Really? You don't expect private enterprises to behave well, so you excuse them when they don't. You're going with that?
Apply that to criminals and the police. It's not the murderer's fault that woman is dead. You expect criminals to do bad things. It's the police's fault for not catching him. We hold the police to higher standards than criminals.
Nothing implausible? Sorry, but that's not enough to uphold an allegation. This isn't a "he says, she says" situation. This is a matter of accountancy. Either the accuser has evidence or wrong doing or he does not. And 6 moths later, it's clear that he does not.
A 2008 audit revealed that 12,948 game consoles were purchased for use in prisons with taxpayersâ(TM) money. The cost of the consoles and games totaled £221,726.
That's £17.12 per console. Including both console and games. What are they playing, Pong?
The person you initially responded to already made the conversation about governments.
Not about governments supplying services. The question is who's fault is it that multi-national companies aren't paying the tax they should. Which is on topic, both to the story and to the preceding post.
But it has fuck all to do with supplying services. It's legitimate to point out that they are avoiding the substantive topic.
And you've drifted off still further into higher education, when I was talking about schools!;-)
OK, so an you teach 50% of the population in university to as high a standard as you used to teach 5%. Clearly not. But that doesn't mean that the top 5% that would have gone to university before aren't still getting as good a degree as even before.
And you are doing a great service to the 45% that previously wouldn't have had the chance of higher education, giving them the opportunity to improve themselves and be the best that they can be.
Where's the downsides? You get some people complaining that there's not enough plumbers anymore, because all the people that would have gone into plumbing before are now well educated and want something better. However as pathetic as it is, it's not even true, given that there are plenty of Eastern Europeans who are both willing to do plumbing and are very hard workers.
And you get some employers complaining that a degree isn't worth what it used to be. Well fuck you, universities aren't run for your benefit. Education is for the improvement of the people being educated, not to supply bits of paper as recruitment informational aids for employers.
In any case that top 5% that used to have bachelors degrees now tend to have gone on to do PhDs.
But as I said, that's drifted off yet further. Back on the topic of schools, kids now work harder than we ever did at school, and come out knowing more than we did. That's my observation. But it's often different knowledge. No they haven't learned the dates of Kings and Queens by rote as Gove wants. And why the hell should they? What earthly use is that? If by strange quirk they should ever need to know, they have the entire contents of Wikipedia in their pocket. What kids need to be able to do now is to research, to analyse, to calculate, to research, not the regurgitate rote learning as Gove obviously did at school.
That allegation is dated back in Nov 2012. Were it ever corroborated, you can be sure she wouldn't be Chair of the Public Accounts Committee. And wouldn't have the platform to point out Google's tax-dodging. Even if you could imagine her thinking it was a good idea were she in that position.
It's simply a false allegation, started by those who want to mask their own tax-dodging, and repeated by the Tory's own newspaper. A smear. The oldest trick in the book.
Google on the other hand has been tax-dodging. And whilst they can hide behind the old "tax-avoidance isn't illegal" ploy. They can't hide from lying to a parliamentary committee about not doing sales work in the UK. That's perjury and a crime.
To be fair, the incoming government this time was going to inherit a poisoned chalice in so many ways that whoever won they would never have a fighting chance.
On the economy, fair enough, that's a global problem. But the Tories are fucking everything else up to. Take Education. The Tories are trying to make sweeping changes to state education AGAIN. And what does Gove do to justify this? He makes a speech saying that schools are teaching about Adolf Hitler through the medium of Mr Men characters.
And the truth? The MisterMen hitler connection came from a private company's web-site. A web-site only used by private schools. And it was an exercise set to 15-16 year olds to come up with a story to teach what they'd already learned about hitler to 10-11 year olds.
No teacher has ever to anyone's knowledge taught Hitler to children using Mr Men Books, and the exercise was only ever done by private school kids.
And this is Gove's example of poor expectations in the state school sector. And his excuse for doing yet another shakeup of schools. Schools never get to settle in any one new system before the next ill-thought out one comes along.
And as a result he gets booed at the NAHT conference. The NAHT are not like the NUT. They are a relatively conservative bunch. And don't usually heckle speakers. Gove also needs their cooperation if he wants to push through any changes. And it looks like he's not going to get it now.
The guy is an imbecile. And he's not the only one on the front bench.
Ah, the logical disfunctionality of the anarcho-capitalist. Multi-national corporations play off different countries governments against each other so they end up paying little tax. And somehow that's the government's doing wrong, rather than the the multi-national corporations.
Well you'd have to give up the guns, and the constitutional right to teach your children to shout "God Hates Fags!" at people's funerals. We're a bit snooty about such primitive behaviours.
New Labour has been out of power for 3 years. Is anything getting better? No, it's getting worse. Which is no surprise for anyone that remembers the previous Tory government. Though it has been a bit of a surprise for a lot of people who used to support Lib Dems.
Lets face it, not even the swivel-eyed loons from the shire Tory associations are happy with the current shambles.
("Not a single one has given me a straight response which I could interpret as yes or no. But on balance left me with the impression "no" in each case.") +1;-)
I tried it. Well not quite abandoned but an unspoiled island with 3000 people. It was heaven for the first couple of years. By 7 years, groundhog day was making me look to the horizon for a passing ship. The sea, the surf and the blue skies, and the personal creativity are lovely, but after a while one needs some culture, generated by other people, with other ideas.
Absolutely. You probably want to stay where you are, what with the wars and pestilence and everything. Don't feel the need to hurry back. You could send a postcard if you like. We'll be sure to read it. If you don't get a reply, well it probably got lost in the post or something.
Actually, RMS does qualify for most definitions of communist. ESR on the other hand qualifies for most definitions of swivel-eyed right-wing libertarian loon.
Don't worry, we promise to leave you entirely alone on your island, just you libertarians, the telephone sanitizers, the hairdressers and advertising account executives.
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Really? You don't expect private enterprises to behave well, so you excuse them when they don't. You're going with that?
Apply that to criminals and the police. It's not the murderer's fault that woman is dead. You expect criminals to do bad things. It's the police's fault for not catching him. We hold the police to higher standards than criminals.
Nothing implausible? Sorry, but that's not enough to uphold an allegation. This isn't a "he says, she says" situation. This is a matter of accountancy. Either the accuser has evidence or wrong doing or he does not. And 6 moths later, it's clear that he does not.
It's a smear, pure and simple.
A 2008 audit revealed that 12,948 game consoles were purchased for use in prisons with taxpayersâ(TM) money. The cost of the consoles and games totaled £221,726.
That's £17.12 per console. Including both console and games. What are they playing, Pong?
a reply above pointed out that over a year ago her adviser published a paper on this exact design
Where?
The person you initially responded to already made the conversation about governments.
Not about governments supplying services. The question is who's fault is it that multi-national companies aren't paying the tax they should. Which is on topic, both to the story and to the preceding post.
But it has fuck all to do with supplying services. It's legitimate to point out that they are avoiding the substantive topic.
And you've drifted off still further into higher education, when I was talking about schools! ;-)
OK, so an you teach 50% of the population in university to as high a standard as you used to teach 5%. Clearly not. But that doesn't mean that the top 5% that would have gone to university before aren't still getting as good a degree as even before.
And you are doing a great service to the 45% that previously wouldn't have had the chance of higher education, giving them the opportunity to improve themselves and be the best that they can be.
Where's the downsides? You get some people complaining that there's not enough plumbers anymore, because all the people that would have gone into plumbing before are now well educated and want something better. However as pathetic as it is, it's not even true, given that there are plenty of Eastern Europeans who are both willing to do plumbing and are very hard workers.
And you get some employers complaining that a degree isn't worth what it used to be. Well fuck you, universities aren't run for your benefit. Education is for the improvement of the people being educated, not to supply bits of paper as recruitment informational aids for employers.
In any case that top 5% that used to have bachelors degrees now tend to have gone on to do PhDs.
But as I said, that's drifted off yet further. Back on the topic of schools, kids now work harder than we ever did at school, and come out knowing more than we did. That's my observation. But it's often different knowledge. No they haven't learned the dates of Kings and Queens by rote as Gove wants. And why the hell should they? What earthly use is that? If by strange quirk they should ever need to know, they have the entire contents of Wikipedia in their pocket. What kids need to be able to do now is to research, to analyse, to calculate, to research, not the regurgitate rote learning as Gove obviously did at school.
That allegation is dated back in Nov 2012. Were it ever corroborated, you can be sure she wouldn't be Chair of the Public Accounts Committee. And wouldn't have the platform to point out Google's tax-dodging. Even if you could imagine her thinking it was a good idea were she in that position.
It's simply a false allegation, started by those who want to mask their own tax-dodging, and repeated by the Tory's own newspaper. A smear. The oldest trick in the book.
Google on the other hand has been tax-dodging. And whilst they can hide behind the old "tax-avoidance isn't illegal" ploy. They can't hide from lying to a parliamentary committee about not doing sales work in the UK. That's perjury and a crime.
This story has nothing to do with governments providing services. Why are you trying to change the subject?
To be fair, the incoming government this time was going to inherit a poisoned chalice in so many ways that whoever won they would never have a fighting chance.
On the economy, fair enough, that's a global problem. But the Tories are fucking everything else up to. Take Education. The Tories are trying to make sweeping changes to state education AGAIN. And what does Gove do to justify this? He makes a speech saying that schools are teaching about Adolf Hitler through the medium of Mr Men characters.
And the truth? The MisterMen hitler connection came from a private company's web-site. A web-site only used by private schools. And it was an exercise set to
15-16 year olds to come up with a story to teach what they'd already learned about hitler to 10-11 year olds.
No teacher has ever to anyone's knowledge taught Hitler to children using Mr Men Books, and the exercise was only ever done by private school kids.
And this is Gove's example of poor expectations in the state school sector. And his excuse for doing yet another shakeup of schools. Schools never get to settle in any one new system before the next ill-thought out one comes along.
And as a result he gets booed at the NAHT conference. The NAHT are not like the NUT. They are a relatively conservative bunch. And don't usually heckle speakers. Gove also needs their cooperation if he wants to push through any changes. And it looks like he's not going to get it now.
The guy is an imbecile. And he's not the only one on the front bench.
No.
Ah, the logical disfunctionality of the anarcho-capitalist. Multi-national corporations play off different countries governments against each other so they end up paying little tax. And somehow that's the government's doing wrong, rather than the the multi-national corporations.
It's OK, we know the vast majority of you don't have passports. We don't expect you to know there's a whole other world out that that's not USA.
We chuckle to ourselves when you call your local rounders competition "The World Series".
Well you'd have to give up the guns, and the constitutional right to teach your children to shout "God Hates Fags!" at people's funerals. We're a bit snooty about such primitive behaviours.
New Labour has been out of power for 3 years. Is anything getting better? No, it's getting worse. Which is no surprise for anyone that remembers the previous Tory government. Though it has been a bit of a surprise for a lot of people who used to support Lib Dems.
Lets face it, not even the swivel-eyed loons from the shire Tory associations are happy with the current shambles.
He likes it.
Apple would ask the question, "if we used a Lightning connector, with a reasonable cable, how many minutes can we do it in?"
20s is great for people who want to brag, but far from necessary.
A very cynical person might say that the reason for the award was in the photo.
They might, but since she has constructed a novel supercapacitor, they'd be wrong. Don't let the "it's political correctness gone mad" people win.
("Not a single one has given me a straight response which I could interpret as yes or no. But on balance left me with the impression "no" in each case.") +1 ;-)
Newsflash, the 60s radicals that wanted to shut down society are in power today.
They grew up. So will todays's "libertarians" (anarcho-capitalists).
I tried it. Well not quite abandoned but an unspoiled island with 3000 people. It was heaven for the first couple of years. By 7 years, groundhog day was making me look to the horizon for a passing ship. The sea, the surf and the blue skies, and the personal creativity are lovely, but after a while one needs some culture, generated by other people, with other ideas.
BTW, you do realise you're taking the guns with you? Wouldn't want you to leave them here.
Absolutely. You probably want to stay where you are, what with the wars and pestilence and everything. Don't feel the need to hurry back. You could send a postcard if you like. We'll be sure to read it. If you don't get a reply, well it probably got lost in the post or something.
Libertarians certainly do say that. But you may have confused them with Anarcho-capitalists.
Actually, RMS does qualify for most definitions of communist.
ESR on the other hand qualifies for most definitions of swivel-eyed right-wing libertarian loon.
Don't worry, we promise to leave you entirely alone on your island, just you libertarians, the telephone sanitizers, the hairdressers and advertising account executives.