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Comment Calculus (Score -1) 389

I'm always amazed when I see such a fuss made over calculus in secondary school in the USA - it's completely standard here, even just for students taking "ordinary level" maths.
Back on topic though, I've never heard of this guy nor seen the film, I'm really curious to see it now. It's such a pity his hard work and dedication seems to have been undone afterwards. Education is so important.

Comment She wasn't... (Score -1) 709

...a Massachusetts teenager, she'd just moved over from Ireland. 2 of the charges were for statutory rape, another for threats with weapons. Not a lolol-facebook-online bullying situation as some seem to be suggesting. http://www.independent.ie/national-news/nine-students-charged-over-suicide-of-tragic-irish-teenager-2116877.html

Comment Re:Online banking? (Score -1) 462

I have to agree, this all seems like a non-issue. My login ID and pin AND password are enough to just view my accounts; if I wanted to make any external transactions I need this stupid little card reader machine (they post it out free to you) plus atm card to stick into it which generates some code I then need to enter on the site. I'm happy enough with that, it's all convoluted enough

Comment Re:Why not all electronic? No really, why not? (Score -1) 494

The only thing worse is the system for paying utilities, I have lived in 3 places only one of them actually had a system to automaticly withdrawn the exact amount I owed them each money. For the others I have to make to setup an automatic payment of what I guess it will be then once a year we reconsile. It is really going to suck this year because of the cold temperatures last summer and this winter.

Wha? All our utilities take direct debit where I live...

Comment Re:Checks (Score 0, Informative) 494

What if I want to give someone money when I don't have an Internet connection? (Similarly with a wire - I can't believe that the OP of this thread thinks going into a bank is easier than just writing out a cheque, although maybe these things have different names in the UK to the US?) Or what if I don't have the security keypad device thing that my bank requires me to use? Or I don't have access to the strong passwords on me at that moment? What if the bank introduces new security measures, and you can't access the website until then (yes, mad as it sounds, Barclays pulled this one on me, when they started requiring the aforementioned keypad device things). What if the website's "down for maintenance"?

You use telephone banking.

Comment Re:News on the BBC is not free (if you live in UK) (Score -1) 246

Christ, you guys have it lucky there. Even if you have a BROKEN tv here, you still have to pay. "No signal and I only use it for consoles anyway" wouldn't and doesn't fly.
Of course, our national tv channel funded by the licence payer is full of ads and they pay far too high salaries for complete rubbish.

Comment Re:Why not just send the error directly to ... (Score -1) 951

While it might get slightly better results then just showing ye old wacky error message I predict you'll get the "the what now icon in the corner? I didn't see any icon in the corner" response.

Ain't that the truth. Anyone suggesting the funny icon idea has never seen the responses to the "count how many people are throwing the basketball" video. What do you mean big gorilla running around the screen, what gorilla?!

Comment Re:Move to Canada (Score -1) 1197

People in Canada spend, on average, $3,895 per year on health care. Meanwhile, Americans spend $7,290. The United States has about 2.4 doctors per thousand people. Canada has 2.2. The United States has 10.6 nurses per thousand people, while Canada only has 9. Clearly, our system is better.

That's a bit mad isn't it?
Ireland spends on average EURO2,463 against the US EURO5,240; ireland has 3 docs/1000, 15.5 nurses/1000
I think on the wiki tables our life exp was only marginally higher than USA though
I like our system best, combo of public and private http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland

Comment Re:The grass was denied individual insurance due t (Score -1) 1197

My health insurance premiums have been rising by $1000 a year for a long time. The average health care plan costs $14,000 a year for a family

Every time I hear USA prices, I'm in disbelief. Mine's 600euro for the year for me alone, and it's definitely not the bare minimum of coverage...

Comment Re:Science or Religion? (Score -1) 1136

Oh, it's a theory and a law. You've a theory of gravity e.g. newton or general rel.
[on a related note, have a laugh =) http://www.bringyou.to/apologetics/p67.htm
The main point was scientific theory != "this idea I had when I was in the pub". Anyone loudly proclaiming "evolution is ONLY a theory" really needs to go read up on what being a theory really means.

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