I agree with you and I also know people that have this happen to them, so they are now doing research in other countries.
What I think is interesting is that US policy always (officially) favours an open market and competition. But in this area (grad-school-educated people) they have these weird protectionist rules. It is not as if the US even has a lot of unemployed PhDs laying around to begin with...
Sorry for replying to myself, but it should say "Only in very few places outside southeast Asia..." on the part about Chinese food.
It is definitely very common to find this "memorizing-stuff-is-education" in developing countries. Brazil for example, used to be very much like this in the 80s. Even Richard Feynman complained about it when he taught in Brazil for a year. It is still somewhat like that, but has improved. My experience with China (and Singapore, for that matter) is that the issue is more of a "no challenge allowed", so students don't have a say and have to do exactly what is asked of them. Maybe due to this, most students from Asia are less autonomous, needing more guidance to pursue solutions to problems.
From the educational systems I know something about, the "copy culture" is not so specific to countries. I'd say it is more of a global thing, with occasional countries where it seem to happen more often.
My impression from the US is that there is a lack of interest in students to really study hard, and this is amplified by policies that keep lowering the bar. But the US still has the best options for grad school. I'd say that on average they are better than most in Europe.
Overall I think basic education is the biggest influence in determining students behaviour at grad school. In this sense, northern europe seems to take a great lead (specially the Finnish system), as well as Cuba (at least basic education they do right if not much else). I've also heard good things about Canada, but have no experience in this regard.
While I'm not Chinese or Asian, I completely agree with him.
The thing I miss the most from living in Asia is the food. Only in very few places outside Asia have I found "good Chinese food", and all of those were places run by immigrants (where people in the kitchen didn't even speak English). I also heard the same from Indian and Nepalese friends.
So I guess food can really be a strong drive in going back. Stronger than most people would think.
I don't know if she is good in bed. But the name "Isa Dick" kind of summarizes the whole thing about this possible lawsuit in my opinion.
Yes, constrained the remaining nobles in their territory to a small principality called Monaco so they could still have all the nobility gossips they wanted in their tabloids, without having to actually deal with them.
Agreed.
On the other hand, the estate is only being a dick about the whole thing.
*ducks*
Hey mister flamebaiter, nowhere I said everybody loves Iran.
If you're so educated, please learn to read and notice that I do agree that Iran is unstable and undemocratic. And also that I was just pointing flaws in the way the OP originally framed his argument.
Even your example about Saudi Arabia is a fallacy. Israel having nukes is as good a reasons as Iran having them for the Saudis to pursue theirs. If they ever needed a "reason".
Interesting.
But I guess they can claim that such lengths as 95+ years is limited. Like they do with copyrights...
But Brazil only fingerprints and photographs people from the US. And that is reciprocity for having its citizens fingerprinted and photographed in the US.
Other countries (Peru, Panama, Bolivia,
I agree with you about defending Hamas, but after reading the anon post I think it was not a defense of any group.
It looks more like criticism (even if badly worded) of how badly Israel reacted to the rockets, having killed many civilians, and there was practically no backslash from the international community.
While I can see the validity of your main point about Iran being "unstable" and not democratic, the way you present your argument has at least two deep flaws.
You have to also see it from the side of everyone else who isn't Iran.
Like every other country in the region that is not Israel? Are they as concerned as the west about Iran's nuclear program? What about their opinion on the fact that Israel secretly produced nuclear weapons and still has them?
And he not only denies gay rights, but denies that there were even homosexuals in Iran. Even America didn't deny the fact there were black people who were being oppressed. Some might have said that they weren't being oppressed but no one would be as stupid as to say that there is no such thing as black people.
Denying human rights to anyone is unacceptable. And of course denying the existence of people with different sexual orientations, when it is a well know fact of life, is stupid. But your analogy is simply wrong. One of the reasons why no one who practiced slavery (or oppressed black people) would deny their existence was simply because they treated black people as less than people. In their view, they were not equals.
Ah, BTW, a country leader making stupid and dangerous comments is in no way an Iranian privilege.
While I liked the intention of your joke on the Dems, left it is only left if to the left of the center. Being to the left or extreme right, but still very right, does not qualify.
From a conversation I had at GDC a couple years ago with an army guy involved in the project, the main goal was not recruitment, quite the opposite.
He claimed that the army looses a lot of money and resources in training new people, who just give up somewhere along the training or right after it. So the game was originally developed to try to show that "real combat" is not what happens in FPSs and thus weed out some of the applicants.
Of course, the PR impact was welcome.
Kleeneness is next to Godelness.
