I had someone that did something quite similar when I was in K-12, but we didn't call him a "superhero", we called them teachers, and they taught me many principles of science, in areas like Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Earth Science.
What the hell are teachers doing in the classroom that someone coming in and essentially doing their job for them is considered "newsworthy"?
Federal Gov't is taking over the student loan business (as part of the healthcare reform bill, of all things), and the reason student debt survives bankruptcy is because there was a real crisis in student loan repayment - students would either simply not pay the loan off OR graduate college, file for bankruptcy, and then wait seven years to buy your first house, based on your higher income level (thanks to the college degree) and the money you save not paying off your student loan...
Why should an employer raise wages if they can find any number of workers willing to take their low wages?
If the employer does raise wages, will they sell more product to cover the increase OR will they be forced to raise prices?
If they raise prices will they sell more or less of their product?
If they don't raise pries yet labor costs increase, profits will go down - that drives down the value of the company, the pension plans and mutual funds that hold the stock will lose, and that will take money out of the worker's retirement plans...
Does every conceivable job warrant compensation enough to qualify as a "living wage"?
The high school kid flipping burgers at a hamburger joint really is providing $20/hr benefit to their employer? Do you think that trebling of the labor costs in a labor-intensive industry like hospitality won't cause prices for the products to at least double?
Sure, they pour some money into tuition assistance, but every year endowments go up, and that's money that could have gone towards reducing the tuition.
It was pointed out that Yale has an endowment that could pay every student's tuition at Yale for the next 30 years assuming no growth of the endowment over those thirty years.
And what are the facilities they are building - basic dorms and classrooms or are they building student centers with every amenity known to man, a gymnasium that is palatial, and state-of-the-art classrooms with every useless feature known to education and dormitories where each room is like a small apartment, not a closet with bunk beds.
If they run out of teachers, they can always head over to Starbucks or Barnes & Noble and start interviewing all the folks with advanced degrees making under $10/hour in most cases.
I've met a college graduate who took on $160K in student debt to walk into the 2010 job market with a degree in Theater Management. I met him when, with tears in his eyes, he applied for a substitute teaching position that was paying $85/day. The best he could home for was 7-10 days work a month (because once you go above 10 days a month the district has to pay you $15/day more, so they limit each sub to under 10 days a month if they can)...
Every month, for the next 20 years, this kid was going to be paying over a thousand dollars a month BEFORE he paid for food, clothes, housing, transportation etc.
What did he think he was going to get paid as a theater manager once he graduated?
The problem is that not everything should be, in a reasonably just society, subject to the unmitigated forces of the market. Senator Ryan imagines families taking their medicare vouchers and shopping very carefully for the most cost-efficient medical care. It doesn't happen that way. If your grandmother arrives at the emergency room, having received CPR on the ambulance ride, you don't want to have to shop around. You want care right then - in the room that she's currently occupying.
Wow - you went from shopping for the best care available to the emergency room. Much of Medicare services are either provided as a result of a consultation and scheduled OR are repeated, on-going services (i.e. dialysis) - those types of service allow the patient to find a provider they like that provides services they are satisfied with.
Are you really of the position that people should be forced to just accept what is offered, to have no ability to choose their provider?
Not sure where you live, but you pay for your university education as well - only instead of only the people that attend university getting the bill, you assess everyone for the tuition.
Or do your university staff work for free, the buildings never need repairs, and the students all feed and house themselves?
The value for me of a course-based M.S. (dropout from a PhD program) was $6000 per year starting salary. That's a pretty decent bump that I likely kept
Of course, that's before you deduct the cost of that course-based M.S., right?
"However I think a hybrid approach would be a good match. There are some classes, that I didn't like spending thousands of dollars on, just because I had to take them, I would much rather pay a lower rate, and take the mediocre online class to get the credit, and save some money. But save the classes I am actually interested in with live people and professors."
With absolutely no offense intended, what you want makes perfect sense, but it is more of a technical certification than a college degree.
A college degree is an indication that the student is well-rounded, has a breadth of knowledge and not just depth of knowledge in a particular area, as with a technical certification. There is nothing wrong with a technical certification (think "Master Plumber or Electrician", not MSCE).
The classes you dismiss (classes you "had to take") don't have to be of interest to you, but are the differentiator between a college degree and a technical certification. If someone presents themselves to me as a graduate of, say, Harvard, with a CS degree, I expect them to know more that computer science topics - I expect them to be fairly well-rounded. But that (apparently) isn't what you want, nor is it likely what your potential employers are looking for particularly, but the college degree is the only game in town to denote a certain level of education on a subject.
It isn't news that someone "hopes" to do something, and the gap between offering a complete Computer Science Masters Degree and working out the "rough edges between our fundamental class CS101 and the next class up" state they are in now is quite immense.
Decoded: They are having a problem coming up with a second semester CS class.
This works out to about $10/class I figure, maybe less - I fully suspect the degree they will offer is worth every penny, but not a penny more - and you won't "fool" anyone with this Masters degree, this is on the same level as the mail-order priest ordinations that were once offered in the back of magazines like Rolling Stone.
The police should absolutely do this - the perfect example of this was when the Occupy protesters in one city were sittig across a walkway, arms interlocked (as I recall), and te first video was of a policeman casually pepper-sprayig the protesters where they sat. The horror! The shock! The brutality of it all!
Ten the un-edited video came out, and it showed the police office walking up to each protester, telling them that if they didn't move they would be pepper-sprayed, and to a person they all sat ad waited for the officer to do what he said he would do.
They were warned and they made a choice - and the narrative quickly went from "police brutality" to "protester choice".
"Your tax dollars will be paying for his incarceration for fifteen years because some jackass uploaded CP to his file server and some FBI agent noticed it."
You forgot the most important part of this equation:
"His upload directory was accessible, which is admittedly an idiotic thing to do."
If he hadn't had a wide-open fileshare the jackass couldn't upload the CP for the FBI agent to notice it... Not defending the sentence of 180 months, but he created the environment that led to his arrest/conviction (as you noted, he did "posess" the images).
I think you've collapsed the fact that most children that are molested are molested by relatives, that includes parents, siblings, relatives (aunts, uncles, grandparents, etc.) into "parents". Child abuse by strangers IS rare by comparison.
Possession of your own videos of you yourself masterbating as a child hurts no one, but when you decide to share that video of a masterbating child you are feeding into the child porn website is fueling the desires of child abusers that could lead to abuse of a child down the road.
Child abusers have "something wrong" in their heads, they don't handle things the way other people do (I do not claim this as a clinical certainty based on studying child porn sharers, it is something I've read from reliable sources)... Feeding their desires could cause them to want to "up the stakes" and try to return the favor by taping actual child abuse to share.
The real concern is how are you going to prove it's your 12 year-old penis in the video?
You are ignoring the fact that sexual abuse of a child is illegal and child porn is evidence of that crime being comitted.
I'd like to hear more about your allegation that "It's legal to share videos of someone torturing, killing, raping the corpse of someone else and feeding it to vultures."
If Child Porn could exist without actual children being sexually abused I could see your point of view (for the sake of argument), but when actual children are in the child porn, it is evidence of sexual abuse of a child.
Cartoon Child Porn is obviously different since no actual children are involved in the production of the porn.
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I had someone that did something quite similar when I was in K-12, but we didn't call him a "superhero", we called them teachers, and they taught me many principles of science, in areas like Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Earth Science.
What the hell are teachers doing in the classroom that someone coming in and essentially doing their job for them is considered "newsworthy"?
The reason it is "non dischargeable debt" is because it almost did come tumbling down - default rates were astronomical before they changed the rules.
Federal Gov't is taking over the student loan business (as part of the healthcare reform bill, of all things), and the reason student debt survives bankruptcy is because there was a real crisis in student loan repayment - students would either simply not pay the loan off OR graduate college, file for bankruptcy, and then wait seven years to buy your first house, based on your higher income level (thanks to the college degree) and the money you save not paying off your student loan...
Why should an employer raise wages if they can find any number of workers willing to take their low wages?
If the employer does raise wages, will they sell more product to cover the increase OR will they be forced to raise prices?
If they raise prices will they sell more or less of their product?
If they don't raise pries yet labor costs increase, profits will go down - that drives down the value of the company, the pension plans and mutual funds that hold the stock will lose, and that will take money out of the worker's retirement plans...
Does every conceivable job warrant compensation enough to qualify as a "living wage"?
The high school kid flipping burgers at a hamburger joint really is providing $20/hr benefit to their employer? Do you think that trebling of the labor costs in a labor-intensive industry like hospitality won't cause prices for the products to at least double?
Depends, how many more Starbucks are we planning on building?
Aid should be based on need AND merit - simply graduating high school doesn't merit either free money or a subsidized loan rate.
A college degree doesn't guarantee a high-paying career, and in many cases it is a financial drain to the student that lasts for 20 years.
Then explain their ever-growing endowments?
Sure, they pour some money into tuition assistance, but every year endowments go up, and that's money that could have gone towards reducing the tuition.
It was pointed out that Yale has an endowment that could pay every student's tuition at Yale for the next 30 years assuming no growth of the endowment over those thirty years.
And what are the facilities they are building - basic dorms and classrooms or are they building student centers with every amenity known to man, a gymnasium that is palatial, and state-of-the-art classrooms with every useless feature known to education and dormitories where each room is like a small apartment, not a closet with bunk beds.
If they run out of teachers, they can always head over to Starbucks or Barnes & Noble and start interviewing all the folks with advanced degrees making under $10/hour in most cases.
I've met a college graduate who took on $160K in student debt to walk into the 2010 job market with a degree in Theater Management. I met him when, with tears in his eyes, he applied for a substitute teaching position that was paying $85/day. The best he could home for was 7-10 days work a month (because once you go above 10 days a month the district has to pay you $15/day more, so they limit each sub to under 10 days a month if they can)...
Every month, for the next 20 years, this kid was going to be paying over a thousand dollars a month BEFORE he paid for food, clothes, housing, transportation etc.
What did he think he was going to get paid as a theater manager once he graduated?
Wow - you went from shopping for the best care available to the emergency room. Much of Medicare services are either provided as a result of a consultation and scheduled OR are repeated, on-going services (i.e. dialysis) - those types of service allow the patient to find a provider they like that provides services they are satisfied with.
Are you really of the position that people should be forced to just accept what is offered, to have no ability to choose their provider?
You are right - parents have no concept what college costs them & their children. /sarcasam
Not sure where you live, but you pay for your university education as well - only instead of only the people that attend university getting the bill, you assess everyone for the tuition.
Or do your university staff work for free, the buildings never need repairs, and the students all feed and house themselves?
Do you know how silly that sounds?
Students pay $500-2,000 credit hour (or more) for Graduate School, and spend less than $1,000/semester on books.
The issue isn't the cost of the textbooks - it's the cost of the teacher in front of the classroom, the brand-new dorms & athletic facilities, etc.
Of course, that's before you deduct the cost of that course-based M.S., right?
With absolutely no offense intended, what you want makes perfect sense, but it is more of a technical certification than a college degree.
A college degree is an indication that the student is well-rounded, has a breadth of knowledge and not just depth of knowledge in a particular area, as with a technical certification. There is nothing wrong with a technical certification (think "Master Plumber or Electrician", not MSCE).
The classes you dismiss (classes you "had to take") don't have to be of interest to you, but are the differentiator between a college degree and a technical certification. If someone presents themselves to me as a graduate of, say, Harvard, with a CS degree, I expect them to know more that computer science topics - I expect them to be fairly well-rounded. But that (apparently) isn't what you want, nor is it likely what your potential employers are looking for particularly, but the college degree is the only game in town to denote a certain level of education on a subject.
It isn't news that someone "hopes" to do something, and the gap between offering a complete Computer Science Masters Degree and working out the "rough edges between our fundamental class CS101 and the next class up" state they are in now is quite immense.
Decoded: They are having a problem coming up with a second semester CS class.
This works out to about $10/class I figure, maybe less - I fully suspect the degree they will offer is worth every penny, but not a penny more - and you won't "fool" anyone with this Masters degree, this is on the same level as the mail-order priest ordinations that were once offered in the back of magazines like Rolling Stone.
The police should absolutely do this - the perfect example of this was when the Occupy protesters in one city were sittig across a walkway, arms interlocked (as I recall), and te first video was of a policeman casually pepper-sprayig the protesters where they sat. The horror! The shock! The brutality of it all!
Ten the un-edited video came out, and it showed the police office walking up to each protester, telling them that if they didn't move they would be pepper-sprayed, and to a person they all sat ad waited for the officer to do what he said he would do.
They were warned and they made a choice - and the narrative quickly went from "police brutality" to "protester choice".
Where do you live? Police don't have "bullet-proof cars" in my town...
You forgot the most important part of this equation:
If he hadn't had a wide-open fileshare the jackass couldn't upload the CP for the FBI agent to notice it... Not defending the sentence of 180 months, but he created the environment that led to his arrest/conviction (as you noted, he did "posess" the images).
by the parents?
I think you've collapsed the fact that most children that are molested are molested by relatives, that includes parents, siblings, relatives (aunts, uncles, grandparents, etc.) into "parents". Child abuse by strangers IS rare by comparison.
Possession of your own videos of you yourself masterbating as a child hurts no one, but when you decide to share that video of a masterbating child you are feeding into the child porn website is fueling the desires of child abusers that could lead to abuse of a child down the road.
Child abusers have "something wrong" in their heads, they don't handle things the way other people do (I do not claim this as a clinical certainty based on studying child porn sharers, it is something I've read from reliable sources)... Feeding their desires could cause them to want to "up the stakes" and try to return the favor by taping actual child abuse to share.
The real concern is how are you going to prove it's your 12 year-old penis in the video?
You are ignoring the fact that sexual abuse of a child is illegal and child porn is evidence of that crime being comitted.
I'd like to hear more about your allegation that "It's legal to share videos of someone torturing, killing, raping the corpse of someone else and feeding it to vultures."
One word - "Child"
If Child Porn could exist without actual children being sexually abused I could see your point of view (for the sake of argument), but when actual children are in the child porn, it is evidence of sexual abuse of a child.
Cartoon Child Porn is obviously different since no actual children are involved in the production of the porn.
I'm sure we can both agree that is wrong.