Remember Bernard Shifman from Chicago? Google for that name, if you want to see an example of someone to NEVER hire at any cost. This is the type of stuff employers want to find out ahead of time, and will rarely become apparent in an interview. Bad employees are a huge liability, so someone's reputation and conduct in previous jobs is a valuable indicator as to how they will eventually perform in a new job.
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ANY IT job is more stable than ANY steel worker job. The American steel industry has all but collapsed, despite Bush's pathetic attempts at protectionism. Competing with Chinese steel would be difficult for the U.S. producers even if they could pay their workers nothing. And I think it's safe to say that unions made the situation worse, not better. The higher the wages, the easier it is to justify moving the factory overseas.
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As long as you can bullshit the HR person and then do well in a technical interview, you should have no problem. Few employers will care about your GPA unless it is really horrible. I was only asked about my grades in maybe 2 out of 10 interviews and only one employer wanted to see transcripts. Being tall and friendly will help more than you would think.
That's because Oligonicella is a fucking douchebag, and people like him are the reason the foes list was invented. If you haven't added him to yours, I highly recommend it. Look at his posting history, and see what I mean. Every single comment is just him being a dickhead and is completely uninsightful. Hey Oligonicella, you don't know everything! Take your pompous-know-it-all attitude and shove it up your ass!
In other words, it's society's fault. Same bullshit, different day. That line of thinking, of trying to understand the criminal, caused society to go to hell in the 60s and 70s. In parts of New York you could hardly walk down the street without getting mugged. Now that we've seen through that stupidity and started locking criminals up where they belong, regardless of how they "needed" to rob that liquor store in order to have enough cash to buy that 8 ball. If you want to find out more about problems people get into after being released from prison, just look at any state's recidivism statistics. They are well over 50%. And that's after "rehabilitation".
Cursive writing certainly is. I can barely even read it anymore, much less write it. Does anybody else who is under 30 still write in cursive, other than when they made you do it in elementary school?
I agree that rehabilitation is certainly worth a try, but the way to rehabilitate people is not to go soft on them and give them a comfortable prison with video games. Rehabilitation must be a hard kick in the ass, which requires a lot of hard work and commitment from the inmate, with the understanding that if they screw up they have years of hard time ahead of them instead of an early release. That is the only way any kind of rehabilitation will be possible. Going easy on prisoners only guarantees more problems from them later on.
Holopr0n would truly be the last invention ever. How could anyone be convinced that they should be doing something other than fucking an image of [insert hottie's name here] in their holodeck? It would be the downfall of industrial society, but at least we'd all die happy.
Spammers are powerless to sue anyone for any reason. Can you imagine a jury in the world who would render a verdict in favor of a spammer, against a spamee? You would have to do some very powerful jury manipulation to make this even a remote possibility.
Your analogies are about as flawed as possible. Common carrier status does not mean that an ISP has to serve absolutely any customer that comes along. Any ISP in any country is permitted to deny service to a spammer. Shutting down a spam site has NOTHING in common with stealing free publications. Those publications do not send themselves to people unrequested and cost the recepient money. You want to talk about wasted resources, talk to a mail administrator and as him how much of his monthly bandwidth bill is due to spammers swamping the connection.
Hopefully this spam was sent to some Lycos email addresses, which would give them grounds for a counter suit. This is what should happen to any spammer who decides to sue over this. And just because they hired someone else to spam for them certainly does not make them innocent victims.
This just highlights the main reason why TV commercials exist: to make company executives feel important. Just think about how it must feel when the company that you lead is big-time enough to put commercials on national TV during prime time. This is the only rational explaination for all of the very irrational.com commercials we saw during the Super Bowl of 2000.
Fox started doing this years ago, when Hannity and Colmes was put on right at the end of the Oreilly Factor. Bill no more than says goodbye and then annoying Hannity starts babbling. I guess this is the only way Fox can get anyone to watch that wretched show at all.
Don't forget to include people who try to back down an exit ramp while there is traffic behind them! I swear I saw this happen before. At the very least, chop off the idiot's right foot so they can never drive a car again.
If a store offered you something for sale at a much lower cost than you were accustomed to paying, and the item was perfectly good quality, would you tell them that it is unethical to do this and that you insist on continuing to pay full price? If not, then why do you insist that companies do this with regard to their employment practices?
Politicians have learned from the recent election that they don't need to actually do what is in the public's best interest in order to get reelected, so long as they make sure gays can't get married.
Yea, I'm going to have to sort of, disagree, here. If someone has no ability to control their actions at all and never thinks about the consequences, the most effective way to make money fast in their minds would be to rob a bank. The reason that individuals who spam probably wouldn't do this is fear of getting caught and going to prison. So presumably they have some control of their actions and consider consequences which keeps them from doing really bad things. They might, however, have no morals and ethics, which is what would lead them to spam. They would know that the current laws and systems of enforcement do not provide a huge deterrent to spammers. If prison time were a real possibility, they might be exactly the type of person who would be deterred. Spam wouldn't be such a problem if we only got a few spams a week, but when mailboxes clog up with hundreds of spams a day, that adds up to serious money.
What kind of companies did you interview with? The reason I ask is because I was never lead to believe that GPA was important at all while I was in school. I can only remember one interviewer who even asked for a transcript, and I think that was just for the files. My GPA wasn't too great but nobody ever said anything about it and I got a couple of pretty decent offers. I'm just curious to find out which companies look seriously at GPA when hiring CS grads. It has always been my belief and experience that GPA and ability to program well in a business environment do not necessarily correlate.
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Wow, this must be from the same people who developed Evidence Eliminator. This company has reached an alltime low.
Remember Bernard Shifman from Chicago? Google for that name, if you want to see an example of someone to NEVER hire at any cost. This is the type of stuff employers want to find out ahead of time, and will rarely become apparent in an interview. Bad employees are a huge liability, so someone's reputation and conduct in previous jobs is a valuable indicator as to how they will eventually perform in a new job.
ANY IT job is more stable than ANY steel worker job. The American steel industry has all but collapsed, despite Bush's pathetic attempts at protectionism. Competing with Chinese steel would be difficult for the U.S. producers even if they could pay their workers nothing. And I think it's safe to say that unions made the situation worse, not better. The higher the wages, the easier it is to justify moving the factory overseas.
As long as you can bullshit the HR person and then do well in a technical interview, you should have no problem. Few employers will care about your GPA unless it is really horrible. I was only asked about my grades in maybe 2 out of 10 interviews and only one employer wanted to see transcripts. Being tall and friendly will help more than you would think.
That's because Oligonicella is a fucking douchebag, and people like him are the reason the foes list was invented. If you haven't added him to yours, I highly recommend it. Look at his posting history, and see what I mean. Every single comment is just him being a dickhead and is completely uninsightful. Hey Oligonicella, you don't know everything! Take your pompous-know-it-all attitude and shove it up your ass!
In other words, it's society's fault. Same bullshit, different day. That line of thinking, of trying to understand the criminal, caused society to go to hell in the 60s and 70s. In parts of New York you could hardly walk down the street without getting mugged. Now that we've seen through that stupidity and started locking criminals up where they belong, regardless of how they "needed" to rob that liquor store in order to have enough cash to buy that 8 ball. If you want to find out more about problems people get into after being released from prison, just look at any state's recidivism statistics. They are well over 50%. And that's after "rehabilitation".
Cursive writing certainly is. I can barely even read it anymore, much less write it. Does anybody else who is under 30 still write in cursive, other than when they made you do it in elementary school?
I agree that rehabilitation is certainly worth a try, but the way to rehabilitate people is not to go soft on them and give them a comfortable prison with video games. Rehabilitation must be a hard kick in the ass, which requires a lot of hard work and commitment from the inmate, with the understanding that if they screw up they have years of hard time ahead of them instead of an early release. That is the only way any kind of rehabilitation will be possible. Going easy on prisoners only guarantees more problems from them later on.
I believe this payment is for doing work in the prison industry system, not just for sitting around watching TV.
Holopr0n would truly be the last invention ever. How could anyone be convinced that they should be doing something other than fucking an image of [insert hottie's name here] in their holodeck? It would be the downfall of industrial society, but at least we'd all die happy.
Spammers are powerless to sue anyone for any reason. Can you imagine a jury in the world who would render a verdict in favor of a spammer, against a spamee? You would have to do some very powerful jury manipulation to make this even a remote possibility.
Your analogies are about as flawed as possible. Common carrier status does not mean that an ISP has to serve absolutely any customer that comes along. Any ISP in any country is permitted to deny service to a spammer. Shutting down a spam site has NOTHING in common with stealing free publications. Those publications do not send themselves to people unrequested and cost the recepient money. You want to talk about wasted resources, talk to a mail administrator and as him how much of his monthly bandwidth bill is due to spammers swamping the connection.
Hopefully this spam was sent to some Lycos email addresses, which would give them grounds for a counter suit. This is what should happen to any spammer who decides to sue over this. And just because they hired someone else to spam for them certainly does not make them innocent victims.
This just highlights the main reason why TV commercials exist: to make company executives feel important. Just think about how it must feel when the company that you lead is big-time enough to put commercials on national TV during prime time. This is the only rational explaination for all of the very irrational .com commercials we saw during the Super Bowl of 2000.
Fox started doing this years ago, when Hannity and Colmes was put on right at the end of the Oreilly Factor. Bill no more than says goodbye and then annoying Hannity starts babbling. I guess this is the only way Fox can get anyone to watch that wretched show at all.
Don't forget to include people who try to back down an exit ramp while there is traffic behind them! I swear I saw this happen before. At the very least, chop off the idiot's right foot so they can never drive a car again.
What's wrong with the free AdAware?
Don't you have a throwaway hotmail account to collect your junk mail?
If a store offered you something for sale at a much lower cost than you were accustomed to paying, and the item was perfectly good quality, would you tell them that it is unethical to do this and that you insist on continuing to pay full price? If not, then why do you insist that companies do this with regard to their employment practices?
Politicians have learned from the recent election that they don't need to actually do what is in the public's best interest in order to get reelected, so long as they make sure gays can't get married.
Very true. Anyone who is willing to break the law by shooting at someone is unlikely to care about a law banning silencers.
I'll have to agree with the parent poster here. If you have nothing to shoot, you have nothing to fear.
Yea, I'm going to have to sort of, disagree, here. If someone has no ability to control their actions at all and never thinks about the consequences, the most effective way to make money fast in their minds would be to rob a bank. The reason that individuals who spam probably wouldn't do this is fear of getting caught and going to prison. So presumably they have some control of their actions and consider consequences which keeps them from doing really bad things. They might, however, have no morals and ethics, which is what would lead them to spam. They would know that the current laws and systems of enforcement do not provide a huge deterrent to spammers. If prison time were a real possibility, they might be exactly the type of person who would be deterred. Spam wouldn't be such a problem if we only got a few spams a week, but when mailboxes clog up with hundreds of spams a day, that adds up to serious money.
What kind of companies did you interview with? The reason I ask is because I was never lead to believe that GPA was important at all while I was in school. I can only remember one interviewer who even asked for a transcript, and I think that was just for the files. My GPA wasn't too great but nobody ever said anything about it and I got a couple of pretty decent offers. I'm just curious to find out which companies look seriously at GPA when hiring CS grads. It has always been my belief and experience that GPA and ability to program well in a business environment do not necessarily correlate.
Glad to hear that. Maybe soon you'll be able to move on and program in Visual Basics.