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You know I was only talking about the self flagellating ideas being pushed by our education system these days Ed. There is still an amazing amount of good will for us in the rest of the world. In Thailand you will get service with a spit if they think you are American but it changes to 5 star once they find out you are British.

Following on Duke, there are a large number of countries who can’t believe we stayed shackled to the EU for so long. Canada, Australia, New Zealand and most of the commonwealth have been unable to have the trade deals they want with us for years.

 

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Oh yeh. Our salvation is to forget our past and to be absorbed into a huge bureaucracy where we can do no further harm.

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One tip they have shown so far is to define your funtions in a header file and then just declare them in your souece code as this makes future changes easier. When you build your solution the linker includes everything in the .EXE file.

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Sadly I was in the second generation to enter the comprehensively bad system. The “facts” they tried to teach me all came from the Karl Marx book of good ideas. Jingoism was long gone, replaced by a loathing for all things British. We are the route of all evil in the world don’t you know ?

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I signed up for a free Edx course. The course is called C++ foundation and the first three lessons have been simple as I already come from a C background but we are getting into C++ classes now and the video’s have taught me a few tricks about using Visual Studio. The course is run by Microsoft and a certificate of competence is avalible upon completion if you pay £77.

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It is also a fact that young people turn into older people and change their minds. Once outside the brainwashing enclave of our education system and into the world of self supporting work the penny usually drops. Unless ofcourse they never leave and become teachers.

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The FT may just as well rename itself For Themselves. Along with the CBI and the chancellor they are more worried about the loss of cheap eastern european labour than anything else.

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The only result that remainers will accept as valid is remain.

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Er no. “others” were bullied or bribed into voting again until they came up with the “correct” result. Once that had been achieved they weren’t asked again were they ?

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I predict nothing of the sort. The EU hasn’t even offered a deal and I don’t expect them to. The only choice left is stay or go and we voted go.

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I quite agree Ed, what we need is a second vote. 5 years after we leave !

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In the event of a no deal my next prediction is a long round of tit for tat legislation that does no one any good.

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I see in the news today that the EU has a “secret” plan in case of a no deal Brexit.

They plan to carry on using the old rules as they will be the same as they were the day before and to follow up with a flurry of new directives as fast as they can get them approved.

Who could of predicted that ?

Oh yeh it was me ?

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On a side note, although the change to metric mesures and decimal coinage is a very good and sensible thing in most ways it has not done mental arithmetic any favours at all !

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Oops I ment number of inches/12.

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If you want to turn inches into a fraction of a foot then its 12/number of inches.

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Thats 12×0.6

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Well not really

1.6 feet would be 1 foot 7.2 inches ?

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Just plain second hand stuff can be a bargain too.

A couple of months ago I wanted to add recording capability to my new smart TV so I was looking for an SATA hard drive to go in a USB caddy I already had. I was going to buy a new drive but I was walking past my local CEX shop and saw a 500GB Seagate drive in the window so I thought i’d give it a punt.

After running the Seatools diagnostic and updating the firmware I put the drive into service recording TV and it has been faultless.

I wasn’t realy worried what type of drive it was but it turns out to be a Seagate Pipeline H.2 that was designed for low pwer, low noise media streaming.

And the cost of all this ? £8 !

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Just so I don’t fall too far behind in the points table Bob…

I too am on a PPI (Omeprazole) due to acid reflux caused by a Hiatus hernia. They give me the camera job every year or two but as its stable the best treatment is to keep taking the pills. I have had Sarcoidosis for many years and it sometimes flares up and attacks different bits of me. It was infact the main cause of my pancreas problem. There is no cure so they just monitor me and give steroids if it flares up.

I am ment to take a daily dose of Pen V for the missing spleen but I don’t because it makes me feel sick. I have told anyone who will listen this but they say Pen V is the only suitable long term antibiotic.

Creon is a replacement for the pancreatic enzyme that breaks down carbohydrate, without it I get tremendous gas ?

You are still top of the table though !

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