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gently caress you I haven't mentioned my PhD once in over ten years of posting here
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forkboy84 posted:Considering the amount of effort it takes to get one can you really blame them? Not least chucking in highly paid job to go on a research grant to do a PhD completely unrelated to your job when you're pushing 40! (Which, as mentioned in earlier editions of this thread) is no career enhancement whatsoever and in fact has the effect of destroying 16+ years of work experience, much at senior level, in the eyes of employers! (Who fondly imagine, say, that a PhD in maths - mine wasn't - means learning your 356 x table). (One former employer of mine in a hospital Estates Dept was slagging off the Medical Physicists because they 'only had MScs, nothing to brag about, wasn't even a BSc.' Upon close questioning said boss believed that a BSc was the highest possible academic qualification. (Needless to say he hadn't got one and had earned his role by working his way up). Oh and he was also responsible for recruiting professionally qualified surveying, engineering staff many of whom had bust a gut getting MSc in their own time and on their own dime, and failing miserably to impress on their CVs because 'it isn't a BSc is it'. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 16:31 on Jun 26, 2020 |
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Jun 26, 2020 16:28
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does it count if you did half a masters?
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Jun 26, 2020 16:30
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Guavanaut posted:iirc he admitted in a police interview that he did what he was accused of doing, but didn't believe it met the standard for rape and also Sweden were going to hand him over to Navy SEALs or some such poo poo. I think Occums Razor has to be considered. Which is more likely. That a weirdo, unlikable guy took advantage of women who considered themselves his fans and that it crossed into the line of non-consensual sex. And that he considered he did nothing wrong so refused to co-operate with any investigation. Or that the US Government, so slighted by what he did scoured his past, eventual found two women who would admit to having sex with him, bribed them to invent false allegations of sex in a third country in the hopes that this third country will agree to extradition after he has been tried for crimes? Like why use Sweden, a country not known for being super friendly with the US Justice System? Why go with an offence that he could easily be acquitted under? Like if they are going to invent charges why not go with something set in the US and something like Child Pornography that is almost always a guaranteed conviction? It just smacks of the standard conspiracy theory problem where the all powerful adversary can do whatever (Invent spurious charges) they want but also have to abide by weird rules to give them a fair chance (chose to bring in a third country.)
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Jun 26, 2020 16:33
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forkboy84 posted:Considering the amount of effort it takes to get one can you really blame them? YES.
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Jun 26, 2020 16:33
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Depends, are you half a sub?
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Jun 26, 2020 16:34
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Ratjaculation posted:does it count if you did half a masters? Yes for sure you still learned something (even if you've forgotten it by now). Used to have this discussion with friends "oh I'd love to do A-level Spanish (or whatever) but it's 2 years part-time and I might move" and I'm like "but you would still have learned some Spanish". 2 years later I'm clutching a part-time MSc and they're still going 'blah blah but I might move'. Could have had it by then.
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Jun 26, 2020 16:34
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Jedit posted:YES. If ever even bother to do a Bachelors I will talk about it incessantly
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Jun 26, 2020 16:41
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Jonty Bravery jailed for 15 years for attempted murder at Tate Modern that really hosed up story about the teenager throwing a small child off the tate modern gallery has ended with him going to prison instead of staying in Broadmoor, which given he's apparently severely autistic, and the psychiatrists were saying he should stay in hospital seems a bit odd? I'm wondering if it's because he planned the attack so there's no diminished responsibility or whatever?
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Jun 26, 2020 16:43
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Julio Cruz posted:open the window and let one of the cats have a look out, those pigeons will gently caress right off in a hurry hahaha i have been thinking about that. Sadly they're on a pipe above a ledge and even that ledge would be tricky to reach from the window CancerCakes posted:Depends, are you half a sub? subs don't "do" masters 
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Jun 26, 2020 16:43
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latest on the Glasgow incident is six injuries and the guy shot dead by police https://twitter.com/policescotland/status/1276522258874368001?s=20 wonder how this one is going to work out from the sounds of it, it was in a hotel that was being used as temporary accommodation so possibly a mental health thing rather than a planned terrorist attack?
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Jun 26, 2020 16:53
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XMNN posted:possibly a mental health thing rather than a planned terrorist attack? so you mean the guy was white?
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Jun 26, 2020 16:55
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saludos cordiales, allronya posted:hot take time ronya, youre a prince. where else do you post online? how do you know about costa rica's FTZ niches? Jaeluni Asjil posted:A young male relative of mine was in a relationship with a Costa Rican woman (in Costa Rica - he was there). I'm not sure it's great for women from what he described - seems rather 'middle eastern' in outlook particularly with regard to the role of Mothers (and prospective Mothers in Law). interesting! so traditional gender roles are the order of the day. the reason im asking at all is because my gf loves the place. shes visited the last couple of winters and we plan to take career breaks from november to explore a bit more. shes from the caucasus herself so not drinking and modest clothes wont present too much of a culture shock yaffle posted:Costa Rica is interesting, It has a huge number of American expats who have driven prices up all over, and many of them are horrible. It has a massive crime problem. In the five years that I lived there I personally knew three people who had home invasions in which they were tied up at gunpoint while a gang emptied the whole house. On the other hand when I first went exploring San Jose with my two year old daughter in a backpack a very nice toothless crackhead escorted us out of Barrio Mexico whilst explaining that it wasn't quite the place. id like to hear more about your experience there. presume you were with a multinational based in san jose? a home invasion of my place would only yield a refurbed macbook air and some art supplies, so not too put off...yet!
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The Question IRL posted:I think Occums Razor has to be considered. Which is more likely. A guy who wants you to believe there's a conspiracy but doesn't themselves believe it wouldn't hole up in a cell for so long that their health goes to poo poo, far longer than they'd serve for the actual crime, they'd just behave obnoxiously throughout the trial and you might get some entertaining documents from it. He's a rapist or at best a sex offender, he should have gone to Sweden, and why he didn't I can only assume is because he managed to wrangle himself into believing his own unlikely conspiracy, and it's gone terribly for him because now the one thing he didn't want to happen is actually happening. That's a bit of a windows into men's souls question, but Occam's razor on "I am extremely smart staying out of prison by imprisoning myself for years" vs. "I genuinely believe in the very unlikely conspiracy theory that the US are going to intercept me as part of the Sweden thing" points towards his own mental state believing the latter at some point.
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Breath Ray posted:ronya, youre a prince. where else do you post online? how do you know about costa rica's FTZ niches? I didn't, actually, but the whole rationale of FTZs is tactically filling gaps in international supply chains and hoping to grab whatever cluster they can, so any country with a decent number of them is gonna have some remarkable niches. It won't be a traditional prestige industry because the bigger countries won't let those go. for Costa Rica, a quick lookup shows it's Precision and Medical Equipment. It exports more medical devices than it does agricultural produce.  A quick lookup later...
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Ratjaculation posted:does it count if you did half a masters? It probably counts as a postgraduate diploma. Source: my postgraduate diploma.
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ronya posted:[url="https://oec.world/en/profile/country/cri"]
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David Baddiel is such a twat: https://twitter.com/Baddiel/status/1276510666770321408?s=20 And surprise surprise, I found instances where Corbyn had spoken out about every single one of these, in about 5 minutes total of googling. https://twitter.com/WhatEvil/status/1276541412809625601?s=20 (Thread) And I know that I could find loads more from him and from other SCG MPs (particularly lots of them have been sponsors/signees of Early Day Motions and such. Baddiel also basically said "Oh and they never speak up about this either - here is a list of countries where it's illegal to be gay!" and surprise surprise, Corbyn had specific policies on this about pressuring the UN to monitor and enforce rules on this etc. when it reviews human rights and such.
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countries where M Khan is even less welcome
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Guavanaut posted:Didn't have CR down as a semiconductor hub. Apparently Intel had a plant there until recently, which reopened this year. Not the wafer fabrication itself, but assembly and testing.
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Breath Ray posted:
She's probably ok if she's a foreigner and if her mother isn't there too  I don't think modesty of clothes is the issue (certainly relative's gf did not dress in a 'modest' fashion), more the 'chastity' and heavy maternal influences aspects. If you're living on your own you'll probably be fine, but if you're lodging with families don't expect necessarily to be able to share a room. I guess you could put wedding rings on and hope noone asks to see the paperwork!
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thespaceinvader posted:It probably counts as a postgraduate diploma. Yes, basically a postgraduate diploma is a MSc without the project/thesis bit. On the other hand I did a PGDip in Operational Research back in the year dot and it was MSc standard (including a major project - piece of original work) but they had not had whatever the relevant approval was way back then to call it a MSc. (Why yes, Jae does have more letters than the alphabet on her business card if she had one). (ed: and not one of them has earned me a pay rise! In terms of potential earnings, the thing that earned me the most money was paying a woman in Finchley Ł100 to sit in her back room with an electric typewriter and learn to touch type in 1984!) Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 17:37 on Jun 26, 2020 |
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https://twitter.com/samisam147/status/1276433544940748801?s=20 the O'Neill article is predictably awful*, but I lolled at the picture *I initially wasn't even going to skim it but I thought that was p lazy and maybe it wasn't exactly what you're thinking it is, but it is exactly what you're thinking it is
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WhatEvil posted:David Baddiel is such a twat: So, what when they're dealing with one issue they actually have to deal with every issue all the time? That would be exhausting.
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WhatEvil posted:David Baddiel is such a twat: "Stupid loving Israel"? Wow Baddiel is incredibly anti-Semitic.
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Guavanaut posted:
Jon Ronson has this really good book he put out called the Psychopath Test. There is a bit about this guy who had multiple families which is truly unbelievable. But at one stage the guy has to come up with a story to tell family A, B and C to explain why he is with family D. And it is that he is going on a mission into a Middle Eastern country, and he gets stuck there and trapped in a collapsed building. But to back up his story, his foot is supposed to be mangled. So to back this up, while living with family D, he wears Hillwalking boots that are too sizes too small to mess up his feet. The amazing part about this is that psychopaths can horribly injury themselves to further a story, because the pain they experience is their future selves problem. And as far as the psycho is concerned, that is someone else's problem. I think that offers an insight into his behaviour. I recommend that book, the Psychopath Test. (Also it's relevant to this thread as the main thesis is about how most Corporate CEO's are Psychopaths. And how the distinction between Psychopath and Sociopath has been rendered meaningless. )
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I suspect Assange is just a man who is simply incapable of accepting they were wrong about anything. Facing the music in Sweden would have been an admission of fault, even if he vocally declared his innocence, so the preferable choice was to actually perpetrate a worse punishment on himself. That he could claim persecution by the US government (you know, the one he helped elect) just reinforced it harder.
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WhatEvil posted:David Baddiel is such a twat: "Excuse me, I think you'll find that ALL oppressive regimes matter."
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Guavanaut posted:iirc he admitted in a police interview that he did what he was accused of doing, but didn't believe it met the standard for rape and also Sweden were going to hand him over to Navy SEALs or some such poo poo. I didn't know he actually admitted it, I suppose that settles that. Although it does make his behaviour quite odd and potentially mentally ill. Either way the prosecution from the US by any and all means is hardly something that's justified in the slightest, given that it's for publishing classified information while not being a US citizen or being on US soil. It's not even just this administration, his sealed charges were started under Obama instead IIRC. As were the comments at the time made by the Obama department of state. Which would hardly engender much love against Clinton, particularly to the point where his site wouldn't publish information leaked to him by -presumably Russian- hackers. e: And Hillary Clinton loving sucks in a major way, anyway. Remember her last intervention in local politics: Hillary Clinton: Europe must curb immigration to stop rightwing populists Graun posted:Europe must get a handle on immigration to combat a growing threat from rightwing populists, Hillary Clinton has said, calling on the continent’s leaders to send out a stronger signal showing they are “not going to be able to continue to provide refuge and support”. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 18:32 on Jun 26, 2020 |
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I appreciate all the centrist tory-proppers screaming "why do the left keep going on about Israel?!" in the immediate aftermath of them blowing up about a retweet of an article which had one very tangential reference to Israeli police tactics...
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I thought the thing with Assange was that he admitted the deed but disagreed on the wrongness, but any attempt for him to get on a plane to face the music as soon as they were airborne the blond Scandinavian wigs would be pulled off and it was a US black bag team all along! To be absolutely fair there's paranoid and then there's hmm ok maybe
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british "centrists" are so loving bitter and spiteful its unreal https://twitter.com/DAaronovitch/status/1276192176410673152?s=20
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I had to abstain for like 10 days as part of a fertility treatment and this morning i wanked so hard at the clinic i did my neck in My neck's been hosed all day Just thought I'd share that with the thread
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ronya posted:the wealth is comparatively easy to redistribute as very little of it is made in Kerala, but instead in dramatically richer countries Serious question: is the Phillipine remittance economy inconsistent with leftism? ronya posted:Dani Rodrik has an influential form of the argument pitched as a trilemma since the late 1990s, where the world-system must pick two out of three: deep global economic integration (common markets, capital flows, etc), politics at the level of nation-states, or politics being effectively democratically responsive to civil-social dissatisfaction. The intuition is similar to what is laid out in the article. Rodrik is, naturally, a fan of proposing limitations on #1 in order to keep #2 and #3. I know it’s 8 pages back but come on Ronya, “this stuff” is everything. Where else is your attention focused, if not on the actually important question of what happens next?
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:I had to abstain for like 10 days as part of a fertility treatment and this morning i wanked so hard at the clinic i did my neck in This is the sort of heroism we need.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:I thought the thing with Assange was that he admitted the deed but disagreed on the wrongness, but any attempt for him to get on a plane to face the music as soon as they were airborne the blond Scandinavian wigs would be pulled off and it was a US black bag team all along! The USA literally tried that though? By redirecting a plane carrying the president of Bolivia. quote:The day after his TV interview, Morales's Dassault Falcon 900, carrying him back to Bolivia from Russia, took off from Vnukovo Airport, but was rerouted to Austria when France, Spain, and Italy[2] reportedly denied access to their airspace, allegedly due to suspicions that Snowden was on board
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Jose posted:british "centrists" are so loving bitter and spiteful its unreal https://twitter.com/miriksmit/status/1276522553914404864?s=20
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NoneMoreNegative posted:I thought the thing with Assange was that he admitted the deed but disagreed on the wrongness, but any attempt for him to get on a plane to face the music as soon as they were airborne the blond Scandinavian wigs would be pulled off and it was a US black bag team all along! Then he could have got legal representation in Sweden, faced the court, probably got 2-3 years and out in half that depending on what mood the judge was in and the severity of what he was found to have done (there wasn't any violence or threats in what he stated in the interview) and then he'd be reasonably free of US extradition and able to continue his work and hopefully not continue his sex assaults. As is he's hosed, for the good things he did not the bad things.
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