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Plansix
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IgnE
United States7681 Posts
On April 17 2018 02:45 farvacola wrote: Having taken a legal writing class, I can tell you that in many if not most cases, the writer's habits are already set such that those classes end up being too little, too late for those in most need of skill development. One of my professors said that 90% of the students he sees are terrible writers and there's almost nothing they can do about it, clinical writing profs included. as mozoku pointed out previously, nobody learns anytbing after primary school. if we rank-ordered writing samples from a class at harvard with a class from florida coastal, would all the florida coastal be median or below? | ||
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farvacola
United States18820 Posts
As for the "nobody learns anything past primary school," I think that take turns on a far too one dimensional view of how people learn across the span of their lives (particularly as it relates to their ability to express what they learn). | ||
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IgnE
United States7681 Posts
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States44052 Posts
On April 17 2018 09:26 IgnE wrote: as mozoku pointed out previously, nobody learns anytbing after primary school. if we rank-ordered writing samples from a class at harvard with a class from florida coastal, would all the florida coastal be median or below? This is sarcasm right? Not necessarily that mozoku may have implied this, but that such a remark about not learning anything after primary school is actually true. | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
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semantics
10040 Posts
On April 17 2018 00:08 Plansix wrote: Calling Joe Biden “pro-business” is a bit of a mis-characterization however. The man has always openly supported Unions and I can’t find anything in his history where he tried to limit them. And I don’t know where the “Against any meaningful reform” is coming from either. i fail to see how pro-business is anti-union. Unions only exist if business exists, it's kinda like tipping your hand into saying pro business is more anti-worker. Unions don't exist in a vacuum they exist to fill a role of increased negotiating power by workers to business, likely due to the inherent lopsided nature of information and power business has in that area. Being pro-union is about as anti-business as suggesting that to be pro-business you need to only ever support "the business" not it's workers. On April 17 2018 06:35 IyMoon wrote: The president of the United States is still involved with a business that directly profits form him being president. Does anyone really care about the lawyer also having conflicts? Do conflicts matter anymore? Plus i wouldn't say it's a conflict of interest more as it's just incestuous, a conflict of interest would be say representing the president and a former fbi director  | ||
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Lazare1969
United States318 Posts
On April 17 2018 10:57 semantics wrote: i fail to see how pro-business is anti-union. Unions only exist if business exists, it's kinda like tipping your hand into saying pro business is more anti-worker. Unions don't exist in a vacuum they exist to fill a role of increased negotiating power by workers to business, likely due to the inherent lopsided nature of information and power business has in that area. Being pro-union is about as anti-business as suggesting that to be pro-business you need to only ever support "the business" not it's workers. Plus i wouldn't say it's a conflict of interest more as it's just incestuous, a conflict of interest would be say representing the president and a former fbi director When describing a politician as "pro-business" it is generally understood to mean he or she approves of anti-union legislation ("Right-to-work", Taft-Hartley Act, et al.), the abolishing of worker and environmental regulations/protections, the reduction of corporate taxes, the privatization of state-provided services, and so on. Likewise, a "pro-unionist" would be someone who supports the opposite of those policies, but generally still believes in maintaining the capitalist economy through the Keynesian lens. And yes, there is a contradiction, but people would prefer to think it's not there. | ||
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Kyadytim
United States886 Posts
A broadband advisor selected by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai to run a federal advisory committee was arrested last week on claims she tricked investors into pouring money into a multi-million dollar investment fraud scheme, according to The Wall Street Journal. The advisor, Elizabeth Pierce, is the former chief executive of Quintillion, an Alaska-based fiber optic cable provider operating out of Anchorage. In her capacity as CEO, Pierce allegedly raised more than $250 million from two New York-based investment companies using forged contracts with other companies guaranteeing hundreds of millions of dollars in future revenue. Pierce resigned from Quintillion in August of last year, and she stepped down from her role in Pai’s Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee (BDAC) the following month. "Pai picked Pierce last year to chair his newly created broadband advisory group" “As it turned out, those sales agreements were worthless because the customers had not signed them,” US attorney Geoffrey Berman said in prepared remarks, as reported by the WSJ. “Instead, as alleged, Pierce had forged counter-party signatures on contract after contract. As a result of Pierce’s deception, the investment companies were left with a system that is worth far less than Pierce had led them to believe.” Pierce was trying to raise money to help build out a fiber optic system that would wire Alaska with high-speed internet and better help connect it to networks in other US states. Pierce was charged with wire fraud last Thursday and faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. www.theverge.com The number of people appointed by Trump or picked by those Trump appointees to work in the executive branch who have had some corruption, crime, or abuse of office scandal is starting to get implausible. If you were to have asked a group of people with appropriate experience with politics and relevant fields to put together a pool of possible candidates for all of these major government positions, Trump is doing an amazing job of picking unsubtly unethical people or people who are drawn to working with unsubtly unethical people compared to what a random sampling of those candidate pools might produce. | ||
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FueledUpAndReadyToGo
Netherlands30548 Posts
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Reivax
Sweden214 Posts
On April 17 2018 02:04 Plansix wrote: "There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting." - a quote from someone that is so commonly used that Google couldn't quickly provide me the origin. On a side note: Desiree Linden is the first American to win the Boston Marathon since 1985. Which is super as impressive since it was dumping hail and freezing rain on the runners this morning. The men's winner and the women's runnerup are both amateurs. That's even more amazing. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43794846 | ||
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farvacola
United States18820 Posts
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Excludos
Norway8010 Posts
On April 17 2018 06:13 Howie_Dewitt wrote: I've decided that I'm going to read from the first post mentioning Donald Trump announcing his candidacy until now because I want to watch how the thread and the views of its posters have evolved. It'll be quite a lot of reading, but I've been reading every day almost since summer 2016 anyway. Wish me luck! On a more topical note, Hannity seems like he has too much of a following to have the public turn on him. I'm not sure it won't affect his prosecution. My condolences. Do you want me to hire you a therapist now or after you rip your hair out? | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
On April 17 2018 21:02 farvacola wrote: One of my best friends ran in Boston this year and even though he was planning on only getting into the top 4000, he cracked the top 1200 because, as he put it, Midwesterners know how to deal with snow and wind better than a lot of the international competitors. I'd wager the weather played a big role in how well Americans did this year. It was full blown hail and freezing rain when the race started. It must have hurt like a bitch to run in that. I was surprised there were so few injuries given the conditions. | ||
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Wulfey_LA
932 Posts
On April 17 2018 18:11 FueledUpAndReadyToGo wrote: The GOP made a website for THE TRUTH™ to be spread. A work of art. https://lyincomey.com/ This is a ripoff of talkingpointsmemo's theme. And their web developer almost added cool javascript scrolling effects, and then he gave up. The whole arrangement is silly. Who is going to click videos? There needs to be easy to read quotes and talking points. | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
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Jockmcplop
United Kingdom9500 Posts
On April 18 2018 01:10 Plansix wrote: So Maggie Haberman won a Pulitzer for her reporting this year, which is great because she did a good job. Apparently in response to this people decided harassing her son online the way to go, because some people are human garbage. Which is standard for these days, but I really question if this shit is sustainable. Being a reporter for the NYT should not require people to fear their children being targeted for harassment or worse. At least not the level and regularity we see today. And the only reason that people are able to find these kids is because they exist someplace on internet. And keeping all kids off of social media isn’t a viable solution to the problem either. What is the solution? Crackdown on threatening behaviour online? | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
On April 18 2018 01:17 Jockmcplop wrote: What is the solution? Crackdown on threatening behaviour online? Offer better controls for people to prevent people from contacting them? Allow more nuanced, controllable options that don’t default to ‘Completely open facing, taking all messages” and “completely locked down, no one can contact me”? Instagram doesn’t even let you turn off comments all posts. You need to do it for each new post. You can’t set it so anyone can see your account, but people still need to ask to follow it. Its completely lock down or completely open. Twitter is even worse, unless you are a celebrity. Then you get special features. Same with Facebook, where the CEO and others have special chat features. These companies are eating away at “traditional media” while also enabling the worst actors to thrive on their services. And much like how the gun debate blew up after Parkland, at some point a very angry group of voters is going to emerge that isn’t going to buy the “It is just the internet, it’s always like that” reasoning. That harassment is a force of nature that people on the internet need to prepare for like a winter storm. Because it isn’t. | ||
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Emnjay808
United States10655 Posts
On April 18 2018 01:17 Jockmcplop wrote: What is the solution? Crackdown on threatening behaviour online? You cant impose on how others behave online. You also cant impose that the victim dont use social media. The solution here is that the user of social media grow thick skin. | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
On April 18 2018 03:15 Emnjay808 wrote: You cant impose on how others behave online. You also cant impose that the victim dont use social media. The solution here is that the user of social media grow thick skin. Poe’s law is in full effect. Are you claiming that the moderation on this website has no impact on how people behave on this online website? | ||
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