Looking at the web it seems to be hotly (or coldly?) contested, with Carvel, Dairy Queen and Lyons (the British company Maggie worked for) all claiming the invention.
According to this Margaret Thatcher worked on a team that managed to put more air in icecream, giving a softer taste and allowing the production of soft icecream.
I know that it is impossible to tell what will happen, but it is possible that someone will find the geekey guy has qualities that they would not have first seen, and grow to love them.
It is equally possible that the guy on the football team just saw an opportunity to marry into a rich family, and turns out to be a jerk.
I used to think the way that you did, until my older daughter ended up with a very attractive but lazy and often unemployed guy, who is always sending her to ask for money from us. I am now telling my younger daughter that it is better to look for someone of a similar social class. I am not "drumming" it into her and whether it will have any affect time will tell.
I can see your point. The problem was where to draw the line. If a girl has it drummed into her that she needs to marry someone in the same social class, with prospects is that wrong? What if she ends up marrying some geeky guy with a degree rather than the bloke on the football team she really fancied? Would you say that's wrong?
Would you still say its wrong when twenty years later the geeky guy is doing well in an IT department and the bloke from the football team is sweeping the floor in a supermarket?
Much as I hate Margret Thatcher nobody could say that she was not an able politician. (I hesitate to use the word good). Thatcher had a BSc degree in chemistry. Her one redeeming feature was that she did take global warming seriously and could see through the petrochemical industries FUD.
I was thinking exactly the same thing. Just because someone has the ability to appeal to the majority of dumb voters does not mean the person is a good administrator or a good politician.
And the argument that we can build the willingness to serve right into their brains doesn't count either.
Why not? It does for consenting adult humans. Nobody would say that anybody would say that a relationship was wrong because somebody's upbringing pre-disposed them to some particular type of partner.
I would have been flabbergasted, except for the fact that its a teacher saying that. There are very few teachers who seem to know where their knowledge area stops, or who don't express opinion as fact.
No software is free and spreading that misconception is harmful.
I can imagine a generation coming out of school believing that "free software" is somehow illegal or immoral. Nicely taught to pay the "computer tax" to Microsoft, which is the only solution.
I can't do with these new fangled inventions
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I can't do with these new fangled inventions. They don't help. They just slow you down. In my day with a few "vi" keystrokes I could out edit any wysywyg app.
Java applets may be dead and buried on the internet but in many corporate environments they are alive and well. The "Oracle Forms Runtime" is a good example.
Electricity supplies could be more affordable for everyone, if TV Broadcasters paid their fair share of the Generator's cost," wrote Clitland in the report. "It is ironic that Fox, who'se viewers are the largest user of generating capacity pays the least relatively to fund the Power company's cost; it is even more ironic that the company poised to profit more than any other from more HDTV deployment, expects the American taxpayer to pick up its skyrocketing electricity tab."'
There might also be a few that want to see fewer elderly citizens forced to live in homeless shelters, and a few more who support it because most people who are thinking clearly do too.
Luddite. For £140 you could get a stapler like this. Then you need the maintenance contract, secure storage, batteries and so on but you will be the man for stapling.
If you don't have a degree then you really need to get trained and experience within a company. A move to another company will put you back at square one.
The point of having a good lawyer is to ensure that you never need his services.
But I thought the only good lawyer was a dead one.
No its worse than that
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No its worse than that. They are using "evolved" to mean changed. Its like saying that spring evolves into summer, or a newspaper of paper mache.
It won't be long before the "Intelligent Design" crew start bringing up evolving rocks to show that "evolutionists don't know what they are talking about".
A friend of mine did this about 10 years ago. The original company accused them of theft of sourcecode (which they hadn't done) and made criminal charges as well as suing them. Fortunately one of the new company's founders was a Lay Magistrate. He got the court fatstracked to court and swore under oath that they did not have any source code, which was enough for another judge to throw the case out!
They also brought a civil case for stealing intellectual property, but most of what they included was standard (It was Travel Agent's software), so they put together a brochure of various other solutions and shown that there was nothing that their "old" company had uniquely developed.
The old company then made a big mistake. They wrote to all their clients telling them not to deal with the company my friend and colleagues had set up because their software was "no good" and "ripped off", and that they would not support anyone who even looked at the software. They had 50 enquiries that week, and went from having three large customers (which covered costs and paid a quarter of a years salaries) to 20 in six months (which meant that they were pretty well off)!
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Anymore anyway. The name of the largest of the Russian successors to the KGB is the FSB, est. 1991. AKA the Federal Smiley Bureau ; ).
I always knew they were Fu***ng Stupid B***ards.
Looking at the web it seems to be hotly (or coldly?) contested, with Carvel, Dairy Queen and Lyons (the British company Maggie worked for) all claiming the invention.
I know that it is impossible to tell what will happen, but it is possible that someone will find the geekey guy has qualities that they would not have first seen, and grow to love them.
It is equally possible that the guy on the football team just saw an opportunity to marry into a rich family, and turns out to be a jerk.
I used to think the way that you did, until my older daughter ended up with a very attractive but lazy and often unemployed guy, who is always sending her to ask for money from us. I am now telling my younger daughter that it is better to look for someone of a similar social class. I am not "drumming" it into her and whether it will have any affect time will tell.
I can see your point. The problem was where to draw the line. If a girl has it drummed into her that she needs to marry someone in the same social class, with prospects is that wrong? What if she ends up marrying some geeky guy with a degree rather than the bloke on the football team she really fancied? Would you say that's wrong?
Would you still say its wrong when twenty years later the geeky guy is doing well in an IT department and the bloke from the football team is sweeping the floor in a supermarket?
Much as I hate Margret Thatcher nobody could say that she was not an able politician. (I hesitate to use the word good). Thatcher had a BSc degree in chemistry. Her one redeeming feature was that she did take global warming seriously and could see through the petrochemical industries FUD.
I was thinking exactly the same thing. Just because someone has the ability to appeal to the majority of dumb voters does not mean the person is a good administrator or a good politician.
And the argument that we can build the willingness to serve right into their brains doesn't count either.
Why not? It does for consenting adult humans. Nobody would say that anybody would say that a relationship was wrong because somebody's upbringing pre-disposed them to some particular type of partner.
What if we are not real, but running in a meta-Microsoft simulation?
I would have been flabbergasted, except for the fact that its a teacher saying that. There are very few teachers who seem to know where their knowledge area stops, or who don't express opinion as fact.
No software is free and spreading that misconception is harmful.
I can imagine a generation coming out of school believing that "free software" is somehow illegal or immoral. Nicely taught to pay the "computer tax" to Microsoft, which is the only solution.
(what's happening. How do I get out of this)
Java applets may be dead and buried on the internet but in many corporate environments they are alive and well. The "Oracle Forms Runtime" is a good example.
I wouldn't know whether to mod you insightful, funny or off topic. You are all three!
They were also asked if they'd be censoring Amazon as well. They said they'd have to get back on that one.
Don't forget ebay - anyone trying to sell the album.
I am surprised that none of them have the most likely scenario. Two nuclear powers have a go at eachother destroying everything.
Electricity supplies could be more affordable for everyone, if TV Broadcasters paid their fair share of the Generator's cost," wrote Clitland in the report. "It is ironic that Fox, who'se viewers are the largest user of generating capacity pays the least relatively to fund the Power company's cost; it is even more ironic that the company poised to profit more than any other from more HDTV deployment, expects the American taxpayer to pick up its skyrocketing electricity tab."'
There might also be a few that want to see fewer elderly citizens forced to live in homeless shelters, and a few more who support it because most people who are thinking clearly do too.
But then they wouldn't be conservatives.
Luddite. For £140 you could get a stapler like this. Then you need the maintenance contract, secure storage, batteries and so on but you will be the man for stapling.
I'd blame Secret Squirrel
If you don't have a degree then you really need to get trained and experience within a company. A move to another company will put you back at square one.
I've always wondered how Dawkins Himself would react if you got the front row in one of his lectures to wear "Dawkins is God" T shirts.
He'd strike you dead with a lightning bolt.
The point of having a good lawyer is to ensure that you never need his services.
But I thought the only good lawyer was a dead one.
No its worse than that. They are using "evolved" to mean changed. Its like saying that spring evolves into summer, or a newspaper of paper mache.
It won't be long before the "Intelligent Design" crew start bringing up evolving rocks to show that "evolutionists don't know what they are talking about".
A friend of mine did this about 10 years ago. The original company accused them of theft of sourcecode (which they hadn't done) and made criminal charges as well as suing them. Fortunately one of the new company's founders was a Lay Magistrate. He got the court fatstracked to court and swore under oath that they did not have any source code, which was enough for another judge to throw the case out!
They also brought a civil case for stealing intellectual property, but most of what they included was standard (It was Travel Agent's software), so they put together a brochure of various other solutions and shown that there was nothing that their "old" company had uniquely developed.
The old company then made a big mistake. They wrote to all their clients telling them not to deal with the company my friend and colleagues had set up because their software was "no good" and "ripped off", and that they would not support anyone who even looked at the software. They had 50 enquiries that week, and went from having three large customers (which covered costs and paid a quarter of a years salaries) to 20 in six months (which meant that they were pretty well off)!