It's too bad there isn't a federal standard for WOOSHes. We could really use one for this post.

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.

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.

FTFA

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~

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.

Interestingly enough, fbi.com (it's IP address of 216.234.246.150) is owned by "HappyDays, Inc" which is run by a guy named Scott Day who owns a BUNCH of nice domain names. I don't know if he's a squatter selling them or what but he owns
nutritioncenter.com
watermelon.com
watermelons.com
watermelon.net
fbi.com
navigate.net
navigate.com
trucktrailors.com
...and probably many more. My guess is someone just spoofed his domain in their email. Or maybe this "Scott Day" is a spammer/virus-er.

Hehe, it's funny, I actually live in Mozambique and one trillion Mozambican "Meticais" (the currency here) would be an ASSLOAD of money.