Don't jeopardize our supply of rope!

Lol no kidding. Or in the case of killing first responders with drone strikes like the US, everyone can just look the other way. You think the Red Cross would be more interested in that, given that they are first responders, but no, video games. Must interfere with video games.

Vaporization is not the same as hydrolysis. Vaporisation means liquid turning to vapor.

"The problem is, how do we fix it? Having many friends and family members who are teachers, I can also 100% say that education classes don't confer any particular ability to teach either."

Yup I agree. I hesitate to say that teacher training is the only or even best solution (having a BEd myself) but I think it's probably a good place to start.

How dare students expect to be properly taught by people they are paying to teach them?

You didn't actually challenge my assertion that a PhD doesn't confer an ability to teach, rather you merely acknowledged that the teachers suck and then claim that students are entitled for expecting to get any kind of value out of their expensive tuition dollars. If in your world the only thing a degree confers is an ability to acquire knowledge independently, then all a university is is a massively overpriced testing facility.

Probably has more to do with the fact that these professors have little to no teacher training. There is an implicit assumption that a PhD in mathematics automatically confers an ability to teach.

It makes no sense...a PhD in chemistry doesn't confer you an ability to research astronomy...why should it make you a good teacher?

I'd say it's more like teaching people how to resist torture, seen as that is a sanctioned US security technique.

Further, the idea that drug lords can infiltrate federal agencies in the absence of polygraph tests is really scary. That is essentially their point. That means all their investigative powers are useless, and it all boils down to a pseudoscience test.

Not to mention, we don't seem to have any problem shedding the taboos against torture and killing first responders (Guantanamo and US drone double tap strikes).

Both are war crimes and both are carried out knowingly and intentionally. At this point it would make more sense for Russia to be the human rights watch dog of the world.

I'm totally on board with you of course, my original post mocking the GP's suggestion that NOT racial profiling is costing the US money.

"It aims to produce intelligent robo-sentinels that can patrol areas, and learn to detect abnormalities in human behavior."

Forget "abnormalities," if they just programmed the robots to detect and harass black people, you could replace the entire NYPD!

We could save a lot of money and efficiency if we just dispensed with human rights. Think of the labour savings in the days of slavery! /nostalgia

Also I find it amusing that you consider the US PC.

Nobody knew the implications of the electron when it was discovered.

Not that I disagree with you, it's just I wish there was a country that could take this role that doesn't engage in torture or intentionally kill first responders. It's hard to take the US seriously when they stand against war crimes.