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Comment Re:programming should be taught in all schools (Score 1) 69

it's just as important in today's world as learning algebra, literature, or music

Algebra: largely unimportant for most people. Nerds are the exception. Some adults entering college have trouble with fractions. Arithmetic is useful for nearly everyone though.
Literature is very unimportant except as a means of homogenizing culture, but TV does that far better these days. Reading and writing are important.
Music is basic to humans, and while I don't share the drive to listen to music that others seem to have, I do have a drive to create music (much to the detriment of those around me). Music is a great avocation, but spending time to learn about music in school isn't really as necessary as a lot of people think. We all know people who have no idea what a clef is but lead otherwise successful lives.

Comment Re:Unfair (Score 1) 285

So I guess in the interests of fairness you would suggesting lobotomizing everyone to bring them down to your level of stupidity?

No need for that when simple distractions work. Unlike Harrison's father, we carry our distractions in our pockets and sleep with them next to our beds.
https://archive.org/stream/Har...
"Who knows better than I do what normal is?"

Comment Re:Holy Mountain (Score 1) 234

But the alien conspiracy creates an "other" which binds the Earth together. Dr. Manhattan creates a new nuclear arms race to create more Dr. Manhattans (even if in secret). The squid might not have been necessary, but something alien was. This is from the Antogonist's perspective. From the readers' perspective, we all understand that it's a matter of time before the house of cards for either secret falls.

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