Internet taxation is on the way!

[Michael Haney]

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 3:10 AM, Christopher Chan
> Ah, ain't it nice to systematically drop education standards?
>
> In Hong Kong we have gone from teaching pascal and procedural
> programming to using essential work software ie Microsoft Office. You
> would think that with all the free programming tools on a Linux distro
> that they would be happily installing Ubuntu and teaching programming
> instead of paying more and more Microsoft tax. Ah, the infinite wisdom
> of our great policy makers.
>

The argument in "favor" of using Windows and M$ Office in schools is
because that's what most businesses use.  In other words, the schools
are being used to indoctrinate kids into becoming the next cubical
drones.  Most school programs these days are geared towards squashing
creativity and individuality in favor of conformity.

When I was in school we learned how to program in BASIC on Apple IIe
computers.  There is more to life than learning to be another cubical
drone wage slave.  Schools should be teaching programming.  If
anything teach Java, which is a cross platform language that works on
just about everything from mainframes, to Macs, to mobile phones, to
PCs running Windows and Linux.

A friend of mine who works for Uncle Sam (I can't say which agency for
security reasons) has to learn JAVA, and has asked me if I want to
learn it with him.  So, I said yes.  There's a lot of demand for Java
programmers so I though what the hell, why not.

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