ON US "EDUCATION"

From: Sean Malloney

Date: 9 Nov 2005

Once again current events (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/08/AR2005110801211.html), bring to mind the Lewis Carroll passage "Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

This quote in particular is a special ironic example in that regard

This is a great day for education. This is one of the best things that we can do. This absolutely teaches more about science," said Steve E. Abrams, the Kansas board chairman who shepherded the conservative Republican majority that overruled a 26-member science committee and turned aside the National Academy of Sciences and the National Science Teachers Association.

From: Fabian Pascal

There is no bottom to the consequences of dumping knowledge and reason. Those who do it don't deserve anything else, but unfortunately they drag with them those who don't deserve it.

To reiterate the obvious: the US is doomed, finished.

From: David Fields

Date: Dec 15 2005

Dave Fields has sent you a story from Computerworld.com, and would like you to read it!

SIDEBAR: USERS SPLIT ON WISDOM OF LOGIC IN DATABASE

Although SQL Server 2005 lets Microsoft developers program business logic directly into their databases, an informal poll of 35 IT managers showed that they were roughly split on whether doing so would be a wise move.

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My favorite sentence: "Some respondents insisted that logic has no business being in the database."

Nor between their ears, apparently...

From: Fabian Pascal

Not entirely their fault. They are the product of a society who has dropped knowledge and reason. This is exactly the expected consequence.

Posted 1/6/06