Re: Microsoft warns of blue screen crashes caused by April updates

On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 08:58:27 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:

I'll be honest and say that I probably don't have the time to look at
all those links. My biggest gripe is how the education system here in
Quebec, which used to be separate by religion rather than language,
threw the baby out with the bathwater. If you were Catholic, there was a
time until the late 90s when you could be sure that your child at least
got the basics of his or her religion from school. Your job as a parent
was to fill the blanks or go much further should you choose to. If you
weren't Catholic, your child would go to all the same classes except for
Religion and go to a class called Morals instead. It worked fine, but
they decided to get rid of that in 1997 or so because, to them, religion
was outdated. The result is a generation of kids without any kind of
morality that latches onto whatever idiotic trend of the day. In many
cases, they make heroes out of drug dealers, pimps, murderers and
terrorists all the while demonizing the victims of their crimes. It's
too late to go back now, but doing so would at least create a path to
enlightenment for some of these kids.

I don't believe that was ever the case in the US. When I was in grade
school Wednesday was a short day. It was a small town so the Catholic kids
would line up an march west to St. Jude's school for religious instruction
by a cadre of nuns. Similarly the Protestant kids would march east to the
Dutch Reformed church for their instruction. I don't know what the
Protestants of other denominations, if any, did. I think the Reformed
classes were generic.

The same was done in high school but I opted out early some my memory is
less clear.

Of course the Catholic parents could choose to send their kids to St.
Jude's school and later to Catholic Central High School for more exposure.
There were also two military style high schools for boys, LaSalle
Institute and Christian Brothers Academy.

However, religion was not part of the public school experience explicitly.
At least in grade school there were no Muslims, Jews, Hindus, etc so the
base assumption was we were living in a Christian nation.

I forget if I was in second or third grade when 'under God' was added to
the Pledge of Allegiance by Eisenhower partly due to a promotion campaign
by the KofC.