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W∴ Balboos wrote: The dumbing down, at least in the US, was started deliberately during the Reagan administration by his Secretary of Education, William Bennett. That was, in fact, why he was put into that office.
In the UK, it was started long ago too.. it's not a new thing.
W∴ Balboos wrote: Calling things you don't like "Politically Correct" to disparage them is, is itself, in fact an identical concept to political correctness - joining a different pack and using their jargon. Same sh*t - same smell.
I agree to a point. Political correctness is a something that has been openly promoted by the UK establishment (and led by government agencies). It's not a way to slander someone, it's a fact of life here. It may be different in the US.
W∴ Balboos wrote: Did you ever see the movie "Logan's Run" ? That's where we are headed, socially and intellectually. Dumb people are good for business. They upgrade their $600 phone for a new one every year; more often if they could.
One my favourite films. I doubt the future will be so pleasant (even if it was only for 30 years per person, there was at least some kind of civilisation in place). Things tend to decline rapidly and chaotically when they go.
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
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You forgot the biggest one:
0 - getting people to believe that Hilton and Kardassian are talented
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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How do you know if the article is genuine? It could be fake news about fake news (meta fake news?).
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Would fake fake news not be real news again?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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No. It's just a higher order of falsehood.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Two wrongs make a wrongwrong.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Two wrongs make a wrongwrong.
I'm not sure about that but I do know that two Wright's made an airplane. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Well, to be honest, I'd believe Trump slapped someone for disagreeing with him as well.
What's more sad, the fact that this is fake news or the fact that so many people believe a world leader would do such a thing?
Honestly though, a president slapping someone seems ridiculous, even for Trump, but it's very hard to tell real news from fake news sometimes.
It's dangerous though, it can (, has and will) spark fear and hate among people who believe such "news".
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The New Year attacks in Cologne were suppressed for weeks across British (and I believe German) media. Apparently the German Government has been working with Facebook to remove "fake news" posts and many of the people posting about these attacks had their posts taken down by Facebook.. so under the guise of "protecting the public from fake news" real serious news was suppressed.
I think it was one of the alt-right news sites in the UK that eventually broke the story. They were ignored, then vilified as "purveyors of fake news" but when the enormity of the story finally broke through, they started putting up their own massaged versions..
Scary times indeed, it's almost impossible to know who to trust (safest to trust none of them).
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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These [^] new year attacks?
Who to trust, eh?
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No, I was talking about the ones in Cologne^ (like I wrote!)..
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Oops - my bad - I'd seen a link earlier about Cologne-style attacks & read Cologne attacks - looks like it's my eyes/brain that can't be trusted.
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Fake eyes! 
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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This is particularly interesting..
Quote: Criticism of late media reporting[edit]
Several media outlets at first did not cover the story and, according to Jörg Luyken, only started reporting on the incidents on 5 January, after a wave of anger on social media made covering them unavoidable.[49] This delay was criticised by several politicians, including Hans-Peter Friedrich.[203] The public television channel ZDF later acknowledged that they had failed to report on the incidents despite having sufficient knowledge to do so.[204][205]
ZDF later called the delay in reporting a "clear misjudgment", and said since then, it has been "over-whelmed with hate and anger".[187] This has reinforced discontent previously held by parts of the German public with news coverage relating to the European migrant crisis, as well as a readiness to support the idea of the "Lügenpresse" (literally lying press).[187][206]
The delay in reporting on the assaults in the media lead to accusations that the authorities and the media attempted to ignore or cover up the attacks to avoid criticism against the current asylum and migration policy of the government.[1][207][208] The BBC's Gavin Hewitt wrote, "What has fuelled the sense of crisis is the suspicion - now widely held - that the German establishment is not telling the truth."[187]
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Hmm,
I believe you should post that kind of stuff in the soapbox next time.
When they wake up on the other side of the pond it might get out of hand a bit.
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... couldn't resist[^] 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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'E' for "Edge" I suspect...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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or maybe "F" for "All of the above"
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Since when are all answers correct? Browsers. Put them all in a sack and then beat the sack with a club. You will always hit one that deserves it.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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That's a bit unfair - Chrome and Firefox do the best they can with the source material. But the HTML / Jabascript "solution" is well past it's sell by date, methinks.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Indeed. I just can't bring up any enthusiasm for overrated things that fell short of their goal before having even reached the dumb masses. With luck we only have to endure a few more years of this before they all will start to look for the next one and only way that's sooooo easy and new and makes everything right.
The only problem is that they are persuing an untamed ornithoid without cause[^] and never learn that 'soooo easy' always has a price.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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The thing is, say for HTML, it's essentially a subset of XML. Is it XML, too, you think is past its freshness date?
If not - what do you really see in the HTML?
- Pre-compile it a bit to shrink it (not really a change)?
- Create yet another extensible markup language*
- Another language altogether - modeled as C-like or what?
- Rely totally on emoticons
Hmmm?
*Insanity is repeating the same thing and expecting different results - Clever Albert
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The last emo was as close as I could get to "I'll get my coat."
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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