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Comment They just keep hammering nails in their own coffin (Score 1) 280

Although I'm surprised to hear this since my subscription expired in May and they have called me almost every day since then and sent multiple mailings and whatnot trying to get me to renew. I let them know in multiple "surveys" their tactics were not appreciated nor their treatment of paying customers and let their 'live' support reps know it too.

I only used it to get multiple activation keys for Windows 7 cheaper than I could find anywhere else which is exactly what they don't want you to do but they treat their customers like shit and keep pulling keys off that you were entitled to. I also used it to set up a Windows 8 pro test machine here at work so I knew to dodge that bullet in advance.

Still, this was supposed to be one of their methods for evangelizing the gospel of Microsoft. I remember in the 90's reading here on /. about how the only way anything would be able to have a chance against them would be because they killed themselves. Seems to be coming true.

Comment Re:Can Anyone Tell Me Why This Mattters? (Score 1) 117

The kids I see can't type. Some of them can't use a mouse. Most of them use CAPSLOCK when they mean Shift. ALL of them have cellphones, which they are much more deft at manipulating and are bigger narcissists than the vapid "stars" they idolize.

Why should they be in a programming class when they can't form a complete sentence? I'm serious. It's really, REALLY sad in public education. The bar is far lower than I think most of Slashdot's audience even knows exists outside of the "Third World".

Comment Re:Can Anyone Tell Me Why This Mattters? (Score 1) 117

I'm an American, so I can't speak for London. However, I also work in public education. I agree with you.

I can also tell you that it will be a cold day in hell before they offer programming classes over Math/English when *everything* is being cut back consistently and dramatically year to year. There Isn't Enough Money (TM) is the incessant refrain and the answer to *every* Why not? There are various reasons why there isn't enough money. Most of them stem from corruption at every level; Federal on down.

Comment I don't know about Stalin but... (Score 2) 138

There is video of Saddam Hussein doing the same thing with a big shit eating grin smoking a cigar to wild applause by visibly terrified military people sitting in theater seating. The ones he's picking out of the crowd are escorted out of the room and executed. Not sure where I saw it, I think it was History Channel, years ago.

Comment Re:Goes along with my poll: (Score 2, Insightful) 144

It's not just their parents. I work in a public education. The entire system is set up to do that. I heard a show on NPR a couple weeks ago (Diane Rehm) about education "reform" and all of the panelists were saying the same thing: Kill Philosophy/History/Art etc and focus entirely on STEM and nothing else.

The suits won a long time ago. College has been reduced to you paying for the training your corporate masters would rather pocket the money for (and in many cases not getting even that). Schools do not teach entrepreneurship or independence. They teach working on the plantation, being a good little serf that offers no objections to anything ever, while being as big an atom of consumption as possible.

Welcome to the corporate states of America; check your soul at the door.

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