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Originally Posted by Dani  I am a bit offended at your implications about the moral fiber of a person who buys a degree, One, and I don't offend easily. 
They are a requirement for many things in this world, but they mean absolutely nothing except that you can spit back at your teacher whatever they say to you. |
If you believe this is the meaning of a degree, well then I expect you will believe anything. Hell, you might even believe Aaron's "virtual photon flux of the quantum mechanical vacuum".
As a person who spent 8 years studying at accredited universities I know what a degree is. The reason institutions want to hire people with PhD's (and no, I don't have one) is not for what they learnt directly during their studies. The reason they want people with PhDs is because those are the people who have demonstrated that they have the ability and perseverance to do the work and to understand it well enough to defend their theses in front of their peers. I have worked with a few people who had phoney degrees, and every one of them displayed the same lack of moral fibre suspected by One.
If you think you can short circuit this process and buy a PhD then I would be suspicious of everything you do. In fact, based on all your other rantings I am not surprised that you are the sort of person who would buy a degree. Do you sell them too?