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It's never too late to learn new skills
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Schneibster
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Re: It's never too late to learn new skills
Yeah, you seem to have learned to spam with amazing alacrity.
We need a directorate of science, and we need it to be voted on only by scientists. You don't get to vote on reality. Get over it. Elected officials that deny the findings of the Science Directorate are subject to immediate impeachment for incompetence.
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GIThruster
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Re: It's never too late to learn new skills
"The real master has no tools at all, only a limitless capacity to improvise with what is to hand."
Em. . .I'm sorry but this is BS. Couldn't read past it.
Em. . .I'm sorry but this is BS. Couldn't read past it.
"Courage is not just a virtue, but the form of every virtue at the testing point." C. S. Lewis
Re: It's never too late to learn new skills
I didn't like that either. I'm definitely a tool nut. And knowing the right tool for the job and how to use it part of mastery. Yes you can improvise, but mastery means not having to. It's better to have the pump, a set of wrenches and spare than have to rely on an improvisation that may not work. My philosophy on things like that is that it's better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.GIThruster wrote:"The real master has no tools at all, only a limitless capacity to improvise with what is to hand."
Em. . .I'm sorry but this is BS. Couldn't read past it.
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GIThruster
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Re: It's never too late to learn new skills
Especially in the desert. I think these folks were shining on the author and he never figured it out.Jccarlton wrote:My philosophy on things like that is that it's better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.
"Courage is not just a virtue, but the form of every virtue at the testing point." C. S. Lewis
Re: It's never too late to learn new skills
GIThruster wrote:"The real master has no tools at all, only a limitless capacity to improvise with what is to hand."
Em. . .I'm sorry but this is BS. Couldn't read past it.
It is a circumstance which I have found myself in on far too many occasions. Improvisation is something i'm rather good at, and I have gotten out of quite a few situations by turning whatever could be found to my needs.
‘What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.’
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Re: It's never too late to learn new skills
It's amazing what you can fix with paper clips and rubber bands when nothing else is available, but I still swoon going by the tool section in the hardware store. One of my favorite repairs was a customer machine that would only fail at noon every day. That was when the sun came through the skylight and tripped the photosensors, fixed by turning machine 90 degrees.
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Schneibster
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Re: It's never too late to learn new skills
New skills like not hating blacks.
Good luck.
Good luck.
We need a directorate of science, and we need it to be voted on only by scientists. You don't get to vote on reality. Get over it. Elected officials that deny the findings of the Science Directorate are subject to immediate impeachment for incompetence.
Re: It's never too late to learn new skills
How competent will we have to be for the Post Obama country?
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