OP Here.
I am often out exploring Mozambique. It's not about that. I am looking for something my wife and I can do in the evenings together (2 or 3 times per week) instead of watching something from our drying up movie collection. It wouldn't interfere with time with my kids, they are sleeping by 8:00 PM and we can't go out after that with them down in the house. I just want something I can spend 4-8 hours per week on with my wife in the evenings after 8 PM.
OP here.
What I guess I didn't explain in the summary is that I DON'T game anymore since being married (and especially since having the kids). What I DO do is have 2 or 3 nights per week where my wife and I watch a movie or TV show on DVD together. I'm currently out of fresh movies and shows so that's why I'm looking for a game we can spend 4-8 hours per week on. Nothing addicted, nothing excessive, nothing even while the kids are awake (I have 3 under 3 and they go to bed by 7:30-8:00 PM). Just something to do to have fun in the evenings with my wife. Is there anything (besides things like Minecraft) that we could both enjoy together?
Ok, honestly, I wish people could try to be a little less partisan. Both men were good men and would try to serve this country. Sure they both have selfish motivations for some of the things they do but, seriously, who the hell wouldn't in that position???.
Let's all agree that, though Obama may do things differently than you personally think he should, he's going to lead America as best he can.
I'm generally conservative/libertarian in my politics and most of my friends align in that direction. I infrequently use Facebook and when I looked this morning I was disgusted with the ridiculous epithets and flat out doucheiness of a LOT of people who call themselves "Christians" or at least moral people.
Obama is a good man. I would lead a bit differently than I but he's NOT a "Baby Killer", the "Antichrist", the "Nigger in the White House", or any other hateful and decidedly unchristian thing so many morally ugly people are saying about him.
He's your president. He's your supreme leader. He's under tremendous pressure and stress to serve America and her interests. Speak of him that way or shut the hell up.
How possible would it be to do very subtle Photoshop (or the GIMP) changes to ensure someone goes through the expedited process? Heck, terrorism aside, I'D do it just to avoid the cancer machines.
I am genuinely curious to know what you mean by "stand up and put these extremist assholes in their place". As in violently remove them from office? Graffiti the sides of buildings? Stand in the middle of intersections and yell about Rep Broun? Seriously, what do you suggest?
Do you really think someone who self-identifies as the same religion as Rep Broun could just call up CNN and say "I want to put that extremist asshole in his place" and CNN would show up at his house with a camera and give him the opportunity to say "Not all of us who call ourselves $religion_name agree with that one guy who does $crazy_shit and calls himself $religion_name!"
I'm honestly curious what you think someone should do to as a matter of "get your asses up" in that regard.
But here's the thing; the WORST score for the USA in the metric used was the proportion of foreign contributors to the scientific output and of foreign students in tertiary education. So the SMALLEST contributor to the ranking of the USA was the foreign scientists that helped produce science. This means that although Canadian, UK, Swedish, German, or other nationality scientists may want to go get paid in America, they are making a smaller difference in the output of the science in the USA than foreign nationals are making in their own countries!
Heck, even the proportion of international students in 3rd ed in the USA is in that metric so this means that, as compared to the other countries in this study, the USA has a very low proportion of international students in science courses and a very low proportion of international contributors to its research.
Look in the link to the study in my GP post. Under point 2.3 is the definition of their "Connectivity" metric and under point 3.3 it explains the USA's low reliance on international collaboration in research.
The United States, Korea and Japan are in the
bottom quartile for [international] research collaboration, in part reflecting the existence of a critical mass within
the national research community.
Additionally, the latest study released by Universitas 21, a global network of research universities, concluded that the United States ranks No. 1 in the world in higher education — a metric that partially relies on scientific research output. (Sweden came in a distant second.)
From the description this seems like a stupid metric that would be obviously skewed towards countries with higher population. With a Sweden's population of almost 9.5 million verses the USA's 315 million one would HOPE that the scientific research output is significantly higher. While TFS doesn't go into depth about the actual metric, I figured I'd need to do some reading through some links.
I just looked at the report and it looks like the metric is more than that.
It has things like
Amount spent on tertiary ed (resources like "per student" "percent of GDP" "per population head" etc)
Proportion of female students in tertiary ed
Proportion of international students in tertiary ed
Total articles produced by higher ed facilities (gross AND per capita)
So it looks like that might not be that bad of a metric after all. It's far from perfect but there are probably few if any that are. All in all, I'm impressed that the USA is ranked number 1.
When looking through the ACTUAL scores of the different countries the USA scores a dismal 37 out of 50 in the "Proportion of international students in 3rd ed and proportion of articles co-authored by international collaborators". Where the USA far and away blows away the rest of the field is in the actual scientific article output (weighted by gross and per capita as noted above).
All in all, it's an interesting report that seems to fly in the face of most of slashdot's readership's (mine included) perception of the direction of the education system in the USA. Maybe most of the bad news is at the secondary education level?
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I totally agree. If you want to watch it, watch it, enjoy it, have a a ball. But if you have to hide it and are ashamed of it you are doing something wrong. If your significant other has a problem with it then either you need to convince them it's not a problem, break-up and find someone else who doesn't have a problem with it, or STOP WATCHING IT. Figure it out.
Apparently people (including the submitter) are not RTFA very well.
FTA
Little Kye’s passport has a crease on the back cover, which Gosnell says came from him accidentally sitting on the passport.
His passport was questioned, but not denied. It was Kyle Gosnell’s that was the real problem. It has a small crease on the back cover, and is overall weathered and worn.
The child's passport was NOT denied, it was Kyle (presumably the father) who had the "overall weathered and worn" passport that was denied. It's hard to believe that his passport was so weathered and worn that it couldn't be read so this is probably still an issue of an airline employee with a stick up his ass but TFS is completely wrong and trolling everyone who comments on here enraged. TFA doesn't even say that the RFID chip had ANYTHING to do with his being denied. Parent is absolutely right that the person who is quoted has NOTHING to do with this situation. The local Fox team reporting on this probably Googled someone in the Denver area (not the Dallas area where this whole f'ing thing actually happened) and asked this nutjob for a quote for their story.
PLEASE RTFA before commenting. Slashdot editors, PLEASE edit these retarded submissions before they get our collective panties in a wad.
If you consider "Africa" a warzone then it may be better to brush up on your geography before you look into moving. Africa is huge. I live in Mozambique and just this country has a coastline 200 miles longer than the western coastline of the USA. Mozambique is an average size country for Africa.
Furthermore, we already have government run healthcare: the VA and Medicare--for vets and old people. Not only are these services popular, their more efficiently run than private insurance companies, with less administrative costs. Which lead to the absurd statement: "get your government hands off my medicare."
Excuse me when I say that I think you've been brain-washed by Fox News.
This report specifically talks about how INEFFICIENT Medicare is and makes recommendations to change that.
This USA Today article complains that Medicare funds the vast majority of residency training in the USA. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it is a substantial amount of money that is not going to treatment as you said.
This report says fraud is costing in the billions. And this article says that fraud is a growing problem in Medicare costing $60 billion per year and says that fewer than 5%... that's 5% of claims are audited.
According to this Congressional Research Service report Medicare's budget is $420 billion for 2009. If $60 billion is just fraud, that means nearly 15% of Medicare's budget is NOT going to treatment not including all the rest of Medicare's expenses (funding residency, other misc overhead).
Sorry, but to say that Medicare is efficient is just plain wrong.
For example: by setting up shop (even on paper) in Ireland, the Bahamas or where ever else, US companies can get out of paying federal tax. Legally.
Not so with an individual. As an American citizen, if I go live and work in Ireland, or anywhere else, without ANY ties to the US at all, I still am required to pay US Federal income tax on the money I earn(in addition to that countries taxes.)
Not even remotely true. Form 2555 on IRS.gov is stupidly easy to file. I live in Mozambique but have my bank accounts in the USA, money is deposited into those accounts from other USA accounts, and I pay NO Federal taxes. Why? Because I am physically out of the USA. Look it up. Form 2555 reduces my taxable income to $0 as long as I am outside of the USA.
And the underlying cause in Africa is not sex, it is rape. Mass rape. It is an cultural attitude to women that is getting ever more brutal.
Read a little about conditions in for instance South Africa before you go all indignant.
Source?
I live in Mozambique and, while there are definitely higher rape rates than in the USA, they DO NOT account for the HIV rates. I can tell you with certainty that there is a culture of promiscuous sex that runs rampant despite the knowledge of high HIV infection rates. It is not uncommon in the least for a man or a woman to have 10 partners within a month. From my experience (I lived in Botswana for 3 years the highest AIDS rate country in the world before moving here to Mozambique) consensual sex is absolutely the underlying cause for high HIV rates.
I would actually question any study that showed ANY classroom additions increasing grades.
When they introduced white boards instead of the old chalk blackboards did that increase grades? When they introduced calculators instead of doing everything in long division did that increase grades? No, and they SHOULDN'T.
Any new teaching tool is just that... a new teaching tool. It creates new things that can be taught. When a child has a laptop in their classroom they should be taught new things that a child without a laptop does not have access to. The new things are just as rigorous to learn as the old curriculum but it is more expansive. Why should we expect a new tool in the classroom to automatically get every person who uses it high grades? A new tool in the classroom should increase the ability to learn MORE things not the same things better.
If every new tool in the classroom increased grades every student should be getting 'A's in every subject by now, as much as we've improved the classroom over the last hundred years. It's a ridiculous idea to thing that every classroom improvement will get GPAs higher.
The theory of "assortative mating" was first put forth by neuroscientist Simon Baron-Cohen, a leading autism researcher and something of a rock star in the field. He's the first cousin of comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, and like his cousin, his prolific work tends toward the out-of-the-box. Combine that with his outspokenness — uncommon for a scientist — and it's clear why at a recent international conference in San Diego, he was "frequently mobbed by fellow attendees and treated with near universal adulation," Warner writes.
I don't have proof but this guy looks and sounds like he's just putting for a controversial theory to be controversial and get his name in the papers. I wouldn't give much credit here.
I'm not even in a remote location. I'm in a the capitol of Mozambique (Maputo) and I have a decent internet connection BUT I have a bandwidth limitation every month. Connection to the internet is NOT cheap here and it is not worth wasting it on single player games that eat into that cap. Always on connection? I do not know anyone in this city (or for that matter, on this continent... South Africa also has bandwidth caps for their connections) who could afford such a game.
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.
Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage."
~Alexander Tytler~
Very few/ no storms (dustorms maybe), I don't think it gets earthquakes, next to no rain.
Seriously, Arizona get's some wickedweatherall during monsoon season that doea plenty of damage.
I am pretty excited about this tower (AZ is my home state though I live in Mozambique, Africa now) but I am definitely concerned about its viability under the extreme weather Arizona can bring.
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.
Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage.
Which is why I submitted THIS askslashdot story. How does a politician that genuinly wants to do it right and serve the public get elected? He is a state representative now but wants to pursue higher office without being beholden to the lobbyists and corporations that elect those higher offices. How can we support politicians like that?
Speed limits are not things that local congressmen have anything to do with. Having worked in a civil engineering firm (before moving to Mozambique for other reasons) I can tell you speed limits are purposely set for roads and highways that are purposely designed. Just because you want to go fast doesn't mean that it is safe. Civil engineers who work for the state Department of Transportation think quite a bit about things as mundane as speed limits and road gradients and lane sizes and line colors. These things are not decided by Political Science majors who got elected and have no idea what traffic safety is.
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OP Here.
I am often out exploring Mozambique. It's not about that. I am looking for something my wife and I can do in the evenings together (2 or 3 times per week) instead of watching something from our drying up movie collection. It wouldn't interfere with time with my kids, they are sleeping by 8:00 PM and we can't go out after that with them down in the house. I just want something I can spend 4-8 hours per week on with my wife in the evenings after 8 PM.
OP here.
What I guess I didn't explain in the summary is that I DON'T game anymore since being married (and especially since having the kids). What I DO do is have 2 or 3 nights per week where my wife and I watch a movie or TV show on DVD together. I'm currently out of fresh movies and shows so that's why I'm looking for a game we can spend 4-8 hours per week on. Nothing addicted, nothing excessive, nothing even while the kids are awake (I have 3 under 3 and they go to bed by 7:30-8:00 PM). Just something to do to have fun in the evenings with my wife. Is there anything (besides things like Minecraft) that we could both enjoy together?
Ok, honestly, I wish people could try to be a little less partisan. Both men were good men and would try to serve this country. Sure they both have selfish motivations for some of the things they do but, seriously, who the hell wouldn't in that position???.
Let's all agree that, though Obama may do things differently than you personally think he should, he's going to lead America as best he can.
I'm generally conservative/libertarian in my politics and most of my friends align in that direction. I infrequently use Facebook and when I looked this morning I was disgusted with the ridiculous epithets and flat out doucheiness of a LOT of people who call themselves "Christians" or at least moral people.
Obama is a good man. I would lead a bit differently than I but he's NOT a "Baby Killer", the "Antichrist", the "Nigger in the White House", or any other hateful and decidedly unchristian thing so many morally ugly people are saying about him.
He's your president. He's your supreme leader. He's under tremendous pressure and stress to serve America and her interests. Speak of him that way or shut the hell up.
How possible would it be to do very subtle Photoshop (or the GIMP) changes to ensure someone goes through the expedited process? Heck, terrorism aside, I'D do it just to avoid the cancer machines.
I am genuinely curious to know what you mean by "stand up and put these extremist assholes in their place". As in violently remove them from office? Graffiti the sides of buildings? Stand in the middle of intersections and yell about Rep Broun? Seriously, what do you suggest?
Do you really think someone who self-identifies as the same religion as Rep Broun could just call up CNN and say "I want to put that extremist asshole in his place" and CNN would show up at his house with a camera and give him the opportunity to say "Not all of us who call ourselves $religion_name agree with that one guy who does $crazy_shit and calls himself $religion_name!"
I'm honestly curious what you think someone should do to as a matter of "get your asses up" in that regard.
Heck, even the proportion of international students in 3rd ed in the USA is in that metric so this means that, as compared to the other countries in this study, the USA has a very low proportion of international students in science courses and a very low proportion of international contributors to its research.
Look in the link to the study in my GP post. Under point 2.3 is the definition of their "Connectivity" metric and under point 3.3 it explains the USA's low reliance on international collaboration in research.
The United States, Korea and Japan are in the bottom quartile for [international] research collaboration, in part reflecting the existence of a critical mass within the national research community.
Additionally, the latest study released by Universitas 21, a global network of research universities, concluded that the United States ranks No. 1 in the world in higher education — a metric that partially relies on scientific research output. (Sweden came in a distant second.)
From the description this seems like a stupid metric that would be obviously skewed towards countries with higher population. With a Sweden's population of almost 9.5 million verses the USA's 315 million one would HOPE that the scientific research output is significantly higher. While TFS doesn't go into depth about the actual metric, I figured I'd need to do some reading through some links.
I just looked at the report and it looks like the metric is more than that.
It has things like
So it looks like that might not be that bad of a metric after all. It's far from perfect but there are probably few if any that are. All in all, I'm impressed that the USA is ranked number 1.
When looking through the ACTUAL scores of the different countries the USA scores a dismal 37 out of 50 in the "Proportion of international students in 3rd ed and proportion of articles co-authored by international collaborators". Where the USA far and away blows away the rest of the field is in the actual scientific article output (weighted by gross and per capita as noted above).
All in all, it's an interesting report that seems to fly in the face of most of slashdot's readership's (mine included) perception of the direction of the education system in the USA. Maybe most of the bad news is at the secondary education level?
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I totally agree. If you want to watch it, watch it, enjoy it, have a a ball. But if you have to hide it and are ashamed of it you are doing something wrong. If your significant other has a problem with it then either you need to convince them it's not a problem, break-up and find someone else who doesn't have a problem with it, or STOP WATCHING IT. Figure it out.
Don't be too hard on this guy mods. He probably can't hear the WOOSH inside the fridge he's hiding in.
Little Kye’s passport has a crease on the back cover, which Gosnell says came from him accidentally sitting on the passport. His passport was questioned, but not denied. It was Kyle Gosnell’s that was the real problem. It has a small crease on the back cover, and is overall weathered and worn.
The child's passport was NOT denied, it was Kyle (presumably the father) who had the "overall weathered and worn" passport that was denied. It's hard to believe that his passport was so weathered and worn that it couldn't be read so this is probably still an issue of an airline employee with a stick up his ass but TFS is completely wrong and trolling everyone who comments on here enraged. TFA doesn't even say that the RFID chip had ANYTHING to do with his being denied. Parent is absolutely right that the person who is quoted has NOTHING to do with this situation. The local Fox team reporting on this probably Googled someone in the Denver area (not the Dallas area where this whole f'ing thing actually happened) and asked this nutjob for a quote for their story.
PLEASE RTFA before commenting. Slashdot editors, PLEASE edit these retarded submissions before they get our collective panties in a wad.
If you consider "Africa" a warzone then it may be better to brush up on your geography before you look into moving. Africa is huge. I live in Mozambique and just this country has a coastline 200 miles longer than the western coastline of the USA. Mozambique is an average size country for Africa.
Furthermore, we already have government run healthcare: the VA and Medicare--for vets and old people. Not only are these services popular, their more efficiently run than private insurance companies, with less administrative costs. Which lead to the absurd statement: "get your government hands off my medicare."
Excuse me when I say that I think you've been brain-washed by Fox News.
This report specifically talks about how INEFFICIENT Medicare is and makes recommendations to change that.
This USA Today article complains that Medicare funds the vast majority of residency training in the USA. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it is a substantial amount of money that is not going to treatment as you said.
This report says fraud is costing in the billions. And this article says that fraud is a growing problem in Medicare costing $60 billion per year and says that fewer than 5%... that's 5% of claims are audited.
According to this Congressional Research Service report Medicare's budget is $420 billion for 2009. If $60 billion is just fraud, that means nearly 15% of Medicare's budget is NOT going to treatment not including all the rest of Medicare's expenses (funding residency, other misc overhead).
Sorry, but to say that Medicare is efficient is just plain wrong.
It's too bad there isn't a federal standard for WOOSHes. We could really use one for this post.
For example: by setting up shop (even on paper) in Ireland, the Bahamas or where ever else, US companies can get out of paying federal tax. Legally.
Not so with an individual. As an American citizen, if I go live and work in Ireland, or anywhere else, without ANY ties to the US at all, I still am required to pay US Federal income tax on the money I earn(in addition to that countries taxes.)
Not even remotely true. Form 2555 on IRS.gov is stupidly easy to file. I live in Mozambique but have my bank accounts in the USA, money is deposited into those accounts from other USA accounts, and I pay NO Federal taxes. Why? Because I am physically out of the USA. Look it up. Form 2555 reduces my taxable income to $0 as long as I am outside of the USA.
And the underlying cause in Africa is not sex, it is rape. Mass rape. It is an cultural attitude to women that is getting ever more brutal.
Read a little about conditions in for instance South Africa before you go all indignant.
Source?
I live in Mozambique and, while there are definitely higher rape rates than in the USA, they DO NOT account for the HIV rates. I can tell you with certainty that there is a culture of promiscuous sex that runs rampant despite the knowledge of high HIV infection rates. It is not uncommon in the least for a man or a woman to have 10 partners within a month. From my experience (I lived in Botswana for 3 years the highest AIDS rate country in the world before moving here to Mozambique) consensual sex is absolutely the underlying cause for high HIV rates.
I would actually question any study that showed ANY classroom additions increasing grades.
When they introduced white boards instead of the old chalk blackboards did that increase grades? When they introduced calculators instead of doing everything in long division did that increase grades? No, and they SHOULDN'T.
Any new teaching tool is just that... a new teaching tool. It creates new things that can be taught. When a child has a laptop in their classroom they should be taught new things that a child without a laptop does not have access to. The new things are just as rigorous to learn as the old curriculum but it is more expansive. Why should we expect a new tool in the classroom to automatically get every person who uses it high grades? A new tool in the classroom should increase the ability to learn MORE things not the same things better.
If every new tool in the classroom increased grades every student should be getting 'A's in every subject by now, as much as we've improved the classroom over the last hundred years. It's a ridiculous idea to thing that every classroom improvement will get GPAs higher.
The theory of "assortative mating" was first put forth by neuroscientist Simon Baron-Cohen, a leading autism researcher and something of a rock star in the field. He's the first cousin of comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, and like his cousin, his prolific work tends toward the out-of-the-box. Combine that with his outspokenness — uncommon for a scientist — and it's clear why at a recent international conference in San Diego, he was "frequently mobbed by fellow attendees and treated with near universal adulation," Warner writes.
I don't have proof but this guy looks and sounds like he's just putting for a controversial theory to be controversial and get his name in the papers. I wouldn't give much credit here.
I'm not even in a remote location. I'm in a the capitol of Mozambique (Maputo) and I have a decent internet connection BUT I have a bandwidth limitation every month. Connection to the internet is NOT cheap here and it is not worth wasting it on single player games that eat into that cap. Always on connection? I do not know anyone in this city (or for that matter, on this continent... South Africa also has bandwidth caps for their connections) who could afford such a game.
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.
Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage."
~Alexander Tytler~
Very few/ no storms (dustorms maybe), I don't think it gets earthquakes, next to no rain.
Seriously, Arizona get's some wicked weather all during monsoon season that doea plenty of damage.
I am pretty excited about this tower (AZ is my home state though I live in Mozambique, Africa now) but I am definitely concerned about its viability under the extreme weather Arizona can bring.
I say we all put on ape costumes and greet them at the shuttle door just to screw with their heads.
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.
Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage.
Hehe, it's funny, I actually live in Mozambique and one trillion Mozambican "Meticais" (the currency here) would be an ASSLOAD of money.
Which is why I submitted THIS askslashdot story. How does a politician that genuinly wants to do it right and serve the public get elected? He is a state representative now but wants to pursue higher office without being beholden to the lobbyists and corporations that elect those higher offices. How can we support politicians like that?
Speed limits are not things that local congressmen have anything to do with. Having worked in a civil engineering firm (before moving to Mozambique for other reasons) I can tell you speed limits are purposely set for roads and highways that are purposely designed. Just because you want to go fast doesn't mean that it is safe. Civil engineers who work for the state Department of Transportation think quite a bit about things as mundane as speed limits and road gradients and lane sizes and line colors. These things are not decided by Political Science majors who got elected and have no idea what traffic safety is.