Wash ,'War Stories'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
my guy is looking for the professor mentioned here: [link] at the bottom.
I strongly suspect that your guy is looking for an urban legend: consider (a) the vagueness-yet-credentiallyness of "an MIT professor", (b) the fact that the process described is pretty much what they were already doing, and (c) 100 pounds an hour? Come the frak on. If I were General Mills, I wouldn't be paying for a machine that cranked less than 10K an hour.
I strongly suspect that your guy is looking for an urban legend
I do, too, since this story doesn't seem to come up any place else. I suspect that the original electrical engineering professor's story and some other one have been crossed and re-hatched as Internet wisdom.
aurelia, my guess is no, they don't, but you might try calling a main number and asking for one of these people, maybe Mr. de la Vega. (I mean, not that you'll get him on the phone, but someone in his office could probably answer your question, at least.)
I'd better find someone who will talk to me because Plan B is having (former) Worldcom disappeared.
tommy's a penmanship freak.
tommy's a penmanship freak.
Pretty much. Which is why I type everything.
eta: I blame the fact that they got rid of corporal punishment before I started first grade. If they had been whacking my wrists with rulers, I bet I'd be making my zeros and Os correctly to this day....
Timelies all!
My deepest sympathies, Beverly and Matt.
Oh my. Is it OK to say that the Pope sucks? (Or is "sucks" too gay?)
From the LA Times: Pope's new edict on the priesthood
The Vatican recently issued a statement re-emphasizing that even chaste gay men are to be barred from the priesthood. Never mind that large numbers of gay priests -- estimates range from 25% to 50% -- already serve the faithful, with most adhering to their vow of celibacy.
"Guidelines for the Use of Psychology in the Admission and Formation of Candidates for the Priesthood," released Oct. 30 by the Vatican's Congregation for Catholic Education, not only reiterates the teaching that men with "deep-seated" homosexual tendencies are unworthy of ordination, it also urges seminaries to enlist the aid of psychologists in screening candidates for homosexuality and other "psychic disturbances."
(Emphasis mine.)
Sullivan comments:
It seems to me that the Los Angeles Times is correct in noting that no APA credited psychologist should ethically cooperate with this kind of bigotry and psychological illiteracy. Apart from a tiny fringe, American pscyhologists have not viewed homosexuality as a "disturbance" or indeed in any way a problem. Neither, of course, did Freud.
The puppies are having a cage match. I'm tuning in to see what they'll destroy next!
One of them pooped in their bed earlier.
That wasn't as much fun.