Re: Affecting Institutional Change (Yeah Right)
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On 05/08/07 23:17, Amy Templeton wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com>
>> On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 10:03:18PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>> On 05/08/07 21:55, Amy Templeton wrote:
>>> [snip]
>>>> It's a private college, and have no desire to make this
>>>> anywhere near that insane, but thank you nonetheless. I'm
>>>> basically wishfully hoping for a quiet solution.
>>> If it's liberal, and it probably is, you could claim
>>> Discrimination. All the more so since you're female.
>
> I appreciate the suggestion, but I'd rather not pull status on this
> one, you know? That is a card to be saved up and used in an
> emergency to which it has direct bearing, or else it loses all
> meaning and becomes trite. Thanks, though.
There are those of us who believe that claims of discrimination
became trite many years ago.
[snip]
> Hahaha...some of them assume I'm a "wizard" since I use GNU/Linux.
> This is not the case. And let me put it this way: a friend of mine
> went through one of their classes on Python and came out with no
> idea that he'd been editing text files, no idea that Python could
> be run from a shell, no idea what an executable was, and, in fact,
> not even knowing what a shell was (even though it was apparently
Tell us again why you go to such a school?
(But then, until I go senile I'll remember the girl who got "A"s on
all her Comp Sci tests, but didn't know what this mizz-dos thing was
on her floppy disks, and why it was necessary. And I thought that
the 6Mhz IBM PC-AT chomped thru Turbo Pascal at a stunningly amazing
speed.)
> Anyway...done ranting. I don't really think this thread is going
> anywhere, so sorry to waste everybody's time and inbox space.
That's what 250GB hard drives are for.
> I'll
> just suck it up and get back to work on being the Dissenting Voice,
> burnout aside.
- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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