Happy 3rd Pit Birthday!

#31741

http://cdn.meme.am/instances/500x/58666709.jpg

#31742

Wonder how long PZ is going to tolerate the "Bags are packed" link to Ophelia's blog now that she's gone full-on Greerish transphobe and is explicitly insulting his bloggers.

#31743

http://imgur.com/dojm1ih.jpg

#31744

Lel. The latest comment at Peez's is dredging up Occupy and blaming the big mean media for making it look like a joke.

No, what actually happened was that the movement completely lost its original aims of banking reform and turned into yet another identity politics clusterfuck. It DID become a joke. And people who actually wanted some sort of meaningful financial regulation or debt forgiveness are still pretty pissed about it all.

At this point, the working class in America have NO political friends or allies. The right shits on them and calls them lazy. The left shits on them and calls them racist and sexist.

#31745

Click for a larger image.

http://i.imgur.com/tjr9b1N.png

#31746

Fuck it. This time with October properly labelled

http://i.imgur.com/Lj2bM36.png

#31747

Sunder wrote:Lel. The latest comment at Peez's is dredging up Occupy and blaming the big mean media for making it look like a joke.

No, what actually happened was that the movement completely lost its original aims of banking reform and turned into yet another identity politics clusterfuck. It DID become a joke. And people who actually wanted some sort of meaningful financial regulation or debt forgiveness are still pretty pissed about it all.

At this point, the working class in America have NO political friends or allies. The right shits on them and calls them lazy. The left shits on them and calls them racist and sexist.

Yeah Peez, like the media shouldn't have documented the idjits ignoring John Fucking Lewis when he came by to talk to them. He was their entre to real power and they were more interested in fine tuning their progressive stack or some other nonsense. It was appalling and on video for the whole world to see.

Puppets, facepaint, and drum circles; grievances from trans rights to saving whales jockeying to steal attention from the main protest. This happens every damn time liberal Americans turn out for a protest. I desperately wish it was due to COINTELPRO, so I don't have to believe the Left is so mind-roastingly stupid.

#31748

You guys and gals will thank me later: Hermione vs the Patriarchy!

[youtube]JXWBuoYc8SI[/youtube]

#31749

fuzzy wrote:A Missouri professor who refused to cancel an exam resigns after backlash..

Under intense pressure, Dr. Brigham has both cancelled the exam and resigned from the university, according to screenshots posted online of an email from Dr. Brigham to his students.

“The exam is cancelled. Our students will be able to take the exam at an alternate date with no loss of points,” Dr. Brigham told students. “No one will have to come to class today. And, I am resigning my position.”
http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=6971

Campusreform wrote:UPDATE: According to KOMU, a spokesperson for the University of Missouri said the school will not accept Dr. Brigham's resignation

#31750

Brive1987 wrote:The best and brightest inter-sectional feminists happily accept trans-gendered women as 'women'. I don't believe sex reassignment is a necessary component.

If you had to determine the gender of a non reassigned trans-woman (Turing style - via a terminal) - what 5 SJ approved personal questions could you ask?

Obviously "do you identify as a man/woman, are you oppressed by men? Are you a lesbian" begging the question probes are out.

Would they really resort to socially constructed badges of oppression (pink/perfume/dress) as positive indicators? Or is there a secret I'm not in on?

This is seriously doing my head in. :doh: :doh: :think: :think:

This brings to mind that bearded, "male-presenting" 'woman' we ~~laughed at~~ discussed a few days ago.

Have any of the anti-Ophelia crowd spoken out in support of this particular man's right to spout utter bullshit and have it respected without question? Because it seems like they might struggle to stay on message there without looking obviously ridiculous.

#31751

The media strike back: MIZZOU HUNGER STRIKER Claims He’s Oppressed, Rips ‘White Privilege’ – Comes From Family Worth $20 Million

Jonathan Butler, the University of Missouri graduate student who went on a weekend hunger strike, comes from a family worth $20 million. His father is a railroad vice president and made over $8 million last year.

#31752

Cnutella wrote:Melody, perhaps starved of attention post-CFI, chums the waters of Twitter once again...

What an unselfaware imbecile. This woman's entire internet fame is based solely around the fact she has been gaslighting herself for a number of years. The bulk of the criticism she has recieved is from people telling her there's nothing wrong with her - the complete opposite of gaslighting.

To quote Sam Harris, albeit out of context - how can something this tragically absurd be possible?

#31753

Well how about that old Mizzou shit and everyone getting fired and the whole place being burned to the ground by the old SJWs ey

In other news I have just discovered I have a perfect vagina. Maybe that's why I'm a chill girl, because my vagina is perfect.

#31754

Guestus Aurelius wrote:His words were reported mostly accurately, but they were entirely divorced from their context so that readers would think he was seriously suggesting that labs should be segregated by gender. The missing context (everything he said before and after about the importance of women in science and not letting "chauvinist monsters" like him get in their way) came out later, after the public shaming, and that made two things quite clear: A) he was joking, and B) the reporters had done their job very badly.

I'd like to argue that he wasn't making an offhand, somewhat misplaced joke; he was presenting a persiflage of the sexist attitude he later deplores. People like Connie St Louis were not there as honest journalists, but as Unofficial STASI Informants, going around and trying to nail people for the merest perceived transgression against feminist doctrine.

#31755

So apparently S.T. Joshi is boycotting the World Fantasy Convention and returning his World Fantasy Awards because, in his view, the convention has kowtowed to social justice warriors.

stjoshi(dot)org/news.html

#31756

rayshul wrote:Well how about that old Mizzou shit and everyone getting fired and the whole place being burned to the ground by the old SJWs ey

In other news I have just discovered I have a perfect vagina. Maybe that's why I'm a chill girl, because my vagina is perfect.

Did it pass a test or something?

#31757

feathers wrote:
Guestus Aurelius wrote:His words were reported mostly accurately, but they were entirely divorced from their context so that readers would think he was seriously suggesting that labs should be segregated by gender. The missing context (everything he said before and after about the importance of women in science and not letting "chauvinist monsters" like him get in their way) came out later, after the public shaming, and that made two things quite clear: A) he was joking, and B) the reporters had done their job very badly.
I'd like to argue that he wasn't making an offhand, somewhat misplaced joke; he was presenting a persiflage of the sexist attitude he later deplores. People like Connie St Louis were not there as honest journalists, but as Unofficial STASI Informants, going around and trying to nail people for the merest perceived transgression against feminist doctrine.

Persiflage. What an excellent word. One that I did not know before just now.

That's two things that I have learnt from the Pit in the last minute. A new word and that rayshul has a world champion vagina.

#31758

Oh, and that we have a new member VR Guy. Welcome. Fuck off. Yada yada. Basket of sausages. Mumble. Something.

#31759

rayshul wrote:Well how about that old Mizzou shit and everyone getting fired and the whole place being burned to the ground by the old SJWs ey

In other news I have just discovered I have a perfect vagina. Maybe that's why I'm a chill girl, because my vagina is perfect.

PIcs or GTFO

#31760

http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/x/sausage-6338563.jpg
VE Guy, here is your basket of links.

Guest_84d94f98 · #31761

Clarence wrote:
rayshul wrote:Well how about that old Mizzou shit and everyone getting fired and the whole place being burned to the ground by the old SJWs ey
In other news I have just discovered I have a perfect vagina. Maybe that's why I'm a chill girl, because my vagina is perfect.
PIcs or GTFO

Clarence. No U.

-Soylent f98

#31762

http://imgur.com/jbAkydy.jpg

#31763

Hmm. Previously I would have thought that PZ was drunk, if you'd said that he was shit faced.

Now that term is lost to me. Thanks Ape+lust.

#31764

Really? wrote:I don't think that I've seen anyone notice that the "author" of the "essay" is Daniel Waddell, frequent Freethought Blogs commenter and sphincter licker of those bloggers.

Then PZ Myers will soon have a posting starting with:

I wouldn't be suprised if PZ Myers wrote:Look, our own Waddell has a column...

#31765

Brive1987 wrote:I really must applaud PZ and the central committee on taking the bull by the horns and providing new direction and leadership for the network after the losses of the August Offensive.

PZ knows that, with the attack of Steiner, everything will be alright.

#31766

Parody Accountant wrote:
dogen wrote:So I was on the train today to go and give a seminar at a university. And some fucker stole my briefcase, containing my laptop, wallet and phone. 5 months research on stellar seismology mostly down the tubes. And so it goes.
Dang. Do you have the app on your phone to track your lost or stolen phone? Not sure if that works

Yeah, my wife saw them driving off with it on her laptop! But now they've turned it off.

#31767

Guest_84d94f98 wrote:[quote="dogen"

I do use it, but only for sharing files with others. Does Dropbox do versioning? What if it goes down? What are the security implications of putting everything in Dropbox?

Well you can use it for synching your files between laptop & online. They are not the only game in town, but they are an option if you don't know who else to use.
dropbox.com/en/help/175

They keep versions for the past 30 days:
dropbox.com/help/11

Upgrade to Pro and your versions are kept for 1 year.
dropbox.com/help/113

That last option is great in case you get infected with a stealth virus that is undiscovered for a bit of time. That way you can go back before the infection and get good versions of your data/document files.

Hell, one hit from a cryptolocker variant could have lost you your work too.

Everyone else here on the board, take dogen's case as an example and a warning to protect your data. House fires, home robberies, stolen laptop, lost laptop, unruly nieces & nephews, hard drives going bad. You should just expect that you are going to have a catastrophic data failure of some sort. Because i know it has happened to all of you in the past. Protecting your data so that all you have to do is replace your computer & programs to get back working will save you a heck of a lot of time and stress.

-Soylent f98[/quote]

Thanks to you and all the others who've provided helpful advice. One addendum: figure out what to do about backups when you are away from your home base for an extended period of time. In my case, being on sabbatical means that my daily backups stopped occurring (because Apple's Time Machine doesn't work when I'm not on the same subnet as my Time Capsule -- even though it should). Having a cloud-based backup service will certainly help with this.

#31768

Service Dog wrote:Waitaminute... I'm not really paying attention to this Caitlyn Jenner thing.... is the new hubbub that she said the hardest part of being a woman is deciding what to wear? And bats like Ophelia Benson are flapping-mad... because Jenner didn't say the hardest-part is something like 'not being able to get an abortion in Iraq', or whatevs?

I'm probably greatly ninja'd-- if I point-out that Jenner is being honest about what's the hardest part for a rich, famous, tv star. And, also, he's sorta saying it's the part the comes least-naturally. Which... don't tons of respected feminists say 'performing femininity' is a huge, unnatural burden for women?

Also-- there's an essay in The Cultural Studies Reader. I've probably posted from-it previously... about how Feminism requires women-- as part of "identifying as" a woman-- to "identify with" women who are less and less like themselves. So an able-bodied, college-educated white suburban US soccer mom-- is supposed to 'identify with' a legless illiterate pygmy HIV+ hermaphrodite sex slave in the Congo.

So Jenner's sjw thoughtcrime is identifying-with her own actual experience too-much, and not pretending to relate to more oppressed women.

I think she wanted to hear more about stare-rape, microaggressions, mansplaining, & the other horrors 1st world trust fund princesses like Oafie are forced to brave. Jenner is a media sensation over a SJW-related gender issue but isn't using s/h/it's public megaphone to promote Oafie's ideology.

Also, she's jealous. No one tells Oafie how brave she is for being a mannish, unattractive old lady despite her having been one for centuries. That's gotta grate.

#31769

Stupidity like this is the reason it's impossible to feel sorry for Laughing Witch and her ilk:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-c ... -1.3301524

Nobody has said those things on the internet before!

#31770

Brive1987 wrote:Click for a larger image.

http://i.imgur.com/tjr9b1N.png

You forgot the Avicenna Boot, 3 Jan or thereabouts.

#31771

Sunder wrote:Lel. The latest comment at Peez's is dredging up Occupy and blaming the big mean media for making it look like a joke.

No, what actually happened was that the movement completely lost its original aims of banking reform and turned into yet another identity politics clusterfuck. It DID become a joke. And people who actually wanted some sort of meaningful financial regulation or debt forgiveness are still pretty pissed about it all.

At this point, the working class in America have NO political friends or allies. The right shits on them and calls them lazy. The left shits on them and calls them racist and sexist.

The working class have been thrown under the bus since the 70's, both in the US and the Uk. It is particularly apparent in the US where one struggles to find any reference to a 'working' class now. Everyone is 'middle-class' even the most blueshirted of workers. Here in the Uk the one demographic that is consistently failing in education is white working-class boys, unfortunately as privileged, shitlord rapists in waiting, any suggestions that they should be prioritised to bring them up to the same educational standards as the rest of society are quickly pooh-poohed by the upper-middle-class white liberal feminists who dominate education. Marxism has always been a luxury of the middle-class as the kind of revolutionary rhetoric they employ has a tendency to lose working-class people their jobs. It is considerably easier to agitate for revolution when it's Daddy who owns the factory where you are a middle manager, or you are in the ivory towers of academia with tenure. Poverty breeds fear not revolution.
/end rant

#31772

Cnutella wrote:Melody, perhaps starved of attention post-CFI, chums the waters of Twitter once again...

And she got what she wanted - dozens of responses, all of them contemptuous of her Twitter "PTSD". I'm sure she feels better now that she can claim victimhood again.

I can't link to it right now, but if you go to the tweet you'll see that even Thunderf00t got a reply in.

#31773

rayshul wrote:In other news I have just discovered I have a perfect vagina. Maybe that's why I'm a chill girl, because my vagina is perfect.

Pics or it isn't.

#31774

Thanks fuzzy and KiwiInOz. Been here a while. Used to post as "Some Lurker" but the guest-post-email-bug got me to finally register.

I was also the guy arguing with Tribble about virtual reality.

#31775

grmfl ninjaed again

#31776

rayshul wrote:In other news I have just discovered I have a perfect vagina. Maybe that's why I'm a chill girl, because my vagina is perfect.

Perfect AND Important!
I once had a doctor say 'Smashing thank you!' after he had performed a prostate exam. I replied that it was 'my pleasure, any time.' It's at times like that I'm proud to be English. Although in retrospect I should probably have made some sort of complaint and dragged him through the mud ruining his career. I just don't SJW well.

#31777

Welcome, VR. Since you're an old customer, you get an older, slightly scruffy lynx.
http://i66.tinypic.com/2q3432w.jpg

#31778

On my lynx hunt, I came across this one. The little one looks as if he just got surprise buttsecks.

http://lovemeow.com/wp-content/uploads/ ... 34x414.jpg

#31779

feathers wrote:
Brive1987 wrote:Click for a larger image.

http://i.imgur.com/tjr9b1N.png
You forgot the Avicenna Boot, 3 Jan or thereabouts.

Oh and, Jamila Bey at CPAC, 26 Feb.

#31780

jimthepleb wrote:
rayshul wrote:In other news I have just discovered I have a perfect vagina. Maybe that's why I'm a chill girl, because my vagina is perfect.
Perfect AND Important!
I once had a doctor say 'Smashing thank you!' after he had performed a prostate exam. I replied that it was 'my pleasure, any time.' It's at times like that I'm proud to be English. Although in retrospect I should probably have made some sort of complaint and dragged him through the mud ruining his career. I just don't SJW well.

:lol:

#31781

The Guardian's Comment is Free seems to have been mysteriously silent on the Missouri Shitler case.

I wonder if they've concluded its a hoax but are afraid to say that out loud?

Guest_c3b5c8f6 · #31782

"That's just the fear of patriarchy...", quoth the Token Dame on QI series M episode 4.

[youtube]ipFIxrsYSxs[/youtube]

So, for those not in the know (likely very few here), QI is a brilliant comic panel TV show in the UK, focusing on debunking misguided myths, examining "common sense", and challenging its panelists with facts that run ramshackle over General Ignorance, hosted by the ever-more-brilliant Stephen Fry, now in its 13th season. It is essentially skepticism manifested in popular and frequently hilarious form, marketed and appreciated by the masses.

Last year or so, they opted to require a female guest on the show for every episode. There have already been numerous occasional and repeat female guests: Sandi Toksvig, Jo Brand, Sue Perkins, Victoria Coren-Mitchell, Ronni Ancona, and many others, and most have contributed and been hilarious to the show. However, since the mandate, they have been cycling through Token Women on each episode. Most have been worthwhile, funny, and contributing, but this is the first time I have utterly been sickened by their choice of guest (excluding the ventriloquist incident).

So after the long intro, seriously, what the fuck is going on? The mystical, mythical force of "Patriarchy", while we have seen it being discussed across many fora (mostly inconsequential, unless you consider the lack of competitiveness the West will face after running an entire generation through mandatory tertiary "education" of undisprovable bullshit), that it is now being discussed as if it's serious to the 64 million people in the UK and countless overseas fans, all I can do is repeat: "What the fucking fuckety fuck?"

P.S. For the quote-mining lurkers, I believe in equality of opportunity for all humans.

#31783

feathers wrote:
Brive1987 wrote:Click for a larger image.

You forgot the Avicenna Boot, 3 Jan or thereabouts.

Nice. Ill update tomorrow.

#31784

Service Dog wrote:Elyse has been in the hospital for a few days but I thought it lacked any dimension worthy of mention.
It was slightly funny when her commenters responded to her chest pain complaint with cliched armchair "acid reflux" diagnoses...
pissing-off Elyse, because she doesn't have a stomach. Elyse's self diagnosis is She's hinting that it might be fatal heart disease and/or cancer.

One of her male sycophants got turned-on by her describing washing her crotch with a bedpan hose, they started talking dirty, he posted a selfie offering "hugs", she replied "No. That's close enough." He took her no-means-no seriously, so she had a little tantrum & announced that her "no" was "passive-aggressive" flirtation, not a real 'no'. Fuck these idiots.

Elyse's crew reports that they don't feel veganism is an intersectional feminist issue, just because some exploited animals are female. I think they're garbling the 'sexual politics of meat' argument-- which is that patriarchal colonial sadistic domination of food animals normalizes cruelty/ which then makes it easy to treat women poorly also. Nazi SS officers practiced killing dogs, to prepare themselves to kill humans, etc.

Elyse announces she is opposed to the polyamory practice of having "veto power" and "primary, secondary", tertiary partners (as espoused by Dr. Richard Carrier, PhD.), because it is "monogamy of commitment", and unfair to give less to some partners than others. But she also says it's "gross" to say the primary partners are "privileged"

All these tidbits are beneath my threshold of give a fuck/ but together they add up to an odd little snapshot of sjw drivel.

Goddamn she sucks

#31785

Søren Lilholt wrote:
Cnutella wrote:Melody, perhaps starved of attention post-CFI, chums the waters of Twitter once again...

What an unselfaware imbecile. This woman's entire internet fame is based solely around the fact she has been gaslighting herself for a number of years. The bulk of the criticism she has recieved is from people telling her there's nothing wrong with her - the complete opposite of gaslighting.

To quote Sam Harris, albeit out of context - how can something this tragically absurd be possible?

Also, just like the other twenty or so times she's done this, her replies predictably fill up with people telling her she's a fraud. Maybe this is Melody's home-rolled version of exposure therapy? Possibly there's a disability assessment coming up?

Karma, if such a Boojum were to exist, would dictate that such a case be decided by an assessor who survived an IED near-miss in Iraq.

#31786

VR Guy wrote:So apparently S.T. Joshi is boycotting the World Fantasy Convention and returning his World Fantasy Awards because, in his view, the convention has kowtowed to social justice warriors.

stjoshi(dot)org/news.html

S. T. Joshi wrote:Dear Mr. Hartwell:

I was deeply disappointed with the decision of the World Fantasy Convention to discard the bust of H. P. Lovecraft as the emblem of the World Fantasy Award. The decision seems to me a craven yielding to the worst sort of political correctness and an explicit acceptance of the crude, ignorant, and tendentious slanders against Lovecraft propagated by a small but noisy band of agitators.

I feel I have no alternative but to return my two World Fantasy Awards, as they now strike me as irremediably tainted. Please find them enclosed. You can dispose of them as you see fit.

Please make sure that I am not nominated for any future World Fantasy Award. I will not accept the award if it is bestowed upon me.

I will never attend another World Fantasy Convention as long as I live. And I will do everything in my power to urge a boycott of the World Fantasy Convention among my many friends and colleagues.

Yours,
S. T. Joshi

I don't agree with many of Joshi's opinions on things, but I respect his work, and I most definitely respect this principled stand. Somehow I suspect there are any number of other Lovecraft fans who feel the same. Insulting such an influential figure (i.e. Lovecraft) in this way might prove… unwise. At least I hope so.

I also love the way he ends his post:

S. T. Joshi wrote:And that is all I will have to say on this ridiculous matter. If anyone feels that Lovecraft’s perennially ascending celebrity, reputation, and influence will suffer the slightest diminution as a result of this silly kerfuffle, they are very much mistaken.

#31787

Feathers slapped dogen around with a large piece of trout.

Lsuoma sets mode +kb Feathers.ip.range

Feathers was kicked from #slymeIRC (reason: no trout!) ... autokick via BitchX, baby.

#31788

Hey, no panic! It can still be eaten.

#31789

[youtube]i9SSOWORzw4[/youtube]

#31790

Parody Accountant wrote:Feathers slapped dogen around with a large piece of trout.

Lsuoma sets mode +kb Feathers.ip.range

Feathers was kicked from #slymeIRC (reason: no trout!) ... autokick via BitchX, baby.

Oh dear, IRC! That brings back old memories (I haven't used it since around 2006)

#31791

feathers wrote:
ThreeFlangedJavis wrote:
feathers wrote:Fortunately(?), the radfems don't seem to be gathered in a single party under an authoritarian central command. The heavens forbid they should ever manage to found such a party and gain political traction.
Not the rank and file, however there are very influential feminist organisations like NOW in the US. I do get the impression from listening to Erin Pizzey that the takeover of feminism by the Marxists in the 60's/70's was very organized and what we see now is the fruit of deliberate infiltration of academia and government funded 'charitable' organisations. The feminist narrative is now so firmly rooted that central control is not needed. It's all self-perpetuating. The dogma, in common with cults, contains many thought terminating elements and provides the susceptible with ways of dismissing counter arguments in order to maintain the belief. We are at the stage where even the victims of the narrative, particularly white males, can't see the extent of the distortion.
Is there evidence for this Marxist infiltration? Like, KGB money flow, filmed meetings of KGB agents or American communist leaders with feminist leaders and so on? It's easy getting the impression of a conspiracy, but the proof is in the politburo.

Here's one that might be an example of that. Kathleen Wynne, a feminist politician who believes that modern Ontario is a rape culture ( http://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/ ... tario.html ) meets with communist officials behind closed doors ( http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/k ... -1.3260018 ).

Also, problem glasses! :lol:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... h_2015.jpg

#31792

Parody Accountant wrote:Feathers slapped dogen around with a large piece of trout.

Lsuoma sets mode +kb Feathers.ip.range

Feathers was kicked from #slymeIRC (reason: no trout!) ... autokick via BitchX, baby.

Now that's a blast from the past.

<triggered>

#31793

Parody Accountant wrote:Feathers slapped dogen around with a large piece of trout.

Lsuoma sets mode +kb Feathers.ip.range

Feathers was kicked from #slymeIRC (reason: no trout!) ... autokick via BitchX, baby.

Huh, what did I miss?

#31794

It'll be interesting to see how the Lovecraft thing plays out since he's also adored by SJ leaning writers like China Meiville and liberal left figures like Alan Moore.

#31795

Now look. Tampons are transphobic and should be called Transpons. Also we demand a brand called Dynapons, with EXPLOSIVE written on the side which should have REAL fuse chord for ease of extraction.

Also, chess is sexist and racist: Why should white always go first? Why can't Black go first, eh eh? Don't #blackpawnsmatter? And why should the Queen always have to run around protecting the stupid King? And what's this brown swastika shit doing on E4? And Transatlantic has to be sexist somehow. Triggered. :hankey:

#31796

If species and sexual dimorphism are purely social constructs, then is it not wrong, nee, deeply immoral to impose such classifications onto animals?

And would it not also be morally righteous and correct to say that all brainless anencephalics are sexless, since bio sex is purely a social construct? Sex must absolutely not be assigned to any anencephalic that is born. It cannot choose a gender and will never be able to but that is irrelevant if bio sex itself is purely imaginary and has no basis in objective reality.

But if bio sex is purely imaginary and as Danah told steers, subjective feelies always ttrump objective fact, then why can we not continue to perpetuate the fantasy that is sexual dimorphism,?

I now has headache.

#31797

dogen wrote:
Tribble wrote:
dogen wrote: No backups since July, which is when I started my 6-month sabbatical in the UK. I've been regularly committing my software to repos throughout, so that's OK; the loss is mainly things like notes, figures, log files, etc.
Drop box. Get it. Use it. You'll be happy you did.
I do use it, but only for sharing files with others. Does Dropbox do versioning? What if it goes down? What are the security implications of putting everything in Dropbox?

Security implications are better than briefcase train method.

#31798

feathers wrote:
Skep tickle wrote:The student body president at Mizzou apparently FB-posted last night that the KKK had been seen on campus and the sighting confirmed, and that he was working with the MU PD, National Guard, and state police in light of that. Turns out, the 1st part was rumor or misunderstanding and the 2nd part appears to have been an exaggeration.
People fetching their white linen from the laundromat had better beware.

Is that a threadt?

#31799

Cnutella wrote:
Parody Accountant wrote:Feathers slapped dogen around with a large piece of trout.

Lsuoma sets mode +kb Feathers.ip.range

Feathers was kicked from #slymeIRC (reason: no trout!) ... autokick via BitchX, baby.
Now that's a blast from the past.

<triggered>

I have no idea wtf you lot are talking about. Ok, I got the bit about fish slapping. But after that its random letters all the way down.

#31800

Lsuoma wrote:
fuzzy wrote:A Missouri professor who refused to cancel an exam resigns after backlash..

Under intense pressure, Dr. Brigham has both cancelled the exam and resigned from the university, according to screenshots posted online of an email from Dr. Brigham to his students.

“The exam is cancelled. Our students will be able to take the exam at an alternate date with no loss of points,” Dr. Brigham told students. “No one will have to come to class today. And, I am resigning my position.”
http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=6971
American tertiary education has fucked itself to the ground. I have no sympathy.

I think what we are seeing is the further collapse of the traditional "humanities" style of higher education. Universities used to brag about being able to make better citizens regardless of what was studied. They bragged about setting up the next generation to make themselves and the world a better place. They cling to this idea even when they can no longer effectively supply this product. So, the humanities departments get more and more radical and ideological. Meanwhile, the cost of education skyrockets because of declining support from the government and higher expectations for services (gyms, dorms, libraries, computer support).

There are two groups of people going to uni. Those who want training and a good career, and those who want to change the world through social justice. These two groups are at odds and have very different goals. It is always interesting to see that the SJWs can't pay their student loans so they want a government bailout.... a bailout from the same government they are trying to tear down. I end with my usual old white dood reply.... "Get a job."