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Subject: WTF?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!??!?! ARE THEY DUMB?!?!?!??!?!?!?!
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I just saw a commercial for EducationDirect (canada) and its a company that helps you train at home. seem ok, right? well heres the thing, you can train to be an airplane mechanic, and a child phychologist. WTF?!?!?!? There giving ppl the ability to become certified to work on an airplane, and/or deal with young kids, and you dont even have to meet the ppl. WHO KNOWS WHO IS TRAINING??? a terrorist maybe? how about a petifile? my god, what ppl will do to make money.

(BTW, they repeated the phone number over 10 times, and its stuck in my head. 1-800-447-3438, 1-800-447-3438, 1-800-447-3438, 1-800-447-3438)

  • 08.13.2004 7:42 PM PDT
Subject: WTF?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!??!?! ARE YOU DUMB?!?!?!??!?!?!?!
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Did the advertisement say that people who finish the course would get a certification that really means anything, and that their past histories would be totally erased and replaced with something else?

  • 08.13.2004 7:45 PM PDT
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they said alot of things.

  • 08.13.2004 7:46 PM PDT
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Yes that is kinda dumb,but what can you do?

  • 08.13.2004 7:46 PM PDT
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Posted by: forumrunner
Did the advertisement say that people who finish the course would get a certification that really means anything, and that their past histories would be totally erased and replaced with something else?


IVE GOT AN ANSWER!!!! what if the guy never had a past???

  • 08.13.2004 7:48 PM PDT
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Posted by: mastergrunt44
Yes that is kinda dumb,but what can you do?


blow up the world. o wait, what CAN i do. oooo! absolutely nothing.

[Edited on 8/13/2004 7:49:08 PM]

  • 08.13.2004 7:48 PM PDT
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"They said a lot of things." doesn't answer Jay's question. Jay didn't ask about how much was said. Jay looked upon a website for an organization called "Thomson Education Direct". They offer online courses for credit for having learned the curriculum. They can't give out any licenses, that's a government function. All they can do is give a degree after you complete the course, and a degree from such an institution probably doesn't carry as much weight as a degree from a real school...

Why earn a distance learning associate degree? With the right credentials, you can:Note that there's no explicit statement that "a distance learning associate degree" necessarily has anything whatsoever to do with "the right credentials". That connection's left for suckers to make on their own.

  • 08.13.2004 8:01 PM PDT
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its still stupid.

  • 08.13.2004 8:12 PM PDT
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Lay off the Caps Lock please.

  • 08.13.2004 8:13 PM PDT
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-S

Here's a little known fact about these "get your degree from home" programs.

Companies look at your degree. A good company will check it out. If it's not from an accredited institution, most will reject you. Sure, you hear about people who get caught lying about their education on the news all the time, but you only hear about it because it happens rarely enough to be newsworthy. The truth of the matter is most companies recognize that these degrees are purely crap and won't touch them or the person presenting them.

  • 08.13.2004 8:15 PM PDT
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maybe if they said that on the commercial instead of repeating the freaking phone number over and over i (and many others i know) wouldnt have been so confused.

  • 08.13.2004 8:17 PM PDT
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Thank you for indepthly clearing that up Shishka-bob and giving me a new tidbit of info.

  • 08.13.2004 8:19 PM PDT
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this is insane!!!!

  • 08.13.2004 8:29 PM PDT
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Crazy -blam!-!!!

  • 08.13.2004 10:43 PM PDT
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Yeah, I think the best thing you could do is ignore it. These things are for people who want something to not feel left out in todays "fast paced world".

  • 08.13.2004 11:27 PM PDT
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i have this one stuk in my head -- 1800 DIAL UEI-- i dont know what it is though

  • 08.13.2004 11:52 PM PDT
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You know all those spam emails you get about easy college degrees? those are all from people that make fake degrees, Made mostly in Israel (not that I have anything against Israel) there are some people that actually teach at Universities with these fake degrees!

[Edited on 8/13/2004 11:56:26 PM]

  • 08.13.2004 11:56 PM PDT
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Posted by: johny joe
I just saw a commercial for EducationDirect (canada) and its a company that helps you train at home. seem ok, right? well heres the thing, you can train to be an airplane mechanic, and a child phychologist. WTF?!?!?!? There giving ppl the ability to become certified to work on an airplane, and/or deal with young kids, and you dont even have to meet the ppl. WHO KNOWS WHO IS TRAINING??? a terrorist maybe? how about a petifile? my god, what ppl will do to make money.

(BTW, they repeated the phone number over 10 times, and its stuck in my head. 1-800-447-3438, 1-800-447-3438, 1-800-447-3438, 1-800-447-3438)
why do you care you dumb bastard

  • 08.15.2004 2:55 PM PDT
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jackal go to the laser wars on top of this topic!

  • 08.15.2004 2:59 PM PDT