07 Jun 2016, 5:09 pm
This is the board for talking about the websites you hate with a burning passion! 
Here's mine:
-TvTropes, IMO their community is toxic and the mods have no respect for their users
Yeah that's about it. Derp.
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Edenthiel wrote:
slave wrote:
Springerlink
Elsevier
Wiley
etc.....
basically all sites that place a pay wall between the public and the research WE f*****g PAID FOR!! ! !
"Reading a single article published by one of Elsevier's journals will cost you $31.50. Springer charges €34.95, Wiley-Blackwell, $42. Read 10 and you pay 10 times. And the journals retain perpetual copyright. You want to read a letter printed in 1981? That'll be $31.50.
Of course, you could go into the library (if it still exists). But they too have been hit by cosmic fees. The average cost of an annual subscription to a chemistry journal is $3,792. Some journals cost $10,000 a year or more to stock. The most expensive I've seen, Elsevier's Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, is $20,930. Though academic libraries have been frantically cutting subscriptions to make ends meet, journals now consume 65% of their budgets, which means they have had to reduce the number of books they buy. Journal fees account for a significant component of universities' costs, which are being passed to their students."
Source: The Guardian
If you care pls see this GOOD site http://thecostofknowledge.com/ and send it to your academic friends.
Elsevier
Wiley
etc.....
basically all sites that place a pay wall between the public and the research WE f*****g PAID FOR!! ! !
"Reading a single article published by one of Elsevier's journals will cost you $31.50. Springer charges €34.95, Wiley-Blackwell, $42. Read 10 and you pay 10 times. And the journals retain perpetual copyright. You want to read a letter printed in 1981? That'll be $31.50.
Of course, you could go into the library (if it still exists). But they too have been hit by cosmic fees. The average cost of an annual subscription to a chemistry journal is $3,792. Some journals cost $10,000 a year or more to stock. The most expensive I've seen, Elsevier's Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, is $20,930. Though academic libraries have been frantically cutting subscriptions to make ends meet, journals now consume 65% of their budgets, which means they have had to reduce the number of books they buy. Journal fees account for a significant component of universities' costs, which are being passed to their students."
Source: The Guardian
If you care pls see this GOOD site http://thecostofknowledge.com/ and send it to your academic friends.
Scientific journals have become an anachronism in the modern, connected world. They are the antithesis of what science is supposed to be, the building of knowledge, and a symbol of what some wish it to be: a profitable venture.
Do something about it here: https://act.eff.org/action/secure-open-access-to-taxpayer-funded-research
thank you
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27 Jun 2016, 7:10 pm
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27 Jun 2016, 7:25 pm
But I like TV Tropes and Facebook. 
It's the shock sites that are racist, sexist, say cruel and horrible things about people with autism or disabilities, and claim it's all just a joke and people these days have no sense of humor ya gotta hate! 
27 Jun 2016, 7:48 pm
Noca wrote:
AnaHitori wrote:
Facebook.
Amen to that!
Yes, totally agree! I knew someone was going to go for that!
I hate these stupid scam websites such as this one: http://netfilesystem.com/loik/index.php ... 6&dfn=(855)%20254-1420&dn=%2B18552541420&a=PC
Warning, this is NOT "Microsoft Official Support", so don't believe it.
I also wish Ashley Madison would die. That site is
EVIL and it's only purpose is to break up marriages and families.
11 Sep 2016, 8:24 pm
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13 Sep 2016, 12:07 pm
slave wrote:
Edenthiel wrote:
slave wrote:
Springerlink
Elsevier
Wiley
etc.....
basically all sites that place a pay wall between the public and the research WE f*****g PAID FOR!! ! !
"Reading a single article published by one of Elsevier's journals will cost you $31.50. Springer charges €34.95, Wiley-Blackwell, $42. Read 10 and you pay 10 times. And the journals retain perpetual copyright. You want to read a letter printed in 1981? That'll be $31.50.
Of course, you could go into the library (if it still exists). But they too have been hit by cosmic fees. The average cost of an annual subscription to a chemistry journal is $3,792. Some journals cost $10,000 a year or more to stock. The most expensive I've seen, Elsevier's Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, is $20,930. Though academic libraries have been frantically cutting subscriptions to make ends meet, journals now consume 65% of their budgets, which means they have had to reduce the number of books they buy. Journal fees account for a significant component of universities' costs, which are being passed to their students."
Source: The Guardian
If you care pls see this GOOD site http://thecostofknowledge.com/ and send it to your academic friends.
Elsevier
Wiley
etc.....
basically all sites that place a pay wall between the public and the research WE f*****g PAID FOR!! ! !
"Reading a single article published by one of Elsevier's journals will cost you $31.50. Springer charges €34.95, Wiley-Blackwell, $42. Read 10 and you pay 10 times. And the journals retain perpetual copyright. You want to read a letter printed in 1981? That'll be $31.50.
Of course, you could go into the library (if it still exists). But they too have been hit by cosmic fees. The average cost of an annual subscription to a chemistry journal is $3,792. Some journals cost $10,000 a year or more to stock. The most expensive I've seen, Elsevier's Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, is $20,930. Though academic libraries have been frantically cutting subscriptions to make ends meet, journals now consume 65% of their budgets, which means they have had to reduce the number of books they buy. Journal fees account for a significant component of universities' costs, which are being passed to their students."
Source: The Guardian
If you care pls see this GOOD site http://thecostofknowledge.com/ and send it to your academic friends.
Scientific journals have become an anachronism in the modern, connected world. They are the antithesis of what science is supposed to be, the building of knowledge, and a symbol of what some wish it to be: a profitable venture.
Do something about it here: https://act.eff.org/action/secure-open-access-to-taxpayer-funded-research
thank you
I went there as well and filled out the thing....it is kind of B.S to charge people so much for info that comes out of research and such. I mean I myself would like to have something else besides google or sites/articles with questionable accuracy to consult when I want to learn about some topic. But I certainly cannot afford the reasearch journals I had access to in college which was my main regreat of leaving college, but it is BS that info is only available to college students(where it can be included in tuition) or people with 3,000 or more dollars to throw around for a year subscription.
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