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by Alex Merry on Tuesday 10/Jul/2007, @15:34
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[It's probably worth pointing out for those not familiar with the UK political system that the Green Party is not a major political player. However, the government is doing various studies on OSS, and there doesn't appear to be any real resistance from any political parties to the idea of OSS. Neither is there any great push from any of the parties.]
When I went to school (which wasn't all that long ago), IT lessons were spent learning to type quickly (Mavis Beacon, anyone?), and some basic word processing. We had Mac LCIIIs, with ClarisWorks, but our IT teacher was good at teaching us how to do word processing in general (things like how to lay out a letter etc.), rather than the specifics of ClarisWorks. I think it helped that the IT teachers had business degrees rather than IT-related degrees. Learning to touchtype was one of the most useful things I've done.
About halfway through high school (year 9), they decided to rip out the Macs and install a windows network. Before that, only the geekiest of students messed around with the computers (those of you who used Macs before the days of OSX will know why :-P). Afterwards, every Tom, Dick and Harry was downloading silly screensavers, trying to hack other people's accounts and playing stupid online games - all stuff that you couldn't do on the LCIIIs, because they simply weren't capable. Quite frankly, I'm not sure what the school gained in the network upgrade, apart from larger bills, a higher-maintenance network and students wasting more time.
Eh, I sound like an old man reminiscing about the good old days... |
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Re: Schools
by Thomas on Wednesday 11/Jul/2007, @01:10
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current seats in Scottish Parliament, (in braces before the last election in 2007)
Scottish Labour Party: 46 (50)
Scottish National Party: 47 (26)
Scottish Conservative and Unionist: 17 (17)
Scottish Liberal Democrats: 16 (17)
Scottish Green Party: 2 (7)
The Greens went down from 7 to 2 seats. So Patrick Harvie is one of the two delegates of the Green party?
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Re: Schools
by Jonathan Riddell on Wednesday 11/Jul/2007, @02:09
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They are a major player in so far as the government depends on them for support of their First Minister. In a proportional representation system with minority government small parties tend to have more influence than might be expected.
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Re: Schools
by Ian Ruffell on Wednesday 11/Jul/2007, @08:56
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Patrick also convenes the Parliament's committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change [1] so he has a bit more influence than your average minor party backbencher.
[1] http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/s3/committees/ticc/index.htm
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Scottish Paraliment make-up
by CSMiller on Thursday 26/Jul/2007, @13:46
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The Greens do have two MSPs (Members of the Scottish Paraliment).
However, because the SNP had the largest number of MSPs,
they had first chance to form a paraliment.
The Labour and LibDems were in coalition in the last Paraliment.
Labour, SNP and Conservatives are opposed to each other; they wouldn't do a
deal.
The LibDems are opposed to Scottish Independence; they said before the election that they wouldn't do a deal with the SNP if the SNP went ahead with referendum on Scottish Indpendance; this is a manifesto commitment of the SNP. Apart from this the SNP and LibDems agree enough for a coalition.
The Scottish Socialist Party (6 MSPs last time) are pro-independence, as as are the Greens.
The Greens and SNP are in coalition, but since they don't have a majority of MSPs the executive is taking issues one at time, mainly the uncontentious ones, gathering enough support from the other parties.
BTW,
The Greens are also opposed to software patents.
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