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Not that it is any of your business but because I have no children and the education of future generations is about the most important thing there is to me. Wh

Not that it is any of your business but because I have no children and the education of future generations is about the most important thing there is to me. What is important to you? Thanks for trolling me. I will try and make your contribution positive by reminding readers that if they lack a will with benefactors or executors with real world power, the state generally takes everything often ignoring legal documents you leave behind.

seiji 14y ago
No intent to troll here. I was just curious, seeing as I hold my academic institution in such high contempt. Now that you mention it, I'm not sure where I would leave any form of wealth I had. My first intuition would be needy organizations of some sort (cancer/hiv/troubled youth--and there's always hackerdojo). Intelligence finds a way. I'm not too worried about the world on that front.
- shawn-butler 14y ago
  I'm glad you took a few minutes to think about it. Even if you are not wealthy it helps focus on what is valuable. Regarding your bad experience it sounds like you weren't able to make the best out of your time and maybe your school failed in some respect. I find universities valuable because they are basically reincarnated every 4 or 5 years. They exist and function as an expression of the values of the students and to a lesser extent the faculty hired in that time. I simply cannot fathom how the Institute in any incarnation that I have been involved with would set out to destroy a productive community member for something so inane. Perhaps handle it internally but to ask for a formal prosecution? Something is really broken and I hope it is brought to light before the institution fails its students further.
  - seiji 14y ago
    I find universities valuable because they are basically reincarnated every 4 or 5 years. Ah ha! That's where we differ. My university experience made me feel it was a huge cancerously-growing bureaucracy that doesn't really want to change. A huge bureaucracy with draconian rules whose goals were to never inconvenience any employee of the university at the expense of student time and frustration. [[ At one point, they threatened to suspend my registration privileges because I WWW::Mechanize-automated my registration against their crappy web registration system. They kept telling me I was a horrible person for violating the "honor code" and "computer use policy" and I had no recourse but to write a lengthy letter of apology before they allowed me to register again. fun times. ]]
    - nitrogen 14y ago
      They kept telling me I was a horrible person for violating the "honor code" and "computer use policy" and I had no recourse but to write a lengthy letter of apology before they allowed me to register again. fun times. I bet it would've been fun if you'd automated that, too, using a Markov chain.
randallsquared 14y ago
"Not that it is any of your business" If you don't want people to read and comment on something, maybe don't bring it up to them, hm? It's not trolling to continue a conversation about your will that you began. Also, shaming someone for asking a reasonable question with "I will try and make your contribution positive" seemed deliberately offensive. It's not clear to me why you lashed out at that person as though they were prying into a private matter, when you opened the discussion on it.
- BrandonM 14y ago
  I would agree with your comment except that seiji used the derogatory term, "brainwash," to refer to an activity that shawn-butler clearly chose to participate in. This frames the conversation in a very negative light (it was quite unnecessary), and it's not surprising that shawn-butler's response was not entirely positive. I thought the reply showed appropriate restraint.
  - randallsquared 14y ago
    I agree that that seemed a poor choice of word, but the term doesn't seem deliberately pejorative to me.

seiji 14y ago

No intent to troll here. I was just curious, seeing as I hold my academic institution in such high contempt. Now that you mention it, I'm not sure where I would leave any form of wealth I had. My first intuition would be needy organizations of some sort (cancer/hiv/troubled youth--and there's always hackerdojo). Intelligence finds a way. I'm not too worried about the world on that front.

shawn-butler 14y ago
I'm glad you took a few minutes to think about it. Even if you are not wealthy it helps focus on what is valuable. Regarding your bad experience it sounds like you weren't able to make the best out of your time and maybe your school failed in some respect. I find universities valuable because they are basically reincarnated every 4 or 5 years. They exist and function as an expression of the values of the students and to a lesser extent the faculty hired in that time. I simply cannot fathom how the Institute in any incarnation that I have been involved with would set out to destroy a productive community member for something so inane. Perhaps handle it internally but to ask for a formal prosecution? Something is really broken and I hope it is brought to light before the institution fails its students further.
- seiji 14y ago
  I find universities valuable because they are basically reincarnated every 4 or 5 years. Ah ha! That's where we differ. My university experience made me feel it was a huge cancerously-growing bureaucracy that doesn't really want to change. A huge bureaucracy with draconian rules whose goals were to never inconvenience any employee of the university at the expense of student time and frustration. [[ At one point, they threatened to suspend my registration privileges because I WWW::Mechanize-automated my registration against their crappy web registration system. They kept telling me I was a horrible person for violating the "honor code" and "computer use policy" and I had no recourse but to write a lengthy letter of apology before they allowed me to register again. fun times. ]]
  - nitrogen 14y ago
    They kept telling me I was a horrible person for violating the "honor code" and "computer use policy" and I had no recourse but to write a lengthy letter of apology before they allowed me to register again. fun times. I bet it would've been fun if you'd automated that, too, using a Markov chain.

randallsquared 14y ago

"Not that it is any of your business" If you don't want people to read and comment on something, maybe don't bring it up to them, hm? It's not trolling to continue a conversation about your will that you began. Also, shaming someone for asking a reasonable question with "I will try and make your contribution positive" seemed deliberately offensive. It's not clear to me why you lashed out at that person as though they were prying into a private matter, when you opened the discussion on it.

BrandonM 14y ago
I would agree with your comment except that seiji used the derogatory term, "brainwash," to refer to an activity that shawn-butler clearly chose to participate in. This frames the conversation in a very negative light (it was quite unnecessary), and it's not surprising that shawn-butler's response was not entirely positive. I thought the reply showed appropriate restraint.
- randallsquared 14y ago
  I agree that that seemed a poor choice of word, but the term doesn't seem deliberately pejorative to me.