At 17:38 13/05/2001, Simon Cozens wrote:
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 05:22:49PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
How can any socialist not feel that when it came to the crunch
socialism was
rejected by intelligent people who understood its principals and benefits
intimitadly because they
At 16:41 13/05/01 +0100, you wrote:
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
At 15:27 13/05/2001, Simon Cozens wrote:
if only the SNP covered the whole of the UK
Err, they do.
Insert rant about the obvious injustice of having Scotland vote on the
affairs of England and Westminster but not
At 17:58 13/05/01 +0100, you wrote:
At 17:38 13/05/2001, Simon Cozens wrote:
Which intelligent people who understood it would that be, then?
Take a look around you. This list, being representative of the Perl
community, tends towards the intelligent end of the spectrum. And from
what I've
* at 13/05 16:41 +0100 Greg McCarroll said:
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
At 15:27 13/05/2001, Simon Cozens wrote:
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 03:30:31AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/18866.html
Absurd, laughable and bizarre. What *is*
From: Jonathan Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 9:41 AM
At 17:58 13/05/01 +0100, you wrote:
At 17:38 13/05/2001, Simon Cozens wrote:
Which intelligent people who understood it would that be, then?
Take a look around you. This list, being representative of the Perl
At 18:50 13/05/01 +0100, you wrote:
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 06:38:45PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
Democracy is overrated. I think a meritocracy is needed. Perhaps
measured by
Perl competence.
It's a fairly well-arguable stance that *any* form of meritocracy is a
reasonable system -
On Sun, 13 May 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
At 15:27 13/05/2001, Simon Cozens wrote:
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 03:30:31AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/18866.html
Absurd, laughable and bizarre. What *is*
The Perl Journal arrived this morning...
jp
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 09:51:37AM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
Actually, a hereditary democratic
hereditary democratic - an oxymoron, surely.
chamber such as the (old) house of lords
strikes me as being a pretty good system. Swapping 'randomly
I just thought I'd remind you all that the last time talk here turned to
politics it nearly ended in tears before bedtime. Please think before you
post anything potentially inflamable as I think there are a wider variety
of more strongly held views represented here than is apparent from the
Swapping 'selected by
Tony Blair after consultation with his own sycophantic smile' for
hereditary strikes me as pretty stupid, corrupt and
evil. Cough.
It's called confirming and strengthening your own powerbase while
undermining that of your opponent.
If we're not careful
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Robert Thompson wrote:
If we're not careful we'll end up in the situation where the TB has such a
strong powerbase that he'll be able to push through pretty much anything he
wants, riding roughshod over the the views/opinions etc of those who elected
him in the first
From: Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 17:38 13/05/2001, Simon Cozens wrote:
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 05:22:49PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
How can any socialist not feel that when it came to the crunch
socialism was
rejected by intelligent people who understood its principals and
* Matthew Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
(enter Birakay)
Bikay: CHOPS! I come to defeat you both, old ones! My howitzer-up-arse
Hereford attack will prevail!
Bikay: Muahahaha! Your feeble strict style cannot defeat me! It is gay!
roflmao, damn that almost makes me want to go to the
Robert Shiels:
Over the next 4 years, Labour
will fail to deliver their promises yet again, and the
country will swing back to the party of low taxes, who will
be re-elected in 2006.
Part of the reason why they haven't delivered the promises that I think are
important (decent public
On or about Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:45:45AM +0100, Matthew Jones typed:
I genuinely believe that the
public are sick of watching the NHS, education system etc wasting away on a
starvation diet and would be willing to pay a bit of extra tax to make sure
that their kids can get schooled and that
On Sat, 12 May 2001 16:38:08 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
diff: usage diff [whatever] etc.
- plan9 has a bad day
I keep meaning to ask, where do all these plan9 bad day quotes come from?
--
Peter Haworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Unicycling] in the mud is good for you. It builds
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:45:45AM +0100, Matthew Jones wrote:
Part of the reason why they haven't delivered the promises that I think are
important (decent public services) is because they've hamstrung themselves
with this clueless tory low-tax approach. I genuinely believe that the
public
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 05:55:56PM +0100, Neil Ford wrote:
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 11:56:48AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1326000/1326657.stm
Unfortunately I got the phone call at 7:10 this morning :-(
Definitely a strange day.
It got
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:23:50AM +0100, Robert Shiels wrote:
If a man is not a socialist by the time he is twenty, he has no heart.
If he is not a conservative by the time he is 40, he has no brain.
-Winston Churchill
discuss:-)
How does that explain Garry Bushell and Jim
- Original Message -
From: Matthew Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 4:45 AM
Subject: Politics (was RE: BOFHs requiring license)
Robert Shiels:
Over the next 4 years, Labour
will fail to deliver their promises yet again, and the
country will
This is why we should abolish democracy.
We need a benevolent dictator. Obviously we can't vote for
our dictator
(not only is democracy too flawed, but then it wouldn't be a dictator
either) so I hereby appoint myself.
Why not? The Romans did. The title of Imperator and Dictator were
- Original Message -
From: Matthew Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 5:05 AM
Subject: RE: Politics (was RE: BOFHs requiring license)
I appoint Greg as my Culture Adviser and as head of the church. Any
volunteers for my other minions? Even if
On or about Mon, May 14, 2001 at 11:04:52AM +0100, Matthew Jones typed:
When have they ever been asked?
During elections. Like I say, in 1997, the UK voted in a party that was (I
reckon) seen as the guardian of the public services, the party that is
traditionally associated
In 1997 the UK
At 10:45 14/05/01 +0100, you wrote:
Part of the reason why they haven't delivered the promises that I think
are
important (decent public services) is because they've hamstrung themselves
with this clueless tory low-tax approach.
Yup.
I genuinely believe that the
public are sick of watching
Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Take a look around you. This list, being representative of the Perl
community, tends towards the intelligent end of the spectrum. And from what
I've gathered from the conversations I've had with people here, the vast
majority of us tend towards the
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Roger Burton West wrote:
On or about Mon, May 14, 2001 at 11:04:52AM +0100, Matthew Jones typed:
When have they ever been asked?
During elections. Like I say, in 1997, the UK voted in a party that was (I
reckon) seen as the guardian of the public services, the party that
In 1997 the UK voted against the Conservatives. The policies
being offered by the parties were close to identical.
For values of conservative that are low-tax/shitty services, IMHO. The
policies may have been close, but the perception of the two parties still
pointed at Labour as the party of
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 11:17:51AM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote:
On or about Mon, May 14, 2001 at 11:04:52AM +0100, Matthew Jones typed:
When have they ever been asked?
During elections. Like I say, in 1997, the UK voted in a party that was (I
reckon) seen as the guardian of the public
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:52:50AM +0100, Peter Haworth wrote:
I keep meaning to ask, where do all these plan9 bad day quotes come from?
The plan9 fortune file. It's the mistakes they made while they were
developing it.
--
yes /dev/kmem # Shutdown is broken. This'll have to do
-
From: James Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:23:50AM +0100, Robert Shiels wrote:
If a man is not a socialist by the time he is twenty, he has no heart.
If he is not a conservative by the time he is 40, he has no brain.
-Winston Churchill
discuss:-)
How
From: Matthew Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have deeply unfashionable political views, though. I think tax and spend
is a *good idea*.
I'm neither completely left, or completely right. I would be happy to pay
more income tax to improve health and education. I actually voted LibDem
last time as
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:19:27AM +, Steve Mynott wrote:
There are certainly far fewer left-wing bookshops now than twenty
years ago. Most of the young seem now more interested in single
issues like animal rights, globalisation etc then traditional
socialism.
Hey, that's just the young
On Mon, 14 May 2001, you wrote:
Robert Shiels:
Over the next 4 years, Labour
will fail to deliver their promises yet again, and the
country will swing back to the party of low taxes, who will
be re-elected in 2006.
Part of the reason why they haven't delivered the promises that I
At 11:17 14/05/01 +0100, you wrote:
Governments never get value for money on anything they do. Discuss.
The Louisiana purchase was a pretty good deal. So was Alaska. So was the
Suez canal. Government subsidy of scientific research has possibly been a
very good deal, it's hard to quantify.
Just because they can't deliver those promises for those costs doesn't
mean no one else can. If they knew they couldn't deliver within those
cost constraints why did they lie and say they could?
Because they are (right-wing) politicians. Just look at the absurd
promisises Hague's lot are
Robin Szemeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
does anyone happen to have one of those little plastic credit card things
they were giving out before the last election with 10 things 'let us be
judged on these:' ..
That was a Mark Thomas episode wasn't it?
--
Dave Hodgkinson,
Lucy McWilliam wrote:
On Fri, 11 May 2001, Mark Fowler wrote:
(I don't eat chocolate.)
*shock*
Me neither. I came to the startling conclusion about 5 years ago that I
don't really like. I don't hate it, just don't particularly enjoy it
except in odd moods and even then mostly dark
Quite a few people at perl mongers asked me about Perl training. Those
interested, please check out the following page, and please keep
replies offlist: http://www.iterative-software.com/training/
Cheers, Leon
--
Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/
Iterative
http://www.iterative-software.com/training/
Can you do another Perl course, please?
CHOPS programming:
What's in the box?
This two day course is aimed at l4me to virtually pubescent Perl
programmers. We aim to give students the underpinning knowledge and skills
required for them to make a
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 11:52:06AM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote:
Me neither. I came to the startling conclusion about 5 years ago that I
don't really like. I don't hate it, just don't particularly enjoy it
except in odd moods and even then mostly dark chocolate.
Will drool for Green Black's
Steve Mynott wrote:
Libertarianism seems more popular than socialism on the internet as as
a whole, at least, with many American programmers.
To counter Dave's left wing views (trolllhave you ever
noticed how left wingers tend to be less tolerant to the fact that their
views may
On or about Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:37:23AM +0100, Cross David - dcross typed:
Here's a pretty fundamental issue. Why do so many people seem to think that
low taxes are good?
Because many people think that they are better judges of how their own
money should be spent than the government (of
At 11:58 14/05/01 +0100, you wrote:
If you ignore all of those, I
wonder how many of those 'stealth' taxes would really exist.
IR35, for a start ?
On the subject of idiocy and legislation, here's a good one
A dairy farmer has some cows (might not anymore, actually, but anyway...),
and
The money has to be raised somehow.
selling 3rd generation mobile phone licences for extortionate figures,
thereby taxing the population once again?
duncan
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 11:44:11AM +0100, Matthew Jones wrote:
The tories are going to have low tax and pay for improved public services
through cracking down on benefit fraud, apparently. Gah, if only someone
had thought of that before. 'Cos you can solve a long-term underfunding
problem by
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:37:23AM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote:
Here's a pretty fundamental issue. Why do so many people seem to think that
low taxes are good?
Rule one, man, rule one.
--
TorgoX EFNet is like one big advertisement for lobotomies.
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Matthew Jones wrote:
http://www.iterative-software.com/training/
Can you do another Perl course, please?
CHOPS programming:
Please dont do that while I'm eating crisps again - I nearly ashpyxiated
:)
/J\
On Mon, 14 May 2001, you wrote:
Just because they can't deliver those promises for those costs doesn't
mean no one else can. If they knew they couldn't deliver within those
cost constraints why did they lie and say they could?
Because they are (right-wing) politicians. Just look at the
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 12:00:54PM +0100, Matthew Jones wrote:
What's in the box?
...
NOTHING!
STPPPIDD!
Youre so STUUUPPIID!
Martin
Here's a pretty fundamental issue. Why do so many people
seem to think that low taxes are good?
Because many people think that they are better judges of how their own
money should be spent than the government (of whatever flavour) is.
This is something I've always wondered about. Given
* at 14/05 12:13 +0100 duncan said:
The money has to be raised somehow.
selling 3rd generation mobile phone licences for extortionate figures,
thereby taxing the population once again?
wasn't it an auction? i like to look on this as some sort of crack
induced madness on the side of tha
From: Simon Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED]?
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 12:08 PM
There are some contractors here, I understand, who might have something
to say about government policy on taxation.
Heh. Can you be a contractor and hold on to your left-wing principles? Let's
see...
Whilst I'd seem to
Simon Wistow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Me neither. I came to the startling conclusion about 5 years ago that I
don't really like. I don't hate it, just don't particularly enjoy it
except in odd moods and even then mostly dark chocolate.
I don't like English chocolate which doesn't in fact
From: Jonathan Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
3. Teachers are responsible for children taking their medicine. If a child
has a critical allergy to (bee stings, etc, etc) the teachers are
responsible for administering intra-venous beta blockers etc. They don't
get paid more for being nurses too.
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:57:59AM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
I appoint Greg as my Culture Adviser and as head of the church. Any
volunteers for my other minions? Even if you don't want a cabinet
post, please feel free to volunteer as a Henchman. You'll get 25 days
holiday a year, a
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 12:16:27PM +0100, Matthew Jones wrote:
It also irtritates me when the oil companies hike fuel prices and the dump
the pump lobby respond by suggesting that the government drop tax. Why
don't they ever have a go at BP or Shell?
You don't elect BP or Shell.
--
He was a
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 12:21:59PM +0100, Martin Ling wrote:
STPPPIDD!
OoOoOoh, Red Snapper! Very tasty!
/obscure_quoting
~C.
--
Chris Ball.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://printf.net/
finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Supplies!
Hospital waiting lists are up,
No, hospital waiting lists are down. The time spent waiting to get on the
wiating list is up. :)
so are class sizes in schools.
No, class sizes are down in primary schools (were primaries specified on the
pledge card?). Secondary school classes are level or
* at 14/05 12:16 +0100 Matthew Jones said:
Ah, yes. That's like we're listening, isn't it, in response to the
fuel crisis? We're not going to do anything, but we're happy
to listen.
That narked me about the fuel protestors. They claimed the government
aren't listening. Listen ne cave
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 12:27:20PM +0100, Chris Ball wrote:
OoOoOoh, Red Snapper! Very tasty!
/obscure_quoting
Heh. It's *so* good, and has even managed to remain obscure. This is
probably because you can't get it anywhere any more, of course...
Martin
the pump lobby respond by suggesting that the government
drop tax. Why don't they ever have a go at BP or Shell?
You don't elect BP or Shell.
Well, precisely, they're companies, so you boycott them. Which is what I
thought that dump the pump was originally about; boycotting oil companies
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:37:23AM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote:
Oh, and Churchill was an arsehole. As the population worked out in the 1945
General Election. Anyone responding with nonsense about him winning the
second world war will be given a history lesson :)
Isn't it interesting
Chris Ball wrote:
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 12:21:59PM +0100, Martin Ling wrote:
STPPPIDD!
OoOoOoh, Red Snapper! Very tasty!
/obscure_quoting
UHF++
Ghandi II - No more Mister Passive Resistance, Spatula City, Conan the
Librarian (Donch yew
At 12:27 PM 5/14/01 +0100, you wrote:
Hospital waiting lists are up,
so are class sizes in schools.
No, class sizes are down in primary schools (were primaries specified on the
pledge card?). Secondary school classes are level or *slightly* up, IIRC.
Are they in reality, or is it due to the
Lucy McWilliam wrote:
On Fri, 11 May 2001, Philip Newton wrote:
Dominic Mitchell wrote:
How many things do you have on top of your monitor?
Depends on the day. Today, two things: a goose called Lucy[1]
!
:) It did cross my mind while posting the message that you were also on the
Are they in reality, or is it due to the current lot being in
lower birth years than the lot 4 years ago, and hence the secondary
school numbers being up now?
Heh, it's pre-election statistics, so god knows what possible conne4ction to
reality they may have! :)
--
matt | I mean to make you
Struan Donald wrote:
wasn't it an auction? i like to look on this as some sort of crack
induced madness on the side of tha various telcos involved in which
thet actually belived the hype aboug 3G comming out of their marketing
departments.
Basically it went like this:
As a telco you ahve
/obscure_quoting
Heh. It's *so* good, and has even managed to remain obscure. This is
probably because you can't get it anywhere any more, of course...
its rumoured to be released on dvd at the end of the year. one of my
favorite films ever... badgers? we dont need no stinking badgers!
Struan Donald wrote:
Basically it went like this:
As a telco you ahve to bid for this because if you don't get a 3G
licence then you're fucked. So everyone who bids as high as they can. So
whoever gets it is fucked anyway because they've got no money.
3G is all bollocks anyway. Just
Matthew Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It also irtritates me when the oil companies hike fuel prices and the dump
the pump lobby respond by suggesting that the government drop tax. Why
don't they ever have a go at BP or Shell?
Because the vast majority of the petrol pump price (something
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Chris Ball wrote:
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 12:21:59PM +0100, Martin Ling wrote:
STPPPIDD!
OoOoOoh, Red Snapper! Very tasty!
/obscure_quoting
Wheel of Fish!
/J\
On 14 May 2001, Steve Mynott wrote:
I don't like English chocolate which doesn't in fact contain very much
chocolate at all if you study the percentage cocoa solids.
Better than American chcolate.
L.
Flower yourself in dissonance and eat yourself in cream.
Matthew Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
medicine and so on. Has anybody worked out how much it would cost to buy the
same services as a private citizen compared to the cost that the state
charges in tax?
People have tried to do this and the figures I saw suggest the private
sector can
From: Steve Mynott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 14 May 2001 12:12
Subject: Re: Politics (was RE: BOFHs requiring license)
Robert Shiels [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm neither completely left, or completely right. I would be happy to
pay
more income tax to improve health and
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 12:50:27PM +0100, duncan wrote:
its rumoured to be released on dvd at the end of the year. one of my
favorite films ever... badgers? we dont need no stinking badgers!
*Show Me This Rumour*
I have still not seen the bits cut out of the Conan the Librarian scene.
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Martin Ling wrote:
Appears I'm out of a job too from the end of the month, so count me in.
The mighty army of unemployed Perlers takes over the world...
Is this the point where I can try and recruit some of you compscis to the
bioinformatics revolution? Hack around and
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 11:56:48AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1326000/1326657.stm
Amongst the many other tributes floating around, I found this one quite
entertaining:
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20010513
-Dom
Jonathan Peterson wrote:
2. A teacher can't be alone in a room with a pupil unless the
door is open.
Things were obviously different back when I spent the occasional lunch break
(or after school) in detention :)
Cheers,
Philip
--
Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
All opinions are my own, not
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
Is this the point where I can try and recruit some of you compscis to the
bioinformatics revolution? Hack around and cure cancer at the same time ;-)
L.
Been there, done that at the Sanger Centre hacking around with genes
though...
Andy
*Show Me This Rumour*
http://members.aol.com/allthngynk/uhf10th/dvd.htm
my bad, 2002 ratherthan 2001. *grin*
duncan
David Cantrell wrote:
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:37:23AM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote:
Oh, and Churchill was an arsehole. As the population worked out in the 1945
General Election. Anyone responding with nonsense about him winning the
second world war will be given a history
Matthew Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
the pump lobby respond by suggesting that the government
drop tax. Why don't they ever have a go at BP or Shell?
You don't elect BP or Shell.
Well, precisely, they're companies, so you boycott them. Which is what I
thought that dump the pump
Lucy McWilliam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 14 May 2001, Steve Mynott wrote:
I don't like English chocolate which doesn't in fact contain very much
chocolate at all if you study the percentage cocoa solids.
Better than American chcolate.
I have bought US Hersey (sp?) bars in the UK
On May 14, Martin Ling wrote:
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 12:27:20PM +0100, Chris Ball wrote:
OoOoOoh, Red Snapper! Very tasty!
/obscure_quoting
Heh. It's *so* good, and has even managed to remain obscure. This is
probably because you can't get it anywhere any more, of course...
It
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:06:42PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
Is this the point where I can try and recruit some of you compscis to the
bioinformatics revolution?
I've always thought it sounded like fun.
How does one go about joining the bioinformatics revolution, then?
.robin.
--
It
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:06:42PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
Appears I'm out of a job too from the end of the month, so count me in.
The mighty army of unemployed Perlers takes over the world...
Is this the point where I can try and recruit some of you compscis to the
bioinformatics
* Jonathan Peterson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
David Cantrell wrote:
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:37:23AM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote:
General Election. Anyone responding with nonsense about him winning the
second world war will be given a history lesson :)
No one won the 2nd world
I'm not trying to negate your point, which I agree with, but I'm not sure if
this one is true. Teachers at my daughters school have refused to give
medicine to her, and to other children, some of whom are on constant
medication; their mother comes into the school to administer it.
You
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:18:00PM +0100, Robin Houston wrote:
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:06:42PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
Is this the point where I can try and recruit some of you compscis to the
bioinformatics revolution?
I've always thought it sounded like fun.
How does one go
(trolllhave you ever
noticed how left wingers tend to be less tolerant to the fact
that their views may be wrong than right wing people?/troll)
Ah, that's because we left-wingers *are* right, and also because secretly,
silently, you right-wingers know it, too. :P
--
matt
The
Robin Houston wrote:
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:06:42PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
Is this the point where I can try and recruit some of you compscis to the
bioinformatics revolution?
I've always thought it sounded like fun.
How does one go about joining the bioinformatics
On Mon 14 May, Matthew Jones wrote:
No, class sizes are down in primary schools (were primaries specified on the
pledge card?). Secondary school classes are level or *slightly* up, IIRC.
Some spokesman on the radio this morning promised to reduce class sizes in
primary schools and to recruit
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Andy Williams wrote:
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
Is this the point where I can try and recruit some of you compscis to the
bioinformatics revolution? Hack around and cure cancer at the same time ;-)
Been there, done that at the Sanger Centre
Some spokesman on the radio this morning promised to reduce
class sizes in primary schools and to recruit more secondary school
teachers. How can they achieve the former without recruiting more
teachers?
I'd assume that they would recruit more Classroom Assistants. Sort of
paradidacts
class but reducing the pupil/adult ration, I guess.
-^^
Heh. I bet it was the MAFF comment which planted that one.
--
matt
The (void) is that which stands right in the middle of this and That.
On 14 May 2001, Steve Mynott wrote:
Lucy McWilliam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 14 May 2001, Steve Mynott wrote:
I don't like English chocolate which doesn't in fact contain very much
chocolate at all if you study the percentage cocoa solids.
Better than American chcolate.
I have
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Andy Williams wrote:
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
Is this the point where I can try and recruit some of you compscis to the
bioinformatics revolution? Hack around and cure cancer at the same time ;-)
Matthew Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
(trolllhave you ever
noticed how left wingers tend to be less tolerant to the fact
that their views may be wrong than right wing people?/troll)
Ah, that's because we left-wingers *are* right, and also because secretly,
silently, you
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Martin Ling wrote:
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 12:27:20PM +0100, Chris Ball wrote:
OoOoOoh, Red Snapper! Very tasty!
/obscure_quoting
Heh. It's *so* good, and has even managed to remain obscure. This is
probably because you can't get it anywhere any more, of
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