My experience of the amazing UK NHS system started with my "doctor" googling cough medicine. After that she diagnosed me chest infection and prescribed antibiotics, ignoring the numbness in my left arm. At the end of the day it turned out to be a heart related issue, again diagnosed by google.
I would argue that the availiblity of quality medical info on the web is a necessity. There is always some guesswork invovled, but the more info you've got, the more educated the guess. And I do think that MY educated gueses on MY health issues are probably just as correct as the average nurse's.
To be fair they probably did not think of the organizations English name, they're Latvian after all. The name 4ATA though has some resemblance to the word "chat" in Latvian. Not sure how that's supposed to work though: "chat army"?
I'm a foreigner in England and found that I know grammar and spelling better than most of my English friends. We're talking about people who passed through basic education system here, and at least half of them also through higher studies.
The same is true for me. I'm in my first year of undergraduate Engineering in the UK and I was told by my peers that my English is "too good" and that I sounded "posh".
This worries me. People shouldn't be taught the test answers, they should be taught the basics in the subject and how to learn. The whole UK education system appears to be increasingly broken, and that (even more than the Government putting us into record debt) threatens the viability of the nation for the next few decades.
The extent of this surprises me to be honest. University students study for the sake of their exams, not for self-improvement. It's just sad when you hear things like: "Why are you even reading this? It's not gonna be in the exam, is it?" Everyone seems to be OK with this, even the lecturers. I find it disturbing and contrary to the very concept of a university as such.
It has been reported as hoax, indeed. http://www.delfi.lv/news/national/politics/zinatnieki-mazsalaca-visticamak-nav-nokritis.d?id=27621943 This is the original story in Latvian, although it does not seem very reliable to me. They claim that it is a strange coincidence that there was someone with a camera near the crash site, but hey, every kid's got a camera these days. I suppose we'll have to wait until the official investigation is over
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My experience of the amazing UK NHS system started with my "doctor" googling cough medicine. After that she diagnosed me chest infection and prescribed antibiotics, ignoring the numbness in my left arm. At the end of the day it turned out to be a heart related issue, again diagnosed by google.
I would argue that the availiblity of quality medical info on the web is a necessity. There is always some guesswork invovled, but the more info you've got, the more educated the guess. And I do think that MY educated gueses on MY health issues are probably just as correct as the average nurse's.
What is this "TV" that you speak of?
I'm colourblind (at least that's what they say). I think, though, that everyone else sees the world wrong: it's a massive consipracy against me.
The only trouble I've had with this is that I had to cheat in the vision test when getting my drivers license. It went surprisingly well :P
To be fair they probably did not think of the organizations English name, they're Latvian after all. The name 4ATA though has some resemblance to the word "chat" in Latvian. Not sure how that's supposed to work though: "chat army"?
I think calling the guy a hacker is a bit over the top. Basically what he did was change the document id numbers in the URL. The information he was accessing was not secured in any sensible way: the login page could be bypassed by simply entering an address by hand. It's pretty much an epic fail of the company that made the system (unless the flaw was introduced intentionally for some reason). Source: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.diena.lv%2Flat%2Fpolitics%2Fhot%2Fneo-no-4ata-mes-bijam-parsteigti-ka-mums-tik-ilgi-lava-datus-kopet&sl=auto&tl=en
I'm a foreigner in England and found that I know grammar and spelling better than most of my English friends. We're talking about people who passed through basic education system here, and at least half of them also through higher studies.
The same is true for me. I'm in my first year of undergraduate Engineering in the UK and I was told by my peers that my English is "too good" and that I sounded "posh".
This worries me. People shouldn't be taught the test answers, they should be taught the basics in the subject and how to learn. The whole UK education system appears to be increasingly broken, and that (even more than the Government putting us into record debt) threatens the viability of the nation for the next few decades.
The extent of this surprises me to be honest. University students study for the sake of their exams, not for self-improvement. It's just sad when you hear things like: "Why are you even reading this? It's not gonna be in the exam, is it?" Everyone seems to be OK with this, even the lecturers. I find it disturbing and contrary to the very concept of a university as such.
Man, you've got the grammar all wrong, my Latvian teacher would kill you if she saw this. It should be: "Ne sda ms neesam atradui"
It has been reported as hoax, indeed. http://www.delfi.lv/news/national/politics/zinatnieki-mazsalaca-visticamak-nav-nokritis.d?id=27621943 This is the original story in Latvian, although it does not seem very reliable to me. They claim that it is a strange coincidence that there was someone with a camera near the crash site, but hey, every kid's got a camera these days. I suppose we'll have to wait until the official investigation is over