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George wrote: It's amazing what money can do, isn't it? It must cost a fortune to buy a qualification from prestigous places like that though. Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
You are the intrepid one, always willing to leap into the fray! A serious character flaw, I might add, but entertaining. Said by Roger Wright about me.
Colin^Davies wrote: It must cost a fortune to buy a qualification from prestigous places like that though. Back when I was applying to college (I looked at a few, applied to only one), those types of schools cost ~$30,000 per year in tuition. Personally, I think anyone willing to pay that amount of money to basically get on a reading list should be lined up and shot. My personal favorite is when these kiddies march around bitching about rich people :laugh: I know a few who went to some of the bigger name schools, and they were in utter dismay as to how easy it is to make an A in most classes. Apparently, it's getting in that's hard - not graduating. There was a pretty big fuss recently (in the US) about some of the more prominent schools inflating their grades to get the average GPA way up. Don't get me wrong, there's alot of incredibly smart people working very hard at these schools, but there seems to be an increasing amount of those schools that do nothing more than live off of their name itself. -- Russell Morris "Have you gone mad Frink? Put down that science pole!"
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I was listening to Jon Ashcroft this morning and the guy makes me want to scream. He's one of the most influential men in the western world. He has legions of people working for him, advising him, writing his speeches - but what do we get? Grammar that my 4 year old nephew would be proud of. He talks of staff working in DC "temporaneously", and that problems will be "solutioned". ARGHH! Stop it before my brain explodes :mad: [Edit: Seem like I'm not the only one. And don't even get me started about the word incentivate.] cheers, Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote: temporaneously Chris Maunder wrote: solutioned I had to read those 2 words aloud a couple of time to try to understand them !?!?!?! funny! Max.
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At least he has a better vocabulary than Bush. I still can't believe George W. graduated from both Yale and Harvard.
Despite my other opinions of Dubya, I think people are misled by the way he speaks so he isn't quite as dumb as he sometimes appears (this still leaves room however). The opposite is true of slick politicians. Elaine (fluffy tigress emoticon) Would you like to meet my teddy bear ?
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Colin^Davies wrote: It must cost a fortune to buy a qualification from prestigous places like that though. I think it's more complicated than that. It's not like you come, throw the money on the table and say "Here is my money, gimme a diploma". It's the fact of "having" the fortune that makes a difference already, a little bit like in that old movie (can't remember the name right now :-O) where the poor guy from the street gets a check with huge amount of money. Even thought he doesn't have a penny apart from that piece of paper everybody is serving him without actually need to pay for service...
I C++, therefore I am...
It was about a guy with a £1,000,000 note ($1.5 million bill to US readers) Elaine (financially bereft fluffy tigress) Would you like to meet my teddy bear ?
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Colin^Davies wrote: It must cost a fortune to buy a qualification from prestigous places like that though. Back when I was applying to college (I looked at a few, applied to only one), those types of schools cost ~$30,000 per year in tuition. Personally, I think anyone willing to pay that amount of money to basically get on a reading list should be lined up and shot. My personal favorite is when these kiddies march around bitching about rich people :laugh: I know a few who went to some of the bigger name schools, and they were in utter dismay as to how easy it is to make an A in most classes. Apparently, it's getting in that's hard - not graduating. There was a pretty big fuss recently (in the US) about some of the more prominent schools inflating their grades to get the average GPA way up. Don't get me wrong, there's alot of incredibly smart people working very hard at these schools, but there seems to be an increasing amount of those schools that do nothing more than live off of their name itself. -- Russell Morris "Have you gone mad Frink? Put down that science pole!"
Russel, rather than offer an opinion from the outside I find it much better to listen to someone such as yourself who has direct information. It is also saddening though :( I'm sure that kind of things happen everywhere. Elaine (fluffy tigress emoticon) Would you like to meet my teddy bear ?
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I don't particularly like Ashcroft. However, I absolutely love Donald Rumsfeld, our Secretary of Defense. They guy is a genius and he just tells it like it is. The man is awesome. David Stone But Clinton wasn't a predictable, boring, aging, lying, eloquent, maintainer-of-the-status-quo. He was a predictable, boring-but-trying-to-look-hip, aging-and-fat-but-seemingly-oblivious-to-it, lying-but-in-sadly-blatant-ways, not-eloquent-but-trying-to-make-up-for-it-by-talking-even-more, bringer-in-of-scary-and-potentially-dangerous-new-policies. And there was also Al Gore. It just wasn't *right*. Shog9
What, like he said that the US troops wouldn't take prisoners. :wtf: Great, go into a country that is in pieces, and if you suspect anyone is on the other side shot them. I remember seeing that on tv and thinking "Well, I bet he has never been in combat or watched anyone die, just gets someone to do it for him". Give me someone like Colin Powell who knows what the sharp end is like. Elaine (fluffy tigress emoticon) Would you like to meet my teddy bear ?
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I was listening to Jon Ashcroft this morning and the guy makes me want to scream. He's one of the most influential men in the western world. He has legions of people working for him, advising him, writing his speeches - but what do we get? Grammar that my 4 year old nephew would be proud of. He talks of staff working in DC "temporaneously", and that problems will be "solutioned". ARGHH! Stop it before my brain explodes :mad: [Edit: Seem like I'm not the only one. And don't even get me started about the word incentivate.] cheers, Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote: Grammar that my 4 year old nephew would be proud of. I don't think even your 4-year nephew would be proud of that grammar. I'm so tempted to throw in a VB Programmer joke, but my doctor told me to stop.
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Michael Dunn wrote: we should have a little "Where in the World is Chris Maunder?" map on the home page Maybe something along the lines of "Where's Waldo?" - we could search for the guy with the CP shirt and a snowboard under his arm:-)
Roger Wright wrote: Maybe something along the lines of "Where's Waldo?" :laugh::laugh::laugh: Great, we now have two games in the Maunder Adventure series. If you don't know the first game in the series was Whack a Maunder which involved watching ChrisM appear and disapear on Windows Messenger. First one to whack him as he came back online won three years in Elbonia with Pointy Haired Boss. :rolleyes:
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Roger Wright wrote: Maybe something along the lines of "Where's Waldo?" :laugh::laugh::laugh: Great, we now have two games in the Maunder Adventure series. If you don't know the first game in the series was Whack a Maunder which involved watching ChrisM appear and disapear on Windows Messenger. First one to whack him as he came back online won three years in Elbonia with Pointy Haired Boss. :rolleyes:
Paul Watson
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Cape Town, South AfricaSounds like fun! Where can I get a copy of "Whack a Maunder?" :-D
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I was listening to Jon Ashcroft this morning and the guy makes me want to scream. He's one of the most influential men in the western world. He has legions of people working for him, advising him, writing his speeches - but what do we get? Grammar that my 4 year old nephew would be proud of. He talks of staff working in DC "temporaneously", and that problems will be "solutioned". ARGHH! Stop it before my brain explodes :mad: [Edit: Seem like I'm not the only one. And don't even get me started about the word incentivate.] cheers, Chris Maunder
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What, like he said that the US troops wouldn't take prisoners. :wtf: Great, go into a country that is in pieces, and if you suspect anyone is on the other side shot them. I remember seeing that on tv and thinking "Well, I bet he has never been in combat or watched anyone die, just gets someone to do it for him". Give me someone like Colin Powell who knows what the sharp end is like. Elaine (fluffy tigress emoticon) Would you like to meet my teddy bear ?
Trollslayer wrote: Well, I bet he has never been in combat or watched anyone die, just gets someone to do it for him" Duh! He's not a front-line type of guy. I sure wouldn't want him on my squad. He's old, and he wears glasses, and he probably isn't fit for duty. But he's a strategist. I certainly would want him running my war. The man is a genius. Trollslayer wrote: US troops wouldn't take prisoners Ummm, as I recall correctly, we've been taking prisoners. In fact, some were complaining about being mistreated. However, most of them were okay with how we were treating them. I mean, prison isn't a 5 star hotel, but I don't think they deserve to be put up in the Hilton. :~ Trollslayer wrote: Give me someone like Colin Powell who knows what the sharp end is like. Colin Powell is cool too. I just like Rumsfeld better. Rumsfeld is an honest, blunt, straight to the point, brilliant guy. If he says that we're going to kill people, I'm all for it. Look at what they did to us! I don't think the world would be a worse place if a few terrorists were capped. David Stone But Clinton wasn't a predictable, boring, aging, lying, eloquent, maintainer-of-the-status-quo. He was a predictable, boring-but-trying-to-look-hip, aging-and-fat-but-seemingly-oblivious-to-it, lying-but-in-sadly-blatant-ways, not-eloquent-but-trying-to-make-up-for-it-by-talking-even-more, bringer-in-of-scary-and-potentially-dangerous-new-policies. And there was also Al Gore. It just wasn't *right*. Shog9
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Trollslayer wrote: Well, I bet he has never been in combat or watched anyone die, just gets someone to do it for him" Duh! He's not a front-line type of guy. I sure wouldn't want him on my squad. He's old, and he wears glasses, and he probably isn't fit for duty. But he's a strategist. I certainly would want him running my war. The man is a genius. Trollslayer wrote: US troops wouldn't take prisoners Ummm, as I recall correctly, we've been taking prisoners. In fact, some were complaining about being mistreated. However, most of them were okay with how we were treating them. I mean, prison isn't a 5 star hotel, but I don't think they deserve to be put up in the Hilton. :~ Trollslayer wrote: Give me someone like Colin Powell who knows what the sharp end is like. Colin Powell is cool too. I just like Rumsfeld better. Rumsfeld is an honest, blunt, straight to the point, brilliant guy. If he says that we're going to kill people, I'm all for it. Look at what they did to us! I don't think the world would be a worse place if a few terrorists were capped. David Stone But Clinton wasn't a predictable, boring, aging, lying, eloquent, maintainer-of-the-status-quo. He was a predictable, boring-but-trying-to-look-hip, aging-and-fat-but-seemingly-oblivious-to-it, lying-but-in-sadly-blatant-ways, not-eloquent-but-trying-to-make-up-for-it-by-talking-even-more, bringer-in-of-scary-and-potentially-dangerous-new-policies. And there was also Al Gore. It just wasn't *right*. Shog9
David Stone wrote: I don't think the world would be a worse place if a few terrorists were capped. i don't either. but, killing the existing stock won't prevent a new batch from popping up. terrorists are like mushrooms: you can knock them all down tomorrow, but they'll be back in the morning. in order to prevent mushrooms, you have to change the environment, the root causes: get rid of the shade, the moisture and the things they live on. likewise, i think that killing Al Q' isn't going to do any good. any survivors will just regroup, somewhere else with new recruits, maybe under a different name. there's no shortage of people willing to die for what they believe in. the trick, IMO, is to get them to believe in something that doesn't involve killing us. -c
Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."
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David Stone wrote: I don't think the world would be a worse place if a few terrorists were capped. i don't either. but, killing the existing stock won't prevent a new batch from popping up. terrorists are like mushrooms: you can knock them all down tomorrow, but they'll be back in the morning. in order to prevent mushrooms, you have to change the environment, the root causes: get rid of the shade, the moisture and the things they live on. likewise, i think that killing Al Q' isn't going to do any good. any survivors will just regroup, somewhere else with new recruits, maybe under a different name. there's no shortage of people willing to die for what they believe in. the trick, IMO, is to get them to believe in something that doesn't involve killing us. -c
Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."
Chris Losinger wrote: the trick, IMO, is to get them to believe in something that doesn't involve killing us. Good luck...but you are right. I agree totally.:) David Stone But Clinton wasn't a predictable, boring, aging, lying, eloquent, maintainer-of-the-status-quo. He was a predictable, boring-but-trying-to-look-hip, aging-and-fat-but-seemingly-oblivious-to-it, lying-but-in-sadly-blatant-ways, not-eloquent-but-trying-to-make-up-for-it-by-talking-even-more, bringer-in-of-scary-and-potentially-dangerous-new-policies. And there was also Al Gore. It just wasn't *right*. Shog9
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Roger Wright wrote: Maybe something along the lines of "Where's Waldo?" :laugh::laugh::laugh: Great, we now have two games in the Maunder Adventure series. If you don't know the first game in the series was Whack a Maunder which involved watching ChrisM appear and disapear on Windows Messenger. First one to whack him as he came back online won three years in Elbonia with Pointy Haired Boss. :rolleyes:
Paul Watson
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Cape Town, South Africalol. It's been WAY too long since we've done something silly like that on CP. All we need is a victim. Clearly as the guy who writes the code I get to choose the victim. Ah - the mind is ticking... :D cheers, Chris Maunder
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I was listening to Jon Ashcroft this morning and the guy makes me want to scream. He's one of the most influential men in the western world. He has legions of people working for him, advising him, writing his speeches - but what do we get? Grammar that my 4 year old nephew would be proud of. He talks of staff working in DC "temporaneously", and that problems will be "solutioned". ARGHH! Stop it before my brain explodes :mad: [Edit: Seem like I'm not the only one. And don't even get me started about the word incentivate.] cheers, Chris Maunder
He's speaking in "ebonics" - I think he's trying too hard to cross some imaginateous racial boundary in an effort to garnerate votes in an upcomingly policticalarity electionism. Hey, while we're on the subject of Linux, how about setting up a Linux message board "for Windows programmers that are slowly making the jump to Linux development"? :) ------- signature starts "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 Please review the Legal Disclaimer in my bio. ------- signature ends
