Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:47:50 05/18/04
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On May 18, 2004 at 11:29:55, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On May 18, 2004 at 10:25:05, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>On May 18, 2004 at 10:12:21, Matthew Hull wrote: >> >>>On May 18, 2004 at 09:30:15, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >>> >>>>On May 18, 2004 at 09:20:37, Mark Winands wrote: >>>> >>>>This is very cool! >>>> >>>>ALL REGISTER !!!!!!! >>> >>> >>>The money would be better spent making the event attendable remotely instead of >>>forcing people to spend $2000-$3000 on travel and burning two weeks of paid (or >>>unpaid) leave. >> >>what is this for nonsense? >> >>Average professor travels the world for conferences each weekend. >> >>I bet average professor claims from his university like 200000 dollar a year >>expenses just for travel. I did a bit of research. 90% of UAB travel is to in-the-US conferences. Average cost is $1,000 per conference, including travel, room, food and registration. Average cost for international conference is $2000. If you take best case of 100% in-us travel, your ridiculous $200,000 per faculty travel budget you pulled out of your butt would turn into 200 conferences per faculty per year. At 3 days per conference, plus 1-2 travel days, that would require 200 * 4.5 days per year. My year has 365 days. How many does yours have? If you take worst-case and assume all international conferences, that reduces the number to 100 conferences per year, requiring only 450 days per year to attend. How long is your year? If you just assume 150 conferences per year, that allows just over 2 days for each one. Including travel. No time for teaching, research, writing the papers presented at those conferences, etc. Over here we can't attend a conference unless we present a paper. I don't know of anyone that writes 150-200 papers per year. Your claim is just complete rubbish, as are most of your claims. You give no thought before making up numbers, and you end up looking like a complete moron when someone looks at your numbers carefully. Here is _another_ example. I'm sure it won't be the last. We'll have to wait no longer than for your next post here... > >You are about as full of bullshit as anyone I have _ever_ known. > >We have about $2,000.00 per year per faculty member for travel. If you have >federal funding you can ask the sponsoring agency for travel funds as part of >the grant, but that is limited to about $5,000 per person and it can _not_ be >used to attend what the fed would call an unnecessary computer chess tournament. > >Grow up and stop making things up... > > >> >>In Netherlands average professor claims 100k euro a year. > > >Bullshit... Same problem. The average professor spends 100K on travel? to attend 100 conferences? again, how long is your year? > > >> >>And all those professors travel daily. Whatever country. Travel travel to >>conferences. Gone every day? "professors"? How can they teach if they are not present? By the way. You just cost me another 50 bucks. You _totally_ burned out my bullshit detector for the third time in 3 months... And this was the super-duper version made by HP. They claim this has never happened before. >> >>So why not a few days world champs? >> >>You are complaining without having even a program yourself. >> >>Car dealers also do not market just online. instead they compete in car races >>too. And that costs them hundreds of millions of dollars. >> Car dealers don't race. Car -manufacturers- do. There is a difference. >>Here you can join very cheaply. >> >>Getting 500$ for free to visit israel even!!!!!!!! >> >>4 star hotel for just 60 dollar a night!!!!!!! >> >>Imagine. >> >>And you are complaining? >> >>You are a nerd! >> I'll just leave that hanging. I think everyone knows exactly what _you_ are by now..
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