jkhaxxe
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Comment · 13 years ago
Comment · 13 years ago
"well educated, highly trained American's"
ironic...
Comment · 13 years ago
I really don't care. I'm just not going to look at any adverts.
Comment · 13 years ago
"It's like receiving free news every morning, but you have ordered a kid who delivers them to cut out ads."
What's wrong with that? What laws is that breaking? I'm not even sure that's breaking any social contract.
Comment · 13 years ago
Well all new nurses as of last year are graduates - the rest of them are a mix of graduates and non-graduates.
Anyway - I doubt many nurses were privately educated, they aren't well paid and are unlikely to come from families with their own money.
And almost 50% of young people are graduates - they can't all be middle class.
Basically I think Americans think of this as middle class http://bite-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07..., where in the UK we think of this as middle class http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/files/2010/11/middleton-pa....
I'm not saying we're richer or posher than Americans - just that our definition of middle class is different.
Comment · 13 years ago
People hate on the public schools (for Americans that means the very top end of private schools), but their history is that they were set up before there were any state schools, and provided education for the public, rather than their own people, so the name is apt. You had to pay or get a scholarship, but still like any other school at the time they were open to the (paying) public.
Comment · 13 years ago
So? Perhaps they would also like to block the ads at the server side, and save themselves the bill?
But more seriously, I don't care about their bills. They're delivering HTML over an open network connection - what I do with that HTML is entirely up to me. If they don't like that there's nothing they can do about it.
Comment · 13 years ago
Because I'm paying for the bandwidth, and because I'm there for the content, not the adverts, and because I can - it's my computer, I can decide what it does.
Comment · 13 years ago
Articles like this always remind me that here in the UK (or at least I) have a very different view of what 'middle-class' means compared to the US.
This article implies that middle-class means jobs like radiology technician, phlebotomist, nurse technician. Those don't strike me as middle-class whatsoever!
To me middle-class means privately educated, own reserves of money, probably a large house in the country as well as an apartment in the city, two kids, a labrador and a Barbour quilted jacket: bankers, doctors, baristers etc.
Then beyond that people like the Duke of Westminster, Bill Gates, the Kennedys etc are the upper class - not random Google engineers who joined in the last few years like some US people seem to imply!
What does she find so funny about "what if there was a better way?"