Of course it would require much clearer and more straight forward laws and rules with less chance for built in loop holes for weasels to find their way through
I'm sure you can have one of these things but it's hard to see how you would get both.
Absolutely, if you are moving to a new country then absolutely you should also adopt their culture. Not to say you can't remember the culture you came from but now you have moved it should play second fiddle to the culture of the area you are now living in.
Decades of multiculturalism have created numerous enclaves in British cities filled with immigrants who carry on more or less as they did in their original country. This leads to conflict and a fractured society.
Those British people who move to the costas in Spain are just as bad having more or less transplanted their UK chav culture directly into Spain with no consideration at all for learning Spanish or paying any attention at all to the local culture.
Best Ad I've seen on the side of a lorry for while was ( something like )
A huge picture of a baby and a caption: "The only thing we don't deliver. Andys Parcels"
And the worst one is a lorry which looks like it might have something to do with double glazing which has a photo on it of an angry looking man with expletive signs coming out of his mouth saying "Just pick up the piggin phone and call us". Er, no thanks.
And how often do you suppose your extremely unlikely sounding hypothetical scenario actually occurs ?
We have been hearing about this problem in the UK for quite a while now where even various councils who were supposed to recyling goods have been caught simply shipping them to India to be dumped in a field. In every case which I've heard reported the entity responsible for employing the recycling firm were completely aware of what was actually happening but assumed that no one would either care or find out and it would be much cheaper.
What you, and many others here, need to consider is the effect of the plane releasing it's GREENHOUSE TOXINS 5 Miles closer to the F'KIN SUN than your SUV does. Every extra mile increase the greenhouse toxicity quotient by approximately 41.1488309142234589789543137% compared to the same remission a mile farther away from the sun. I dunno all the science but I guess that if the sun was like an orange it would be like having the orange directly in the bath of sulphuric acid or 5 miles away. Obviously if it's in the bath then it's gonna die and we're all gonna die with it but 5 miles away like in the SUV and it can't possibly get hurt at all. Something for you eco-nuts all to consider, I just wish you'd do the science like I did before you go mouthing off at SUVs.
Blind hills are a hazard but you shouldn't be driving so close to the car in front of you that you can't stop if it has a crash or whatever.
There is just such a hill on the A38 between Burton & Lichfield where I've been coming over the top at 80MPH only to see a more or less stationary line of traffic on the other side a couple of hundred metres away, luckily I was, just, far enough away from the car in front stop. There are fairly frequent back end shunt accidents on this bit of road because people do exactly what I did but without having left a big enough gap.
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Phone ? I've used one of those before and it always ends up with me having to do some work. I'm no falling for that again. Besides which cutting and pasting the text from the previous e-mail is easier than spending 10mins explaining the situation again and again every 3 weeks.
Too right, I've worked in a number of places where the sales team has no clue at all what the operational team do. In some cases I don't think they've ever met. In one of the places I worked at, in a big multinational company, this created an interesting scenario where almost every single contract contained clauses which were literally impossible for us to actually deliver with associated penalty payments for non delivery of it. The more money they lost the harder they must have been pushing the sales staff because the number of ridiculously impossible deliverables just kept increasing, along with the amount of money paid back to clients in penalty payments.
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It's amazing how many people just don't understand basic maths. A while ago I used to have to report on how many calls missed the grade of service in a call centre. Each line would have a % grade of service and there would be half a dozen lines. Almost every week at least 2 or 3 of the desk managers would ring me up to complain my figures were wrong because my report said line 1 had 80% GOS, line 2 had 30% but my overall GOS was 79% and not 60% like it should be. I actually had a make a tutorial spreadsheet to explain the concept of weighted percentages but 1 or 2 people even questioned the validity of that !
I don't generally have problems with the 'business' but I do often have problems with people in the business. Just this morning I have had maybe the 8th e-mail from some guy asking me to send out all our confidential customer information to some pharmacuetical company. Every time I tell him that a) we're not doing that and that b) if we did even send out the limited amount of non confidential data he still needs to tell me exactly what he wants. But he never does, each e-mail is just "Mr Gravy, How much longer will this report take, the client are nagging me now". Each time I reply telling him he needs to explain what he actually wants but so far he hasn't bothered to do that.
On the contrary I have perfect confidence in science which is why I am sure once it is used effectively in the classroom to counter religious mumbo jumbo I have no doubt that the religious mumbo jumbo will effectively be crushed.
It's true some of the more extreme religious nutjobs may decide to take their children elsewhere but at least they will then become outcast from general society at large and tolerance for their ridiculous ideas will fade. At that point it may be possible to take some practical steps to eliminate them once and for all. I don't think it's going too far to suggest bringing back the death penalty for dealing with any persistant hardcore child abusers who refuse to renounce their faith, they will even enjoy the experience of becoming martyrs and meeting their God ( or not ) rather sooner than they expected.
Yes because of course the type of conniving time waster you're trying to filter out would never even consider ripping off stuff from the internet or other people to put in his portfolio. Sure you could then test him on aspects of what he says he's done but that's going to seem even more retarded to army of people here who seem unusually sensitive to testing of any kind.
If you have a specific job you need doing then it makes perfect sense to me to build a specific set of questions to guage whether a candidate would be able to do the job.
Personally I never mind doing tests, much easier and more fun than finding 18 examples of times when I delivered under pressure whilst coping with difficult co-workers and overcoming my key fault.
If candidates are too arrogant to submit their towering intellect and valuable time for a test in order to get a job they are presumably interested in then I think I'd really rather not employee them at all.
Or more worryingly, in British schools anyway, the teachers most likely won't be able to question any child who expresses creationist beliefs because to do so would not be 'multi cultural' enough.
If this guy is really asking for a open scientific discussion of creationism in the classroom then this would be a great opportunity to tackle all the children who are currently being religiously programmed by their parents and actually take them to task and destroy utterly every last vestige of religious thought with a giant science cannon weilded by the teacher.
A lot of teachers are too wishy washy and liberal to properly challenge religious nonsense in the classroom and a lot more are worried about being accused of racism or other such nonsense so in addition it needs to be made clear to teachers they not only have the right to crush religious expression in their classrooms they also have a duty to do so.
Seriously, if we really must be subjected to this crap surely to goodness there have at some point been some real genuinely amusing e-mails rather than this rather obvious trollish piss taking we're currently being shown. Honestly, anything rather than this, amusing anecdotes of the editors journey into work, his relationship with his stepmother or the black family who have moved in down the street anything would be better.
It's possible but a hunter who is running off hide at every movement or sound around in him isn't going to be catching that much to eat and runs the risk of starving to death.
One need only look to places such as Easter Island to see how destructive un checked superstition can be to a society.
Another thing which can tip over are metaphors when they're taken as actual representations of real life. The water cycle is not so finely balanced as to be affected by a few extra grams of water either here or there.
a) A soul has a weight, a mass that can be measured when someone passes away. Often referred to as the weight of the soul.
A) How do you know it has a weight ? Things which don't exist don't have any weight so I find that highly unlikely
B) Has anyone, anywhere, ever measured the weight of the soul ? No, they haven't have they because it, obviously, does not exist !
Your other 'examples' are all total nonsense and were they happen to refer to something which may actually be real or may actually happen can easily be explained by 1 billion and 1 rational explanations rather than inventing a 'soul'.
Some futher points
1) There is no such thing as a soul. 2) People are not re-incarnated in the sense you are referring to. 3) Ghosts do not exist 4) Aliens do not abduct US peasant farmers and insert probes in their anus
You are free to hold whatever beliefs you like but where they are obviously based on absolute nonsense you ought to thank your fellow humans for pointing out the obvious stupidity of them. You would surely not let a man who believed that cars are all made out of jelly are soft and harmless go out for a walk on a motorway. Instead you brand him a screaming moronic fool and do everything you could to set him on the right track.
You know when they say ( in the UK ) that New York is just across the pond they don't actually mean it is really a pond. If it and all the other oceans really were just ponds then maybe the amount of water vapour we could produce would be significant.
Of course the Atlantic is really an absolutely enormous body of water and is only one of the many oceans on this planet, anything we can produce is totally insignificant in relation to the rest of the water in the system.
I smoke everytime I compete, I have to smoke every time I pass the gaming rig from a southerly direction anyway becuase obviously if I don't bad stuff will happen but anyway when I compete I need to get high.
I find under the influence of several bongs the games becomes hyperrreal, I actually morph through the monitor screen into the my head and there's all sorts of switches and buttons in there and it reals comfy and my powers become unlimited and God like I can see through walls and into other players heads and I know where the bullets will hail from so I can avoid them, duck, weave and throw the knock out punch, every time. I become the game and the game is me I exude raw POWWWERRRRR ! If the game is inturrepted I can become enraged as my power is forced to find an exit in the physical dimension, people can get hurt but they are not me and I am not the people, they are my little people, my slaves and I will destroy them as I see fit. Destroy !
I don't think the weeds had any negative affects at all, if other people can't be bothered to wait for me to finish a sentance that's their problem. Often they're doing it on purpose just to get at me, people are like that.
Yes, the best plan is for the staff to have a system, perhaps built by the staff, where the staff can verify the password but without the staff being aware of it. Staff should definitely ensure that staff cannot collude with staff to actually change the customers password on their own ! Customers aren't staff and it's just not right, whatever the staff get up to with staff, in the staff canteen or where ever else is strictly the business of the staff but when it comes to customers who aren't staff well then the staff should have ensured that rules were in place for the staff and being enforced by the staff so the staff couldn't get away with this behaviour with someone who isn't even staff.
I don't expect senior civil servants would ever get their hands dirty enough to be in a position where they have any data to lose but it is there job to ensure everyone else reporting to them understands and is complying with sensible data security procedures. If they aren't doing this then it is their fault as much as it's the fault of the contractor who actually lost the USB stick.
The use of ID cards might stop this sort of data loss but I don't believe for a a second it will do. First of all I think the company who has just lost this data is one of the ones involved in the ID card scheme and they obviously don't have data security very high on their agenda. Secondly the actual database may be more centralised but the data its self is going to be available to virtually every single government employee in the country along with any private company who fancies it so the chances of that reducing the amount of data leaked out don't look very good to me.
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Agreed, I have a 100" TV and when you're watching a movie you couldn't tell if it was HD or not
I'm sure you can have one of these things but it's hard to see how you would get both.
And thats why us English need never bother learning any other European language.
Absolutely, if you are moving to a new country then absolutely you should also adopt their culture. Not to say you can't remember the culture you came from but now you have moved it should play second fiddle to the culture of the area you are now living in.
Decades of multiculturalism have created numerous enclaves in British cities filled with immigrants who carry on more or less as they did in their original country. This leads to conflict and a fractured society.
Those British people who move to the costas in Spain are just as bad having more or less transplanted their UK chav culture directly into Spain with no consideration at all for learning Spanish or paying any attention at all to the local culture.
Best Ad I've seen on the side of a lorry for while was ( something like )
A huge picture of a baby and a caption: "The only thing we don't deliver. Andys Parcels"
And the worst one is a lorry which looks like it might have something to do with double glazing which has a photo on it of an angry looking man with expletive signs coming out of his mouth saying "Just pick up the piggin phone and call us". Er, no thanks.
And how often do you suppose your extremely unlikely sounding hypothetical scenario actually occurs ?
We have been hearing about this problem in the UK for quite a while now where even various councils who were supposed to recyling goods have been caught simply shipping them to India to be dumped in a field. In every case which I've heard reported the entity responsible for employing the recycling firm were completely aware of what was actually happening but assumed that no one would either care or find out and it would be much cheaper.
What you, and many others here, need to consider is the effect of the plane releasing it's GREENHOUSE TOXINS 5 Miles closer to the F'KIN SUN than your SUV does. Every extra mile increase the greenhouse toxicity quotient by approximately 41.1488309142234589789543137% compared to the same remission a mile farther away from the sun. I dunno all the science but I guess that if the sun was like an orange it would be like having the orange directly in the bath of sulphuric acid or 5 miles away. Obviously if it's in the bath then it's gonna die and we're all gonna die with it but 5 miles away like in the SUV and it can't possibly get hurt at all. Something for you eco-nuts all to consider, I just wish you'd do the science like I did before you go mouthing off at SUVs.
Blind hills are a hazard but you shouldn't be driving so close to the car in front of you that you can't stop if it has a crash or whatever.
There is just such a hill on the A38 between Burton & Lichfield where I've been coming over the top at 80MPH only to see a more or less stationary line of traffic on the other side a couple of hundred metres away, luckily I was, just, far enough away from the car in front stop. There are fairly frequent back end shunt accidents on this bit of road because people do exactly what I did but without having left a big enough gap.
Phone ? I've used one of those before and it always ends up with me having to do some work. I'm no falling for that again. Besides which cutting and pasting the text from the previous e-mail is easier than spending 10mins explaining the situation again and again every 3 weeks.
Too right, I've worked in a number of places where the sales team has no clue at all what the operational team do. In some cases I don't think they've ever met. In one of the places I worked at, in a big multinational company, this created an interesting scenario where almost every single contract contained clauses which were literally impossible for us to actually deliver with associated penalty payments for non delivery of it. The more money they lost the harder they must have been pushing the sales staff because the number of ridiculously impossible deliverables just kept increasing, along with the amount of money paid back to clients in penalty payments.
It's amazing how many people just don't understand basic maths. A while ago I used to have to report on how many calls missed the grade of service in a call centre. Each line would have a % grade of service and there would be half a dozen lines. Almost every week at least 2 or 3 of the desk managers would ring me up to complain my figures were wrong because my report said line 1 had 80% GOS, line 2 had 30% but my overall GOS was 79% and not 60% like it should be. I actually had a make a tutorial spreadsheet to explain the concept of weighted percentages but 1 or 2 people even questioned the validity of that !
I don't generally have problems with the 'business' but I do often have problems with people in the business. Just this morning I have had maybe the 8th e-mail from some guy asking me to send out all our confidential customer information to some pharmacuetical company. Every time I tell him that a) we're not doing that and that b) if we did even send out the limited amount of non confidential data he still needs to tell me exactly what he wants. But he never does, each e-mail is just "Mr Gravy, How much longer will this report take, the client are nagging me now". Each time I reply telling him he needs to explain what he actually wants but so far he hasn't bothered to do that.
On the contrary I have perfect confidence in science which is why I am sure once it is used effectively in the classroom to counter religious mumbo jumbo I have no doubt that the religious mumbo jumbo will effectively be crushed.
It's true some of the more extreme religious nutjobs may decide to take their children elsewhere but at least they will then become outcast from general society at large and tolerance for their ridiculous ideas will fade. At that point it may be possible to take some practical steps to eliminate them once and for all. I don't think it's going too far to suggest bringing back the death penalty for dealing with any persistant hardcore child abusers who refuse to renounce their faith, they will even enjoy the experience of becoming martyrs and meeting their God ( or not ) rather sooner than they expected.
Yes because of course the type of conniving time waster you're trying to filter out would never even consider ripping off stuff from the internet or other people to put in his portfolio. Sure you could then test him on aspects of what he says he's done but that's going to seem even more retarded to army of people here who seem unusually sensitive to testing of any kind.
If you have a specific job you need doing then it makes perfect sense to me to build a specific set of questions to guage whether a candidate would be able to do the job.
Personally I never mind doing tests, much easier and more fun than finding 18 examples of times when I delivered under pressure whilst coping with difficult co-workers and overcoming my key fault.
If candidates are too arrogant to submit their towering intellect and valuable time for a test in order to get a job they are presumably interested in then I think I'd really rather not employee them at all.
Or more worryingly, in British schools anyway, the teachers most likely won't be able to question any child who expresses creationist beliefs because to do so would not be 'multi cultural' enough.
If this guy is really asking for a open scientific discussion of creationism in the classroom then this would be a great opportunity to tackle all the children who are currently being religiously programmed by their parents and actually take them to task and destroy utterly every last vestige of religious thought with a giant science cannon weilded by the teacher.
A lot of teachers are too wishy washy and liberal to properly challenge religious nonsense in the classroom and a lot more are worried about being accused of racism or other such nonsense so in addition it needs to be made clear to teachers they not only have the right to crush religious expression in their classrooms they also have a duty to do so.
Seriously, if we really must be subjected to this crap surely to goodness there have at some point been some real genuinely amusing e-mails rather than this rather obvious trollish piss taking we're currently being shown. Honestly, anything rather than this, amusing anecdotes of the editors journey into work, his relationship with his stepmother or the black family who have moved in down the street anything would be better.
Please, please, please make this stop !
Is "beat out" some sort of horrible sexual reference or just another inane Americanism ?
Delicious moist cake ?
I think we all know where that is going to lead to.
It's possible but a hunter who is running off hide at every movement or sound around in him isn't going to be catching that much to eat and runs the risk of starving to death.
One need only look to places such as Easter Island to see how destructive un checked superstition can be to a society.
Yeah I really hate it when peoples understanding of the meaning of words differs from the definitions I've simply made up myself.
Interestingly I definie your nick mosb1000 as idiot, fancy that !
Another thing which can tip over are metaphors when they're taken as actual representations of real life. The water cycle is not so finely balanced as to be affected by a few extra grams of water either here or there.
A) How do you know it has a weight ? Things which don't exist don't have any weight so I find that highly unlikely
B) Has anyone, anywhere, ever measured the weight of the soul ? No, they haven't have they because it, obviously, does not exist !
Your other 'examples' are all total nonsense and were they happen to refer to something which may actually be real or may actually happen can easily be explained by 1 billion and 1 rational explanations rather than inventing a 'soul'.
Some futher points
1) There is no such thing as a soul.
2) People are not re-incarnated in the sense you are referring to.
3) Ghosts do not exist
4) Aliens do not abduct US peasant farmers and insert probes in their anus
You are free to hold whatever beliefs you like but where they are obviously based on absolute nonsense you ought to thank your fellow humans for pointing out the obvious stupidity of them. You would surely not let a man who believed that cars are all made out of jelly are soft and harmless go out for a walk on a motorway. Instead you brand him a screaming moronic fool and do everything you could to set him on the right track.
You know when they say ( in the UK ) that New York is just across the pond they don't actually mean it is really a pond. If it and all the other oceans really were just ponds then maybe the amount of water vapour we could produce would be significant.
Of course the Atlantic is really an absolutely enormous body of water and is only one of the many oceans on this planet, anything we can produce is totally insignificant in relation to the rest of the water in the system.
I smoke everytime I compete, I have to smoke every time I pass the gaming rig from a southerly direction anyway becuase obviously if I don't bad stuff will happen but anyway when I compete I need to get high.
I find under the influence of several bongs the games becomes hyperrreal, I actually morph through the monitor screen into the my head and there's all sorts of switches and buttons in there and it reals comfy and my powers become unlimited and God like I can see through walls and into other players heads and I know where the bullets will hail from so I can avoid them, duck, weave and throw the knock out punch, every time. I become the game and the game is me I exude raw POWWWERRRRR ! If the game is inturrepted I can become enraged as my power is forced to find an exit in the physical dimension, people can get hurt but they are not me and I am not the people, they are my little people, my slaves and I will destroy them as I see fit. Destroy !
I don't think the weeds had any negative affects at all, if other people can't be bothered to wait for me to finish a sentance that's their problem. Often they're doing it on purpose just to get at me, people are like that.
Yes, the best plan is for the staff to have a system, perhaps built by the staff, where the staff can verify the password but without the staff being aware of it. Staff should definitely ensure that staff cannot collude with staff to actually change the customers password on their own ! Customers aren't staff and it's just not right, whatever the staff get up to with staff, in the staff canteen or where ever else is strictly the business of the staff but when it comes to customers who aren't staff well then the staff should have ensured that rules were in place for the staff and being enforced by the staff so the staff couldn't get away with this behaviour with someone who isn't even staff.
I don't expect senior civil servants would ever get their hands dirty enough to be in a position where they have any data to lose but it is there job to ensure everyone else reporting to them understands and is complying with sensible data security procedures. If they aren't doing this then it is their fault as much as it's the fault of the contractor who actually lost the USB stick.
The use of ID cards might stop this sort of data loss but I don't believe for a a second it will do. First of all I think the company who has just lost this data is one of the ones involved in the ID card scheme and they obviously don't have data security very high on their agenda. Secondly the actual database may be more centralised but the data its self is going to be available to virtually every single government employee in the country along with any private company who fancies it so the chances of that reducing the amount of data leaked out don't look very good to me.