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    Quote Originally Posted by MisterD View Post

    and my horizons would always have been narrower without that degree. I just have the ability from where I stand now, to say "I'd rather be over there, and I wouldn't have needed a degree to do it."

    And none of that learning is subject related - you could have learnt that in any degree - and that is education over training ...

    (What Mach meant I will discuss later ...)
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    Quote Originally Posted by bogan View Post

    lol, plastic 3dp is for plebs mate
    Wow, thats quite cool.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MisterD View Post
    Are you sure about that, or just feeling lonely in that profession?
    Damned sure... we're all so old and the knees take a hammering.
    I didn't think!!! I experimented!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Blackbird View Post
    A similar analogy exists with scientists who believe in a Supreme Being - seems wrong when science is evidence-based. Still, that's the nature of faith, innit?
    Oh, its on.

    Its on like Donkey Frikkin' Kong.


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    Quote Originally Posted by HenryDorsetCase View Post
    Wow, thats quite cool.
    Robots generally are, and you won't find many robotiscists who were better off for not doing a degree.

    Game, set, and match.



    On a more on topical note, if I have kids, they'll be given every opportunity to get the best education, and to direct where their own education leads; but there will be serious consequences if they don't put some bloody effort in along the way.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Blackbird View Post
    A similar analogy exists with scientists who believe in a Supreme Being - seems wrong when science is evidence-based. Still, that's the nature of faith, innit?
    well, the fact that >80% of the population believes/knows/experiences a higher power....
    Just because science cant measure it....

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    Quote Originally Posted by bogan View Post
    Robots generally are, and you won't find many robotiscists who were better off for not doing a degree.

    Game, set, and match.

    On a more on topical note, if I have kids, they'll be given every opportunity to get the best education, and to direct where their own education leads; but there will be serious consequences if they don't put some bloody effort in along the way.
    Bet it was a bunch of kids that did the cgi for that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mashman View Post
    Bet it was a bunch of kids that did the cgi for that.
    Bet it was a bunch of graduates who designed, built, tested, and programmed the robotics. It might surprise you just how little of that was CGI too.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bogan View Post
    Bet it was a bunch of graduates who designed, built, tested, and programmed the robotics. It might surprise you just how little of that was CGI too.
    No doubt... there's some smart fuckers doing some smart shit with robotics and with any luck it won't end up in military hands. It wouldn't surprise me if none of it was CGI but just smart editing... even still, smart stuff.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Berries View Post
    Yeah but come on, my Jack Russell could get in to uni these days.

    The fact that you mention university as a measure of success puts you alongside those "uber parents" the story is dissing doesn't it?
    Aye. There's fuck all competitive about today's society, the first thing university teaches it's students.

    "Uber parents are a natural product of an uber-competitive economic system."
    Peter Lyons

    Not only demonstrably incorrect but minus a couple of thousand chocky fish for the use of "uber" in maximum sanctimonious mode.

    Fuckwit.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Blackbird View Post
    Same route as me except I was an apprentice fitter/turner and went down the mechanical route.
    Then it'll come as no surprise to hear that most successful people I know did their trades/practical training before, (or concurrent with) academic accomplishment.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ocean1 View Post
    "Uber parents are a natural product of an uber-competitive economic system."
    Peter Lyons.
    Isn't he the guy that shearing programme was all about?


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    Quote Originally Posted by HenryDorsetCase View Post
    I have no clue.
    I've heard that about you
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ocean1 View Post
    Aye. There's fuck all competitive about today's society, the first thing university teaches it's students.

    "Uber parents are a natural product of an uber-competitive economic system."
    Peter Lyons

    Not only demonstrably incorrect but minus a couple of thousand chocky fish for the use of "uber" in maximum sanctimonious mode.

    Fuckwit.
    I read the article and I still dont know what an ' uber ' parent is. I guess thats the price for going to a small town school. I only learnt to read, write and do my sums.
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