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| qu1j0t3 | schestowitz: yeah no surprises there | Sep 05 01:15 |
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| schestowitz | qu1j0t3: I've just posted 3 cables | Sep 05 01:17 |
| schestowitz | it's nice and easy | Sep 05 01:17 |
| schestowitz | Watch http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504803_162-20029950-10391709.html | Sep 05 01:17 |
| qu1j0t3 | i c | Sep 05 01:17 |
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| schestowitz | >>> A school ranked as 25th in Arizona and 2,287th US wide is nothing | Sep 05 08:41 |
| schestowitz | >>> to boast of. Apparently they are lacking instructors to the point | Sep 05 08:41 |
| schestowitz | >>> they are willing to hire Snit. | Sep 05 08:41 |
| schestowitz | >> | Sep 05 08:41 |
| schestowitz | >> They just don't happen to know he's an Internet troll. | Sep 05 08:42 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 05 08:42 |
| schestowitz | > Given that a search on Michael Glasser brings up little, I think you are right. | Sep 05 08:42 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 05 08:42 |
| schestowitz | >>> Deleting "our_story.html" in the link still defaults to the same | Sep 05 08:42 |
| schestowitz | >>> web page. I would have expected a much more sophisticated, | Sep 05 08:42 |
| schestowitz | >>> professional looking website to illustrate what Dreamweaver was | Sep 05 08:42 |
| schestowitz | >>> fully capable of. Snit should be the expert and show its full | Sep 05 08:42 |
| schestowitz | >>> potential. The example he used would have been appropriate for a | Sep 05 08:42 |
| schestowitz | >>> 4th grade class. (I firmly believe the brighter students at that | Sep 05 08:42 |
| schestowitz | >>> age would have done a decent job with html.) | Sep 05 08:42 |
| schestowitz | >> | Sep 05 08:42 |
| schestowitz | >> As I pointed out to him, his site actually runs Linux with | Sep 05 08:42 |
| schestowitz | >> WordPress, which is FOSS with PHP and not WYSIWYG or anything like | Sep 05 08:42 |
| schestowitz | >> Dreamweaver. He does not even do as he preaches or teaches. | Sep 05 08:42 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 05 08:42 |
| schestowitz | > Interesting. I didn't take a close examination of HTML headers. I don't | Sep 05 08:42 |
| schestowitz | > make an effort to visit his personal website. I might later under TOR so | Sep 05 08:42 |
| schestowitz | > that he doesn't suspect I'm taking a peak. Don't want to give away my IP | Sep 05 08:42 |
| schestowitz | > being the trouble maker he is. | Sep 05 08:42 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 05 08:42 |
| schestowitz | > But then again, I would expect a very professional looking web page befit for an instructor teaching html or html applications. That would be a professional selling point. Your websites Roy, are very well done in comparison. | Sep 05 08:42 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 05 08:42 |
| schestowitz | [...] | Sep 05 08:42 |
| schestowitz | > AFAIK, Microsoft likes to use 3rd parties, consultants to subcontract | Sep 05 08:42 |
| schestowitz | > troll work (reference LA Times article on letter writing campaign to US | Sep 05 08:42 |
| schestowitz | > State Attorney Generals using dead people names). So, to pay people like | Sep 05 08:42 |
| schestowitz | > flatfish, Snit, amicus_curious, etc. to shill for Microsoft without | Sep 05 08:42 |
| schestowitz | > Microsoft's direct involvement could be plausible. Greed makes people do strange and otherwise unexplainable things. | Sep 05 08:42 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 05 08:42 |
| schestowitz | >> "If you want an interesting story, find someone who was in Åbo / | Sep 05 08:42 |
| schestowitz | >> Turku when M$ shutdown a move to Linux about 10 years ago. The | Sep 05 08:42 |
| schestowitz | >> governments official hardware supplier REFUSED to sell a machine to | Sep 05 08:42 |
| schestowitz | >> be used in a Linux evaluation. That dragged on for weeks or months | Sep 05 08:42 |
| schestowitz | >> and allowed M$ time to get involved around the time it was settled. | Sep 05 08:42 |
| schestowitz | >> Eventually M$ "contributed" 4 or 6 (can't recall) full time | Sep 05 08:42 |
| schestowitz | >> equivalents to "help" the governments 1.5 in the evaluation. At | Sep 05 08:42 |
| schestowitz | >> frequent intervals, the M$ yacht would pull in. At frequent | Sep 05 08:42 |
| schestowitz | >> intervals many government staff (except the pro-Linux group) would | Sep 05 08:42 |
| schestowitz | >> get wined and dined. | Sep 05 08:42 |
| schestowitz | >> | Sep 05 08:43 |
| schestowitz | >> "Vaasa was a similar case and the person involved could not figure | Sep 05 08:43 |
| schestowitz | >> out why the M$ prices kept dropping." | Sep 05 08:43 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 05 08:43 |
| schestowitz | > That is akin to 3rd world political corruption, pure and simple. | Sep 05 08:43 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 05 08:43 |
| schestowitz | >>> How hard is it to teach on-line instruction? Review student | Sep 05 08:43 |
| schestowitz | >>> homework assignments? Do final grading? (Computers are capable of | Sep 05 08:43 |
| schestowitz | >>> doing on-line grading.) | Sep 05 08:43 |
| schestowitz | >> | Sep 05 08:43 |
| schestowitz | >> People I know fake such processes too, taking only a cursory look | Sep 05 08:43 |
| schestowitz | >> before marking. They oughtn't be doing this. People in my field say | Sep 05 08:43 |
| schestowitz | >> they *hate* teaching. | Sep 05 08:43 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 05 08:43 |
| schestowitz | > I gather that Snit uses the time to troll Usenet and Internet forums. | Sep 05 08:43 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 05 08:43 |
| schestowitz | >> It's like a necessary evil they must accept in between research. | Sep 05 08:43 |
| schestowitz | >> It's a lot of work, not very rewarding, and it is repetitive and | Sep 05 08:43 |
| schestowitz | >> unchallenging. I know this from occasions where I had to prepare | Sep 05 08:43 |
| schestowitz | >> talk for a crowd. Right now I try to dodge teaching and publishing | Sep 05 08:43 |
| schestowitz | >> papers (I have not submitted any for 5 years). | Sep 05 08:43 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 05 08:43 |
| schestowitz | > I wonder if it may have something to do with University management having to justify receiving research grants, expectations from those funding. | Sep 05 08:43 |
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| schestowitz | Old one.. | Sep 05 15:42 |
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| schestowitz | "Šestajovice (deutsch Schestowitz) ist eine Gemeinde in Tschechien. Sie liegt sieben Kilometer östlich von Jaroměř und gehört zum Okres Náchod." http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Šestajovice_u_Jaroměře | Sep 05 21:03 |
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