What's on your mind 2010 the Next Generation

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Kaworu

#1521 April 03, 2011, 06:55:15 pm

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i might study it through open university at some point, is my current way of thinking, but i would need decent qualifications to do that. I am like 10 weeks from finishing my fine art degree, and it's still fun, just the whole art world is sooo shit and wrong that I have no faith in it, and don't really feel like being part of it.
Though idealy I'd like to be writing/drawing comics/playing guitar, and have my own personal interests to study on the side, like non academicaly.

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Farren

#1522 April 03, 2011, 08:47:47 pm

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Quote from: Marge on April 03, 2011, 03:44:15 pm

If 2010 was honestly their "best year in safety performance in our company's history" either they have a really, really skewed way of calculating this or I don't even wanna hear about 2009. I get it that oil rigs are dangerous places and the eleven people who died on Deepwater Horizon probably weren't even the only deaths in 2010, but even if it had been a hundred and eleven it would have been the small compared to the whole extent of the catastrophe caused by cost-cutting induced lapse of safety standards by Transocean and others. I don't know from which level the decisions to cut corners originated, but I bet it was pretty high up the ladder, and the bonuses in question were not for anybody who needs helmet, it's the top execs getting tens or hundreds of thousands on top of their already multi million salaries ($370k bonus for the CEO otherwise earning a petty 5.5 million). Which is outrageous by itself, even before somebody gets the brilliant idea to mention "safety performance" as a reason for them.

No what I'm saying is for those safety incentives they don't count stuff like what happened to the deepwater horizon they count a yearly sum of hand injuries, falls, loss time accidents like that and a large scale explosion like the deepwater is considered something else entirely. Also I'm pretty sure the execs weren't the only ones that got that bonus with my company it goes across the board. I read the link you posted and it seems a little vague like the author could not have researched further into it or just left that bit out.

maybe they do shit different though but I'm pretty sure they don't. because it sounds alot like what my company does and I'm not saying they aren't dirty I'm saying annual safety incentives are a regular thing.

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Ghost_Aspergers

#1523 April 03, 2011, 09:01:07 pm

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Berserk could have been pretty good if it wasn't for all of the violence, rape, and 2/3 of the storyline.

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Marge

#1524 April 03, 2011, 09:13:29 pm

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Quote from: Kaworu on April 03, 2011, 06:06:06 pm

more and more I am regreting my life choice of going into art, and finding myself more interested in astronomy and physics and such. On an average week morning, my housemate will be downstairs watching the culture show or something, and I'll be in my room watching something on quantum theory or the big bang

Undergraduate physics is 90% boring stuff like classical mechanics (Newton's laws and onwards), thermodynamics etc., and then heaps and heaps of math. Sometimes when you get to the cool stuff you don't even realize it, it's probably just another a big pile of matrices with this property and that theorem and if you multiply it with this you get this and that and whooooops, somewhere there between the million sigmas was a result that makes a cool headline for a popular science magazine.

Not saying it isn't awesome when you get it, and good lecturers motivate with sidenotes like that, but mostly it's just more math. The one exception in my undergrad physics has been introduction to special relativity, which was filled with mind bending examples of how to drive a 6m car to 4m garage. Special relativity is a great in the sense that it's probably the only part of modern (relativity+quantum) physics that doesn't require much more than highschool level math as a basis. Often the best part comes sometime after you've done a course and you browse through the material and can skip all the mathematical technicalities and focus on the big picture.

I get what you mean though, I'm often thinking why didn't I go to philosophy or psychology or something, I would only have to read books and talk cool, grass is always greener on the other side. But when somebody's talking about the revolutionary new ways Kant had for thinking about perception he never mentions that in the original texts they are buried in a thousand pages of incomprehensible rambling. Which is natural of course, not criticising it, but you sometimes need a reminder.

If you wanna do the open university thing you can find lots of course materials online for free, MIT has its OpenCourseWare and googling around I've often ran into lecture notes or even video lectures from Caltech, Berkeley, Stanford etc.

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Marge

#1525 April 03, 2011, 09:29:08 pm

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Quote from: Farren on April 03, 2011, 08:47:47 pm

No what I'm saying is for those safety incentives they don't count stuff like what happened to the deepwater horizon they count a yearly sum of hand injuries, falls, loss time accidents like that and a large scale explosion like the deepwater is considered something else entirely. Also I'm pretty sure the execs weren't the only ones that got that bonus with my company it goes across the board. I read the link you posted and it seems a little vague like the author could not have researched further into it or just left that bit out.

Yeah I get the last part, though I'm pretty sure you didn't get $370k. If environmental damage is not included in safety stuff at all then that explains it a bit, but I'm still majorly pissed that a company fucked up about as bad as you can imagine in that business and ends up giving huge bonuses to their execs, with the CEO getting a neat 34% raise to his base salary and all in all a million more than the year before. According to my pretty conservative financial calculations of shit+shit=lot of shit Transocean should be buried in so much of it that they wouldn't be handing out anything to anyone.

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Kaworu

#1526 April 03, 2011, 09:46:42 pm

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i just know that if I start studying something like that, when I am about to finish, I will get bored and be like, HMM I REALLY FEEL LIKE STUDYING HISTORY, then maybe after that get the sudden urge to spent three years studying animation or music production or some crap, maybe even commercial airline management.

Essentially I would like to be in education all my life and not have a real job, yet just fill my head up with so much random nonsense. I like learning, learning is fun. People say that we can never have another guy like Leonardo da Vinci, because the fields of understanding are so complex and specific that you can only really be a master at one of them, But I think I'd like to give it a try. I paint, play guitar and have more than just a passing curiosity in science... If only I was any good at them, I could be Kaworu da Vinci

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Guana

#1527 April 03, 2011, 09:51:59 pm

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Learning is great, school is awesome, study everything, never graduate.... ... .. ..

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Ragnar

#1528 April 04, 2011, 01:12:41 pm

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http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/03/live-animals-being-sold-as-keyrings-in-china.php

gj china

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Vellfire

#1529 April 04, 2011, 01:52:46 pm

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Quote from: Ragnar on April 04, 2011, 01:12:41 pm

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/03/live-animals-being-sold-as-keyrings-in-china.php

gj china

My initial reaction to that headline was "well of course they do."

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DDay

#1530 April 04, 2011, 02:24:25 pm

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Quote from: Ghost_Aspergers on April 03, 2011, 09:01:07 pm

Berserk could have been pretty good if it wasn't for all of the violence, rape, and 2/3 of the storyline.

As for the rape part your right but whats wrong with violence gore and blood shade.

DDay is Dead I am a dead man typing

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Kaworu

#1531 April 04, 2011, 02:32:03 pm

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it's as boring and purile as fuck?

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Ragnar

#1532 April 04, 2011, 11:28:38 pm

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hey guys ever notice the jeopardy theme song is I'm a Little Teapot

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DDay

#1533 April 05, 2011, 12:11:08 am

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Quote from: Ragnar on April 04, 2011, 11:28:38 pm

hey guys ever notice the jeopardy theme song is I'm a Little Teapot

No your wrong close but no cigar.

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Warped655

#1534 April 05, 2011, 03:10:29 am

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Quote from: Kaworu on April 04, 2011, 02:32:03 pm

it's as boring and purile as fuck?

Without context or meaning indeed it is. I haven't read more then 20 or so pages of berserk though so I can't say if it has violence with purpose.

But not all violence in books/comics/film is pointless or childish.

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Carrion Crow

#1535 April 05, 2011, 08:54:04 pm

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I got 85% in my project today. That's the single highest grade I ever got in uni.

I got so shit on so much the past 3 months. Today I am smug. Smugger than the smuggest smug bastard in smugland.

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Malad

#1536 April 05, 2011, 09:09:52 pm

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Quote from: ed on April 05, 2011, 08:54:04 pm

I got 85% in my project today. That's the single highest grade I ever got in uni.

I got so shit on so much the past 3 months. Today I am smug. Smugger than the smuggest smug bastard in smugland.

What have you been up to? What are you working towards in school? Any long term plans? Just wondering!

what's updog?

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Carrion Crow

#1537 April 06, 2011, 10:50:21 am

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Quote from: Malad on April 05, 2011, 09:09:52 pm

What have you been up to? What are you working towards in school? Any long term plans? Just wondering!

I've been finishing my final year. Got dumped by my girl and most of my friends have graduated because they did the bachelors and I am doing the masters. It's been a shitty 2011 so far. But I'll have a change of scene soon.

I am graduating in July, I have been offered a PhD place and I am in the process of being interviewed for others to compare and contrast. I am gonna go into the semiconductor industry and design optoelectronic devices. Something my supervisor currently says "Yuck!" about. I find it very interesting though

He's just gutted I'm not doing a PhD with him.

What are you up to man? You seem to emerge here about once a year ;D

p.s. I've decided I want to be a woman.

p.p.s. That was a lie. I would never give up my spam cannon.

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Malad

#1538 April 06, 2011, 12:44:02 pm

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Wow man sounds like you've got your hands full! Sorry to hear about the girl, but you'll find another lucky babe soon enough! Who could resist ed? And the prospects of becoming a woman expand your horizons even further ;) ;)

Optoelectronic devices... hmm. I've been reading articles all over the place about computers that store data and do functions with light. I'm assuming that's what you're talking about! That's a fascinating field to go into. I've always wanted to be on the frontier of an industry like that. It's good to see everything is working favorably for ya

As far as my plans go, I'm a Junior now at my college and am working on a degree in Biology. It's fun, but rough. I have to take just as many chemistry classes as biology. I got a job at my local apartment complex now. Totally sweet. I literally walk downstairs for work and get near-free rent. My girl and I are going through a tough time seeing as she lives 4 hours away. I guess it could be worse.

I seem to forget about this place for 3-4 months at a time! lol

what's updog?

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Terrorantula

#1539 April 06, 2011, 04:48:26 pm

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KAworu you can keep learning evne if your'e not in school.
I feel like an idiot- waht part of the "Don't bother me" part of "I'm Grading papers" didn't i get yesterday?
Mind you, it's hard to take it seriously when said teacher-housemate is watching TV at the same time, but still. . . not a good time for a chat.

Everyone has the right to be himself; wise men know how to,when, and whether to navigate the boundary between their rights and those of others when they collide.

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Marge

#1540 April 06, 2011, 08:55:55 pm

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Quote from: Wikipedia

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More generally, “abstract nonsense” may refer to any proof (humorous or not) that uses primarily category theoretic methods, or even to the study of category theory itself. Note that referring to an argument as "abstract nonsense" is not supposed to be a derogatory expression, and is actually often a compliment regarding the sophistication of the argument.[1][2]

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