QUOTE(wikiwhistle @ Fri 29th August 2008, 8:02am)
QUOTE(thekohser @ Fri 29th August 2008, 12:52pm)
There is a huge difference between the interests (Pokemon, hogtie, Harry Potter, etc.) and outward "I'm here to be me, not to conform to any boring standards of Western civilization" attitudes that pervade Wikipedia, and the traditional professional interests (13th century philosophy, the Congress of Vienna, quasars, General Cable Corporation, etc.), meticulousness, and conformist attitudes that would pervade any PUBLISHED general encyclopedia.
I'm just sayin'...
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From what I know of professors etc these days, they're very liberal and get upto all sorts in their spare time. They might not always flaunt it, but nowadays I doubt anyone's sexual or subcultural proclivities would get them kicked out of academia, unless they're illegal.
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Exactly. How people dress and what they do in their "extracurriculars" is utterly irrelevant to life and business in 99% of the cases out there. I'm sure if you're director level or higher at some multinational or plain large corporations, it may play a role, but 99% of the world is not that. Bucking the trends of society and being contrary to society is always that should be lauded, not lambasted. Nearly all the great thinkers, leaders, and people that worked to change society for the better were "different" and "contrary".
Let's see.... Jesus, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Elvis, the American Revolutionaries, Galileo, Newton, Darwin, Warhol...
QUOTE(wikiwhistle @ Fri 29th August 2008, 8:07am)
QUOTE(thekohser @ Fri 29th August 2008, 1:01pm)
QUOTE(wikiwhistle @ Fri 29th August 2008, 7:37am)
What do people think of Jehochman as an arb?
I don't know him that well but he comes from some sort of legal background, and contributes under his real name.
He doesn't sound very legally-oriented to me at all.
I was just going on what he mentioned in passing on his talk page to someone.
diff"Observers will draw their own conclusions. (Note: I did attend law school, (wikilink:Columbia_Law_School) and am familiar with the concepts."
Jon is an extremely multi-talented individual who I would also support in a moment's notice. He came off as a cabalist at first, a bit, but when push came to shove so far from what I've seen he's consistently tried it looks to do the right things, and doesn't appear to be afraid to stick a big middle finger of dissent up when it needs to be done. Yes, he was on the wrong side in some things (bits of that Durova/!! mess), but let's be honest: even Durova in some areas has mellowed out and started to be a bold one.
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