Quinn's New Fan Club

[Dickie Billericay]

BTW, Queen, I think your wife is cheating on you with a Marine.

Now you've done it, Yancy.  Looks like Quinn took his ball and went home.  

Sniff, sob, boo hoo.  NOT!

[Yancy Derringer]

Now you've done it, Yancy.  Looks like Quinn took his ball and went home.  

Kind of funny how "Neilist" over on AED is calling Quinn a faggot.  Since he's married with children you wouldn't think that would hold much water....but wait, what's this?

The Raw Truth: Conversations With Young Adults Show That Knowledge of HIV Issues Is Missing in Action

(As Published in the March/April 2002 Edition of HIV Plus Magazine)

...In a clear sign of trouble on the horizon, raw has become fashionable for many young gay men. Pointing to the computer, Chris, a self-described fitness enthusiast, explains that "raw means condomless sex. It's the rage!" As the instant messages continue to arrive, some contain invitations to group sex parties where condoms are optional and drugs are plentiful. "At these parties," Chris says, "nobody asks your status-nobody cares. We just play raw and have a good time. I'll probably go to one tonight."

Some of the messages contain terms in what has become part of the everyday vernacular for Chris. "See these letters BB and PNP?" Chris asks. BB means bareback, and PNP means party and play."

...It is thought the Internet has contributed to this movement toward unsafe sex. Quinn Tyler Jackson, Ph.D., an author and researcher who has followed societal changes relating to interpersonal technologies, says, "There is clearly a link between access to the Internet and the sexualization and personal boundary setting of youth, and this very likely carries from keyboard to daily life choices. If there were no link, why have I spent the past six years helping develop software that controls the use of computers by youth-even those standing in full view in public libraries?"

http://www.aegis.com/news/misc/2002/JM020501.html

So why does a guy writing a story about queers and HIV contact Quinn for his expert view?  Does Quinn have some kind of special insight into the sodomite community????

[ham]

an author and researcher who has followed societal changes relating to interpersonal technologies

is this the same person?
Wasn't he into mathematics?
Boy oh boy...and they say we no longer have universal geniuses like Leonardo and Leibniz...

Does Quinn have some kind of special insight into the sodomite community????

Thomas Chip White has no doctorate, thus it might be unfashionable to quote him, but with 70+ gay teen porn DVDs under his belt, he is an authority...

[jackson]

While it is clear that your "questions" are, in fact, not really questions, but some 1950-ish J. Edgarian attempt to smear by simple association ... they deserve a reply...

In Canada, we typically mind our own business as regards sexual orientation. In fact, same-sex marriage is legally recognized here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_ma..._in_Canada

A general observation about this ... most contemporary Canadians wouldn't blink or look twice were they to see two man or two women walking down the street holding hands. I once had a boss who summarized the political right as follows:

"The political right believes in getting the government's nose completely out of business and sticking it instead in people's bedrooms. They want no laws restricting trade or commerce, but plenty of laws restricting how we use our own body."

So there you have it. Neilist's rants on this subject do not phase me because, while I am heterosexual, I do not give much thought at all to what people do in the privacy of their own homes. In as much as I don't care what Joe Random Citizen watched on TV or ate for dinner, I don't care with whom he lives. Attacks on one's sexuality are sufficiently juvenile to be ignored.

As for the quote in the article mentioned: I used to earn my living developing software that locked down public access computers in elementary schools, public libraries, and the like. Part of my job involved research to understand how computers are abused in such environments. Moreover, I have written software that assists in SECC compliance. I do not talk much about what it is I do professionally, but essentially, for years I wrote software to protect children from the dangers of the Internet. Is it any wonder I took such exception when adults started sending vulgar content aimed at a minor, then? Is it any wonder that I failed to understand the thought processes someone in a SECC-controlled industry who would stand behind such attacks? Not really.

So yes, I have followed societal changes that have resulted from interpersonal technologies. I have written software systems that scan emails for violations of sexual harrassment and other policies. I have analyzed word use patterns by anonymous posters to determine if there is any possible forensic software that might be used to identify posts made by a single individual just by their word use. That is, indeed, an aspect of what I formally research, and ultimately, part of what I get paid to do.

Chapter 8 of my dissertation covers the topic of computational linguistics, and in the introduction to that chapter, it reads:

The field of computational linguistics sits between linguistics and computer science, at times encompassing cognitive science, pure mathematics, statistical analysis, phonological and acoustic analysis, and psychology, among a few of the areas applied to its explorations. It embraces empirical, theoretical, and, at times, qualitative methodologies, in the forms mathematical analysis of formal grammars (e.g., [Koster 1991]), statistical analysis of linguistic corpora (e.g., [Biber et al.]), and qualitative analysis of machine translation output (e.g., [Hofstadter]).

So yes -- I am involved in an interdisciplinary field.

[jackson]

For instance, did you know that every email ever sent to or from Enron during a certain time period is publicly available?

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~enron/

The Enron Corpus was made available, despite some very personal (and at times embarrassing) content in that database so that researchers such as myself could study things like how technology changes societal behavior.

That entire body of emails can be scanned on a desktop in 6 minutes against 800 complex SECC rules, such that sexually harassing emails get indexed, et cetera.

Before Enron, due to a lack of raw data, researchers largely guessed at how corporate culture and technology work together. Now, it’s the subject of formal study and papers.

[jackson]

And BTW, Dickie, I didn't take my ball and leave. I took away my words so your crew's words would stand alone -- to make a point.

Step away from this world for a year. Don't wrap yourself in the DL fora culture for that long, and come back and take a look. What will you see?

A very unhealthy world, indeed.

A world where people who claim to be interested in higher education talk about sexuality, endorse attacks against children as if they were acceptable, where jokes about "towel heads" get guffaws, where women and children and those of different races are openly attacked ....

In the real world, I doubt you would allow any of the people you have aligned yourself with into your home. Complete strangers who make a hobby of posting pictures they hunted down ... pictures depicting bestiality.

You wouldn't allow these people into your homes ... you would screw your eyes up at them sideways and chase them away with a baseball bat. If they came anywhere near your children, you'd likely snap them like a twig to defend your family. But in this world ... you all get into a circle, join hands, put paper bags over your heads so no one can see who you really are ... and you behave like atrocious little hellians.

In fact ... if the you that you show your family members were to meet the you you present here ... you'd likely kick yourself out of your own home.

[ham]

and you behave like atrocious little hellians.

In fact ... if the you that you show your family members were to meet the you you present here ... you'd likely kick yourself out of your own home.

so...
assuming that likes and dislikes are morally ugly, i suppose you NEVER laughed at a blond, nigger, gook, beaner, wop or such joke poking fun at stereotypes; you've never eyed someone suspiciously or laughed because of their looks; I as well must suppose you have never shaken your head in disgust because someone acted or spoke stupidly; that you have never found one form of disability or deformity funny, weird or repulsing and therefore that you would find perfectly reasonable if your daughter wanted to have children with a "Down person"...or perhaps an african felon who at 19 spent more time in jail for rape and theft than in school...
You might sure say that self-righteous you pays attention to his moral caliber, not his skin color or place he grew up in...
I hate to tell you that some lefty liberal, special-interest counselor would probably remind you that "society made that to him"...and besides, Leroy plays banjo very well, so see? You misjudged him again.

I envy you...
universal genius is unheard of these days...
I'll never be another Goedel to solve top problems in Hilbert's list and i'll never demonstrate the Tanyama-Kimura conjecture ( which already has been ).

[Yancy Derringer]

I am heterosexual

Hey Queen, Your donkey gnaws both the legs off of my chicken. What do you have?











Two feet of my cock in your ass!

HAHA , you love it don't you, you canadian fairy.

[jackson]

Ham:

On this site, this section's description is as follows:

Discussion of any other losers, stalkers, degenerates or light-weights who damage the cause of distance learning.

Now, take a look at Yancy's posts.

Now, ask yourself a few questions:

* Is Yancy helping or damaging the cause of distance learning?
* Did the attacks on Mark Israel after his accident help or damage the cause of distance learning?
* Did the vulgar posts against a minor child and her mother help or damage the cause of distance learning?
* Does endorsing death wishes against human beings help or damage the cause of distance learning?
* Do attacks and slurs against race or sexual orientation help or damage the cause of distance learning?

In each case above -- which side engaged in such behavior? The pro-accreditation side? No. The non-accreditation supporters did. Not everyone participates in this behavior on the non-accreditation side, granted ... but some of the most vocal most certainly do.

It doesn't take a universal genius to figure it out: the brush the most vocal non-accreditation parties have used to paint themselves is covered in horse shit.

It's not freedom of speech, it's not political satire, it's not some version of the Boston Tea Party ... no matter how it's dressed up: it's just a steaming heap of horse shit. If you prefer it in more polite terms, it's the kind of thing about which Grandpa Higgins used to say: "No matter how you slice it, it's still bologna."

Losers, stalkers, degenerates, and light-weights ... damaging (not helping) the very cause they claim to support.

All the decent, good work of serious supporters of the non-accreditation supporters was pretty much for nothing ... ruined by a handful of vocal neer-do-wells.

You can tell a lot about a man by who his enemies are ... so I'm glad to not be seen to be a friend of such people.

[ham]

first, my own reasons for being here might coincide or not with anyone else's.
As well, i think "distance education" is done by doing it, not pontificating on websites, because websites are just another venue to pimp merchandise, with grocers being helped by chipped shoulders in need to make friends or keep that damn skeleton from rattling in the closet.
When I first met the clique ( the various uncle Janko, Gregg des Elms, Thomas Chip White... ) i had heard a few "funny" things about these quacks, but hey, "live and let live", right?
Then they attacked me for no reason whatsoever, actually raising me to the stars one day and burying me the next day...
So who are these people?
Do they have a right or moral compass accurate enough to judge me?
While they have never met me and couldn't part me from a Daewoo Matiz, there is a great deal of third-party materials about them, which might be accepted in a court of law.
So ok, perhaps Thomas Chip White (owner of degreeinfo.com ) is "just another gay guy"... so what?
Well, not exactly...
This paragon of virtue who judges other people is a gay teen pornographer whose webpage is packed with scantly clad queer "boys" sending him their love; this honest man claims to have produced 70+ gay teen porn DVDs; this prude personally advertises his porn on very graphic terms on queer boards; this model citizen sells fraudulent cures for cancer and "trains physicians", he who has but a high-school degree...
Gregg des Elms is a macho who spent $40.000 on a single hooker, then claimed he was researching a book and went berserk against the sex industry; as well I think I read he secured some young philipina just out of the boat...true love, he says...being a sex tourist and a loser if it were someone else.
So maybe John Bear wrote his "guides" and wasn't at all times accurate and unbiased...so what?
Well, not exactly...
John Bear who criticizes other peoples' degrees has owned, represented, operated a string of "alternative", "non-traditional", "unaccredited" [on his side of the fence] 'schools' , which he now brands as degree mills and frauds.
Anybody operating a bogus school is a quack and a criminal [the other side of the fence ], but he owned, represented and operated such schools "as a lark", "in jest" [his side of the fence ] and of course to raise money for children charities...see...he even made a gift of one of these schools to some unheard of stranger in exchange for "100 pounds of Ethiopian earpickers and Coptic crosses"...
See where we're heading?
Besides, none of them has any significant distance learning experience...and distance learning is what they toot as their "expertise".