ujnubub · HackerTrans

17 lat temudiscuss

The difference is that the maximum downside of not buying the warranty is the cost of the unit (actually the cost of the unit discounted by the regular warranty period ) the downside of not having medical insurance is that you die (at least in the land of the free / home of the brave)

ujnubub

17 lat temudiscuss

This is HN

Once you own a pair of jeans, a black T shirt and either Tevas or hiking boots (depending on which coast) you are pretty much set.

ujnubub

17 lat temudiscuss

Wait for old age! As you age your ability to focus closely gets worse (the eye muscles weaken) but your distance vision generally doesn't change much.

ujnubub

17 lat temudiscuss

UK - I was making an ironic point that the name of the tests seem to change and get more 'bureaucratic speak' every year.

Under a soviet centralised government system there was apparently more freedom to teach to the student's abilities than in the free world - where everything must match upto the central government stanardized testing quango.

ujnubub

17 lat temudiscuss

You mean somebody actually buys the extended warranty!!!!!!

ujnubub

17 lat temudiscuss

I don't wear them in front of a screen because they reduce contrast an there are reflections - however clean they are. But I wear them to drive home.

As far as I am concerned I have evolved from something that needed to spot lions on the horizon to something that needs to spot trolls 0.5m away

ujnubub

17 lat temudiscuss

A better example would have been the recent Air France crash off Brazil. While the real news outlets (even the BBC) are showing pretty graphics, reporting other reporters fabricated stories as 'sources' and making stupid technical goofs (the black box doesn't send messages to a GPS satelite)

Blogs like aviation safety network and askthepilot are reporting comments from people that fly the same type on the same route, designed the black box in use and serviced the exact aircraft in question.

ujnubub

17 lat temudiscuss

His biog says he skipped high school and went straight to grad school - that also wouldn't be possible here. He would need the correct number on his "key stage 3 year 11" exams to be entered into the computer before he could be allowed to do key stage 12 exams.

Strange how we supposedly won the cold war but the losers system seems to have been adopted.

We have had to stop accepting child geniuses into our maths dept because anybody that works with under 18s (even escorting them on a campus tour for an open day) now needs extensive police checks - 'to protect the children'.