Infographics like this sorta ignore that in the US (unlike Finland) funding is not evenly distributed. By Design in the US funding for schools comes from property taxes. So the Lion's Share of that funding is going to rich kids.

That said, large sectors of our school system are being privatized for profits, so is it any wonder the numbers are going to hell? If I'm running a school and getting $2k per kid it's in my best interests to keep as much as I can. Coincidentally private schools have a much higher proportion of "Administrative" costs (too lazy to google the Study, do it yourself).

and the only way you can make a living is to live somewhere the cost of living is low enough you can survive off your meager sales? In the 3rd worlds they mostly leave you alone if you maintain your citizenship in the origin country. There's several developers that left London for Eastern Europe.

that's what I say. Vote for the most progressive candidate you can get your hands on, and keep doing that. It's better than nothing.

Getting mad at the cops for doing what they were hired to do is pointless. Get made at the people that _hired_ them. The cops don't beat the crap out of wealthy people, start asking why we're not all wealthy...

On another note, OWS's still going?

Cure Tinnitus... more people suffer from that infernal ringing than anything else....

Now that's a neat idea hidden behind your words.

What if you had a serial hybrid, with a decent navigation system (that included such things as terrain on route) and *intelligent* battery charging based not just on taking care of the battery (like in a Prius) but also predictive (based on navigation system route). So for a 10 mile trip full charge from wall, it doesn't bother, but for a 20 mile trip battery charging kicks in after the first 5 miles of driving.

Wish I had mod points to mod this up. Serial plug in hybrid is absolutely the way *every* car on the road should be. Even a 10 mile practical range with a 50 HP generator is good.

Or in Eastern Oregon, and are a facebook engineer, working in Pendleton but living in Fossil. (google it if you don't know what I'm talking about).

This almost doesn't count because the spices *are* there, just a totally different spice palate: I've recently gotten her addicted to Vietnamese Salad Rolls.

I don't understand that at all. If you're going to just have public-facing IP addresses, why not go to IPv6?

Yes, well, maybe. Might it be that where you live matters when it comes to voting time? If most blacks live in higher density areas rather than out in the country (with respect to whites), then there is going to be a longer wait. How about you track blacks and whites that live in the country and then blacks and white in the cities. But then that would obscure the conclusion you were aiming to draw.

That does appear to be changing now that Michigan finally got pissed off enough to pay attention to the problem. And the grand parent is (in my view, incorrect). Detroit's biggest problem was corruption and the stupidity of the car companies, not racism.

"Very few of them are actually very intelligent." How do you know this? There are thousands of CEOs in the U.S. Somehow, very few of them are intelligent yet the U.S. is THE country in economic clout in the world?

There is a little read Mark Twain book, Puddin'Head Wilson. Two babies were swapped at birth, one raised "white" and one raised "black". Neither could escape the culture they were raised in.

Correcting for economic status and family structure, Asians who are here 3 generations or more do no better or worse than other generations of Americans who have been here at least that long.

The reason seems to be that to come to the U.S., you have to really want to succeed and hence the kiddies are pushed harder, and they feel they have make up for their immigrant status by trying harder.

And this makes affirmative action even trickier to make work. The problem, in my eyes, are we are pushing at the wrong end. Starting by fixing grade school and high school education. That's easy to say, it is not easy to do. Some cultural pressures denigrate scholastic success by labeling it "white". Think about that, how perverted is the notion that scholastic success is associated with a racial group. That's racism.