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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Public Arch servers
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Public Arch servers |
Date: |
Mon, 12 Apr 2004 01:03:45 -0400 |
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On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 01:46:50PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Miles> and personally I'm _really_ tired of snide digs against the
> Miles> U.S.,
>
> What snide dig? All he implied was that he comes from a social class
> where people accumulate credentials, and are proud of them. It's a
> harmless hobby ;-), but as he also implied, that hobby is without
> question less prevalent in the U.S. than some other countries.
The post I was complaining about just quoted the word `education' (and
implied that people in the U.S. valued it less); it seems reasonable to think
that he was referring to the more substantial benefits of education as well
as mere `credentials'. [Anyway, it was clearly _meant_ as a snide dig.]
[I hear what you're saying about Japan's focus on credentials though --
when I had my interview for my current job, I got the strong impression
they had already decided to hire me, and didn't really have much to go on
besides an Nth-hand recommendation and my college diploma (and they kept
mentioning the latter...).]
-Miles
--
I'm beginning to think that life is just one long Yoko Ono album; no rhyme
or reason, just a lot of incoherent shrieks and then it's over. --Ian Wolff
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Public Arch servers, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Public Arch servers, Robin Green, 2004/04/08
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Public Arch servers, Julian T. J. Midgley, 2004/04/08
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Public Arch servers, Andrew Suffield, 2004/04/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Public Arch servers, James Blackwell, 2004/04/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Public Arch servers, Robin Green, 2004/04/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Public Arch servers, James Blackwell, 2004/04/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Public Arch servers, Miles Bader, 2004/04/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Public Arch servers, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2004/04/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Public Arch servers,
Miles Bader <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Public Arch servers, Momchil Velikov, 2004/04/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Public Arch servers, Andrew Suffield, 2004/04/09
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Public Arch servers, Jason McCarty, 2004/04/08
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Public Arch servers, Dustin Sallings, 2004/04/09
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Public Arch servers, Eric S. Johansson, 2004/04/09
- WebDAV (was: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Public Arch servers), A.J. Rossini, 2004/04/09
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: WebDAV, Eric S. Johansson, 2004/04/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: WebDAV, Colin Walters, 2004/04/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: WebDAV, Aaron Bentley, 2004/04/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: WebDAV, Colin Walters, 2004/04/09