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Post by Tim on Apr 1, 2023 9:54:03 GMT -5
The title says it all. 20 years and 200 episodes of internet magic. Still haven't made a penny and have received minimal outside attention from other news and internet sources. A bit of a disappointment, but no one gets ahead by taking no for an answer, so the only plan of action is to keep going and hope someone realizes what they are missing out on here. Aside from that, I enjoy having this forum to tell people how things should be.
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Post by Tim on Apr 1, 2022 12:08:36 GMT -5
NINETEEN YEARS of making this show and telling everyone what they are doing wrong. 196 episodes to date, plus all the content now available on the "LoudMouthTim" Youtube channel. Come on over there to Like, Comment, and Subscribe. Amazing, isn't it? I make sure you get your money's worth in every episode! Which is why it's free. Loudmouthtim
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Post by Tim on Feb 11, 2019 0:11:48 GMT -5
Things like that VRChat are easy to overdo. It's like being drunk or on drugs - once you come down / out, you still have the same problems you had before. I played WoW pretty hard from 2007-2010, and there were days where I'd play all morning and into mid afternoon, go to the supermarket, come home, and play until bedtime. It was ok at the time, but looking back, there are better ways to spend the day. So have fun with it but don't think your reality doesn't still exist.
The Mars terraforming is interesting, but I'm not too excited to see brain uploading happen any time soon. That's going too far. Even if we could do it right now, I wouldn't go live on Mars or another planet.
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Post by Tim on Feb 6, 2019 9:24:09 GMT -5
All the extreme stuff you mentioned, and things like flying cars aren't going to happen anytime soon. I like the things that SpaceX and Tesla are doing. I think the Mars colonization is interesting, but I doubt we will have people on Mars in the next 5 years. Some technology is good, some is useless, like Google Glass eyeglasses, and some is too invasive, like these Alexa home assistants.
I have 3 new episodes planned, I just have to quit being lazy and get the camera out and make them. One will be about these little spy devices (Alexa), that the NSA loves for you to put in your house so they can listen to you.
I also like the whole solar panel / battery storage system that Tesla is making now, it has a lot of benefits and not much downside except for cost. They work on your house and at utility scale, and all sizes in between.
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Post by Tim on Aug 5, 2018 20:28:16 GMT -5
Yes, that doesn't happen often around here.
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Post by Tim on Jul 22, 2018 18:46:43 GMT -5
Outsourced jobs is a way of life in IT, with cloud computing it will get worse for people like you. You will be replaced by a machine, it's inevitable. There will be no need for a desktop tech when all of the technology is cloud-based. You do realize that there aren't really any computer servers in the clouds, right? It's just a term. No matter how much advertisements claim "It's in the cloud", it all comes down to physical machines somewhere. There is no cloud. The computers are just located somewhere else.
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Post by Tim on Jul 11, 2018 20:10:09 GMT -5
I don't pick the jobs, they are what is available to apply to around here. It's not my choice of jobs, I do what I can with what I've got to work with. I'm not a Linux or Windows Admin, or any kind of manager. But one good thing about hardware support is that it's a little more difficult to outsource these jobs to India. Hadji can't build PCs and physically set up network gear from thousands of miles away! But programmers, developers, and such jobs are much more outsourceable.
Remember when Disney outsourced all their people overseas? They should have to pay millions to their ex-IT workers for that BS.
Trump has been doing a good job with keeping the Mexicans out, I'd like to see him make English the official language of the USA and end all H1B visas. People say they can't find good workers here, I say they either aren't looking hard enough, not giving people like me a chance, or, more likely, are only interested in greater corporate profits from paying foreigners less money.
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Post by Tim on Jul 3, 2018 22:28:35 GMT -5
Oh, so UPMC was a contract job? That should not have surprised me in the least. I would think after your 50th contract job, you would start to understand that HR is not making mistakes. I have parlayed multiple contact jobs into full time positions. I have hired people on contracts to be brought on full-time. Yet, you and your infinite wisdom, keep thinking HR is making mistakes by not hiring you? I'm just happy I have the screen shot of your racial diatribe that I can pass onto your next contract employer. I have no desire to talk politics with you because I think you get a "raging" boner when someone disagrees with your political view, and that is something that I just won't bow into. I have made no mentions with you about my political affiliation whether or not I lean towards Red or Blue, but, again, you are so far in the Red, Tampax might what to sponsor how much "Red" rhetoric you absorb. The only quick-witted response you have for me is my misuse of the word by/buy? You're reaching....... The contract IT market in Pittsburgh sucks. And it's not just me, I have met many people on contract assignments, and I've spoken to them about our previous jobs, and very few of them have seen situations where contracting people become hired. There's an invisible wall of sorts. If you go to a company as a contractor, you stay that way, if you're hired, you stay that way. Maybe higher level jobs like engineers and DBAs and such things may cross over more easily, but I am primarily hardware support, so I am starting from a more difficult position. I generally don't list my current employer anywhere online until the job is ending or has ended, so good luck forwarding what you see as racism to the right place. Anyhow, what racism? In todays wussified politically correct world, people can't even communicate in simple, common terminology for fear someone may be offended. Common words that I grew up with 15 years ago now offend so many crybaby liberals that its hard to make your point in a conversation because you have to tap dance around certain words. Where has my America gone? For politics, I still go on YouTube sometimes and watch videos of Clinton's devastating LOSS to Trump on election night, I watch the liberals cry and flip out, and it makes me smile.
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Post by Tim on Jul 3, 2018 22:20:20 GMT -5
Tim, Long time watcher, first time writer. It isn't HR that didn't hire you. Its HR that first determined you are a bad fit for the position. This part of the interview is not based on any of your IT skill or knowledge at all. Its based on how you present yourself and how well you communicate. The fact that you aren't even getting to the skills/knowledge interview should tell you that you need to improve on how you present yourself. When you don't get a job have you ever contacted them and asked them "what could I have done better? Where would I need to improve to work with you in the future"? These are good questions to ask as it will help you on future interviews there or anywhere really. Its just very... frustrating.. to see you say that its not your fault, its theirs. Its not their fault. They have money, you want money. They are deciding who is best deserving of that money and the best fit for the already in place team. Do not blame them for not hiring you... Thats the complete wrong mentality and if thats the way you present yourself in the interview, thats 100% the reason they don't invite you back for a skills/knowledge interview with the team. Yours is an interesting point of view, and one that I'd agree is at least partly correct. In interviews I've been to over the last few years, it's been my understanding that they were generally "one interview and hiring decision" types, not a 2-3-4 interview process. If I were going for network engineer or other high level jobs, yes, but I'm not there yet. Although I'll get dressed up nice for an interview, I tend to spend little time on the "prettiness" factor, and instead focus on "this is what I've done, this is what I'm trying to do in my next position, this is what I can do for you" types of answers to their questions. In other words, I focus on "I can do this job for you" rather than "how pretty / professional can I look while doing it". Computer networks either work or they don't, and if it ain't working, management isn't going to care much about how professional you appear to be at that time. After interviews that I didn't get hired for through contract agencies, I sometimes ask for feedback, and in their quest to be politically correct and not offend, they only give vague, meaningless answers at best, getting any real feedback is rare. Maybe I'm wrong to an extent, I'll try to think about these things more when the next interview comes around.
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Post by Tim on Jun 29, 2018 20:02:03 GMT -5
Go right ahead, my contract at the previous job ended a month ago with the completion of the job. I don't care.
And I am indeed good at IT work. I'm not pro at every single part of IT work, but what I do, I do very well. And any HR person who doesn't hire me for a job I apply for has made a wrong choice by hiring someone else.
And in politics, right is right and left is wrong. The idiot liberals are determined to destroy the American way of life and turn America into a communist country. Trump is doing a great job so far.
How do you manage to write these paragraphs, yet you confuse the use of the words "by" and "buy"?
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Post by Tim on Jun 22, 2018 19:25:25 GMT -5
I think I know who my obsessed fan above is, and if I'm right, it's not worth arguing my IT career to someone who has continued to fail. Still installing printers and PCs for 3 years in the same place? No career progression there! I don't even deign to do desktop support anymore, I'm better than that and I have the work experience to back it up.
If the suspected LinkedIn account is honest & accurate, you're still at C.W. after becoming cigarette smoking buddies with Neil a few years ago, and when Kevin decided to cut us back from 2 IT people to 1, I got cheated, as I was clearly the better IT person, having worked with the network engineer and all....
But I'm ok with it, as I ultimately went on to become a CCNA (and no, it's not just taking a test, it is about UNDERSTANDING how things work), and each contract job I've had since then has paid better. The past year in data center work has made me more money than ever before. I've gotten the opportunities to do higher level work, and I continue to excel.
The Pittsburgh IT job market sucks, it's nearly all contract work, and I've only known one person ever who became hired in to a place from a contract. I've applied directly to companies for IT jobs, and been interviewed, but not hired. I don't blame myself, though, as I know how good I am. I blame the poor decision making of the hiring people, who frequently are career HR people and don't know the first thing about IT work, and aren't qualified to tell me what I can and can't do.
No one ever gets ahead by taking no for an answer, and I don't.
We are getting off topic. Once again, to all the illegal immigrants - THROW THEM OUT!!!
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Post by Tim on Jun 20, 2018 10:12:02 GMT -5
Hi, num1fan! To answer your questions: It's spelled "border" in this use and context of the word, not "boarder". I've been fired a lot more than 8 times over the years (a WHOLE lot more!!!), almost entirely back before 2011 when I was not doing skilled IT work. I was better than the jobs I was doing and the people I worked with, and I knew it, but I didn't have any good direction on where to go and what to do to get better work. The workplace was a frustrating time! Way back when I was in college and computer school, if I knew even a little bit of what I know now, I've have had far better jobs far earlier in life. As far as the issue of immigration goes, here's a short answer and a long one: Short version - Throw them all out! Their families and kids do not matter, get them all out of the USA! Enter using the legal method only! Long version - When I lived in L.A., I saw many foreigners, mostly Mexicans, of which I am sure most were illegal. Despite what the crybaby liberals would have you believe, the USA simply cannot support all these illegal spics coming across the border. If they use the legal means of applying to become a citizen and move to the USA, then fine, no problem. But we've got illegals arriving by the busload, and where are they all going to go, and live, and work, and whose tax money will pay for all of this? Instead of moving to America for a better life, they need to get their own countries under control and in order. Then they won't feel the need to leave. When I lived in L.A., I saw homeless people living under bridges and in parks and near the beaches, with nowhere to go and nothing to do. RVs parked on the streets. If these people are so broke, does it make any sense to live in one of the more expensive places in America? This problem will only get worse as time goes on unless we do something about it. In North Hollywood, I used to see billboards written in Spanish! Big discount stores like Wal-Mart are utilized almost entirely by Mexicans! You go in there and all you can hear is them nattering away in Spanish. If you want to come to America, YOU LEARN ENGLISH, period. Want to celebrate your Latino heritage and culture? Fine, do it in Mexico. I never went to San Diego, which is right next to the border, but I imagine it is like Little Mexico there. Keep in mind, they are "illegal aliens". The word is ILLEGAL. That means we should be enforcing laws against them, not giving them everything from our tax money like these crybaby liberals are trying to do! What President Trump and Jeff Sessions are doing right now, separating kids from families of illegals who get caught trying to come here? That's a good thing. Create more distress for them, make their time here as miserable as possible. Word will spread quickly in the spic community, and fewer will try to sneak into America, and the net result is a WIN for America. I have an idea to discourage the illegals from trying to sneak into the USA. A prison. A special one. Way out in the desert, the size of a football field. All it is, is a cement slab floor and high walls. No individual cells or hallways or bars. Metal toilets in one corner, a little running water, and meager amounts of food get dropped in a couple times a day. One big empty room. No roof either. Just armed guards in towers. All the illegals we catch get thrown in for 6 months. Men, women, children, doesn't matter. Make it hell on earth. Let it get overcrowded, let them all fight and kill each other, and for those who survive their 6 month sentence, they get shipped off to Mexico immediately. President Trump is doing a great job so far. Build the wall! I'm hoping he makes English the official language of the USA. I remember when got my California drivers license, the directions were printed in many different languages. What a waste of government money, having to print it all like that, then highway signs are english only! Does that answer the question?
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Post by Tim on Sept 30, 2017 20:53:51 GMT -5
Hi Camman, long time, no see. I have been meaning to get #183 edited for a couple weeks now, stop back sometime to see it.
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Post by Tim on Apr 1, 2017 8:00:25 GMT -5
My long and detailed post only gets a three word answer?
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Post by Tim on Mar 25, 2017 19:15:35 GMT -5
Here's my two cents. Short answer - "America comes FIRST". Long answer: I have similar thoughts to most of what President Trump says. It's not our job to take care of every other country at the expense of our own people and veterans. So no more foreign aid. That is American taxpayer money, to be used for American taxpayers. No more half measures on ISIS. Let the Generals go in there and do what needs to be done to erase all the ISIS lunatics from the planet. In fact, let all those middle east zealots kill each other, they want to do it anyway. The angry little man in North Korea needs to settle down. I don't know why he thinks anyone wants to invade the north. China needs to get them in line. And if Kim Jong Un does something stupid, like launch a live missile? Level the major North Korean cities in one crazy night of bombing and missile attacks, being careful to take out the artillery they have aimed at Seoul first.. All the companies outsourcing their jobs overseas, like all the Apple iPhone factories in China? No more. Big tariffs and taxes unless they bring those jobs back here. Automakers, Carrier air conditioning, all those sorts of things. President Trump must enforce it, because no politician will, and the companies won't do it on their own. American jobs for Americans, SCREW the rest of the world! Those companies claim that the American consumer gets stuck with the high prices if President Trump puts those tariffs on. But I say that the consumers simply will not buy those items and the companies will get stuck with their inventory. Serves them right. Make English the official language of the USA. No more bending over backwards to accommodate everyone else. Throw all the illegal immigrants out of the USA, let them use the legal method of applying for immigration. Build the wall on the Mexican border, and kill any ILLEGAL trying to get in past it! Jobs need to be made here and kept here. Lots of cash needs to be spent on hiring workers to fix our roads, bridges, and other infrastructure. Expand the use of wind and solar power, Tesla and SolarCity are already making huge amounts of progress very quickly on this. Space exploration? Meh. It's interesting but should not be a high priority. President Trump has threatened to cut federal funding to sanctuary cities who harbor ILLEGAL immigrants, and boy, I hope he does. They need the federal money and won't last long without it. Many companies are holding billions of dollars overseas, to not pay the taxes on bringing it back here. Like Apple, with over $200 billion being kept out of the USA. Give them a tax amnesty period to being the money back and spend it here, on factories and American jobs. Did Russia help President Trump get elected? Who knows, maybe they did and maybe they didn't. I don't care. Clinton The Criminal HAD to be kept out of office at all costs. The democrats never made a fuss over Obama being born in Kenya, but they love to wail about Trump and Russia. Payback time! I could go on and on, but I think you get the idea. Hooray for America, and to hell with every other country. That is the LoudmouthTim thought process.
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