Archive for September 12th, 2006

Tuesday, September 12th, 2006

Curriculum Courtesy of Microsoft

Microsoft-designed school opens - BizTech - Technology - smh.com.au This is an interesting social experiment and one that hopefully will give a bunch of kids opportunities they would never have had otherwise. But despite the ends, I do worry about the complete control one company has over such a critical development period. This in particular […]

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Tuesday, September 12th, 2006

Defending Capital

Apparently Capitalism is good because it leads to things like Bill and Melinda Gates having a race with Warren Buffett on who can spend the most money on charity: Hail Capitalism « a sycophant of the bourgeoisie
I’m not going to debate what exactly is Capitalism (not sure why it needs to be put in opposition […]

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