1) Come to think of it, I wasn't taught that at school either. Or at least I was, but it was part of Acnient History A level comparing Roman, Athenian and Modern British political systems. So not exactly mainstream programming.
The Gordon Brown "not having a mandate" thing really annoys me to. How long was John Major PM before winning an election? About two years.
2) "But just because you don't know how the world works isn't an excuse for it not working the way you want it to."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! You'd have to brainwash more than half the population to eradicate THAT tendency. It's all part of the infantalised, life-on-demand culture in which we live.
Oh, I know. Did you see that piece that was going around last week on the Principles of the American Cargo Cult? Seems to fit western society in general rather well...
As does the experiment that works on both pigeons and humans, where you have something that randomly dispenses treats/points, and the subjects develop highly ritualised behaviours as they attempt to replicate whatever it was that made the treats appear.
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The Gordon Brown "not having a mandate" thing really annoys me to. How long was John Major PM before winning an election? About two years.
2) "But just because you don't know how the world works isn't an excuse for it not working the way you want it to."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! You'd have to brainwash more than half the population to eradicate THAT tendency. It's all part of the infantalised, life-on-demand culture in which we live.
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Oh, I know. Did you see that piece that was going around last week on the Principles of the American Cargo Cult? Seems to fit western society in general rather well...
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Sentience is wasted on a lot of people.
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