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A job site I'm subscribed to (too lazy to unreg, just set email client to junk it)
- suggested job: AS/400 System Engineer - I've never set those options (AS/400 nor SysEngin) as prefs in any job site ever (hell never touched anything AS/400)
- suggested a Diploma course: Professional Diploma in Counter Terrorism
What!!?? It's an IT Jobs only site! where did that course come from?
(or is terrorism also related to AS/400?)
Either way to old to give a sh*t, too old to go to school (well just don't want to), way too old to pick a fight!
Counter terrorism???
You there!!! stand still while I fetch my stick!!! (Firearms and even weaponised knives are illegal here.)
...gotta stop looking in my Junk mail folder (even when really really bored), also absolutely don't need Louie Vution bags nor Spanish real estate anyway.
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A number of years ago, a company announced a position for a person familiar with COBOLT.
I have also seen companies in search of people with proficiency in system stimulation.
Both examples predate automatic spelling correction. Today we can't rule out the possibility that they meant to write something quite different, but someone cast a spell on them.
(One Norwegian computer vendor, Norsk Data, actually marketed such a product as "The ND Spell"  )
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The saddest part is that this could be a "personal" email from someone who "read" your LinkedIn profile... 
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Maybe the government is under the assumption that if they use archaic tech other countries can break in but won't know how to use it.
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maybe the job is to defend the as/400 from outside elements...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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I keep getting messages for jobs in the USA, maybe they can see the impending Brexit shitstorm and are trying to offer me an escape route!
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Vulcans! Masters of the obvious and devastating comments. 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Does a well educated thermometer have many degrees?
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So Fahrenheit is smarter?
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I don't think "made up degrees" count. And I'm a qualified Doctor of Opinionisms, so I would know.
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ahem, kelvin.
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Ah, but Kelvin degrees are the same size as centigrade degrees, so there are still less of them.
Granted, K and C might get bigger degrees, but F still wins numerically.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Ah, but Kelvin degrees are the same size as centigrade degrees, so there are still less of them.
0 celcius = 32 F = 273.15 kelvin
even on ice kelvin hits triple digits
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Hmmm. You really need to work on your Maths skills.
The location of the zero in any arbitrary measurement system is pretty irrelevant.
100 degrees of Celcius or Kelvin is equivalent to 180 degrees of Fahrenheit, no matter where the zero of each system is.
i.e.
0 to 100 Kelvin is:
- 100 Kelvin degrees
- 100 Centigrade degrees
- 180 Fahrenheit degrees
Fahrenheit has more degrees than either of those other under-educated measurement systems
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Nitpicking: "Degrees Kelvin" or "Kelvin degrees" is not formally correct. It is "Kelvin", nothing more.
(I learned this less than a year ago, so maybe I shouldn't be bloating too much )
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Member 7989122 wrote: Nitpicking: "Degrees Kelvin" or "Kelvin degrees" is not formally correct. It is "Kelvin", nothing more.
Which is why I said "100 Kelvin".
Read more carefully.
Here's a version with subtitles for the hard of thinking:
"100 Kelvin degrees" (100 OF THE DEGREES IN THE KELVIN MEASUREMENT SYSTEM, not the temperature 100 Kelvin) is equal to (covers the same temperature range as) 180 Fahrenheit degrees (180 of the degrees in the Fahrenheit measurement system, not the temperature 180 Fahrenheit).
Now here's a version for the completely brain dead:
Fahrenheit degrees are smaller than Kelvin ones, so there are more of them.
Pick the one that suits you best.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Which is why I said "100 Kelvin".
you did?
I read:
Mark_Wallace wrote:
- 100 Kelvin degrees
- 100 Centigrade degrees
- 180 Fahrenheit degrees
I am sorry that I misread this, and hope you will accept my excuse.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: 0 to 100 Kelvin is:
- 100 Kelvin degrees
- 100 Centigrade degrees
- 180 Fahrenheit degrees
Refer to my last posting to realise your other annoyingly idiotic error.
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I have told you that I am sorry that I read
- 100 Kelvin degrees as "Kelvin degrees" and not as "Kelvin". Why don't you accept that I am sorry for this misreading, and I regret it?
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Fair enough. I thought your apology was taking the piss -- we have one bad apple in CP, so I'm always worried that more will turn.
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I've known quite a few people with multiple degrees who couldn't be trusted to find their own ass with both hands and a map, so I'd have to say that "quantity does not imply quality" 
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OriginalGriff wrote: "quantity does not imply quality"
Shall we apply that to your Reputation Points ? ? ?
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Most definitely!
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That's why I don't use Fahrenheit, obviously.
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