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They just draw a black box over the text in the PDFs now... (No joke)
Yes, but now they remove the underlying text too. It was fun while it lasted.
A little gem from the article: "It was an extremely ugly, long (2 years!) divorce hearing: it made the newspapers because of Bell’s allegations of “extreme cruelty” by Feynman, including the notion that he spent all of his waking hours either doing calculus and playing the bongos."
if only we could all live in a world where the highest form of domestic abuse was calculus and playing drums.
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if only we could all live in a world where the highest form of domestic abuse was calculus and playing drums.
It said "including", not "exclusively", and continued loud music is a well-known psychological torture used in detainee interrogation...
> With regard to the censored words, I would argue that they are probably “my former husband,” instead of “my ex-husband, the”.
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> Yeah, it’s possible. I don’t put a lot of faith in character length analysis, [...]
A little gem from the article: "It was an extremely ugly, long (2 years!) divorce hearing: it made the newspapers because of Bell’s allegations of “extreme cruelty” by Feynman, including the notion that he spent all of his waking hours either doing calculus and playing the bongos."
"...the appointee's wife was granted a divorce from him because of appointee's constantly working calculus problems in his head as soon as awake, while driving car, sitting in living room, and so forth, and that his one hobby was playing his African drums. His ex-wife reportedly testified that on several occasions when she unwittingly disturbed either his calculus or his drums he flew into a violent rage, during which time he attacked her, threw pieces of bric-a-brac about and smashed the furniture."
A little gem from the article: "It was an extremely ugly, long (2 years!) divorce hearing: it made the newspapers because of Bell’s allegations of “extreme cruelty” by Feynman, including the notion that he spent all of his waking hours either doing calculus and playing the bongos."
if only we could all live in a world where the highest form of domestic abuse was calculus and playing drums.
I don't know any more about this divorce than anyone else here but I do know that at the time people did whatever it took to fit in the required "extreme" criteria.
A little gem from the article: "It was an extremely ugly, long (2 years!) divorce hearing: it made the newspapers because of Bell’s allegations of “extreme cruelty” by Feynman, including the notion that he spent all of his waking hours either doing calculus and playing the bongos."
That quote omits the actual alleged "extreme cruelty": "...the appointee's wife was granted a divorce from him because of appointee's constantly working calculus problems in his head as soon as awake, while driving car, sitting in living room, and so forth, and that his one hobby was playing his African drums. His ex-wife reportedly testified that on several occasions when she unwittingly disturbed either his calculu…
> during which time he attacked her
A little gem from the article: "It was an extremely ugly, long (2 years!) divorce hearing: it made the newspapers because of Bell’s allegations of “extreme cruelty” by Feynman, including the notion that he spent all of his waking hours either doing calculus and playing the bongos."
Earlier quoted context omitted.
That quote omits the actual alleged "extreme cruelty": "...the appointee's wife was granted a divorce from him because of appointee's constantly working calculus problems in his head as soon as awake, while driving car, sitting in living room, and so forth, and that his one hobby was playing his African drums. His ex-wife reportedly testified that on several occasions when she unwittingly disturbed either his calculu…
> during which time he attacked her Still sounds kind of vague. What, precisely, does the word "attacked" refer to?
> threw pieces of bric-a-brac about and smashed the furniture.Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, but now they remove the underlying text too. It was fun while it lasted.
Current best practice is actually to draw the black boxes, print it, then scan it back in. The result is crummy quality pdfs with no metadata or hidden text.
They were an aerospace/defense company building IFF units no less...