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  • On the post: Rejected From College Because Of Your Facebook Profile?

    sniperdoc ( profile ), 23 Sep, 2008 @ 06:47am

    I can't believe someone said this...!

    By SteveD

    It says a lot about a University that would turn away a student based on single drunken photo (although I guess there are the US drinking laws to consider). If Universities are there to prepare students for work in the real world they should follow the same employment rules as real businesses. For an employer to scrutinise or monitor the private life of an employee is widely deemed inappropriate. -[Dude... where do you work??? What employer DOESN'T care about what their employees do after work?] And where does it end? Will I someday find myself loosing out on a job because some bored HR worker googled my name and found some decade-old blog reply that didn’t fall in line with company values? Interview and application processes work in a certain manner for a reason. Employers are required to structure these processes in a manner that demonstrates to regulators that selections are made without bias. References are provided to give employers the broader picture. If an employer goes on the net to start digging dirt on a candidate it quite clearly falls outside this regulation, publicly available or not.
    Without bias? Where do YOU live? Certainly not in the United States. Color, Gender, personal presentability, and social ranking are STILL the most influential things in getting a job. Whether you LIKE it or not, or whether it's legal or not does not matter. You certainly won't see McDonalds or Burger King discriminating, but any real firm that hires PROFESSIONALS, will do anything to make sure that the elite get hired. Period. If you're dumb enough, and irresponsible enough to display your so-called "PRIVATE LIFE" online. It ain't private no more bub! Bccause you just showed everyone on the planet your "real" side. An employer sees you for 8 hours. But you have 16 more left in the day to make an ass of yourself and be a liability to your company.

  • On the post: Cartographers Against Google Maps

    sniperdoc ( profile ), 29 Aug, 2008 @ 07:33pm

    Re: Cartographers

    Ummm I'm totally there with you Phoebe... Whoever that idiot cartographer up there is doesn't understand that Google Maps still requires Cartographer's help/resources/skills to make Google Maps work.

  • On the post: Cities Caught Illegally Tampering With Traffic Lights To Increase Revenue Of Red Light Cameras

    sniperdoc ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2008 @ 07:10am

    Potential prosecution???

    Screw that... they should be prosecuted period. And it should be one count of Involuntary Manslaughter for every individual that has passed through a traffic light, that's been modified, and gotten killed or critically injured.

  • On the post: Buddhist Monks Warned To Stop Using Social Networks To Flirt With Girls

    sniperdoc ( profile ), 05 Mar, 2008 @ 12:33pm

    Thai women...

    Well if I recall Thailand all that well... most GOODLOOKING women aren't.

    To explain... most goodlooking women there are men. Either Boob-jobbed or just Cross-dressing ones. The first common mistake of every US Service man that has gone there... so I wouldn't doubt if it were men they were flirting with.

    CHECK THE PACKAGE FIRST!!!

  • On the post: EA Makes A Bid For Take Two: Soon You'll Be Able To Shoot John Madden In GTA

    sniperdoc ( profile ), 25 Feb, 2008 @ 08:35am

    Ummm...

    EA is not really a developer. They are a mostly a publisher. All they do is marketing and print the CDs... :)

    They're like Ubisoft...

    I think the only games they really "develop" are the sports series.

    But, how they will impact the "acquired" developers is in their marketing strategy and how a particular game "style" or "topic" will affect EA's reputation and stocks. That's where the big issue lies. They now have the power to say that they won't publish a particular game because of its public abrasiveness for example.

    You wouldn't see a game like Postal 2 coming from EA or Ubisoft. Stocks rule the world my friends and big businesses just want more money. They're not in it for the "fun" of it. It's the money.

  • On the post: EA Makes A Bid For Take Two: Soon You'll Be Able To Shoot John Madden In GTA

    sniperdoc ( profile ), 25 Feb, 2008 @ 06:41am

    Ditto to all the comments...

    I have to agree. Given that AO rated games will not be sold at larger retailers such as Best Buy or Circuit City, will mean that Take Two's upcoming range of games will be reduced to "kiddie" status.

    You know... I have no beef with EA other than their ability to work their developers and staff into the ground with almost 80 hour work weeks, removing the developers creativity and vision with their own "view" of how the games should be developed, and their skill to make enjoyable titles disappear. Other than that... they're pretty keen. :-/

  • On the post: Danish Court Tells ISP To Block PirateBay

    sniperdoc ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2008 @ 06:51am

    Danish Court Tells ISP To Block PirateBay

    But, people have to be paid, even if it's in the millions and billions of dollars for the entertainment industry. It's always about a positive for the RIAA/MPAA... they wouldn't be doing it if it wasn't.State the rhetorical why don't you.

    And wtf does that have to do with the Euro? You still only pay $3 for a gallon of milk moron... Germans pay like 5 - 6EU for a facking Liter!!! So go suck a pipe bomb and get a GED.

  • On the post: Another Study Showing The Impact Of Violent Media On The Brain

    sniperdoc ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2007 @ 06:35am

    Re:

    Ya... ok. Pretty much was the dead guy said. :)

    Violence hasn't become more prevalent. It's become known and available to the public because it's more wide spread due to media displaying it (bad news). Good news doesn't get ratings, bad news does.

    Every house hold in the world has a TV now. We're not just sittin' in front of our Victrola listening to the latest "Whispering Hope" by olive Kline-Elsie Baker record.
    Society has become inundated with violence around them. I've been playing video games and watching violent movies since I was 9 years old. Now 24 years later, I still do all those things and I haven't killed anyone, shot anyone, raped my pet ferret or beat my wife.

    Keep in mind that those folks who run into schools and shoot people are unstable to begin with. Those folks that believe videogames and media are the cause of violence are shirking responsibility onto a third party. It's the parents, teachers, and to some degree the environment the kids grow up in that cause of "unstable" individuals.

    Just because I play Manhunt 2 doesn't mean I'm going to start driving around whackin' people. I hope to think that I have enough reasoning and judgement capability to not do that. Hell, even when I've been drunk I haven't gotten in a fight yet.

  • On the post: Who Knew That Fishermen Don't Know Old Undersea Copper Cables From Important Undersea Fiber Optic Cables?

    sniperdoc ( profile ), 08 Jun, 2007 @ 05:41am

    Reply to Just Me

    Well, I would say

    .000000000030292821 of the world's population does NOT live on the planet.

    How did I get that number?

    World Population = 6,602,224,175 (and counting)
    American Citizens on the Space station = 2

    2 / 6,602,224,175 = 3.0292821*10^-10

  • On the post: Law Students Say Message Board Postings Are Costing Them Job Offers

    sniperdoc ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2007 @ 12:32pm

    Re: What?

    Actually, it's really quite amazing. My gf used to be a HR recruiter for a large firm, and they dig pretty dang deep sometimes when it comes to some of the larger corporations out there.

    As far as the statement:
    "If an employer takes that much solace in what a random 3rd party says then you don't want to work for them anyway."

    I would say that I would WANT to work for that employer, because they want to make sure that their people are top notch.

    As far as "Take responsibility and move on", yep... that's exactly the attitude they should have. It comes down to integrity in the end, if you've lead a life that wasn't too "quiet", then be prepared for those waves that you've made to come back and resonate off of you.

    Karma is a biotch!

  • On the post: Wii Porn: The Next Great Techno Menace

    sniperdoc ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2007 @ 03:23pm

    O...M...F...G...

    You know what... let's just can the 360, the PS3, and by the way, lets get rid of computers too. Of course it's Nintendo's fault for allowing web browsing on the Wii. Why don't the right folks take the dang responsibility and just can Al Gore... I mean he invented "Internet" in the first place right?

    The PARENTS need to start taking some control and responsibility in teaching their kids what is wrong and what is right. The PARENTS need to get a little I.T. savvy and start realizing that all they need to do is purchase a Router that has parental controls on it, and then they can restrict their kids to whatever website they want with those parental controls.

    If they want to get their kids electronic hardware with web access, then PARENTS need to start learning a bit about how to control the access.

    But of course, it's always better to blame the device and not the user right?

  • On the post: Palm Regains Control Of Palm OS, In All Its Outdated Glory

    sniperdoc ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2006 @ 12:11pm

    Sounds like Linux

    You know... I see a lot of comments on here about how if you do have a problem with PalmOS that there a big user base that can help you out... how things come bundled with PalmOS, etc...

    What a load of crap. Has anyone ever tried to sync their contacts list in Outlook with a Palm based system? I had a TungstenT3 and I hated it. It wasn't very customizable, the terminology wasn't industry standard when it did offer the customizability.

    When I have any operating system I expect it to work. I don't want to have to tweak it here, do this there, and dance with maraccas around a mexican hat. I want the product to work. Period.

    I currently have the Cingular 8125 or HTC Wizard as it's called, and it comes with Windows Mobile 5, and it just works. No desktop manager to install. Just plug it in and it syncs fine with Outlook and transfers all your data. Oh... and by the way... it also came with Word, Powerpoint, and Excel. Oh yeah... it also has a PDF reader and if I would bother with the Data package it'll behave just like a Blackberry and give me all my email while on the road... Let PalmOS do that for you.

    Non-customizable, "I-have-to-be-a-moron-to-run-it" OS. And if you want it to be able to do other things you have to download plugins galore... Oh it's a great MobileOS. PalmOS sucks and is just as unstable as all the other Mobile OSes.

  • On the post: Palm Regains Control Of Palm OS, In All Its Outdated Glory

    sniperdoc ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2006 @ 12:10pm

    Sounds like Linux

    You know... I see a lot of comments on here about how if you do have a problem with PalmOS that there a big user base that can help you out... how things come bundled with PalmOS, etc...

    What a load of crap. Has anyone ever tried to sync their contacts list in Outlook with a Palm based system? I had a TungstenT3 and I hated it. It wasn't very customizable, the terminology wasn't industry standard when it did offer the customizability.

    When I have any operating system I expect it to work. I don't want to have to tweak it here, do this there, and dance with maraccas around a mexican hat. I want the product to work. Period.

    I currently have the Cingular 8125 or HTC Wizard as it's called, and it comes with Windows Mobile 5, and it just works. No desktop manager to install. Just plug it in and it syncs fine with Outlook and transfers all your data. Oh... and by the way... it also came with Word, Powerpoint, and Excel. Oh yeah... it also has a PDF reader and if I would bother with the Data package it'll behave just like a Blackberry and give me all my email while on the road... Let PalmOS do that for you.

    Non-customizable, "I-have-to-be-a-moron-to-run-it" OS. And if you want it to be able to do other things you have to download plugins galore... Oh it's a great MobileOS. PalmOS sucks and is just as unstable as all the other Mobile OSes.