One of the biggest examples of equality Vs equity there is, and how the Blair government picked the wrong one. A university education was a dividing line in society they said. It was something only available to a select few. Everyone should benefit from a university education.

Thing is, apart from Oxbridge, the dividing line was never about race, sex or class. It was about academic ability. If you had the grades, you could come from anywhere (Equality). Now, there was a problem with high schools and sixth-form colleges not being as good in certain areas, but that wasn’t a problem with the universities. Many even tried to take such factors into account during admissions. If they’d solved the school education issue instead it would have been a fair system (again, apart from Oxbridge).

…but Blair felt that everyone should go to university. So they pushed up the intake numbers, converted all the polytechnics into universities (blowing away further education for less academic people) and turned the now unsustainable grant into loans.

End result: 20 years down the road and the bachelors degree is now largely worthless in hiring circles because everybody has one, and the masters degree is going the same way.

Qualifications are meant to give prospective employers information about people’s strengths. Now everyone appears the same on paper (Yay… Equity!) and the qualifications have lost their reason to exist.

Rhyming slang. Septic Tank = Yank

Also it’s full of shit.

No. Just Oracle crap.

Roddenberry Vs Adams

One painted a sci-fi utopia. The other showed us ourselves.

Wait… You’ve got enough wood and steel to make one?

Burn the rich guy!

Journalists that interview LLMs need a slap. It’s not an admission of wrong-doing if the LLM is the source.

Don’t give me hope. That’s just cruel.

People walking by in the street. It’s a great way to meet new people.

Bend it back further. When it gets to 180 degrees, it latches into place and doesn’t spring back.

Manatees aren’t the only ones.

I can’t fault that logic. I just think that the general public get guilt-tripped a lot of the time for things which are really the fault of corporations, and they continue to escape responsibility.

I was just meaning it’s not a common turn of phrase in English and possibly the author isn’t a native English speaker, so they’re trying to make a Ukrainian idiom fit the headline when it doesn’t.

There’s a difference between driving fast and being ready to move when an opportunity appears. It mainly comes down to watching traffic far enough down the road so you anticipate where the gap will be. That then allows you to smoothly merge into it.

You didn’t experience the 70s, did you?

Now watch as they all get bought out by American big tech.

…and yet the death of Qui-Gon is meant to be the event that set Anakin’s fate.

So that paints the other countries in a better light. Here in the UK it’ll just be down to individuals choosing not to buy. It’s still on the shelves.

The encryption of streaming media is annoying, but it’s not what I fear. The ability to lock the software that I run on my hardware to “approved vendors” only is what worries me, and it’s what TPM promises. A security model where the only trusted party isn’t even the person owning the hardware.

I think there’s multiple languages at play here.

(If you translate a quote, is it a quote?)

It’s a fair post. It’s a Times story with the headline unedited. I’m questioning the original author more than OP.