If you want a certification, buy one.

There are plenty of people who will, for $100, take the certification tests for you. The certifying "authorities" never ask for a state issued picture ID to prove you are who you say you are -- and in fact, most modern certification testing and issuing happens online. You can pretty much get a certification in nearly everything.

Even in the case of a them checking IDs, you can have the test taker be a person who "perpetually fails at these tests", and swap test sheets/booklets with them by way of writing down each others names on the materials in question, after getting in to take the test under their own name. That's how people fake the LCAT and MCAT tests to get higher scores so they can get into Ivy League colleges.

You can pretty much have as many certifications as you want.

Wanting to be a good singer... being "musically inclined... doesn't mean that you aren't tone deaf, and couldn't carry a tune in a bucket.

There's a heck of a lot of difference between being "technically inclined" and actually having technical ability.

To be perfectly fair, they were mostly Finnish...

The correct code word for "younger workers" this week is "digital native". Last week it was "recent graduate". We have "whippersnapper" penciled in for next Tuesday.

I'm still looking for the full version of Visual Studio on my Commodore 64...

You had me with you until you said Social Security.

You are aware that every penny put into the Social Security Trust fund is immediately "borrowed" back into the general fund via bond purchases, right?

Also: H1B workers pay into Social Security already, with no chance of ever seeing that money themselves (not like any of us will ever see it, either).

Does anyone who didn't graduate from IIT Bombay actually use the word "Mechatronics"?

Maybe you could get an apprenticeship in that?

P.S.: a DeVry Associate Degree in Web Graphic Design graduate probably is more qualified to write software than most 16 year olds.

The mission was launched in 2006 (January 19, 2006, 19:00 UTC). At the time of the launch, Pluto was still classified as a planet.

It only became a non-planet according to the IAU, who didn't want to classify Charon as a planet, too, later in August 2006.

So they launched the spacecraft at a planet.

Pylons. No grading necessary.

Nokia sold the design patents, ~8,400 of them, to Microsoft. The other patents were license to Microsoft for a limited time.

So no, Nokia did not retain all their patents.

Unless you want to land?

Or, at least, land intact, then take off again after landing?

He issued the executive order.

Which he then rescinded.

As commander in chief, he could have, in fact, just ordered the troops out, period.

Guantanamo is politically useful for its extraterritoriality. Even to Obama, who has ordered the execution of U.S. citizens, without trial, via drone strike, in Afghanistan.

What about one that said "people who do not vote will be taken out into the street and hung by the neck until dead; one in ten people who voted for the losing side in any election will be taken out into the street, placed up against the wall, and then shot"?

In other words, forced participation, with forced collaboration on outcome.

Yes, that's a reductio ad absurdum of your argument.

Attractive nuissance.

If they didn't want people using the outlets, they'd either omit them, or use an outlet/plug design that was incompatible with standard plugs, and there wouldn't be a problem. It's not like the vacuum cleaners are being taken home and used by the transit staff, so a permanent modification wouldn't be a problem.

The UK does not have the equivalent of the U.S. 2nd amendment; that's how they get way with things like "The Right to be Forgotten" and their ridiculous libel laws, when it comes to public persons.

Also, in the U.S., he would also have been arrested for mouthing off. You are only allowed to mouth off in a "Free Speech Zone".

Hear, hear!

It's a perfectly cromulent use of the word!