This, this, this, this this, this, this. Really when did this become part of the English language?
It's a slightly grown up version of the old AOL "me too!" It also has (for me) the tinge of a poster who thinks he is too busy and important to bother writing English.
Whenever I see a post starting "This." I rarely read any further.
I think the Arms Race with irrelevant paper qualificatins has reached a new level of absurdity when a mere PhD is no longer enough and you need a post-doctoral qualification too. At that rate, you won't have your first job until you're 30, which doesn't seem right to me. Fair enough if you're heading for an academic career, but how weird would it be to employ a 30 year old and find out they'd never had a job?
He's attending a liberal arts college. He didn't say he was a liberal arts major.
That is not helping! What does a "liberal arts college" mean? What is the point in calling something a "liberal arts college" if it also does science degrees?
Here in the UK most universities do courses in a wide variety of subjects, from hard science through to fine arts, so it doesn't really arise, although you do get ones specialising in science subjects e.g. Imperial College.
I'm a graduating senior from a small New England liberal arts college, and have secured a spot in a Biological Science Ph.D. program for the next five years.
It's never too late to go back to middle school; hopefully, this time they can teach you that commas don't go before "and.":p
You should omit a comma before "and" when you're doing a list: apples, bananas, cherries and dates.
Otherwise, the normal rules apply, so that if it is a new clause, you can most certainly end the old one with a comma and start the new one with "and".
Have fun and travel. Depending how your life turns, this literally may be your last opportunity for the next 20-30 years to see the world.
I'm taking a wild guess here that you're from the US. The rest of us have time for travel even when we're working (admittedly not 3-6 months at a time, but then again if you want to travel that much you should look for a career that involves travelling).
Doing 5 years research in a subject you're interested in is not "hard". Working for 40 years at a series of shitty jobs in which you have zero interest simply in order to house and feed yourself is hard.
Afghanistan wasn't illegal and it wasn't started by Bush.
The US coalition forces invaded Afghanistan on the pretext of hunting a criminal (bin Laden). Sounds illegal to me. What would you say if the Chinese military traced a murderer from Beijing to Los Angeles and proceeded to bomb the crap out of LA?
and it wasn't started by Bush.
Who started it then? The fucking Tooth Fairy? Or do you mean the Taliban started it by declaring war on the US through their refusal to co-operate over bin Laden? Well, guess what, they don't like the US. That didn't give the US the right to invade them.
And since I've been deployed there, I think I can speak on the subject better than you can.
Piss off. I've been on holiday to Egypt, that doesn't make me a diplomatic expert on the Middle East.
A few weeks before the Iraq war started, the world saw the largest coordinated protest in history across hundreds of cities, with millions upon millions of people calling for peace. The end result: Nothing. The largest action of its kind in human history, and it did absolutely nothing.
But you didn't get millions upon millions of people protesting week after week, did you? The point about the anti-Vietnam War protests in the 1960s was the combination of numbers and extended duration.
The concept of a drone strike taking out someone within the U.S. appears to violate the Due Process clause because it's difficult to think of a situation involving a drone where there's an immediate threat to life thus warranting the use of deadly force. To use a drone to kill someone, you pretty much have to have decided to execute the person without apprehending him, and thus without having put him on trial. Very different from a cop who kills a suspect who points a gun at him.
I don't think it's too hard to get round that objection. You just say that, as a terrorist, your target is by definition presenting an immediate threat to life, as he's probably armed and/or carrying explosives which he is prepared to use in a suicide attack.
Most of the occupy movements seemed to be pointless. (in my opinion)
Well done, you perfectly reflect the establishment narrative about the occupy movements, and think it is a conclusion of your own making. The worst prison is the one you happily build for yourself.
One of the reasons they were more outspoken back then was because there was a draft. When your number might randomly come up, and you might be shipped over to fight that war you disagree with yourself, you are a lot more motivated to protest then when only volunteers are going over.
Maybe, but the anti-Vietnam war movement was also big in Europe where protestors had no personal axe to grind.
If they started caring, picking up proper social etiquette is really not that hard.
I should hope so; most normal children manage to do it by the time they're ten. What I'm wondering is, why didn't they?
They've been brought up being told that they're 'special' and don't need to worry about fitting in with the hoi polloi?
I suspect the reason most nerds are bad at social etiquette simply because they don't see the point and don't care. It's a waste of time and/or something beneath their intellectual pursuits. If you are on the verge of a breakthrough in a new black hole theory, or revolutionary AI algorithm, everything else might seem unimportant by comparison.
Ah yes, the "Albert Einstein often forgot to put socks on in the morning" argument. And everyone's Albert Einstein here, of course.
Of course, 'alphas' will frequently participate in the cretinous and meaningless rituals of their own culture in order to be 'polite'. However, 'alphas' are usually happy to have this participation be seen as 'clumsy' by the idiots to whom ritual is everything.
Let me guess, you're an alpha+, but socially 'awkward' because your mind is on higher things, and anyway the plebs don't understand you.
A familiar twist on an old slashdot favourite meme. I expect you failed at college, because true 'alpha' types don't need certificates to validate their inherent sense of self worth, amirite?
Maybe in a European or American setting, it's optimal for avoiding the derision of your peers to cut your meat one bite at a time. But if you're in Japan, you should generally serve your guests food that is already cut up and able to be eaten with chopsticks (or soft enough to cut with chopsticks).
Yes, but presumably if you're teaching etiquette at MIT, you're teaching the etiquette that applies to the Eastern US. I don't think anyone would disagree that there are cultural differences between human beings in the US, Japan and Afghanistan.
Anyone with a brain capable of dealing with science, engineering and math would know that cutting all food before eating it increases the surface area while keeping the total mass and volume unchanged, thus causing the food to cool and dry faster, relative to its original, supposedly optimal for consumption, state.
A True Geek would, however, not assume that food is served at an optimal state that demands instant consumption, on the basis that food takes a certain time to eat, which would be factored into the serving temperature.
Hell, I don't even like Facebook, but the idea that MZ owed respect to the investment bankers was absurd and offensive.
Oh fuck off. When Facebook starts its inevitable slide into obscurity (as soon as investment bankers start realising it's never actually going to make them much money) MZ will be there on his hands and knees in the sharpest suit he can still afford, begging for the chance to show he is a proper CEO.
I've never seen anybody who looked good in a suit. A suit makes you look lake a sales person, lawyer or manager. I.e. a professional liar.
You should seek counselling, as you obviously have serious unresolved issues with authority figures. Among the people who regularly wear suits are: teachers, doctors, bank managers, civil servants, restaurant managers, weather forecasters and newsreaders on TV, architects, accountants, advertising executives and (perhaps worryingly for you) PSYCHIATRISTS.
I agree on the point but not their rationalization. Considering the number of men who don't wash their hands after using the urinal, shaking hands with someone who might have had food on their fingers before they wiped clean is the least of my concerns.
So because shaking hands with someone whose fingers are covered in gravy isn't as bad as shaking hands with someone who has just wiped their arse with their fingers, it's OK to leave your hands covered with gravy after a meal?
No offence, but who gives a fuck about what Germans think of etiquette? Who cares if they had nice polite queues for the gas ovens in their concentration camps?
There are different norms in the world, like hands above the table or below. In Europe you have your hands above the table, but in the US you have your hands blow.
How can you have your hands below the table when you're eating? I don't understand.
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This, this, this, this this, this, this. Really when did this become part of the English language?
It's a slightly grown up version of the old AOL "me too!" It also has (for me) the tinge of a poster who thinks he is too busy and important to bother writing English.
Whenever I see a post starting "This." I rarely read any further.
I think the Arms Race with irrelevant paper qualificatins has reached a new level of absurdity when a mere PhD is no longer enough and you need a post-doctoral qualification too. At that rate, you won't have your first job until you're 30, which doesn't seem right to me. Fair enough if you're heading for an academic career, but how weird would it be to employ a 30 year old and find out they'd never had a job?
He's attending a liberal arts college. He didn't say he was a liberal arts major.
That is not helping! What does a "liberal arts college" mean? What is the point in calling something a "liberal arts college" if it also does science degrees?
Here in the UK most universities do courses in a wide variety of subjects, from hard science through to fine arts, so it doesn't really arise, although you do get ones specialising in science subjects e.g. Imperial College.
I'm a graduating senior from a small New England liberal arts college, and have secured a spot in a Biological Science Ph.D. program for the next five years.
It's never too late to go back to middle school; hopefully, this time they can teach you that commas don't go before "and." :p
You should omit a comma before "and" when you're doing a list: apples, bananas, cherries and dates.
Otherwise, the normal rules apply, so that if it is a new clause, you can most certainly end the old one with a comma and start the new one with "and".
Of course there were some rather stressful times, but if you want a stress free job, go find something else to do that doesn't require much thought.
No, if you want a stress free job, find something you enjoy doing. Stress is a result of doing things you don't want to be doing.
the college freshmen girls who think your hot shit cuz your going to graduate school.
You live in an amusing fantasy world.
Have fun and travel. Depending how your life turns, this literally may be your last opportunity for the next 20-30 years to see the world.
I'm taking a wild guess here that you're from the US. The rest of us have time for travel even when we're working (admittedly not 3-6 months at a time, but then again if you want to travel that much you should look for a career that involves travelling).
Doing 5 years research in a subject you're interested in is not "hard". Working for 40 years at a series of shitty jobs in which you have zero interest simply in order to house and feed yourself is hard.
Afghanistan wasn't illegal and it wasn't started by Bush.
The US coalition forces invaded Afghanistan on the pretext of hunting a criminal (bin Laden). Sounds illegal to me. What would you say if the Chinese military traced a murderer from Beijing to Los Angeles and proceeded to bomb the crap out of LA?
and it wasn't started by Bush.
Who started it then? The fucking Tooth Fairy? Or do you mean the Taliban started it by declaring war on the US through their refusal to co-operate over bin Laden? Well, guess what, they don't like the US. That didn't give the US the right to invade them.
And since I've been deployed there, I think I can speak on the subject better than you can.
Piss off. I've been on holiday to Egypt, that doesn't make me a diplomatic expert on the Middle East.
You forgot to mention the hordes of yellow-skinned communists burrowing beneath the streets and adulterating the drinking water with fluoride.
A few weeks before the Iraq war started, the world saw the largest coordinated protest in history across hundreds of cities, with millions upon millions of people calling for peace. The end result: Nothing. The largest action of its kind in human history, and it did absolutely nothing.
But you didn't get millions upon millions of people protesting week after week, did you? The point about the anti-Vietnam War protests in the 1960s was the combination of numbers and extended duration.
The concept of a drone strike taking out someone within the U.S. appears to violate the Due Process clause because it's difficult to think of a situation involving a drone where there's an immediate threat to life thus warranting the use of deadly force. To use a drone to kill someone, you pretty much have to have decided to execute the person without apprehending him, and thus without having put him on trial. Very different from a cop who kills a suspect who points a gun at him.
I don't think it's too hard to get round that objection. You just say that, as a terrorist, your target is by definition presenting an immediate threat to life, as he's probably armed and/or carrying explosives which he is prepared to use in a suicide attack.
Most of the occupy movements seemed to be pointless. (in my opinion)
Well done, you perfectly reflect the establishment narrative about the occupy movements, and think it is a conclusion of your own making. The worst prison is the one you happily build for yourself.
One of the reasons they were more outspoken back then was because there was a draft. When your number might randomly come up, and you might be shipped over to fight that war you disagree with yourself, you are a lot more motivated to protest then when only volunteers are going over.
Maybe, but the anti-Vietnam war movement was also big in Europe where protestors had no personal axe to grind.
If they started caring, picking up proper social etiquette is really not that hard. I should hope so; most normal children manage to do it by the time they're ten. What I'm wondering is, why didn't they?
They've been brought up being told that they're 'special' and don't need to worry about fitting in with the hoi polloi?
I suspect the reason most nerds are bad at social etiquette simply because they don't see the point and don't care. It's a waste of time and/or something beneath their intellectual pursuits. If you are on the verge of a breakthrough in a new black hole theory, or revolutionary AI algorithm, everything else might seem unimportant by comparison.
Ah yes, the "Albert Einstein often forgot to put socks on in the morning" argument. And everyone's Albert Einstein here, of course.
Of course, 'alphas' will frequently participate in the cretinous and meaningless rituals of their own culture in order to be 'polite'. However, 'alphas' are usually happy to have this participation be seen as 'clumsy' by the idiots to whom ritual is everything.
Let me guess, you're an alpha+, but socially 'awkward' because your mind is on higher things, and anyway the plebs don't understand you.
A familiar twist on an old slashdot favourite meme. I expect you failed at college, because true 'alpha' types don't need certificates to validate their inherent sense of self worth, amirite?
Maybe in a European or American setting, it's optimal for avoiding the derision of your peers to cut your meat one bite at a time. But if you're in Japan, you should generally serve your guests food that is already cut up and able to be eaten with chopsticks (or soft enough to cut with chopsticks).
Yes, but presumably if you're teaching etiquette at MIT, you're teaching the etiquette that applies to the Eastern US. I don't think anyone would disagree that there are cultural differences between human beings in the US, Japan and Afghanistan.
Anyone with a brain capable of dealing with science, engineering and math would know that cutting all food before eating it increases the surface area while keeping the total mass and volume unchanged, thus causing the food to cool and dry faster, relative to its original, supposedly optimal for consumption, state.
A True Geek would, however, not assume that food is served at an optimal state that demands instant consumption, on the basis that food takes a certain time to eat, which would be factored into the serving temperature.
Hell, I don't even like Facebook, but the idea that MZ owed respect to the investment bankers was absurd and offensive.
Oh fuck off. When Facebook starts its inevitable slide into obscurity (as soon as investment bankers start realising it's never actually going to make them much money) MZ will be there on his hands and knees in the sharpest suit he can still afford, begging for the chance to show he is a proper CEO.
I've never seen anybody who looked good in a suit. A suit makes you look lake a sales person, lawyer or manager. I.e. a professional liar.
You should seek counselling, as you obviously have serious unresolved issues with authority figures. Among the people who regularly wear suits are: teachers, doctors, bank managers, civil servants, restaurant managers, weather forecasters and newsreaders on TV, architects, accountants, advertising executives and (perhaps worryingly for you) PSYCHIATRISTS.
We've managed to get to the point where it's no longer mandatory for women to wear dresses and high heels everywhere.
Except at work, if you're a professional woman. Oh look, just like men have to wear suits and ties.
If you can't recognise the difference between a smart professional and a student, you are destined never to be taken seriously in the adult world.
I agree on the point but not their rationalization. Considering the number of men who don't wash their hands after using the urinal, shaking hands with someone who might have had food on their fingers before they wiped clean is the least of my concerns.
So because shaking hands with someone whose fingers are covered in gravy isn't as bad as shaking hands with someone who has just wiped their arse with their fingers, it's OK to leave your hands covered with gravy after a meal?
Nice.
No offence, but who gives a fuck about what Germans think of etiquette? Who cares if they had nice polite queues for the gas ovens in their concentration camps?
There are different norms in the world, like hands above the table or below. In Europe you have your hands above the table, but in the US you have your hands blow.
How can you have your hands below the table when you're eating? I don't understand.