The CISSP certification does not grant intelligence. It demonstrates that you are familiar with certain concepts, not that you can string them together intelligently.

Holding a CISSP is not a sign of incompetence; although I have met many CISSP holders who were utterly and completely and contemptibly incompetent.

If you had not included the first part of your comment in the subject line (like a cunt) I would have been able to cut and paste that as part of your quote.

Blame Americans if you must but that kind of hatred is fucking rampant in this world. In Saudi Arabia, they can execute you. They just passed some laws in Russia that make the Arizona law look tame in comparison... and you fucking blame the Americans for hatred? Go fuck yourself.

This. Be brutally honest with yourself. Especially if a new company is trying to get you for less than you are worth. This raises important questions:

1. Why can't they afford you? Lack of revenue, or is it a decision to try and muscle in people at lower rates? Both come with their own set of problems.
2. If they can't afford to pay you what you are worth - what will the rest of the team look like? How will that impact the success of the company (and your own success in the job?)
3. High expectations in combination with a pay cut suggests a mindset geared towards exploitation and manipulation. That's a giant red flag - others are a company that touts a culture that has high demands of it's employees. Some companies use stress and challenge as a way to keep employees (and their salaries) in check. Avoid like the plague.
4. Check working hours. Some smaller companies (especially those that either can't afford to pay or choose not to) tend to attract more junior/less competent people. Chances are they are planning on you working more than 40 hours a week (which reduces your effective wages even more).

It would be interesting to see a study looking at how people construe economic issues depending on their personal-finance literacy. As far as I know, there isn't a connection.

I cannot think of anything that we teach that is more relevant

Of course you can. The ability to communicate, math, the ability to think for yourself... All relevant to students in general - and in many cases pre-requisites for a lot of the personal finance curriculum. That being said, glad to see this is being taught - it's a great addition!

Whoah whoah whoah there cowboy. Samsung provides updates. It is the carriers who are blocking those updates. The carriers put customized "firmware" on the phones and do not use Samsung's stock firmware.

In other words, Apple managed to strongarm the carriers but Samsung has not. Blame the carriers, not Samsung (or any other Android device manufacturer).

Bingo. He's talking about mobile. Even more egregious - would you have accepted "but you CAN swap out the version of IE you use, so it's all good" as an argument that MS wasn't forcing their browser on users? No? Then why use it to defend Apple?

This shouldn't be rated informative. There is a difference between posting tests scores for a single test, and having a daily reminder of absences and discipline problems. Coming in the day after a test and seeing a 60 next to your name is one thing. Then the test was removed. Contrast that with coming in every day and seeing that you have been sent to the office, and missed 4 days of school from when you got really sick, and no achievements next to your name. Every day.

In other words, it's not the same thing, and pretending it is misses the point.

Also there's no need to poke fun at the critics by trivializing it with language like "crime against humanity".

The point is - humiliation (especially long term daily humiliation) is not an effective motivator. Quite the opposite - it reinforces negative attitudes towards school and low self esteem.

There is no reason to support a system that makes teachers feel effective when that system is hurting rather than helping students. That's the only thing that matters - are we actually helping kids.

Hm. Odd. I have been through Amsterdam numerous times and only once was there any kind of "issue". Some guard guy at the gate politely asked me if he could search a particular pocket on my pants. I looked at him as if he was crazy and said, "If you must.", so he did. He found nothing of course. I expect that many Americans try to bring a little "souvenir" home with them and that would catch such an instance. I was mildly annoyed and seriously insulted... but meh. It was not a very big deal. I was certainly not up against a wall with a full search being done.

Your friend's experience is weird.

Mod down for trolling or reply? Well, I think we see how this one turned out:

Yeah, it is funny to be ironic about the slogans and such that American children were brought up under. The pessimism of having fallen is accurate as well.

The troll is this:

See? You should be smart enough to KNOW that the media is portraying it all as nobody caring. That is all you get to see is people shrugging it off... and yet hundreds of thousands, nay, millions of Americans absolutely DO care.

Sure, there is a large mass of people who are essentially cows or sheep. They are neither for freedom or against freedom, they just exist. There are quite a few people who are interesting in standing up the authoritarian state because they think they will be the winners. These types would be the fundamentalists and sadists and trolls of the world... but, there is still a goodly amount of people who absolutely do care about the principles that America was founded on. Dismissing them and how deeply they care is rude and trollish. Read your comment again and pay attention to the bolded words this time:

But yeah, keep on repeating that nobody cares. Eventually it will come back to bite you.

I once worked for a year straight averaging between 100 to 120 hours a week. The 3 12 hour days each week were considered a nice break... and I was dating my future wife at the time and you know how woman are with taking up your time to prove your love. I was a mess. :/

Comments in subject lines are stupid as hell as my partial quote shows. Regardless, I absolutely do work 60 hours a week. 12 hours a day, 5 days a week. Every week.

Glad I could pop your BS meter cherry. :P

I am of the opinion that I do not like you. Your world is too black and white and your answers are too simple.

That will work for some Americans. For others, it is simply not an option at all. What about those people? What about the people that can choose it as an option but it steals 3 or more hours from their day? I know their time is not worth much but their time is not worthless.

Are we talking about raising a family here or just bare single subsistence? If family, roommate will not work. If not, American society is not like it is elsewhere in the world. Finding a roommate who is trustworthy and will actually pay is VERY difficult. I recall when I was younger trying to go the roommate route. Inevitably, they would not have rent money at the end of the month because they had some other "emergency" they had to take care of. Sure, they can be kicked out but when it is the majority of them doing it, that is a LOT of months paying full rent solo along with the hassle of dealing with the assholes.

Fuck off with the holier than thou "basic cable" bullshit. In the 80s, I lived without cable and the heating bill alone was over $200, so the amount listed is not even realistic for this day and age. Electric alone in my current house is almost that much. I still do not have cable even today and my utilities/phone/internet are well over $200.

This was the part that made me dislike you the most. You dismissed the utilities issues as if it was a pleasure issue that needed to be curbed. Meh. That attitude sucks HARD.

There are a whole lot of shades of grey between the American Dream and dying of hunger on the streets. The "complaint" is that the shade of grey is getting too black to be considered humanitarian. Your dismissal of this concern deserves to be derided and insulted. I ought to throw a fuck you in there to help you wake up and see what you are not experiencing but you would likely just close your mind even tighter then.

You realize that this is America we are discussing right? People will stand there and watch you die and then walk on as if nothing had happened. The government? Help? ROFLMAO. Perhaps if you are female, a minority, a felon, or a child. Oops. I mean if you are a single man in America that has never been involved with the system, there are zero safety nets. You are 100% fucked, short of a miracle. Don't ask me how I know this.

FYI, I have the American Dream now.
(lol, CAPTCHA is agonize)

Maybe I meant exactly. Maybe I meant excatly. Maybe you can really only understand business decisions when you've been a cat.

You will never win. If you are working 60 hour weeks and want to stop doing so, just stop. Take a day and do some interviews, find another job. Cause the second you stop giving 150%, they are going to fire you anyways.

Excatly. The only way to escape is to find another job. In the meantime any lack of enthusiasm or effort could get you fired, and you are working for effectively less if you are a salaried employee without overtime.