Sometimes it's about whether you know something, but often it's merely a device for choosing one job candidate over another, where both candidates are already overqualified for the work in question.
Some jobs require more education than analogous jobs a few decades back, but that's not the only reason an education is important in finding employment. In many (though not all) cases, the education is not really about *training* for the job. It's merely a gimmick for getting hired. The education gets you a job because it gives you an edge over your competition that doesn't have the diploma.
But there's no edge if *everyone* has an education. And it doesn't matter if it's because everyone really learned more or if the education standards have been watered down. If the education is not needed for the job, it's a vast expense that adds no value to the economy, and if it doesn't distinguish one job candidate from another, then it's a vast expense that's serving no purpose at all.
While there's always been fear, it is different now. There was a time when United States bullying at least had some subtlety to it. There was a time when the United States could be called a confident nation without irony. And reasonable fear, such as during the Cold War, was at least channelled into constructive albeit self-serving directions. Fear was exploited positively.
Now fear is in a positive feedback loop, used to actively create animosities around the world and insecurity at home.
As long as Americans think gun ownership equals freedom, they will be unable to realize that their freedoms were taken away. Gun ownership is about insecurity and making someone else afraid, with the obvious implications for the case where it's the other person who is armed.
And, of course since other countries don't have gun ownership "freedom", Americans think other people won't notice if you take away their real freedoms. But in fact other peoples appreciate freedom and are immensely resentful when it's taken away.
Considering only the movie, there was never a point at which the Bugs demonstrated any threat to Earth. Just people from the military-industrial complex *claiming* they were a threat.
The problem is a *debt* bubble. Either the debt is extinguished in a bubble collapse - housing, stock market, student loans, tech stock, etc., or it becomes inflationary. As long as debt is above a sustainable level there *has* to be one bubble or another.
To say nothing of time travel, most of which is incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't spent at least four lifetimes studying advanced hypermathematics.
An EU member giving Snowden asylum and the CIA *still* finding a way to put him in Guantanamo or some other concentration camp. That's the reason it's better for Snowden not to even be offered asylum by any country too close to the Americans.
Let's not forget that DoJ promised Snowden wouldn't be tortured if he were returned to the U.S. As in, it was on the table and everyone assumed that would happen.
Correct, everyone assumed that if Snowden were returned to the U.S. then his torture would happen.
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Most expensive is not something to brag about.
There had to have been at least one - if I recall 'Jesus' was Aramaic for 'Joe' or some such.
Which makes sense if you are going to invent a religion where the whole point is that the hero is an average Joe...
Interesting... So, the college diploma is being substitute for the high school diploma, because the high school diploma has lost any meaning.
Sometimes it's about whether you know something, but often it's merely a device for choosing one job candidate over another, where both candidates are already overqualified for the work in question.
People who run parks are professionals who know this.
The goal is to manage forest fires, not ignore them.
Some jobs require more education than analogous jobs a few decades back, but that's not the only reason an education is important in finding employment. In many (though not all) cases, the education is not really about *training* for the job. It's merely a gimmick for getting hired. The education gets you a job because it gives you an edge over your competition that doesn't have the diploma.
But there's no edge if *everyone* has an education. And it doesn't matter if it's because everyone really learned more or if the education standards have been watered down. If the education is not needed for the job, it's a vast expense that adds no value to the economy, and if it doesn't distinguish one job candidate from another, then it's a vast expense that's serving no purpose at all.
Other countries don't use 'freedom' as a euphemism for an us-versus-the-barbarians mentality.
While there's always been fear, it is different now. There was a time when United States bullying at least had some subtlety to it. There was a time when the United States could be called a confident nation without irony. And reasonable fear, such as during the Cold War, was at least channelled into constructive albeit self-serving directions. Fear was exploited positively.
Now fear is in a positive feedback loop, used to actively create animosities around the world and insecurity at home.
As long as Americans think gun ownership equals freedom, they will be unable to realize that their freedoms were taken away. Gun ownership is about insecurity and making someone else afraid, with the obvious implications for the case where it's the other person who is armed.
And, of course since other countries don't have gun ownership "freedom", Americans think other people won't notice if you take away their real freedoms. But in fact other peoples appreciate freedom and are immensely resentful when it's taken away.
Considering only the movie, there was never a point at which the Bugs demonstrated any threat to Earth. Just people from the military-industrial complex *claiming* they were a threat.
I would guess the 64% and the 75% are both from the same 100%, just not correlated in any (apparent) way.
What kind of idiot
Management.
It's no different than physically walking out with the hardware.
In fact, I think it already falls under some form of trespass.
The problem is a *debt* bubble. Either the debt is extinguished in a bubble collapse - housing, stock market, student loans, tech stock, etc., or it becomes inflationary. As long as debt is above a sustainable level there *has* to be one bubble or another.
Seeing this non sequitur moderated 'insightful' makes me sad for the human race.
Make no mistake, though, if the US has done worse than any of its peers, it has done so only through having more opportunity, not more will or effort.
The US has done worse. Why is of secondary importance.
The Romans were counting the right and left steps as one pace.
To say nothing of time travel, most of which is incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't spent at least four lifetimes studying advanced hypermathematics.
Aether never went away, it was just renamed space-time curvature.
No, the apostrophe rule applies to nouns. "It" is a pronoun, and its possessive is "its".
The only American citizens that the US has been targeting are those that have taken up arms against it such as al Qaida leader Anwar al-Awlaki .
And that was proven in which court of law?
You know what else would send a message?
An EU member giving Snowden asylum and the CIA *still* finding a way to put him in Guantanamo or some other concentration camp. That's the reason it's better for Snowden not to even be offered asylum by any country too close to the Americans.
Let's not forget that DoJ promised Snowden wouldn't be tortured if he were returned to the U.S. As in, it was on the table and everyone assumed that would happen.
Correct, everyone assumed that if Snowden were returned to the U.S. then his torture would happen.
She didn't really do much for human rights within the European Union. Snowden did.
Snowden was and continues to be at far higher risk of assassination than Malala. He's just been luckier.
So far.