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( , Sat 6 Jun 2009, 12:13, archived)

Whar'd my morning go?
Apart from sleeping...
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Sat 6 Jun 2009, 12:15,
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Apart from sleeping...

It is a good job they aren't that price now or I would never leave bookshops
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Sat 6 Jun 2009, 12:16,
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they were £6.99 for long time, if they dropped the price more people would buy them, I say take the risk and drop the price to £5.99.
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Sat 6 Jun 2009, 12:19,
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I mean, with a lower price, more people are likely to buy it, right?
But instead, they just put up the price.
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Sat 6 Jun 2009, 12:21,
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But instead, they just put up the price.

If I went in to a bookshop and they are £7.99 I will only get one, maybe 3. If they were say £5.99, I would buy 4 or 6. They should also scrap hardbacks or only make them if people ask for them in a shop.
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Sat 6 Jun 2009, 12:35,
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about the future of book. Basically, he turned out to be a money-grabbing twonk who wants the entire second-hand book market closed down and he's clamouring for changes in copyright law so that when you buy a book, you don't actually own it.
He's trying to get his publisher to switch production to e-books that have limited licences so you have to renew it every year or term, but also so that the basic format is the bare minimum and you have to pay extra for answer to excercises, etc.
I said to him that it would only favour the richest students and he told me that education shouldn't have to be fair.
Cunt.
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Sat 6 Jun 2009, 12:24,
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He's trying to get his publisher to switch production to e-books that have limited licences so you have to renew it every year or term, but also so that the basic format is the bare minimum and you have to pay extra for answer to excercises, etc.
I said to him that it would only favour the richest students and he told me that education shouldn't have to be fair.
Cunt.

Because he's actually been heard of...
I was very tempted to report him for copyright infringement after he ripped off a section of a film for his talk.
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Sat 6 Jun 2009, 12:28,
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I was very tempted to report him for copyright infringement after he ripped off a section of a film for his talk.

Would that have wiped the smug grin off his cuntish face, though?
See, I haven't even seen him and I passionately dislike him.
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Sat 6 Jun 2009, 12:30,
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See, I haven't even seen him and I passionately dislike him.

and despite the fact that I like educational elitism in terms of effort, that is an extremely prickish attitude.
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Sat 6 Jun 2009, 12:27,
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Mostly in phys. chem., but recently branched out in other fields - one his latest was savaged for the vast number of mistakes.
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Sat 6 Jun 2009, 12:35,
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In the shatner .gif with the bird whose boobs are shatners head, who is the bird?
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Sat 6 Jun 2009, 12:43,
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ie appears in documentaries? articles in the gruanaid?
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Sat 6 Jun 2009, 12:49,
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shares a name with a diet.
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Sat 6 Jun 2009, 12:55,
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found him that way, I never did much chem, even though it's what i went to uni to do...
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Sat 6 Jun 2009, 12:56,
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35% of Southampton chem graduates left to do accounting...
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Sat 6 Jun 2009, 12:57,
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Phys chem is for knobs anyway.
/Biochemist
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Sat 6 Jun 2009, 12:58,
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/Biochemist

/degree in biochemistry, now a bio/cheminformaticist ...er.. but not physical chemistry OH NO.
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Sat 6 Jun 2009, 13:02,
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We'll end up comparing lists of our publications in a minute...
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Sat 6 Jun 2009, 13:04,
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Mind you, it's different in different fields. I've heard in physics one evry couple years ain't bad, but in other things, you need four a year or more.
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Sat 6 Jun 2009, 13:08,
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(i'm a 1st year phd student so I'm pretty lucky to have what I've got)
in fields like optics/plasma, you'd need 4 to survive because if you don't publish, the ARC hates you.
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Sat 6 Jun 2009, 13:11,
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in fields like optics/plasma, you'd need 4 to survive because if you don't publish, the ARC hates you.

Lucky all round, really. I'm supposedly the youngest postdoc ever to have started at Bern and I managed to get a wodge of papers from my Ph. D. It was very odd giving undergrad lectures to people older than me.
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Sat 6 Jun 2009, 13:18,
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And said 'magnetism and masturbation are the same thing. Both happen in a dark place and it's a relief when they're over.'
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Sat 6 Jun 2009, 13:07,
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Apparently, I have to go to Monash to use one.
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Sat 6 Jun 2009, 13:10,
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Chemistry is fun*.
*dangerous, the way I did it anyway.
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Sat 6 Jun 2009, 13:17,
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*dangerous, the way I did it anyway.

thanks for reading this post, that'll be 50p please
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Sat 6 Jun 2009, 13:17,
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how can i make money off the idea without needing it to actually perform?
hmm...
i'm selling options in the g foundation, who wants some?
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Sat 6 Jun 2009, 13:19,
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hmm...
i'm selling options in the g foundation, who wants some?