speaking of computers
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> this is an old story that I posted elsewhere but in light of your recent
> bent on philosophical debate you will understand it as well as I did even
> though 8 years later I still don't
>
>
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> From: "marika" <marik...@my-deja.com>
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> Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 10:50 PM
> Subject: Re: Pig story - very old and very OT
>
>
> On May 14, 5:14 pm, Lone Haranguer <lin...@hughes.net> wrote:
>
>
>>
>> But socialist governments have commonly used force to ensure that no one
>> rises above the herd.
>
>
> but pigs don't really travel in herd do they
>
> (trimmed previous persons comments about pork and stuff which
> results
> with the following sentence...and repost)
>
>
> this part is me and an accurate account of an actual conversation I
> had
> with our 52 year old enrolled in college part time employee
>
> . Well the first part is about the
> disastrous day I had trying to cook without ingredients that I thought
> I
> had on hand. hope you enjoy it
>
>
>>> I tried to make an thai type salad today with grilled prok. BUT. It
>>> is a hundred degrees in my house, and, once again, I forgot to put
>>> away the lettuce and bean sprouts. This is not attractive to the
>>> gustatory senses when cooked by house. Fortunately, I still had a red
>>> pepper another bag of lettuce and cucumber that I put away. And yes,
>>> the prok was in the fridge.
>>> I did remember to put the ginger and garlic away, but I bet that was
>>> not a necessity. The oil was not warm either.
>>>
>>> Today I had a conversation with an employee which was probably a lot
>>> wackier than you are.
>>> I am not her supervisor but she wanted to ask me the possibility of
>>> getting another part time job with us. She has a masters in
>>> literature from an allegedly famous University specializing in Famous
>>> Literary Wannabes. [she also has many years experience in an HR
> department of a major accounting firm]. She cannot arrange files
> alphabetically. [perhaps in accounting they file by....client
> investment
> amount? instead]
>
>>> After a long conversation, [which included an explanation that she MUST
> apply for jobs Under A VERY SPECIFIC RIGAMAROLE otherwise no one will
> make the inference
> on her behalf; and a discussion that a temporary appointment does not
> mean she gets to work the hours she chooses, but that the job is at
> will
> for only the time of the appointment. She must work forty hours a
> week and
> does not get to decide not to come in while she drafts the great
> american
> novel. We also covered such issues as the fact that there actually
> has to
> be an employment opportunity allocated before I can offer her a job
> and that even if there
> were a temporary appointment available, I would have filled it
> already]. I
> made it clear that our office will\
>
>>> probably increase automation and that many jobs may be phased out.
>>> She drew a long breath, and then gave me this I R an intellectual
>>> look, and grinned maniacally as she told me that this trend towards
>>> automation was creating slave labor. If she were standing, she would
>>> have hands akimbo doing that you know I am right pose.
>>> Privately, I wondered if she were perhaps Cobb Anderson's niece in
>>> disguise or something. [Cobb Anderson was a character in the book I was
> reading , "Wetware", who was considered the father of the
> robots featured in the novel. His robots caused a revolution, because
> they
> claimed that we were treating them like slaves. They took over the
> moon]
>>> I asked her to explain. She said that life is not fair because people
>>> who are not mathematically inclined have difficulty understanding
>>> computers.
>>> Hmmm. I thought. She is a literary person. I am sure that if she has
>>> a masters in literature, she must be inclined to the linguistic arts.
>>> So....I said....computers are easier to learn than French.
>>> No she said, COmputers and French are very hard to learn.
>>> I wondered why someone with an advanced liberal arts degree would
>>> conclude that a language was outside of their grasp.
>>> She answered that French is very hard because it is just like
>>> math. I raised my eyebrow, wordlessly, and she persisted....that
>>> many people
>>> she knows say that French is just like math.
>>> While I might at first agree that everything is just language, and
>>> that language is just symbolism for what twirls in our heads....
>>> I though I might just check the reasoning here...I asked WHAT ABOUT
>>> SPANISH???
>>> She said, no Spanish is easy it is nothing like math.
>>> Needless to say, she doesn't know Spanish either. But she does
>>> use a computer every day in her job. Does anyone know anyone who
>>> thinks French is just like math???
>>
>> here are some of the funnier responses I got
>>
>> "Um.I bet a french teacher on a teevee show could bring up measurable
>> responses"--dramar ankalle
>
>> "french is the langauge of math. spanish is the language of geometry.
> but italian, italian is the langauge of phys ed"--ranjit bhatnagar
>>
>> "Computers are hard because they ask you for money for food but you
>> KNOW they are buying liquor and going gambling with it! CURSE YOU,
>> LAWLESS RIVERBOATS!!! I have witnessed my own computers cavorting
>> with bifurcated girls! Of course, you can't say anything to them or
>> they'll order up MORE aluminium siding that turns out to be
>> VINYL....French is to math as
> choco-bar is to cumbus?"--CRGRE
>>
>> "REAL PERSONAL EXPERIENCE:
>>
>> When I started learning Spanish in high school, I was already a
>> trombonist. As everyone knows, music is just like math! And when I
>> started
>> learning Spanish in high school, I thought, "Gosh, as this becomes more
>> natural, and I stop translating word-for-word, instead thinking in the
>> language, it reminds me of playing music!" TO SUM UP MY ARGUMENT:
>> Spanish is
>> just like playing music, and music is just like math. SPANISH IS JUST
>> LIKE
>> MATH!
>>
>> You will have to teach me French before I agree that French is just
>> like
>> math, however."--BlakXXJack
>>
>>
>> "Just Goethe:
>>
>> http://sunsite.utk.edu/math_archives/.http/hypermail/historia/dec98/0008.html"
>
> --Matt McIrvin