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In the 1980s we (Brits) killed Northern lads' pet kestrels and condemned them to losing contact with their children through unemployment.
In the 1990s we coped with the recession by stripping off.
Then in the 2000s we gave old people brass bands and allowed young chaps from a mining town to become ballet dancers.
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Why is the UK such a happy place? I will never know, also how did a Generals breakfast become connected to strippers (just kidding)
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: we gave old people brass bands
Talking of which, I saw Tara Fitzgerald [^]on Game of Thrones. Time has not been kind.
Its a sad sign that the ladies I used to find mildy photogenic are now becoming aged munters. 
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Dalek Dave holds the entire contents of Wikipedia in his head.
Dalek Dave is from Skaro.
Dalek Dave is actually a stunt pilot. He just says he's an accountant for the groupies.
Dalek Dave is a dangling modifier.
Dalek Dave once printed out a Lotus 123 spreadsheet to colour in the cells.
Dalek Dave has never lunched with Ian Botham.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Dalek Dave is actually an accoutant. He just says he's a stripper in a gay club for not being mocked at
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Dalek Dave wouldn't go.
Dalek Dave squeezes only the finest choice Mediterranean octopi to fill his ink cartridges.
Annie Lennox copied Dalek Dave's hair style so she'll always remember that special night.
Dalek Dave's campaign platform is a 286 with MS-DOS 4. His slogan is "Let's get back to (Q) BASIC principles".
Dalek Dave lost his first fortune when he invested heavily in the British space program after confusing "Moonraker" with a promotional video.
Dalek Dave covets Stephen Hawking's wheel chair, but would add a cool bumpy housing, plunger, and other assorted household items.
Dalek Dave would rather have a bottle in front of him.
Dalek Dave still fervently denies attending Wand Erection's special performance in his honor.
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I have just discovered the acronym MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) and the concept which spawned it.
I had a 12 hour episodic attack of NERDS GONE WILD !!![^]
It might have lasted 24 hours for all I know.
One thing I do know is that my hard drive now has several dozen gigabytes of video files which will easily keep me occupied for weeks, months, and quite possibly for another year.
With such good luck on finding a course that I've been wanting for years (for free, by a learned lecturer, from a well known university) I set out to find other MOOCs that would transform me into a genius (and, of course, the hottest commodity in the job market) for free.
I turned to the wisdom of the internet; specifically the search engines; and hit the SEO wall.
(SEO is an acronym for "Super-Egregious Obfuscation", a process by which the internet becomes useless)
So, now I know...
-- Good stuff is out there
-- It is being given away for free
-- SEO totally hides it from me
So once again we see economics and various business models which ruin the beneficial economics of a highly beneficial business model.
So,,,,,
Question 1: How do I really go about searching for other meaningful courses while they are still out there and still free ?
Question 2: Where do I find a psychotherapist who is experienced with cases of Nerds Gone Wild !!! if I am successful at finding my cornucopia of endlessly flowing knowledge which is clearly explained ?
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Welcome to the MOOC club. MIT courses are usually great, TED talks are also good resources.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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I saw the The M.I.T. YouTube Page [^] and it truly looked like good stuff to me.
I spent nine minutes with their MIT OpenCourseWare 1800 Event[^] video which they placed on that page; the one that contains the interview with Dick K.P. Yue.
I really tune in with his ideas about what this OpenCourseWare biz means to somebody like him; i.e., a kid who was truly "on the outs".
The M.I.T. courses are fantastic, but I really flipped my wig when I came across a course from Cornell.
My searches for other material from Cornell produced zero and a little bit less.
The thought hit me: I should first be looking in my own back yard, i.e., my own school, my alma mater from the Pleistocene days.
The results from that were not exactly zero, but close enough for me. It reminded me of the Calculus definition of the word "limit". There were four links to the concept of MOOCs. I found no real material.
Huh ??? Shouldn't every single college in the USA be doing this ???
For that matter, shouldn't high schools be doing this ? Elementary Schools ?
What part of the equation am I missing ?
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My first half hour with the M.I.T. site (and their YouTube channel) left me overwhelmed.
This isn't as easy as buying stuff off of eBay.
The searching is the problem.
i.e., I can't figure out how to ask the proper question to find the introductory course(s) (and subsequent intermediate and advanced ones) on the topics I want to learn.
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I've used Coursera [^] for a few courses as well as edX [^] which both have an amazing number of free courses. They also have an ID verification system for some courses so you get a certificate at the end. (Though I think they charge a small fee for those.)
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I just received notification that my recurring tickets picked up a win on the 13th and has been paid to my bank account.
Logged into my account to see the prize of £65. Woo I thought, must have been a 4 ball match.
Oh, How wrong was I.
1 x 4 Ball Match @ £15
2 x 3 Ball Match @ £25 each.
WTF? You get less money for matching 4 balls than you do for matching 3.....Also the prize fund available is rubbish, think Camelot have broken the whole system, last last change of doubling the ticket price was a screw up as far as I can work out.
Maybe time to let Branson have it.
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Doesn't it depend on how many others also made similar matches?
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Yep. I'm not fond of it anyway - I can do the math, just like you can - but Herself refers to it as "her retirement fund" so I have to buy the stupid thing.
And when they doubled the price, I halved the number of tickets. By the look of the prize amounts, so did everybody else... 
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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This afternoon I had a flexi-first-four on a 14 donkey race at Tamworth, NSW:
1st: 2,4,6,9
2nd: Field
3rd: 7
4th: Field
I put $60.50 on for a return of 11.45%
Results:
9: $5.10 $1.90
12: $15.40
7: $3.80
3: $3.20
Dividend was $86,000 
I don't speak Idiot - please talk slowly and clearly
"I have sexdaily. I mean dyslexia. Fcuk!"
Driven to the arms of Heineken by the wife
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It's because the 3 ball pay out is fixed at £25 and the rest of the prizes are from the remaining prize pool.
Because all of the numbers were 31 or under and most people play dates as their numbers there were 60% more 3 ball winners than normal.
This meant the remaining prize pool was much, much less than normal.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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chriselst wrote: 60% more 3 ball winners than normal
which also probably explains why Dave won 
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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"He will get you over to Spooners cheerful enthusiast."(8)
Quite simple.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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He will get you over
to Spooners cheerful enthusiast : MERRY FAN
FERRYMAN
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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I must have seen it before and it stuck in the back of my mind.
Weird.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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It happens!
Gawd knows why I Googled it after I'd got it - I don't even read the ToryGraph, never have!
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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