5-year-old british kid passes LSD exam
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MCSE
FTFY.Although if we're being picky here, is the (now retired) MCSE not a type of MCP?
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Although if we're being picky here, is the (now retired) MCSE not a type of MCP?
You needed several certificates to become MCSE. Passing one granted you MCP status.
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the UK is a really weird issue, because we are individual countries for some things, but a single entity for others.
Soccer is a good example of something we have separate teams for each country, same with rugby, cricket and a few others. We have one government, but have and continue to devolve many powers to the individual countries.
I think in terms of distinction validity it probably goes like this:
British VS European >
English VS British >
Californian VS American
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I think one of us had a "whoosh" moment, and I don't think it's me...
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Possibly me then. Meh. Not had enough sleep.
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Soccer is a good example of something we have separate teams for each country, same with rugby, cricket and a few others.
For rugby, Northern Ireland's team is unified with our team in the Republic. Of course for soccer we have separate ones... I don't really blame Americans for not keeping track of this stuff. They do get it spectacularly wrong regularly though!http://www.newstalk.com/reader/47.301.343/34209/0/
"In one of the more bizarre interviews you will see for quite some time, IDA Ireland Chief Executive Martin Shanahan made an appearance on CNBC's Squawk Box business show [...]
Some of the eyebrow raising questions include: Why have the Euro in Ireland? What about Scotland? Northern Irelandās the pound? Itās sort of the same Ireland, isnāt it?"https://www.newstalk.ie/In-bizarre-US-interview-Irish-tourism-chief-asked:-Theres-no-plans-of-Ireland-leaving-the-UK-is-there
" In a moment that is both uncomfortable and confusing an American radio host asks Niall Gibbons, chief executive of Tourism Ireland:āI donāt want to put you on the spot here, Niall, but I want to find out; thereās no plans of Ireland deciding to leave the UK, is there?ā"
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So, let's clear this up once and for all.
I am English. This means I was born in the country of England.
I am British. This means I am a citizen of the larger of the two mainlands off the north west coast of France. It is not strictly a nationality though treated as one.
I am a citizen of the United Kingdom. This means I am a citizen of the legal entity created by a union of the countries of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland (as distinct from Ireland or Eire as it is sometimes known)One can be British and not English, if they are Scottish by virtue of being born in Scotland. Or a resident of any of the dependencies of the British crown.
Without looking at this case, I think it is accurate to say that both father and son are British (citizens of the crown) but perhaps only the child is English (born in England)
And London vs City of London is another ball of wax.
Here endeth the sermon.
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That doesn't address @lucas's original assertion:
He is English not British.
Which makes absolutely no sense at all.
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That's because @lucas was wrong but not for the obvious reason.
Someone who is English is British until they are not. As in: they are English and British - until something revokes their Britishness, i.e. changing nationality on a permanent basis (as opposed to dual nationality) or revocation of a passport which typically includes rescinding ones' legal nationality (at least this is what I learned in the wake of Edward Snowden)
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rescinding ones' legal nationality
which you can do without the government taking it away from you, just takes a court filing and a couple of hearings 9at least in the USA).
of course once you do that getting a job, leaving the country, paying taxes (which you still need to pay) becomes a lot harder
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wut
Translation: "I heard this computer word. Look at me I'm so smart. I could totally pass this test too, my 5 year old definitely isn't smarter than me!"
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I wasn't sure of the situation in the US but here it's certainly a little harder to rescind nationality.
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I wasn't sure of the situation in the US but here it's certainly a little harder to rescind nationality.
but no less of a bad idea i'm guessing... ;-)
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Indeed. I imagine such things are basically TDWTF worthy.
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But why read the thread when I can just reply immediately :V
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But why read the thread when I can just reply immediately :V
I'm catching up after what amounts to several weeks off. If I can do it, so can you
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British VS European
British people also somehow don't think they're in Europe at all. I never got this one.
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That doesn't address @lucas's original assertion:
lucas:
He is English not British.Which makes absolutely no sense at all.
Racism.
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British people also somehow don't think they're in Europe at all. I never got this one.
Mostly because the rest of Europe basically treats us as outcasts.
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They offered you into the Euro, but you refused. As far as I know, you're in all the other European join-government projects. Not sure what "outcast" means in this context.
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Yes, yes we did, for perfectly sound economic reasons. (Look up Exchange Rate Mechanism from 1992 and observe what happened.)
Also observe the amount of time between France and Germany becoming part of the European Economic Area (long before the EEC or Common Market were ever a thing) and how many times the UK were denied entrance in the first place.
You're only seeing bits of it from the internet, seriously being British is culturally such a stigma for large parts of Europe.
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You're only seeing bits of it from the internet, seriously being British is culturally such a stigma for large parts of Europe.
Yeah well. Just desserts for what you guys did to India.
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Yeah well. Just desserts for what you guys did to India.
You know we were at war with France many times longer than your country was even a country, right?
History, do you know it?
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If it was racism, would have made a racial slur about the fact that his parents are from Pakistan.
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You're only seeing bits of it from the internet, seriously being British is culturally such a stigma for large parts of Europe.
This has always struck me as analogous to the Big / Little Satan Iranian classification of the US and Israel, except it's the way Europe looks at the US / Britain. We see the democracies in Europe and think we're all one big happy Free World, but those guys still cling to their distrust of the Anglo-Saxon economic (and political) model.
Not that any of us are terribly pure, but we're (they're) really comparing with other real world things, not purity.
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Europe is really a hot mess of things. I'm not convinced the US is really more 'united' on a lot of things than the EU is in practice.
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You know we were at war with France many times longer than your country was even a country, right?
Yes.
History, do you know it?
At the risk of sounding conceited, probably better than the majority of people here.
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You? Sounding conceited? NEVAH.
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Europe is really a hot mess of things.
I certainly won't argue against that.
I'm not convinced the US is really more 'united' on a lot of things than the EU is in practice.
Quite possible. Of course, when you're talking about hundreds of millions of people, you (I) wouldn't really want to be that united. But it's still a difference in an underlying philosophy and maybe a different center of gravity.
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You may not of noticed that we are on an island off of mainland europe.
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That's OK, we have a whole giant state that's on the same continent but not typically included in the Continental US.
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That's OK, we have a whole giant state that's on the same continent but not typically included in the Continental US.
Don't forget that island state way out in the middle of the ocean.
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You may not of noticed that we are on an island off of mainland europe.
So is Galveston, Texas. We still consider it part of North America.
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Don't forget that island state way out in the middle of the ocean.
Yeah, but that makes sense to be not considered part of the continent.
So is Galveston, Texas. We still consider it part of North America.
And New York City and Long Island beyond that.
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I was being faceicious.
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denied entrance
Because you where demanding silly things ... Like getting institutions located in the UK
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Well the way things are going they are likely to kick us out again.
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I think the point @chubertdev was trying to make is that, given how this young boy passed it, the test does not require a great deal of experience, which he simply could not gain due to, well, not being alive long enough.
When taking the exams, I used zero real-world knowledge, and only used knowledge that I had gained from studying for those tests.
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Most likely because you treat the EU as a wallet
You realise we pay more into the EU than we receive out of it, right?
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Because you where demanding silly things ... Like getting institutions located in the UK
Even back in the 1950s when this was all first set up?
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@lucas said:
You may not of noticed that we are on an island off of mainland europe.
So is Galveston, Texas. We still consider it part of North America.I certainly know what you really meant, but I did have a good chuckle at the idea of Galveston, Texas being an island off of mainland Europe that we consider part of North America.
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Galveston, Texas being an island off of mainland Europe that we consider part of North America.
Well, for sufficiently-broad definitions of "being an island off of mainland Europe" you might be able to argue that it's true. But by that point you could probably call Galveston an island off of every continent.
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I wasn't sure of the situation in the US but here it's certainly a little harder to rescind nationality.
Until May, it was illegal for the UK Home Secretary to render a UK citizen Stateless.
Currently, and obstensibly, it's only being used against suspected terrorists. The judicial system is bypassed.
Most likely because you treat the EU as a wallet
Quite the opposite. The UK is a net contributor, and there's that little matter of the Ā£1.7bn demanded (with menaces) after the organisation that's had it's accounts refused to be signed off for the past 20 years decided to fiddle the figures.
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When taking the exams, I used zero real-world knowledge, and only used knowledge that I had gained from studying for those tests.
because answering the test questions with what works best in practice is Doing It Wrongā¢. As an MSCE myself (Windows Server 2003, so I'm showing my age), I can attest to that: the whole Windows Backup section is a case in point.