Rid the Philippines of N00bs!
Filipino tech blogger Jepoy Bengero posts his predictions for 2007. Number two is especially sigh-inducing. More Filipino idiots will be online, and would be jumping into international message boards showing how stupid they are, dragging us with them. With twenty million Filipinos going online in 2007, he’s probably right. This is why I’m brutal to [...]|
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This attitude of hate towards n00bs is self-righteous. The reason why there are a lot of n00bs in the country is simple economics. People can’t maximize the use of their computer or be tech-savvy when majority of the country’s internet users don’t own the PC they are using. Don’t be so quick to judge. You were a newbie once, but you outgrew that because you had the chance to immerse yourself in technology. Not everyone is so lucky.
Eradicate n00bs by educating them or harnessing their unlimited energy for something constructive. Anything than bashing people for not being as “enlightened” as you. There is nothing worse than someone who ridicules others for a perceived lack of something important.
N00bs who want to learn should be educated. Neo-luddites who resist education, even spreading miseducation, should be eradicated.
If you’re referring to n00bs as an institution then I might agree with you. You have a link for everything.
Happy Maundy Thursday!
for a second, i thought you were mike villar. lol
Fifty percent of Filipinos cannot complete schooling due to poverty. (Per capita income is only around a thousand dollars a year, and Filipinos can afford to spend only around 100 dollars per student per year.) Schooling consists of an average class size of 60 and having no roofs, electricity, potable water, books, desks, or principals. The UNDP reports that at least 40 percent of children are undernourished.
The solution is not to provide more computers (as it is, only around 60 percent of the country has sufficient electricity, and only around 15 percent of roads are paved) but to focus on small, community-based schools, provide cheap instructional materials for reading, writing, and arithmetic, and use radio (and to a limited extent, television, since according to the UNDP less than 20 percent of Filipinos have access to either, as well as to newspapers) and printed materials. We have to do this because that’s the only thing we can afford given a hundred dollars per child a year.