Recent content by lethe

Can you PM me the PDF you linked in this thread, if you still have it?

Do the right thing and graciously extend the term of the bet a few more years to the end of the LHC run.

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that guy is not my friend. he is a liar

i once deleted my posts from the sticky thread on differential forms, because i do not agree with PF's strong censorship policies, and therefore do not want my words posted there in perpetuum. if you are not willing to allow me to remove the words which you asked me to copy and paste here from...

I think implementing software controls to take over moderation from the moderators is fascist.

OK, as i said in my post above, it seems that the people have more or less spoken. personally, i think the poll was rather ineffectual, with very few people voting, but it doesn't really matter. the forum admins of PF have made their opinions known: the censorship is here to stay. so at...

i think it is safe to say the voting is more or less over. the two dozen or so people who voted on this poll seem to prefer the profanity filter.

My current uni (and all other unis i have been to) allows me to use profanity in the classroom. I often exercise this freedom, both as student, and as teacher. i think you are turned around. i don't have to look to find an example that allows profanity. on the contrary, i think it would be...

up yours, buddy 1. The message you have entered is too short. Please lengthen your message to at least 10 characters.

well, i guess i am glad to know you don't care. it makes my decision easier. great. no thanks.

nowhere did i say that course language is necessary. what i did say is that freedom is necessary, and that censorship restricts freedom yeah, Integral, that is exactly right, i am well aware that there are other forums, and currently, i prefer them over PF. your advice is exactly accurate...

another instance where the freedoms that one might have by virtue of being an internet community are restricted based on the assumption that we need protection from the kiddie porn contingency moderation = good, censorship = bad

this is the very kind of thinking that upsets me

seems a lot of people here like the censorship that goes on here. personally, i feel that censorship has no place in an academic environment where the goal should be unrestricted flow of ideas (ideas relating to physics in particular, should be the goal here at physicsforums). a censorship...