You are the most ignorant dickhead on./ today. Congratulations.
So if I look in historical documents dating from the 18th century and earlier, I will find no reference to Germany, Russia, the Austro-hungarian empire, Serbo-Croats, France !!! FFS, the British were at war with France before the USA was even discovered by Europeans. But you think it started in 1945. Don't you think that maybe the act of Austria and Hungary uniting to form an empire qualifies them both as being independent states before that ? Please tell me you don't work anywhere that needs logic.
Going by the so called Libyan bomber case, this means that the suspects were actually innocent does it ? The Lockerbie "bomber" was convicted solely on the statement of a shopkeeper in Malta who had to be "reminded" at least 3 times over several months before he could pick out the suspect who had apparently bought a generic shirt from his shop several months earlier, and the large amount of cocaine that was found at the crash site which was allegedly owned by the CIA and was part of a secret deal with known militants, had nothing at all to do with it (even though the people who the CIA were dealing with were known to have had backroom access to the flight before it left Germany). And so when they let the guy out because he's dying (and actually innocent) the world media makes a fuss because we don't want the truth coming out now, do we. The USA put pressure on the UK and Libya back then and now, to find that guy guilty because they didn't want their dirty little secrets coming out. Al-Megrahi was a fall guy, who's next and what's really going on ?
Cue the hissy fit from a bunch of undereducated yanks about how they have a RIGHT goddammit, to buy anything they want from anybody, and if those little yellow fuckers won't sell, well we'll just go over there and take it from them. But the free market is still our God. Not quite so free is it ?
I have T-mobile on a sim only deal, and the sim (with 50 minutes call time - any network) costs 6.50 per month. I added unlimited data for 7.50 per month (tethering allowed). I get full speed HSDPA access most places. If they merge with Orange, I wonder who'll be pulling the strings, because I'll be off if they mess with my data plan.
Actually the USA has around 6% of the world supply of Uranium, and Canada has around 8%. Russia has 10%, Kazakhstan has 15% and Australia has 23%. Also, the USA reserves are mostly (2/3 total reserve) too expensive to recover while hardly any of the Australian reserves are low grade and expensive to recover. http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf75.html However, the quoted site has some questionable theories regarding long term reserves, the most worrying being that they appear to believe that because there are reserves we don't know about yet, the future will always be rosy. I disagree. Also, our current reserves of Uranium are enough to power our current demand for around 80 years. Even if we were to double the reserves by new discoveries of ore, that would only give us less than 160 years supply at current rates of consumption. If there are to be many new plants across the world, then the reserves will not last that long.
One interesting point they make is that China has coal ash which contains a higher concentration of Uranium than the economic cut off point for many Uranium mines. One ash pile at one power station contains 1000 tonnes of Uranium.
However, it seems to be foolish to jump on to another bandwagon heading for a resource restricted ditch. We need to create power independently of finite earth bound resources. Yes we could likely get much more out of the planet, but only at the cost of digging up most of the surface and mining deeper and deeper. I don't want to live on a spoil heap, I would rather use less energy and make what we have last longer.
So this gives us solar as the only realistic candidate. It's clean, it's virtually limitless, and we don't have to destroy the planet to get at it. All we need are better ways of collecting it.
So you believe schools should only teach what is necessary for employment at the lowest level ? Don't you think there is room for education to actually, you know, educate - that is to say, provide as much information about the world and the way it works and plays as possible ?
This is where idiocracy hits home. I see ignorant people all the time, doing things because they don't know any different. Sure they could learn the correct way of doing things, but how do they know they need to learn ? Unless you teach a wide variety of concepts and skills, you are railroading developing minds into your narrow way of thinking. That's a bit unfair seeing as how you were not limited in such a way.
Some simple examples from your list:
Music. So your contention is that music should only be produced for profit ?
Art. You find something worthless, so everybody else is condemned to see life the way you do ? Quite what americana junk has to do with art I'm not sure. Art exercises the brain, allows new concepts to be discovered and developed. Do you think the whole movie industry developed because of technology or did art lead the way. (hint - moving pictures)
Wood shop/ Carpentry. Can you hang a door correctly ? Create a strong joint without using any metallic fixings ? Do you regularly slam doors ignorant of the fact you are significantly reducing the working lifespan of the materials used ?
WTF ? Steam whistle ? Maybe everybody should get a text message when class has finished - that'll be more efficient !
Political Science. So you would be happy for future generations to only do what they're told by the TV would you ? Don't you think people have a right to know and understand how and why legislation is enacted. Or to develop ideas of their own and have the knowledge to know how you take your ideas to the voting public ? Or is this something else best left to corporations and the "upper" classes ? Every heard of Majority rule ? It's the basis of a democracy.
I think you are expressing a desire to control everybody elses future because you have already fucked yours up, and seek to prevent anybody doing a better job. I'm off now to walk (obsolete) down the road (obsolete) to a training centre (obsolete) to learn (obsolete) about modern computer techniques (obsolete) in office skills (obsolete) using an obsolete computer running obsolete software on an obsolete operating system. Why do I bother ?
I don't know whether you were trying to be funny or not, but it didn't come across too well if you were, as the situation you outlined is sadly far too common, and many pupils use such arguments to avoid learning anything if at all possible. The only thing that seems to be obsolete these days is the notion of self improvement for its own sake. If it don't make a profit - don't bother doing it.
It's not just copyright swallowing our culture, which is why I find it ironic that this is being discussed by people on an American site, talking about an American company. It's about time the EU started actually standing up for the people it represents instead of wealthy American corporations.
I mean bitching at MS about IE and WMP is all well and good, but when the basic standard for proving you can operate a computer - the European Computer Driving Licence - is nothing more than a short training course in Word, Excel, and Powerpoint, it makes you wonder whose side they're on. At least call it Office skills or something. Why are we entrenching a foreign corporation on one hand and complaining about it on the other ? It qualifies you to operate a computer in the same way operating a washing machine qualifies you as an electrical engineer. You even get points for putting your name in the right place FFS.
(The tests in that zip are last years version - the new ones mean you have to use vista and Office 2007. They also dropped the Access section completely. Those files have not touched a Windows computer since I got them from the British Computer Societys web site.)
Some jokers are charging £500 for that shit (training and test). I'd get into it myself, except I would never ever feel clean again.
wake me up the next time a misspelling on/. appears in the Oxford English Dictionary the next day with an apology from the linguistic experts for getting their version wrong.
You're obsolete because you can't see anything except through the colored lenses of your own preconceptions.
HA HA HA ! Look who's talking ! It's not our preconceptions, it's our EXPERIENCE ! You think you know it all, you will live forever and nothing done before will ever come close to your achievements. I hope you remember all this in 20 years time. I doubt you will even recognise yourself.
As for the notion that giving a task to a group of 18 to 20 year olds will get the job done quicker and more efficiently than under *normal* rules, HA HA HA ! I can tell you *from experience* that is simply untrue. You may find in a group of 20 people that 1 tries hard and is semi-competent, 3 or 4 will try but are totally incompetent and the rest will slack off when no-one's looking. None of them will have any common sense whatsoever. Apart from the first 4 or 5, the rest will claim "it doesn't matter". They will then live out their lives feeling like they have somehow been cheated out of their god given right to be rich and famous, while passing on their erroneous attitude of entitlement to their neglected children.
I didn't used to be like this you know. I've always believed that anything I can do, you can do, and vice versa. But nothing comes easy, so I'm prepared to work to get there. I take it as a huge insult when people who I respect as equals take no interest in meeting me half way. Instead I'm called a fool, and everything I've every worked to uphold is denigrated and ignored as unnecessary. The younger generation have the attitude of someone who is born wealthy then pisses it all away on drugs, cars and plastic surgery, only to end up penniless as well as clueless. We built this world for you to continue building upon. We've tried to give you a decent foundation, tried to prevent you making stupid mistakes and repeating past work. But you seem hell bent on ripping it all up just because you think you know better.
You don't know better, and if you're not careful, you'll get everything you want. I hope I'm dead before then.
Here's a tip - just because you know their number doesn't make them your friend. You will be lucky to have 3 true friends in your whole life. Would you be prepared to house and feed all your facebook "friends" for a month if they suddenly turned up out of the blue ?
You see the MS trolls on here complaining about a lack of a stable ABI in linux holding development back, but apparently it's ok to do without a stable reference where language is concerned. Is it a coincidence that the period where most technological innovation occurred was also the period where written language was formalised and widely taught to willing pupils ? Notice I didn't say language stopped evolving, just that we all used the same definitions as far as possible. As the current generation disregard the hard work and learning that went into creating a stable environment for creativity, we get less and less creativity and more and more rehashes of old, solved problems. (I'm only referring to English here, as I don't think other languages are under attack as much)
As long as you can communicate intelligibly with other people, it doesn't matter what dialect, accent, medium, or slang is used. "Proper language" isn't necessary for some groups -- someone who is poor and grew up on the street has little need to read/write the Queen's english well.
If you can't communicate properly, you are limited to communicating only with those within your own group you can physically speak to. You don't have the skill to write a sensible document. And if you are poor and grew up on the street, you are going to stay there unless you can advance beyond grunts and slang.
It always amuses me how people who reject intelligent culture and identify with people of lesser ability are actually doing more to maintain the class divide than the ones who speak and write correctly. Ironic considering they claim "it doesn't matter".
Here is a real quote from a trucking website, see if you can spot the problem:
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hi guys im 19 and have done two yeasr in haulage one in the yard the orther van driving, i can rope and sheet no problem.i want to do my hgv at next year but havent got a clue were to start i was wondering if any can give me some pointersin the rite direction ie cost and stuff like that thanks
This guy is asking for help from people he appears to respect. How much effort went into that post ? He might claim to do better if he was writing to apply for a job, but I doubt it somehow. If you can do it, you always do it (barring typos), you don't just drop into illiteracy as if you were taking off your coat.
You might claim that because you can understand it, everything's rosy - not so. If you can't pay attention to even the most basic details in your off duty life, who is going to believe that you will suddenly start when you're on duty ? Not to mention that the employers start to think they can get away with dropping the wages because we're not worth the money.
On a larger scale I think it has to do with entropy. Recently we have had discussions on here regarding the apparent slowdown in new technology and development. From what I can see, back when education was seen as the thing to do to get on in life, people worked hard and fought to retain what they had achieved. These days, the generation who should be fighting for something are simply involved in destroying or at least disregarding what came before, just because they can't be bothered to take their hands out of their pockets. 'It doesn't matter' has become a mantra, one which I know you will live to see the error of.
Your ignorance truly is astounding. Wars do not spring out of a vacuum. They do not "decide to start bashing the others heads in" because they got out of bed the wrong side. Cultural imperialism is one of the most offensive invasions that a country can experience and yet it's the one the US does best. Still think you need to know nothing about the past ? Or is it nothing to do with you, so long as you can continue to go your own sweet way ignoring the growing anger and dissatisfaction around you. Then when the shit hits the fan, you can claim you never saw it coming - "it's not MY fault".
The hardware is not the point. The software is. I run a linux machine which I use both as a media and web server, and as my main desktop for web browsing, email, WP etc. A hard coded setup would not be useful there.
While I'm here, why does the summary [sic] i.e. It is a contraction of 2 words and perfectly acceptable. And in case they were worried about repetition with the following words " it is ", i.e. means "that is" as in "that is to say" used with a pause in normal speech. You have to read the preceding sentence, not take terms in isolation.
Ubuntu's first release was in 2004. But fedora Core 1 had it in 2003, RH8 and 9 had it, and SuSe had yast in the 90s. Synaptics changelog goes back to 2001.
Utter shite. No amount of money would have kept the manufacturers in the business of maintaining the airframes. They have too much else to do. The airlines didn't shut it down, the manufacturers did. Without a place to go for regular maintenance, you don't keep your airworthiness certificate. This means you don't fly. And the airlines did indeed spend a lot of money to try and mitigate the mechanical circumstances of the Paris crash, which wasn't even their fault. Crap on the runway is crap on the runway, no matter who or what runs over it. If that incident had not happened, I'm willing to bet Concorde would still be flying, even in the current climate. But Airbus is the new darling, so they've distanced themselves from Concorde and concentrated on their own designs. With recent advances in engine design and composite technology, a new supersonic plane would not consume so much fuel and would doubtless get longer range, given it's only a matter of initial design choice.
It fucking annoys me - one accident (not even self inflicted) in 30 years and people turn round saying "I told you so".
It is a feature within Flash itself. Because they fucked up an earlier version, my perfectly valid flash movies show a warning to upgrade to version 10, even though I'm using version 10. I certainly didn't put anything in the script or on my website that would check for version and give warnings, so who did ? I'm not saying Adobe makes it check for updates, I'm saying Adobe provided the ability in actionscript or by some other means, for the developer to check the version from within flash.
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Well there were 20,000 clients, but half of them are down for some reason ...
No it isn't.
So if I look in historical documents dating from the 18th century and earlier, I will find no reference to Germany, Russia, the Austro-hungarian empire, Serbo-Croats, France !!! FFS, the British were at war with France before the USA was even discovered by Europeans. But you think it started in 1945. Don't you think that maybe the act of Austria and Hungary uniting to form an empire qualifies them both as being independent states before that ? Please tell me you don't work anywhere that needs logic.
Going by the so called Libyan bomber case, this means that the suspects were actually innocent does it ? The Lockerbie "bomber" was convicted solely on the statement of a shopkeeper in Malta who had to be "reminded" at least 3 times over several months before he could pick out the suspect who had apparently bought a generic shirt from his shop several months earlier, and the large amount of cocaine that was found at the crash site which was allegedly owned by the CIA and was part of a secret deal with known militants, had nothing at all to do with it (even though the people who the CIA were dealing with were known to have had backroom access to the flight before it left Germany). And so when they let the guy out because he's dying (and actually innocent) the world media makes a fuss because we don't want the truth coming out now, do we. The USA put pressure on the UK and Libya back then and now, to find that guy guilty because they didn't want their dirty little secrets coming out. Al-Megrahi was a fall guy, who's next and what's really going on ?
That would be Gibs, short for giblets.
Cue the hissy fit from a bunch of undereducated yanks about how they have a RIGHT goddammit, to buy anything they want from anybody, and if those little yellow fuckers won't sell, well we'll just go over there and take it from them. But the free market is still our God. Not quite so free is it ?
I have T-mobile on a sim only deal, and the sim (with 50 minutes call time - any network) costs 6.50 per month. I added unlimited data for 7.50 per month (tethering allowed). I get full speed HSDPA access most places. If they merge with Orange, I wonder who'll be pulling the strings, because I'll be off if they mess with my data plan.
You read wrong then.
Actually the USA has around 6% of the world supply of Uranium, and Canada has around 8%. Russia has 10%, Kazakhstan has 15% and Australia has 23%. Also, the USA reserves are mostly (2/3 total reserve) too expensive to recover while hardly any of the Australian reserves are low grade and expensive to recover.
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf75.html
However, the quoted site has some questionable theories regarding long term reserves, the most worrying being that they appear to believe that because there are reserves we don't know about yet, the future will always be rosy. I disagree. Also, our current reserves of Uranium are enough to power our current demand for around 80 years. Even if we were to double the reserves by new discoveries of ore, that would only give us less than 160 years supply at current rates of consumption. If there are to be many new plants across the world, then the reserves will not last that long.
One interesting point they make is that China has coal ash which contains a higher concentration of Uranium than the economic cut off point for many Uranium mines. One ash pile at one power station contains 1000 tonnes of Uranium.
However, it seems to be foolish to jump on to another bandwagon heading for a resource restricted ditch. We need to create power independently of finite earth bound resources. Yes we could likely get much more out of the planet, but only at the cost of digging up most of the surface and mining deeper and deeper. I don't want to live on a spoil heap, I would rather use less energy and make what we have last longer.
So this gives us solar as the only realistic candidate. It's clean, it's virtually limitless, and we don't have to destroy the planet to get at it. All we need are better ways of collecting it.
This is where idiocracy hits home. I see ignorant people all the time, doing things because they don't know any different. Sure they could learn the correct way of doing things, but how do they know they need to learn ? Unless you teach a wide variety of concepts and skills, you are railroading developing minds into your narrow way of thinking. That's a bit unfair seeing as how you were not limited in such a way.
Some simple examples from your list :
I think you are expressing a desire to control everybody elses future because you have already fucked yours up, and seek to prevent anybody doing a better job.
I'm off now to walk (obsolete) down the road (obsolete) to a training centre (obsolete) to learn (obsolete) about modern computer techniques (obsolete) in office skills (obsolete) using an obsolete computer running obsolete software on an obsolete operating system. Why do I bother ?
I don't know whether you were trying to be funny or not, but it didn't come across too well if you were, as the situation you outlined is sadly far too common, and many pupils use such arguments to avoid learning anything if at all possible. The only thing that seems to be obsolete these days is the notion of self improvement for its own sake. If it don't make a profit - don't bother doing it.
I mean bitching at MS about IE and WMP is all well and good, but when the basic standard for proving you can operate a computer - the European Computer Driving Licence - is nothing more than a short training course in Word, Excel, and Powerpoint, it makes you wonder whose side they're on. At least call it Office skills or something. Why are we entrenching a foreign corporation on one hand and complaining about it on the other ? It qualifies you to operate a computer in the same way operating a washing machine qualifies you as an electrical engineer. You even get points for putting your name in the right place FFS.
(The tests in that zip are last years version - the new ones mean you have to use vista and Office 2007. They also dropped the Access section completely. Those files have not touched a Windows computer since I got them from the British Computer Societys web site.)
Some jokers are charging £500 for that shit (training and test). I'd get into it myself, except I would never ever feel clean again.
wake me up the next time a misspelling on
How much did you pay for that UID ?
On a more serious note - a word document linked in the summary ? Jesus fucking H Christ.
Texting is to writing as grunting is to speaking, as a mud hut is to the Taipei tower.
HA HA HA ! Look who's talking ! It's not our preconceptions, it's our EXPERIENCE ! You think you know it all, you will live forever and nothing done before will ever come close to your achievements. I hope you remember all this in 20 years time. I doubt you will even recognise yourself.
As for the notion that giving a task to a group of 18 to 20 year olds will get the job done quicker and more efficiently than under *normal* rules, HA HA HA ! I can tell you *from experience* that is simply untrue. You may find in a group of 20 people that 1 tries hard and is semi-competent, 3 or 4 will try but are totally incompetent and the rest will slack off when no-one's looking. None of them will have any common sense whatsoever. Apart from the first 4 or 5, the rest will claim "it doesn't matter". They will then live out their lives feeling like they have somehow been cheated out of their god given right to be rich and famous, while passing on their erroneous attitude of entitlement to their neglected children.
I didn't used to be like this you know. I've always believed that anything I can do, you can do, and vice versa. But nothing comes easy, so I'm prepared to work to get there. I take it as a huge insult when people who I respect as equals take no interest in meeting me half way. Instead I'm called a fool, and everything I've every worked to uphold is denigrated and ignored as unnecessary. The younger generation have the attitude of someone who is born wealthy then pisses it all away on drugs, cars and plastic surgery, only to end up penniless as well as clueless. We built this world for you to continue building upon. We've tried to give you a decent foundation, tried to prevent you making stupid mistakes and repeating past work. But you seem hell bent on ripping it all up just because you think you know better.
You don't know better, and if you're not careful, you'll get everything you want. I hope I'm dead before then.
Here's a tip - just because you know their number doesn't make them your friend. You will be lucky to have 3 true friends in your whole life. Would you be prepared to house and feed all your facebook "friends" for a month if they suddenly turned up out of the blue ?
You see the MS trolls on here complaining about a lack of a stable ABI in linux holding development back, but apparently it's ok to do without a stable reference where language is concerned. Is it a coincidence that the period where most technological innovation occurred was also the period where written language was formalised and widely taught to willing pupils ? Notice I didn't say language stopped evolving, just that we all used the same definitions as far as possible. As the current generation disregard the hard work and learning that went into creating a stable environment for creativity, we get less and less creativity and more and more rehashes of old, solved problems. (I'm only referring to English here, as I don't think other languages are under attack as much)
If you can't communicate properly, you are limited to communicating only with those within your own group you can physically speak to. You don't have the skill to write a sensible document. And if you are poor and grew up on the street, you are going to stay there unless you can advance beyond grunts and slang.
It always amuses me how people who reject intelligent culture and identify with people of lesser ability are actually doing more to maintain the class divide than the ones who speak and write correctly. Ironic considering they claim "it doesn't matter".
Here is a real quote from a trucking website, see if you can spot the problem :
This guy is asking for help from people he appears to respect. How much effort went into that post ? He might claim to do better if he was writing to apply for a job, but I doubt it somehow. If you can do it, you always do it (barring typos), you don't just drop into illiteracy as if you were taking off your coat.
You might claim that because you can understand it, everything's rosy - not so. If you can't pay attention to even the most basic details in your off duty life, who is going to believe that you will suddenly start when you're on duty ? Not to mention that the employers start to think they can get away with dropping the wages because we're not worth the money.
On a larger scale I think it has to do with entropy. Recently we have had discussions on here regarding the apparent slowdown in new technology and development. From what I can see, back when education was seen as the thing to do to get on in life, people worked hard and fought to retain what they had achieved. These days, the generation who should be fighting for something are simply involved in destroying or at least disregarding what came before, just because they can't be bothered to take their hands out of their pockets. 'It doesn't matter' has become a mantra, one which I know you will live to see the error of.
Your ignorance truly is astounding. Wars do not spring out of a vacuum. They do not "decide to start bashing the others heads in" because they got out of bed the wrong side. Cultural imperialism is one of the most offensive invasions that a country can experience and yet it's the one the US does best. Still think you need to know nothing about the past ? Or is it nothing to do with you, so long as you can continue to go your own sweet way ignoring the growing anger and dissatisfaction around you. Then when the shit hits the fan, you can claim you never saw it coming - "it's not MY fault".
The hardware is not the point. The software is. I run a linux machine which I use both as a media and web server, and as my main desktop for web browsing, email, WP etc. A hard coded setup would not be useful there.
While I'm here, why does the summary [sic] i.e. It is a contraction of 2 words and perfectly acceptable. And in case they were worried about repetition with the following words " it is ", i.e. means "that is" as in "that is to say" used with a pause in normal speech. You have to read the preceding sentence, not take terms in isolation.
Ubuntu's first release was in 2004. But fedora Core 1 had it in 2003, RH8 and 9 had it, and SuSe had yast in the 90s. Synaptics changelog goes back to 2001.
Fuck off !
We're the Liberation Front of Earth !
Utter shite. No amount of money would have kept the manufacturers in the business of maintaining the airframes. They have too much else to do. The airlines didn't shut it down, the manufacturers did. Without a place to go for regular maintenance, you don't keep your airworthiness certificate. This means you don't fly. And the airlines did indeed spend a lot of money to try and mitigate the mechanical circumstances of the Paris crash, which wasn't even their fault. Crap on the runway is crap on the runway, no matter who or what runs over it. If that incident had not happened, I'm willing to bet Concorde would still be flying, even in the current climate.
But Airbus is the new darling, so they've distanced themselves from Concorde and concentrated on their own designs. With recent advances in engine design and composite technology, a new supersonic plane would not consume so much fuel and would doubtless get longer range, given it's only a matter of initial design choice.
It fucking annoys me - one accident (not even self inflicted) in 30 years and people turn round saying "I told you so".
It is a feature within Flash itself. Because they fucked up an earlier version, my perfectly valid flash movies show a warning to upgrade to version 10, even though I'm using version 10. I certainly didn't put anything in the script or on my website that would check for version and give warnings, so who did ? I'm not saying Adobe makes it check for updates, I'm saying Adobe provided the ability in actionscript or by some other means, for the developer to check the version from within flash.
Hear, hear.