Another Important Ranking

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Judul : Another Important Ranking
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Another ranking that should be looked at very carefully is the International Mathematical Olympiad, designed for pre-university students, the first of which was held in Romania in 1959. The competition includes problems in algebra, pre-calculus, complex geometry and functional equations.

Twenty years ago the Olympiad was dominated by ex-communist Eastern Europe. In 1996, first place was taken by Romania while Hungary was third and  Russia fourth. Now, East Asia and the Chinese diaspora are dominant: South Korea second, China third, Singapore fourth, Taiwan fifth, North Korea sixth, Hong Kong ninth, Japan tenth.

The USA is first this year, as it was in 2015, with an all-male team whose members have three South Asian and three Chinese surnames.

The rankings look pretty much like the PISA and TIMSS test scores. Combined with the recent coding competition and the Top500 supercomputing ranking, they suggest the intellectual and economic leaders of this century will be in East Asia and Eastern Europe including Russia.

The USA and the UK might do fairly well if they can introduce and maintain sensible immigration and educational selection policies.

The American success, unfortunately, is not good enough for the conventional education media. The team is not diverse enough: no women, no historically underrepresented minorities. So far nobody has protested about the absence of transgender or openly gay students but perhaps their time will eventually come.

Education Week reports that:

"According to Mark Saul, the director of competitions for the Mathematical Association of America, not a single African-American or Hispanic student—and only a handful of girls—has ever made it to the Math Olympiad team in its 50 years of existence."

To overcome this problem, participants in the events leading up to the Olympiad have competitions that test creativity and collaboration and are judged subjectively.   

"In the past few years, MathCounts added two new middle school programs to try to diversify its participant pool—National Math Club and the Math Video Challenge.

"Schools or teachers who sign up for the National Math Club receive a kit full of activities and resources, but there's no special teacher training and no competition attached.

The Math Video Challenge is a competition, but a collaborative one. Teams of four students make a video illustrating a math problem and its real-world application.

After the high-pressure Countdown round at this year's national MathCounts competition, in which the top 12 students went head to head solving complex problems in rapid fire, the finalists for the Math Video Challenge took the stage to show their videos. The demographics of that group looked quite different from those in the competition round—of the 16 video finalists, 13 were girls and eight were African-American students. The video challenge does not put individual students on the hot seat—so it's less intimidating by design. It also adds the element of artistic creativity to attract a new pool of students who may not see themselves as "math people."

An 8th grade team from the Ron Clark Academy, an independent middle school in Atlanta that serves low-income students, was among the finalists. The students illustrated a complicated multistep problem entirely through rap. None had ever been involved in a math competition before."

In other words, the competitions will be less and less about mathematics and more and more about making rap videos and the like. No doubt Russia, China and Korea will be flocking to the US to see how its done. Much the same thing has been happening with national competitive debating.

Here are this year's results and those for 2015 and 1996.

Rank 2016	Team	Rank 2015	Rank 1996
1	USA	1	2
2	South Korea	3	8
3	China	2	6
4	Singapore	10	25
5	Taiwan	18	20
6	North Korea	4	--
7=	Russia	8	4
7=	UK	22	5
9	Hong Kong	28	27
10	Japan	22	11
11	Vietnam	5	7
12=	Canada	9	16
12=	Thailand	12	47
14	Hungary	20	3
15=	Brazil	22	52
15=	Italy	29	25
17	Philippines	36	74
18	Bulgaria	29	11
19	Germany	27	10
20=	Romania	13	1
20=	Indonesia	29	70
22	Israel	40	15
23	Mexico	19	53
24	Iran	7	9
25=	Australia	6	23
25=	France	14	32
25=	Peru	16	--
28	Kazakhstan	28	25
29	Turkey	20	19
30=	Armenia	26	34
30=	Croatia	15	34
30=	Ukraine	11	18
33	Mongolia	35	44
34	India	34	37
35=	Bangladesh	33	--
35=	Belarus	39	21
37=	Czech Republic	45	28
37=	Sweden	60	40
39	Macau	35	48
40	Serbia	40	29
41	Saudi Arabia	41	--
42	Poland	17	13
43	Switzerland	45	62
44	Netherlands	43	59
45	Bosnia - Herzogovina	43	57
46	Austria	60	42
47	Portugal	52	13
48	Syria	54	--
49	Spain	72	48
50=	Lithuania	65	32
50=	Greece	51	22
52	Belgium	56	31
53	New Zealand	49	--
54	Azerbaijan	48	58
55	Slovakia	33	17
56	Malaysia	57	72
57	Argentina	52	29
58	South Africa	55	43
59=	Costa Rica	67	--
59=	Georgia	42	30
61	Estonia	70	55
62	Tajikistan	64	--
63=	Moldova	38	41
63=	Slovenia	73	44
63=	Cyprus	63	69
66=	Sri Lanka	70	53
66=	Colombia	49	46
68	El Salvador	95	--
69=	Albania	77	67
69=	Turkmenistan	58	72
71=	Finland	82	39
71=	Paraguay	67	--
73	Macedonia	74	46
74	Latvia	79	33
75	Ireland	77	61
76	Tunisia	75	--
77=	Kosovo	86	--
77=	Uzbekistan	58	--
79	Morocco	80	65
80	Nicaragua	82	--
81	Denmark	69	48
82	Algeria	62	--
83	Ecuador	80	--
84=	Kyrgyzstan	92	67
84=	Norway	65	37
86	Venezuela	96	--
87	Puerto Rico	90	--
88=	Montenegro	89
88=	Nigeria	88
90	Iceland	75	56
91=	Chile	97	71
91=	Pakistan	85	--
93	Uruguay	93	--
94	Trinidad & Tobago	82	60
95	Luxemburg	97	--
96=	Cambodia	86	--
96=	Myanmar	--	--
98	Uganda	100	--
99	Kenya	--	--
100=	Honduras	--	--
100=	Madagascar	--	--
102	Jamaica	102	--
103	Botswana	103	--
104=	Egypt
104=	Ghana	101	--
106	Tanzania	106	--
107=	Iraq	--	--
107=	Liechtenstein	90	--
109	Laos	--	--

Another ranking that should be looked at very carefully is the International Mathematical Olympiad, designed for pre-university students, the first of which was held in Romania in 1959. The competition includes problems in algebra, pre-calculus, complex geometry and functional equations.

Twenty years ago the Olympiad was dominated by ex-communist Eastern Europe. In 1996, first place was taken by Romania while Hungary was third and  Russia fourth. Now, East Asia and the Chinese diaspora are dominant: South Korea second, China third, Singapore fourth, Taiwan fifth, North Korea sixth, Hong Kong ninth, Japan tenth.

The USA is first this year, as it was in 2015, with an all-male team whose members have three South Asian and three Chinese surnames.

The rankings look pretty much like the PISA and TIMSS test scores. Combined with the recent coding competition and the Top500 supercomputing ranking, they suggest the intellectual and economic leaders of this century will be in East Asia and Eastern Europe including Russia.

The USA and the UK might do fairly well if they can introduce and maintain sensible immigration and educational selection policies.

The American success, unfortunately, is not good enough for the conventional education media. The team is not diverse enough: no women, no historically underrepresented minorities. So far nobody has protested about the absence of transgender or openly gay students but perhaps their time will eventually come.

Education Week reports that:

"According to Mark Saul, the director of competitions for the Mathematical Association of America, not a single African-American or Hispanic student—and only a handful of girls—has ever made it to the Math Olympiad team in its 50 years of existence."

To overcome this problem, participants in the events leading up to the Olympiad have competitions that test creativity and collaboration and are judged subjectively.   

"In the past few years, MathCounts added two new middle school programs to try to diversify its participant pool—National Math Club and the Math Video Challenge.

"Schools or teachers who sign up for the National Math Club receive a kit full of activities and resources, but there's no special teacher training and no competition attached.

The Math Video Challenge is a competition, but a collaborative one. Teams of four students make a video illustrating a math problem and its real-world application.

After the high-pressure Countdown round at this year's national MathCounts competition, in which the top 12 students went head to head solving complex problems in rapid fire, the finalists for the Math Video Challenge took the stage to show their videos. The demographics of that group looked quite different from those in the competition round—of the 16 video finalists, 13 were girls and eight were African-American students. The video challenge does not put individual students on the hot seat—so it's less intimidating by design. It also adds the element of artistic creativity to attract a new pool of students who may not see themselves as "math people."

An 8th grade team from the Ron Clark Academy, an independent middle school in Atlanta that serves low-income students, was among the finalists. The students illustrated a complicated multistep problem entirely through rap. None had ever been involved in a math competition before."

In other words, the competitions will be less and less about mathematics and more and more about making rap videos and the like. No doubt Russia, China and Korea will be flocking to the US to see how its done. Much the same thing has been happening with national competitive debating.

Here are this year's results and those for 2015 and 1996.

Rank 2016	Team	Rank 2015	Rank 1996
1	USA	1	2
2	South Korea	3	8
3	China	2	6
4	Singapore	10	25
5	Taiwan	18	20
6	North Korea	4	--
7=	Russia	8	4
7=	UK	22	5
9	Hong Kong	28	27
10	Japan	22	11
11	Vietnam	5	7
12=	Canada	9	16
12=	Thailand	12	47
14	Hungary	20	3
15=	Brazil	22	52
15=	Italy	29	25
17	Philippines	36	74
18	Bulgaria	29	11
19	Germany	27	10
20=	Romania	13	1
20=	Indonesia	29	70
22	Israel	40	15
23	Mexico	19	53
24	Iran	7	9
25=	Australia	6	23
25=	France	14	32
25=	Peru	16	--
28	Kazakhstan	28	25
29	Turkey	20	19
30=	Armenia	26	34
30=	Croatia	15	34
30=	Ukraine	11	18
33	Mongolia	35	44
34	India	34	37
35=	Bangladesh	33	--
35=	Belarus	39	21
37=	Czech Republic	45	28
37=	Sweden	60	40
39	Macau	35	48
40	Serbia	40	29
41	Saudi Arabia	41	--
42	Poland	17	13
43	Switzerland	45	62
44	Netherlands	43	59
45	Bosnia - Herzogovina	43	57
46	Austria	60	42
47	Portugal	52	13
48	Syria	54	--
49	Spain	72	48
50=	Lithuania	65	32
50=	Greece	51	22
52	Belgium	56	31
53	New Zealand	49	--
54	Azerbaijan	48	58
55	Slovakia	33	17
56	Malaysia	57	72
57	Argentina	52	29
58	South Africa	55	43
59=	Costa Rica	67	--
59=	Georgia	42	30
61	Estonia	70	55
62	Tajikistan	64	--
63=	Moldova	38	41
63=	Slovenia	73	44
63=	Cyprus	63	69
66=	Sri Lanka	70	53
66=	Colombia	49	46
68	El Salvador	95	--
69=	Albania	77	67
69=	Turkmenistan	58	72
71=	Finland	82	39
71=	Paraguay	67	--
73	Macedonia	74	46
74	Latvia	79	33
75	Ireland	77	61
76	Tunisia	75	--
77=	Kosovo	86	--
77=	Uzbekistan	58	--
79	Morocco	80	65
80	Nicaragua	82	--
81	Denmark	69	48
82	Algeria	62	--
83	Ecuador	80	--
84=	Kyrgyzstan	92	67
84=	Norway	65	37
86	Venezuela	96	--
87	Puerto Rico	90	--
88=	Montenegro	89
88=	Nigeria	88
90	Iceland	75	56
91=	Chile	97	71
91=	Pakistan	85	--
93	Uruguay	93	--
94	Trinidad & Tobago	82	60
95	Luxemburg	97	--
96=	Cambodia	86	--
96=	Myanmar	--	--
98	Uganda	100	--
99	Kenya	--	--
100=	Honduras	--	--
100=	Madagascar	--	--
102	Jamaica	102	--
103	Botswana	103	--
104=	Egypt
104=	Ghana	101	--
106	Tanzania	106	--
107=	Iraq	--	--
107=	Liechtenstein	90	--
109	Laos	--	--

Unacceptable Responses to the Taylor Swift vs Kim Kardashian Drama right now

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Judul : Unacceptable Responses to the Taylor Swift vs Kim Kardashian Drama right now
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(And also unacceptable for any form of internet drama. Also, my thoughts on the saga)


So Taylor Swift and Kim Kardashian are having a huge fight right now, which unless - good for you 😒- you are one of those enlightened people who don't give a shit about celebrity gossip, you probably have heard about.

As with all internet drama, there will be people leaving comments and giving their opinions.


Thinking about leaving your opinion or comment about the drama? DON'T DO IT YET.

Today I will be posting about 6 types of comments people leave and WHY THEY ARE UNACCEPTABLE.

Unacceptable!



But first, since this post is written for this Taylor Swift (and squad) vs Kim Kardashian West (and family) drama, let's quickly recap what just happened. If you already know, skip to the part with the red words.

Background:

Back in 2009 Kanye West went on stage interrupting some award Taylor Swift got, and said Beyonce should have won instead. This one we all knew, right?

Since then, he has been pretty painted as the villain in my mind, and I'm sure, everyone else's too. No matter if it is right that Beyonce should have won, nothing could justify him going on stage to shit on someone else's parade. That's just pure asshole. And so damn attention seeking.

Years past since, and Kanye West then wrote a song called "Famous" which was released in February.

The song included Taylor Swift in the lyrics:

"I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex

Why? I made that bitch famous"

You might think this sounds crude and offensive, but the rest of the song continues worse including Kanye talking about how his dick makes girls famous. In fact, these two lines about Taylor, in my opinion, are almost complimentary if you compare them to his usual crude style.

The only very offensive thing is the grammar.

Me and Taylor???? 

WHY?? IT'S SO PAINFUL Y U NO STUDY IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL


After the song came out, Taylor Swift's rep came out with the following statement:

“Kanye did not call for approval, but to ask Taylor to release his “Famous” on her Twitter account. She declined and cautioned him about releasing a song with such a strong misogynistic message. Taylor was never made aware of the actual lyric, “I made that bitch famous.”

Shortly afterwards during her Grammy speech Taylor continued to passive aggressively attack Kanye:

"There are going to be people along the way who will try to undercut your success or take credit for your accomplishments or your fame"

MINUS 10 POINTS TAYTAY! Only cowards do cryptic attacks!


Meanwhile, Kanye, clearly incensed, took to twitter to say that he did not diss Taylor:

Sadly for Kanye, although evidence now suggests he was indeed telling the truth, he is so incoherent and illiterate that the rest of his tweets that followed made him just sound insane:

Right... Ok Kanye I will leave you to your hallucinogens.

Kim Kardashian then told GQ again what Kanye already said:

"She totally knew it was coming out. She wanted to all of a sudden act like she didn't." Kim Kardashian added that Taylor's lie was very unfair to Kanye and suggested Taylor was playing the victim. She also added that Taylor had promised to go on to the Grammys and tell everyone that she was actually in on the joke and had approved of the lyrics.

Taylor's reps responded by condescendingly saying Kim is under a lot of pressure and just repeating what Kanye said - which are incorrect.


This swiftly (ahaha) became a he said she said situation. Both camps are adamant on their stance, and it seems like this issue will never be resolved and us, the innocent public so baited into the drama, will never know the truth.



AND NOW, THE BOMB.


Kim Kardashian took to Snapchat to drop a series of videos. The videographer was filming Kanye West speaking on speakerphone to Taylor Swift, who most definitely didn't seem to know she was being recorded.

You can view the full transcript here.

In the video, Kanye can be seen clearly enunciating to Taylor the lyrics "I think me and Taylor might still have sex". She obviously approves and thanks him again and again for respecting her by letting her know his lyrics in advance. Kanye acts like a complete gentleman by telling her relationships are more important than punchlines.

Supporters from both camps then gave their opinions.

RED WORDS RED WORDS RED WORDS RED WORDS

My thoughts

After the video came out, Taylor's defence is that she never approved of the line "I made that bitch famous".

I AM SORRY BUT DO YOU TAKE US FOR IDIOTS TAYLOR

The video proves beyond a doubt Taylor Swift is a liar and a hypocrite. Btw I had rather liked her before this saga.


1) Taylor said that Kanye did not call her to ask for approval for the lyrics, but rather thick-skinnedly just to ask her to put up his video on her twitter, which she declined.


We can see that Kanye obviously DID ask Taylor for lyric approval. Taylor even adds that she is pleasantly surprised to get that honour, which she did not expect from Kanye. The lengthy discussion about the lyrics suggest that that was the purpose of the phone call.

Did Kanye call to ask for approval?

100% without a doubt he did.


2) Taylor only took offence at being called "that bitch", which Kanye never seeked her approval about.

Oh get your stick outta your ass... How is being called "that bitch" offensive? It happens so damn often in rap. In context of the lyrics, it doesn't seem like it's meant to insult.

But this is Taylor's only possible exit route, because the video shows Kanye so clearly letting her know the sex part of the lyrics and her approving. She even mentions the bit about him making her famous in the phone conversation!

Besides, speaking of approval...

I AM SORRY DID YOU EVER SEEK YOUR EXES' APPROVAL WHEN YOU SANG ABOUT THEM, TAYLOR??

So Kanye called you a bitch and claimed credit for your fame. Seriously who cares what Kanye says?? He shoots his mouth off so often, nobody.

You, on the other hand, said the following about John Mayer.

Dear John, I see it all now it was wrong
Don’t you think nineteen’s too young
To be played by your dark, twisted games?
Don't you think I was too young
To be messed with?
The girl in the dress
Cried the whole way home, I should've known.

You want to speak character assassination? In a few brilliant lines you manage to suggest he is some sort of sadistic, predatory serial paedophile - which is way worse than Kanye calling you a bitch.

Just because you hide behind the mask of cryptic passive aggressive attacks doesn't mean you are above it all. At least Kanye never left it open to interpretation who "Taylor" in his song is, like you made everyone know "Dear John" is of last name Mayer without claiming any responsibility for your harsh words.



3) Taylor cautioned Kanye against releasing such a strongly misogynistic song.

HAHAHHAHA I DON'T BELIEVE THIS AT ALL.

Can you imagine Taylor Swift going like



"Hey Kanye why don't you not call women bitches that's so misogynistic." 


Sorry this is a man who spells "scene" as "seen" and drops the N word every other sentence and you really think you can use words like 'misogynistic' on him and hope he sees the light of day? He's gonna be like "Miso what? The japanese soup?"


HAHAHAHAHA OMG THIS IS HILARIOUS

Also, hearing Taylor's obviously pandering tone of voice in the phone convo, I highly doubt she will caution him about anything.

Nope sorry Taytay, don't believe you.



Evidence of lying and duplicity aside, this video is amazing because it shows us a side of Taylor Swift that we never got to see.


This is the real her when she thinks no media is watching.


The video proves beyond doubt that she's a liar. Lying isn't bad, but what are the motives behind a lie? Far more disturbing are the other little telltale signs of her authentic character that proves she isn't the innocent, sweet, helpless young victim she has always portrayed herself to be.




Within the little material that Kim K has bestowed upon us, I conclude the following:

1) The real Taylor Swift is constantly thinking about fame, and how to sustain it. And that's kinda gross.


Proof (transcript): Way before the song even came out she is already brainstorming how to react to the media about it in the best way possible for herself. She is completely aware about what she posts and how many likes there are.


I expect that sort of behaviour from the Kardashians but I liked to think that Taytay fell into it by just having really catchy songs and being so doe-eyed cute.

A video posted by Taylor Swift (@taylorswift) on Apr 5, 2015 at 12:56pm PDT

How adorable! Look at this video of Taylor and her brother hunting for Easter eggs at home!

Look at her, gangly and gawky and awkwardly running about, with no makeup and awful biker shorts! She's so down to earth. She isn't afraid to show her REAL side to her fans! Look how she and her brother are just like you and yours! How sweet, her mom laughing in the background! Awwwww, the warmth of family! Taylor's just perfect. HEART EYES EMOJI

OR....?

Maybe she had planned this entire charade BECAUSE she knew it will tug at your heartstrings. Maybe she paid her brother and mother to act this out.
Maybe it isn't even her mother filming but her PA, pretending to chuckle in a matronly manner.
Maybe she changed out of designer wear into biker shorts - which her PA went to buy specially because a focus group voted it as "most gawky".
Maybe she doesn't even run awkwardly but she did it for show. Maybe the makeup was applied for 1 hr to look like there isn't makeup.

These are all thoughts that might have crossed our cynical minds.

But the heart believes what it wants to believe. I want to believe that innocent, sweet, and yet a little awkward Taylor exists. The angel who fights for musicians against evil Apple! No, she can't have planned her entire social media persona. She is just being her bubbly self. IT REAL


And just like that, Kim Kardashian dashed (see what I did there) the public persona that took years and years to carefully cultivate.

Anyone watch Zootopia? Seeing Kim reveal Taylor's real personality is like realising the baby fox is actually a scheming, fully self-aware adult Fennec fox.

It may have broken of all our hearts, but we were living a lie, and you broke the matrix and freed us.

Thank you Kim Kardashian, I love you

2) Taylor Swift isn't humble at all but SO DAMN FULL OF HERSELF.

Proof: She says, "I might be in debt, but I can make these things happen. I have the ideas to do it and I create these things and concepts."

Woah woah ok why are you suddenly praising yourself in a phone call to Kanye West? I expect him to be doing that, not you! AND WHAT DEBT?

Quote 2: "You honestly didn’t know who I was before that. It doesn’t matter that I sold 7 million of that album before you did that which is what happened, you didn’t know who I was before that. It’s fine.

HAHAHHA Ultra defensive much?? So hilarious!!


Sorry I had a lot of thoughts about this lol!!!

Back to the main part of my article:

UNACCEPTABLE RESPONSES TO INTERNET DRAMA

UNACCEPTABLE RESPONSE 1: 

The Morally Superior Do-Gooder

"Don't we have more important things to talk about? Like famines and child abuse blah blah"

OFFENDERS:

Selena Gomez:

Remember to say that to anyone who talks about you next time lol

Chloe Moretz

You know what is petulant and unimportant? Most of your movies haha

Martha Hunt

Wanna hear a real problem? Supermodels making everyone have unrealistic expectations of how they are supposed to look! BAM

BORING!!!!!!!!!!!

The losers always say the same fucking shit.


That this drama is simply beneath you, therefore unworthy of further perpetuation or participation.



Bullshit.


It isn't that you have the planet to save and no time for salacious gossip.

IT IS THAT YOU HAVE NO DEFENCE.


So you try to change the topic and pretend you are too up your own arse to care.

Nice try

In one fell swoop you not only establish yourself as being morally superior, you also accuse the other party of being small-minded. If they continue the topic, it proves you right.

NOT.

I'm sorry, but this age-old excuse ain't gonna work.

As for the celebrities who preach this, DON'T BE IDIOTIC. You and your entire career exists for other people's entertainment, and entertainment is by definition frivolous and unimportant in the grand scheme of things.

If you want people to only discuss and care about lofty, world issues, then guess what?

NOBODY WILL TALK ABOUT YOU. Nobody will spend any money watching movies or buying your music because all our time, money and efforts should be devoted to worthier causes.

Then where will you be?

So fuck you and your hypocrisy.

But it isn't only the celebrities or parties involved who preach Unacceptable Response 1.


If you read through comments, every 10 comments or so some idiot will preach the same old shit.


You know what? If it isn't interesting or important enough to you...

You don't go to a theatre full of movie-goers and yell at them for watching a movie instead of saving whales.

You don't interrupt someone's tooth-brushing and tell them that their oral hygiene is insignificant compared to the orphans who need his help.


SO WHY ARE YOU STOPPING PEOPLE FROM ENJOYING INTERNET DRAMA


Stop your sanctimonious bullshit and hypocrisy. There you are, obviously drawn to the drama. Otherwise why are you reading about it and leaving your dumbass opinion?


Guess what?


Life is hard. People have problems. Money problems. Health problems. Relationship problems.


To relieve the stress we turn to stress-free things that can occupy our minds.

Like celebrity gossip, or movies, or candy crushing. We don't want to devote our free time to all the sad shit in the world because IT IS DEPRESSING AS FUCK.

Kim K exposing Taylor is too shallow for you? Well, it's important to ME. It is what entertains me. And millions of others too.

You know what ISN'T important to us though?

YOUR OPINION. 

Your thoughts on whether our source of interest is too vapid for you. NOBODY CARES WHAT YOU THINK.

So next time you begin to type a sentence that starts like....

"We should all focus on..."

Hush hunny

If you start saying...

"Who cares about all these..."

Or...

"Shouldn't we use our social media for more importa...."

Or perhaps you wanna type instead...

"As a celebrity you should be using your fame to..."

You aren't special. 

What you are preaching has been said by millions of other similar self righteous pricks before you, and yet Daily Mail continues to thrive. So join us, or leave us alone, thanks.

UNACCEPTABLE RESPONSE 2: 

The Protector of the Weak

"This is bullying. And you all are bullying too."

OFFENDER:

Ruby Rose

Although to be fair Khloe did seem to go over the line but hey I was entertained watching

All internet dramas results in someone being painted as the villain. 

Instead of focusing on the issue at hand (Taylor Swift is a self-serving shrewd media-manipulating liar OMG!!!111) and talking about that, some moron will be talking about the villain is being bullied by the other person who exposed her.

And of course, as angry hordes are leaving their insulting comments to the villain, some idiot will be there calling everyone bullies.

Then of course blah blah talking about how people commit suicide coz of bullying and cyberbullying is a crime la di da...

BULLYING TAYLOR SWIFT??

You are joking right?

I'm sorry but you cannot use this convenient excuse to not expose the truth about someone simply because their own actions - not the expose itself- will result in a bad public opinion of them!

Sorry that shifty actions cause bad public opinion, but that's that! In this instance, Taylor made her bed now she gotta lie in it.

And you know what? If the "bullying" is making you so upset, just SHUT UP. Yakking about it won't make it better.

Because 

1) You preaching to others to stop bullying won't make them stop, it will just make them angry and change target to bully you too.

2) You leaving a comment only fans the flames and makes it more popular. Your friends who see you leave the comment are notified and who knows, maybe THEY decide to leave a bullying comment.

So the best thing for you to do is to STFU....

Which coincidentally everyone wants you to do.

UNACCEPTABLE RESPONSE 3:

The Pacifist

"Why can't you be a bigger person and just don't respond? Kill them with kindness."

OFFENDER:

Justin Bieber

URGHHH CAN YOU BE MORE POLITICALLY CORRECT

Quiet now darling the adults are discussing an important topic which is whether Kim and Kanye had planned since the phone call to eventually draw Taylor out in the worst way possible then release it, ok? 

We are debating whether Snapchat, Twitter and Facebook probably had a bidding war on which platform Kim was to release those videos, ok? And sometimes, when adults talk, they disagree on things and raise their words to caps. That's the way the world is dear.

So go watch some Carebears and...

UNACCEPTABLE RESPONSE 4:

The Dejected

"I am so disappointed in Taylor/Kim"

The only person who cares if they disappointed you, are internet survey forms asking you how your customer experience has been. #truth

UNACCEPTABLE RESPONSE 5:

The Equality Fighter

"This is racist!"

Everything is always racist.

Because sometimes it really isn't about race so let's not make it always about that. And when you tell these people as much, they launch into a tirade about how xxx races has suffered so much and now you are the racist one. Le sigh.

UNACCEPTABLE RESPONSE 6:

The Uninformed and Proud of it

"Who are these people again and why are they famous? lol"

As if him not knowing the people involved is definitive proof that they are not worthy of fame. Sorry, it proves no such thing, it only proves that you are quite ignorant.

That's the end of my Unacceptable Responses list because that's all I can think of for now.

If you want to leave your comment for the latest internet drama, try to make sure you aren't one of these MEGA ANNOYING PEOPLE!!!

At the end of the day, all these preachy assholes need to realise that people on the internet THRIVE ON THE DRAMA. 

The publicity, no matter how negative it seems now, will turn into money for them. 

So no need to be all holier-than-thou about simply laying back and enjoying the drama without fighting for some lame cause. Do it with no guilt, do it with pride!!!

They are putting on a show for us, so just savour it!!

Tata for now, I'm gonna read all the new articles about the feud. #loveit

(And also unacceptable for any form of internet drama. Also, my thoughts on the saga)


So Taylor Swift and Kim Kardashian are having a huge fight right now, which unless - good for you 😒- you are one of those enlightened people who don't give a shit about celebrity gossip, you probably have heard about.

As with all internet drama, there will be people leaving comments and giving their opinions.


Thinking about leaving your opinion or comment about the drama? DON'T DO IT YET.

Today I will be posting about 6 types of comments people leave and WHY THEY ARE UNACCEPTABLE.

Unacceptable!



But first, since this post is written for this Taylor Swift (and squad) vs Kim Kardashian West (and family) drama, let's quickly recap what just happened. If you already know, skip to the part with the red words.

Background:

Back in 2009 Kanye West went on stage interrupting some award Taylor Swift got, and said Beyonce should have won instead. This one we all knew, right?

Since then, he has been pretty painted as the villain in my mind, and I'm sure, everyone else's too. No matter if it is right that Beyonce should have won, nothing could justify him going on stage to shit on someone else's parade. That's just pure asshole. And so damn attention seeking.

Years past since, and Kanye West then wrote a song called "Famous" which was released in February.

The song included Taylor Swift in the lyrics:

"I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex

Why? I made that bitch famous"

You might think this sounds crude and offensive, but the rest of the song continues worse including Kanye talking about how his dick makes girls famous. In fact, these two lines about Taylor, in my opinion, are almost complimentary if you compare them to his usual crude style.

The only very offensive thing is the grammar.

Me and Taylor???? 

WHY?? IT'S SO PAINFUL Y U NO STUDY IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL


After the song came out, Taylor Swift's rep came out with the following statement:

“Kanye did not call for approval, but to ask Taylor to release his “Famous” on her Twitter account. She declined and cautioned him about releasing a song with such a strong misogynistic message. Taylor was never made aware of the actual lyric, “I made that bitch famous.”

Shortly afterwards during her Grammy speech Taylor continued to passive aggressively attack Kanye:

"There are going to be people along the way who will try to undercut your success or take credit for your accomplishments or your fame"

MINUS 10 POINTS TAYTAY! Only cowards do cryptic attacks!


Meanwhile, Kanye, clearly incensed, took to twitter to say that he did not diss Taylor:

Sadly for Kanye, although evidence now suggests he was indeed telling the truth, he is so incoherent and illiterate that the rest of his tweets that followed made him just sound insane:

Right... Ok Kanye I will leave you to your hallucinogens.

Kim Kardashian then told GQ again what Kanye already said:

"She totally knew it was coming out. She wanted to all of a sudden act like she didn't." Kim Kardashian added that Taylor's lie was very unfair to Kanye and suggested Taylor was playing the victim. She also added that Taylor had promised to go on to the Grammys and tell everyone that she was actually in on the joke and had approved of the lyrics.

Taylor's reps responded by condescendingly saying Kim is under a lot of pressure and just repeating what Kanye said - which are incorrect.


This swiftly (ahaha) became a he said she said situation. Both camps are adamant on their stance, and it seems like this issue will never be resolved and us, the innocent public so baited into the drama, will never know the truth.



AND NOW, THE BOMB.


Kim Kardashian took to Snapchat to drop a series of videos. The videographer was filming Kanye West speaking on speakerphone to Taylor Swift, who most definitely didn't seem to know she was being recorded.

You can view the full transcript here.

In the video, Kanye can be seen clearly enunciating to Taylor the lyrics "I think me and Taylor might still have sex". She obviously approves and thanks him again and again for respecting her by letting her know his lyrics in advance. Kanye acts like a complete gentleman by telling her relationships are more important than punchlines.

Supporters from both camps then gave their opinions.

RED WORDS RED WORDS RED WORDS RED WORDS

My thoughts

After the video came out, Taylor's defence is that she never approved of the line "I made that bitch famous".

I AM SORRY BUT DO YOU TAKE US FOR IDIOTS TAYLOR

The video proves beyond a doubt Taylor Swift is a liar and a hypocrite. Btw I had rather liked her before this saga.


1) Taylor said that Kanye did not call her to ask for approval for the lyrics, but rather thick-skinnedly just to ask her to put up his video on her twitter, which she declined.


We can see that Kanye obviously DID ask Taylor for lyric approval. Taylor even adds that she is pleasantly surprised to get that honour, which she did not expect from Kanye. The lengthy discussion about the lyrics suggest that that was the purpose of the phone call.

Did Kanye call to ask for approval?

100% without a doubt he did.


2) Taylor only took offence at being called "that bitch", which Kanye never seeked her approval about.

Oh get your stick outta your ass... How is being called "that bitch" offensive? It happens so damn often in rap. In context of the lyrics, it doesn't seem like it's meant to insult.

But this is Taylor's only possible exit route, because the video shows Kanye so clearly letting her know the sex part of the lyrics and her approving. She even mentions the bit about him making her famous in the phone conversation!

Besides, speaking of approval...

I AM SORRY DID YOU EVER SEEK YOUR EXES' APPROVAL WHEN YOU SANG ABOUT THEM, TAYLOR??

So Kanye called you a bitch and claimed credit for your fame. Seriously who cares what Kanye says?? He shoots his mouth off so often, nobody.

You, on the other hand, said the following about John Mayer.

Dear John, I see it all now it was wrong
Don’t you think nineteen’s too young
To be played by your dark, twisted games?
Don't you think I was too young
To be messed with?
The girl in the dress
Cried the whole way home, I should've known.

You want to speak character assassination? In a few brilliant lines you manage to suggest he is some sort of sadistic, predatory serial paedophile - which is way worse than Kanye calling you a bitch.

Just because you hide behind the mask of cryptic passive aggressive attacks doesn't mean you are above it all. At least Kanye never left it open to interpretation who "Taylor" in his song is, like you made everyone know "Dear John" is of last name Mayer without claiming any responsibility for your harsh words.



3) Taylor cautioned Kanye against releasing such a strongly misogynistic song.

HAHAHHAHA I DON'T BELIEVE THIS AT ALL.

Can you imagine Taylor Swift going like



"Hey Kanye why don't you not call women bitches that's so misogynistic." 


Sorry this is a man who spells "scene" as "seen" and drops the N word every other sentence and you really think you can use words like 'misogynistic' on him and hope he sees the light of day? He's gonna be like "Miso what? The japanese soup?"


HAHAHAHAHA OMG THIS IS HILARIOUS

Also, hearing Taylor's obviously pandering tone of voice in the phone convo, I highly doubt she will caution him about anything.

Nope sorry Taytay, don't believe you.



Evidence of lying and duplicity aside, this video is amazing because it shows us a side of Taylor Swift that we never got to see.


This is the real her when she thinks no media is watching.


The video proves beyond doubt that she's a liar. Lying isn't bad, but what are the motives behind a lie? Far more disturbing are the other little telltale signs of her authentic character that proves she isn't the innocent, sweet, helpless young victim she has always portrayed herself to be.




Within the little material that Kim K has bestowed upon us, I conclude the following:

1) The real Taylor Swift is constantly thinking about fame, and how to sustain it. And that's kinda gross.


Proof (transcript): Way before the song even came out she is already brainstorming how to react to the media about it in the best way possible for herself. She is completely aware about what she posts and how many likes there are.


I expect that sort of behaviour from the Kardashians but I liked to think that Taytay fell into it by just having really catchy songs and being so doe-eyed cute.

A video posted by Taylor Swift (@taylorswift) on Apr 5, 2015 at 12:56pm PDT

How adorable! Look at this video of Taylor and her brother hunting for Easter eggs at home!

Look at her, gangly and gawky and awkwardly running about, with no makeup and awful biker shorts! She's so down to earth. She isn't afraid to show her REAL side to her fans! Look how she and her brother are just like you and yours! How sweet, her mom laughing in the background! Awwwww, the warmth of family! Taylor's just perfect. HEART EYES EMOJI

OR....?

Maybe she had planned this entire charade BECAUSE she knew it will tug at your heartstrings. Maybe she paid her brother and mother to act this out.
Maybe it isn't even her mother filming but her PA, pretending to chuckle in a matronly manner.
Maybe she changed out of designer wear into biker shorts - which her PA went to buy specially because a focus group voted it as "most gawky".
Maybe she doesn't even run awkwardly but she did it for show. Maybe the makeup was applied for 1 hr to look like there isn't makeup.

These are all thoughts that might have crossed our cynical minds.

But the heart believes what it wants to believe. I want to believe that innocent, sweet, and yet a little awkward Taylor exists. The angel who fights for musicians against evil Apple! No, she can't have planned her entire social media persona. She is just being her bubbly self. IT REAL


And just like that, Kim Kardashian dashed (see what I did there) the public persona that took years and years to carefully cultivate.

Anyone watch Zootopia? Seeing Kim reveal Taylor's real personality is like realising the baby fox is actually a scheming, fully self-aware adult Fennec fox.

It may have broken of all our hearts, but we were living a lie, and you broke the matrix and freed us.

Thank you Kim Kardashian, I love you

2) Taylor Swift isn't humble at all but SO DAMN FULL OF HERSELF.

Proof: She says, "I might be in debt, but I can make these things happen. I have the ideas to do it and I create these things and concepts."

Woah woah ok why are you suddenly praising yourself in a phone call to Kanye West? I expect him to be doing that, not you! AND WHAT DEBT?

Quote 2: "You honestly didn’t know who I was before that. It doesn’t matter that I sold 7 million of that album before you did that which is what happened, you didn’t know who I was before that. It’s fine.

HAHAHHA Ultra defensive much?? So hilarious!!


Sorry I had a lot of thoughts about this lol!!!

Back to the main part of my article:

UNACCEPTABLE RESPONSES TO INTERNET DRAMA

UNACCEPTABLE RESPONSE 1: 

The Morally Superior Do-Gooder

"Don't we have more important things to talk about? Like famines and child abuse blah blah"

OFFENDERS:

Selena Gomez:

Remember to say that to anyone who talks about you next time lol

Chloe Moretz

You know what is petulant and unimportant? Most of your movies haha

Martha Hunt

Wanna hear a real problem? Supermodels making everyone have unrealistic expectations of how they are supposed to look! BAM

BORING!!!!!!!!!!!

The losers always say the same fucking shit.


That this drama is simply beneath you, therefore unworthy of further perpetuation or participation.



Bullshit.


It isn't that you have the planet to save and no time for salacious gossip.

IT IS THAT YOU HAVE NO DEFENCE.


So you try to change the topic and pretend you are too up your own arse to care.

Nice try

In one fell swoop you not only establish yourself as being morally superior, you also accuse the other party of being small-minded. If they continue the topic, it proves you right.

NOT.

I'm sorry, but this age-old excuse ain't gonna work.

As for the celebrities who preach this, DON'T BE IDIOTIC. You and your entire career exists for other people's entertainment, and entertainment is by definition frivolous and unimportant in the grand scheme of things.

If you want people to only discuss and care about lofty, world issues, then guess what?

NOBODY WILL TALK ABOUT YOU. Nobody will spend any money watching movies or buying your music because all our time, money and efforts should be devoted to worthier causes.

Then where will you be?

So fuck you and your hypocrisy.

But it isn't only the celebrities or parties involved who preach Unacceptable Response 1.


If you read through comments, every 10 comments or so some idiot will preach the same old shit.


You know what? If it isn't interesting or important enough to you...

You don't go to a theatre full of movie-goers and yell at them for watching a movie instead of saving whales.

You don't interrupt someone's tooth-brushing and tell them that their oral hygiene is insignificant compared to the orphans who need his help.


SO WHY ARE YOU STOPPING PEOPLE FROM ENJOYING INTERNET DRAMA


Stop your sanctimonious bullshit and hypocrisy. There you are, obviously drawn to the drama. Otherwise why are you reading about it and leaving your dumbass opinion?


Guess what?


Life is hard. People have problems. Money problems. Health problems. Relationship problems.


To relieve the stress we turn to stress-free things that can occupy our minds.

Like celebrity gossip, or movies, or candy crushing. We don't want to devote our free time to all the sad shit in the world because IT IS DEPRESSING AS FUCK.

Kim K exposing Taylor is too shallow for you? Well, it's important to ME. It is what entertains me. And millions of others too.

You know what ISN'T important to us though?

YOUR OPINION. 

Your thoughts on whether our source of interest is too vapid for you. NOBODY CARES WHAT YOU THINK.

So next time you begin to type a sentence that starts like....

"We should all focus on..."

Hush hunny

If you start saying...

"Who cares about all these..."

Or...

"Shouldn't we use our social media for more importa...."

Or perhaps you wanna type instead...

"As a celebrity you should be using your fame to..."

You aren't special. 

What you are preaching has been said by millions of other similar self righteous pricks before you, and yet Daily Mail continues to thrive. So join us, or leave us alone, thanks.

UNACCEPTABLE RESPONSE 2: 

The Protector of the Weak

"This is bullying. And you all are bullying too."

OFFENDER:

Ruby Rose

Although to be fair Khloe did seem to go over the line but hey I was entertained watching

All internet dramas results in someone being painted as the villain. 

Instead of focusing on the issue at hand (Taylor Swift is a self-serving shrewd media-manipulating liar OMG!!!111) and talking about that, some moron will be talking about the villain is being bullied by the other person who exposed her.

And of course, as angry hordes are leaving their insulting comments to the villain, some idiot will be there calling everyone bullies.

Then of course blah blah talking about how people commit suicide coz of bullying and cyberbullying is a crime la di da...

BULLYING TAYLOR SWIFT??

You are joking right?

I'm sorry but you cannot use this convenient excuse to not expose the truth about someone simply because their own actions - not the expose itself- will result in a bad public opinion of them!

Sorry that shifty actions cause bad public opinion, but that's that! In this instance, Taylor made her bed now she gotta lie in it.

And you know what? If the "bullying" is making you so upset, just SHUT UP. Yakking about it won't make it better.

Because 

1) You preaching to others to stop bullying won't make them stop, it will just make them angry and change target to bully you too.

2) You leaving a comment only fans the flames and makes it more popular. Your friends who see you leave the comment are notified and who knows, maybe THEY decide to leave a bullying comment.

So the best thing for you to do is to STFU....

Which coincidentally everyone wants you to do.

UNACCEPTABLE RESPONSE 3:

The Pacifist

"Why can't you be a bigger person and just don't respond? Kill them with kindness."

OFFENDER:

Justin Bieber

URGHHH CAN YOU BE MORE POLITICALLY CORRECT

Quiet now darling the adults are discussing an important topic which is whether Kim and Kanye had planned since the phone call to eventually draw Taylor out in the worst way possible then release it, ok? 

We are debating whether Snapchat, Twitter and Facebook probably had a bidding war on which platform Kim was to release those videos, ok? And sometimes, when adults talk, they disagree on things and raise their words to caps. That's the way the world is dear.

So go watch some Carebears and...

UNACCEPTABLE RESPONSE 4:

The Dejected

"I am so disappointed in Taylor/Kim"

The only person who cares if they disappointed you, are internet survey forms asking you how your customer experience has been. #truth

UNACCEPTABLE RESPONSE 5:

The Equality Fighter

"This is racist!"

Everything is always racist.

Because sometimes it really isn't about race so let's not make it always about that. And when you tell these people as much, they launch into a tirade about how xxx races has suffered so much and now you are the racist one. Le sigh.

UNACCEPTABLE RESPONSE 6:

The Uninformed and Proud of it

"Who are these people again and why are they famous? lol"

As if him not knowing the people involved is definitive proof that they are not worthy of fame. Sorry, it proves no such thing, it only proves that you are quite ignorant.

That's the end of my Unacceptable Responses list because that's all I can think of for now.

If you want to leave your comment for the latest internet drama, try to make sure you aren't one of these MEGA ANNOYING PEOPLE!!!

At the end of the day, all these preachy assholes need to realise that people on the internet THRIVE ON THE DRAMA. 

The publicity, no matter how negative it seems now, will turn into money for them. 

So no need to be all holier-than-thou about simply laying back and enjoying the drama without fighting for some lame cause. Do it with no guilt, do it with pride!!!

They are putting on a show for us, so just savour it!!

Tata for now, I'm gonna read all the new articles about the feud. #loveit

I reported plagiarism in a PhD, but my university ignored it

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Judul : I reported plagiarism in a PhD, but my university ignored it
link : I reported plagiarism in a PhD, but my university ignored it

From the Guardian 8th July by Anonymous. The PhD thesis consists of some poems and a long essay. I'm not sure which is worse: awarding a PhD for something with what appears to be such a slender amount of research, the unchecked plagiarism or the author's need to be anonymous.

"I vetted the thesis and found that it had 75 pages with uncredited verbatim sentences, often more than one per page. Sometimes they were from items cited in the bibliography, suggesting amateur citation skills – cut and paste instead of paraphrase (even though the candidate knew full well to use quote marks when quoting elsewhere in the thesis). On at least 10 occasions sentences were from items not cited in the bibliography at all, but from academic articles and reviews."..."This PhD sets a precedent that suggests other candidates would not have their doctorates stripped from them for using multiple uncredited texts in their creative writing. This also sets a precedent that a PhD with nearly a 100 verbatim borrowings in its critical writing does not lead to the removal of the doctorate from the doctor. Once it’s passed, it’s passed."

From the Guardian 8th July by Anonymous. The PhD thesis consists of some poems and a long essay. I'm not sure which is worse: awarding a PhD for something with what appears to be such a slender amount of research, the unchecked plagiarism or the author's need to be anonymous.

"I vetted the thesis and found that it had 75 pages with uncredited verbatim sentences, often more than one per page. Sometimes they were from items cited in the bibliography, suggesting amateur citation skills – cut and paste instead of paraphrase (even though the candidate knew full well to use quote marks when quoting elsewhere in the thesis). On at least 10 occasions sentences were from items not cited in the bibliography at all, but from academic articles and reviews."..."This PhD sets a precedent that suggests other candidates would not have their doctorates stripped from them for using multiple uncredited texts in their creative writing. This also sets a precedent that a PhD with nearly a 100 verbatim borrowings in its critical writing does not lead to the removal of the doctorate from the doctor. Once it’s passed, it’s passed."

This could be the most important ranking of all

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Judul : This could be the most important ranking of all
link : This could be the most important ranking of all

TOP500 has announced its latest list of supercomputers. First place goes to China, which now has 167 systems in the top 500 compared to 165 for the USA.

"A new Chinese supercomputer, the Sunway TaihuLight, captured the number one spot on the latest TOP500 list of supercomputers released on Monday morning at the ISC High Performance conference (ISC) being held in Frankfurt, Germany.  With a Linpack mark of 93 petaflops, the system outperforms the former TOP500 champ, Tianhe-2, by a factor of three. The machine is powered by a new ShenWei processor and custom interconnect, both of which were developed locally, ending any remaining speculation that China would have to rely on Western technology to compete effectively in the upper echelons of supercomputing."

Here are the number of systems located in various other countries:

Japan 34
Germany 26
France 20
India 15
UK 13
South Korea 10
Russia 7
Italy 5
Saudi Arabia 5
Sweden 5
Australia 5
Brazil 4
South Africa 1
Canada 1
Singapore 1

Apart from Saudi Arabia, there are no supercomputers in any Muslim country. There are none in Africa except for the single system in South Africa. There are none in Latin America outside Brazil.

China has reached parity with the US and is now heading for supremacy.

TOP500 has announced its latest list of supercomputers. First place goes to China, which now has 167 systems in the top 500 compared to 165 for the USA.

"A new Chinese supercomputer, the Sunway TaihuLight, captured the number one spot on the latest TOP500 list of supercomputers released on Monday morning at the ISC High Performance conference (ISC) being held in Frankfurt, Germany.  With a Linpack mark of 93 petaflops, the system outperforms the former TOP500 champ, Tianhe-2, by a factor of three. The machine is powered by a new ShenWei processor and custom interconnect, both of which were developed locally, ending any remaining speculation that China would have to rely on Western technology to compete effectively in the upper echelons of supercomputing."

Here are the number of systems located in various other countries:

Japan 34
Germany 26
France 20
India 15
UK 13
South Korea 10
Russia 7
Italy 5
Saudi Arabia 5
Sweden 5
Australia 5
Brazil 4
South Africa 1
Canada 1
Singapore 1

Apart from Saudi Arabia, there are no supercomputers in any Muslim country. There are none in Africa except for the single system in South Africa. There are none in Latin America outside Brazil.

China has reached parity with the US and is now heading for supremacy.