Frazzled wrote:I'm sure thats a relief.

Hordini wrote:

Melissia wrote:It would be weird if a four year old could read fluently (some can mind you, but a rural home doesn't strike me as a place where tehy'd send their daughter to preschool), nevermind participate in DakkaDakka discussion. Or follow it.

Of the kids I've known of who could read at very young ages (I mean actually read, not just know their ABCs and be able to recognize a handful of vocabulary words), it usually had more to do with the parents teaching the kids themselves, not sending them to preschool. I'm not saying preschool is bad or pointless or anything, just that most kids don't come out of preschool being able to read children's books on their own without a lot of help from parents, because being able to read at that level isn't really the focus of preschool. Preschools exist in rural school districts too, and plenty of people send their kids to them, so I don't think that really has anything to do with it either.

SlaveToDorkness wrote:I think he's saying it doesn't make a damn difference. If my Frazzcorder isn't malfunctioning.

sebster wrote:
So what are you saying here? No more green cards because them foreign workers be rapists?

SlaveToDorkness wrote:I think he's saying it doesn't make a damn difference. If my Frazzcorder isn't malfunctioning.

sebster wrote:

SlaveToDorkness wrote:I think he's saying it doesn't make a damn difference. If my Frazzcorder isn't malfunctioning.

It can't mean that. It was Fraz who first raised it as an issue that needs to be discussed; "Interestingly no one mentioned the offender wasn't a citizen."

dogma wrote:

sebster wrote:
So what are you saying here? No more green cards because them foreign workers be rapists?

Especially the highly educated ones that we brain-drain from other countries.

dogma wrote:Alan Turing? He was gay!

youbedead wrote:

dogma wrote:Alan Turing? He was gay!

By God, Someone has to alert the proper authorities.

A Town Called Malus wrote:

youbedead wrote:

dogma wrote:Alan Turing? He was gay!

By God, Someone has to alert the proper authorities.

Unfortunately they did.

youbedead wrote:

A Town Called Malus wrote:

youbedead wrote:

dogma wrote:Alan Turing? He was gay!

By God, Someone has to alert the proper authorities.

Unfortunately they did.

In related news today is his 100 birthday (googles got a turing machine for the doodel), let us poor out a drink for one of the most influential men in computer science whose time was unfortunately cut short due to homophobia.