Comments on: Telephone exchange with a store employee http://mcgees.org/2010/02/19/telephone-exchange-with-a-store-employee/ Website of Joshua McGee Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:58:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dad http://mcgees.org/2010/02/19/telephone-exchange-with-a-store-employee/comment-page-1/#comment-64737 Dad Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:21:41 +0000 http://www.mcgees.org/?p=1937#comment-64737 Josh, for all of us that just found that recording of the VerizonMath you should put it on your home page. That is unbelievable. I listened to the whole recording and he was a lot more patient than I would have been. I'm a Verizon customer and I'm tempted to call and ask what the rate is for Canada. Does anyone know if they've fixed it? (I have no confidence in teaching the tech support people...just are they quoting the correct charge?) Josh, for all of us that just found that recording of the VerizonMath you should put it on your home page.  That is unbelievable.  I listened to the whole recording and he was a lot more patient than I would have been.

I’m a Verizon customer and I’m tempted to call and ask what the rate is for Canada.  Does anyone know if they’ve fixed it?  (I have no confidence in teaching the tech support people…just are they quoting the correct charge?)

]]> By: Joshua <i>(Site Owner)</i> http://mcgees.org/2010/02/19/telephone-exchange-with-a-store-employee/comment-page-1/#comment-64699 Joshua (Site Owner) Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:56:54 +0000 http://www.mcgees.org/?p=1937#comment-64699 Un-fucking-believable. While many would decry this as a failure of math education in this country, I think the bugbear is actually the relativism-postmodernism syndrome of making <i>everything</i> a "matter of opinion". "Matter of opinion" is a lazy, stupid person's way of avoiding <i>learning something</i>, and is a form of intellectual vandalism. "Well, that's what <i>I</i> believe" -- it absolves one of effort and implies that I have to respect it. I've heard people state "I don't believe in science.". <b>It's. Not. Fucking. Optional.</b> Mathematical truth is <i>not optional</i>. The observations of evolutionary development are <i>not optional</i>. The fact of Biblical errancy is <i>not optional</i>. I don't care how any of it "makes you feel". Go watch a rom-com for that shit. Gah. Reminds me <a href="http://www.mcgees.org/2004/06/09/viking-insurance/" rel="nofollow">of this</a> -- just worse. Un-fucking-believable.  While many would decry this as a failure of math education in this country, I think the bugbear is actually the relativism-postmodernism syndrome of making everything a “matter of opinion”.  “Matter of opinion” is a lazy, stupid person’s way of avoiding learning something, and is a form of intellectual vandalism.  “Well, that’s what I believe” — it absolves one of effort and implies that I have to respect it.

I’ve heard people state “I don’t believe in science.”.  It’s.  Not.  Fucking.  Optional.  Mathematical truth is not optional.  The observations of evolutionary development are not optional.  The fact of Biblical errancy is not optional.  I don’t care how any of it “makes you feel”.  Go watch a rom-com for that shit.  Gah. 

Reminds me of this — just worse.

]]> By: Dave http://mcgees.org/2010/02/19/telephone-exchange-with-a-store-employee/comment-page-1/#comment-64694 Dave Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:26:47 +0000 http://www.mcgees.org/?p=1937#comment-64694 Did you see this dude who cannot get Verizon to understand why .002 cents is not the same as .002 dollars? Amazing. http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/ Did you see this dude who cannot get Verizon to understand why .002 cents is not the same as .002 dollars? Amazing. http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/

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