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Comment Re:Seems somewhat myiopic (Score 2) 213

given that people develop at different rates...

I wouldn't be surprised if the Finish school system.. Or well, maybe not, I don't know really, .. the the same as the Swedish one as in that everyone is supposed to progress at the same rate.

Which likely mean some are held back by those who are doing more poorly. But possibly also that those who are doing better can help those who are doing poorly go further.

Good or bad?

I think here it has even been claimed even for the good students this is beneficial.

I'm not really buying that.

Maybe beneficial in the same way as immigration.

In some non-real imagined ideological way.

Comment Re:Your government at work (Score 1) 336

Try it on your own though, go to a bar and try to talk the people with short haircuts into killing someone for you. I will wait the several years it will likely take for you to tell me how it worked out.

Do it in a mosque to people with long beards and it would possibly be covered up and you'd be apologized for.

Comment Re:I predict... (Score 1) 149

I don't really care for making it happen at all.

The KS name kinda suggest that's the purpose but for so many projects it's more pre-order.

Also I don't see why I rather than the developer / creator should risk their money.

I totally know how KS work though.

Though two days ago the page was broken for a short while and my manager got locked up in some between state so even if I tried to manage the pledge later I couldn't because KS said it was processing the old one so that sucked. (Especially since that project ended within that time (about 3+ hours after the site was up again otherwise.)

Comment Re:I predict... (Score 1) 149

I backed at $30 early bird slot early just because I could but I can't see why one should ever back any video game on Kickstarter because indie ones seem to be like $15 and then sell for .. $2 in sales or bundles or whatever and while $30 may be better than say $40 retail if that would happen soon enough it will be much less anyway.

Now if I could get "subscriber experience" for a fixed price then that would had been ok.

Like I guess if people had an option to pay say $100 for unlimited World of Warcraft that would had been something.

But I guess it wouldn't had been for Blizzard =P

Comment Re:Pencils (Score 1) 119

Here in Sweden the amount of money to the migration office over four (possibly five?) years is supposed to be closer to 160 billion SEK by now.

40 billion SEK / year would be 4.6 billion USD.

I think that's intended to cover the cost of the immigrants the first three years but integration suck so the cost is likely higher and last longer.

Anyway, those 4.6 billion USD / year would of course IMHO be much better spent on education in the poorest region and possibly spent on water wheels, toilets, sewage treatment plants, tree plantation, modern farming equipment, solar cells and such if there was money left over.

Possibly with demands for doing the right choices back, as in work for or implement democratic elections (could be argued whatever that's good or bad if the result is some don't get any help), equal access to schools for both females and males, maybe demand that what is taught have a scientific background and not a religious one, tolerance against various threatened groups in the society and so on.

To move even the right people here isn't really solving the problem in the shitty regions anyway, it just make this country worse and solves life issues for a few.

If nothing else if some countries was successful while some was shit those who were shit have the possibility to spot the difference both in their living standard and in how the societies work. But I understand it may take a very long time to catch up if you don't get help from those way ahead of you.

Comment Re:Your justice system is flawed, too. (Score 1) 1081

Strawman? This isn't a discussion on religion, it's a discussion on heinous criminals.

As if the conviction of what is right and wrong doesn't come from philosophy / ideology / local culture and the idea of murder being such a heavy crime even in the US may be because of the Bible (not saying it would be the only reason and people couldn't figure it out themselves. But there are various animals who battle it out to death if necessary and humans do it too as long as their commanders have said it's alright ..)

War = Killing is fine. Even just random person who haven't done anything yet.
Non-war = Oh how horrible!

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