I dont have a problem with them competing on equal footing, no. It should be left up to the universities so long as they aren't discriminating based on race or gender. The government should be hands off.



Because you're a fascist, and afraid of competition. That doesn't surprise me. It makes sense because your ideology is clearly inferior. So fair competition wouldn't be in your interest.

I'm not afraid of competition. So I don't have a problem opening up access to everyone equally.



I guess we will just have to be satisfied with the superior American ones then, heh heh

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on the quality of life issues, i have read that Norwegians are into transgendered, transpacific sexual liaisons!

Animal bordellos draw Norwegians
Denmark's animal bordellos reportedly draw Norwegian clients, but both countries have loopholes that make such establishments legal.
Here a Danish animal owner offers his horse to a Danish journalist claiming to be interested in animal sex.

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Neither Denmark nor Norway has a prohibition on sex with animals, as long as the animals do not suffer.

On the Internet Danish animal owners advertise openly that they offer sex with animals, without intervention from police or other authorities, Danish newspaper 24timer reports.

In correspondence with the animal owners, the newspaper was told that the animals involved have many years of experience and that the animals themselves wanted sex. The cost to the client varied from DKK 500-1,000 (USD 85-170).

Legal gray area
The Norwegian Food Safety Authority's section chief for animal welfare, Torunn Knævelsrud, could not rule out that such a bordello could be legal here as well.

"It is difficult to say yes or no," Knævelsrud told Aftenposten.no.

As long as basics like shelter, feed and care are in place, and injury or suffering to the animal can not be documented, there are no other ways to attack an animal bordello under existing Norwegian law.

"It could be that the animals don't really care," Knævelsrud said. "But I think it is in the nature of the case that animals will often be victims of injury, stress or suffering in connection with sexual acts with humans. Either that they are held fast, or frightened, or suffer pain or physical injury," Knævelsrud said.

New legislation?
A new Norwegian Animal Protection Act is underway and there have been proposals, from the Norwegian Animal Welfare Alliance among others, that sexual intercourse with animals must be forbidden.

"The acts provoke moral disgust. The question is whether immorality should be made illegal. The FSA group discussing the new animal protection act has been in disagreement about this," Knævelsrud said.

According to the 24timer report, Germans, Dutchmen, Swedes and Norwegians visit the Danish bordellos, and a web site devoted to bestiality claimed that many of Denmark's animal sex clients stem from Norway.

A farmer who sells animal sex said he is extremely surprised that foreigners are ready to travel so far for it.

"But the clients tell us that it is much simpler to buy animal sex in Denmark than in their own country," a horse owner from Nord-Jylland told the newspaper.

A new dissertation from the Institute of Criminology at the University of Oslo showed that Norwegian veterinarians know of at least 124 cases of animal sex abuse in Norway. The thesis reports that 22 percent of Norwegian veterinarians suspect or are sure that they have treated animals that have been sexually abused by humans.
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/lo...?service=print

i have a question. how far down the phyletic scale do this "liaisons" go?

Actually, Canada has 11 universities in the top-200, whereas the US has 57. http://www.timeshighereducation.co.u...p?typeCode=144

But Canada only has 33 million people, where you have 300 million.

So for every 3 million Canadians, we have a top-200 university.

Whereas for every 5.25 Americans, you have a top-200 university.

No wonder so many American companies locate to Canada, in general we have a more educated population.

But your baseless Canada bashing aside, I agree that theres no point in preventing international students from going where ever they want. At the end of the day, it doesn't cost the taxpayers anything because they pay higher tuition fees, and if they are taking up too many spaces, then the domestic students could just as easily go to another country.

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How many in the top 10?



How many top 10 universities does Canada have for every 3 million citizens?



That doesnt seem to be helping you to compete with us economically. How many of the top corporations in the world are Canadian?

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I see the top 10 World rated Universities comprises of 8 US and 2 UK Universities.

I went to University No 47(joint) myself

http://www.arwu.org/rank/2005/ARWU2005_Top100.htm

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You didnt see any Canadian universities in the top 10? Not even one?

Hmmm...thats odd. After all, Canada has such an educated population according to Wildbore. I thought they would have at LEAST one.

Oh wait a minute....I just checked http://www.arwu.org/rank/2005/ARWU2005_Top100.htm - Canada DOES have one in the top 25. #24 is Canadian. America only has 19 of the top 25.

So...using Wildbore's formula...America has a top 25 university for every 5 million citizens. While Canada has only one per 33 million. How do you like those numbers Wildbore?

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The top-10 universities in the US, a country with thousands of degree granting institutions, is not representative of the actual overall quality of all the schools.

The US clearly has more "elite" institutions. But its better to be well-rounded than to be front-loaded in my opinion. Only very few people go to top-10 institutions, its a poor representation of what the education in the US is actually like.

Even your source has published a list of the stats for the top-500. If you do the per capita math, Canada has you beat yet again. http://www.arwu.org/rank/2007/ARWU2007Statistics.htm

If you want to win the top-10, then great, I'm sure no one will mind. But you lose everywhere else, so good for you.

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