Post #191,053
1/21/05 5:55:36 AM
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Re: Hail, fellow Brit.
Thanks for the welcome. Never had a problem with the Yanks, we get quite a few in the factory. The Germans we get here are the one's that get up my nose. I know I shouldn't generalise and condemn an entire nation from a few examples, but their arrogance drives me nuts.
Never been to Teeside, is it anything like Tyneside? Cold? Shite beer? Women with beards?
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Post #191,054
1/21/05 7:01:52 AM
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That sounds like Oxford.
I've just been there for a week. What a pit.
Peter
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Post #191,059
1/21/05 8:23:36 AM
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I'm sure it's not intentional; it's just that it's hard...
...to be humble when you're a German in a technical profession, given that Germans are so much better at these things than anybody else. HTH!
Oh, and recht herzlich Willkommen -- uh, I mean, "welcome" -- from me too! :-)
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(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
Your lies are of Microsoftian Scale and boring to boot. Your 'depression' may be the closest you ever come to recognizing truth: you have no 'inferiority complex', you are inferior - and something inside you recognizes this. - [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71575|Ashton Brown]
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Post #191,066
1/21/05 9:51:49 AM
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If that is so, then how do we explain you??
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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Post #191,069
1/21/05 10:01:23 AM
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He /is/ 92% nerd.
Peter
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Post #191,072
1/21/05 10:20:30 AM
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So? Compare to Scott.
Or, going a different direction, compare to me. I was 33% nerd. Does anyone doubt my technical ability?
Aptitude and interest are not synonymous.
Cheers,
Ben
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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Post #191,076
1/21/05 10:38:55 AM
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Apptitude ...... I.LOVE.IT.
bcnu,
Mikem
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Post #191,077
1/21/05 10:50:41 AM
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Not everything is a serious scientific statement, Ben.
:-p
Peter
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Post #191,102
1/21/05 3:25:57 PM
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I said, "technical", meaning...
...*real* technical stuff like building cars and other mobile machinery; not "technology", which seems to be the modern overall moniker for all that has to do with these here newfangled electronic data processor thingies. That's not a *real* technical profession -- heck, some of these things have *no moving parts* AT ALL!
[link|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode|Christian R. Conrad]
(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
Your lies are of Microsoftian Scale and boring to boot. Your 'depression' may be the closest you ever come to recognizing truth: you have no 'inferiority complex', you are inferior - and something inside you recognizes this. - [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71575|Ashton Brown]
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Post #191,138
1/21/05 11:28:47 PM
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Christian, meet Greg Folkert. Greg, meet Christian.
My point stands. :-P
Cheers,
Ben
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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Post #191,166
1/22/05 12:47:42 PM
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Hmmm.
I just don't quite know how to take that.
I'll ASSuME it is a "good" thing.
-- [link|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net|greg], [link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ iwethey[link|http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=134485&cid=11233230|"Microsoft Security" is an even better oxymoron than "Miltary Intelligence"] No matter how much Microsoft supporters whine about how Linux and other operating systems have just as many bugs as their operating systems do, the bottom line is that the serious, gut-wrenching problems happen on Windows, not on Linux, not on Mac OS. -- [link|http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1622086,00.asp|source]
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Post #191,266
1/23/05 8:31:18 PM
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Put it this way...
When Christian disqualified my using admin as an example of a non-German with technical skill because he doesn't work with hardware, I used you as my good example instead. Take that how you will...
BTW it is good that I wasn't citing you for verbal skill, because you'd have proven me a liar. :-P
Cheers,
Ben
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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Post #191,269
1/23/05 9:43:13 PM
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Ahh.
That makes sense
-- [link|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net|greg], [link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ iwethey[link|http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=134485&cid=11233230|"Microsoft Security" is an even better oxymoron than "Miltary Intelligence"] No matter how much Microsoft supporters whine about how Linux and other operating systems have just as many bugs as their operating systems do, the bottom line is that the serious, gut-wrenching problems happen on Windows, not on Linux, not on Mac OS. -- [link|http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1622086,00.asp|source]
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Post #191,267
1/23/05 8:48:01 PM
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Put it this way...
When Christian disqualified my using admin as an example of a non-German with technical skill because he doesn't work with hardware, I used you as my good example instead. Take that how you will...
BTW it is good that I wasn't citing you for verbal skill, because you'd have proven me a liar. :-P
Cheers,
Ben
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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Post #191,258
1/23/05 4:50:50 PM
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Ben, meet Peter Whysall. Peter, you know Ben... (#191077)
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Post #191,268
1/23/05 9:23:03 PM
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But sometimes it amuses me to treat them as such...
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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