As is noted, this was posted on facebook for all the world to see. If it were truly a threat it would either be in a much more personal venue or you would likely be able to see a pattern of other such public statements.
Oh, that's right. People would NEVER post legitimate threats on a a publicly-readable site.
FTA you linked: "Detailed Horrific Slay Plot on Web Diary"
I believe a detailed description of how someone was going to horrifically slay a person/persons is a slight bit different from an ad-hoc remark venting frustration.
Here's the main problem, yours and the university in question:
People are so afraid of their own damn shadows that they refuse to apply critical thinking to even the most simple of circumstances.
Seriously, try actually processing information before reacting with reckless abandon.
You must live quite the ascetic life if you never followup after stating you want something.
I want a pizza, I go get a pizza.
I want to kill someone, I usually do so inside the confines of my own imagination.
Yes, but how do you know the difference?
Even small statements made online are not devoid of context. If there is a rash of this behavior and a reoccurring pattern of such statements then yes, they should be taken seriously. However, if a student who has no history of violence or even anti-social behavior* makes an off-the-cuff statement such as this it should be taken in the appropriate context of an upset person venting frustration.
As is noted, this was posted on facebook for all the world to see. If it were truly a threat it would either be in a much more personal venue or you would likely be able to see a pattern of other such public statements.
*yes I know this is overly generalized and not really a valid way to assess anything about a person.
Threats are threats.
Yup, sounds about right.
Next topic, please!
I believe saying I want to is quite different from saying I'm going to.
Guess it would work best in reverse: people who are *not* afraid are obvious psychopaths...
Exactly. "If we haven't scared you enough with all this fake security theater that does nothing to actually keep you safe, you are obviously a terrorist." - TSA
in feminist thinking, porn actresses are the new pioneers
Oh, so NOW we find out what your low budget Filipino movie really is.
It will be commercially available by January. The bad news is, this is a write only memory device.
Wow, that sucks. I was hoping I could read the data after I wrote it.
In other words: it would be nice if the real world would be as you want it, your [sic] arrogant, hypocrite fuck.
Yeah I know it is not from this post but Pot, meet Kettle. Oh, and I added a [sic] tag that you seem to be so fond of.
What really amazes me is that you seem to honestly believe that the sun shines out of your ass. You are completely convinced of your own superiority yet offer no compelling evidence to support this stance.
Many people visit my website instead of the competittors' [sic] because it's cooler than theirs.
So please enlighten us, what is your cool website? And BTW, there are no rules for cool, ask a real artist.
With love, Professional web developer.
This is my favorite thing you've said. I don't mean to belittle an entire swath of people who have the same career as you, just people like you who think 'Web Developer' is some how an elevated position in the realm of programming. You are not a Software Engineer nor a Computer Scientist, and based on the way you talk about the work you do you are not even really a programmer. Don't get me wrong, there are many actual programmers that work on web related projects, but you are a scripter at best.
Seriously, if you had even the slightest idea of the problems faced by real software folk, you would realize that your arrogance and self righteous attitude are completely unfounded.
before I sue you for copyright infringement because you copied what I said without using 'quote' tags.
Huh?
So you ONLY program for work now. You NEVER program a small project on your own time, for yourself. Then I would say you have lost the passion. Sure, we can all brag about other stuff we have to do in our lives, if you think that makes you special you are a moron. But somehow I still find time to program, even now.
Well, you assume that you can't be passionate about the programming you do at work. I love my job and I give it 100% of myself for 40hrs a week, and I am very productive in those 40hrs, but when I go home I just want to relax and let something different happen so that I may have a new experience.
That's fine that after 10-15 years your craft is no longer your highest interest or priority
I guess you missed this part of my post:
Don't get me wrong, I still have a great passion for programming
You can call it balance, call it experience, and it probably is, but however you parse it, if your productive output is less than that of someone else, you can't fault an employer for choosing someone else, especially someone else at half your salary.
Who said anything about productive output. You think a coder is more productive if he also programs in his spare time. First, my productive output is as good or better than my other co-workers. (I'm lucky to work with some really great programmers)
Second, I would argue that someone who has many outside coding projects may actually be less productive.
The truth is I have a few outside projects every now and again, but for the most part, I intentionally try to stay away from them so that other things can come into my life. If you are one of those people that spends all of his free time coding, I urge you, take a break. You don't have to do any specific thing, just leave some time open for life to happen.
Otherwise you might as well say that Ferrari should only hire race drivers who have no real interest in driving or airlines should only hire pilots who have no interest in flying outside of sitting in a 737 pilot seat monitoring systems for 3 hours.
I don't suppose you've met very many 737 pilots have you? Flying a 737 or other large aircraft is like driving a bus in the sky. For most, at least of the 10 or so I know personally, flying may have once been a great passion but it has been replaced as something they do as a job.
As far as the article is concerned, I am a programmer, a damn good and distinguished one as a matter of fact, but my experience has taught me that in order to lead a healthy and productive life, there needs to be balance. Which for me, means leaving my work at work, and enjoying other interests in my off time. Don't get me wrong, I still have a great passion for programming, but like I said, I need balance. I would also wager that the majority of programmers who do a lot of coding in their spare time are fairly young in the craft. Once you get about 10-15 years experience of busting your ass day in and day out as a programmer, most will begin to find out that need other things in their life outside of programming.
Then again, I've met quite a few other programmers that really just had nothing better to do with their spare time.
I heard that the FBI kept on relying on parts of the (un)Patriot(ic) Act long after the Supreme Court overturned those same parts of it. Business as usual, carry on.
I heard that you actually eat babies, but then again, neither one of us has a citation.
Our business in life is not to succeed but to continue to fail in high spirits. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
