The school still has every right to direct what he teaches at thier institution. If they don't want him teaching that, he should stop. After all, he works for them. The fact that he is a professor does not eliminate the fact that he has a superior he is supposed to listen to. This isn't government censorship, this is simply a case of a man wanting to disobey his boss.
I've never understood why people consider this kind of action by a university or other group to be so terrible. He is using the school's computer, in the school's building, with the school's internet connection. If the school sends someone to ask him not to do something specific with those things, then his reaction should be, "Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize. I'll stop now." The school has every right to do so. They also have the right to ask him not to cover the topic in the class. These are the people paying his salary, and if they don't want this going on, they can tell him to stop.
This isn't a major issue. It's not like the government is passing laws banning the use of the software for use in the US. That would be absolutely wrong. All he is standing up for is his right to be insubordinate to his superiors.
I believe we should be allowed to use the TOR software. But using it in my home, with my connection, on my computer (all of which _I_ paid for) is a completely different story than using it at work.
This is what I don't get about dark matter, and this is just how I see it, and no one has ever given me a decent explanation. Why is it that scientists think that dark matter exists simply because the observed galaxies don't conform to Newton's Laws? Wouldn't a simpler solution be to take a step back and consider that, maybe, Newton's Laws are flawed? I am not trying to disprove dark matter, I certainly am no cosmologist, but it just seems odd that so much attention is given to dark matter, and very little is given to competing theories, such as MOND (Modified Newtonian Dynamics), that to me, at least, make more sense.
My basic point is, from a layman's perspective, dark matter just sounds like something physicists pulled out of thin air to explain something they don't understand. Your observations don't make sense? Well, throw in some dark matter and we're good!
Can someone explain to me why dark matter is the prevalent theory? Or perhaps why something like MOND is always ignored? As I said, I don't know what is right, but it just seems like a hack-job to me.
Oh, right. It's a contrary opinion.
Now this, this post right here that you are reading, could be a troll.
But not the parent.
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Uh. No shit? That statement is meangingless. As if anyone on a presidential cabinet is not a "puppet". Come on. It doesn't matter who the president is, or whether you agree with them or not; anyone on a presidential cabinet is going to be a puppet to the president.
Are you implying that, say, William Cohen was NOT Clinton's puppet? I find that absurd.
I'm not a fan of Rummy or Bush, but I find your rhetoric without merit. If you are trying to knock Bush or Rumsfeld, then you have failed. Try using a statement with meaning, rather than attempting to degrade with useless buzzwords that apply across the board.
Or do you honestly believe that Rumsfeld was the ONLY member of a cabinet to be a "puppet"?
Am I really the only one who cares about the fact that Lenovo is a company that is essentially owned by the Chinese Government? They make some damned fine computers, yes, but I'm just not willing to fork over my money to fund a communist regime. It just seems silly to me, let's fund the country that is on the precipice of becoming the next communist superpower. Sweet.
I was at Trinity on @Home, but this was back in 2000. It was a great job, but i eventually got fired for ,
"Thank you for calling AT&T @Home Technical Support, Please Hold"
"Thank you for holding... Please hold"
And so on...
If you are being paid 7 an hour for "L1 tech support", you are probably deluded into thinking you are doing something hard. We L2 people used to laugh at the L1 people who called themselves "support". They were customer service, nothing more. All they did was have people unplug their modem, plug it back in, if that didn't work they sent them to us.
It was customer service, nothing more. No need for higher pay for that.
I went from tech support to delivering pizza. Pizza delivery actually pays pretty well. I averaged $12-15 an hour (with tips and gas factored in), as opposed to 10.50 an hour. Granted, this was when gas was $1-$1.25.
It's funny, i remember all of us drivers standing around bitterly complaining about having to pay $1.35 for gas. Damn that was high;)
Ask anyone who does Tech Support and they will tell you they are underpaid.
I used to work for a tech support sourcing company (Stream), doing level 2 support for @Home, cable modems before it disbanded into tthe seperate cable companies like Comcast, ATT, etc. I had three weeks of training, and got paid $10.50 an hour. It really wasn't bad pay for a kid just out of high school with no formal training.
If you had asked me after doing it for 6 months I, and most everyone else working there, would have said we were underpaid. Tech support really can be stressing and frustrating. Tech support people tend to get this attitude of, "These people need me, I should get paid a lot more". But really, 10.50 was great pay for a kid in my situation. I wouldn't do it for 7 an hour, though.
And you can live pretty well in india for under 5 bucks an hour.
I rely on my Palm for all sorts of things. Primarily just keeping organized, GPS, and a book reader. When i (thought) I had lost my old one a few months back I went out to get another. No retailers carry the things in quantity anymore, and they are hard as all hell to find where they are displayed. One place I went actually had them in a cage underneath a counter, no display or anything.
While a smartphone is fine for most, i believe in the general thought that if you take 2 things and combine them, you wind up with 2 inferior things in one. A bulky, annoying phone, and a small-screened pda.
It may be possible to break it into chunks, but that may or may not be a good thing. Depends on the size of the chunks. If it really large, then we would still have a bunch of large, albeit relatively smaller asteroids hit us, and it wouldn't change the fact that we are f*ed.
Also, diverting a large one into an ocean would still cause problems, probably just as bad as it hitting on land. You wouldn't have the immediate devastation of thouands of square miles of land, but the impact would still create a tidal wave going in every direction that would destroy many many coastal cities around the world. Plus, it would still throw incredible amounts of debris and dust into the atmosphere like it would if it landed on land. Water isn't much of a deterrant to a massive asteroid.
We are basicly screwed if we detect a huge asteroid with little to no notice.
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. . . but Achewood predicted this.
In the arc's defense, the robot did dress up his hair like Pete Rose.
The school still has every right to direct what he teaches at thier institution. If they don't want him teaching that, he should stop. After all, he works for them. The fact that he is a professor does not eliminate the fact that he has a superior he is supposed to listen to. This isn't government censorship, this is simply a case of a man wanting to disobey his boss.
I've never understood why people consider this kind of action by a university or other group to be so terrible. He is using the school's computer, in the school's building, with the school's internet connection. If the school sends someone to ask him not to do something specific with those things, then his reaction should be, "Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize. I'll stop now." The school has every right to do so. They also have the right to ask him not to cover the topic in the class. These are the people paying his salary, and if they don't want this going on, they can tell him to stop.
This isn't a major issue. It's not like the government is passing laws banning the use of the software for use in the US. That would be absolutely wrong. All he is standing up for is his right to be insubordinate to his superiors.
I believe we should be allowed to use the TOR software. But using it in my home, with my connection, on my computer (all of which _I_ paid for) is a completely different story than using it at work.
This is what I don't get about dark matter, and this is just how I see it, and no one has ever given me a decent explanation. Why is it that scientists think that dark matter exists simply because the observed galaxies don't conform to Newton's Laws? Wouldn't a simpler solution be to take a step back and consider that, maybe, Newton's Laws are flawed? I am not trying to disprove dark matter, I certainly am no cosmologist, but it just seems odd that so much attention is given to dark matter, and very little is given to competing theories, such as MOND (Modified Newtonian Dynamics), that to me, at least, make more sense.
My basic point is, from a layman's perspective, dark matter just sounds like something physicists pulled out of thin air to explain something they don't understand. Your observations don't make sense? Well, throw in some dark matter and we're good!
Can someone explain to me why dark matter is the prevalent theory? Or perhaps why something like MOND is always ignored? As I said, I don't know what is right, but it just seems like a hack-job to me.
I'm sorry I hurt your feelings. I think, with time, you will get over it.
Oh, right. It's a contrary opinion. Now this, this post right here that you are reading, could be a troll. But not the parent. _____________________ Think. Then type.|
"Bush has a new puppet"
Uh. No shit? That statement is meangingless. As if anyone on a presidential cabinet is not a "puppet". Come on. It doesn't matter who the president is, or whether you agree with them or not; anyone on a presidential cabinet is going to be a puppet to the president.
Are you implying that, say, William Cohen was NOT Clinton's puppet? I find that absurd.
I'm not a fan of Rummy or Bush, but I find your rhetoric without merit. If you are trying to knock Bush or Rumsfeld, then you have failed. Try using a statement with meaning, rather than attempting to degrade with useless buzzwords that apply across the board.
Or do you honestly believe that Rumsfeld was the ONLY member of a cabinet to be a "puppet"?
Am I really the only one who cares about the fact that Lenovo is a company that is essentially owned by the Chinese Government? They make some damned fine computers, yes, but I'm just not willing to fork over my money to fund a communist regime. It just seems silly to me, let's fund the country that is on the precipice of becoming the next communist superpower. Sweet.
I was at Trinity on @Home, but this was back in 2000. It was a great job, but i eventually got fired for , "Thank you for calling AT&T @Home Technical Support, Please Hold" "Thank you for holding... Please hold" And so on...
"Are your servers down, or did someone spill beer on my modem last night?" Seriously.
If you are being paid 7 an hour for "L1 tech support", you are probably deluded into thinking you are doing something hard. We L2 people used to laugh at the L1 people who called themselves "support". They were customer service, nothing more. All they did was have people unplug their modem, plug it back in, if that didn't work they sent them to us. It was customer service, nothing more. No need for higher pay for that.
I went from tech support to delivering pizza. Pizza delivery actually pays pretty well. I averaged $12-15 an hour (with tips and gas factored in), as opposed to 10.50 an hour. Granted, this was when gas was $1-$1.25. It's funny, i remember all of us drivers standing around bitterly complaining about having to pay $1.35 for gas. Damn that was high ;)
Ask anyone who does Tech Support and they will tell you they are underpaid. I used to work for a tech support sourcing company (Stream), doing level 2 support for @Home, cable modems before it disbanded into tthe seperate cable companies like Comcast, ATT, etc. I had three weeks of training, and got paid $10.50 an hour. It really wasn't bad pay for a kid just out of high school with no formal training. If you had asked me after doing it for 6 months I, and most everyone else working there, would have said we were underpaid. Tech support really can be stressing and frustrating. Tech support people tend to get this attitude of, "These people need me, I should get paid a lot more". But really, 10.50 was great pay for a kid in my situation. I wouldn't do it for 7 an hour, though. And you can live pretty well in india for under 5 bucks an hour.
I rely on my Palm for all sorts of things. Primarily just keeping organized, GPS, and a book reader. When i (thought) I had lost my old one a few months back I went out to get another. No retailers carry the things in quantity anymore, and they are hard as all hell to find where they are displayed. One place I went actually had them in a cage underneath a counter, no display or anything. While a smartphone is fine for most, i believe in the general thought that if you take 2 things and combine them, you wind up with 2 inferior things in one. A bulky, annoying phone, and a small-screened pda.
pffft... who needs english, i'm never going to england.
It may be possible to break it into chunks, but that may or may not be a good thing. Depends on the size of the chunks. If it really large, then we would still have a bunch of large, albeit relatively smaller asteroids hit us, and it wouldn't change the fact that we are f*ed.
Also, diverting a large one into an ocean would still cause problems, probably just as bad as it hitting on land. You wouldn't have the immediate devastation of thouands of square miles of land, but the impact would still create a tidal wave going in every direction that would destroy many many coastal cities around the world. Plus, it would still throw incredible amounts of debris and dust into the atmosphere like it would if it landed on land. Water isn't much of a deterrant to a massive asteroid.
We are basicly screwed if we detect a huge asteroid with little to no notice.
Arthur = Edward Norton. He can be so blah... think of him in fight club all depressed.