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Tim Haynes <piglet@glutinous.custard.org> wrote in message
news:87itw13wbv.fsf@straw.pigsty.org.uk...
> "Alistair Mann" <vianews@lgeezer.demon.co.uk> writes:
>
> > Of course students are allowed to go. It is simply that their attendance
> > is discouraged and certainly won't attract "student discount" if they
> > did: the expo is a commercial operation, and would discontinue rapidly
> > were it to turn into a spotty-youth fest,
>
> And the correlation between students and a "spotty-youth fest" is what,
> exactly?

About 1.3 to 1 ime.

> > Now you could either indignantly bleat that you are (and I needed a sick
> > bag here) "Computer scientists of the future",
>
> Hmmm? What about computer scientists requires an ill bag?

Try reading what I wrote, rather than making up questions.

> > or you could start practicing some of the skills you will need in
future,
> > and get creative with the form.  Try lying. Or do you think that they'll
> > send someone round to check? If you honestly believe that you need to be
> > there, then put yourself down as something -- anything -- and go. Or
> > stump up the public admissions fee. But FFS get out of your ivory tower
> > and quit thinking that students are special cases.
>
> Why do you think lying is a legitimate way to get ahead in business?

I don't. Why do you think telling the whole truth in its final and
unassailable form on the registration note for a minor expo is the only way
to get ahead in business? At what point do you draw the line -- your age
accurate to the exact minute?

> You may safely expect your BS-factor to find you out, sooner or later.

Hardly BS: if I know I say so. If I don't I say so. If I can put an educated
guess, I try so. So far it's lead to work in computing going back to 1984. I
hope your "truth, the hole truth and nothing but the truth" approach will
lead to an even more extensive career. In law perhaps.
--
Alistair Mann