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I nominate this thread for you to post something that will make others smile. We all have bad days, but just when you think you're alone with that misery something comes along...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37320676/ns/us_news
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. (Sir Francis Bacon 1561-1626)
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Maybe this will make you smile: how stoopid can educators be.
The nightmare of thousands of Israeli teenagers is the matriculation examination in mathematics. Without it you can't get into university. The exam was today. Last weekend 'someone anonymous' published on Facebook the answers to a major part of the exam. (It is suspected that the leak came from someone in the Government Printer's Office.) Anyway, the kids had studied and studied so it would not be fair to postpone the exam. A new exam was conjured up but there was not time to get it printed and distributed to the schools by 10 am this morning. So, the exam was loaded up onto a special server and at 8.30 am the head teachers were given the URL and told to access the file at precisely 9 am and to print it off in the schools. Can you guess what happened at 9 am?
Well, when hundreds upon hundreds of schools are trying to access the same file from the same server at the same time what's going to happen? Of course, the server crashed!
The kids finally managed to start their nightmare exam at 12 noon. I wish them all the best of luck. I suspect that somewhere in the system heads are going to fall. Yay!
J F R
The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. (Richard Dawkins, 2006)
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Registered: April 2009
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Reminds me of the time at UCLA. I was taking a linguistic anthropology class. We relied on tape recorders to tape our sessions with an informant. Well, I had about 5 hours of tape and grabbed a tape to present to the class. I began the tape and about 5 minutes later, I heard my brother's voice talking and having a fun time. The interruption lasted about three minutes and mercifully ended. The informant's voice continued. I was about three shades of embarrassment red.
Raymundo
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