"You know, normally, I'm a law-abiding citizen. And I was about to get on the bus to go to church and then my volunteer job when the desire to throw molotov cocktails at random buildings just came over me. I tell you, something in the air that night made me want to loot several armfuls of Nikes from that shoe store down the street too. Kind of wacky, huh? Call it the zeitgeist, I guess," said one of the noble oppressed.
Oh god, please tell me that the screen can at least tolerate a small amount of mustache wax and that its alarms won't interfere with the warm sound of my vinyl records!!
People think he's the citizenry's friend because he occasionally backs some civil liberties bill that he knows will never pass anyway. In reality, his only real masters are the rich & powerful. He just tosses the occasional meaningless symbolic bone to the public to pretend he isn't just another Republican. "Here, I'll back this civil liberties bill that I know has no chance of ever passing, so you won't notice that my REAL agenda is just abolishing taxes on the wealthy and letting corporations do whatever the fuck they want to this country."
In the end, nothing good ever comes from mixing science and religion. You may agree with what he says today, but will you be okay tomorrow when he comes out attacking the ethics of medical schools teaching doctors how to perform abortions?
Putting aside the debate on climate change, I agree that a religious figure has no business opining on science issues (and vice versa). It's irrelevant whether he's on the right or wrong side of an issue--science and religion should never mix.
Your comment shows a stunning lack of imagination of how thing can and will change.
It's not a lack of imagination to acknowledge reality and point out that the university is doing a disservice to its students by leading them to think that all engineering work involves feel-good projects that feed starving kids.
Imagination not tempered with reality isn't a noble thing, it's just delusion. If your brother tells you he's going to devote his life to catching the Loch Ness monster, you're not showing a lack of imagination when you smack him upside the head and tell him that's a fucking stupid idea.
I am sorry unless you have hard evidence of a major and specific conspiracy that everyone of your students participated in you CANT fail an entire class. The reality is there was probably a few students who are innocent or whose infractions don't justify an automatic failing grade
The reality is that this professor sounds like a paranoid wackjob. This doesn't sound like a case of student entitlement. It sounds more like the case of a professor who's mentally ill and probably has a long history of this sort of behavior. I knew a few of these sorts back in university, though none as bad as this guy. The university couldn't get rid of them because they had tenure. And students dreaded having to take them because they knew that they would have to deal with all sorts of insane behaviors.
I had one nutjob prof who would throw a temper tantrum like a three-year-old and storm out of class if one student showed up late. Nevermind if the late student had a great excuse, nevermind that this unfairly punished the 30 students who showed up on time, nevermind that this motherfucker had a JOB to do and said job *wasn't* to act like a petulant child...nope, Senor Egomaniac had to have his moment in the drama-queen spotlight. And he was equally erratic in everything else he did. You would turn in two papers of equal quality and one would come back with an A+ one week and the other would come back all marked up with red ink with a D grade the next week. And you never knew what might set him off. Students quickly learned to shut the fuck up and NEVER ask questions in class. But then he would get pissed because we WEREN'T asking questions. We finally learned to just parrot his own views back to him with praise whenever he asked for student input.
More likely it will lead to a generation of very disappointed and disillusioned engineers, who find that real world engineering is VERY different from the kind of engineering their university taught them was the norm.
I'm wondering what happens to these women AFTER their feel-good-engineering courses are over and they graduate. If the university taught them that engineering is all about saving the world, they're going to be in for a pretty rude awakening when they hit the job market and find out that there are very few jobs available that involve world-saving (and the few that do exist are mostly filled by volunteers or pay absolute shit). Not to mention that corporations and agencies are going to have to deal with an annoying influx of new engineers who think that any project that doesn't build wells in Africa is beneath them.
I got a newsbreak for you, kid: grandpa doesn't ever die. The next generation just BECOMES grandpa. Every generation starts out more liberal and open-minded, and ends up more conservative and bitter. I can remember when my generation was against The Man too. And one day in the future the same millennials who are protesting in Ferguson and supporting Snowden now will be bitching about the leftie protestors and voting for Republicans.
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"You know, normally, I'm a law-abiding citizen. And I was about to get on the bus to go to church and then my volunteer job when the desire to throw molotov cocktails at random buildings just came over me. I tell you, something in the air that night made me want to loot several armfuls of Nikes from that shoe store down the street too. Kind of wacky, huh? Call it the zeitgeist, I guess," said one of the noble oppressed.
It's the manager who's TOO engaged.
Not to mention the fact that this news is REALLY going to piss off my grandfather in heaven.
Oh god, please tell me that the screen can at least tolerate a small amount of mustache wax and that its alarms won't interfere with the warm sound of my vinyl records!!
A very small part of me wants to see a Rand Paul / Hillary Clinton contest.
Wow, talk about the epitome of a lose/lose situation. But then, all elections pretty much are.
People think he's the citizenry's friend because he occasionally backs some civil liberties bill that he knows will never pass anyway. In reality, his only real masters are the rich & powerful. He just tosses the occasional meaningless symbolic bone to the public to pretend he isn't just another Republican. "Here, I'll back this civil liberties bill that I know has no chance of ever passing, so you won't notice that my REAL agenda is just abolishing taxes on the wealthy and letting corporations do whatever the fuck they want to this country."
No, we have two parties here:
1) The rich & powerful
2) Everyone else
But since #1 always wins, it's an easy mistake to make.
He's only the friend of the rich and powerful. Don't kid yourself.
It just requires a little more "reworking."
In the end, nothing good ever comes from mixing science and religion. You may agree with what he says today, but will you be okay tomorrow when he comes out attacking the ethics of medical schools teaching doctors how to perform abortions?
Putting aside the debate on climate change, I agree that a religious figure has no business opining on science issues (and vice versa). It's irrelevant whether he's on the right or wrong side of an issue--science and religion should never mix.
Somewhere is the ocean probably. Happy?
Your comment shows a stunning lack of imagination of how thing can and will change.
It's not a lack of imagination to acknowledge reality and point out that the university is doing a disservice to its students by leading them to think that all engineering work involves feel-good projects that feed starving kids.
Imagination not tempered with reality isn't a noble thing, it's just delusion. If your brother tells you he's going to devote his life to catching the Loch Ness monster, you're not showing a lack of imagination when you smack him upside the head and tell him that's a fucking stupid idea.
I am sorry unless you have hard evidence of a major and specific conspiracy that everyone of your students participated in you CANT fail an entire class. The reality is there was probably a few students who are innocent or whose infractions don't justify an automatic failing grade
The reality is that this professor sounds like a paranoid wackjob. This doesn't sound like a case of student entitlement. It sounds more like the case of a professor who's mentally ill and probably has a long history of this sort of behavior. I knew a few of these sorts back in university, though none as bad as this guy. The university couldn't get rid of them because they had tenure. And students dreaded having to take them because they knew that they would have to deal with all sorts of insane behaviors.
I had one nutjob prof who would throw a temper tantrum like a three-year-old and storm out of class if one student showed up late. Nevermind if the late student had a great excuse, nevermind that this unfairly punished the 30 students who showed up on time, nevermind that this motherfucker had a JOB to do and said job *wasn't* to act like a petulant child...nope, Senor Egomaniac had to have his moment in the drama-queen spotlight. And he was equally erratic in everything else he did. You would turn in two papers of equal quality and one would come back with an A+ one week and the other would come back all marked up with red ink with a D grade the next week. And you never knew what might set him off. Students quickly learned to shut the fuck up and NEVER ask questions in class. But then he would get pissed because we WEREN'T asking questions. We finally learned to just parrot his own views back to him with praise whenever he asked for student input.
More likely it will lead to a generation of very disappointed and disillusioned engineers, who find that real world engineering is VERY different from the kind of engineering their university taught them was the norm.
I'm wondering what happens to these women AFTER their feel-good-engineering courses are over and they graduate. If the university taught them that engineering is all about saving the world, they're going to be in for a pretty rude awakening when they hit the job market and find out that there are very few jobs available that involve world-saving (and the few that do exist are mostly filled by volunteers or pay absolute shit). Not to mention that corporations and agencies are going to have to deal with an annoying influx of new engineers who think that any project that doesn't build wells in Africa is beneath them.
said every writer at Wired.
I suppose you think we all still wear bowler hats and say 'what ho Jeeves'?
I'm not ignorant. I know it's "tally ho" not "what ho."
Aye, as long as I can still get piss drunk at the pub, beat me bitch wife, and spit on an Englishman, then I'm alright with it!
It's nice to know that money can't always buy government representatives all the time.
Just give them a little more time.
2017 headline: Time-Warner/Comcast merger approved by a last-minute, late night amendment to the Veterans Administration funding bill.
Netflix, Amazon, Sling
Possibly Google, Apple, anyone else?
All of humanity and the angels in heaven too, I imagine.
I would say it was a match made in hell, but even hell would never stoop THAT low.
They just need to regroup, figure out who to buy off, and do it again.
What the fuck kind of commie bullshit country has this become where an honest, hardworking corporation can't bribe his own Congress?
I got a newsbreak for you, kid: grandpa doesn't ever die. The next generation just BECOMES grandpa. Every generation starts out more liberal and open-minded, and ends up more conservative and bitter. I can remember when my generation was against The Man too. And one day in the future the same millennials who are protesting in Ferguson and supporting Snowden now will be bitching about the leftie protestors and voting for Republicans.
I wonder if she's still lobbying for more H1B's to fill all those piles of unfilled jobs that Yahoo supposedly has.