This is a great thing…here’s to hoping that the socialist trend starts moving northward…
This is big…and I’m afraid that it’s unlikely to hit the mass media in the US.
This is wrong on so many levels.
See what day this was published on, and then read the last page. Chilling.
The type of job posting that is sent to the CS/IS PhD students mailing list:
“Please pass my contact information along, as well as the job description
below, to any students you feel are highly motivated and may be
interested in Jr. C++ Development at a growing Derivatives Trading Firm
/ Hedge Fund ($500 Million under management). FYI - I do have mid and
senior level C++ positions as well, paying up to $100K and $175K bases
respectively. I thank you in advance.”
I think there is a project somewhere here…
The actions of the publishers here upsets me so much. This is why I want to never publish work in a venue that won’t allow me also post it on my personal website or other storage facility. I find it abhorent that works created in academic are locked behind all of these artificial digital walls. There was a time that I dreamed of writing a book for MIT Press, but these days I’m much more interested in someday writing something for Autonomedia, or some other publishing house like that, that allows people to download the book and/or copy it as freely as they want.
As we continue to increase our ability to better understand our individual differences (a good thing), this tends to get caught up int the world of essentialism and hierachical categorizations (an incredibly bad thing). It’s as if we’re not learning a damn thing.
Oh really? Then why are we doing academic research on animals then? (Not that I think there should be a complete moratorium on this type of research, it’s just that this is an interesting and troubling argument for the Supreme Court to make.)
Supreme Court Allows Lethal Injection for Execution - New York Times
The sad state of academic publishing today. This was posted on an internal mailing list: “Does anyone have an IEEE login I can borrow for a few minutes today? I’d like to avoid paying $200 for one of their documents…”
I predict these “fusion centers” will make the news in the future…and in a bad way. This sort of stuff creeps me out like you wouldn’t believe.
