There was glory in IT about 10-15 years ago when I entered the field. Since then the market has been flooded with 9mo-1yr vo-tech graduate A+ Certified assholes. Yeah I have that cert as well, it's my lowliest of certs. I remember when it actually meant something other than "I know everything, you're stupid and don't know how to use computers, Ha-HA!" Now I'm somewhat shamed to say I have the A+.
I'm not 100% looking back, why I chose this career field. I don't think it was the "glory" as much as it was the self satisfaction earned after solving problems in what a lot of people see as incomprehensible logic and reasoning... These days I make my own "glory," and I get by on the little things like solving problems people didn't even know they had until I present them a tool to make their work flow more efficient and accurate.
Granted I work on larger projects, but on those projects it's typically my management and supervisors that get the unsolicited praise.
Now, it may be that your karma is just shit, so if that is so please excuse this post. If not, whoever modded you down is a jackass. Someone please mod parent up!
I guess it's easier to hit the "I disagree but have no facts with which to rebut" flamebait mod button than it is to actually make a clear rebuttal. Apparently my trailing comment wasn't enough to ward you off. Lolz
The existence of natural climate change on Mars does not rule out anthropogenic climate change on Earth. The shifts in temperature on Mars happened over periods of hundreds of thousands of years. The climate change we're observing on earth has happened in less than 100 years. There's a huge difference between the two phenomena.
Citation needed.
The climate changes we human beings have observed have happened over a minimum of 10,000 years. "Accurate" instrumentation for obtaining and recording of data being invented within the last 50 years tends to skew the results. Talk to me again in 9,950 years and tell me we broke the sky.
You liars claiming that the burning of some coal and petroleum products broke the sky since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution makes me want to vomit. The Earth had a global warming period, marked with violent volcanic out-gassing of "greenhouse" gasses, called the Precambrian Era. FYI It ended approximately 540 million years ago.
Queue the violent hippies claiming I don't believe humans have impacted our Earthly environment in 3..2..1..
When I read things like this I often wonder if the people promoting these environmentally friendly business processes are actually not that environmentally friendly and instead simply motivated by greed. The problem I see is that average (you know, 100 IQ etc.) people are too stupid to realize the business hippy just wants more of their money, and have discovered that using politically correct buzzwords has a calming and mesmerizing effect on the cattle...
Your post was not funny, there was no setup, no delivery, and no punchline. It was disrespectful and there is not much humor in that. Have a good day, sir.
Sukoshi nihongo o hanasu koto ga dekimasu. Demo nihongo no benkyou ga shitta ho ga ii desu.
It always amuses me when people such as yourself infer things that are way off base. My allusions to what the Gestapo did are just as warranted as your attack on the English language (especially since Nazis were already brought up in this thread). If you hate English speakers so much why are you even bothering to post?
I don't know how shit talking the language we are using isn't acting totally moronically, or is adding anything meaningful to the discussion. I find that people that claim they take notes generally are trying to place themselves on some sort of intellectual pedestal. Just so you know, I've never seen anyone do that with any amount of success.
they will become an irrelevent has-been 2 weeks later.
That's the downside?
While that is funny, I first read the headline as "Twitter To Add Monkey Maiming Features" and I thought to myself: "Awesome! I'll start keeping an eye out downtown for people with exploding cellphones, laptops, and pdas!"
"you made your post in English."
You say that like it's a good thing.
You say that like you'd rather speak German, burn jews, torture homosexuals, and watch dogs rape the mentally handicapped; all while goose-stepping to the lunatic ravings of a known methamphetamine addict and probable syphilis carrier. Good job.
But but but, then how can these evil service providers justify rate hikes to coincide with their CEO's pay raises? You think that CEO makes money off your phone call? Sure he might make a few fractions of a penny, but anything that gets you texting more increases that fraction to a whole. Anything that increases texting volume justifies further rate hikes!
It's almost as if the CEO's of these companies have discovered a business model based off a highly proliferated internet meme involving gnomes and underpants... Boggles the mind it does.
â"pronoun
1. the objective case of who: Whom did you call? Of whom are you speaking? With whom did you stay?
2. the dative case of who: You gave whom the book?
Plus, speaking as a bigot, it just seems better to hate a person for a reason they offer you, rather than to hate a person because their skin is a certain color.
I'm not sure you're using the term "bigot" correctly, as it implies an irrational prejudice against someone based on a demeaning generalisation (generally of race, sexuality or belief), not dislike of an individual for a logical reason.
It's not bigotted to dislike an idiotic oaf who happens to have a different skin colour and sexual orientation to your own.
Right, but it's bigoted to hate all idiots... I think I understand the word just fine.
Whoa, dude. GP is more on target than you seem to realize. Islamic extremists weren't tolerated very much in the Ottoman empire. They simply weren't tolerated. England was the single greatest factor in the destruction of the Ottoman. After that wonderful accomplishment, England was the single greatest force in redrawing national boundaries - INCLUDING the much fought over Israeli and Palestinian boundaries. Balfour?
No matter which side of that issue you may stand on, you could bother yourself to read a little history. Well - maybe a lot of history. The mideast situation didn't develop overnight, nor did it develop in a vacuum. And, sadly, that entire segment of history is missing from history classes in the public school system in the US.
Really? So the Romans enslaving the Jews thus giving the Turks the freedom to take over that entire region has nothing to do with it? Maybe you are wrong about me, and I read too much history.
- Republicans are fascist? Really? Do I need to present you with a list of the recent Democrat leaders with deep ties to American Corporatism? Or would it just be easier to completely Godwin and say, "I guess that makes Democrats the Gestapo."
Just because Democrats are fascist too doesn't make Republicans any less fascist. Bush's and Obama's policies vis-a-vis the economy are indistinguishable, for instance.
I think you failed to miss my point that it's easier to dig up a list of the Democrat Presidents' ties to Corporatism. You might also be failing to understand the terminology as well.
- That fat limey bastard did more for the entire world than, most probably, your entire ancestral lineage dating back to the dark ages. You should probably have a bit of gratitude, after all, you made your post in English.
More TO the entire world, anyway. He's the #1 person responsible for the Middle East situation today.
Really? You mean the Ottomans had nothing at all to do with it? One would think if you're going to read history you would read it from multiple view points. Islamic oppression wasn't born yesterday, nor from the hands of an Englishman.
- That fat limey bastard did more for the entire world than, most probably, your entire ancestral lineage dating back to the dark ages. You should probably have a bit of gratitude, after all, you made your post in English.
Oh, you're one of those people, whom apparently believes that Churchill arrived fully formed onto the scene right at the start of the Second World War. Thanks for the warning.
There I fixed that for you. Also, no, I am not... but apparently you are one of those people whom apparently believes that the USA arrived fully formed onto the scene right at the start of the Second World War. Thanks for the warning.
I agree.. I think we ought to encourage MORE people to speak their minds to make it easier to figure out who the bigots, racists, and just plain jerks are.
Hi there! I'm a bigot. I do not have the time in my adulthood to attempt to understand all classes of people that offer me an immediate reason to dislike them.
I also find the ability to be a jerk has it's uses in life.
Racist? I think that is a funny made up term to attempt to define a society by classes based on the color of skin pigmentation. We human beings, regardless of our skin color and/or ancestry, are fully sexually compatible with each other for procreative means. Plus, speaking as a bigot, it just seems better to hate a person for a reason they offer you, rather than to hate a person because their skin is a certain color.
You keep using that word, fascist. I do not think it means what you think it means. Aside from that, I'd like to extend a great big FUCK YOU ASSHAT, for a number of reasons that I will attempt to enlighten you on:
1) You out yourself on one side of a political fence while simultaneously insulting the other.
- I find this typical of people that skew themselves to their polar opposites; rather than attempt to reach a mutually beneficial agreement (even when that is to agree to disagree).
2) You dance dangerously close to the Godwin line with your rhetoric. So let me cross it for you.
- Republicans are fascist? Really? Do I need to present you with a list of the recent Democrat leaders with deep ties to American Corporatism? Or would it just be easier to completely Godwin and say, "I guess that makes Democrats the Gestapo."
3) Churchill is a fat, limey bastard.
- That fat limey bastard did more for the entire world than, most probably, your entire ancestral lineage dating back to the dark ages. You should probably have a bit of gratitude, after all, you made your post in English.
Why can't you just accept the fact that Sony doesn't want you to have friends? The technology not only exists, but has been proven. It is being intentionally blocked by Sony to make you have less friends! Think of the children!
I point you to the case of Quake3 on the Dreamcast being fully compatible with all other ports of Quake3 as proof that Sony is just trying to sap your wallet of $300+ to play the same fucking game and alienate all of your Xbox owning friends.
Quite the contrary. It's proof that MS is trying to sap your wallet and alienate all of your PS3 owning friends. Or Nintendo. Either way. Just stop thinking and buy more.
Linux is hardly usable for the majority of computer users because most (all?) distributions are incapable of attaining licenses to the many proprietary applications that the majority of people want/need to use. Linux is, point blank, one of the biggest jokes in OS and computing history. The sad part is it still has potential.
In addition to the flamebait mod you already recieved; you're -1, Wrong as well.
My servers and desktops are Linux/Solaris -- x86, AMD, and SPARC due to job requirements. My Wife's laptop is Linux, and she interfaces with MS-Office users all day long without issue. My Kids PC is Linux, and that meets the requirements of webkinz.com + Freddy Fish, ABC-123, etc... Right there is 3 diverse demographic categories in which Linux has met and exceeded usability standards*.
[snark]* Added to above; without anti-virus, super-tuesday reboots, and not a single BSOD, not even a screen freeze, or large hardware reinvestment.[/snark]
I like how your three examples completely neglect to identify any of the licensing my previous post was referring to, as well as identify how that statement was wrong. Very typical of you zealots to completely ignore the main point and direct the argument toward something completely arbitrary.
[snark?] How is this for "snark" I run windows without anti-virus, I patch whenever there are patches regardless if it's tuesday or not, I never get BSODs, not even a screen freeze, and I purchased my desktop 7 years ago. I detect epic failure from Zealot Sun.Jedi.
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There was glory in IT about 10-15 years ago when I entered the field. Since then the market has been flooded with 9mo-1yr vo-tech graduate A+ Certified assholes. Yeah I have that cert as well, it's my lowliest of certs. I remember when it actually meant something other than "I know everything, you're stupid and don't know how to use computers, Ha-HA!" Now I'm somewhat shamed to say I have the A+.
I'm not 100% looking back, why I chose this career field. I don't think it was the "glory" as much as it was the self satisfaction earned after solving problems in what a lot of people see as incomprehensible logic and reasoning... These days I make my own "glory," and I get by on the little things like solving problems people didn't even know they had until I present them a tool to make their work flow more efficient and accurate.
Granted I work on larger projects, but on those projects it's typically my management and supervisors that get the unsolicited praise.
Now, it may be that your karma is just shit, so if that is so please excuse this post. If not, whoever modded you down is a jackass. Someone please mod parent up!
I guess it's easier to hit the "I disagree but have no facts with which to rebut" flamebait mod button than it is to actually make a clear rebuttal. Apparently my trailing comment wasn't enough to ward you off. Lolz
The existence of natural climate change on Mars does not rule out anthropogenic climate change on Earth. The shifts in temperature on Mars happened over periods of hundreds of thousands of years. The climate change we're observing on earth has happened in less than 100 years. There's a huge difference between the two phenomena.
Citation needed.
The climate changes we human beings have observed have happened over a minimum of 10,000 years. "Accurate" instrumentation for obtaining and recording of data being invented within the last 50 years tends to skew the results. Talk to me again in 9,950 years and tell me we broke the sky.
You liars claiming that the burning of some coal and petroleum products broke the sky since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution makes me want to vomit. The Earth had a global warming period, marked with violent volcanic out-gassing of "greenhouse" gasses, called the Precambrian Era. FYI It ended approximately 540 million years ago.
Queue the violent hippies claiming I don't believe humans have impacted our Earthly environment in 3..2..1..
When I read things like this I often wonder if the people promoting these environmentally friendly business processes are actually not that environmentally friendly and instead simply motivated by greed. The problem I see is that average (you know, 100 IQ etc.) people are too stupid to realize the business hippy just wants more of their money, and have discovered that using politically correct buzzwords has a calming and mesmerizing effect on the cattle...
Your post was not funny, there was no setup, no delivery, and no punchline. It was disrespectful and there is not much humor in that. Have a good day, sir.
Most normal people don't disrespect their own culture, you know, it makes them sound like jackasses.
Sukoshi nihongo o hanasu koto ga dekimasu. Demo nihongo no benkyou ga shitta ho ga ii desu.
It always amuses me when people such as yourself infer things that are way off base. My allusions to what the Gestapo did are just as warranted as your attack on the English language (especially since Nazis were already brought up in this thread). If you hate English speakers so much why are you even bothering to post?
I don't know how shit talking the language we are using isn't acting totally moronically, or is adding anything meaningful to the discussion. I find that people that claim they take notes generally are trying to place themselves on some sort of intellectual pedestal. Just so you know, I've never seen anyone do that with any amount of success.
they will become an irrelevent has-been 2 weeks later.
That's the downside?
While that is funny, I first read the headline as "Twitter To Add Monkey Maiming Features" and I thought to myself: "Awesome! I'll start keeping an eye out downtown for people with exploding cellphones, laptops, and pdas!"
"you made your post in English." You say that like it's a good thing.
You say that like you'd rather speak German, burn jews, torture homosexuals, and watch dogs rape the mentally handicapped; all while goose-stepping to the lunatic ravings of a known methamphetamine addict and probable syphilis carrier. Good job.
What ever happened to calling people?
But but but, then how can these evil service providers justify rate hikes to coincide with their CEO's pay raises? You think that CEO makes money off your phone call? Sure he might make a few fractions of a penny, but anything that gets you texting more increases that fraction to a whole. Anything that increases texting volume justifies further rate hikes!
It's almost as if the CEO's of these companies have discovered a business model based off a highly proliferated internet meme involving gnomes and underpants... Boggles the mind it does.
http://web.ku.edu/~edit/whom.html Try fixing it for yourself.
â"pronoun 1. the objective case of who: Whom did you call? Of whom are you speaking? With whom did you stay? 2. the dative case of who: You gave whom the book?
I'm not sure you're using the term "bigot" correctly, as it implies an irrational prejudice against someone based on a demeaning generalisation (generally of race, sexuality or belief), not dislike of an individual for a logical reason.
It's not bigotted to dislike an idiotic oaf who happens to have a different skin colour and sexual orientation to your own.
Right, but it's bigoted to hate all idiots... I think I understand the word just fine.
Whoa, dude. GP is more on target than you seem to realize. Islamic extremists weren't tolerated very much in the Ottoman empire. They simply weren't tolerated. England was the single greatest factor in the destruction of the Ottoman. After that wonderful accomplishment, England was the single greatest force in redrawing national boundaries - INCLUDING the much fought over Israeli and Palestinian boundaries. Balfour?
No matter which side of that issue you may stand on, you could bother yourself to read a little history. Well - maybe a lot of history. The mideast situation didn't develop overnight, nor did it develop in a vacuum. And, sadly, that entire segment of history is missing from history classes in the public school system in the US.
Really? So the Romans enslaving the Jews thus giving the Turks the freedom to take over that entire region has nothing to do with it? Maybe you are wrong about me, and I read too much history.
Don't forget sharia laws!
Just because Democrats are fascist too doesn't make Republicans any less fascist. Bush's and Obama's policies vis-a-vis the economy are indistinguishable, for instance.
I think you failed to miss my point that it's easier to dig up a list of the Democrat Presidents' ties to Corporatism. You might also be failing to understand the terminology as well.
More TO the entire world, anyway. He's the #1 person responsible for the Middle East situation today.
Really? You mean the Ottomans had nothing at all to do with it? One would think if you're going to read history you would read it from multiple view points. Islamic oppression wasn't born yesterday, nor from the hands of an Englishman.
3) Churchill is a fat, limey bastard.
- That fat limey bastard did more for the entire world than, most probably, your entire ancestral lineage dating back to the dark ages. You should probably have a bit of gratitude, after all, you made your post in English. Oh, you're one of those people, whom apparently believes that Churchill arrived fully formed onto the scene right at the start of the Second World War. Thanks for the warning.
There I fixed that for you. Also, no, I am not... but apparently you are one of those people whom apparently believes that the USA arrived fully formed onto the scene right at the start of the Second World War. Thanks for the warning.
I agree.. I think we ought to encourage MORE people to speak their minds to make it easier to figure out who the bigots, racists, and just plain jerks are.
Hi there! I'm a bigot. I do not have the time in my adulthood to attempt to understand all classes of people that offer me an immediate reason to dislike them.
I also find the ability to be a jerk has it's uses in life.
Racist? I think that is a funny made up term to attempt to define a society by classes based on the color of skin pigmentation. We human beings, regardless of our skin color and/or ancestry, are fully sexually compatible with each other for procreative means. Plus, speaking as a bigot, it just seems better to hate a person for a reason they offer you, rather than to hate a person because their skin is a certain color.
You keep using that word, fascist. I do not think it means what you think it means. Aside from that, I'd like to extend a great big FUCK YOU ASSHAT, for a number of reasons that I will attempt to enlighten you on:
1) You out yourself on one side of a political fence while simultaneously insulting the other.
- I find this typical of people that skew themselves to their polar opposites; rather than attempt to reach a mutually beneficial agreement (even when that is to agree to disagree).
2) You dance dangerously close to the Godwin line with your rhetoric. So let me cross it for you.
- Republicans are fascist? Really? Do I need to present you with a list of the recent Democrat leaders with deep ties to American Corporatism? Or would it just be easier to completely Godwin and say, "I guess that makes Democrats the Gestapo."
3) Churchill is a fat, limey bastard.
- That fat limey bastard did more for the entire world than, most probably, your entire ancestral lineage dating back to the dark ages. You should probably have a bit of gratitude, after all, you made your post in English.
WOOOOSH much?
It's in the EULA.
No it isn't.
Why can't you just accept the fact that Sony doesn't want you to have friends? The technology not only exists, but has been proven. It is being intentionally blocked by Sony to make you have less friends! Think of the children!
I point you to the case of Quake3 on the Dreamcast being fully compatible with all other ports of Quake3 as proof that Sony is just trying to sap your wallet of $300+ to play the same fucking game and alienate all of your Xbox owning friends.
Quite the contrary. It's proof that MS is trying to sap your wallet and alienate all of your PS3 owning friends. Or Nintendo. Either way. Just stop thinking and buy more.
Citation needed.
Speaking of "clearly flamebait"
Linux is hardly usable for the majority of computer users because most (all?) distributions are incapable of attaining licenses to the many proprietary applications that the majority of people want/need to use. Linux is, point blank, one of the biggest jokes in OS and computing history. The sad part is it still has potential.
In addition to the flamebait mod you already recieved; you're -1, Wrong as well.
My servers and desktops are Linux/Solaris -- x86, AMD, and SPARC due to job requirements. My Wife's laptop is Linux, and she interfaces with MS-Office users all day long without issue. My Kids PC is Linux, and that meets the requirements of webkinz.com + Freddy Fish, ABC-123, etc... Right there is 3 diverse demographic categories in which Linux has met and exceeded usability standards*.
[snark]* Added to above; without anti-virus, super-tuesday reboots, and not a single BSOD, not even a screen freeze, or large hardware reinvestment.[/snark]
I like how your three examples completely neglect to identify any of the licensing my previous post was referring to, as well as identify how that statement was wrong. Very typical of you zealots to completely ignore the main point and direct the argument toward something completely arbitrary.
[snark?] How is this for "snark" I run windows without anti-virus, I patch whenever there are patches regardless if it's tuesday or not, I never get BSODs, not even a screen freeze, and I purchased my desktop 7 years ago. I detect epic failure from Zealot Sun.Jedi. [/snark]