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London student reported to police: “Enchanted by anarchism and individualism”

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Re: London student reported to police: “Enchanted by anarchism and individualism”

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Post by sanskritabelt »

sillysaurus2 wrote: post #65
sanskritabelt wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"I wonder if I should call up universities and ask for info regarding any computer graphics related seminars / events" That shit's on the website, dogg.

Hmm... Is it? Searching their events for "graphics" produced no results, and searching for "computer" (in hopes of anything CS related) wasn't very helpful. http://event.uchicago.edu/maincampus/search.php EDIT: The CS research interests page is interesting... http://www.cs.uchicago.edu/research/interests though nothing specifically graphics-related. EDIT2: The closest thing to graphics research I can find is http://w…

Here you go: http://www.cs.uchicago.edu/events

Looks sparse but I don't think the academic year's started yet, scroll back to last spring and it looks like the real departmental calendar.

Could just be you're SOL on the type of stuff you want at UC. That's academic life.

Re: London student reported to police: “Enchanted by anarchism and individualism”

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Post by saraid216 »

atmosx wrote: post #126
WalterBright wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Old Soviet joke: "The Soviet Union is just like the United States. In the US, you can criticize the American President. In the USSR, you can also criticize the American President!"

Sure, that was in 1988. This is 2013, you can criticize the Russian president, but you can't criticize the American president because he is listening .

The Russian president rides a bear. You can't criticize that.

Re: London student reported to police: “Enchanted by anarchism and individualism”

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Post by saraid216 »

dmix wrote: post #45
SiVal wrote: post #34

This sort of thing is alive and well in US schools, too. The official policy of the Seattle Public School system is to stamp out racism in all its forms, and notice how many forms there are. (Note in particular the Cultural Racism section that includes, "emphasizing individualism as opposed to a more collective ideology" as a form of racism that, by official policy, is to be stamped out by the government education sy…

In Canada this week, my girlfriend is required to visit the dean of a [top Canadian law school] for calling a girl a "bitch" on Twitter. Backstory is interesting, because the girl had bullied her in person at school. GF never identified the girl on Twitter only saying "Some bitch blah blah at school today". But because she mentioned the school name, the dean found out and now wants to talk to her. There's apparently…

> But the thought of students having to censor themselves because they are now a member of a school (which they paid $50k+ to join) is scary.

Um. This has basically been true throughout the entire history of law schools. The only significant difference is the amount they paid to get in.

Re: London student reported to police: “Enchanted by anarchism and individualism”

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Post by jlgreco »

Sagat wrote: post #37

I'm disgusted by the head teacher's nosy behavior. I also think the student is an insufferable person according to his blog posts [1]. He's one of those people who try to use loaded words like "anarchism" and "individualism" to justify annoying or selfish behavior. Kind of like Galt-wannabe libertarians who hide being the word "liberty" to give credence to social darwinism. [1] http://hampsteadtrash.blogspot.co.uk/20…

Who gives a shit, honestly? That is about as valuable to the conversation as your assessment of his sense of dress fashion.

Re: London student reported to police: “Enchanted by anarchism and individualism”

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Post by kybernetyk »

walshemj wrote: post #81
SiVal wrote: post #34

This sort of thing is alive and well in US schools, too. The official policy of the Seattle Public School system is to stamp out racism in all its forms, and notice how many forms there are. (Note in particular the Cultural Racism section that includes, "emphasizing individualism as opposed to a more collective ideology" as a form of racism that, by official policy, is to be stamped out by the government education sy…

I think that Mr. Szemalikowski may be an eu national from countries where social hierarchy is much much stronger. When I worked for a tiny companay in the UK our two polish developers where absolutely shocked that our MD would take his turn in making the coffee/tea.

I think this guy is just a nutjob and you shouldn't project his idiotic overreaction onto other countries.

Re: London student reported to police: “Enchanted by anarchism and individualism”

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Post by teddyh »

— (President) Youth, with its enthusiasms, which rebels against any accepted norm because it must, and we sympathize. It may wear flowers in its hair and bells on its toes, but when the common good is threatened, when the functioning of society is endangered, such revolts must cease! They are non-productive, and must be abolished!

[...]

— (President) Guilty! Read the charge!

— (Delegate) The prisoner has been charged with the most serious breach of social etiquette: Cultural defiance of the elementary laws which sustain our community. Questioning the decisions of those we voted to govern us. Unhealthy aspects of speech and dress, not in accordance with general practice. And the refusal to observe, wear, or respond to his number!

(Quotes from “The Prisoner”, Episode 17, “Fall Out”, 1967)

Re: London student reported to police: “Enchanted by anarchism and individualism”

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Post by o0-0o »

mikeash wrote: post #148
altero wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting how silent we are. Obama is way worse than Bush ever was.

Silent? I've seen way more criticism of Obama than I ever did of Bush.

You have GOT to be kidding us.

Re: London student reported to police: “Enchanted by anarchism and individualism”

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Post by Aloisius »

altero wrote: post #135
WalterBright wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Old Soviet joke: "The Soviet Union is just like the United States. In the US, you can criticize the American President. In the USSR, you can also criticize the American President!"

Interesting how silent we are. Obama is way worse than Bush ever was.

Worse? Good lord, Bush was on watch during the 9/11 terrorist attacks, housing collapse, stock market crash, two economic recessions, the hurricane Katrina debacle, tortured people in Gitmo and started two unwinnable wars.

Someone has a short memory.

Re: London student reported to police: “Enchanted by anarchism and individualism”

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Post by sillysaurus2 »

sanskritabelt wrote: post #151
sillysaurus2 wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hmm... Is it? Searching their events for "graphics" produced no results, and searching for "computer" (in hopes of anything CS related) wasn't very helpful. http://event.uchicago.edu/maincampus/search.php EDIT: The CS research interests page is interesting... http://www.cs.uchicago.edu/research/interests though nothing specifically graphics-related. EDIT2: The closest thing to graphics research I can find is http://w…

Here you go: http://www.cs.uchicago.edu/events Looks sparse but I don't think the academic year's started yet, scroll back to last spring and it looks like the real departmental calendar. Could just be you're SOL on the type of stuff you want at UC. That's academic life.

Oh, thank you so much!

Re: London student reported to police: “Enchanted by anarchism and individualism”

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Post by mikeash »

o0-0o wrote: post #157
mikeash wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Silent? I've seen way more criticism of Obama than I ever did of Bush.

You have GOT to be kidding us.

I am not. Republicans are reluctant to criticize their own, and so Bush got criticized almost solely from the left. Obama gets a lot of criticism from both left and right.
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