I heard this on the radio last week:
http://www.npr.org/2012/03/05/147980299/tough-love-reading-laws-target-third-graders"

They were debating should they spend $10,000 to have a child repeat the 3rd grade because they can't read at grade level OR pass them on to 4th grade and spend $10,000 on tutoring for two years. So flunk a child, and punish the child with shame OR pass the child, and punish the child with an unrealistic sense of accomplishment. Both ideas punish the taxpayer. If a child cannot read by that age, in my very humble opinion, we should be looking to punish the parent.

Education begins at home. That is where it needs to be fixed. A child is like an investment: if you invest nothing you should expect to get nothing. If this debate is about developing a recipe for success, let's try to stay away from the topics of public education and unions and focus on those recipes. My recipe includes having lots of books and spending lots of time reading them to my children.

They had a more nuanced idea, the ability to take a scientific formula scribbled somewhere and understand/translate it, but essentially it was the same. They basically substituted f of x for a bicycle.

...the benefit of mortality is that bad people always die. No matter how much power one sociopath picks up, we only have to tolerate them for a century. Let's not ruin a good thing by "fixing" that.

Welcome to Skynet.

...and you just need to eat it. Good things don't go unnoticed, though. It is these sorts of experiences that will separate you from the pack, later in your career. It will pay forward, one way or another. If you want to get paid, negotiate time at work to perform these tasks or don't do them. There are side-effects: once you make an app, you will be expected to support it forever... and likely you won't get any time to do that, either. I would make part of the agreement to hand over the code is that you will not support it.

And mine is in gold... does anybody have a wheelbarrow I can borrow?

Had the exact same thought.. False Positives would be common:
http://www.snopes.com/business/money/cocaine.asp

I made this very same point the last time this was "news": we seem to be upset that they are using a product to do exactly what it was designed for. This is like being upset that guns can be used to shoot things or poison being used to kill things.

OMG! They might use CISCO FIREWALLS, TOO! CISCO is the DEVIL!

This comment right here should seriously end this conversation.

I'd like some tools help with the generic of bad ideas like: deletes with no where usage of with grant option on objects grants of public to individual objects inserts of text into numeric fields (where we started) lots of joins without lots of index usage

This is what I'm thinking: where is yours now? Mine, too, is sold. It reminded me of most of my textbooks. I would rather have the idea easily added to Excel, so that it might be useful not just at school, but maybe at work. Something along these lines: http://www.tushar-mehta.com/excel/software/utilities/iga.html My other thought aligns to this: http://www.despair.com/tradition.html

I always find that programming helps explain the math. Instead of taking someone's word for it, you can just derive what they say. If we all grew up this way, learning math and using programming to illustrate the result, this wouldn't even be a conversation. We would arrive at university with the theory under our belt, and we would have the skills to expand it if desired or focus on the application of what we already know.