So I changed schools - and I got yet more abuse. We went through the same procedures again and again and again and it was no use. The teachers didn't want to know.
Yet you stayed in the institution. Why? Why did you and your parents put your school attendance over your wellbeing? What compelled you to return to your place of torment day after day?
Some kid tried it on and I opted to belt him one in the nose. His nose was thoroughly broken and he was out of school for a week.
Sounds excessive. Try that on the street and it will be a long and painful lawsuit. It's likely the incident will follow you for the rest of your life. A big red violent tendencies on your official records. Why did you let it come to that?
The way to deal with bulling in schools is in my view is very simple. The punishment should be swift, harsh and feared. They should be charged with assault or harassment in a full criminal court and ordered to do a suitable amount of community service. Failure to comply should immediately mean jail-time which should be served in school holidays.
Sounds very excessive. Community service and jail time for calling someone names? Why shouldn't this apply to satirists who mercilessly torment our hard working politicians, or better yet journalists who demean and degrade celebrities? Why should this principle only be applied to citizens who can neither work nor vote?
It's a pity that the type of people who bully are the sorts who have violence all around them at home. As such, the only thing they understand is violence.
Is there any evidence to back this up? It's likely bullies and their targets hail from all walks of life and that idleness and lack of supervision are the true causes of torment in our public schools. A great deal of bullying nowadays involves no violence at all, so responding to it with violence is not likely to put anyone targeted on moral high ground.
The solution for people being tormented in schools where the faculty is apathetic to the issue is to simply leave that institution. If it continues elsewhere, the solution is to leave public education outright. Second level schools are not good models of our society. They are a poor place to learn either social mores or academic subjects. There really isn't a lot of benefit in attending them, less so if it is going to result in being used as the schools collective punching bag, either literally or metaphorically speaking.
Bullying continues because people accept that teenagers daytime is best spent in an institution modeled on military barracks, mental hospitals and prisons. If you treat your nations youth like soldiers, invalids and criminals, don't be too surprised if they begin to behave in an uncivilized manner.
How is this information not necessary for a robust autoupdating/autonotifying infrastructure?
Absolutely. However, you are assuming that I want my Wordpress installation to automatically update, and further that I am willing to give up a lot of sensitive information in order to get that done.
There should be a way to turn this feature off, plain and simple. There is no excuse whatsoever for forcing this down users throats. None. Yes, comment spam and other vulnerabilities are something that needs dealing with. Yes, many, many Wordpress users have the technical ability of Aunt Tillie, hence the 5 minute install. Yes, many of them will never update at all without an auto-update feature.
By all means, activate auto-updates by default. By all means, activate the logging by default. But what possible excuse is there for not allowing a competent end user, or indeed sysadm, to be able to easily turn it off? Simply laziness? Obstinacy? I suspect something else behind this debacle.
Isn't lucrative! Are you insane?! Market minions would pay handsomely for even a whiff of the askimet database as it currently stands. This latest farce is their wet dream come true. Mullenweg can essentially name his price.
I recently installed Wordpress 2.2.3 on a site server. I'm now going to have to consider uninstalling it. Even though 2.3 is the only version confirmed as effected, as of now, the entire Wordpress name is justifiably tainted. I can't really allow a piece of software on the server to send out a deluge of sensitive information to a third party server. It's asking for trouble.
She is are doing to the Canadian Public what her Lover has been doing to her.
Taking them out for romantic dinners? Buying them diamond jewelry? Giving them copious amounts of satisfying orgasms?
I'm willing to bet that this lobbyist is a former sex worker of some kind, hired specifically for this purpose. Not that it made any difference to the likes of Neri. Politicians and bureaucrats have been embroiled in corruption and sex scandals since time began.
On the bright side, it's nice to see that women now have the same opportunities as men, when it comes to lurid political affairs at least. How egalitarian of the **AA to support this.
Comrades, you need only be detained for questioning to have your DNA permanently on record.
They're going to end up just taking it a birth or while kids are in school or at hospitals. Unless there are explicit laws disallowing all evidence obtained though knowledge of such surreptitiously obtained DNA, the government will have a free hand to gather any information it wants. Without such laws, judges will cave in the face of teary eyed victims and media pressure, and if you so much as left a hair in a public place ten years ao, the police will be allowed to gather that and add you to their lists.
In case you think there's nothing wrong with this, answer me this. How many wealthy and powerful people do you think have their DNA, or will ever have their DNA, in a government database?
Unfortunately, a lot of mainstream scientists do devolve into this type of behaviour, or never applied proper standards to begin with. In the hard sciences, this is difficult to pull off, but becoming easier I think, as research becomes ever fuzzier and more specialised. One reply to the GP already mentioned String Theory. I think this is the worst example of what fate awaits scientists who abandon the experiment.
In my opinion, the age old problems of pedantry and pretension are becoming institutionalised in some circles, even in the hard sciences. Difficult material is learned by rote by many, and then applied without real understanding. Old theories and methods become almost occult, with people calling on their powers without understanding why. Not strictly Cargo cult thinking, but a close cousin. This problem comes about because of people's insecurities and fears of saying "I don't know". The cult of the all knowing scientist is ironically leading to his ignorance.
This all makes it easier for Cargo Cult science to thrive. If even the experts are largely ignorant of why a method or theory works, then they won't be able to challenge or critique a Cargo Cultist's use of it. We all hear junk science reports chock full of means, correlations and other statistics, but all too few of us know enough about the statistics methods used to adequately assess or critique the study. People swallow junk science reports in a process that essentially amounts to browbeating.
Maybe the culture of science needs changing. Less academic oneupmanship and more intellectual humility. I don't know. But I do know that there are many so called scientists who essentially use other people's ignorance to force their theory through by default.
People need to realise that a lot of those calling themselves scientists are not really scientists at all. They don't apply the scientific method. They massage data regularly. They misapply statistics constantly. They don't subject their theories to falisfiability. They waffle, hand wave, engage in rhetoric, and generally do just about everything except an honest to goodness, old fashioned solid, scientific experiment.
Feynman spotted them over 30 years ago. He called them Cargo Cult Scientists. They put on the appearance of science, but have none of its substance. They give a good performance, like an actor playing a scientists on TV. They wear the clothes, speak the language, seemingly apply the methods. But it's all empty. There's no rigor. There's no insight. There's no real testing going on. It's all just people waving around graphs, and lines, and their qualifications, and formulae they don't understand, to support the theories they want to be true, regardless of whether they are true or not.
It's because in this day and age, you can't be a witchdoctor. You can't appeal to spirits, or gods, or karma, or any of the other philosophical reason thrown up in past ages. We live in "The Age of Reason", and people expect things to be proven to them "scientifically". So all the people who in the past would have risen high by browbeating, appealing to authority and writing great prose, are forced to dress themselves up in white coats and go through the motions of an experiment before they proclaim their great revelations to the world. The experiments however, are just as empty as all the old techniques, and bear only superficial relation to actual science.
Personally, I think it's gotten worse over the last 30 years. The unwillingness of actual scientific communities to challenge the misapplication of their methods by unscientific ones has lead to a dilution of the authority of science as a whole. Under the current regime any half baked psychiatrists can show pictures to 20 undergraduates, record a few squiggles on an MRI, run the numbers through R over and over until he gets what he wants, and proclaim to the world just about whatever he likes, and still be called a scientist! No wonder it's all too easy for the Intelligent Design movement to pose as "real science". Just look at how low the threshold for real science is.
There's only one way to deal with Cargo Cult Scientists. You have to call them out. You have to show how flimsy and false their supposed science really is. You also need to learn all the old rhetorical techniques, because faced with someone who actually knows what they're doing, the Cargo Culter will fall back to very old and time honored methods which enable him to win from a weak or false position. I think the real scientific community owes it to itself to show up these charlatans for what they really are, Con men. If they don't, science will just become more diluted in the long run until the public regards it in the same way it regards homeopathy.
It's not so much the effect of money on you that's the problem. You see, like flies drawn to the stench of rotting meat, money's siren song attracts all manner of undesirables. Lawyers, MBAs, consultants, marketers, more lawyers, salespeople, politicians, con-men, HR departments, and even more lawyers. After they'll all gorged on your company and laid their maggots, and lawyers, in what remains of your putrid offices, they move on to the next fresh source of carrion. You'll try to pick up the pieces, but the damage will be done, and your company will never get the smell of decadence, corruption, or lawyers, out of the carpets.
One possible option is to stay unlimited. The more exposed types tend to keep their distance then, but only by degree. If you really want to get rid of them, the only solution is to keep liquid monies to an absolute minimum I'm afraid.
What utter bullshit! You guys seem to forget, this was a political rally in a university! What the heck do you think academic freedom is supposed to be about anyway?
Alas sir, Universities are no longer the resorts of the wealthy or even the upper middle classes. I fear nowadays every unwashed savage and inbred scoundrel is offered a seat in once privileged institutions, and we must face facts with regards to the liberties we extend to the masses, nay?
You expect undergrads to be immature. They are growing their minds.
Indeed. Where once the proud chins of regal manhood held sway, now the infantile masses congregate. Many modern universities have even allowed foreign races and, horror of horrors, women to permeate our halls of learning. I can only shudder to think of the present state of manys the house Drawing room, defiled as it must be with perfumes and pagan artifacts.
It is educating people to be mice.
Exactly! I see that you too extol the virtues of applying the second level educational model to our overstressed third level system. Oh what wonders roll calls, detentions and adult authority shall work upon the wild and heathen masses. I mean, otherwise they'll just go about educating themselves. The idea...
Goodness, a good "tazering" will do them good I say! A bit like the old electric jolts in Bedlam, what-what! Taste of the old cane on raw buttock, but for the modern age! (Meanwhile of course, respectable persons such as ourselves should do all in our power to keep our children's private universities free from decadent the influences that have beset our once proud public colleges.)
How do you think secret police work? They don't have fully paid agents everywhere. They rely on ordinary people everywhere being their eyes and ears. I beg indulgence to quote Wikipedia on the Stasi(East German Secret Police)
In the mid-1980s, a civilian informants network, the Inoffizielle Mitarbeiter (IMs, Unofficial Collaborators), began growing in both Germanies, by the time East Germany collapsed in 1989, the Stasi employed an estimated 91,000 employees and 300,000 informants; about one in fifty East Germans collaborated with the Stasi -- one of the most extensive infilitrations of a police apparatus in history.
One in fifty.
1 in 50.
Now give every one of those one in 50 spy cameras mounted on their lapels. Audio bugs hanging out of every button. Get them to place bugs in their friends houses, hallways, gardens, streets, cars, bedrooms, pets, offices, buses, everywhere. Give the bugs wireless connectivity back to centralized government control offices. Record Everything. Everything.
Does anyone think this won't happen?! Here's a back of the envelope calculation I made earlier.
Average US telephone usage: 600 minutes month, say 900 mins = 30 mins/day = 1800 sec/day
Telephone Codec data rate: ~10KB/sec
=> Average user needs 18000 KB/day to store conversation ~1.76 MB/day
For one million users ~ 1.68 TB/day
Approximate cost per Terabyte(Hard Disk) as of 2007 ~ $300USD per TB => Give 2x data redundancy ~ $600USD per TB
=> ~$1,008 USD per one million users per day
World population ~7 billion
=> ~$7.1 million USD per day
=> It would cost approximately $2.6 billion USD per year to permanently store all the telephone conversations of everyone in the entire world. Assuming talktime rates of ~900 mins per month.
It's the old bullet and ballot box scheme used by the likes of the IRA.
The IRA don't believe in the ballot box. Yes there are some left wing Irish nationalists in the group and in Sinn Fein. But the majority of IRA men are essentially Irish fascists. Eire uber alles and all that.
I get to fly in economy, those guys get to fly in their own plane.
Not only that, but you and the other plebs get to be manhandled, groped and searched by TSA employees, while the elites like these pass through unimpeded at private airfields, as is their sovereign right.
Damning string theory is a bit like damning Reiman Calculus was in the 1890's. It was of no existing use. Eventually, though, Einstein found a use for it. That may happen with string theory. Or, of course, it may not.
Riemannian geometry was certainly useful prior to the advent of General Relativity, although it is true that it's application there became its prime use. Coordinate transformations and deformations in 3D did have practical purposes before 1915, for example in the deformation of 3D solids, various exotic 3D coorsinate systems, and of course in plain old 2D differential geometry.
Constitutionally speaking, your right to free speech ends where it steps on someone else's right. Just like my right to swing my arm ends before it connects with your nose.
You'll be gagged and bound long before you ever get to that point.
The western world nowadays pays only lip service to free speech, if it ever paid it any mind at all. Your free speech is subject to "public opinion" approving of what you have to say, and by "public opinion", we generally mean the mainstream press opinion of what public opinion currently is.
Want to support a rebel group labeled as a terrorist organization? Want to show a picture of Mohamed? Want to eat dog meat? Want to criticize your countries armed forces? Want to swear or show your breast in public? Want to oppose legislation made "For the children"? Want to promote use of an illegal substance?
Well then sorry pal, you're shit out of luck. You are free to say and do what the ruling classes let you say and do. Don't ever think the situation is otherwise. If you ever actually try to fully exercise you supposed rights, you'll quickly see just how limited they really are. The government, the media, academia, the clergy and umpteen other groups will all close in and snuff you out before you've even begun to speak. If you're lucky you might still be speaking, but you can be damn sure that no one will be able to hear.
Last I checked, asian women were beautiful, and there is nothing illegal about viewing them. It may be against company policy, but THAT is not worth calling the FBI over.
You can have a thing for blondes. You can have a thing for brunettes. You can have a thing for those with hair of raven black or fiery copper. Tall, short, thin, fat, brown eyes, blues eyes, masculine, feminine, whatever. No one will bat an eye.
But the instant you show any preference whatsoever for a member of the opposite sex who is outside your designated "race", congratulations, you now have a deviancy. Our society frownsheavily upon mixed marriages. Unless the person you have your eye on is locally accepted as being of the same "race" as you, you can basically forget about any kind of long term relationship. The weight of your society's disapproval will crush all but the most independent of couples.
And people wonder why there are so little "mixed marriages". When such behavior is tacitly lumped with pedophilia, is it any wonder?
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The solution for people being tormented in schools where the faculty is apathetic to the issue is to simply leave that institution. If it continues elsewhere, the solution is to leave public education outright. Second level schools are not good models of our society. They are a poor place to learn either social mores or academic subjects. There really isn't a lot of benefit in attending them, less so if it is going to result in being used as the schools collective punching bag, either literally or metaphorically speaking.
Bullying continues because people accept that teenagers daytime is best spent in an institution modeled on military barracks, mental hospitals and prisons. If you treat your nations youth like soldiers, invalids and criminals, don't be too surprised if they begin to behave in an uncivilized manner.
Absolutely. However, you are assuming that I want my Wordpress installation to automatically update, and further that I am willing to give up a lot of sensitive information in order to get that done.
There should be a way to turn this feature off, plain and simple. There is no excuse whatsoever for forcing this down users throats. None. Yes, comment spam and other vulnerabilities are something that needs dealing with. Yes, many, many Wordpress users have the technical ability of Aunt Tillie, hence the 5 minute install. Yes, many of them will never update at all without an auto-update feature.
By all means, activate auto-updates by default. By all means, activate the logging by default. But what possible excuse is there for not allowing a competent end user, or indeed sysadm, to be able to easily turn it off? Simply laziness? Obstinacy? I suspect something else behind this debacle.
Isn't lucrative! Are you insane?! Market minions would pay handsomely for even a whiff of the askimet database as it currently stands. This latest farce is their wet dream come true. Mullenweg can essentially name his price.
I recently installed Wordpress 2.2.3 on a site server. I'm now going to have to consider uninstalling it. Even though 2.3 is the only version confirmed as effected, as of now, the entire Wordpress name is justifiably tainted. I can't really allow a piece of software on the server to send out a deluge of sensitive information to a third party server. It's asking for trouble.
I'm willing to bet that this lobbyist is a former sex worker of some kind, hired specifically for this purpose. Not that it made any difference to the likes of Neri. Politicians and bureaucrats have been embroiled in corruption and sex scandals since time began.
On the bright side, it's nice to see that women now have the same opportunities as men, when it comes to lurid political affairs at least. How egalitarian of the **AA to support this.
Right here in this universe of course.
Recursive function calls, probably.
BitTorrent.
Comrades, you need only be detained for questioning to have your DNA permanently on record.
They're going to end up just taking it a birth or while kids are in school or at hospitals. Unless there are explicit laws disallowing all evidence obtained though knowledge of such surreptitiously obtained DNA, the government will have a free hand to gather any information it wants. Without such laws, judges will cave in the face of teary eyed victims and media pressure, and if you so much as left a hair in a public place ten years ao, the police will be allowed to gather that and add you to their lists.
In case you think there's nothing wrong with this, answer me this. How many wealthy and powerful people do you think have their DNA, or will ever have their DNA, in a government database?
Unfortunately, a lot of mainstream scientists do devolve into this type of behaviour, or never applied proper standards to begin with. In the hard sciences, this is difficult to pull off, but becoming easier I think, as research becomes ever fuzzier and more specialised. One reply to the GP already mentioned String Theory. I think this is the worst example of what fate awaits scientists who abandon the experiment.
In my opinion, the age old problems of pedantry and pretension are becoming institutionalised in some circles, even in the hard sciences. Difficult material is learned by rote by many, and then applied without real understanding. Old theories and methods become almost occult, with people calling on their powers without understanding why. Not strictly Cargo cult thinking, but a close cousin. This problem comes about because of people's insecurities and fears of saying "I don't know". The cult of the all knowing scientist is ironically leading to his ignorance.
This all makes it easier for Cargo Cult science to thrive. If even the experts are largely ignorant of why a method or theory works, then they won't be able to challenge or critique a Cargo Cultist's use of it. We all hear junk science reports chock full of means, correlations and other statistics, but all too few of us know enough about the statistics methods used to adequately assess or critique the study. People swallow junk science reports in a process that essentially amounts to browbeating.
Maybe the culture of science needs changing. Less academic oneupmanship and more intellectual humility. I don't know. But I do know that there are many so called scientists who essentially use other people's ignorance to force their theory through by default.
People need to realise that a lot of those calling themselves scientists are not really scientists at all. They don't apply the scientific method. They massage data regularly. They misapply statistics constantly. They don't subject their theories to falisfiability. They waffle, hand wave, engage in rhetoric, and generally do just about everything except an honest to goodness, old fashioned solid, scientific experiment.
Feynman spotted them over 30 years ago. He called them Cargo Cult Scientists. They put on the appearance of science, but have none of its substance. They give a good performance, like an actor playing a scientists on TV. They wear the clothes, speak the language, seemingly apply the methods. But it's all empty. There's no rigor. There's no insight. There's no real testing going on. It's all just people waving around graphs, and lines, and their qualifications, and formulae they don't understand, to support the theories they want to be true, regardless of whether they are true or not.
It's because in this day and age, you can't be a witchdoctor. You can't appeal to spirits, or gods, or karma, or any of the other philosophical reason thrown up in past ages. We live in "The Age of Reason", and people expect things to be proven to them "scientifically". So all the people who in the past would have risen high by browbeating, appealing to authority and writing great prose, are forced to dress themselves up in white coats and go through the motions of an experiment before they proclaim their great revelations to the world. The experiments however, are just as empty as all the old techniques, and bear only superficial relation to actual science.
Personally, I think it's gotten worse over the last 30 years. The unwillingness of actual scientific communities to challenge the misapplication of their methods by unscientific ones has lead to a dilution of the authority of science as a whole. Under the current regime any half baked psychiatrists can show pictures to 20 undergraduates, record a few squiggles on an MRI, run the numbers through R over and over until he gets what he wants, and proclaim to the world just about whatever he likes, and still be called a scientist! No wonder it's all too easy for the Intelligent Design movement to pose as "real science". Just look at how low the threshold for real science is.
There's only one way to deal with Cargo Cult Scientists. You have to call them out. You have to show how flimsy and false their supposed science really is. You also need to learn all the old rhetorical techniques, because faced with someone who actually knows what they're doing, the Cargo Culter will fall back to very old and time honored methods which enable him to win from a weak or false position. I think the real scientific community owes it to itself to show up these charlatans for what they really are, Con men. If they don't, science will just become more diluted in the long run until the public regards it in the same way it regards homeopathy.
It's not so much the effect of money on you that's the problem. You see, like flies drawn to the stench of rotting meat, money's siren song attracts all manner of undesirables. Lawyers, MBAs, consultants, marketers, more lawyers, salespeople, politicians, con-men, HR departments, and even more lawyers. After they'll all gorged on your company and laid their maggots, and lawyers, in what remains of your putrid offices, they move on to the next fresh source of carrion. You'll try to pick up the pieces, but the damage will be done, and your company will never get the smell of decadence, corruption, or lawyers, out of the carpets.
One possible option is to stay unlimited. The more exposed types tend to keep their distance then, but only by degree. If you really want to get rid of them, the only solution is to keep liquid monies to an absolute minimum I'm afraid.
Did I mention there will be lawyers?
Goodness, a good "tazering" will do them good I say! A bit like the old electric jolts in Bedlam, what-what! Taste of the old cane on raw buttock, but for the modern age! (Meanwhile of course, respectable persons such as ourselves should do all in our power to keep our children's private universities free from decadent the influences that have beset our once proud public colleges.)
One in fifty.
1 in 50.
Now give every one of those one in 50 spy cameras mounted on their lapels. Audio bugs hanging out of every button. Get them to place bugs in their friends houses, hallways, gardens, streets, cars, bedrooms, pets, offices, buses, everywhere. Give the bugs wireless connectivity back to centralized government control offices. Record Everything. Everything.
Does anyone think this won't happen?! Here's a back of the envelope calculation I made earlier.
For audio only, and still quite expensive, but everything is just getting cheaper.
Freedom is Doomed.
P.S.
For the record, I am not a conspiracy nut. I'd like to think of myself as a cynical realist.
God Bless Our Great Nation.
Not only that, but you and the other plebs get to be manhandled, groped and searched by TSA employees, while the elites like these pass through unimpeded at private airfields, as is their sovereign right.
Riemannian geometry was certainly useful prior to the advent of General Relativity, although it is true that it's application there became its prime use. Coordinate transformations and deformations in 3D did have practical purposes before 1915, for example in the deformation of 3D solids, various exotic 3D coorsinate systems, and of course in plain old 2D differential geometry.
You'll be gagged and bound long before you ever get to that point.
The western world nowadays pays only lip service to free speech, if it ever paid it any mind at all. Your free speech is subject to "public opinion" approving of what you have to say, and by "public opinion", we generally mean the mainstream press opinion of what public opinion currently is.
Want to support a rebel group labeled as a terrorist organization? Want to show a picture of Mohamed? Want to eat dog meat? Want to criticize your countries armed forces? Want to swear or show your breast in public? Want to oppose legislation made "For the children"? Want to promote use of an illegal substance?
Well then sorry pal, you're shit out of luck. You are free to say and do what the ruling classes let you say and do. Don't ever think the situation is otherwise. If you ever actually try to fully exercise you supposed rights, you'll quickly see just how limited they really are. The government, the media, academia, the clergy and umpteen other groups will all close in and snuff you out before you've even begun to speak. If you're lucky you might still be speaking, but you can be damn sure that no one will be able to hear.
But the instant you show any preference whatsoever for a member of the opposite sex who is outside your designated "race", congratulations, you now have a deviancy. Our society frowns heavily upon mixed marriages. Unless the person you have your eye on is locally accepted as being of the same "race" as you, you can basically forget about any kind of long term relationship. The weight of your society's disapproval will crush all but the most independent of couples.
And people wonder why there are so little "mixed marriages". When such behavior is tacitly lumped with pedophilia, is it any wonder?