In Sweden, we have consistently been going less and less memorization and this has led to lower and lower results on international tests like PISA.
Much of the discussion is why we perform lower, and it's almost never even suggested that the tests are poor indicators for actually being successful in a chosen field.
It's almost always seen as a failure of the school system.

I'm not so sure.

The biggest advantage of rote memorization early on is that you learn to accumulate minute details quickly, this really helps in certain types of education later on.

The biggest disadvantage is that you mold yourself into a stuck form since you use that system a bit too often.

Learning basic programming to kids seems like a good way to get them interested in it.

Some basic scripting, learning what if, while and loops are?
Seems very worthwhile.

Trying to teach advanced "flavor of the year" seems lika a wazte until at the very least high school though.
You can count on any specific knowledge about a programming language to be next to irrelevant in about five years.

But the basics?
They are pretty much universal.

Also, learning kids a bit about html, link structures and so on?
Also a good idea.

Dell has the widest selection of quality of all computer manufacturers.

The most annoying part is that series or prices are not good measurements.

Dell is like a box of chocolates ;)

In sweden, we do have som censorship on the DNS level.

This is a morality filter mostly against kiddie porn.

Still absurd though, and easily circumvented by using alternate DNS servers.

Per person, why would it be cheaper just because it's a smaller country?

I've seen this argument before, but never an explanation as to why.

I have 100/100 for the equivalent of 10 USD.
Including a 25% sales tax.

Five public IPs, one static, btw.

I hoped they would allow activesync with this.

But, nope.

This is kinda important since ActiveSync support has been removed in Android 5.0.

Nine is one of the few clients that support it.

The problem is that humans aren't actually that far beyond sheep.

We are ruled by pretty much the same instincts.
It's just that we have different ways to use those pretty much same instincts.

I really liked that the videos first argument was that if you aren't allowed to use your own computer, this one is easy to hide!

Seperate window.
It's an ugly work-around which disrupts focus workflows.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The point?
Maybe we shouldn't just assume we can understand the damage that can be done by removing fundamental aspects of an ecology.

Why would you want to leave the directory?

In Europe, you are not allowed to call something Chocolate without prefix (like milk chocolate) unless it contains 50% or more cocoa.

Science is complex and verifying others research is the fundamental basic for science.

Making science more like science is good though.

And, no, the actual issue is people believing the Oil industries FUD.

Cause, you know, scientists making a decent wager are obviously more corrupt than people making a fortune.

I don't believe in any particular gods.
I don't rule out there existence though.

Even defining a god is nigh impossible, thus ruling out their existence seems absurd.

I do lean towards atheist though, but the reason I "switched" from atheist is basically because I consider it to irrational to have belief about things which are impossible to test.