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Contractors have always cost more. Having worked both the private and public sectors the cost between the two isn't much different and in general the gov't usually gets a negotiated rate lower than on the private side. The problem here though is that contractor rates (100 - 300 hour) that would normally apply for things like programmers and cyber security experts are being applied for resources that should be being billed at much lower rates (30-40). The laundry as an example is a blatant rip off considering a single person can more than one bag of laundry at a time; $99 a bag should be considered fraud no matter which way you slice it. Same goes for the destruction of trucks that could be repaired; fraud plain and simple. I don't support anyone that doesn't see that Israel has as large a hand in this as its neighbors.

We just might. There are a decent number of TD people here in Dayton. I think I'm going to try and test out for my Teradata Masters cert by the end of the year. Do a lot of work in Cognos and Informatica as well and will probably be doing some development in Adobe Flex for BI within the next 6 months or so. Everything I've done the past 6 or so years is for the Air Force's data warehouse and a couple of other programs.

Teradata. We also use some Oracle for a couple of data marts, but mostly for staging in the ETL process.

Lead data warehouse developer; ETL, DB, and BI. Also do Network and Systems Architecture/Engineering.

It's a cool aircraft. We do work with the Global Hawk AF program office.

You didn't quote the interesting comment. I guess you basically quoted one post while referring to another???? Technically they are intentionally excluding blue or other color widgets by stating red. I didn't say they are bigots, I said those sorts of questions can be usually a way to to exercise diviseness or bigotry whether or not it's explicit.

I wasn't trying to convince anyone of anything. Did you need me to use smaller words so you aren't so confused? It's slang and a commonly used term on the internet. It means offended. Of course judging from your posts maybe I should have just resorted to calling you a poopy head so you felt more at home.

Hrm you resorted to going back to the initial statement, which you never really fully responded to completely, disregarding my last post in the process. You then proceed to basically attack the person instead of of responding to the discussion. Amazingly you also see me disagreeing as being fearful, would love to know the logic behind that one. Doesn't sound like I'm the one getting all butthurt here.

Number of comments in the thread would have zero bearing on whether or not my last comment has any weight to it. It wouldn't even need to be explicitly stated in said thread. The question "Do you believe in God?" is potentially immediately divisive and is also exclusionary of other deity based belief systems. Just asking that question could be support for my last comment in its self.

I'm not sure there's any logic behind this statement. Maybe I'm jsut reading it wrong. Feel free to provide examples. You might want to be sure you're just not harboring some kind persecution of complex. A poll like that isn't even interesting. At most it's usually a way for people to be divisive or to find a way to exercise some form of bigotry through identification and personal exclusion.

the one that does it if a door is left open is a girl. We almost never remember to flip the TP (or shut the bathroom doors) so she grabs one end and runs with it if she (the dog, not the wife) notices. It's usually more funny than irritating.

+1 normally over the top... until our dog discovered the joy of unrolling and playing with TP. Flipping it makes it harder for the dog to get at.

oh come on I swear less than most on this board. In our house it's mostly the wife yelling at the puppy.

Fucking dip shit is daily term of endearment in my house.

I did radiology in the Air Force and enjoyed it. There are good job opportunities out there for it as well. I'd talk to the Air National Guard recruiter also and see what dates they have if that's the route you're taking. They each have their own schools for rad techs.

I never said it was OK. Until they have committed a crime however your only choice is tolerance.

Sometimes you just have to step back and realize some people are too ignorant to understand any differently than they do.

Oh yeah can't wait.

Is that all?

3, 4 and a little more

We had something similar in the Air Force. Really sucked for me though because of when I went in. I spent Thanksgiving at basic and Christmas/New Year at my first tech school not able to do anything.

Good let them die.

Basic training and then you'll go school for your specialty. Could be the same installation, but most often it's another. The six phases of training I think you're are thinking of is Army special forces, Green Beret at 4 and SF tab at phase VI. Robhawk would be a better one to say which if any of those phases are covered in basic. Your school for your MOS is separate from that I believe. I only get part of it since I was AF and there are some differences. I'm not sure how basic rolls into SF, jump, Ranger school, etc. for the Army.