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Quantum Mechanic posted:I've literally stopped making any plans that revolve around getting a job in science in Australia. At this point I'm closer to assuming that I'll try for work in the non-profit sector, hopefully with the Greens. A politician with a background in science is a great idea. Even better if she/he also has a background in law and social sciences.
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As the many excellent lawyers in our parliament demonstrate.
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Tirade posted:BB I imagine the various intelligence agencies have a need for audio forensics but I'd think that it's mostly done in-house, which would require a painfully invasive security clearance. And to be honest dude with your posting history I can't see you getting one. Well, yore making a lot of assumptions there. The most egregious of then is that our intelligence services are even halfway competent.
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Have to go overseas if you're going into academia. At least for a while.
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Aug 4, 2014 05:28
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Australian forensics begin and stop at the paper bag test.
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BlitzkriegOfColour posted:Well, yore making a lot of assumptions there. The most egregious of then is that our intelligence services are even halfway competent. Well yeah, I don't know the process but living in Canberra I've got a few mates who have been vetted. For ASIO/ASIS etc they ask for your entire life history and work on the assumption that everything you tell them is wrong, so they'll try to independently verify everything. They ask for your Internet habits, get you to give them your Facebook / other social media passwords, and so on. That's not even going into the interviews with friends and family, psych testing, and other random hoops they get you to jump through. I'm not going to try and argue about their competence but I'm sure they're paranoid about not having an Australian Snowden, so they'll be focused on political views that suggest that's a possibility.
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Gough Suppressant posted:Some actual living people thought joe jockey was "one of the good ones" before anyone gave him any responsibility or power.
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I'm gonna snitch on BB to the fash because I'm sure he has said something mean about me and/or my posting at some point or another.
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You Am I posted:Really? Who are they so I can slap some sense into them with a cricket bat. I had a lunch convo at a relative's birthday over the weekend who hated Morrison and Abbott but felt Hockey "had a good heart". I made "I just drank sour milk" face and spent 30+ minutes pointing out why Joe is an out of touch hack with no talent for the job and even less compassion.
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You Am I posted:Really? Who are they so I can slap some sense into them with a cricket bat. That was the whole reason they trotted hockey out on the morning shows opposite Rudd and put him on The Project regularly or made him wear a tutu and wave a wand(I think that happened but maybe it's just psychosis) , they thought he presented a human face of the reptilian overlords.
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Gough Suppressant posted:That was the whole reason they trotted hockey out on the morning shows opposite Rudd and put him on The Project regularly or made him wear a tutu and wave a wand(I think that happened but maybe it's just psychosis) , they thought he presented a human face of the reptilian overlords. Hockey is really the most human face they could fi-  Gah!  Oh god! 
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open24hours posted:As the many excellent lawyers in our parliament demonstrate. As TOML's said before, Adam Bandt is a lawyer. Being a lawyer can be an advantage in Parliament, it just helps if you aren't also a lovely person. Quantum Mechanic fucked around with this message at 06:36 on Aug 4, 2014 |
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Today I got a foot in the vocational teaching door with a part-time gig in a community house teaching basic IT to older adults. Well, that is, if we can get 6-8 people interested. It's not much but I get to design the teaching and it's likely to be freeform since interested learners will probably dictate what they want, there's no actual structure to lean on. But I'm stoked to be doing something positive anyway and getting experience! And hopefully I can use that to sell myself to other community orgs!
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I think it's more that not being a lovely person gives you an advantage, at least in appealing to this thread.
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ewe2 posted:Today I got a foot in the vocational teaching door with a part-time gig in a community house teaching basic IT to older adults. Well, that is, if we can get 6-8 people interested. It's not much but I get to design the teaching and it's likely to be freeform since interested learners will probably dictate what they want, there's no actual structure to lean on. But I'm stoked to be doing something positive anyway and getting experience! And hopefully I can use that to sell myself to other community orgs! Awesome news!
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Quantum Mechanic posted:As TOML's said before, Adam Bandt is a lawyer. Being a lawyer can be an advantage in Parliament,
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ewe2 posted:Today I got a foot in the vocational teaching door with a part-time gig in a community house teaching basic IT to older adults. Well, that is, if we can get 6-8 people interested. It's not much but I get to design the teaching and it's likely to be freeform since interested learners will probably dictate what they want, there's no actual structure to lean on. But I'm stoked to be doing something positive anyway and getting experience! And hopefully I can use that to sell myself to other community orgs! Congrats! I thought about this as a potential career pathway for a while (I learn best when teaching others, have had to coach in corporate environments, accrued most of a Cert IV in Workplace Training & Assessment while doing it), so I'd love to hear what your experience is like. At worst, you're going to get some good resume fodder from it.
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If you are looking at a career in the chemistry/food/biotech/pharma/environmental areas, definitely talk to Chemskill. They are a top-notch recruitment agency that actually care about the people they are lining up for jobs. Hiring through them is great (though it does cost a bit) and I've had two friends who bounced around for months until I got them to register, and then had job offers fall out of the sky in Tasmania of all places. Well, they had 2-3 offers each in a couple of months for solid spots, but in Tasmania that's pretty drat good.
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BCR posted:If you've got the cash, pay TAFE for the Cert II Electrical Engineering. Its six months where you learn the stuff, before the apprenticeship. If you're lucky you can do a traineeship. Traineeships are shorter and over as soon as you tick the boxes, apprenticeships are four years mandatory. You might want to look into getting a cabling license and going into security systems. Its quicker and pays about $70,000 a year for 45hr shift work a week. Diesel Mechanics, Electricians and Plumbers are still in demand. You'd have to look into what your state wants and trains. If you're going to get trade skills you're going to want to do it with the government, because they're going to treat you better. Adult apprenticeships are pretty hard to find (over 21) because they've got to pay $750ish rather than $500 ish a week. You're also going to have a lot of personality clashes. On Cabling Licenses : Now, my case is special under the old system, because normally you had to present a 500 hour cabling diary before you were awarded your open license. For us that was easy, we had been working on installing and troubleshooting internal cabling in company-owned datacentres for years, and had exceeded that number easily by a factor of 10, we just had to get licenses to working on areas outside of our companies demarc. We are about to send a guy from our team the the new system where a 5 day course for $800 gets you the application for an open license, which qualifies you to train to install telephone circuits. You then have to work with a registered cabler to complete a certain amount of work experience before an open license is awarded - I don't have that information yet. In theory he goes straight from unregistered to open license with a stat dec from one of our managers who has been reviewing and documenting our work over the years - not quite sure what will be needed, though. Once you have your open cabling license you now have to get the new competencies (Structured, Optical Fibre, Coax, Testing Structured and Testing Fibre) for about $1000 for a 5 day course (2 days Structured, 2 days Fibre, 1 day coax) under a course aimed at "We know you know what you are doing, so we'll show you everything once, and then test you". I do know some people with limited competencies came through with me, though, and they were planning on being the cable monkey to get the experience needed. So really for under $2000 and two weeks work you can get the documentation - if you already have the skills and experience. If you don't and an ACMA inspector turns up and finds you have violated separation, or have been issuing dodgy TCA1's, you can lose the whole thing and get major fines. So don't go into it thinking it's a rubber stamp. Edit : Of course, it's about to get a lot easier. 10 years ago if we were running 40 mb up 20 floors of a building, we'd install a coax bundle, or pull copper. Now we just drop an 8 core fibre down the building's fibre guide, and if they want a DS3 on coax, we hand it over on a a media converter or a 1RU mux in the customer's premises. Cameras and security systems are all IP-based now, so that's Cat 5/5e/6 rather then stripping and terminating coax, but also increasingly going on fibre just because it's cheaper and easier to pull. evilbastard fucked around with this message at 07:46 on Aug 4, 2014 |
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Mattjpwns posted:I am a hoot at parties. Glassing him or her may be considered a faux pas. -- Looks like the media are warming up for a classic curbstomp of the New Matilda. Can't wait for "Hackergate ~ Matilda plots against our Aussie PM's family with sinister insider breach". Not a problem when Uncle Rupert does it, of course.
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Mattjpwns posted:Congrats! I thought about this as a potential career pathway for a while (I learn best when teaching others, have had to coach in corporate environments, accrued most of a Cert IV in Workplace Training & Assessment while doing it), so I'd love to hear what your experience is like. At worst, you're going to get some good resume fodder from it. Will do, that's exactly how I see it - an opportunity to learn from learners and buff my selling points. The whole deal behind TAE (I dunno why its TAE and not TAA any more) now is "employability skills", this is also being rammed through in the Adult and Community Education sector too, its already part of their framework and the national modules are being redesigned for them. We're all going to be hearing about transferrable skills till we're sick of it but that's the push behind a lot of adult education now. edit: Thanks, too, TOML, it's been a bit of a positive couple of weeks for me and I'm out of a hole I was getting too comfortable in. re: Hackergate, here's the substantive part of Crikey's report today quote:As part of its reporting, The Weekend Australian named two Whitehouse Institute staffers whose emails it had obtained, whom it quotes as conspiring to leak Frances Abbott’s scholarship. ewe2 fucked around with this message at 08:02 on Aug 4, 2014 |
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I think I understand why there was so little reaction to this. After all, I could hardly come up with words to express my utter disgust at the callous, cynical and inhumane actions of the Australian government with regards to the treatment of refugees. I find my reactions to the brutality of the Australian government dull and numbed. I hope there are people in Australia that can still feel true anger at these injustices, all I can feel anymore is tiredness and futility. 
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AVeryLargeRadish posted:This loving government I think I understand why there was so little reaction to this. After all, I could hardly come up with words to express my utter disgust at the callous, cynical and inhumane actions of the Australian government with regards to the treatment of refugees. I find my reactions to the brutality of the Australian government dull and numbed. I hope there are people in Australia that can still feel true anger at these injustices, all I can feel anymore is tiredness and futility. [/quote] It's like the Howard years again. You can only rage so much.
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AVeryLargeRadish posted:I think I understand why there was so little reaction to this. After all, I could hardly come up with words to express my utter disgust at the callous, cynical and inhumane actions of the Australian government with regards to the treatment of refugees. I find my reactions to the brutality of the Australian government dull and numbed. I hope there are people in Australia that can still feel true anger at these injustices, all I can feel anymore is tiredness and futility.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:There's little reaction to it because a significant percentage of the population is okay with it. I was talking about the thread reaction. I already knew the public's general reaction ranges from total apathy to an enthusiastic thumbs-up for murdering asylum seekers. 
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AVeryLargeRadish posted:I was talking about the thread reaction. I already knew the public's general reaction ranges from total apathy to an enthusiastic thumbs-up for murdering asylum seekers. Oh, right. Personally I kinda skim over a bunch of asylum seeker stuff, for more or less the reasons you outlined. It's appalling, I'm appalled, and nothing will change soon.
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Anidav posted:Oh hey, a Bolt Report video was shared on my wall unironically. Oh hey it's about Hamas being the real enemy and asylum seekers using their children self harming to get into are country. Yep, when you start thinking the Bolt Report is "a worthwhile watch" you really need to reassess your life.
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I dont understand how Bolt sits there during his show, saying the things he says, without cracking up into laughter at how loving ridiculous his opinions are. It even looks like he is smirking about it at times, right on the cusp of blowing the whole thing, but then he remains serious.
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ewe2 posted:Today I got a foot in the vocational teaching door with a part-time gig in a community house teaching basic IT to older adults. Well, that is, if we can get 6-8 people interested. It's not much but I get to design the teaching and it's likely to be freeform since interested learners will probably dictate what they want, there's no actual structure to lean on. But I'm stoked to be doing something positive anyway and getting experience! And hopefully I can use that to sell myself to other community orgs! I do something very similar and it really is ultra rewarding work. Particular when you teach someone how to use Facebook/Skype for the first time and they get really excited being able to talk to friends and family in other cites/overseas. The biggest thing with teaching older adults IT is just getting them over the fear of computers. Kids just jump on and mess around to they learn it usually. Adults, particularly older adults like to get step by step instructions, and will often follow those instructions with out knowing why their doing what their doing, so the information poorly retained. Teaching them something they will use everyday (like facebook) is good as it gets them using the computer more often and makes them far more comfortable with it. Also it can be helpful with social isolation that can be a pretty serious issue with the elderly. Anyway congratulations, this sort of stuff really can make a difference. Oh and if your looking to get people involved maybe try approaching already existing workshop at the community house (cooking/knitting/art etc) and talk to groups of people there. People are more likely to go to this sort of thing if their friends are going as well, and it keeps them coming back if its a bit of a social catch up as well.
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Ugh, I'm still thinking about the asylum seekers in lifeboats. What the gently caress. I dont see how that could possibly be a desireable situation for anyone. 150 refugees that have been missing for weeks landing on Indian shores in Australian lifeboats. What.
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http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/07/31/young-looking-refugees-sent-offshorequote:Young-looking children were chosen to be transferred to the harsh Manus Island refugee detention centre to discourage other refugees from coming to Australia, an inquiry has heard. Just a reminder that we've always been awful at this. Just in case you wanted a break from all of the recent awful poo poo we've been up too.
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