CAO Points Petition

3fullback

This is a Petition to ask someone to get hold of a News Paper in the early hours of the moring of Monday the 23rd (Legally), Scan it and Upload it on to the forum.

People who's parents possibly own a newsagents or supermarket etc. or someone who has a connection to someone working in one of the national newspapers.

Ok to show your support please Vote.

Thanks.

ilikesunshine

no 1s gone for the 2nd option it must feel so lonely =P

Joseph

Why do you need a petition? Seems kind of stupid

johnmcdnl

or we could just wait til the morning at 6am and get them from the CAO direct

surely we can wait.... what are you going to do at 2am anyways...


also - scanning a newspaper and putting it online is probably going to be breaking copyright laws - what'd stop you copying the whole paper and posting it up hence no one would buy the paper at all... dunno about that one but anyways - can't see it being fully legal anyways

Crow92

Why do you care? It's only a few hours which you should be sleeping....or go out that night

3fullback

johnmcdnl wrote: »

or we could just wait til the morning at 6am and get them from the CAO direct

surely we can wait.... what are you going to do at 2am anyways...


also - scanning a newspaper and putting it online is probably going to be breaking copyright laws - what'd stop you copying the whole paper and posting it up hence no one would buy the paper at all... dunno about that one but anyways - can't see it being fully legal anyways

Yikes man :rolleyes:

3fullback

Keep up the votes

pbowenroe

wat is this

jd007

Petition =/= Poll

Ruski

That's not a petition, that's a request. Read a dictionary.

pbowenroe

Ruski wrote: »

That's not a petition, that's a request. Read a dictionary.

ZING!

gant0

Sure why bother!!can ya not wait a few hours to get your offers by email or by post??pick up the paper for your breakfast

Bigrob

I'd be surprised if Irish Times or Irish Independent don't publish it online at midnight, I think they did last year

jumpguy

3fullback wrote: »

People who's parents possibly own a newsagents or supermarket etc. or someone who has a connection to someone working in one of the national newspapers.

Or - wait for it - customers who can buy it in a shop! :eek:

Just because you own a newsagents or supermarket, it doesn't give you the right to upload the papers you sell on the internet.

It's 1.80 to buy the fecking Indo, surely you can manage it. :rolleyes:

Lawliet

gant0 wrote: »

can ya not wait a few hours to get your offers by email or by post??

Some people need to know if they've got their course as early as possible.

For instance, my first choice and second choice are in completely different places. I've got house viewings organised for early Monday morning, and I need to get the earliest train possible. I may not be able to hang around till 6am to check my offers. So if I leave without knowing, and then don't get my first choice, I'll have wasted a day.

3fullback

Why are people so dam cranky, i'm looking at it this way , no one is going to get any sleep, tbh. So it would be nice to find out at 2am rather then 6.

DessieOH

Somebody has to post up the points for Medicine asap ( no hoaxes :P )

koolkitty

3fullback wrote: »

Why are people so dam cranky, i'm looking at it this way , no one is going to get any sleep, tbh. So it would be nice to find out at 2am rather then 6.

LOL! 'so dam cranky!'...:D

I totaly see where ur comin from tho wit d whole sleep deprivation!!:mad: I feel like I haven't slept in yonks!!

LadyGaga!

What time would they put out the newspapers in Tescos? We have 24 hour one down the road and I'd drive up and get the newspaper if they put it out before 6!!

Fad

City centre gets papers earliest. 24 hour petrol stations get them around 3/4 in the morning (I've worked night shifts before), it depends how far you are out from the city.

zam

The Irish Times has the points today.

ayumi

zam wrote: »

The Irish Times has the points today.

reallyy.................................. :eek:

Craguls

Last year's points were uploaded on this forum last year at around 3:30 in the morning.

Be patient.

LadyGaga!

zam wrote: »

The Irish Times has the points today.

whaaaaaat, like for real?

Craguls

He's trolling. Ignore him. No one will have the points until Monday morning at the earliest.

KnifeWRENCH

zam wrote: »

The Irish Times has the points today.

Doesn't say anything about it on their website, so I can only assume you're making this up.

Lawliet

zam wrote: »

The Irish Times has the points today.

It's only an article about the CAO offers being out on Monday, and pretty much stating the same thing they said last week about X courses expecting to rise, and Y courses expecting to drop.
It doesn't actually give any figures. It also says they'll print the full points on Monday.

For anyone interested: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0821/1224277316613.html

zam

Haha no, I'm not "trolling". I know for a fact that the list of first-round points are in the offices of the Irish Times today, obviously I don't have access to them or else I would have posted them here. Just find it interesting that the points are actually out there at the moment and we can't see them

LadyGaga!

zam wrote: »

Haha no, I'm not "trolling". I know for a fact that the list of first-round points are in the offices of the Irish Times today, obviously I don't have access to them or else I would have posted them here. Just find it interesting that the points are actually out there at the moment and we can't see them

Ohhhhhh. Anyone have any contacts?

grrrrrrrrrr

Vincent Browne on Sunday nights? They go through the papers on that to an extent, they'd prob mention the key areas. You would be better off just waiting at the train station at 6 with your phone to check the points if its that big a deal for you....

Lawliet

grrrrrrrrrr wrote: »

You would be better off just waiting at the train station at 6 with your phone to check the points if its that big a deal for you....

I don't have internet on my phone, besides I'm not going to drag my poor parents out of bed at 5am to leave me at the train station, only to turn around and say "Oops false alarm, lets head home".
I will wait till 6am if I absolutely have to, it'd just be bloody handy to know a few hours in advance.

3fullback

Lawliet wrote: »

I don't have internet on my phone, besides I'm not going to drag my poor parents out of bed at 5am to leave me at the train station, only to turn around and say "Oops false alarm, lets head home".
I will wait till 6am if I absolutely have to, it'd just be bloody handy to know a few hours in advance.

The Soonner the better . . time is dragging out

dambarude

grrrrrrrrrr wrote: »

Vincent Browne on Sunday nights? They go through the papers on that to an extent, they'd prob mention the key areas.

VB is only on Monday-Thursday unfortunately!

3fullback

Anyone know if they will get a hand on the newspaper early ?

whatwhat

I just made a thread about it Ive seen it but dont have it

freeze4real

Lawliet wrote: »

I don't have internet on my phone, besides I'm not going to drag my poor parents out of bed at 5am to leave me at the train station, only to turn around and say "Oops false alarm, lets head home".
I will wait till 6am if I absolutely have to, it'd just be bloody handy to know a few hours in advance.

Why do you need to know your offers as early as possible. Will you be heading to your desired college on mnday to do what?

Lawliet

freeze4real wrote: »

Why do you need to know your offers as early as possible. Will you be heading to your desired college on mnday to do what?

I've made arrangements to view accommodation. All the decent places will be snapped up as soon as the offers are out, most of them are gone already. I want my accommadation sorted as possible otherwise I might be stuck in some hole of a place that could be miles from college.

zam

I'm getting the full list tonight I think, I'll try to and post it up if I can Psychology in TCD 545, Histpol 515.

3fullback

Good Stuff Zam

frser32

Times will probably put up some articles online around 1230/1,that will be in tomorrows paper... giving us some indication of how things stand

Conor108

3fullback wrote: »

Good Stuff Zam

The guys postcount is 666, obviously he's lying

A Neurotic

Last year the newspapers had a couple of general articles about trends in points and stuff, if I recall correctly, but the proper list of points was published in a supplement and not online, as far as I know.

orangeparrot

The only logical thing to do is hijack a delivery van on its way to the shop.

ihavequestions

orangeparrot wrote: »

The only logical thing to do is hijack a delivery van on its way to the shop.

LOL !!
So 24hour Tesco, what time do they get the paper in fairly big towns?

randylonghorn

A Neurotic wrote: »

Last year the newspapers had a couple of general articles about trends in points and stuff, if I recall correctly, but the proper list of points was published in a supplement and not online, as far as I know.

Correct ... though someone did get their hands on the supplement early, scan them and post them up.

lc2010

zam wrote: »

I'm getting the full list tonight I think, I'll try to and post it up if I can Psychology in TCD 545, Histpol 515.

Zam you would be the biggest hero of all time if you could do that!!!!:p;):D

randylonghorn

I'm not having a go at zam, who in fairness doesn't have any kind of history of trolling that I can recall, and may be completely genuine ... but I wouldn't trust *any* list that isn't either on the CAO website or a scan of the list in the papers.

I will say this ... any user posting points as confirmed who is later shown to be talking through their ass can look forward to a permaban from this forum and, if I have my way, from this site.

freeze4real

whats the meaning of the poll.
its asking the same questin twice.
or is it me ?

LadyGaga!

freeze4real wrote: »

whats the meaning of the poll.
its asking the same questin twice.
or is it me ?

It's not a poll, but yes it is the same thing twice.

Eire-Dearg

Why would you want to get a newspaper?

theowen

Eire-Dearg wrote: »

Why would you want to get a newspaper?

They have the points for tomorrow...so we can find out if we're going to get our college places