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Can't we be both?

It's easier to teach kids to memorize than to understand.

This is the only thing you wrote that I disagree with. Kids naturally want to learn, and by that I mean understand and develop critical thinking abilities. It's required for growth and beneficial to develop these abilities. It's hard to teach kids to memorize things that don't help them understand the world around them. It takes years of indoctrination and enforced blind obedience to authority to get kids to perform rote memorization.

I generally agree with everything else you said.

No, even the summary is clear that the TV viewing is correlated with the future development of asthma. These kids didn't necessarily have asthma the entire time they were sitting in front of the TV.

The summary refers to the "association between increased duration of reported TV viewing in early childhood and the development of asthma by 11.5 years of age in children with no symptoms of asthma in early childhood" (emphasis mine)

Nintendo are not the only ones who make software for their systems. Third-party developers depend on sales of their software. It hardly matters to them whether Nintendo makes a profit on the hardware or not.

Nintendo stuck with cartridges a generation longer than anyone else and used a non-standard format for their first disc-based system. Just because they don't take the same approach as other manufacturers doesn't mean they're not trying to prevent piracy.

I don't really disagree with anything you said, but I'm still amazed that this is rated "5, Insightful" when you got the basic phrasing backwards.

It's "Innocent until proven guilty" not "Guilty until proven innocent". It may seem like a minor quibble, but when that phrase is all most people will remember, it's important to get it right.

What are CPAN-driven upgrades?

The way you describe it, it sounds like CPAN was using some sort of push technology to force-feed you upgrades. If the program was working, and the company was just trying to "keep it working" then why the upgrades? Or could they not get it installed and working in the first place because of something on CPAN?

I'm honestly curious. I haven't used perl or CPAN in years but if memory serves, installing the latest and greatest modules all the time has always been a recipe for disaster.

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But don't go forgetting that learning can be both good and bad.

In the context of this article I would say that conditioning, being subconscious, can be both good and bad, whereas learning is conscious and generally good.

This doesn't account for "learning" things that are not true, which might be better termed misinformation or indoctrination.

There are literally dozens of us.