You should take the sibling's advice and try to eBay it. Just see how much a spam-free hotmail account goes for. Of course, no guarantees it'll stay spam-free after going up for auction.
Anyone else notice that the slashdot abstract was a barely reworded copy of the author's abstract? C'mon, guys, get your acts together. Either put it in quotes and leave it or write your own for real.
This isn't unique in science. A history PhD can have his degree revoked if he later is found to plagerize work. It's because plagerism and falsifying data are considered such unacceptable behavior in academia that no one can trust someone found guilty of it. Because of that they don't want someone so discredited in the community walking around still trying to pass themselves off as a credible PhD in their field.
Slightly similar, someone at my undergraduate institution was found guilty of falsifying data on their Biology thesis. The punishment was no degree, a detailed explanation on their transcript, and a letter to their current employer to the same effect. Guaranteed that they were immediately fired and can't find another job in science again because they can't be trusted to provide accurate data.
Even within a city speed varies by post office. I used to live in the next town over, which didn't have its own office but was served by two post offices in Dallas. It took at least two extra days usually more for the mail to be sorted and delivered to us. Now I live in Dallas proper under a completely different post office and get mail significantly faster. Of course, I also now have a postman who expects a tip on Christmas.
Unfortunately, the character limit on sig's made me sacrifice info on the quote in order to keep it there. In case you're wondering, it roughly translates to, "That was just a prologue; there, where they burn books, they also burn people in the end." Heinrich Heine said that in 1820 (though some sources say 1821). I think it's really interesting because it's a little more than 100 years before the Nazis came to power and started burning books. And we all know what they did to people in the end.
Aren't you overreacting a bit? "the nerd flag flying over this venture"? It's not like nerds have sole claim on enjoying their comedy, or that the parent was at all claiming this. Turning their film scripts into a replacement for the Bible? I don't think that's happenned. A large majority of people I met in college had never seen Life of Brian, despite being able to quote their other works like Search for the Holy Grail. I think that its good that one of their other works is getting put out into theaters again so that more people get the opportunity to see it. Personally, I think it's pretty damn funny. Chill out and enjoy the fucking movie.
Yeah, the public has an allergic reaction to anything having to do with radioactivity now. It's like irradiated meat. God forbid you eat meat that is not at all radioactive, but is safer and keeps for longer.
As if well maintained nuclear plants are more hazardous than those petroleum monsters injecting god-knows what kinds of carcinogens and pollutants into the air we breathe.
Well, luckily, most of our administrators are tech people (former Engineers and Chemists mostly), and even then the Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure committee is populated mostly by other professors - rather than administrators - who don't want to be treated badly themselves when up for that promotion to full professor. Even full professors have a vested interest in keeping other good professors around rather than constantly "firing" (or turning down people for tenure is the equivalent I suppose) good young people.
Also, begging for sevens would not only get back to the people on the committee (it's a small school with a lot of student-professor interaction), but would also be rather pointless as the professor is forced to leave the room while the surveys are filled out anyways so the students don't feel pressured to be nice by his presense. The side of the survey with the numbers (and a small box for confidential comments) never gets seen by the professor, only composite statistics on it, while the other side has open ended "what did you particularly like about this class" and "what did you particularly dislike about this class" questions, which the professor gets copies of after grades have been turned in.
I'm just surprised that after all these precautions to make sure that the numbers have some meaning for the committee and considering the technical nature of the students (who've all taken statistics), there are some who still inflate to a rediculous degree. It seems to me the problem is people who feel the need to inflate. I personally feel no pressure to inflate since there is no instant repercussion for the professor, and I've ranked every professor in the department on the same scale so that no one should look undeservingly bad next to the others just because I didn't inflate evaluation ratings. In the quality survey there aren't those guarantees, which is why there is more pressure for artificial scores.
I still can't believe that this student selected strongly agree when she actually very strongly disagreed and thought that would somehow get her point across. There's no feedback there.
We have an evaluation that we fill out for our professors at my college that goes to the Reappointment, Promotion and Tenure committee. This apparently happens on these sometimes, too. You're given about 20 statements like: The professor answered questions well, etc. and asked to rate them on a 1-7 scale: 1 very strong disagree, 4 neutral and 7 very strongly agree. A better than average class gets a 5/7 in my book, and I've only given one seven in my four years here. But I recently talked to someone who said that when the class was really bad she bumped them down from 7 to 6. I was flabbergasted. I've given out a 2 because I thought that the professor was particularly bad at the aspect of teaching in question.
I couldn't believe it because it's a physics class at a school with notoriously low grade inflation, so you wouldn't expect this kind of behavior with numbers that are going to get compiled into statistics on how good a teacher the professor is. I felt bad for a moment until I realized that unlike your Kia example, this data is collected over years (up until tenure decision / promotion to full professor point) and that its probably compared to ratings for other professors, whom I've also taken classes from. I still think that people ignoring the definitions has to fuck up their statistics, but I also don't think that at a tech school "low" scores would have the same effect.
I agree!!! We shouldn't be paranoid until we see votes changed. And I can't believe the grandparent thought that the 16,000 citizens who anti-voted Democrat shouldn't have their votes faily counted like everyone else.
It looks like the grandparent's information is coming from this article (or a related one) from December about the audit that uncovered the version problem. This document indicates that version 1.18.18 was certified in November, a month after the October elections in question in the article. Even your document dates to two months after the election.
Most of the narrow streets are now pedestrian zones, and as the sibling post pointed out, the streets outside the old town all have bikelanes, sidewalks, and even clicking cross-walk buttons for the blind. I never saw so many blind people in my life as when I was in Germany, and I think its entirely because its so much easier for them to get out alone there.
There's been several other proposed origins for the flood story, which has existed in many cultures, not just Judeo-Christian ones. One major possible source is the flooding of what is now the Black Sea when the Mediterranean rose high enough to pour over the Dardenelles. I've also heard that the filling of the Red Sea is another proposed source of the myth.
There have been lots of civilizations affected by catastrophic floods, and with rising sea levels post-Ice Age, its not suprising that most cultures in the area ended up with a flood story resembling Noah's.
I smelled bullshit rule. Check it out, license and licence are mearly variant spellings of the same word. There is no noun verb rule with them. I don't like the variant, since it makes much more sense to inflect license -> licensed than licence -> licensed.
BIOSAFETY LEVEL 4 is required for work with dangerous and exotic agents which pose a high individual risk of aerosol-transmitted laboratory infections and life-threatening disease.
So I have the feeling the common cold doesn't live up to the life-threatening disease requirement. BSL4 is for things like Ebola and other hemorrhagic fevers with no vaccine. I think smallpox is also studied under these conditions due to the fact that the general population has never been vaccinated.
My brother looks like an Asperger case, and it's been rediculously difficult to convince him that it's worth his effort to learn and conform to certain social norms. I think the most difficult part is showing someone how it's actually worthwhile to learn basic social norms for such simple things as dinner-table conversation, which he can't even handle. It sounds like this guy's student has the same issues (ie I bet he knows he's expected comb his hair but doesn't see why he really should).
I was talking more specifically about rural south Texas. I didn't state that explicitly because assumed anyone in Texas would have heard about the situation and know what area I was referring to.
It's a better idea than letting all the doctors move out of Texas because their malpractice has gone through the roof and no one's willing to pass a law limiting awards to actual damages. My sister's in med school now in Texas, and everyone in her class has been told not to practice in South Texas, where there's so many malpractice claims filed that it's unprofitable to run a practice there, whether you're the one getting sued or not.
My sister got pulled over once as a teenager. The cop was clearly on a fishing trip hoping to find she was doing something wrong. He didn't give any reason for pulling her over, which is not allowed in Texas at least, and then after looking over the inside of her car demanded to search the trunk. Having just taken a high school government class, she refused without seeing a warrant. He continued asking and threatening to arrest her until she finally consented to let him search it since, "she had nothing to hide there." All that was there was a bag of bottles she was taking to recycling for our mom. The cop dug through the entire bag until he found a cleaned out beer bottle with the label removed. He wrote her up for MIP, which she quite sucessfully challenged in court.
As soon as you let cops search without probable cause they're guaranteed to harass innocent people. Not the guys in a Lexus or a Benz, but they'll harass the hell out of teenagers and minorities (more than now I mean). Just the way power works.
I think the point is that a better response to the report was to maybe ask the daughter or the father what was going on, instead of requesting ID without either knowing what they were under suspicion for.
As to the daughter trying to push her way past an officer, I think it was a huge overreaction to push her to the ground, cuff her and charge her with resisting arrest when most likely she could have been much more gently restrained.
If a cop randomly asks me for ID and I don't know what he suspects me of, no way I'm giving it to him. I think it's entirely appropriate in this situation to demand to know why the officer needs to see ID.
What's worse, in Texas public schools, you're forced into a history rotation with one year each of first Texas, then US, then World (aka European) history. I'm sorry to break it to Texas lawmakers, but there's only so much interesting Texas history to cover, and it's certainly not four years worth of material. Those classes always degenerated into writing reports about the scoundrel who ran out on their wife and kids back east to found your hometown and wipe out the Indians. Great people to look up to. Sure it's important that every Texas kid learn that goddamnit we can secede any time! but c'mon. There's sure a hell of a lot more world history to be covered.
Chandrasekhar won the physics Nobel prize in 1983 for predicting neutron stars. Read about it here. He was born in Lahore, which was part of India, but is now in Pakistan, and his bachelor's degree was done in Madras, which is in modern-day India.
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You should take the sibling's advice and try to eBay it. Just see how much a spam-free hotmail account goes for. Of course, no guarantees it'll stay spam-free after going up for auction.
Anyone else notice that the slashdot abstract was a barely reworded copy of the author's abstract? C'mon, guys, get your acts together. Either put it in quotes and leave it or write your own for real.
This isn't unique in science. A history PhD can have his degree revoked if he later is found to plagerize work. It's because plagerism and falsifying data are considered such unacceptable behavior in academia that no one can trust someone found guilty of it. Because of that they don't want someone so discredited in the community walking around still trying to pass themselves off as a credible PhD in their field.
Slightly similar, someone at my undergraduate institution was found guilty of falsifying data on their Biology thesis. The punishment was no degree, a detailed explanation on their transcript, and a letter to their current employer to the same effect. Guaranteed that they were immediately fired and can't find another job in science again because they can't be trusted to provide accurate data.
Even within a city speed varies by post office. I used to live in the next town over, which didn't have its own office but was served by two post offices in Dallas. It took at least two extra days usually more for the mail to be sorted and delivered to us. Now I live in Dallas proper under a completely different post office and get mail significantly faster. Of course, I also now have a postman who expects a tip on Christmas.
And because we burn pure hydrocarbon compounds in our power plants.
While coal is definitely the worst, petroleum plants in general produce all sorts of shit in our air. Check it
Unfortunately, the character limit on sig's made me sacrifice info on the quote in order to keep it there. In case you're wondering, it roughly translates to, "That was just a prologue; there, where they burn books, they also burn people in the end." Heinrich Heine said that in 1820 (though some sources say 1821). I think it's really interesting because it's a little more than 100 years before the Nazis came to power and started burning books. And we all know what they did to people in the end.
Aren't you overreacting a bit? "the nerd flag flying over this venture"? It's not like nerds have sole claim on enjoying their comedy, or that the parent was at all claiming this. Turning their film scripts into a replacement for the Bible? I don't think that's happenned. A large majority of people I met in college had never seen Life of Brian, despite being able to quote their other works like Search for the Holy Grail. I think that its good that one of their other works is getting put out into theaters again so that more people get the opportunity to see it. Personally, I think it's pretty damn funny. Chill out and enjoy the fucking movie.
Yeah, the public has an allergic reaction to anything having to do with radioactivity now. It's like irradiated meat. God forbid you eat meat that is not at all radioactive, but is safer and keeps for longer.
As if well maintained nuclear plants are more hazardous than those petroleum monsters injecting god-knows what kinds of carcinogens and pollutants into the air we breathe.
Well, luckily, most of our administrators are tech people (former Engineers and Chemists mostly), and even then the Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure committee is populated mostly by other professors - rather than administrators - who don't want to be treated badly themselves when up for that promotion to full professor. Even full professors have a vested interest in keeping other good professors around rather than constantly "firing" (or turning down people for tenure is the equivalent I suppose) good young people.
Also, begging for sevens would not only get back to the people on the committee (it's a small school with a lot of student-professor interaction), but would also be rather pointless as the professor is forced to leave the room while the surveys are filled out anyways so the students don't feel pressured to be nice by his presense. The side of the survey with the numbers (and a small box for confidential comments) never gets seen by the professor, only composite statistics on it, while the other side has open ended "what did you particularly like about this class" and "what did you particularly dislike about this class" questions, which the professor gets copies of after grades have been turned in.
I'm just surprised that after all these precautions to make sure that the numbers have some meaning for the committee and considering the technical nature of the students (who've all taken statistics), there are some who still inflate to a rediculous degree. It seems to me the problem is people who feel the need to inflate. I personally feel no pressure to inflate since there is no instant repercussion for the professor, and I've ranked every professor in the department on the same scale so that no one should look undeservingly bad next to the others just because I didn't inflate evaluation ratings. In the quality survey there aren't those guarantees, which is why there is more pressure for artificial scores.
I still can't believe that this student selected strongly agree when she actually very strongly disagreed and thought that would somehow get her point across. There's no feedback there.
We have an evaluation that we fill out for our professors at my college that goes to the Reappointment, Promotion and Tenure committee. This apparently happens on these sometimes, too. You're given about 20 statements like: The professor answered questions well, etc. and asked to rate them on a 1-7 scale: 1 very strong disagree, 4 neutral and 7 very strongly agree. A better than average class gets a 5/7 in my book, and I've only given one seven in my four years here. But I recently talked to someone who said that when the class was really bad she bumped them down from 7 to 6. I was flabbergasted. I've given out a 2 because I thought that the professor was particularly bad at the aspect of teaching in question.
I couldn't believe it because it's a physics class at a school with notoriously low grade inflation, so you wouldn't expect this kind of behavior with numbers that are going to get compiled into statistics on how good a teacher the professor is. I felt bad for a moment until I realized that unlike your Kia example, this data is collected over years (up until tenure decision / promotion to full professor point) and that its probably compared to ratings for other professors, whom I've also taken classes from. I still think that people ignoring the definitions has to fuck up their statistics, but I also don't think that at a tech school "low" scores would have the same effect.
I didn't know I needed to explicitly put in and tags here at slashdot. I thought the fact that you can't anti-vote would give it away.
I agree!!! We shouldn't be paranoid until we see votes changed. And I can't believe the grandparent thought that the 16,000 citizens who anti-voted Democrat shouldn't have their votes faily counted like everyone else.
It looks like the grandparent's information is coming from this article (or a related one) from December about the audit that uncovered the version problem. This document indicates that version 1.18.18 was certified in November, a month after the October elections in question in the article. Even your document dates to two months after the election.
Most of the narrow streets are now pedestrian zones, and as the sibling post pointed out, the streets outside the old town all have bikelanes, sidewalks, and even clicking cross-walk buttons for the blind. I never saw so many blind people in my life as when I was in Germany, and I think its entirely because its so much easier for them to get out alone there.
There's been several other proposed origins for the flood story, which has existed in many cultures, not just Judeo-Christian ones. One major possible source is the flooding of what is now the Black Sea when the Mediterranean rose high enough to pour over the Dardenelles. I've also heard that the filling of the Red Sea is another proposed source of the myth.
There have been lots of civilizations affected by catastrophic floods, and with rising sea levels post-Ice Age, its not suprising that most cultures in the area ended up with a flood story resembling Noah's.
I smelled bullshit rule. Check it out, license and licence are mearly variant spellings of the same word. There is no noun verb rule with them. I don't like the variant, since it makes much more sense to inflect license -> licensed than licence -> licensed.
My brother looks like an Asperger case, and it's been rediculously difficult to convince him that it's worth his effort to learn and conform to certain social norms. I think the most difficult part is showing someone how it's actually worthwhile to learn basic social norms for such simple things as dinner-table conversation, which he can't even handle. It sounds like this guy's student has the same issues (ie I bet he knows he's expected comb his hair but doesn't see why he really should).
I was talking more specifically about rural south Texas. I didn't state that explicitly because assumed anyone in Texas would have heard about the situation and know what area I was referring to.
It's a better idea than letting all the doctors move out of Texas because their malpractice has gone through the roof and no one's willing to pass a law limiting awards to actual damages. My sister's in med school now in Texas, and everyone in her class has been told not to practice in South Texas, where there's so many malpractice claims filed that it's unprofitable to run a practice there, whether you're the one getting sued or not.
In true slashdot fashion, you did not even skim the article linked to but rushed to post some irrelevant reply. Good job.
My sister got pulled over once as a teenager. The cop was clearly on a fishing trip hoping to find she was doing something wrong. He didn't give any reason for pulling her over, which is not allowed in Texas at least, and then after looking over the inside of her car demanded to search the trunk. Having just taken a high school government class, she refused without seeing a warrant. He continued asking and threatening to arrest her until she finally consented to let him search it since, "she had nothing to hide there." All that was there was a bag of bottles she was taking to recycling for our mom. The cop dug through the entire bag until he found a cleaned out beer bottle with the label removed. He wrote her up for MIP, which she quite sucessfully challenged in court.
As soon as you let cops search without probable cause they're guaranteed to harass innocent people. Not the guys in a Lexus or a Benz, but they'll harass the hell out of teenagers and minorities (more than now I mean). Just the way power works.
I think the point is that a better response to the report was to maybe ask the daughter or the father what was going on, instead of requesting ID without either knowing what they were under suspicion for.
As to the daughter trying to push her way past an officer, I think it was a huge overreaction to push her to the ground, cuff her and charge her with resisting arrest when most likely she could have been much more gently restrained.
If a cop randomly asks me for ID and I don't know what he suspects me of, no way I'm giving it to him. I think it's entirely appropriate in this situation to demand to know why the officer needs to see ID.
What's worse, in Texas public schools, you're forced into a history rotation with one year each of first Texas, then US, then World (aka European) history. I'm sorry to break it to Texas lawmakers, but there's only so much interesting Texas history to cover, and it's certainly not four years worth of material. Those classes always degenerated into writing reports about the scoundrel who ran out on their wife and kids back east to found your hometown and wipe out the Indians. Great people to look up to. Sure it's important that every Texas kid learn that goddamnit we can secede any time! but c'mon. There's sure a hell of a lot more world history to be covered.
Chandrasekhar won the physics Nobel prize in 1983 for predicting neutron stars. Read about it here. He was born in Lahore, which was part of India, but is now in Pakistan, and his bachelor's degree was done in Madras, which is in modern-day India.