Do you consider meeting the needs of people with disabilities (blind people, people with learning disabilities) to be 'sinister social engineering'?I see it's also available in Chinese, Russian, Polish and Braille — and in an 'easy to read' version.
I'm beginning to think there's some kind of sinister social engineering going on here...
I'm guessing that you don't really mean to cause offence to people with learning disabilities who would be using easy to read versions with this comment. Perhaps you'd like to research easy-to-read versions a bit more before you slag them off?
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Do you consider meeting the needs of people with disabilities (blind people, people with learning disabilities) to be 'sinister social engineering'?
I wish that our government departments and other publicly funded services would do more to address meaningfully the needs of people with disabilities, instead of indulging in costly and ineffectual PR exercises of the kind represented by these brochures.
Not being able to understand someone is a hindrance.
Nothing should be forced upon people and nothing should be forced to stop either. I don't agree with such publications but i do agree that the language should be encouraged to be used again.Irish language should be treated like Irish music. If people want it they can have it. It shouldn't be forced onto everyone, and certainly not at taxpayers' expense.
Well there is a contradiction there. Should something that is being forced upon people be 'forced to stop'.Nothing should be forced upon people and nothing should be forced to stop either.
Maybe we should have done that instead. Ireland would have had a space programme.If all the govt. publications in Irish language - which nobody really reads - were stacked on top of each other, they would reach from here to the moon and back seventeen times.
Really? Care to substantiate that - e.g. money spent on teaching Irish versus, say, the US or USSR space programmes?I am sure more time was wasted in Ireland over the decades trying to force Irish in to kids than was ever spend on any space programme anywhere.
Well there is a contradiction there. Should something that is being forced upon people be 'forced to stop'.
Wasting money on Irish language publications which nobody reads only wastes money and harms the environment.
Either do I , sometimes i just think its lazy and ignorant for people to so casually disregard their culture.but I just don't get the hatred of your native tongue here.
I wouldn't have thought that the space programmes were exactly environmentally friendly. .
I said time ( " I am sure more time was wasted in Ireland over the decades trying to force Irish in to kids than was ever spend on any space programme anywhere."), not money. At a guesstimate, say an hour a day by say 600,000 people ( who are engaged in teaching or being taught ) is a hell of a lot of time. 600,000 hours a day is equivalent to 75,000 people working an eight hour day....I doubt if either the US or USSR space programme absorbed that much time but I am open to correction.Really? Care to substantiate that - e.g. money spent on teaching Irish versus, say, the US or USSR space programmes?
Even measured in man/person days of work I would be very surprised if a space programme did not come out on top. But if you have some evidence that this is not the case feel free to cite it.I said time, not money. Say an hour a day by say 600,000 people is a hell of a lot of time.
Even measured in man/person days of work I would be very surprised if a space programme did not come out on top.
You think more than 75,000 people a day worked 8 hour days on the space programme ?
How did you work this out? Maybe that IS the Irish space programme? No need for dem new fangled carbon nanotubes begob! We'll build our space elevator from books!"If all the govt. publications in Irish language - which nobody really reads - were stacked on top of each other, they would reach from here to the moon and back seventeen times. "
I wouldn't have thought that the space programmes were exactly environmentally friendly. Plus the billions that are spent annually to fund very little progress would tend to go against your argument. If the main point of your argument is environmentally based, I think there are far worse offenders for you to concentrate your energy on.
Either do I , sometimes i just think its lazy and ignorant for people to so casually disregard their culture.
How did you work this out? Maybe that IS the Irish space programme? No need for dem new fangled carbon nanotubes begob! We'll build our space elevator from books!
Yes - when you take into account the teams designing, building, testing the spacecrafts themselves, government dapartments involved, media, R&D teams, astronauts plus training, mission control, building the facilities from which the space crafts themselves were launched, scientists involved from start to finish, the fact that many people involved would have worked far longer than 8 hour days etc.... I would think its quite possible that more man hours were spent on it.
And each of the above would have commanded a higher salary than someone teaching Irish so its also quite possible that it cost a lot more - you dont get whole teams of world class scientists and engineers working cheap.
I think it's more than quite possible. For example over 40'000 people worked on the Manhatten Project (to produce the first H-Bomb).
NASA spent over $18.5 billion in 2007. I don't think we spend quite that much teaching Irish (or printing Irish literature).
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