The way that the military teaches those dumb people to operate that complex equipment is by rote. (This works quite well with intelligent people, too.) I know this because, as a former SNCO in the Australian Army, I taught soldiers, some of whom were as thick as pigshit.
Additionally, in Australia at least, the Defence forces prefer to recruit fairly bright people these days.
You'd have to offer me about $A100K to move to Sydney. Partly because it's so expensive to live there, but mostly because the only place that sucks more than Sydney is Canberra.
I can assure you that there is _not_ an IT skills shortage - ther's an IT _jobs_ shortage (at least in Adelaide). I've just got a job after 5 months between contracts. I think your pimp^Wrecruiter friend is lying to you.
I think you missed my point. I have a degree. At the moment, given the glut of programmers etc in the job market, I don't think it's helped me get a job. I _do_ believe it enables me to do the job better, however.
> To be honest with the record low unemployment rate at the moment and the booming resources market everyone in Australia should be able to find work.
You don't get out much, do you? The unemployemnt figures are fraudulent. There aren't any jobs out there. I've only just started working again after 5 months, and I've been looking for work very, very hard.
Sorry, this is just bullshit. I've recently come off the dole, and, at $A436 per fortnight it wasn't even enough to pay my mortgage. I have used up all my savings and acquired a serious overdraft. The reason I was unemployed for long enough for this to happen is that THERE AREN'T ANY FUCKING JOBS. Believe me, I was looking very hard.
I can assure you that the dole here in Australia is not particularly fucking charitable - the bastards who hand it out have all the warmth of a week-old corpse, and slightly less charm.
The unemployment figures are fraudulent, and have been at least since Keating's time as PM. They are measured in such a way as to totally mislead anyone who's not unemployed as to the real situation.
Adelaide is wonderful, but I doubt if its climate is much like San Fransisco. We don't get much fog, for a start. The climate is apparently Mediterranean - ie, hot, dry summers and mild, dampish winters. The only place I'd even consider moving to is Darwin, but that's only because I liked the lifestyle - the climate sucks, at least during our southern hemisphere summers (it's ok in winter, because it's dryish).
There's an excellent mountain bike trail, not in Adelaide but a day or so's drive away - the Mawson Trail (well - actually - it starts in Adelaide, but I avoided that bit, because it's a bit steep). Try it. You'll like it. I made some of the maps of it.
I think Adelaide is generally pretty interesting, but people from Sydney or Melbourne would probably disagree. Fuck 'em. Our cops don't shoot as many people as the Melbourne coppers, and they're _way_ less corrupt than the Sydney cops, so that's got to be a plus.
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The way that the military teaches those dumb people to operate that complex equipment is by rote. (This works quite well with intelligent people, too.) I know this because, as a former SNCO in the Australian Army, I taught soldiers, some of whom were as thick as pigshit.
Additionally, in Australia at least, the Defence forces prefer to recruit fairly bright people these days.
Actually, Australia was only used as a prison because the American colonies were no longer available ...
I thought that it was _Americans_ who didn't have a well-developed sense of humour. You've let the side down, sport.
512 bytes may well date back to the block size on a VAX.
Even if he meant 2 in base 3, he would have still been correct.
You'd have to offer me about $A100K to move to Sydney. Partly because it's so expensive to live there, but mostly because the only place that sucks more than Sydney is Canberra.
I can assure you that there is _not_ an IT skills shortage - ther's an IT _jobs_ shortage (at least in Adelaide). I've just got a job after 5 months between contracts. I think your pimp^Wrecruiter friend is lying to you.
I'm an (aging) Australian. Mostly I'm comfortable with the metric system, but for height and weight, its Imperial all the way.
Crikey! I'm about 5'10" tall, and at 10 stone (140 lb) I was pretty scrawny. A lot of beer and 35 years later, I'm fat.
I think you missed my point. I have a degree. At the moment, given the glut of programmers etc in the job market, I don't think it's helped me get a job. I _do_ believe it enables me to do the job better, however.
Yeah, there's probably heaps of them out of work too.
Shit. I need to get a (shudder) MBA.
He's lying. There aren't any jobs over here.
Although, if there were, you'd be pleasantly surprised how cheap it is to live in Australia (except for Sydney).
I actually had a security clearance, to Top Secret, which has only recently expired. It didn't help me get a job, let alone add $30 to my hourly rate.
who the fuck in their right mind would want to live in Sydney? Never mind the ridiculous cost of living, it's just too hard to get around.
Tell me, where was this supposed coding skills shortage for the five months I was looking for work?
I'm working now, thank christ, but there hasn't been a lot of work around lately.
Having a degree doesn't actually make a lot of difference, believe me.
> To be honest with the record low unemployment rate at the moment and the booming resources market everyone in Australia should be able to find work.
You don't get out much, do you? The unemployemnt figures are fraudulent. There aren't any jobs out there. I've only just started working again after 5 months, and I've been looking for work very, very hard.
Sorry, this is just bullshit. I've recently come off the dole, and, at $A436 per fortnight it wasn't even enough to pay my mortgage. I have used up all my savings and acquired a serious overdraft. The reason I was unemployed for long enough for this to happen is that THERE AREN'T ANY FUCKING JOBS. Believe me, I was looking very hard.
Nah - "seppos".
I can assure you that the dole here in Australia is not particularly fucking charitable - the bastards who hand it out have all the warmth of a week-old corpse, and slightly less charm.
"Dole bludgers" dates back to Malcolm Fraser's government (you know, when Howard was Treasurer). I think the current term is "shirkers".
In fact a bludger used to be a bloke who lived off the immoral earnings of a prostitute.
Christ, I wish I still weighed 140 lbs (120 is a bit light for my height).
The unemployment figures are fraudulent, and have been at least since Keating's time as PM. They are measured in such a way as to totally mislead anyone who's not unemployed as to the real situation.
We're short of telephone sanitisers too ...
Heaps of unemployed programmers, though. We're fucking drowning in them.
Adelaide is wonderful, but I doubt if its climate is much like San Fransisco. We don't get much fog, for a start. The climate is apparently Mediterranean - ie, hot, dry summers and mild, dampish winters. The only place I'd even consider moving to is Darwin, but that's only because I liked the lifestyle - the climate sucks, at least during our southern hemisphere summers (it's ok in winter, because it's dryish).
There's an excellent mountain bike trail, not in Adelaide but a day or so's drive away - the Mawson Trail (well - actually - it starts in Adelaide, but I avoided that bit, because it's a bit steep). Try it. You'll like it. I made some of the maps of it.
I think Adelaide is generally pretty interesting, but people from Sydney or Melbourne would probably disagree. Fuck 'em. Our cops don't shoot as many people as the Melbourne coppers, and they're _way_ less corrupt than the Sydney cops, so that's got to be a plus.