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1. I had to look that up and the whole situation is completely retarded on many levels.
2. Completely avoiding the debate about whether or not Dawkins was being a douche here, which I do not want to touch with a 10 foot pole ever in my life, any other hypothetical situation in which someone who is otherwise highly educated acts in ignorance doesn't refute my point here. Ignorance about sexism is something that we are trained in by society. Being an incredibly intelligent person doesn't make you immune to it. Overcoming that training towards ignorance isn't easy or automatic.
No one has ever gotten a Nobel Prize in mathematics. smug.gif
It's gotta be true I heard it on a podcast.
Fill in the blanks?
The ___ was ___
Or just describing you doing something to an object?
Like pick up a pencil
"The pencil was picked up"
I do wish there was a convenient way to ping myself on someone else's Google Maps app or Facebook or something. I think Facebook let you do it at one point.
Would've saved me SO much time trying to guide people around who were trying to pick me up on campus.
See? Just like I said!
He wrote, dubsteppingly
Oh you sweet summer child. (I kid, I kid)
The trick is finding something my students can do and would find interesting enough to actually do.
Google Latitude
He already did, I thought, in his post about the history of copyright.
Nope, Super PACs (termed "Independent Expenditure-only Filers by the FEC) are quarterly filers. You can read all of their quarterlies on the FEC website, including their donors and how much are given. That the Super PAC as a political instrument is somehow not quite yet fucking broken enough is what lead a lot of organizations -- primarily conservative ones -- to request 501(c)(4) status.
Most of the political boogeymen of 2012 that are frequently referred to as "Super PACs" -- like Crossroads GPS -- were actually 501(c)(4)'s, which is why there's some confusion about the distinction now.
Makes me feel old and old.
Being incredibly smart can actually entrench such views.
The anime was renewed by the studio for another season
didn't even have ipads
In a previous life, gooey was a serf who stubbed dep for a loving.
No, copyright isn't censorship, unless you stretch the meaning of censorship out to meaninglessness. A book, song, movie, etc. isn't an idea.
I will say, however, that people in the past appear unbelievably cruel and callous.
Granted, this is largely because they didn't have a very large circle of empathy. There tended to be a relatively small group of people that they really thought of as people, and when we fail to think of others in the same way today we can reach the same extremes.
you could ask a roman what zero was and they would be all confused
Which is why con artists see intelligent individuals as good marks.
I have a confession.
I am not actually a teacher type person.
I am going to die when I TA this year.
they didn't have wobble bass
Ah. Yeah I'm pretty keen on reading the academic retrospectives on the impact of superPACs and 501c4's on the vote post-Citizens United.
before wobble and antewobble
Just bring a whip to class.
Well, people are still callous.
They appear cruel and callous, sure, but... really that's only because the suffering was right in front of them.
neal stephenson too smart to be sexist snow crash etc etc etc
Oh yeah, definitely. This is a huge thing that the spread of information and the ease of communication has done for us, as long with ease of travel (so printing press, telegraph, telephone, airplane, internet, etc).
When the people you are fighting are "those people over the hill who make funny noises out of their mouths and are different than us" it's pretty easy to be monstrous. As opposed to, "Oh, that island over there is Indonesia. A guy from there is in my WoW Guild and he has two cute kids."
But yeah, I mean, people used to burn cats alive for entertainment and stuff.
The passive is just really inventions, discoveries, formal language, newspapers, and political deception.
A guessing game on inventions? You could do it by name, nationality, or even year.
Play Wits & Wagers Family (you can get the rules from BGG) with invention years. That's good for young people, who are often unaware of the passage of history, but are too uninformed to talk about specific individuals.
E.g. What year was the TV invented in? Students write down a year (in teams). You put their answers up in the board. Students guess which is closest without going over the true answer. And then bet their tokens/meeples on the answer they think is correct.
I had the quote in my head but I couldn't come up with the source.
This is a good plan.
It is up there with "hire a body double" and "kill self, teach as ghost who does not know fear"
"It was, of course, nothing more than sexism, the especially virulent type espoused by male techies who sincerely believe that they are too smart to be sexists."
i don't really see how this helps anything
copyright horseshit goes into its own thread now or it stops. i am desperately tired of hedgie and echo and everyone else fencing about it in here.
well, i say fencing, but that suggests an elegance that isn't actually at all present
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