I received two comments on this blog today that deserve a wider audience.
First from B�r� Zolt�n comes this comment to my post on Russia's offer to Iran:
Dear Readers,Starts off nice enough although the question of who is going to fund the giant minaret and where in NYC it will be built is not answered. Given the current self-inflicted state of affairs in so-called 'Palestine', they don't have enough money to educate their children and get them reading let alone proper health care. Then the comment veers off into it's actual agenda - Israel bashing. I went to the website and it is tinfoil hat land. Palestine is not a nation, it is an area. The people who are claiming Palestinian heritage are Egyptian (as was Arafat) or Jordanian. During the early 1950's Arafat spent several years in Moscow and got the support of the KGB who wanted to destabilize the new nation of Israel as the thought of a strong Democracy so close to home worried the Communists. Now that Communism is essentially dead (Thank God -- what was it -- over 100 Million people murdered?), the left-over Palestinian peoples are acting out the playbook without realizing that the game is over and done with. They could have had their land years ago if they did not use terror and instead worked with the Egyptians, Arabs and Israelis. The second comment was from a Mr. JowieNeckBone for my post Happy Birthday to you!: Mr. JowieNeckBone:
Do you want that Palestine will be free?
If your answer is yes, I recommend you the following home page: http://www.alah.hu
"This image shows the future. A minaret-form skyscraper rises from the mass of the buildings in New York, the most densely populated city of the United States. The building is the �Tower of American-Islamic Friendship�.
It symbolizes two things: on one hand there are a growing number of Moslem people in the U.S.; and on the other hand it shows that the U.S. is in alliance with the Islamic countries.
Due to the new friendship America does not provide any more financial or military aid to Israel, which leads to the weakening of Israel and consequently, the freedom of Palestine."
Jeremy Reimer doesn't even have a degree related to this field, or even a certification, much less hands on experience in it (years of it professionally) and you're going to cite him as some kind of expert? Oh, please. The idiot Reimer is just another wannabe with no skills period who scours wikipedia and other sources and spits back already known information.Wow! Talk about flying spittle... Jeremy Reimer has a degree in Physics from University of British Columbia. Considering that Tim worked at CERN and it was through Physics Departments around the world that the WWW first gained traction (the guy who turned me on worked at the UW Physics Department). Mr. NeckBone is all hat and no cattle. Consider:
Jeremy Reimer doesn't even have a degree related to this field, or even a certification, much less hands on experience in it (years of it professionally)You do not need a degree to write an article about an historical event in a popular and well-respected geek news website.
The idiot Reimer is just another wannabe with no skills period who scours wikipedia and other sources and spits back already known information.Jealous??? Spitting back already known information pretty much covers writing an article on the 15th anniversary of an event. As for web presence, a Google search for the two characters turns up five hits for Mr. Neckbone and 27,800 for Jeremy Reimer. Because of the chance of other J. Reimers, I also searched for him plus the website he writes for -- arstechnica and got 18,800 hits. Not too shabby...
Reimer's just another fake it till you make it but he hasnt and never will because he is exposed as a wannabe. No degree in comp. sci., no certifications even (not even an A+), and no professional experience in this field as a network administrator or engineer, and certainly not in computer programming or software engineering.
What's wrong DaveH? Unable to combat simple statements of fact??
Once more (since you felt this needed a wider audience):
Anyone reading this ought to be made aware of some facts about Jeremy Reimer - Jeremy Reimer doesn’t even have a single degree that is about the field of computer sciences or even a certification in comp. sci. fields (like MCSE).
He is utterly lacking professional/in-the-trenches experience in computer science as well.
Yet I see you cited Jeremy Reimer here as somekind of expert in the field of comp. sci.?
Research who it is you are citing for your own sake.
Making a 'sidewalk-surgeon/quack' out to be an expert in a particular field is just bad business.
I.E.-> Jeremy Reimer is just another wannabe poseur with no skills period in computer science, who merely scours wikipedia and other sources and spits back already known information.
This is intelligence? This is being an expert??
I know not: I could do the same myself and so could you other readers.
In other words, nothing fundamental or original exists in the lot of his 'articles' for arstechnica. This makes complete sense - he is not qualified to do otherwise.
(His 'articles' are mere high-school level termpapers @ best)
They are written by a charlatan named Jeremy Reimer posing as a computer expert.
(If this is hard to believe, ask Jeremy Reimer yourself if he has a degree or certification in the field of comp. sci., but more importantly if he has years of actual professional work experience in computer networking, programming, etc. in this field)
You will see he is nothing more than a wannabe trying to pull the wool over your eyes and come off as some sort of authority in this field when he is anything but that).
Jeremy Reimer's just some dunce attempting to create the perception of being a noted authority in the field of computers, with no noted accomplishments in this field, other than writing articles for the playpen arstechnica because he is a forums member there.
You don't see the likes of IBM, Microsoft, or any known/respected companies in the field of computers citing Jeremy Reimer do you? This is because they know better.
Reimer is completely lacking in education, professional experience, & skills is why and this is why he is only capable of being 'published' @ arstechnica. This ought to make you question their expertise & judgement as to who is an expert author as well!
That alone should make you think twice before citing him as somekind of expert.
I don't know about you readers here, but I strongly advise the webmaster here to research who it is they are citing as experts in the field of computer science.
E.G. -> I don't go to a garage mechanic if I need medical surgery!
(Above all, I don't listen to, or recognize as authoritative figures, anyone like Jeremy Reimer who is no business being cited as an expert regarding computers/comp. sci. with no accomplishments of note in this field, especially if they lack professional experience and degrees or certifications)!
Physics, again, <> Computer Science.
Lack of years of professional experience and/or certifications on Jeremy Reimer's part does not an expert make.
What's wrong DaveH? Unable to combat simple statements of fact??
Once more (since you felt this needed a wider audience):
Anyone reading this ought to be made aware of some facts about Jeremy Reimer - Jeremy Reimer doesn’t even have a single degree that is about the field of computer sciences or even a certification in comp. sci. fields (like MCSE).
He is utterly lacking professional/in-the-trenches experience in computer science as well.
Yet I see you cited Jeremy Reimer here as somekind of expert in the field of comp. sci.?
Research who it is you are citing for your own sake.
Making a 'sidewalk-surgeon/quack' out to be an expert in a particular field is just bad business.
I.E.-> Jeremy Reimer is just another wannabe poseur with no skills period in computer science, who merely scours wikipedia and other sources and spits back already known information.
This is intelligence? This is being an expert??
I know not: I could do the same myself and so could you other readers.
In other words, nothing fundamental or original exists in the lot of his 'articles' for arstechnica. This makes complete sense - he is not qualified to do otherwise.
(His 'articles' are mere high-school level termpapers @ best)
They are written by a charlatan named Jeremy Reimer posing as a computer expert.
(If this is hard to believe, ask Jeremy Reimer yourself if he has a degree or certification in the field of comp. sci., but more importantly if he has years of actual professional work experience in computer networking, programming, etc. in this field)
You will see he is nothing more than a wannabe trying to pull the wool over your eyes and come off as some sort of authority in this field when he is anything but that).
Jeremy Reimer's just some dunce attempting to create the perception of being a noted authority in the field of computers, with no noted accomplishments in this field, other than writing articles for the playpen arstechnica because he is a forums member there.
You don't see the likes of IBM, Microsoft, or any known/respected companies in the field of computers citing Jeremy Reimer do you? This is because they know better.
Reimer is completely lacking in education, professional experience, & skills is why and this is why he is only capable of being 'published' @ arstechnica. This ought to make you question their expertise & judgement as to who is an expert author as well!
That alone should make you think twice before citing him as somekind of expert.
I don't know about you readers here, but I strongly advise the webmaster here to research who it is they are citing as experts in the field of computer science.
E.G. -> I don't go to a garage mechanic if I need medical surgery!
(Above all, I don't listen to, or recognize as authoritative figures, anyone like Jeremy Reimer who is no business being cited as an expert regarding computers/comp. sci. with no accomplishments of note in this field, especially if they lack professional experience and degrees or certifications)!
Physics, again, <> Computer Science.
Lack of years of professional experience and/or certifications on Jeremy Reimer's part does not an expert make.
"Jeremy Reimer has a degree in Physics"
That's not computer science. Reimer writes "articles" (regurgitations of Wikipedia is more like it, pure plagiarism, not a fundamental original thought in the lot of his words).
"You do not need a degree to write an article about an historical event in a popular and well-respected geek news website."
And this website you speak of is respected?
The fact of the matter here is, that if said website has goofs like Reimer the poseur who has no professional hands on years of experience in computers, no degree or certification in computers either??
It can't be respectable - it has a quack/fake/wannabe writing for them.
After all: What else is Reimer with no experience professionally or degrees in the field of comp. sci., doing writing about computers acting the expert, when it is quite evident he is anything but that on the subject of computer science.
"Jeremy Reimer has a degree in Physics"
That's not computer science. Reimer writes "articles" (regurgitations of Wikipedia is more like it, pure plagiarism, not a fundamental original thought in the lot of his words).
"You do not need a degree to write an article about an historical event in a popular and well-respected geek news website."
And this website you speak of is respected? If it has goofs like Reimer the poseur who has no professional hands on years of experience in computers, no degree or certification in computers either??
It can't be respectable - it has a quack/fake/wannabe writing for them. What else is he with no experience professionally or degrees in the field of comp. sci.!