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Hi, if any one is good with computer graphics or if they would just happen to have a picture like this, I need / an looking for a picture of a fireman looking atraight forward with say an ax in one hand or something, he can have an scba mack on(the masks they wair to get oxygen). If any one could hook me up with a graphic like that it would be great. O and just to let you know you would be helping a volinteer fighter company.
Thank you for your time.
http://images.google.com/images?q=fi...=Search+Images
Wasn't thatt hard ? Except, you may have copyright problems....
Get out the shovel and dig ....................... !
First one that caught my eye on flickr:
http://flickr.com/photos/juicebox/50097542/
Huge wiki of public domain image resources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_...mage_resources
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Hi, if any one is good with computer graphics or if they would just happen to have a picture like this, I need / an looking for a picture of a fireman looking atraight forward with say an ax in one hand or something, he can have an scba mack on(the masks they wair to get oxygen). If any one could hook me up with a graphic like that it would be great. O and just to let you know you would be helping a volinteer fighter company.
Anyone who has ever seen me on IRC knows that I have typos and a lot of them. Hell you can see them on here.
But it scares to me think the above post is a volunteer fire fighter or even someone associated with one.
*checks his fire alarms*
Ryan
Maybe it is just me, but when you are trapped in a burning building and a firefighter comes to rescue you, I would imagine that his profficiency at Mavis Beacon typing tests would not be at the top of your mind? :D
Typing is not a pre-requisite for firefighting ;)
Hey Hey,
Typing might not be on my mind when I'm being hauled out of a burning building but I'll be damn sure thinking can this guy get me out if something bad happens. As human beings we judge, it's a natural fact... I had the same thought that hjack had, primarily because I used it as a way of judging intelligence. The inability to spell leads me to assume low intelligence and firefighting isn't only about brute strength... these people need to be able to think on their feet. It's an unfair bias, but it's ingrained in us as people.Quote:
Originally posted here by nihil
Maybe it is just me, but when you are trapped in a burning building and a firefighter comes to rescue you, I would imagine that his profficiency at Mavis Beacon typing tests would not be at the top of your mind? :D
Typing is not a pre-requisite for firefighting ;)
Peace,
HT
That is a totally incorrect assumption..............you LEARN how to spell................you cannot learn how to be intelligent. Intelligence is innate, the rest is learning/education/training. For example, dyslexics suffer from dyslexia.............not unintelligence.Quote:
The inability to spell leads me to assume low intelligence
If you examine the post you will see that all the errors (bar one) are caused by hitting an adjacent key..............those are "typographical errors" not spelling mistakes.
;)
I disagree with all but one being typographical errors...Quote:
Originally posted here by nihil
That is a totally incorrect assumption..............you LEARN how to spell................you cannot learn how to be intelligent. Intelligence is innate, the rest is learning/education/training. For example, dyslexics suffer from dyslexia.............not unintelligence.
If you examine the post you will see that all the errors (bar one) are caused by hitting an adjacent key..............those are "typographical errors" not spelling mistakes.
;)
The italics are spelling/grammatical errors, the bold are the typographical errors. You can say that spelling is something you learn, but an unintelligent person cannot learn to spell... the two usually go hand in hand. I can understand a typo or two (I know I make enough of them when my wireless keyboard acts up) and even the occasional spelling mistake, but when I'm unsure of a word I always look it up... It's respect for other people. If you can't grasp basic comprehension, then it's a lack of intelligence. You have to forgive me... I see papers written by people that insist on using 'U' and 'Ur' or '4' and it kills me inside. I'm also the person who believes we should insitute standardized IQ penalties with the death penalty for low scores... Just think, Bush would never have been around long enough to have been elected :P...Quote:
Hi, if any one is good with computer graphics or if they would just happen to have a picture like this, I need / an looking for a picture of a fireman looking atraight forward with say an ax in one hand or something, he can have an scba mack on(the masks they wair to get oxygen). If any one could hook me up with a graphic like that it would be great. O and just to let you know you would be helping a volinteer fighter company.
Thank you for your time.
I know it's not right, and I know it's rather snobbish but hey... we're all entitled to our own opinion. As far as dyslexics... it's their intelligence that get's them through (there are several in my family). They work damn hard and it's their natural intelligence that gives them the ability to learn how to get by.
But hey... it's 6am and I haven't slept in a while, so who's to say.
Peace,
HT
"any one" or "anyone" makes no difference in the context. What you have to realise is that "spelling" is relatively new...............the first lexicons (dictionaries) only came out around 1850? Language is contextual before it is grammatical
"mack"................nope......................"c" is diagonally adjacent to "s"...........and he spells mask correctly on the next line...............hell, you wouldn't make a detective :D
"O"..................read more poetry, and the Bible ;)
"Comprehension" means "understanding", and you should be able to "comprehend" despite any typos, spelling, or grammatical errors.Quote:
If you can't grasp basic comprehension, then it's a lack of intelligence
Bloody mobile telephones and those text messages............incinerate the lot I say..........and the creatures that appear to have them surgically grafted to their paws.Quote:
I see papers written by people that insist on using 'U' and 'Ur' or '4' and it kills me inside
Totally incorrect! you learn how to spell just like learning the national anthem, a poem, a prayer...................etc. It is almost "by rote" it is not derived from first principles.Quote:
but an unintelligent person cannot learn to spell... the two usually go hand in hand
Hey, just go through your thought processes when you learned your first foreign language?
;)
Aren't all the US .gov resources allowed to be used? They can't hold a copyright on that stuff... right?
http://images.google.com/images?svnu...ov&btnG=Search
http://www.3m.com/meetingnetwork/pre..._criminal.htmlQuote:
Other works in the public domain -- those you are free to use without having to worry about copyright -- include those created by the U.S. Government. So, for instance, you don't need permission to use screen captures of government Web sites as examples of good or bad design in a class on designing Web pages. But don't assume this applies to foreign countries as well. The government of the United Kingdom, for instance, does claim copyright for its works. So travel with care when reusing governmental works found on the Internet or elsewhere.
I'm not trying to start a war here, but you make this mistake pretty often, HT (along with 50% of Americans/Canadians, btw) :DQuote:
Originally posted by HTRegz
it's their intelligence that get's them through
It's GETS, not GET'S...
Hey Hey,Quote:
Originally posted here by nihil
Bloody mobile telephones and those text messages............incinerate the lot I say..........and the creatures that appear to have them surgically grafted to their paws.
Totally incorrect! you learn how to spell just like learning the national anthem, a poem, a prayer...................etc. It is almost "by rote" it is not derived from first principles.
Hey, just go through your thought processes when you learned your first foreign language?
;)
I disagree with destroying mobile phones and text messages... I blame college and uni profs, I know a lot of them that are accepting text message versions of words saying it's the English of the future.
I agree with you that you have to learn it and practice it... but it still requires intelligence... You aren't going to teach an idiot a second language. My high school french classes were filled with the top 5% of the students... no one else took that class...
I'm working on learning Italian right now and once again, it takes time and repetition, but it also relies on your intelligence to learn the language. I'll stand by my theory that intelligent people don't learn as well..
Neg: :P
Peace,
HT
Thank you nihil.Quote:
If you examine the post you will see that all the errors (bar one) are caused by hitting an adjacent key..............those are "typographical errors" not spelling mistakes.
HTRegz its not a typographical error its an acronym try typing in scba masks in google it will bring up all the info you need on them.Quote:
scba
An just my 2 cents I typed this fast cuz I had some other stuff to do but i wanted to get my post up when I was still on my computer that’s why I did not use spell check or go over it to check for errors. Also one post with a few errors should not spawn off a whole thread about it, and the fact that you should be discussing is that people get more antipoints from making quick witty ha ha your so stupid posts then do from making actual good posts that answer people questions with a good informative answer.
Also thank you hesperus and �opy�ight for giving me an answe to my question and thank you nihll for defending me before I could.
Go to Rome, or Milan...................little kids of 5 can speak it fluently?Quote:
I'm working on learning Italian right now and once again, it takes time and repetition, but it also relies on your intelligence
:D :p
Reminds me of the jokes firefighters tell, like how bright can theyQuote:
firefighting isn't only about brute strength
be when everybody else is leaving the building, but they
are going in?.
Fire fighters are legendary for thier thick-headed bravery,
and they take pride in it. You'll appreciate this when you
need it the most.
:cool:
Here is a link which may have what you are looking for, check their archives.Firehouse
As to your Volunteers, Bravo Zulu!!! I come from a family which has currently two brother-in laws as city firemen, and believe me, I wouldn't want either of them to enter a spelling Bee, one drives a cab for the extras and the other is fleeing his mistresses (he was the president of the local FF union, so I suppose he could at least read).
What a lot of people do not realise is, that in a lot of areas mostly outside city limits the responsibilities of chasing down fires is left up to a "Volunteer Force", who (with no disrespect to FF worldwide) may have only gone so far in their educational pursuits, I know I come from a background in the Military where it was okay to accept people with only grade 8 education, when my Dad joined they would take you even if you never made it passed elementary, now it is grade 12, but as I observe lately, having a certificate for grade 12 does not make you a genius.
A huge problem universities and college's are facing today, are the first year students straight out of high school who have the reading skills of a gnat, let alone spelling and grammar.
My point is that these people who give freely of their time may not live up to other people's standards as far as education, but I would gladly put my life in their trained and capable hands if it came down to it.
Just my O :p
Well not to say that it is not true :eek: but yea some fire fighters don’t have the best education. In my fire House though ever one has at least a 12 grade education except for my buddy and I but that goes with out saying bolt of us are still in high school. Also most of the younger guys in their 20 - 30 have a college education. The majority of the guys have regular jobs though you just respond when you can if you work during the day you respond during then night and vise versa and if you have a volunteer fire company near you you really don’t need to be like OMG do they know what their doing we take every thing very seriously because we don’t want more people getting hurt after we get their.
Personally I think it is quite out of order, not to mention down right rude for anybody to have a go at anyone here for their lack of ability to spell.
Everyone here has a different education, different strengths and different weaknesses.
If someone asked the question in person, who would know that they couldn’t spell?
Unfortunately the nature of an internet forum is that everything is typed. Just because someone can’t spell very well does not mean they are any less intelligent than the next person.
Riot had a question to ask and he asked it. There may have been a few spelling errors in his question due to typing fast or whatever but nobody has the right to belittle him for it.
I wonder if people where face to face rather than in different parts of the world would they still say the things they say?
Probably not.