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From: Eeyore on 2 Dec 2006 21:42 Ken Smith wrote: > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >Ken Smith wrote: > >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> >> More properly, you live in a representative democracy which is a > >> >> Constitutional Monarchy with a hereditary Monarch who is the Head of > >> >> State. > >> > > >> >Titular Head of State. > >> > >> Only because she's female? > > > >Nope. > > Try reading to your self out loud. Groan ! Graham
From: Eeyore on 2 Dec 2006 22:36 Ken Smith wrote: > The so called "war on terror" has cost the US a great deal without really > yelding anything much as a result. You're kidding. It's yielded greater instability in the word and more hatred of the USA ( entirely justified this time ). What sheer brilliance. Graham
From: Jamie on 2 Dec 2006 22:44 Eeyore wrote: > > Ken Smith wrote: > > >>The so called "war on terror" has cost the US a great deal without really >>yelding anything much as a result. > > > You're kidding. > > It's yielded greater instability in the word and more hatred of the USA ( > entirely justified this time ). > > What sheer brilliance. > > Graham > It would be a blessing if you would talk about something that you really know! that way, we wouldn't see much of you and give the rest a break! Just my comments from the peanut gallery.. -- "I'm never wrong, once i thought i was, but was mistaken" Real Programmers Do things like this. http://webpages.charter.net/jamie_5
From: Eeyore on 2 Dec 2006 22:41 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> >> lparker(a)emory.edu (Lloyd Parker) wrote: > >> >> > > >> >> >Are you seriously suggesting someone born to a poverty family has the > >> >> >same > >> >> >chance of becoming successful as someone born to a rich family in a > >> >> >capitalistic society? > >> >> > >> >> Yes. I will even go further and state that the poor kid has more > >> >> motivation than the rich kid. Thus, the poor kid will succeed > >> >> more often than the rich kid. > >> > > >> >I rather doubt that it happens like that in practice. > >> > >> But it happens all the time in the US, which is capitalistic > >> and not socialistic. > > > >I rather doubt that it does happen all the time in the USA. I suspect it's > > just another of your fanciful folksy notions. > > Nope. It's fact. I still don't believe you. Your 'facts' have been rather fanciful to date. Graham
From: Eeyore on 2 Dec 2006 22:45
jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > > >> >The rich kid is likely to have a better education, > >> >better connections and better opportunities > >> >( including relatively easy access to money for investment ). > >> > >> The rich kid is also likely to be quite lazy and never taught, nor > >> learn, how to get work done. > > > >Based on what evidence exactly ? > > There is no need for the child to learn how to shoot dinner. Oh good ! > There > is no need for the kid to learn how to make things from old junk. > There is no need to work the brain cells to figure out how to solve > a problem insteading of spending money to solve the problem. Using your brain requires a degree of education. IME parents who are better off recognise the value of education more than poor ones and are more likely to encourage their child to learn such skills. > >> As for education, the only way to learn stuff is by doing it or > >> watching other people do it and then trying to emulate them. > > > >What does that have to do with being rich or poor ? > > People with no money tend to start working at an early age. > Those with money don't because they don't have to. What's the supposed advantage of doing low-grade work starting at an early age ? > >> This does not include the GIGO which is now often found in > >> universities these days. > > > >A lot of complete rubbish is certainly taught at unis. > > I think that has to do with schools' attitudes towards kids not > being allowed to learn from making mistakes. It's an aspect > of middle class. It's more to do with 'professors' not having a clue about the real world IMHO. Graham |