Ternaugh Posted August 18, 2021 Report Share Posted August 18, 2021 4 minutes ago, tombrown803 said: Autocorrect is somebody's friend, whoever makes money on it I blame Clippy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted August 18, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 18, 2021 1 hour ago, Cancer said: Autocorrect IS NOT your friend Autocorrect is a pain in the asp. Whoever invented autocorrect can go straight to he'll. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted August 18, 2021 Report Share Posted August 18, 2021 1 hour ago, Ternaugh said: I blame Clippy. Clippy has a lot to answer for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted August 19, 2021 Report Share Posted August 19, 2021 Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted August 19, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2021 It has since been announced that she is no longer employed with the district. Lehi, Utah, High School Teacher Caught on Video Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tombrown803 Posted August 19, 2021 Report Share Posted August 19, 2021 39 minutes ago, Pariah said: It has since been announced that she is no longer employed with the district. Lehi, Utah, High School Teacher Caught on Video Good. Regardless of your views, if the report was accurate than her methods were inappropriate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted August 19, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2021 Yeah, that woman drifted completely off azimuth. You simply cannot behave that way in front of students, especially in a world where you have to consider that a student might be recording every single thing that you say. It's unprofessional, and it's just not smart. And it's just not an appropriate way to treat a bunch of human beings that have been entrusted to your care. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted August 20, 2021 Report Share Posted August 20, 2021 The fantasy of Tolkien’s middle earth cycle/saga brings it closer to reality, than sci-fi series like Star Wars*, Star Trek, Stargate, or Dune*. id put both of these as hybrid myth/sci-fi, one step removed from Middle Earth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 20, 2021 Report Share Posted August 20, 2021 Well, a huge part of that was that Tolkien was a philologist and got the languages and sense of time abyss right. Science fiction tends to speculate more on biological and physics extrapolations, and glosses over the "soft stuff" like languages and folklore. There's lots of sci-fi that tries to root around in speculative social evolution, but it tends to make what I would characterize as "straight-line approximations", where the extrapolations made are clear, and some of the interest in the story comes from the conflicts that arise between these (inconsistent) extrapolations and what has been retained from current culture. Dune (which you characterized as different) made an attempt to show some results of more complex (nonlinear extrapolations) and long-term social evolution in a couple of the early books, which made for a much more impressive work when it first came out. I rather doubt that Herbert worked things out from some kind of set of first principles; rather, he spent more time than his predecessors in speculating about how society might drift over thousands of years of high-tech and a galactic diaspora, and then put his story in that. Star Trek was television, and to some extent it was a set of sci-fi assumptions grafted onto exploration themes fundamentally rooted in 20th Century US TV society tropes, with social evolution held to an absolute minimum (imo) in order to get it accepted by grossly (socially) conservative TV network management. I have not read enough about him to know if Roddenberry had a concept for how he thought humans and human societies would evolve after the invention of FTL technology, but even if he did, he kept it at a minimum because of the restrictions in the TV exec package inherent to the medium he was using. Star Wars, as others have said in these forums, had/has nothing like an internal logic or consistent historical background concept in any possible sense: not physics, not biology, not engineering, not sociology, not economics, nothing. It was just a really cool action movie with breathtaking new visual effects enabled by a big budget and dramatically evolving effects technology. Trying to retrofit a history into it is a fundamentally futile exercise (in terms of story; in terms of marketing more stuff to the fanboys it has been immensely successful). The Star Wars universe is space opera, and space opera doesn't go past guys pained Good versus guys painted Evil. Deeper thinking is excluded by its very nature. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 23, 2021 Report Share Posted August 23, 2021 Nothing I could say would do justice to this EDIT: "faked honesty study" is in one teaser line Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted August 23, 2021 Report Share Posted August 23, 2021 Wow. But then, how do we know the researchers discovering the fraud are being honest? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted August 25, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2021 From tomorrow's activity: The speed limit on Blah-blah Street in front of Blah-blah High School is 35 miles per hour (MPH). However, this being Utah (where 80% of all drivers consider themselves “above average”), many drivers treat “speed limits” more like “suggestions”. Schools are by definition high-traffic areas and should, at least in theory, inspire drivers to slow down. You will determine, by observation, measurement, and calculation, whether this is actually the case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 26, 2021 Report Share Posted August 26, 2021 From the funding agency: Are more than 50% of the vehicles on the street you study travelling faster than the speed limit? NB: if the fraction is above 80%, suggest optimal locations for the anti-vehicle rocket station to halt and punish the miscreants. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted August 26, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 26, 2021 Hmm, high school juniors with rockets. What could go wrong? Lawnmower Boy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 26, 2021 Report Share Posted August 26, 2021 Well, they start shooting each other once all the speeders learn to avoid the street at the school. ... I'm not seeing a downside here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted August 26, 2021 Report Share Posted August 26, 2021 Tolkien bout my generation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted August 26, 2021 Report Share Posted August 26, 2021 This is how real research gets done. Grailknight, Pariah, Lawnmower Boy and 1 other 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 26, 2021 Report Share Posted August 26, 2021 QFT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 1, 2021 Report Share Posted September 1, 2021 Aaah, syllabus templates. Documents some shotgun-wedding committee of braindead education faculty and the political-outrage wing over in Liberal Arts stapled together out of a conceptually inconsistent compost heap wishlist of irrelevancies. Things to puff up the delusions of importance in those who obsess over such things. Jesus, this most recent version is 20 pages long?!?! I'm not even going to read all that, let alone fill it in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tombrown803 Posted September 2, 2021 Report Share Posted September 2, 2021 Remember Cancer, they want it typed, in triplicate. Filled out on a computer and printied multiple times doesn't count Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 2, 2021 Report Share Posted September 2, 2021 Oh, I know that. That's what random text generators are for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 13, 2021 Report Share Posted September 13, 2021 Classes don't start for ten days, but the meetings are well kicked off now. (Second cup of coffee in hand now.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 13, 2021 Report Share Posted September 13, 2021 More than five million emails sent to student email addresses in Sept 2020. Fewer than 40% of them opened. Administrators are annoyed. Administrators are annoyed more when someone points out that that number is (at smallest) in the ball park of 50 per student per weekday, and students are not under the same delusions of administrator importance that the administrators have. Hermit and tkdguy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted September 14, 2021 Report Share Posted September 14, 2021 "Moore's Law of Mad Science: Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point." ELIEZER YUDKOWSKY Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 16, 2021 Report Share Posted September 16, 2021 ... which follows directly from the progress in the background research efforts related to that project. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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