BBC Micro V2.0?
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Yep - you needed an adapter [^] though (although I don't recall having one!)
MVVM # - I did it My Way ___________________________________________ Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011 .\\axxx (That's an 'M')
So I do remember correctly... :omg:
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BBC to promote programming again![^] I don't know if I would be working in IT if it wasn't for the BBC Micro, so I have a fondness for the idea... Now if the BBC could get a programming device developed - maybe a BBC-Pad - aimed at being easy to program ...
MVVM # - I did it My Way ___________________________________________ Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011 .\\axxx (That's an 'M')
Ditto. I loved my BBC Micro model B. Some times I still hear the two tone 'turning on' sound in my head. It was so loud and had no mute switch. I used to try and muffle it with a jumper so I wouldn't be caught turning my computer on when I shouldn't be.
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Feeling a little too PC todat(sic)? The ability to speak facts, unencumbered by ridiculous social mores, does not imply anything other than contempt for ridiculous social mores.
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Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:
Peer reviewed study, please
As long as I don't have to include pictures... X|
Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:
as an LGBT person comments like your one above feel quite nasty
Sorry, but if someone has misplaced or over-heightened sensibilities, then I'm afraid there's nothing I can do to fix that. What I will do is the same as I do for every other person I encounter -- i.e. treat them as people. If someone wants special treatment because of life choices, sexual preferences, because they only use apple products, or for anything else that they wrongly think merits special treatment, I'm afraid it ain't gonna happen. Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got to get back to knocking accountants for being boring and untrustworthy, tories for being sexual deviants, and Welshmen for shagging sheep -- because people are capable of laughing at themselves, and I treat people as people.
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
If someone wants special treatment because of life choices, sexual preferences, because they only use apple products, or for anything else that they wrongly think merits special treatment, I'm afraid it ain't gonna happen.
So it is quite ok with you if 90% of the stores could refuse to sell you anything because of your skin color? And also ok if 90% of businesses refused to hire you because of your religion choice? And certainly ok with you that if 90% of people decided that they found you personally offensive for something that they thought that you might do in the privacy of your own home that they could insist that all businesses refuse to do any sort of business at all with you?
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BBC to promote programming again![^] I don't know if I would be working in IT if it wasn't for the BBC Micro, so I have a fondness for the idea... Now if the BBC could get a programming device developed - maybe a BBC-Pad - aimed at being easy to program ...
MVVM # - I did it My Way ___________________________________________ Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011 .\\axxx (That's an 'M')
Although I preferred the C64 for programming, I did enjoy programming the BBC Micro and got a top grade for a school project for which I wrote a database system in BASIC, complete with search and editing features. I also wrote the odd scientific program on the BBC. I never went on to make a living in IT though, it was never what I wanted to do for a career, though I still code a lot (but not on the BBC anymore, though I played on an emulator recently!). I code mostly for fun, but sometimes I write apps for other people. So I guess whether or not these schemes encourage people into the IT industry, software development is a useful and fun skill to have nevertheless.
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
If someone wants special treatment because of life choices, sexual preferences, because they only use apple products, or for anything else that they wrongly think merits special treatment, I'm afraid it ain't gonna happen.
So it is quite ok with you if 90% of the stores could refuse to sell you anything because of your skin color? And also ok if 90% of businesses refused to hire you because of your religion choice? And certainly ok with you that if 90% of people decided that they found you personally offensive for something that they thought that you might do in the privacy of your own home that they could insist that all businesses refuse to do any sort of business at all with you?
As always, you are intentionally interpreting what I say as the exact opposite of what I say. Try reading the words I write, rather than listening to the little hate-filled voices in your head. It's getting a bit tedious, y'know.
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As always, you are intentionally interpreting what I say as the exact opposite of what I say. Try reading the words I write, rather than listening to the little hate-filled voices in your head. It's getting a bit tedious, y'know.
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You said "If someone wants special treatment because of life choices, sexual preferences...I'm afraid it ain't gonna happen". It wasn't clear to me, especially in the context of your other comments, what exactly you think "special treatment" is exactly. Certainly some people do in fact think that "special treatment" is a law that disallows people from doing exactly what I said (and which does happen without such laws.)
Mark_Wallace wrote:
...than listening to the little hate-filled voices in your head.
Certainly possible that we are saying the same thing but I am rather certain that term does not apply to me. Especially not in a discussion about what 'gay' means in the current vernacular given that I first spoke out publicly for homosexual rights in 1974.
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You said "If someone wants special treatment because of life choices, sexual preferences...I'm afraid it ain't gonna happen". It wasn't clear to me, especially in the context of your other comments, what exactly you think "special treatment" is exactly. Certainly some people do in fact think that "special treatment" is a law that disallows people from doing exactly what I said (and which does happen without such laws.)
Mark_Wallace wrote:
...than listening to the little hate-filled voices in your head.
Certainly possible that we are saying the same thing but I am rather certain that term does not apply to me. Especially not in a discussion about what 'gay' means in the current vernacular given that I first spoke out publicly for homosexual rights in 1974.
This really isn't worth my time to discuss, but if you can't tell the difference between treating everyone equally and giving certain groups of people special treatment, then you perhaps should refer to a dictionary.
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This really isn't worth my time to discuss, but if you can't tell the difference between treating everyone equally and giving certain groups of people special treatment, then you perhaps should refer to a dictionary.
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
This really isn't worth my time to discuss, but if you can't tell the difference between treating everyone equally and giving certain groups of people special treatment, then you perhaps should refer to a dictionary.
And if you don't know enough history to understand how African Americans were treated in the US for 130 years since they were freed from slavery despite the fact that they were supposed to be "equal" then perhaps you need to read up to understand how laws are in fact needed to correct disparities.
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
This really isn't worth my time to discuss, but if you can't tell the difference between treating everyone equally and giving certain groups of people special treatment, then you perhaps should refer to a dictionary.
And if you don't know enough history to understand how African Americans were treated in the US for 130 years since they were freed from slavery despite the fact that they were supposed to be "equal" then perhaps you need to read up to understand how laws are in fact needed to correct disparities.
We're not talking about US history, we're not talking about how Africans were treated in your "land of the free", and we're not talking about US law. Perhaps you should look up "A.D.D.", as well as the differences between the words "equal" and "special".
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We're not talking about US history, we're not talking about how Africans were treated in your "land of the free", and we're not talking about US law. Perhaps you should look up "A.D.D.", as well as the differences between the words "equal" and "special".
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
We're not talking about US history, we're not talking about how Africans were treated in your "land of the free", and we're not talking about US law.
And yet the UK needed to take exactly the same corrective action... http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1976/74[^]
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
We're not talking about US history, we're not talking about how Africans were treated in your "land of the free", and we're not talking about US law.
And yet the UK needed to take exactly the same corrective action... http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1976/74[^]
And yet you're still harping on about things that have nothing to do with the discussion.
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