I'll just make this easy for you because you can't read, here are the exactly lines of text where I said I'm not for that.
Was Hitler wrong, YES!
I'm not saying what Hitler did was right, ITS NOT!
Let me be very clear on the point that what Hitler did was WRONG
The majority of deaths should of been only people in the Third Reich and Hitler himself, anyone else that died as a result is a very unfair causality.
Anyone who died in the pointless wars should be covered from the jews who died to the men and women who gave there lives, basically it shows how f'd up the world is.
Show me a war where people don't die and I'll happily agree with your points. I didn't say I had the answer to every situation, each situation needs it's own analysis, what could of worked in the crusades wouldn't work in WW1 or Korea, usually there is more then just kill the enemy on the table.
Let me be very clear on the point that what Hitler did was WRONG, I absolutely don't agree with his end game plan. I don't misunderstand you, however I still have yet to see a war where a justifiable amount of people die to defend the cause. If the entire world was going after Hitler then the majority of deaths should of been only people in the Third Reich and Hitler himself, anyone else that died as a result is a very unfair causality.
Lets face it, the point of war is to kill, just kill for no real reason.
You can face what you want, however stupid that may be. (yay for free speech)
Are you honestly claiming that the response to Hitler was a war to "kill for no real reason"?
Do you think that the UK should just have waited for the inevitable?
I have absolutely 0 respect for any solder, war vet or anyone who plays a hand in hurting humans in an act of war. This goes for both sides!
Oh to live in such a simple black and white world.
The real world is full of colours. Sometimes, simply standing by and letting the first guy continue his violence is worse in terms of death, pain and suffering that actually fighting him.
In that case you are positively advocating for NOT minimizing the suffering.
War happens because people can't think of non hostel ways to settle issues.
Um, yeah? You know, sometimes people cannot be reasoned with. Sometimes they will be hostile no matter how hard you try to negotiate. Some people are just plain evil. You know, like Hitler, for example.
If you have to kill even 1 innocence person for 10 bad guys then the cost isn't worth it.
WTF? What if the one innocent person gives up his life to save 1000 innocent people? Is that worth it? What if that is due to non human factors rather than human factors (e.g. a natural disaster)? Is that worth it? Why does that change things?
You can face what you want, however stupid that may be? So tell me the point, if it's not killing then what is it, find me a war where no one dies or at least no one kills.
Are you honestly claiming that the response to Hitler was a war to "kill for no real reason"?
Thats exactly what I'm saying, lets face it we killed millions trying to stop Hitler from killing millions! Was Hitler wrong, YES! However the solution isn't to sent our people in to kill in attempt to stop him from killing, it's a double edge blade, the second we start killing to stop him were not doing much better then he is. The entire base for WW2 was Hitler so why didn't the world team up against him and just solely go after him and him alone. The entire worlds vs Germany would of stopped most of what happened, the only people that should of died as a result of WW2 are Hitler and his supporters, anyone else who died is a casualty of an unfair war.
The real world is full of colors. Sometimes, simply standing by and letting the first guy continue his violence is worse in terms of death, pain and suffering that actually fighting him? You don't stand by and let him walk all over you but at the same time you don't throw thousands of people in the fire in an attempt to stop him, you stand back and think about an alternative way to prevent the death of your people as much as possible, something war has never been good at. Maybe and I'm not saying this is the best answer but maybe letting 6 million die to save another 6 million isn't worth it, maybe there is no need to let 12 million die to come out no better then you went in.
Um, yeah? You know, sometimes people cannot be reasoned with. Sometimes they will be hostile no matter how hard you try to negotiate. Some people are just plain evil. You know, like Hitler, for example? I'm not saying there aren't truly evil people, I never made that claim but work to take out the singularity and the supporters instead of everyone. The problem with war is far to many people get hurt or killed in an attempt to disrupt sometimes a single of small group of people. In many cases more people die then your trying to defeat and that just isn't right.
WTF? What if the one innocent person gives up his life to save 1000 innocent people? Is that worth it? What if that is due to non human factors rather than human factors (e.g. a natural disaster)? Is that worth it? Why does that change things? Thats not what I said but nice try. I said if 1 innocent person dies for 10 bad guys
Why is this man in trouble, the poppy is a symbol of the worst mass killings to ever take place, which is infact all war is. Lets face it, the point of war is to kill, just kill for no real reason. The difference between a serial killer and a war vet is that the war vet was told to kill by the bully at school ( The Government ) and the serial killer took it into his own hands. I have absolutely 0 respect for any solder, war vet or anyone who plays a hand in hurting humans in an act of war. This goes for both sides!
People talk about a solder as a symbol of devotion and courage, my question is why? If the government hands me a gun and tells me to shoot someone, why should that make me a symbol for my country? I think the real symbols for a country are the people who progress science, technology and medicine. They are the people who we should respect, not the guy who grabs a gun and kills in the name of his country because he doesn't question them.
You always hear saying like "You wouldn't be here if they didn't fight" or "They protected your freedom", bull crap. War happens because people can't think of non hostel ways to settle issues. How about instead of getting hundreds of thousands of your own people killed you sit down and think before you act. I'm not saying that no one has to die but not the insane number of people who do. If you have to kill even 1 innocence person for 10 bad guys then the cost isn't worth it.
A+ means absolutely nothing. I took my A+ certification out of high school, got something like 99.9% on it with ever actually studying. The only real suggestion I have is to get it so you can take the second level certification test, MSCE, Linux+ etc.... Just load up with papers and then if nothing else you'll get hired to look good for the company. All of those certifications with the exception of CCNA, CCNP, CCIE and MSCE are all just laughable papers. They basically mean you found the power button and plugged the computer in. If your going to focus your time into a real certification CCNA is a good one which is a HARD path or your MSCE. Of course any of the computer networking certifications will at least help.
Not at all, the original scope started with my stating that Samba 4 made a better Domain Controller then Windows which it does, then I stated that Linux will make a better server platform in 99% of all cases, which it would. If I needed that 1% I'll throw KVM on and then install a windows machine and run what I need into it, I would still use Linux at the core of the server, even if you put Windows in a KVM it's still a Linux server. So I'm still correct on my view.
Well these were two different situtations. I agree the right course of action is to escalate up the ladder, how ever it still doesn't solve my frustration of having Tier 1 workers who don't know / understand the product. Well in most cases I do end up escalating the issues up ladder myself, I do believe the customer care specialist should know enough to do it themselves. From my experience the first person you talk with is clueless, they read a script and besides what they're reading they can only really ask "Do you want fries with that". Tier 2 you start getting into people who may know what you want to do but again generally they're just the Mcdonalds supervisor. By Tier 3 you generally hit engineers or technologists who can actually help you out. Of course by this point I've spent hours on the phone so I'm just pissed off, I should of talked to one of these people in the first place.
As racists as this will sound and I'm very sorry to who this offends, I NEVER accept speaking to non caucasians on the phone or at least people I can tell aren't caucasian. If I have even the slightest bit of trouble hearing through your accent then I ask to be switched. This is for several reasons but the number one reason is my worst experiences have always been when my language barrier needs to be crossed. Facts get mis-interrpted, mis-recieved and sometimes I have to seriously try and think about what the person on the other end of the phone is saying. For the overall record I have never got good service from someone who didn't a) speak English and b) Live in north america, that might be just me and again if that offends anyone I'm sorry but from my experience it's the way it is.
I'm nice to a point on the phone, until you try and talk down to me or tell me a manager / supervisor isn't available. If I want me call to be handled by your manager then either give me a time when they are in the office and there personal phone number or call them into work, I bought the product and I want the support that comes with it regardless of your work schedule and in most cases the issue is wrong documentation or faulty software / hardware, All things which should be detected by a good QA team making my call just an annoyance factor more then anything else.
If you change the scope of the post after you ask it then of course my answer will be wrong, if you wanted to scope it initially then scope it. So again I do know what I'm talking about, apply scope during or before your point not after.
Why should he have to pay more because his files are on an old computer system. For instance you don't pay your IT guy more when he puts a file on an old system and can't get it off. Now I know this is an old system but still someone must be able to go in and get it.
What is the point of a legal department if patents keep getting violated. I don't care what the formal role of the legal department is but if I'm going to work on a new project for a company they better make sure it's not going to violate a patent first, other wise I don't need them.
Well she kept saying IP address but that's beside the point. I still don't believe in having under qualified / trained people on customer care. A lot of the time when you call customer care your not even calling a person in the country you live in. I can't count how many times I've called customer care and I speak to someone in India or China who can barely talk English. If I need to call customer care in the first place then I should at least talk to someone who knows the product inside out and upside down. More then 1/2 to 2/3 of the time on the phone the person on the other end is guessing based of vague sheets of information what could be wrong.
I once had a case where a wireless router was dying in a place I lived because the electrical lines in the wall where generating to much magnetic noise and killing the low quality router / modem. When I called rogers to tell them that I was pretty sure that was the issue the person on the phone was lost. I kept asking for specs on the router I was forced to buy and they had none, they couldn't offer an explanation and they didn't have the slightest clue what the hell I was talking about. I kept calling back and about the 5th call I ended up with a man on the other end who not only know what I was talking about but actually gave me the fix for the issue. It turned out that Rogers had just bought and handed out a series of routers which were complete garbage and couldn't take magnetic hits in the slightest, he provided me a free upgrade to the next modem model which solved the issue. Again this is the stuff you have to deal with in customer care.
Just take the technology out of the classroom! Go back to good old Blackboards and teach the kids like we did 15 years ago, where you learn how to handwrite, where you learn how to read from a textbook, where the teachers had to be more qualified then the student. 15 years ago I didn't need technology to survive the school day and I don't think kids need it now, what happened was a system got fixed that wasn't broken.
Who would want to start an open source voting system? Build a massively secure, ultra tested and locked down voting system based completely off open source hardware and software.
No company has trained customer care, I said it and I stand by it! If AT&T succeeds with this, they will be the first company to ever have trained ( not necessarily qualified ) customer care representatives.
On a side note and unrelated, I once had an issue with a router where it wouldn't get an IP address from the modem, I called Dlink and the lady on the other end kept saying "I need the IP address of the router sir", I kept telling her it didn't have one and that was the issue, she had NO idea what I was saying and kept repeating the same phrase. Got to love trained customer care! Thats not even my best story!
On a server...... Maybe and I'm being series 1% of what I need to run server side can't be ran on Linux / Unix systems. For that I'll pop a KVM with Windows server and leave it alone.
Fair enough, if that is what you've experienced then I can't say your wrong, however from my experience I've had great success, currently Unix/Linux supports all and more of the mainstream tools / support available on Windows, well rolling it out is initially more difficult, once you get use to it, I find it's a quicker to implement. My only issue is that usually when people bash Linux / Unix on the server they bash it because they don't know it. They call out features, software, harware and network support features that exist and when you keep probing them for information you really find out either they don't know what there talking about or they don't want to put effort in to learning a new platform. Once you've mastered the Linux server then you start to see a lot of little stupid Microsoft holes appearing everywhere.
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Was Hitler wrong, YES!
I'm not saying what Hitler did was right, ITS NOT!
Let me be very clear on the point that what Hitler did was WRONG
The majority of deaths should of been only people in the Third Reich and Hitler himself, anyone else that died as a result is a very unfair causality.
Pretty clear I would assume.
The holocaust was in WW2 and hence covered by the poppy symbol.
Anyone who died in the pointless wars should be covered from the jews who died to the men and women who gave there lives, basically it shows how f'd up the world is.
Show me a war where people don't die and I'll happily agree with your points. I didn't say I had the answer to every situation, each situation needs it's own analysis, what could of worked in the crusades wouldn't work in WW1 or Korea, usually there is more then just kill the enemy on the table.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust -- Read, yes it was in WW2 and hence covered by the poppy as a symbol for remembrance day.
Let me be very clear on the point that what Hitler did was WRONG, I absolutely don't agree with his end game plan. I don't misunderstand you, however I still have yet to see a war where a justifiable amount of people die to defend the cause. If the entire world was going after Hitler then the majority of deaths should of been only people in the Third Reich and Hitler himself, anyone else that died as a result is a very unfair causality.
Lets face it, the point of war is to kill, just kill for no real reason.
You can face what you want, however stupid that may be. (yay for free speech)
Are you honestly claiming that the response to Hitler was a war to "kill for no real reason"?
Do you think that the UK should just have waited for the inevitable?
I have absolutely 0 respect for any solder, war vet or anyone who plays a hand in hurting humans in an act of war. This goes for both sides!
Oh to live in such a simple black and white world.
The real world is full of colours. Sometimes, simply standing by and letting the first guy continue his violence is worse in terms of death, pain and suffering that actually fighting him.
In that case you are positively advocating for NOT minimizing the suffering.
War happens because people can't think of non hostel ways to settle issues.
Um, yeah? You know, sometimes people cannot be reasoned with. Sometimes they will be hostile no matter how hard you try to negotiate. Some people are just plain evil. You know, like Hitler, for example.
If you have to kill even 1 innocence person for 10 bad guys then the cost isn't worth it.
WTF? What if the one innocent person gives up his life to save 1000 innocent people? Is that worth it? What if that is due to non human factors rather than human factors (e.g. a natural disaster)? Is that worth it? Why does that change things?
You can face what you want, however stupid that may be? So tell me the point, if it's not killing then what is it, find me a war where no one dies or at least no one kills.
Are you honestly claiming that the response to Hitler was a war to "kill for no real reason"?
Thats exactly what I'm saying, lets face it we killed millions trying to stop Hitler from killing millions! Was Hitler wrong, YES! However the solution isn't to sent our people in to kill in attempt to stop him from killing, it's a double edge blade, the second we start killing to stop him were not doing much better then he is. The entire base for WW2 was Hitler so why didn't the world team up against him and just solely go after him and him alone. The entire worlds vs Germany would of stopped most of what happened, the only people that should of died as a result of WW2 are Hitler and his supporters, anyone else who died is a casualty of an unfair war.
The real world is full of colors. Sometimes, simply standing by and letting the first guy continue his violence is worse in terms of death, pain and suffering that actually fighting him? You don't stand by and let him walk all over you but at the same time you don't throw thousands of people in the fire in an attempt to stop him, you stand back and think about an alternative way to prevent the death of your people as much as possible, something war has never been good at. Maybe and I'm not saying this is the best answer but maybe letting 6 million die to save another 6 million isn't worth it, maybe there is no need to let 12 million die to come out no better then you went in.
Um, yeah? You know, sometimes people cannot be reasoned with. Sometimes they will be hostile no matter how hard you try to negotiate. Some people are just plain evil. You know, like Hitler, for example? I'm not saying there aren't truly evil people, I never made that claim but work to take out the singularity and the supporters instead of everyone. The problem with war is far to many people get hurt or killed in an attempt to disrupt sometimes a single of small group of people. In many cases more people die then your trying to defeat and that just isn't right.
WTF? What if the one innocent person gives up his life to save 1000 innocent people? Is that worth it? What if that is due to non human factors rather than human factors (e.g. a natural disaster)? Is that worth it? Why does that change things? Thats not what I said but nice try. I said if 1 innocent person dies for 10 bad guys
The holocaust was in WW2 and hence covered by the poppy symbol.
Why is this man in trouble, the poppy is a symbol of the worst mass killings to ever take place, which is infact all war is. Lets face it, the point of war is to kill, just kill for no real reason. The difference between a serial killer and a war vet is that the war vet was told to kill by the bully at school ( The Government ) and the serial killer took it into his own hands. I have absolutely 0 respect for any solder, war vet or anyone who plays a hand in hurting humans in an act of war. This goes for both sides!
People talk about a solder as a symbol of devotion and courage, my question is why? If the government hands me a gun and tells me to shoot someone, why should that make me a symbol for my country? I think the real symbols for a country are the people who progress science, technology and medicine. They are the people who we should respect, not the guy who grabs a gun and kills in the name of his country because he doesn't question them.
You always hear saying like "You wouldn't be here if they didn't fight" or "They protected your freedom", bull crap. War happens because people can't think of non hostel ways to settle issues. How about instead of getting hundreds of thousands of your own people killed you sit down and think before you act. I'm not saying that no one has to die but not the insane number of people who do. If you have to kill even 1 innocence person for 10 bad guys then the cost isn't worth it.
Erich Spangenberg embodies everything Apple stands for! Countless lawsuits for pure profit. Will they offer him a job?
A+ means absolutely nothing. I took my A+ certification out of high school, got something like 99.9% on it with ever actually studying. The only real suggestion I have is to get it so you can take the second level certification test, MSCE, Linux+ etc.... Just load up with papers and then if nothing else you'll get hired to look good for the company. All of those certifications with the exception of CCNA, CCNP, CCIE and MSCE are all just laughable papers. They basically mean you found the power button and plugged the computer in. If your going to focus your time into a real certification CCNA is a good one which is a HARD path or your MSCE. Of course any of the computer networking certifications will at least help.
Not at all, the original scope started with my stating that Samba 4 made a better Domain Controller then Windows which it does, then I stated that Linux will make a better server platform in 99% of all cases, which it would. If I needed that 1% I'll throw KVM on and then install a windows machine and run what I need into it, I would still use Linux at the core of the server, even if you put Windows in a KVM it's still a Linux server. So I'm still correct on my view.
Well these were two different situtations. I agree the right course of action is to escalate up the ladder, how ever it still doesn't solve my frustration of having Tier 1 workers who don't know / understand the product. Well in most cases I do end up escalating the issues up ladder myself, I do believe the customer care specialist should know enough to do it themselves. From my experience the first person you talk with is clueless, they read a script and besides what they're reading they can only really ask "Do you want fries with that". Tier 2 you start getting into people who may know what you want to do but again generally they're just the Mcdonalds supervisor. By Tier 3 you generally hit engineers or technologists who can actually help you out. Of course by this point I've spent hours on the phone so I'm just pissed off, I should of talked to one of these people in the first place.
As racists as this will sound and I'm very sorry to who this offends, I NEVER accept speaking to non caucasians on the phone or at least people I can tell aren't caucasian. If I have even the slightest bit of trouble hearing through your accent then I ask to be switched. This is for several reasons but the number one reason is my worst experiences have always been when my language barrier needs to be crossed. Facts get mis-interrpted, mis-recieved and sometimes I have to seriously try and think about what the person on the other end of the phone is saying. For the overall record I have never got good service from someone who didn't a) speak English and b) Live in north america, that might be just me and again if that offends anyone I'm sorry but from my experience it's the way it is.
I'm nice to a point on the phone, until you try and talk down to me or tell me a manager / supervisor isn't available. If I want me call to be handled by your manager then either give me a time when they are in the office and there personal phone number or call them into work, I bought the product and I want the support that comes with it regardless of your work schedule and in most cases the issue is wrong documentation or faulty software / hardware, All things which should be detected by a good QA team making my call just an annoyance factor more then anything else.
If you change the scope of the post after you ask it then of course my answer will be wrong, if you wanted to scope it initially then scope it. So again I do know what I'm talking about, apply scope during or before your point not after.
Why should he have to pay more because his files are on an old computer system. For instance you don't pay your IT guy more when he puts a file on an old system and can't get it off. Now I know this is an old system but still someone must be able to go in and get it.
What is the point of a legal department if patents keep getting violated. I don't care what the formal role of the legal department is but if I'm going to work on a new project for a company they better make sure it's not going to violate a patent first, other wise I don't need them.
Well she kept saying IP address but that's beside the point. I still don't believe in having under qualified / trained people on customer care. A lot of the time when you call customer care your not even calling a person in the country you live in. I can't count how many times I've called customer care and I speak to someone in India or China who can barely talk English. If I need to call customer care in the first place then I should at least talk to someone who knows the product inside out and upside down. More then 1/2 to 2/3 of the time on the phone the person on the other end is guessing based of vague sheets of information what could be wrong.
I once had a case where a wireless router was dying in a place I lived because the electrical lines in the wall where generating to much magnetic noise and killing the low quality router / modem. When I called rogers to tell them that I was pretty sure that was the issue the person on the phone was lost. I kept asking for specs on the router I was forced to buy and they had none, they couldn't offer an explanation and they didn't have the slightest clue what the hell I was talking about. I kept calling back and about the 5th call I ended up with a man on the other end who not only know what I was talking about but actually gave me the fix for the issue. It turned out that Rogers had just bought and handed out a series of routers which were complete garbage and couldn't take magnetic hits in the slightest, he provided me a free upgrade to the next modem model which solved the issue. Again this is the stuff you have to deal with in customer care.
Security Systems: http://www.zoneminder.com/
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8513
http://linas.org/linux/secure.html
Alarm Systems: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/How+to+implement+an+alarm+system+with+Asterisk+and+a+webcam
http://www.linux-support.com/cms/diy-burglar-alarm-system/
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/interfacing-disparate-systems
CCTV: http://www.tuxradar.com/content/build-your-own-surveillance-zoneminder
http://www.seattlesurveillance.com/
Building Automation: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092658050500097X
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1029022
Engineering Apps: http://loll.sourceforge.net/linux/links/Software_Applications/Science_-_Engineering/index.html
You get the idea I hope. So what can't run on Linux?
Just take the technology out of the classroom! Go back to good old Blackboards and teach the kids like we did 15 years ago, where you learn how to handwrite, where you learn how to read from a textbook, where the teachers had to be more qualified then the student. 15 years ago I didn't need technology to survive the school day and I don't think kids need it now, what happened was a system got fixed that wasn't broken.
Who would want to start an open source voting system? Build a massively secure, ultra tested and locked down voting system based completely off open source hardware and software.
The best punishment ever handed down was to a lady who used the sidewalk to pass a bus, the judge is making her wear a sign which has on it “Only an idiot would drive on the sidewalk to avoid the school bus.”. Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4630315/Woman-to-wear-idiot-sign.html#ixzz2BXro0Llo
training of customer care representatives
No company has trained customer care, I said it and I stand by it! If AT&T succeeds with this, they will be the first company to ever have trained ( not necessarily qualified ) customer care representatives.
On a side note and unrelated, I once had an issue with a router where it wouldn't get an IP address from the modem, I called Dlink and the lady on the other end kept saying "I need the IP address of the router sir", I kept telling her it didn't have one and that was the issue, she had NO idea what I was saying and kept repeating the same phrase. Got to love trained customer care! Thats not even my best story!
On a server ...... Maybe and I'm being series 1% of what I need to run server side can't be ran on Linux / Unix systems. For that I'll pop a KVM with Windows server and leave it alone.
Fair enough, if that is what you've experienced then I can't say your wrong, however from my experience I've had great success, currently Unix/Linux supports all and more of the mainstream tools / support available on Windows, well rolling it out is initially more difficult, once you get use to it, I find it's a quicker to implement. My only issue is that usually when people bash Linux / Unix on the server they bash it because they don't know it. They call out features, software, harware and network support features that exist and when you keep probing them for information you really find out either they don't know what there talking about or they don't want to put effort in to learning a new platform. Once you've mastered the Linux server then you start to see a lot of little stupid Microsoft holes appearing everywhere.
Yep the right tool lol not the easy I have a start button tool.