[Asterisk-Users] Another Asterisk Certification - Ordained Ministers, oh my!

[William Betts]

Awesome now i'm a minister! 


On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 12:45:51 -0600, Kristian Kielhofner <kris at krisk.org> wrote:
> Alexander Lopez wrote:
> 
> > Agreed, You have a strong point about the Monopoly aspect of the whole
> > thing. My .02 would be to have this be a Digium product. Heck, Mark DID
> > invent the thing and HE holds the copyright to it.  I have faith in Mark
> > and what he can do when he gets back from France.
> >
> > When I taught Sun and SCO classes (flame throwers down, please) it was
> > SCO corporate that provided the Certification, albeit outsourced but it
> > was from the same people that put out the OS.  In order to be an
> > instructor you needed to have taken the course or have 'tested out' and
> > had to have a score above 90 on your exam. (70 was passing). This allows
> > the certification program to grow as your instructors know the course
> > material and will be able to teach students with real world situations.
> > You would purchase the course materials at a 60% discount. For the 40%
> > they would handle certs, and testing at Sylvan.
> >
> 
> I think that it is pretty obvious that this is a joke, aside from the
> striking similarity to "internet minister", the payment buttons go no
> where, they POINT OUT that the funds go to the Caymen's, etc.
> 
> Check this out:
> 
> http://www.ulc.org/
> 
> Most of my friends have "ordained" themselves after some long nights of
> partying or whatnot.  The site claims to have ordained over 400,000
> people.  If I am not mistaken you even get a certificate that you can
> print out so you can park in clergy spots at hospitals, etc...
> 
> Let's get back to Asterisk chatter! (After you all ordain yourselves, of
> course)!
> 
> --
> Kristian Kielhofner
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