Really? As a developer I've only been asking that they close shop. I must admit, I haven't had to deal with any of their products in a few years. Our customers use to use them a lot though and in those days the way they handled html made IE look good. I don't really want the people who designed that making any more products that I may have to one day support.

PHP is the shitiest language out there except for all of the others.

No, I don't dislike that device. I just think it's incomplete. It matters what you get the degree in. Some things just don't make any sense to go into debt for because they don't translate into marketable labor. The example given was philosophy. Why would I or anyone else hire someone with a degree in philosophy? They might be good for deep conversations but how does it translate into money?

Unless they take it to a PHD level so they can become professors training the next batch of non-marketable graduates. But.. don't even rely on that. There aren't that many philosophy professor positions available. You have to get the PHD, outshine a ton of other applicants, have connections AND still be really lucky to get that job. Otherwise you are STILL flipping burgers AND paying off a student loan.

That was just an example of course. I'm sure there are plenty of degrees like that. Then there are teaching degrees like 'History' for example. Every school needs a history teacher. So.. with the degree you can at least do that. But.. There is still a lot of competition. You will be an occasional substitute teacher for years before you get a full-time position. And you might (or might not) make ok money once you do but you will definitely not get rich. So.. if it's your passion it might make sense. But.. don't go to the biggest named, most expensive school you can find. You will NEVER pay off that debt. just go to a reasonably average state university.

Even 2000 years ago Latin wasn't very popular on this side of the Atlantic.

You should hear people speak Spanish from different parts of the world. American vs UK English is NOTHING!

Besides... what gives the English ownership of 'true' English if not history since it started there. What I have heard is that American English is closer to what the English spoke at the time of the revolution than what the English speak now is.

If everyone isn't making an exception for her (and all the others) and she truly doesn't know any German than what is she doing? Importing her food from an English speaking country via the internet? Starving?

If people are managing to get by without knowing the local language then I guess someone has made the decision to enable them. Nobody is forcing the local shopkeepers, landlords, etc to learn English are they?

Oh, yah. They really lose at the game of reproduction.

I like learning languages myself. But.. Hey.. they set it up so that she didn't have to. Why should she not take advantage of that?

Um... no.

I'm not asking where are the parents in paying the bill. I'm asking where is their guidance? When a fresh out of high-school kid goes and gets him/herself into 100s of thousands of debt for a degree that is pretty obviously not in demand I have to wonder.. where the hell are their parents and why aren't they kicking their kids in the ass?!?!

Actually.. the parents probably have to co-sign for those loans. You can argue that the students are too inexperienced to know better. I don't know why.. I sure knew enough basic arithmetic at far younger than that to realize it was a bad idea. But... how about a little tough love from the adults?

Where are the parents?

You shouldn't buy anything if you don't have a good idea how you are going to pay for it. If you can afford to buy an education just for the benefit of having one then fine.. more power to you! For most of us that is too much money to spend unless it is an investment towards a future career that can pay for it. That is why a university degree is for career building and not for personal development.

Maybe if people actually looked at the cost of their degree and made responsible economic decisions about how far they are willing to go into debt and what they can expect to make afterwards the demand for non-career building degrees would fall. Maybe then the price would fall until a person could afford to get it just because they are inerested.

"Unless of course, you think that only the wealthy should be able to learn anything about art history..."

No. I think in todays internet enabled age anybody can make themselves an expert in anything if they are willing to do the work. If you want to know about art history... go find out about it! I don't think you are entitled to having someone prepare and teach a series of classes for you just because you want it!

This could be an opportunity to take swatting to a whole new level. I can just imagine gamer kidies dressing up as ISIS and taking selfies in front of their opponents houses now.

One refers to a people, the other refers to a place. Immigrants to the West from the middle east don't kill each other very often based on their ancestor's tribal conflicts.

Children who are raised inside all that BS and never make it out... well.. a few of them will eventually act on it. And.. it doesn't take many to ruin a neighborhood.

Exactly!

Surely there is a body somewhere that will one day be discovered by someone who isn't careful. Maybe somebody died in a strange place and hasn't been found yet. Or a sick murder victim. Or maybe somebody will dig up a grave that just doesn't know any better.

If we assume the virus is extinct forever and so don't immunize against it how far will it spread when this happens?

Well, when you learn to read yourself you can go back to the start of this thread and see that I was replying to someone who said that Google was being evil. You seem to be supporting that person's comment. I don't see how they can be evil (in regards to this report) unless they somehow owe the world all that information so I am aksing why they owe it.

It seems to me that they should hire the best applicants that apply (as best as they can determine that) and it's really nobody else's business.