I've been told that there's a weird peek in all kinds of statistics in teh UK for people born between 1982 and 1985 (say). IQ, height, and shoe-size very notably.
I was at grammar school five years ago. Same thing.
I think you have to realise that the entrance exam doesn't garauntee that the people who pass will be inteligent people, it just makes it more likely. The cleverest person I knew at school failed her 11+ and joined the sicth form at age 16.
Now my girlfriend and one of my housemates are both teachers now... and they teach at comprehensive schools. That's the real problem in this country - comprehensive education results in the entire class being dragged down to the level of the least able member.
... we all know that truly elite tabletop roleplayuers wouldn't be caught dead playing D&D.
I mean, Nobilis is where it's at these days:p
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It's a weird thing, all the geeks I know who are noticeably fat spent a significant time in America. Is there something about the USA that causes its geeks to become overweight?
And we don't even have to do that. Not to the flag, not to the queen, not to one nation that has anything to do with God.
Hell, Tony Blair is the mosty religious PM we've had in ages, and he doesn't make a big deal out of it. Religion is basicly irrelevant in British politics, and whilst a fair few people put their religion down on the census form as CoE, not many actualy attend church, even at christmas and easter.
Amongst the young religious belief is even rarer - though when it does happen it tends to be serious, not half-hearted.
You are aware that Universities are also state-funded throughout the civilised world?
And what about people like me? My Father certainly couldn't have afforded to send me to a private school under any circumstances, he was unemployed throughout most of my childhood. What should I have done at age 11? Gone and worked in a mine? stayed at home with my unemployed father teaching me what he knows (luckily he's very well read, but still not up to the standard of an entire school full of teachers).
What happened in reality is that due to the free education system I was able to attend a very good selective school (that is selection based upon entrance exam aged 11), then a world class university (Imperial College, London, if anyone cares), and am now studdying for a PhD in mathematics - this would be pretty unlikely for someone as poor as me under your system.
If you're upper middle class and think your tax-burden is too high then I have no sympathy.
Actually, when you read the opinions of true weather experts they agree with me, and only think the current temperature rise is part of a cyclical process. Geez!
Some of them do, some of them don't. Global Warming is a very complicated issue. Definately things are getting warmer, this is know. Definately a natural cycle is contributing to it, this is known. However, what is not so sure is how fast the temperature is rising -- a lot of evidence sugests that it might be rising significantly faster than the natural process can account for.
One thing that is for sure is that human polution is not helping the enviroment any, and has other deletarious effects on human habitability as well. Global Warming is just one of several reasons why reducing carbon emmisions would be a good plan, but because it's easier to argue against than the others it tends to get jumped on and pushed into the limelight as if it was the be all and end all of enviromental issues.
And even 10 years down the road, don't tell me somebody will build an artificial pet that can sense grieve or other emotions in its owner... I know dogs do!
Why not? it's just a matter of watching your body-language and scent and pattern matching (afterall, that's what a real dog is doing...).
Now, I'm not saying that a modern artificial dog is the equal of a biological dog - but there is no reason in theory that one day we shouldn't be able to construct an artificial pet that is every bit as "alive" as any biological organism.
Yeeees, and that software is running on hardware...
Hardware firewall means a seperate device through which all packets must pass before entering the network, which acts as a firewall - how that's implemented internaly is pretty much irrelevent.
And the grandparent is very much correct - firewalls serve to prevent unfettered acces to open ports from outside, and unlike windows both Linux and MacOS do not open unnecessary ports by default.
Oh no, short-ranged RFID recievers could be used to follow people around! like... you know... cameras, and car license plates, and the friggin' human eyeball.
There are plenty of very real "civil rights" issues to take up, so why do the civil liberties groups waste so much of their time and effort crowing about some imagined concept of "privacy"?
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I've been told that there's a weird peek in all kinds of statistics in teh UK for people born between 1982 and 1985 (say). IQ, height, and shoe-size very notably.
I think you have to realise that the entrance exam doesn't garauntee that the people who pass will be inteligent people, it just makes it more likely. The cleverest person I knew at school failed her 11+ and joined the sicth form at age 16.
Now my girlfriend and one of my housemates are both teachers now ... and they teach at comprehensive schools. That's the real problem in this country - comprehensive education results in the entire class being dragged down to the level of the least able member.
Nope, Laudenum.
I mean, Nobilis is where it's at these days :p
It's a weird thing, all the geeks I know who are noticeably fat spent a significant time in America. Is there something about the USA that causes its geeks to become overweight?
Q. Do you feel that one-way systems often impede easy traffic flow?
Q. Do you think that the education of the designers is to blame?
Q. Should Inteligent Design be taught in schools?
Which part of civilised world wasn't clear? :)
Hell, Tony Blair is the mosty religious PM we've had in ages, and he doesn't make a big deal out of it. Religion is basicly irrelevant in British politics, and whilst a fair few people put their religion down on the census form as CoE, not many actualy attend church, even at christmas and easter.
Amongst the young religious belief is even rarer - though when it does happen it tends to be serious, not half-hearted.
And what about people like me? My Father certainly couldn't have afforded to send me to a private school under any circumstances, he was unemployed throughout most of my childhood. What should I have done at age 11? Gone and worked in a mine? stayed at home with my unemployed father teaching me what he knows (luckily he's very well read, but still not up to the standard of an entire school full of teachers).
What happened in reality is that due to the free education system I was able to attend a very good selective school (that is selection based upon entrance exam aged 11), then a world class university (Imperial College, London, if anyone cares), and am now studdying for a PhD in mathematics - this would be pretty unlikely for someone as poor as me under your system.
If you're upper middle class and think your tax-burden is too high then I have no sympathy.
Whilst I agree with you mainly, were you aware that it's possible to run X11 full screen under MacOS X with the window manager/desktop of your choice?
Some of them do, some of them don't. Global Warming is a very complicated issue. Definately things are getting warmer, this is know. Definately a natural cycle is contributing to it, this is known. However, what is not so sure is how fast the temperature is rising -- a lot of evidence sugests that it might be rising significantly faster than the natural process can account for.
One thing that is for sure is that human polution is not helping the enviroment any, and has other deletarious effects on human habitability as well. Global Warming is just one of several reasons why reducing carbon emmisions would be a good plan, but because it's easier to argue against than the others it tends to get jumped on and pushed into the limelight as if it was the be all and end all of enviromental issues.
Mac Pro, or Pro Mac.
Well, it's more like earth than the super-gas-giants we normaly find!
The purpose of Google is to be cool, and to be seen to be cool.
I think they're doing rather well at it :)
REDMOND, WA (Hydraulic Press) - Steve Ballmer, who possess the world's largest ego CUPERTINO, CA - Steve Jobs, who challenges that assertion, ...
I'm a research student in Number Theory - that's the most fun thing in the goddamned world.
Microsoft, that large Canadian company :)
I could turn a PowerMac into an expensive doorstop ...
Why not? it's just a matter of watching your body-language and scent and pattern matching (afterall, that's what a real dog is doing...).
Now, I'm not saying that a modern artificial dog is the equal of a biological dog - but there is no reason in theory that one day we shouldn't be able to construct an artificial pet that is every bit as "alive" as any biological organism.
So is a real dog, just the parts are squishier and the programme is more complex.
Vibrant? certainly. Emotionaly stable? not in my field (number theory).
Scientists less so - but I have never met a single mathematician (myself included) that wasn't slightly broken in the sanity department.
Shows what you know! Alcoholics Anonymous have been running the industry from behind the scenes for years!
Hardware firewall means a seperate device through which all packets must pass before entering the network, which acts as a firewall - how that's implemented internaly is pretty much irrelevent.
And the grandparent is very much correct - firewalls serve to prevent unfettered acces to open ports from outside, and unlike windows both Linux and MacOS do not open unnecessary ports by default.
Oh no, short-ranged RFID recievers could be used to follow people around! like ... you know ... cameras, and car license plates, and the friggin' human eyeball.
There are plenty of very real "civil rights" issues to take up, so why do the civil liberties groups waste so much of their time and effort crowing about some imagined concept of "privacy"?
... are absolutely sterile and surgical. :)