"Terry Yager" wrote:
>> Well it mightn't be as widespread, after all I'm in the
>> position where I'm a majority group of people who are
>> looking for work, these people I've met have been via
>> voluntry work that I'm doing or Work for the Dole (the
>> program which you have to do in order to get the Dole
>> - this comes into effect if you've been unemployed for
>> 6 months). For myself, I may got back to get an
>> education in the environment, 'cause it seems like a
>> good way to pursue a career in it. As a child, I grew
>> up in the bush, but never really learned the values of
>> it until I met some people who worked in the
>> environment.
> Environmental studies seems interesting enough...
Complicating enough, it sure is. There's still some good
stuff left of or indigenous plants, but with introduction
of plants from overseas & people orderning it over the
internet, there is that potential that more plants will
become weedy. Generally a weed is either a plant which
has been introduced from another part of Australia,
which loves to take control of, by multiplying or a plant
from overseas (South African plants tend to be the
worse - since lots of people love their flowers), which
have ways of spreading easily.
I don't know about the north half of the states, but I
heard a plant called the tumble weed (I think - or
rolley polley) was a big problem. In movies based
down south Texas or even Mexico, you generally
see it rolling around (it's this ball based plant). This
plant is actually Russian! ;-)
Oh & I've heard some stories about Eucalyptus
growing in the States, which don't quite look the
same as our Aussie counterparts. Merely because
of the conditions they have here, which don't
exist overseas!
> Well disability is taken very seriously here, my Father had
> to retire because of his Arthritis, back then you had to retire
> at 65, but he got out at 61.
> Yes, but of course they never admitted it while he was still
> sitting in office. The signs were there right along, for
> anyone who cared to take notice, but he had a staff (and
> wife) that was pretty good at covering for him.
Good Heavens!
> Really? I have some trouble placing you age-wise. I
> tend to think of you as being about my age or mebbe
> a little older, because of the wisdom that you seem to
> possess.
I'm 26 going on 27 at the very end of June! Generally,
wherever I go I'm the baby of the pack, because I have
an obsession for things older than myself! ;-) Naturally,
computers isn't older than me, but I was VERY young
when I got stated with one. And I like them more than
you're everyday PC. Older IBMs like 386s/486s I don't
mind using, cause programming them just means that
people are still interested in those machines.
Didn't think I processed a wisdom! ;-)
> (I can't even begin to age carlsson, he goes from one
> extreme (youth) to the other (wisdom) in his posts).
Sounds like he's older than me.
>> Well, you know what Benjamin Diserali said about statistics...
>> No, I'm not familiar with him? Is he free speech bloke or
>> something?
> Disraeli (sorry, I munged the spelling before) was a PM
> in GB about a generation ago. One of his famous quotes
> goes quote from Benjamin Disraeli "There are three kinds
> of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics".
Let me guess, he was a PM of GB in the 60s?
One such album (from a 60s group called Cream - heard of
Eric Clapton?) is called "Disraeli Gears". Since Cream were
a group from Britan in the Psychedelic era, I'm guessing he
was PM of that time! ;-)
Cheers,
CP/M User.
