About two years after my O-levels, I think. I remember cutting out & pasting errata sheets into the books. One was about a supposed ninth planet and there was a correction for the density of phlogiston.
There were no formal requirements as such. I remember the physics teacher being somewhat displeased when over 30 students turned up. He did a Dutch auction & the result was that anyone who'd got below a C at O-level was sent away to check if there were places on Geography or Needlework, but that was his own way of getting the class size down.
We had lots of things in them days they haven't got today. Like rickets, diptheria and Hitler. And we looked a proper sight going to school with our arses hanging out of our trousers and our heads painted purple 'cause we had ringworm.
What I think makes a pseudo-sport is being dependent on judges as opposed to objective criteria like getting to a line first, putting a bit of dead pig at one end of the field more times, knocking seven shades of shite out of the other player etc.
Yes, straight-A students master cramming information and regurgitating it on exams.
Maybe if you're doing underwater basketweaving at somewhere like DeVry.
But career success is rarely about finding the right solution to a problem -- it's more about finding the right problem to solve.
Perhaps for a handful of entrepreneurs & visionaries. Not for the majority of jobs. If I'm a plumber I need to solve the problem of finding & fixing the leak. If I'm an ER doctor I need to solve the problem of the patient in front of me bleeding out. If I'm a programmer on a stock control system that can't convert stones to kilograms I need to solve the problem of where & how to multiply (or is it divide?) by 6.356.
I can only speak from my own experience - science subjects in England - and the rote component falls away pretty sharply during A-Levels. That's age 16-18, the equivalent of senior high, I believe.
I've lost weight on 5000 calories a day when labouring one summer vacation. It made a lot of it move around, too - mostly upwards, though it didn't stay there when I stopped:-(
The ability to retain fat would have been a huge survival advantage back when food supply was uncertain. The chubbies would survive after the skinnies had starved. But I doubt that even in the good times food was plentiful enough for long enough that you'd get the blubbertubs you see today.
It's a little sad how something that starts out as an explicit rejection of dogma and over-reliance on process can itself become dogmatic in a very short period of time. I guess that's just human nature.
I once wrote a longish essay saying more or less that.
React - you eat prawns that have been warm (which they have, because you live near the Mediterranean 5000 years ago) and you get ill and throw up.
Reason - you notice the connection between eating prawns that have been warm (which they have, because you live near the Mediterranean 5000 years ago) and being ill. You become noticeably less keen on prawns.
Religion - eating prawns is taboo! Don't even look at them, sinner!
Except now we have refrigeration.
I'd accidentally hit upon somebody's model, but I forget the name.
How the hell would any of us know? We're each aware of what we use, plus what's used by other people at our jobs, schools etc. It's a tiny subset of all developers.
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They legally got French for "hidden"?
About two years after my O-levels, I think. I remember cutting out & pasting errata sheets into the books. One was about a supposed ninth planet and there was a correction for the density of phlogiston.
There were no formal requirements as such. I remember the physics teacher being somewhat displeased when over 30 students turned up. He did a Dutch auction & the result was that anyone who'd got below a C at O-level was sent away to check if there were places on Geography or Needlework, but that was his own way of getting the class size down.
We had lots of things in them days they haven't got today. Like rickets, diptheria and Hitler. And we looked a proper sight going to school with our arses hanging out of our trousers and our heads painted purple 'cause we had ringworm.
Has he tried turning it off and on again?
People in Mumbai aren't as awesome as him.
What I think makes a pseudo-sport is being dependent on judges as opposed to objective criteria like getting to a line first, putting a bit of dead pig at one end of the field more times, knocking seven shades of shite out of the other player etc.
It looks like you've worn out that shovel so I'm dropping you a new one down. Mind your head!
Maybe if you're doing underwater basketweaving at somewhere like DeVry.
Perhaps for a handful of entrepreneurs & visionaries. Not for the majority of jobs. If I'm a plumber I need to solve the problem of finding & fixing the leak. If I'm an ER doctor I need to solve the problem of the patient in front of me bleeding out. If I'm a programmer on a stock control system that can't convert stones to kilograms I need to solve the problem of where & how to multiply (or is it divide?) by 6.356.
I can only speak from my own experience - science subjects in England - and the rote component falls away pretty sharply during A-Levels. That's age 16-18, the equivalent of senior high, I believe.
TFA is bullshit.
I'd run this thorough google translate, but I don't know what language it's supposed to be.
It's a pity there isn't a "-1: No they wouldn't, that's ridiculous!" mod.
There are no rocks in the crust that are as old as the Earth itself, so everything gets subducted (or destroyed by some other means) eventually.
It's no problem at all when all you're trying to do is generate page hits.
Do you agree that there are different degrees of unhealthy? Common sense suggests that there are.
Then it's not a boolean choice, is it?
It could come to any number between the extremes, so 48 is totally possible.
"The fact that you are a good pianist and a competent clarinet player doesn't excuse the horrid noise you make with a violin."
W.S. Churchill.
I've lost weight on 5000 calories a day when labouring one summer vacation. It made a lot of it move around, too - mostly upwards, though it didn't stay there when I stopped :-(
The ability to retain fat would have been a huge survival advantage back when food supply was uncertain. The chubbies would survive after the skinnies had starved. But I doubt that even in the good times food was plentiful enough for long enough that you'd get the blubbertubs you see today.
What's that got to do with eating less, which was the original premise?
You clearly didn't use that time to study statistics.
It didn't occur to you to not eat like a navvy if you're not, in fact, a navvy?
I once wrote a longish essay saying more or less that.
React - you eat prawns that have been warm (which they have, because you live near the Mediterranean 5000 years ago) and you get ill and throw up.
Reason - you notice the connection between eating prawns that have been warm (which they have, because you live near the Mediterranean 5000 years ago) and being ill. You become noticeably less keen on prawns.
Religion - eating prawns is taboo! Don't even look at them, sinner!
Except now we have refrigeration.
I'd accidentally hit upon somebody's model, but I forget the name.
It doesn't scare me, but then I don't know what "intertia" is.
Who designed Gnome 3? Who let the certificates expire? Who invented codes of conduct for programming languages?
They're that thick and then some.
If anything, is detached from reality, it's how you, use commas.
It's pretty difficult to be further away than that, isn't it?
How the hell would any of us know? We're each aware of what we use, plus what's used by other people at our jobs, schools etc. It's a tiny subset of all developers.
FWIW, I don't like either particularly.
Subduction. Get an adult to look it up for you.