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The Unemployed Working on OSS Projects
Roger_Explosion writes "In Australia the unemployed have to fulfill a 'mutual obligation' requirement in order to receive welfare payments. What this means is that recipients of welfare payments have to be involved in some sort of activity that improves their chances of finding employment. Until now this has included various types of community service and training and education programs. Recently an organisation called CommunityCode has been established to allow recipients to fulfill this requirement by contributing to OSS projects."
"If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all."
Congratulations, you got pwn'd by Jesus.
Slightly OT - but how was the parent a "Troll"? Do you know what Troll means?
Someone expressing an opinion is not a Troll, even if it differs from yours.
And some advice for yourself - get an IT job well before you finish uni. Even if its something like ISP helpdesk or even just helping your uni IT depts fix / install computers or something similar. Dont expect to finish uni and magically get hired just because you have a degree. If you are already thinking about Centrelink for after you finish uni you really need to sit down and start doing some long term planning.
I post as AC because I don't have a slashdot account. Does this somehow diminish the value of my opinion?
Yes. An opinion is more worthwhile if it has an individual willing to stand behind it and defend it -- ideally not just in the forum it's posted, but out of it as well. Note my email address above? It's given because any statement I make in slashdot is a statement I'm willing to be personally identified with. If you can't say that about the positions you take -- or are too lazy to take the effort to make said statement -- then is it really so unreasonable for your opinions to be given less consideration?
Actually, in most of the Western Hemisphere, Americano refers to someone from any of the countries in the Americas, and someone from the USA is normally referred to as estadounidense (from Estados Unidos). To them, residents of the US calling themselves "Americans" does sound arrogant.
So "USian" isn't intended as disparaging at all, and shouldn't be taken that way.
(BTW, "bludge" is used here in Oz to mean "borrow", "bum", e.g. "Bludge a taylor, mate?" = "Bum me a smoke, buddy?")
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
& will be tasked with the 'welfare' of one another.
there are none so blind...?
yet another day in paradise on tap?
or is it ground hog day, again? many of US are obviously not interested in how we appear (which is whoreabull) from the other side of the 'lens', or even from across the oceans.
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we still haven't read (here) about the 2/3'rds of you who are investigating/pursuing a spirit/conscience re-awakening, in amongst the 'stuff that matters'? another big surprise?
some of US should consider ourselves very fortunate to be among those scheduled to survive after the big flash/implementation of the creators' wwwildly popular planet/population rescue initiative/mandate.
it's right in the manual, 'world without end', etc....
as we all ?know?, change is inevitable, & denying/ignoring gravity, logic, morality, etc..., is only possible, on a temporary basis.
concern about the course of events that will occur should the corepirate nazi life0cidal execrable fail to be intervened upon is in order.
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"If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."