or the "terrorist" in Gitmo told that menstrual blood was smeared on his Koran
LOL - that never happened. You might want to read about how the prisoners are actually treated, especially in regards to their Koran (they can only be touched by "infidel" US soldiers who are wearing a clean white cotton glove on their right hand). The whole Newsweek Koran story was an absolute farce, and has been repeatedly shown to be so.
And before you keep yelling "Geneva Conventions" please read them, you don't qualify for them just by breathing and there are many ways to get yourself excluded from them.
Check with the people we've sent to Syria for interrogation;
Syria? SYRIA?!? What the HELL are you talking about? Syria is by NO means an ally.
but we bombed the fuck out of a country that had nothing - nothing - to do with 9/11.
Yeah, Saddam probably didn't (although the documents being released recently certainly point to him and Bin Laden working together, or at least having nice friendly chats going back as far as 1995, as well as outlining his broad support for terrorists and his terrorist training camps... Zarqawi didn't just randomly choose Iraq as a place to go to after he was injured in Afghanistan). But why does that matter? He is the biggest living mass murderer, he tried to have Bush Sr. assassinated (something we should have overthrown him for in the first place), he had acid dripped on the faces of judges who didn't condemn people to death (btw, you might not want to read that story, it's about one of the guys who helped set up the new Iraqi court system and he says in the article that he "did not meet one Iraqi who told me that it was a mistake to remove [Hussein] from power"), etc etc etc (^8).
Because the enemy navy has those fancy airplanes as well.
If you're sending up planes to attack an enemies naval forces, it's most likely because they're approaching your country, and the opposing forces home country could very well be half way aroud the world. Good luck flying there.
Yes, I was answering the question "Didn't you guys see V...?"
My answer was "unfortunately". If this is the best that Hollywood's got going these days.... no wonder they're struggling.
It was billed as an action movie, which it hardly was. The (maybe) 5 minutes of action in it was fairly good though.
I can see, however, how it does appeal (somewhat) to those on the left suffering from BDS (Bush Derangment Syndrome - actually diagnosed by some psychologists).
"America's War" Evil right wing talk show hosts who pop pills Evil Christians etc etc
The closest thing in the world today to an actual government functioning in the ways that Britain's government is shown functioning are in those countries run by islamofacists or communists (Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, etc).
I agree with you that experience _should_ trump all other concerns, but it doesn't always. Many companies place a large emphasis on having a degree (of any type).
I also don't see how getting fairly standard certs devalues your experience. I've always seen them as a way of saying "Here's my experience, and here's something backing up my assertion that I know what I'm talking about." I would agree that certifications have been devalued somewhat and that getting too many of them can be detrimental (as it makes it appear that you're getting them solely for the sake of getting more certifications). A well chosen set of certifications is key, as is being able to explain why you got them (I've been asked several times in interviews why I got the ones I have).
Someone having several overlapping ones can look really foolish.
A universtiy degree/college diploma takes 3-5 years to complete, but once its completed its universally accepted and never expire
Sort of. Say you get a CompSci degree, but then work in Sales & Marketing for 5 years. After working in S&M you then want to switch to an IT job. There will definitely be a depreciation in the value of your CompSci degree since you haven't been working in the field.
Not every cert is updated every 2 years. The MCSE is updated after every major OS release (2000 -> 2003 -> Vista (I'd assume), so 3-4 years), but there will be no one looking for people with an MCSE Vista cert for several years. Most people would be fine with a MCSE 2000 and upgrading between MCSEs is pretty easy, only a test or two is required. The MCDBA cert is still based on SQL Server 2000, and some of the tests to get it still cover SQL Server 7.0. One would assume that there will be an updated MCDBA in the future, but few companies are actually rolling out MS SQL 2005 or looking for anyone with those skills.
RHCE/RHCT cover 2 OS upgrades (RHCE/RHCT for Red Hat Enterprise 3 is good through 5).
Take the FCC Radio operators license test (or whatever it's called) and then get back to me.
That's one cert that I did a big cram session for and have absolutely no knowledge on the subject (and I don't list it on my resume). At the company I work for a lot of the employees need that license, but the test covers absolutely nothing even close to anything relevant to what they're working on. I mean, how does the size of a boat, and what type of boat it is, and what its licensed for, relate to most any current job?
The problem is that how are companies supposed to know that you know more? Take your word?
If the paper certs are so easy to get, why not just get them? The MCSE will cost you ~$875, add to that an MCDBA for $125 more (if you take the right MCSE tests), and then maybe throw in a RHCE/RHCT ($749/$349).
Oh, and you might as well get the standard and extremely easy to get CompTIA A+ ($200 or so). You can always change one cert for another you like more (like a Cisco or Novell or some other CompTIA cert) So, you've dropped $2000 at most, and you now have on your resume:
Standard IT/MIS/Comp Sci Degree/Other MCSE MCDBA RHCE/RHCT A+
Instead of just having your degree. You may not like it, but many HR departments do, and many jobs post those certs (or similar ones) as requirements. So suck it up and invest a little bit of time and money into your career.
Because he said that the original poster was wrong, and then said almost the exact same thing (although in slightly better English) that the original poster did.
Original poster: Islam isn't more than 1500 years old (which is correct) Grandparent: Nopes! Islam is 1500 years old! (which is incorrect)
Yes I did!!! (does the extra punctuation add to my insightfulnes???)
Clearly you haven't played GRAW and most likely don't have a 360. But that's fine. There's nothing wrong with that. Trying to act like you do is strange, but oh well.
What bogus marketing? Please enlighten me. Online co-op was pretty damn good as was playing 4 player splitscreen co-op. So, what did they lie to me about? Everything in the game seems to be exactly as it was described.
Terrible frame rate? Tearing? Wrong on both accounts.
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Since Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter makes Black its bitch, I don't think anyone is really complaining.
For co-op fans out there: drool over GRAW: 4 player split screen co-op 2-16 player co-op online
Why do people keep saying this? The reason that there isn't a large price difference in a Dell system loaded with Linux vs. a Dell system loaded with Windows is that Dell uses commercial Red Hat Linux.
You will save money if you order a Dell with no OS (well, FreeDOS is usually shipped with the system) versus one shipped with XP. You just can't order every system that way.
Do you ever watch International CNN? Last time I did was during the first Iraqi elections where they had unmanned cameras facing all these polling locations just waiting for the carnage to ensue.
It was the most disgustingly ignorant and biased bit of television I had ever seen.
From the main CNN anchor arguing with one of the Iraqi government officials about the officials statement that violence was much much lower than they expected ("You're just saying that because it's part of your job to keep the violence to a minimum!"), to almost a non-stop repetition of the same 6 or 7 very small acts of violence, to the inability to utter one word of praise about how (reasonably) well the process went. Just negativity.
Maybe it's not normally like that, but I'm not going to bother giving it another chance.
Normal CNN is garbage. Worthless garbage. I used to watch it every morning up until shortly after the AOL/Timewarner merger. It went quickly downhill from that point forward.
Why ignore the rest of his statement? That he experienced no media filtering.
International CNN and MTV were just examples of how they aren't just getting right wing news media crammed down their throats. They aren't just blasting Fox News everywhere.
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Terrorists are people too, and if it weren't for our ass-backward policies, they wouldn't be terrorists at all.
LOL
You hit the nail on the head! It's all OUR fault. What a nuanced, progressive way of looking at the world!
It's Israel's fault too that people detonate themselves inside dance clubs and at restaurants, right?
or the "terrorist" in Gitmo told that menstrual blood was smeared on his Koran
LOL - that never happened. You might want to read about how the prisoners are actually treated, especially in regards to their Koran (they can only be touched by "infidel" US soldiers who are wearing a clean white cotton glove on their right hand). The whole Newsweek Koran story was an absolute farce, and has been repeatedly shown to be so.
And before you keep yelling "Geneva Conventions" please read them, you don't qualify for them just by breathing and there are many ways to get yourself excluded from them.
Check with the people we've sent to Syria for interrogation;
Syria? SYRIA?!? What the HELL are you talking about? Syria is by NO means an ally.
but we bombed the fuck out of a country that had nothing - nothing - to do with 9/11.
Yeah, Saddam probably didn't (although the documents being released recently certainly point to him and Bin Laden working together, or at least having nice friendly chats going back as far as 1995, as well as outlining his broad support for terrorists and his terrorist training camps... Zarqawi didn't just randomly choose Iraq as a place to go to after he was injured in Afghanistan). But why does that matter? He is the biggest living mass murderer, he tried to have Bush Sr. assassinated (something we should have overthrown him for in the first place), he had acid dripped on the faces of judges who didn't condemn people to death (btw, you might not want to read that story, it's about one of the guys who helped set up the new Iraqi court system and he says in the article that he "did not meet one Iraqi who told me that it was a mistake to remove [Hussein] from power"), etc etc etc (^8).
A history lesson? What, my I ask, did he have wrong?
Because the enemy navy has those fancy airplanes as well.
If you're sending up planes to attack an enemies naval forces, it's most likely because they're approaching your country, and the opposing forces home country could very well be half way aroud the world. Good luck flying there.
How about you name something with a smaller market share?
(most|all) of those tablet PCs you see out there exist because MS pushed their Tablet PC software.
Tablet PCs are useful because of their software. So, if MS is going to charge $200 for their software, so what? I know... you'd want it for free...
Well, of course it can, that's the point of an HTML Application. The problem is that they can be executed without the users permission.
Ooops... shit. Responded to the wrong post anyways....
Well, I have the "Commercial Radio Operator License" which, strangely, is for commercial purposes.
http://wireless.fcc.gov/commoperators/
Well, I have the "Commercial Radio Operator License" which, strangely, is for commercial purposes.
http://wireless.fcc.gov/commoperators/
Yes, I was answering the question "Didn't you guys see V...?"
My answer was "unfortunately". If this is the best that Hollywood's got going these days.... no wonder they're struggling.
It was billed as an action movie, which it hardly was. The (maybe) 5 minutes of action in it was fairly good though.
I can see, however, how it does appeal (somewhat) to those on the left suffering from BDS (Bush Derangment Syndrome - actually diagnosed by some psychologists).
"America's War"
Evil right wing talk show hosts who pop pills
Evil Christians
etc etc
The closest thing in the world today to an actual government functioning in the ways that Britain's government is shown functioning are in those countries run by islamofacists or communists (Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, etc).
Unfortuantely. If you're expecting to see an action movie you might want to lower your expectations just a little bit.
"Innovation grows the market"
It does no such thing!
I agree with you that experience _should_ trump all other concerns, but it doesn't always. Many companies place a large emphasis on having a degree (of any type).
I also don't see how getting fairly standard certs devalues your experience. I've always seen them as a way of saying "Here's my experience, and here's something backing up my assertion that I know what I'm talking about." I would agree that certifications have been devalued somewhat and that getting too many of them can be detrimental (as it makes it appear that you're getting them solely for the sake of getting more certifications). A well chosen set of certifications is key, as is being able to explain why you got them (I've been asked several times in interviews why I got the ones I have).
Someone having several overlapping ones can look really foolish.
Love your sig, btw.
A universtiy degree/college diploma takes 3-5 years to complete, but once its completed its universally accepted and never expire
Sort of. Say you get a CompSci degree, but then work in Sales & Marketing for 5 years. After working in S&M you then want to switch to an IT job. There will definitely be a depreciation in the value of your CompSci degree since you haven't been working in the field.
Not every cert is updated every 2 years. The MCSE is updated after every major OS release (2000 -> 2003 -> Vista (I'd assume), so 3-4 years), but there will be no one looking for people with an MCSE Vista cert for several years. Most people would be fine with a MCSE 2000 and upgrading between MCSEs is pretty easy, only a test or two is required. The MCDBA cert is still based on SQL Server 2000, and some of the tests to get it still cover SQL Server 7.0. One would assume that there will be an updated MCDBA in the future, but few companies are actually rolling out MS SQL 2005 or looking for anyone with those skills.
RHCE/RHCT cover 2 OS upgrades (RHCE/RHCT for Red Hat Enterprise 3 is good through 5).
Take the FCC Radio operators license test (or whatever it's called) and then get back to me.
That's one cert that I did a big cram session for and have absolutely no knowledge on the subject (and I don't list it on my resume). At the company I work for a lot of the employees need that license, but the test covers absolutely nothing even close to anything relevant to what they're working on. I mean, how does the size of a boat, and what type of boat it is, and what its licensed for, relate to most any current job?
The problem is that how are companies supposed to know that you know more? Take your word?
If the paper certs are so easy to get, why not just get them? The MCSE will cost you ~$875, add to that an MCDBA for $125 more (if you take the right MCSE tests), and then maybe throw in a RHCE/RHCT ($749/$349).
Oh, and you might as well get the standard and extremely easy to get CompTIA A+ ($200 or so). You can always change one cert for another you like more (like a Cisco or Novell or some other CompTIA cert) So, you've dropped $2000 at most, and you now have on your resume:
Standard IT/MIS/Comp Sci Degree/Other
MCSE
MCDBA
RHCE/RHCT
A+
Instead of just having your degree. You may not like it, but many HR departments do, and many jobs post those certs (or similar ones) as requirements. So suck it up and invest a little bit of time and money into your career.
Hmm... what happens if you inhale a classified document?
For 50 points, complete the following sentence: The crusades were a response to...
(hint: starts with a J, ends with an "ihad")
Because he said that the original poster was wrong, and then said almost the exact same thing (although in slightly better English) that the original poster did.
Original poster: Islam isn't more than 1500 years old (which is correct)
Grandparent: Nopes! Islam is 1500 years old! (which is incorrect)
570 AD
Yes I did!!! (does the extra punctuation add to my insightfulnes???)
Clearly you haven't played GRAW and most likely don't have a 360. But that's fine. There's nothing wrong with that. Trying to act like you do is strange, but oh well.
What bogus marketing? Please enlighten me. Online co-op was pretty damn good as was playing 4 player splitscreen co-op. So, what did they lie to me about? Everything in the game seems to be exactly as it was described.
Terrible frame rate? Tearing? Wrong on both accounts.
Since Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter makes Black its bitch, I don't think anyone is really complaining.
For co-op fans out there: drool over GRAW:
4 player split screen co-op
2-16 player co-op online
Why do people keep saying this? The reason that there isn't a large price difference in a Dell system loaded with Linux vs. a Dell system loaded with Windows is that Dell uses commercial Red Hat Linux.
You will save money if you order a Dell with no OS (well, FreeDOS is usually shipped with the system) versus one shipped with XP. You just can't order every system that way.
Do you ever watch International CNN? Last time I did was during the first Iraqi elections where they had unmanned cameras facing all these polling locations just waiting for the carnage to ensue.
It was the most disgustingly ignorant and biased bit of television I had ever seen.
From the main CNN anchor arguing with one of the Iraqi government officials about the officials statement that violence was much much lower than they expected ("You're just saying that because it's part of your job to keep the violence to a minimum!"), to almost a non-stop repetition of the same 6 or 7 very small acts of violence, to the inability to utter one word of praise about how (reasonably) well the process went. Just negativity.
Maybe it's not normally like that, but I'm not going to bother giving it another chance.
Normal CNN is garbage. Worthless garbage. I used to watch it every morning up until shortly after the AOL/Timewarner merger. It went quickly downhill from that point forward.
Wow. Apple's super lawyers at work.
Why ignore the rest of his statement? That he experienced no media filtering.
International CNN and MTV were just examples of how they aren't just getting right wing news media crammed down their throats. They aren't just blasting Fox News everywhere.