Clearly a case where TL/DR does not apply.

Larger than three ounce bombs may be able to destroy a plane, but they do not aid in hijacking. Therefore, by your logic, there is no need for restrictions now.

The correlation between the party in control of the House and budget deficit/surplus is far stronger than that of the party of the President. Unfortunately this doesn't tell the whole story. Clinton was smart enough to execute Congress' legislative intent very well instead of spending his time whining about Congress. Clinton was an executive, we should look for that quality in a President.

The second link states, "the study revealed that ... teaching qualifications significantly influenced the teaching effectiveness of the academic staff." You might want to reconsider your opinion or your citation.

Weak correlation is not no correlation. In the absence of better information (about which teacher is the best), better schools tend to hire more qualified teachers. Teachers who are less qualified are on average lazier than those who have continued their own education; some teachers continue their education solely to get higher salary and they weaken this correlation. Lazy teachers are generally poor teachers. Tenure and other external factors also weaken the correlation. There is a correlation, it simply is not as definitive as some claim, nor is it absent as you claim. The real question is,"Is the additional cost of more qualified teachers paid back by the results in the classroom?" And I believe the answer is probably not; within the framework of the systems I know about, the incentives of higher salary make too many bad teachers get more qualifications. The original observation that highly qualified teachers were better was made before there was a financial incentive to become more qualified, throwing money into the equation alters the results. As with too many governmental activities, the desired results are not achieved because of the actions of governmental body itself.

Apparently you and most of your classmates did not understand that those "story problems" in math class were about decision making and weighing options. If you never realized that you are supposed to set up your own story problems relevant to your own life, and you are relying on the advise of others then you got a bad education, you are lazy, and you're NOT getting smarter. What are you going to do when you parents die? Stop blaming others for your myopia.

You just don't get it. If they hired from each other, the employees who changed jobs get 20% or greater pay increases with each jump. Because they are paid more their "peers" demand more and they get 10% or more pay increases. Eventually college students, seeing how the pay scale is rising, go into the field, causing an adequate employee supply and reducing the upward pressure on pay. The pay scale for these employees would be significantly higher than it is today. By avoiding this cycle, the companies reduce their payroll costs significantly and they are doing so through collusion.

This is why the Government should stop trying to promote STEP because they keep trying to keep the cost of engineers down by granting visas to foreign workers and Mr. Obama announced in the State of the Union Address that he wants to keep foreign born US educated engineers here, which will only decrease the pay scale for all engineers. If we need more engineers then we need to let the market make it more attractive to become one, not dangle citizenship to fill the gap.

Captain, this appears to be a silicone based life form. /spock

Assuming she gets from 83 deg south to her goal.

I did some work on my niece's Win 7 computer last week, and on updates from Microsoft had to reboot three times, in addition to the three to get rid of some malware. I remember hearing the claim that rebooting was supposed to be a thing of the past and realized that Microsoft was talking about its competitors.

Yeah, Cuba doesn't get any aid from Venezuela.