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Mladen Janković wrote: Feminist Code: Critical Code Studies Working Group 2014 | HASTAC[^]
In a rational world, the author of this piece of drivel would be tarred, feathered, and run out of her university on a rail.
In our world, she'll probably be put on the short track to tenure. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Well that's one 'possibility space', certainly but let's not get too caught up in paradigmatic analysis too hastily lest we collapse the dialectic. It is essential that we lucubrate on perambulation before we envisage accelerated motion.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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You, sir, are a doubleplusgood duckspeaker 
(see Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Four)
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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For years I was saying, that we value to much the research universities make...so we give too much money to run them and we end up with such idiotic results...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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This sort of article just show how rich we have all become - we can afford to waste tens of thousands of dollars on people who couldn't express a coherent thought to save their lives.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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The problem is that university tenure now depends so much on publishing rather than genuine results or teaching ability that lecturers and professors simply do not have time to reflect on their latest brilliants ideas. It has to be got down on paper and into a journal asap. It's quantity not quality that vice-chancellors and department heads will be totting up at the end of each academic year.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Tell me about that...
One of our customers, became an university (from collage) not too lately... It was some horrible place even before (they run for the research money to get the 'university' label), but now it is just catastrophic...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Another in our occasional series of new albums that I didn't think I'd enjoy but are getting more than a cursory second listening: Limitless by Tonight Alive
Sample track: To Be Free[^]
This is the second album by an Ozzie band which has got some criticism from the native rock press for the abandonment of punk elements in the first and for being too polished but you can't have everything. Bit of a genre defying outing with all kinds of influences (this track even suggests a bit of Little Big Town style country in places) but with a familiar pop/rock foundation (sometimes bordering on rock cliche but rescued by outstanding vocals).
Anyway, enjoy ... or not. There won't be a test! 
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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9082365 wrote: the native rock press
Why, what does this have to do with rock?
It's just a nice and catchy pop song
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Sander Rossel wrote: Why, what does this have to do with rock?
That's the question they're asking. The band's initial reputation was built on a much harder, less pure, punk.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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IDETLIAID
Life is too shor
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Iditarod[^]
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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We've all been there[^]
If you haven't, you will...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Micowave be dammed, some guy in the office asked if we could fix his bloody watch the other day. One of the new e or i watch thingies!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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You should've told him you follow the regular jeweler's prices for this type of work.
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So true! 
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Brilliant! 
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Damn! Now I realize why the mirror of my DSLR fell out two weeks ago. I'm gonna uninstall W10 straight away. Should fix the mirror just fine.
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My dear wife and I hit a rough patch every time I "upgrade" her machine. Recently, when I converted her machine to Windows 10, she complained that the Edge browser was so very different from IE11, among other issues. So I offered to take her back to Windows 7. Then she said: "You're going to take away all these neat games that came with 10?!" I said: "Yes". And that was the end of the complaints about 10.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Cornelius Henning wrote: she complained that the Edge browser was so very different from IE11
How are they different?
URL bar and content area are there, use Google if you can't remember an URL.
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There are differences. One problem was that she had too many items in the Favorites Bar. In Edge it results in every item in the bar being displayed as a star, with the result that you have no idea what each star represents.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Cornelius Henning wrote: Favorites Bar
Never used that. I'm happy with the URL Bar autocomplete. While this is my personal opinion on the fav bar, MS should've thought about that. But I guess that's the problem with developing for "normal people": Some of their problems go over our head.
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My problem was convincing her Edge was the new IE. She then wanted to know why they changed the name then.
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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Good one! Reminds me of a recent tech support episode with my father-in-law who wanted to move his WAP. I recommended using the home-wiring adapters. I use them and they work great. Anyway, after moving his WAP and setting it up per my instructions, the WAP quit working. He even moved it back to the original location and it wouldn't work. He was convinced that plugging the WAP into the home-wiring adapter had fried it and had gotten pissed that I had ruined his fairly new and expensive WAP!
Half an hour later, after downloading the manual, I noticed that there was a button on the top of the unit to turn off wireless. Sure enough, I called back and asked him to click it, and he says 'I didn't know that was a button! Wow, now it's lighting up!...uhhh, sorry about those names I called you earlier.'
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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No problem, just follow Merkel and get one of these instead[^]. 
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