So PZ is going to stop commenting on evopsych and all sorts of social sciences he's never studied?Ape+lust wrote:So Peez, this means you'll quit shoving the drunken slacker up our noses as some sort of important voice that needs hearing?
No, I didn't think so.
Advance condolences on your suicide when it comes out that Carrier splatterspunked on your squeeze toy's face.
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Phone mishap, disregard.Skep tickle wrote:AndrewV69 wrote:So this shows up in whatever you call it on Twat
Must have been distracted.Skep tickle wrote:Phone mishap, disregard.
Ive heard of butt-dialing, but this is the first butt-post Ive seen.Skep tickle wrote:Phone mishap, disregard.Skep tickle wrote:AndrewV69 wrote:So this shows up in whatever you call it on Twat
Casting his eye enviously over the Brexit news, Trump announces that he's going to take the 50 states out of the Union...deLurch wrote:Trump appears to not be doing so hot in the polls right now.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls ... -5952.html
The Muslim incident doesn't appear to have helped him all that much.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls ... -5491.html
I would say that this mostly has come from Trump not even bothering to campaign much recently. He isn't making the news.
My mind reels and staggers with many snark options I fail to decide on one.deLurch wrote:Must have been distracted.Skep tickle wrote:Phone mishap, disregard.
Several years ago, the Russians figured out how to mount those anti-tank missiles on fighter jets. No-one thought that it was possible, but they managed to do it. The reason that these haven't been seen in battle is that ... of all people ... those topless female activists (i.e., the FEMEN) protested violently. It seems that they have a problem with Mig-TOWs.AndrewV69 wrote:I was thinking that one or two pitters might find this interesting:
From War Is Boring What a T-90 Tank Looks Like After Being Hit by a TOW Missile
The only good thing I can say about that episode is that I was mowing the lawn and it kept me energized by anger.Skep tickle wrote:As others have mentioned, it sure seems like I've been hearing claims go more often unquestioned on NPR lately. Caught one example:
Heard it on NPR "TED Radio Hour", host is Guy Raz, show title this week was "Nudge", one segment featured Reshma Saujani, politician & lawyer who founded Girls Who Code (GWC) in 2012. All sorts of companies are enthusiastically supporting GWC; the GWC 7-week Summer Immersion Program for 10th & 11th grade girls is offered free of charge for the students and includes time "at the hottest tech companies in the world!"
The NPR TED Radio Hour segment titled "Can Coding Help Girls Take Risks": audio and transcript.
Saujani's TED talk from earlier this year, titled "Teach Girls Bravery Not Perfection", which was the basis for this segment: video and transcript.
Read or listen to the whole thing if you like; she acknowledges that girls are outperforming boys academically but her view is that girls are taught they should be perfect and boys are taught they should be brave, and her view is that this results in significant drawbacks for girls/women. Not everyone will agree with her take on things, including her description of coding as "an endless process of trial and error". (As an aside, note that she doesn't seem to have a CS or other STEM background, FWIW.)?
I bet!German StrutBoatsman wrote:Every test has to be translated to German first, then approved by experts.deLurch wrote:We get our results immediately here in the US.Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:I did the exam, won't get the results before Wednesday at least. Boy, they sure know how to make candidates stew.
This is what you get for sticking with the EU. /jk
Erudite dad jokes are best dad jokes.Billie from Ockham wrote:Several years ago, the Russians figured out how to mount those anti-tank missiles on fighter jets. No-one thought that it was possible, but they managed to do it. The reason that these haven't been seen in battle is that ... of all people ... those topless female activists (i.e., the FEMEN) protested violently. It seems that they have a problem with Mig-TOWs.AndrewV69 wrote:I was thinking that one or two pitters might find this interesting:
From War Is Boring What a T-90 Tank Looks Like After Being Hit by a TOW Missile
Got some news for you: a faculty committee is not the only way to get due process. I know that this is shocking to the folks who rely on the AAUP to keep the jobs that they aren't qualified to do, but it's actually true.jimmyfromchicago wrote:Yes, even if you're convicted of murder, you're still entitled to due process before your other rights are taken away. The result of the process may be obvious, but you're still entitled to it.
I could care less about snark. My point was that someone else asked about Germany and I answered, but you saw fit to bitch to me about Germany being off-topic. Pay attention, Damion.jimmyfromchicago wrote:That probably came off snarkier than I intended.
Blogs plural? So, what, are his sock puppets going to get their own blogs?
OK. You're getting close. Now who should fire someone for a non-academic infraction? A faculty committee or those who run the entire organization?jimmyfromchicago wrote:"Due process" doesn't mean you can't fire people, it means you have to go through the appropriate procedures to do so. No one's defending Click here, least of all me.Guestus Aurelius wrote:If "due process" means you can't get rid of someone for assault and incitement on the job, then the "due process" is the problem.
Leaving the District of Colombia, American Samoa, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, and Guantanamo Bay.dogen wrote:Casting his eye enviously over the Brexit news, Trump announces that he's going to take the 50 states out of the Union...deLurch wrote:Trump appears to not be doing so hot in the polls right now.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls ... -5952.html
The Muslim incident doesn't appear to have helped him all that much.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls ... -5491.html
I would say that this mostly has come from Trump not even bothering to campaign much recently. He isn't making the news.
The famous/infamous Journal of Pediatrics study that caused all the noise found indirect evidence that one-third of cheerleaders suffered a concussion. Add in the metric of days-of-classes missed and this made cheerleading the most dangerous "sport" for females. But it still wasn't close to the dangers of (American) football.feathers wrote:I can understand brain injury is not the cheerleader's first worry. How about backs and bones?
IEricb wrote:Blogs plural? So, what, are his sock puppets going to get their own blogs?
Interesting. I know nothing of the original article, but quick googling found this:Billie from Ockham wrote:The famous/infamous Journal of Pediatrics study that caused all the noise found indirect evidence that one-third of cheerleaders suffered a concussion. Add in the metric of days-of-classes missed and this made cheerleading the most dangerous "sport" for females. But it still wasn't close to the dangers of (American) football.feathers wrote:I can understand brain injury is not the cheerleader's first worry. How about backs and bones?
http://f.tqn.com/y/history1900s/1/L/l/E/1/manson.jpgCnutella wrote:IEricb wrote:Blogs plural? So, what, are his sock puppets going to get their own blogs?Brive1987 wrote: ...
The suspense is underwhelming.
It's going to be the blogging equivalent of Charlie's Angels.
That's much more recent. The study that caused the big stir was in 2007 or 2008. It doesn't surprise me that injury rates are lower in high-school than college; my local school district has banned throwing little girls in the air, while the university team tried to set a new record for throwing one highest. I didn't know about the guys getting hurt more.Dave wrote:Interesting. I know nothing of the original article, but quick googling found this:Billie from Ockham wrote:The famous/infamous Journal of Pediatrics study that caused all the noise found indirect evidence that one-third of cheerleaders suffered a concussion. Add in the metric of days-of-classes missed and this made cheerleading the most dangerous "sport" for females. But it still wasn't close to the dangers of (American) football.
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/c ... .2015-2447
Which is suggests that cheerleading ranks 18 out of 22 for highschool sports danger.
What amused me was that the rate of injury for boys in cheerleading was nearly twice that of girls.
(Disclaimer, only read the abstract, dont have access to the full article.)
But the best part is, we get the results immediately, too. :Djimmyfromchicago wrote:I bet!German StrutBoatsman wrote:Every test has to be translated to German first, then approved by experts.deLurch wrote:We get our results immediately here in the US.
This is what you get for sticking with the EU. /jk
Everything my google-fu turns up is high-school related. The only thing I see placing cheerleading as first is percentage of catastrophic injuries suffered by highschool women, but that can easily be explained by the popularity of the sport even with a lower rate.Billie from Ockham wrote:
That's much more recent. The study that caused the big stir was in 2007 or 2008. It doesn't surprise me that injury rates are lower in high-school than college; my local school district has banned throwing little girls in the air, while the university team tried to set a new record for throwing one highest. I didn't know about the guys getting hurt more.
There are other ways to get due process, but the university hiring a high-priced law firm to produce a report and cover its ass while it gets rid of a public relations nightmare isn't one of them. Melissa Click is a cunt, but next time they could do this to someone who doesn't deserve this.Billie from Ockham wrote:Got some news for you: a faculty committee is not the only way to get due process. I know that this is shocking to the folks who rely on the AAUP to keep the jobs that they aren't qualified to do, but it's actually true.jimmyfromchicago wrote:Yes, even if you're convicted of murder, you're still entitled to due process before your other rights are taken away. The result of the process may be obvious, but you're still entitled to it.
Educational unions are some of the worst in the US.
I'm not sure where in my comment I was "bitching." I was mildly amused at most.Billie from Ockham wrote:I could care less about snark. My point was that someone else asked about Germany and I answered, but you saw fit to bitch to me about Germany being off-topic. Pay attention, Damion.jimmyfromchicago wrote:That probably came off snarkier than I intended.
CBAs will typically require a panel consisting of a union-side rep, an employer-side rep, and a neutral third party, or employee and management can present their cases to a neutral arbitrator.Billie from Ockham wrote:OK. You're getting close. Now who should fire someone for a non-academic infraction? A faculty committee or those who run the entire organization?jimmyfromchicago wrote:"Due process" doesn't mean you can't fire people, it means you have to go through the appropriate procedures to do so. No one's defending Click here, least of all me.Guestus Aurelius wrote:If "due process" means you can't get rid of someone for assault and incitement on the job, then the "due process" is the problem.
In the Netherlands, theoretical traffic tests have been completely computerised for over 30 years. So what should you attack? A terminal?Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:Used to be like this here as well, but too many examiners got attacked by angry candidates when learning their failure.
Your shoes were made for running, and that's just what they'll do.Aneris wrote:If I was in your shoes, I'd create some artificial boxes for my day marked by ritual. Something like: In the morning I leave some leeway, but no later than time z, I get coffee, then I spend X time to do the paperwork. I have a routine like: every second day, in the evening, get into running shoes. Run three times a week, the remaining seventh day is a day off that I can move around. So when I didn't make it on Mon and Tue, I must run Wed, Fri, and Sun. And getting into thr running shoes is enough to start the thing. I focus on that, not on the running, because once in gear, my mind will anyway force me out onto the track.
She was tenure-track at Mizzou. Feel free to tell us what type of collective bargaining applies in that case. Or were you just bringing up something that you know is irrelevant as a distraction, Damion?jimmyfromchicago wrote:CBAs will typically require a panel consisting of a union-side rep, an employer-side rep, and a neutral third party, or employee and management can present their cases to a neutral arbitrator.
Richard Carrier Blogs. It's a verb. No way is anyone joining him.Ericb wrote:Blogs plural? So, what, are his sock puppets going to get their own blogs?
Not many people expected the second, third, fourth, fifth, etc, coming of the FSM to be some undergrad's face. I'll admit that it caught me off-guard.Service Dog wrote:"Richard Carrier looks like the fuckin' flying spaghetti monster."
Yep. I'm having too much fun to proof-read.jet_lagg wrote:Don't you mean *on* some undergrad's face?
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Wow. Congrats!dogen wrote:So I've just been invited by Princeton University Press to write a book for their "Princeton Series in Astrophysics" line.
Verbing weird language.Shatterface wrote:Richard Carrier Blogs. It's a verb. No way is anyone joining him.Ericb wrote:Blogs plural? So, what, are his sock puppets going to get their own blogs?
Congratulations. That is great news. I hope there is a way to acquire a signed book.dogen wrote:So I've just been invited by Princeton University Press to write a book for their "Princeton Series in Astrophysics" line.
Stick that up your "respected academic press", Dr Sticky Dicky!
I don't want to make any promises -- if I ever complete something, I'd be delighted to share copies; but I'm so fucking disillusioned with my job right now that it will be a miracle if any book ever gets written. Still, this might give me sufficient impetus to get off my flabby arse and claw my way back to productivity.Eskarina wrote:Congratulations. That is great news. I hope there is a way to acquire a signed book.dogen wrote:So I've just been invited by Princeton University Press to write a book for their "Princeton Series in Astrophysics" line.
Stick that up your "respected academic press", Dr Sticky Dicky!
Hmmm. Princeton University Press. Well, it's an Ivy League institution. But does the press have much in the way of cachet? Let's check Wiki:dogen wrote:So I've just been invited by Princeton University Press to write a book for their "Princeton Series in Astrophysics" line.
Stick that up your "respected academic press", Dr Sticky Dicky!
Dicky, if you're lurking: don't go and look for yourself. Just pretend I'm lying. Pretend I'm trolling you. It'll help.Six books from the Princeton University Press have won Pulitzer Prizes.
I don't see no "Dr" and "Ph.D.", so this quite obviously is not our Dr Richard Carrier, Ph.D. (But I must say, the resemblence is uncanny.)
Oh go ahead, you know you want to. ;)dogen wrote:I don't want to make any promises -- if I ever complete something, I'd be delighted to share copies; but I'm so fucking disillusioned with my job right now that it will be a miracle if any book ever gets written. Still, this might give me sufficient impetus to get off my flabby arse and claw my way back to productivity.Eskarina wrote:Congratulations. That is great news. I hope there is a way to acquire a signed book.dogen wrote:So I've just been invited by Princeton University Press to write a book for their "Princeton Series in Astrophysics" line.
Stick that up your "respected academic press", Dr Sticky Dicky!
The theory will be privatized and computerized starting next month. I'm one of the last ones to go through the governmental system. And I'm also one of the lucky few to have signed up for the A license (motorbike, all sizes) before May 31st. New reform has those who signed after that date be obliged to pass the A2 first (two years on a bike not exceeding 32.5kw before they can pass a 7-hours course to get to bigger cylinders).feathers wrote:In the Netherlands, theoretical traffic tests have been completely computerised for over 30 years. So what should you attack? A terminal?Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:Used to be like this here as well, but too many examiners got attacked by angry candidates when learning their failure.
I would also set heavy penalties on such aggression. Boom, 6 months in the slammer with you, and no new chance for the coming 5 years.
Pretty cool! If you don't have the spoons, get it ghost-written by Heina. Should buy you a few decades...dogen wrote:So I've just been invited by Princeton University Press to write a book for their "Princeton Series in Astrophysics" line.
Stick that up your "respected academic press", Dr Sticky Dicky!
I think I know the answer!!Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote: (Plus there was a question: a picture of two women wearing hijabs crossing the street with their kids. Four options: 1) sound the horn, 2) slow down, 3) stop, 4) accelerate. Honestly, it took me a while to answer that one...)
You're a star! When it's out, I'll get to see it in our database no doubt (between the other 260M records).dogen wrote:So I've just been invited by Princeton University Press to write a book for their "Princeton Series in Astrophysics" line.
You missed a chance to say "stick that up your star". Choices choices.Stick that up your "respected academic press", Dr Sticky Dicky!
If you get stuck you can always catalogue all the posts you've made here and publish that. :rimshot:dogen wrote:I don't want to make any promises -- if I ever complete something, I'd be delighted to share copies; but I'm so fucking disillusioned with my job right now that it will be a miracle if any book ever gets written. Still, this might give me sufficient impetus to get off my flabby arse and claw my way back to productivity.Eskarina wrote:Congratulations. That is great news. I hope there is a way to acquire a signed book.dogen wrote:So I've just been invited by Princeton University Press to write a book for their "Princeton Series in Astrophysics" line.
Stick that up your "respected academic press", Dr Sticky Dicky!
Let me guess, you're disillusioned because it dawned on you that them stars are far away. I mean really, really far away. A mindnumbingly bloody outrageously frustrating nerve-wrecking long way away.dogen wrote:I don't want to make any promises -- if I ever complete something, I'd be delighted to share copies; but I'm so fucking disillusioned with my job right now that it will be a miracle if any book ever gets written.
You can combine the horn with a firm trot on the accelerator to give them an honest chance.Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:(Plus there was a question: a picture of two women wearing hijabs crossing the street with their kids. Four options: 1) sound the horn, 2) slow down, 3) stop, 4) accelerate. Honestly, it took me a while to answer that one...)
So how quickly would that bike stop going forward, and start going backward, if those gatlings were fired? Or would the bike flip?Dave wrote:I think I know the answer!!Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote: (Plus there was a question: a picture of two women wearing hijabs crossing the street with their kids. Four options: 1) sound the horn, 2) slow down, 3) stop, 4) accelerate. Honestly, it took me a while to answer that one...)
http://technabob.com/blog/wp-content/up ... n-bike.jpg
It was a trick question. The kids are the property of their father(s).Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:(Plus there was a question: a picture of two women wearing hijabs crossing the street with their kids. Four options: 1) sound the horn, 2) slow down, 3) stop, 4) accelerate. Honestly, it took me a while to answer that one...)
In fact, for me that's one of the coolest aspects of astrophysics. Consider:feathers wrote:Let me guess, you're disillusioned because it dawned on you that them stars are far away. I mean really, really far away. A mindnumbingly bloody outrageously frustrating nerve-wrecking long way away.dogen wrote:I don't want to make any promises -- if I ever complete something, I'd be delighted to share copies; but I'm so fucking disillusioned with my job right now that it will be a miracle if any book ever gets written.
I completely understand. I once wanted to land on one too.
How wrong he was! Not only can we infer the (surface) compositions of stars from their spectra, we can now look inside them using asteroseismology. Some of my mates just published a pair of papers (one observational, one theoretical) where they apply asteroseismology to measure magnetic fields in the cores of red giant stars. Holy shit!Of all objects, the planets are those which appear to us under the least varied aspect. We see how we may determine their forms, their distances, their bulk, and their motions, but we can never known anything of their chemical or mineralogical structure; and, much less, that of organized beings living on their surface ...
Auguste Comte, The Positive Philosophy, Book II, Chapter 1 (1842)
I think there's probably too high a cunt-to-science ratio for my posts to be publishable...free thoughtpolice wrote:If you get stuck you can always catalogue all the posts you've made here and publish that. :rimshot:dogen wrote:I don't want to make any promises -- if I ever complete something, I'd be delighted to share copies; but I'm so fucking disillusioned with my job right now that it will be a miracle if any book ever gets written. Still, this might give me sufficient impetus to get off my flabby arse and claw my way back to productivity.Eskarina wrote: Congratulations. That is great news. I hope there is a way to acquire a signed book.
