If you are willing to stretch your distances, the University of Alabama in Huntsville is a good engineering school(not n aMIT or Georgia Tech) that is collocated with a lot of space and missile companies. By going to UAH you can do Co-ops and internships with NASA, Army Missile and Space Command, Space X, and others. Almost every US space and missile company has a presence in Huntsville Alabama and takes students from UAH.
Your not paying just for the knowledge, your paying for a trusted authority to certify that you have that knowledge. Yes, anybody can learn from khan academy, but how can a third party (i.e. a potential employer) be sure you're telling the truth? The certification is valuable and thus it is sold.
I don't agree with you. Moving a child from a poor performing school to a high performing will definitely help the child. A full voucher system wouldn't require moving children often. Parents do the research, put their child in the school that they think is best, and the school that nobody wants to go to will get better or go away. One of the best ways to improve the performance of any group is to get rid of the lowest performers.
As others have pointed out, The 100 and 200 level lecture hall classes aren't any better than online. A 400 level 20 student class probably shouldn't be online. The 300 student Western Civ class, what do you loose by going online?
You forgot to ask, who should decide what the person gets educated in. If society is paying all the bills because of the benefit to society, doesn't that lead to society dictating what the individual learns? Just because some person is interested in the lives of middle ages prostitutes doesn't mean society should foot the bill if society needs more engineers.
Private people have been building these for DEFCON for a couple of years. This technology is out in the open for anyone who wants to look up the presentations.
Unless you in the rare position of being able to complete a double major in the same amount of time as a single major, your probably better off getting a BS and the an MS.
They will then transfer for the last two to a university with a brand name. I respectfully disagree, I don't believe re-proving centuries ago established facts provides anything of worth. I believe that universities are going to move, despite their best efforts, to a 2+2 model. As tuition continues to climb students are going to take the first two years at community colleges and/or online classes. What labs do do is create excuses to deny transfer credits. You might have taken a 4 credit class including the lab, but here the lab is separate so you need to pay us to do it again.
College labs aren't really that useful, or at least not for me. Text says V=IR; put together a circuit, measure it, wow! the text is right. What a revelation! The only labs I've found useful are for 400 level classes and programing. You could ditch labs for the first three years without any loss of educational value.
The article didn't focus much on this point, but it was mentioned that teachers keep asking if there is a way to prevent the kids from getting so far ahead. I don't think your going to get much enthusiasm from teachers that want to restrain learning to what is "supposed" to be learned at each grade level.
You might want to get some of your marketing and other departments to read this thread. There is a great suggestion lower down to offer a mostly streaming only, DVDs available only if the content is not available for streaming option. Also, those licensing issue need to get resolved. Have you ever tried to explain to a three year old why his latest favorite move vanished over night? You need to include some type of notification both before and after it isn't available. Just having it vanish from your search results with no explanation is not good.
...You go to a lawyer when you want to buy a house, and 3 years later find out the previous owners lied and the foundation was rotten. You go to a lawyer when you want to start a company and want to make sure that one person doesn't go off and bring it all down by their own mistakes. You go to a lawyer when the system has run you over and you don't know how to stand up for yourself...
Everything you listed are things people really need lawyers for. Does the young couple with no children and no assets in an uncontested divorce need lawyers? No, they need a form and a service that files that form with the court. Does someone who just wants to leave everything he has to his son need a lawyer? No, a will form in a standard format for his state is all he needs. The majority of health problems are things like a twisted ankle or the sniffles. You don't need a doctor to tell you to take it easy for a couple of days and take some asprin. Most regular people don't have anything complicated that a para-legal or some pre-formatted forms couldn't handle for them.
What is the definition of qualified person? Your assertion would be true if anybody could take the test and be certified if they were competent. electricians generally must spend 4 or more years as a union apprentice before being allowed to take the test. Same thing with plumbers. Lawyers must have completed an accredited law degree before they can even take the bar. Ohh, and they have to join and pay dues to the bar. In case your not noticing the pattern, you must pay a lot of money to the guilds(bar, unions, etc..) before you're even allowed to attempt to show your competence. I'm not a certified electrician , but I've had to spend a lot of time doing electrical work in my house because multiple "competent" "quality controlled" certified electricians did shoddy work for the previous owners of the house. I'm just glad I live in a union unfriendly state so it only takes an BS in Electrical Engineering to get around the unions.
...Your mistakes are their mistakes. If you screw up, they may lose money, they may lose custody of their children, control of their business, their freedom, their life. Although your mistakes are your client's mistakes as well, if you screw up, they can come after you...legal advice is cheaper, but also that legal advice is of a poorer quality and less useful. It also means that unqualified people will be dispensing legal advice with real, detrimental, consequences to the lives of people that cannot afford quality legal advice....
And how does that malpractice against a lawyer work exactly? How rich does someone have to be to absorb your fees, the lost lawsuit, then float the losses and second lawyers costs for years through appeals? Why can't the cheaper "lower quality" provider be sued for incompetence just the same as you?
The implication of your argument is that those that can't afford quality legal advice should have no legal advice. WebMD and/or Google is good for the vast majority of cases. LegalZoom type services are also good for the vast majority of everyday cases. You need to see a doctor/lawyer if you have something that is complicated or uncommon. For those that can't afford the doctor/lawyer, how does removing the legalzoom/WebMD/Google options make them better off?
Does the member of the bar actually stand behind his work? What are you going to do if he does shoddy work? Hire another lawyer to sue him? Good luck with that.
Just because you have extended a courtesy once does not mean you must extend it to all. The Nazis did not produce and seek publicity of their atrocities and worst actions. The Nuremberg trials were done to ensure that those actions were well documented and widely known and a public trail was an excellent way to accomplish both. OBLs actions were already widely known and well documented.
If you really want to get all legal about it, under what authority did the US try the Nazis? At what time did the Nazis commit crimes that were within the jurisdiction of a US court? The only authority behind those trials was the right of the victor over the vanquished.
They were subjects of King George and so had a good reason to expect treatment as any other subject of the King. The French and Spanish had no expectation of being treated according to English law while outside of England.
Your countries way of doing things is your business. I think it's a good thing that we agree how a country should treat its citizens, but those methods aren't guaranteed to you by the US Constitution if you are not a US Citizen nor inside the US.
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If you are willing to stretch your distances, the University of Alabama in Huntsville is a good engineering school(not n aMIT or Georgia Tech) that is collocated with a lot of space and missile companies. By going to UAH you can do Co-ops and internships with NASA, Army Missile and Space Command, Space X, and others. Almost every US space and missile company has a presence in Huntsville Alabama and takes students from UAH.
Your not paying just for the knowledge, your paying for a trusted authority to certify that you have that knowledge. Yes, anybody can learn from khan academy, but how can a third party (i.e. a potential employer) be sure you're telling the truth? The certification is valuable and thus it is sold.
I don't agree with you. Moving a child from a poor performing school to a high performing will definitely help the child. A full voucher system wouldn't require moving children often. Parents do the research, put their child in the school that they think is best, and the school that nobody wants to go to will get better or go away. One of the best ways to improve the performance of any group is to get rid of the lowest performers.
As others have pointed out, The 100 and 200 level lecture hall classes aren't any better than online. A 400 level 20 student class probably shouldn't be online. The 300 student Western Civ class, what do you loose by going online?
You forgot to ask, who should decide what the person gets educated in. If society is paying all the bills because of the benefit to society, doesn't that lead to society dictating what the individual learns? Just because some person is interested in the lives of middle ages prostitutes doesn't mean society should foot the bill if society needs more engineers.
Anything that isn't quantifiable is an open invitation to discrimination lawsuits.
Private people have been building these for DEFCON for a couple of years. This technology is out in the open for anyone who wants to look up the presentations.
Your job sounds interesting. I actually like the calculation. Where do I send the resume?
Unless you in the rare position of being able to complete a double major in the same amount of time as a single major, your probably better off getting a BS and the an MS.
They will then transfer for the last two to a university with a brand name. I respectfully disagree, I don't believe re-proving centuries ago established facts provides anything of worth. I believe that universities are going to move, despite their best efforts, to a 2+2 model. As tuition continues to climb students are going to take the first two years at community colleges and/or online classes. What labs do do is create excuses to deny transfer credits. You might have taken a 4 credit class including the lab, but here the lab is separate so you need to pay us to do it again.
Will you need any junior EEs around the end of May? If so, should I come to the interview in renaissance garb?
College labs aren't really that useful, or at least not for me. Text says V=IR; put together a circuit, measure it, wow! the text is right. What a revelation! The only labs I've found useful are for 400 level classes and programing. You could ditch labs for the first three years without any loss of educational value.
The article didn't focus much on this point, but it was mentioned that teachers keep asking if there is a way to prevent the kids from getting so far ahead. I don't think your going to get much enthusiasm from teachers that want to restrain learning to what is "supposed" to be learned at each grade level.
You might want to get some of your marketing and other departments to read this thread. There is a great suggestion lower down to offer a mostly streaming only, DVDs available only if the content is not available for streaming option. Also, those licensing issue need to get resolved. Have you ever tried to explain to a three year old why his latest favorite move vanished over night? You need to include some type of notification both before and after it isn't available. Just having it vanish from your search results with no explanation is not good.
...You go to a lawyer when you want to buy a house, and 3 years later find out the previous owners lied and the foundation was rotten. You go to a lawyer when you want to start a company and want to make sure that one person doesn't go off and bring it all down by their own mistakes. You go to a lawyer when the system has run you over and you don't know how to stand up for yourself...
Everything you listed are things people really need lawyers for. Does the young couple with no children and no assets in an uncontested divorce need lawyers? No, they need a form and a service that files that form with the court. Does someone who just wants to leave everything he has to his son need a lawyer? No, a will form in a standard format for his state is all he needs. The majority of health problems are things like a twisted ankle or the sniffles. You don't need a doctor to tell you to take it easy for a couple of days and take some asprin. Most regular people don't have anything complicated that a para-legal or some pre-formatted forms couldn't handle for them.
What is the definition of qualified person? Your assertion would be true if anybody could take the test and be certified if they were competent. electricians generally must spend 4 or more years as a union apprentice before being allowed to take the test. Same thing with plumbers. Lawyers must have completed an accredited law degree before they can even take the bar. Ohh, and they have to join and pay dues to the bar. In case your not noticing the pattern, you must pay a lot of money to the guilds(bar, unions, etc..) before you're even allowed to attempt to show your competence. I'm not a certified electrician , but I've had to spend a lot of time doing electrical work in my house because multiple "competent" "quality controlled" certified electricians did shoddy work for the previous owners of the house. I'm just glad I live in a union unfriendly state so it only takes an BS in Electrical Engineering to get around the unions.
There is a service, called Symptom Checker, that reviews your symptoms and suggests possible problems.
Could be because they figured out that there will be a lot more out-of-work lawyers if the drudge work is automated.
For those of us that don't have $150 dollars an hour, do you have a better option?
...Your mistakes are their mistakes. If you screw up, they may lose money, they may lose custody of their children, control of their business, their freedom, their life. Although your mistakes are your client's mistakes as well, if you screw up, they can come after you...legal advice is cheaper, but also that legal advice is of a poorer quality and less useful. It also means that unqualified people will be dispensing legal advice with real, detrimental, consequences to the lives of people that cannot afford quality legal advice....
And how does that malpractice against a lawyer work exactly? How rich does someone have to be to absorb your fees, the lost lawsuit, then float the losses and second lawyers costs for years through appeals? Why can't the cheaper "lower quality" provider be sued for incompetence just the same as you?
The implication of your argument is that those that can't afford quality legal advice should have no legal advice. WebMD and/or Google is good for the vast majority of cases. LegalZoom type services are also good for the vast majority of everyday cases. You need to see a doctor/lawyer if you have something that is complicated or uncommon. For those that can't afford the doctor/lawyer, how does removing the legalzoom/WebMD/Google options make them better off?
Does the member of the bar actually stand behind his work? What are you going to do if he does shoddy work? Hire another lawyer to sue him? Good luck with that.
Just because you have extended a courtesy once does not mean you must extend it to all. The Nazis did not produce and seek publicity of their atrocities and worst actions. The Nuremberg trials were done to ensure that those actions were well documented and widely known and a public trail was an excellent way to accomplish both. OBLs actions were already widely known and well documented. If you really want to get all legal about it, under what authority did the US try the Nazis? At what time did the Nazis commit crimes that were within the jurisdiction of a US court? The only authority behind those trials was the right of the victor over the vanquished.
Some people just need killing. No need to feel guilty about it.
They were subjects of King George and so had a good reason to expect treatment as any other subject of the King. The French and Spanish had no expectation of being treated according to English law while outside of England.
Your countries way of doing things is your business. I think it's a good thing that we agree how a country should treat its citizens, but those methods aren't guaranteed to you by the US Constitution if you are not a US Citizen nor inside the US.