On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Manoj Srivastava <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 05 2010, Rob Huffstedtler wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Manoj Srivastava <[email protected]>wrote:
> The tides of history are indeed against me. We have been > steadily declining in all measures of competence in the science in > technology arena, to the point where the majority of the country is > functionally illiterate when it comes to either science or > technology. By all standard metrics, including where our country stands > when our high school students are compared to the others in developed > countries, we stand in the high 20's when it comes to how educated our > young'uns are. And all of these facts are just a search engine away > (the government education sites are surprisingly frank of the state of > the decline). > Sad to see Manoj leave TN. Some might take what he just said as mean,cold, crass,etc. Manoj is right. Top posting vs Inline posting might be a pointless argument. However, the bigger trend in anti intellectualism in this country is a very real problem. > manoj > -- > Don't relax! It's only your tension that's holding you together. > Manoj Srivastava <[email protected]> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/> > 4096R/C5779A1C E37E 5EC5 2A01 DA25 AD20 05B6 CF48 9438 C577 9A1C ps.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en I thought Manoj was no longer part of Debian. Andrew McElroy
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