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Comment: Better Common Core than... (Score 1) 272

by msobkow (#46475905) Attached to: Is the New "Common Core SAT" Bill Gates' Doing?

Better Common Core than allowing the fundamentalists and fringe groups to continue pushing crap like "Young Earth" ideologies as "just a theory" equivalent to evolution and the big bang.

If it weren't for all the wingnuts and fools in Texas and elsewhere pushing that kind of crap, there wouldn't have been a rebellion against their bullshit through standardization like Common Core.

Comment: That would be because it's *Canada* (Score 1) 35



Comment: Politicians tend to be "old farts" (Score 2) 299

Politicians, judges, and other people in power are rarely young. So it stands to reason that they're "behind the times", though it is outrageous that they don't educate themselves on the issues and technologies they're supposed to oversee and negotiate about.

The simple fact of the matter is politicians are idiots who don't understand anything beyond getting bought off by lobbyists, screwing the public, and spinning things so they get elected again. I firmly believe that less than 10% of the politicians in the world are actually intelligent people out to do the best for society as a whole; I believe the other 90% are power-tripping freakazoids who don't understand anything more than "I want to be the boss."

Most of them would take a role as dictator in a heartbeat if they were given the chance.

Comment: Depends on your definition of legacy (Score 5, Interesting) 247

by msobkow (#46436131) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What's New In Legacy Languages?


