Internet taxation is on the way!

[Christopher Chan]

On Friday, April 09, 2010 03:41 PM, Michael Haney wrote:
> 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.

I prefer the term brainwash. Indoctrinate sounds so squeaky clean.


>
> 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.

Man, why can't we have principals, education heads that think like you?


>
> 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.
>

Whatever. Most basic stuff work/carry across the board. So long as it is 
programming