βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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Definitely, I mean I would.
Filed under: she got an impressive set of Bat'leths, I'd take the one on the right
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Coca-Cola has been forced to withdraw a Twitter advertising campaign after a counter-campaign by Gawker tricked it into tweeting large chunks of the introduction to Hitlerβs Mein Kampf.
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I definitely have no idea what goes on inside the brain of a person like that.
I'm not saying this as an insult, I mean I've never felt anything remotely similar to wanting to insert large metal rings and bumps in my skin. I can't relate.
The Klingons are prettier.
Hey, if they shaved their eyebrows a bit and covered their forehead, they'd look exactly like humans! Isn't that a nice coincidence?
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I actually have tattoos, but I can easily hide them all if I want to. But doing it to your face, and to that extent, I definitely do not understand.
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Hah, I saw that yesterday. The fox yipping was the only interesting thing about it. What a pack of idiots.
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His (?) secret is that he's an idiot.
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"vampire woman"
I didn't even mouse over the picture enough to see the link until your reply. I have a fairly-effective heuristic about whether clicking a link's going to be a waste of my time.
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I have a fairly-effective heuristic about whether clicking a link's going to be a waste of my time.
I didn't read the article; I only clicked on it to get to the image URL to paste here. (Turns out it's in a gallery (even though it's the only image in the gallery) that interferes with right-click. I had to go into dev tools and dig through multiple nested divs to find the actual image. The things I have to endure to entertain you guys.)
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she got an impressive set of Bat'leths
My daughter wanted a bat'leth for Christmas β mostly(?) to hang on her wall, but not-sharp and light enough to swing and not hurt herself or anyone else around were the first design criteria she gave me. It didn't get done in time for Christmas (as usual), and I'm kind of blocked in trying to work on it further at the moment. I'm ready to seal and paint it (4mm plywood), but it's too cold and wet to spray paint outdoors.
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My daughter wanted a bat'leth for Christmas
I was wondering if you were ever going to say what it was.
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INB4 yo dawg...
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The Klingons are prettier.
Hey, if they shaved their eyebrows a bit and covered their forehead, they'd look exactly like humans! Isn't that a nice coincidence?
They're actually kind of wimpy looking compared to the one who tried to flirt with Riker when he signed up for a stint on a Klingon ship as a goodwill exchange. Sorry I can't GI up a picture just now.
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Coca-Cola has been forced to withdraw a Twitter advertising campaign after a counter-campaign by Gawker tricked it into tweeting large chunks of the introduction to Hitlerβs Mein Kampf.
That is...amazing.
Give internet trolls nearly unlimited free time and a computer a billion times more powerful than the ones that landed astronauts on the moon in 1969 and they will make a bot intended to spread good will recite Mein Kampf. I approve.
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...from Belgium...
Is it bad that I found that to be less atonal than I expected after actually watching it?
Actually, scratch that, it went a bit off the rails towards the end...How about some animal screams:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYKPdNvH800
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqWqrmsS-uU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcLISmzDtnw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpccpglnNf0
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This seems like the appropriate topic for this:
Ah, nothing like being able to fall back on a career in customer service...
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Coca-Cola has been forced to withdraw a Twitter advertising campaign after a counter-campaign by Gawker tricked it into tweeting large chunks of the introduction to Hitlerβs Mein Kampf.
How about this one?
New England Patriots Accidentally Tweet Out a Racial Slur Team apologizes after a 'filtering system' fails
Filed under: there's a lesson to be learned here about automatic twitter bots, but I'm not sure what it is, and at this point I'm too afraid to ask.
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My daughter wanted a bat'leth for Christmas β mostly(?) to hang on her wall, but not-sharp and light enough to swing and not hurt herself or anyone else around were the first design criteria she gave me. It didn't get done in time for Christmas (as usual), and I'm kind of blocked in trying to work on it further at the moment. I'm ready to seal and paint it (4mm plywood), but it's too cold and wet to spray paint outdoors.
We definitely need photos of this!
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They're actually kind of wimpy looking compared to the one who tried to flirt with Riker when he signed up for a stint on a Klingon ship as a goodwill exchange. Sorry I can't GI up a picture just now.
It was this lovely specimen.
Filed under: Star Trek: The Next Generation: Season 2, Episode 8. A Matter of Honor
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How can this ever have been anything but highly immoral?
Filed under: shag me for an A. I also accept VISA and Mastercard
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I don't see a big deal here. I mean, you're basically taking away one of the best benefits about being a college professor. Also, college students are usually adults, who can take their own decisions about sex and relationships with whoever and for whatever they want.
What's next? Politicians? Judges? Anyone who can be persuaded to take wrong decisions because of sex?
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Essentially: yes.
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You forgot something:
Gaming journalists.
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Bah! Journalism in general is all biased, either by money, sex or power.
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Freud would like to have a word with you.
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Look, it's really simple. First you flunk them out of uni, and then, when they are completely dependent on you, that's when you make your move. Stringing them along in class just gives them false hopes.
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First you flunk them out of uni, and then, when they are completely dependent on you, that's when you make your move
How is an ex-student dependent of their ex-professor from their ex-university?
OTOH, there are ways for a student to defend themselves in this cases, that's why there are this things called laws and others called rules that don't have to interfere with personal relationships between consent adults.
Also, you seem to place the threat level on the professor's side, but I think it's the other way around. The professors are the ones with much more to loose than the students in this situations.
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I dunno, sounds like the professors are loosing a lot
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One time a guy got mad when I corrected his spelling, and threatened to punch me in my noose.
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If you have played it right, they just lost their career, and have nowhere else to turn to but to you.
There are two extreme cases. Either the prof coerces students into sex under the threat of failing them (or maintain them in an unhealthy relationship using the same threat), or the students threatens to expose the prof unless they get a better grade. Either is bad since it is no longer acquired knowledge that determines the grade, and two careers are at stake. To avoid the mere suspicion of either case, it makes sense to ban all s-p relationships. The fact that it has not oficially been banned up 'til now is the WTF in this case.
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To avoid the mere suspicion of either case, it makes sense to ban all s-p relationships.
And you really think that in those two extreme cases this banning is going to work? You can get more than slap in the hand by doing any of those things you mention above, because there's a law which prosecutes those conducts and still, people do it. You don't need a ban to stop this sort of things.
A stupid ban like this, only hurts real relationships, not those intended to do harm. And yes, there are problems that may arise from this relationships, but it's in the interest of two consent adults to ponder on it, not on some white old carcass sitting in a his office.
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"Let's have raving sex in return for that A you are going to give me!"
How is this fair to the rest of the student population? How is this the concern only of the two involved persons?
This is where the law/univ ban steps in and explains the repercussions, on behalf of the rest of the student population that does not get privy to the raving sex. Without the ban, they can get away with saying "we did nothing legally wrong".
Laws never prevent crimes, they just deter based on the consequences.
Edit: and the law cannot prevent sex between two adults, hence it is up to a univ. ban.
Edit 2: cannot -> should not , between two adults -> between two consenting adults.
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"Let's have raving sex in return for that A you are going to give me!"
Yes, I understand that you want to deter this sort of behavior, but a ban like this won't stop them. It would only apply to public relationships, and this one's aren't.
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A moot distinction. No crimes are made in public.
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Laws never prevent crimes, they just deter based on the consequences.
Laws create the crime in the first place.
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there are problems that may arise from this relationships
Even UCSC, which does not ban student-teacher relationships, says they are a bad idea and should be avoided, because the problematic ones are the norm and problem-free ones are uncommon: βWhile it is true that some students have been able to date their professors without any problems, this is the exception rather than the rule.β
This is the same reason (one of the reasons) relationships between employers and employees is a bad idea. Even if there is no actual problem in the relationship, even if the teacher or supervisor is able to evaluate the work of the student or employee in a completely unbiased, objective manner, the appearance of favoritism may undermine the academic integrity of the university or create a toxic atmosphere in the workplace. And what happens when the relationship turns sour? The one in the position of authority has the power to unfairly make the ex-lover's life miserable.
It is in the best interest of the entire university or workplace to strongly discourage, if not outright ban, such relationships. There might be exceptions where the romantic relationship existed prior to the couple becoming teacher-student or employer-employee, but in such cases it is better to avoid creating the supervisor-supervisee relationship β take your classes from a different professor; don't transfer into your lover's department.
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Sure, I know they are a bad idea and I've never dated someone inside my study/work zones. But it's a decision I made, not made by some biased bean counter. Hell, I see people around here that would rip their teeth if forced to use an IDE they don't like, you're going to let someone tell you who to fuck with?
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They have significant legal liability, and making it officially against their policy covers their asses. I'm not sure why that's so hard to understand.
Yet another, This is why we can't have nice things. (Assuming, for the sake of argument, that teacher/student relationships are nice.)
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They have significant legal liability, and making it officially against their policy covers their asses. I'm not sure why that's so hard to understand.
Ok, but then don't sell it like they're protecting the children.
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teacher/student relationships
There are many kinds of relationships. For example, there is the has-a relationship, which
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Ok, but then don't sell it like they're protecting the children.
Well, but that's part of it. It's codifying sexual harassment stuff at the school. Just like the way sexual harassment stuff in a workplace protects employees.
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made by some biased bean counter
Why do you think the bean counter is biased?
Also, the prohibition was apparently approved by the faculty with almost no disagreement. Some people violated it prohibition anyway, or were already in a relationship that became a violation when the prohibition was adopted, but there was no significant opposition to the policy.
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Do we need UML modelling to explain what is acceptable and what is not as far as work/school relationships?
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Is Slenderman around or