put a recording of the threat up on Youtube.
I'm not saying these scientists are lying, but I'm fucking fed up with serious accusations being made without evidence. And if you're telling the truth but you're too scared to pipe up because you want to put your career first (even though all your efforts will be in vain), you're part of the problem.
Ah, OK, so you're speaking from a position of complete ignorance about how academia works, and just making shit up to prove a point. Well done. Did you know capitalists ALL eat puppies for breakfast? Every last one. I read it somewhere on echo-chamber-for-my-worldview.com.
And no one is "policing" you, ya paranoid little crybaby. You can say "nigger" as much as you want. But political correctness means you have to take responsibility for your actions, and that includes responsibility for the speech you choose to utter. And if you behave like a cunt, you'll be treated like a cunt.
Which apparently is worse than lynching. Because deliberately nasty people shouldn't have their feelings hurt - only the targets of nastiness. Do you want me to kiss that swastika tattoo better, baby? Are you feeling all oppressed because nobody listens to your crackpot ideas? Aww :(.
Now get off the government-created Internet, you useless leech!
I played a few months ago, and it was nothing like that. Most rares and a lot of common legendaries were worth fuck all on the AH, and nobody bought them.
if you want a good chance to have your funding approved either you are a hotshot with a big name or you say what politically correct people want to hear
Ahahahahah, OK, I get it, you're annoyed that you can't get funding to promote your bullshit, and like a whiny teen, you're going to blame it on THE MAN being against you. It's not your fault, fred. It's not that you lack ability or are just too lazy. It's that THE SYSTEM is against you :(. Awww baby.
"Political correctness" is bigotry in its purest form.
OK, buddy. Lynching is a less pure form of bigotry than wanting people not to go around saying "nigger". Gotcha.
You're an idiot.
For example if you point in a study even with a considerable amount of evidence that women are in average worse in ANY given task you can say bye bye to your academic funding.
That's simply not true. You will lose funding if you come up with bullshit reasoning to further your agenda, but as long as your methodology is sound, you'll be fine. A lot of crappy pseudo-academics and incompetent researchers lose their shit and blame the system when they come up with bullshit and the community don't buy it, but that's another matter.
For example, I was just reading a 2007 study by Prof. Thomas on racial bias in jurors. It showed that ethnic minority jurors were more likely to be racist than white jurors in specific cases. Far from ending her career, the innovative and well-argued report has fed back both into the academic community and into the English justice system.
nd exactly because it is true that is the only thing you can say about my statement. You can't really find such differences, mainly because they do not exist.
No, it's because "newspeak" is using duplicitous words for things, whereas "political correctness" means avoiding bigotry and rudeness. It's like saying you'd be hard pressed to find the difference between chocolate and aeroplanes, and then tlling telling me my argument is weak when I don't detail the differences.
I really want to not use a "cloud device" at school at all. And certainly not as a substitute for real textbooks, which I like to feel and scrawl on and hold open at awkward angles.
And I say that as someone who brought a Psion palmtop computer to school when everyone else was still on pen+paper and thought me a dork for doing so.
Self-censor speech = deciding not to run through a carnival shouting that everyone is a nigger cunt.
Self-censor actions = deciding not to go around raping everyone.
Oh god, you're right, this whole "self-censorship" thing is totally unreasonable.
Measuring "efficiency" in terms of number of days not lost to strikes is incredibly fucking retarded, like you.
You could also outlaw strikes entirely, like in the USSR, and claim a 100% efficient labour market.
See, idiot? See how stupid your reasoning is now?
It certainly has a lot to do with punishments, and in many many ways. It ends careers, kicks people from jobs, punishes children in schools
Wait a moment - you're saying that being impolite can affect your professional and academic prospects? Well, isn't that news!
and even puts people in jail as in this case.
Arresting someone for making shooting motions has nothing to do with political correctness and everything to do with fucked up US gun culture and the kneejerk response.
One would be hard pressed to find
Typing "one would be hard pressed to" isn't even close to evidence.
"I'd much rather have my rich daddy buy my own."
FTFY. Slashdot's rather unrepresentative of society.
I've seen a private dentist nearly every time. And NHS dentists are just private businesses with an NHS contract, where the payments are shared between you and the government. Recent changes to payment structure have encouraged dentists to do slapdash NHS work, but even that's a symptom of the profession - contrast my GP, who already appreciates that he's well-paid, and actually spends his time maximising his productivity rather than squeezing out every last penny.
I read this article on some self-absorbed 'reason' site (any time a site explicitly describes itself with words like "reason"/"logic/"truth", you can take them as seriously as a site which uses phrases like "the way""the path"/"the light") about how common hypothesis testing is ALL WRONGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG - never mind how in practice it confirms well enough the intended outcome.
FTFY.
"I am old and comfortable now, and can't bear the thought of progress, because it might disturb my cosy and protected corner of the world."
Are there any good dentists in the UK? I used to think it was some antiquated stereotype that British people have poor dental health, but I've honestly never found a good dentist in the UK. And some of my dullest schoolchums went on to be dentists, eradicating confidence I might otherwise have in the profession's standards.
Fuck the "property holders", seriously. The equipment is there to produce, people are willing to produce, yet someone arbitrarily assigned the privilege to restrict others' behaviour is not letting production happen.
Political correctness is institutionalised politeness.
It rarely has anything to do with "punishment", though certainly ostracising might be involved - you know, like the ostracising this idiot deserves for being a dork waving his iPhone around "shooting" people. Although merely having an iPhone might be sufficient.
Capitalism has failed everywhere where it was tried. Most remaining capitalists are people of low intelligence.
FTFY. Or, more accurately, very impure variants of both capitalism and communism have been tried in various places - communism barely at all, and capitalism kind of - and both have ended up in every case with mixed economies.
I've lived through a depression caused by an oil crisis, if you're referring to the late '70s? I also experienced some of the final decade of a contemporary dictatorship, being half Spanish. Since then I've done business from the US to the Philippines - mostly selling accountancy support software, of all things. My mother was a high-up at Datsun, and used to visit Japan and the USSR from time to time - so I've got quite a few second hand accounts of your arch-nemesis, too. (This is why it cracked me up to read a comparison between '70s Britain and the USSR - no one's usually that stupid.)
I had an Trotskyite phase when I'd memorise Marx, and a Maggie phase where I even went around quoting Rand - but never had much time for Hayek, as the man lacks a consistent basis for his philosophy, handwaving that economic knowledge necessarily lies in the minds of the many. If you want me to re-read a kids' book, I'll have to wait until it's next time to babysit some of the younger family members :).
"we"
Because South Korea is Thatcherite, while North Korea is a social democracy, right?
Of course, if you're going to use metrics as stupid as "amount of wasted light energy", I'm not sure what you're even doing on a geek site.
You win the prize for the least bright person I've ever had an on-going conversation with on Slashdot. Thanks for giving me a little extra bit of Saturday evening entertainment :).
Devoid of argument, you're using hand-waving labels and pathetic playground insults to substitute for an argument. It must really suck to live a life combining religious adherence to a failed selfish ideology and bouts of emotional anger. I feel genuinely sorry for you.
Would you like a hug? You're human, and I love you as much as any of us deserve to be loved.
I and about 100 other posters in this thread disagree with you. How about reading it?
You're the one with the odd viewpoint not backed up by evidence to justify the costly change.
Eh, there was loads written about the "myth of full employment" in the late '70s and early '80s. I have a thesis by my uncle sitting opposite. Increased efficiency simply means fewer people are required to do what society demands. Jobs are always created and destroyed, but similar jobs tend *not* to replace them - you have an increasingly unskilled casual labour force of a sort which wouldn't have been dreamt of in the couple of decades post-WW2.
Very few jobs are required. You're probably a useless chair-warmer, as are most of the people on this site. The post is accurate.
And nobody "has" to innovate - we could just make do with a lot less, still live in unprecedented comfort, and work a few hours a week.
"never"
Never?
"someone has to innovate"
Has to?
You sound religious.