From: JohnT on

"Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
news:9kn8d296go5f7iglhnq0vbn0970trnmhas(a)4ax.com...
> JohnT writes:
>
>> You are suggesting that one doesn't need to be qualified to perform brain
>> surgery?
>
> I am saying that one doesn't need credentials. One does need
> qualifications, but qualifications and credentials are not the same
> thing, contrary to popular myth.

Angels are dancing on the head of this pin.

JohnT


From: dgs on
Martin wrote:

> On Sat, 5 Aug 2006 09:53:28 +0100, "Keith W"
> <keithnospam(a)kwillshaw.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>"dgs" <dgs1300(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>news:4ji5cmF82db5U1(a)individual.net...
>>
>>>Mxsmanic wrote:
>>>
>>>>Send it to my PayPal account.
>>>
>>>What should be sent to your PayPal account?
>>
>>He's begging again
>
> Another thing where he is a failure.

One would be hard pressed to found out which thing it is at which
he is a success - and that includes endless whinging and childish
argument (hah! "Debate!") on Usenet.
--
dgs
From: Hatunen on
On Sat, 05 Aug 2006 11:02:36 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com>
wrote:

>JohnT writes:
>
>> You are suggesting that one doesn't need to be qualified to perform brain
>> surgery?
>
>I am saying that one doesn't need credentials. One does need
>qualifications, but qualifications and credentials are not the same
>thing, contrary to popular myth.

Credentials are simply attestation to the qualification. I wouldn
want a brain surgeon to operate on me on his undocumented claim
of qualification. But that's just me; I always look at the
certificates on a doctor's wall.

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From: Hatunen on
On Sat, 05 Aug 2006 20:56:01 GMT, marika <mcenko(a)mindspring.com>
wrote:

>i heard someone joke about giving the Iraqis our Constitution because
>we're not using it anymore, this was funny, but cuts a little too close to
>home.

you heard that Robin Williams interview, too, eh?


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From: Mxsmanic on
Hatunen writes:

> Credentials are simply attestation to the qualification.

They are assertions, not proof.

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