Educating the Young Ones

It came to mind over breakfast this morning chatting my uncle who teaches at primary over the syllabus.

Among so many problems like under-staffing, lack of encouragement from parents/guardians, the syllabus itself fell under question.

Pupils are taught in local language from standard one to standard five. They are then taught in english. My assumption was so many students would find themselves failing. And it was so. And paradoxically there was a student who managed to pass standard eight and got selected to a secondary school without knowing how to read. Probably passed from recall exams being in multiple choice.

Why is it a problem to start english at standard five?

A person is able to understand something if he is able to be communicated to. To grasp knowledge one must understand the language in which the knowledge is communicated. Vast knowledge is communicated in english. While it is important to understand a local language, the more languages one understands the more the knowledge he is able to grasp. For pupils learning in local language, they find themselves at a disadvantage to understand english.

To learn a language, you learn better if you are able to practice it and apply it. Local languages have a lot of time to be practiced then than english. English gets less than one hour formal practice, local language gets full day at home and at school. If other subjects were taught at least in english at early level, english would have half a day of practice and application everyday.

A local language which is already known from birth may still be important for formalization especially for written form.

I believe local language might have been introduced with the assumption that our kids are too dull to grasp knowledge in english.

But are they? The advantage of english is that one is now able to grasp other forms of knowledge on their own if they fail to go further with education but have books around to read. This makes the likes of William Kamkwamba and his windmill electricity. Such boy becomes a wonder these days for there are too few who are able to grasp knowledge at a young age on their own.

It is expected that at standard five students might be able to learn comparatively in knew language but I think this is easier for adults who have learned language structures to compare than for kids. Thus I do advise still let them learn in english from early age.

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Accept The Challenge God Will Guide - Phwezi Sec. School.

The Law

The issue of homosexuality in Malawi raised many concerns on my part that I wanted to look into the Laws.

There seems to be a disrespect or ignorance of its importance of Laws and Constitions at all levels, International and country level. What is the Law? What is it for? How
important is it?

Paul in the book of Romans talks about his tragedy in obeying the Law. He says the Law which is good brings death to him. Does he say we should do away with the Law then? He says far from it. We should uphold it! For the problem is not the Law.

God speaks to Joshua. This book of the Law you should meditate upon it day and night. Keep it deligently then you will be successful in all that you do.

Joshua did strange things. He commanded the sun to stop so he can finish his battle. He fought battles even in his old age and was still strong and Caleb got barren lands(a mountain) to cultivate.

God in giving the law with his people starts it with the Ten commandments. Like a Lecturer introducing a Subject.

These commandments talk about what hurts God's heart. What hurts other human beings and what is good to do.

The law is then expounded with different situations and applications which are recorded as part of the law. It gives resolutions to different problems arising between people. What people need to do for their own good since we have another enemy other than other people(the devil).

The laws of God therefore gives liberty to men over the spiritual enemy and also resolutions to problems developing among themselves.

How have we taken the Law? We have take it as a tool for punishing. It goes hunting for wrongs. It becomes abused to trap even the innocent. It sometimes condemns with partiality in the hands of men abusing it. And also in the hands of the spiritual enemy the devil.

Do we discurd it? When Paul describes the law as the Sword. It is really that for we can use it to justify ourselves and avoid the harms that can befall us if mislead by the enemy.

It defines what is right and what is wrong. It shows how we can deal issues when one man wrongs another. It gives many outlets for an innocent person. It gives what is expected of an offender in the resolution. If you study the law in the Bible it is the best law, giving you all sorts of freedoms.

Paul says as Christians we are not bound by the Law. Does he mean as christians we should disregard the Law? Nope, As christians, it is
expected we have understood its value and we obey it willingly knowing what it is between us and God. He however says God has instituted government to maintain order to the non-believing society.

Those who break laws found themselves punishable under their government, society and God.

I stooped down one day and thought under man made law. I found that man could change a law today and change it again tomorrow and I found myself lost in the myriad of the laws by man.

I decided that I myself should have a standard by which to live in this life and keep sane. The Word of God I found to be the best choice. I found myself by living it, I was obedient to man's laws and kept sane when man tried to go left when he was supposed to go right.

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Accept The Challenge God Will Guide - Phwezi Sec. School.

Hear Oh, World!

Why do you bother us Malawians? We are not like you. We live simple
lives and we love one another.

It is wrong to test a law. In your hypocrisies you find it important
to legitimise a wrong you personally don't accept. A strong deliberate
blind eye to this unnatural relationship of a man and a man. Its not
for money for you politicians are already filthy rich. To you it comes
as a luxury. A deliberate slip. For what reason?

You put us Malawians, the people you claim to help, to test. You
expect us to smile to your bidding? I would ask this to you today: a
preacher preaches for the correction of the society why do you chose
to put the preacher in jail?

Whether psychologic, genetic whatever your "scientists" or
"psychologists" justify it is an abnormality. If you search long
enough, all sin is genetic(for we all sin because of the fall of Adam
and we die for this reason) but a person is still able to chose
between right and wrong. When he choses right he lives when he choses
wrong, it is said the wages of sin is death. God changes those who
have sort His help.

The government, however, does punish wrongs and God allows it to do
so. For it does not exist unless God allows.

You create laws to bar the preacher from correcting the wrongs in the
society and set free the wrongs. Why do you condemn the preacher for
homophobia and not the Sodomy offenders?

Wake up! You are humans! And there is the devil who wants death for
you; paralysing your minds over what seems to be freedoms but are
destructions of a society.

We Malawians are not happy that you have to put us through this. Your
money which you give us does not come with a clean heart. If I were
the President or Parliamentarian I would not accept such help from
you. All of you who have set this condition on us.

Label us not wrong for pointing out the wrong however rich you may be.

I remember Zimbabwe and What your Divided and Conquer strategies have
done to African Economies which you claim to want to help develop.
This infuriets me.

It is said, "Do repay not evil for evil." The President of Malawi has
not allowed this Evil in our land. But this world wants to Judge us
for labelling the wrong what it is. So because We can to forgive, we
have forgiven. What is it to you? Push us no further.

--
Accept The Challenge God Will Guide.

The Warm Heart of Africa

I used to pray some little prayers. God bless Malawi, God bless
Africa. God bless Malawi that it will be a home of a people in a time
when everywhere else there is no home. That its gates would close to
danger but cover in your people. That it would be independent enough
to withstand external pressure. I have seen the answers to my prayers.

God has blessed Malawi. And through Malawi He is blessing Africa.

I hear about two days ago, two hundred something ethiopians have been
dropped in Nkhata Bay by somebody they don't know. They seek peace and
food for there is war and famine in their land. They have crossed
borders Tanzania and Mozambique into Malawi. Because our President in
the African Leader and they seek help from him.

I find myself wanting to welcome them giving them the heart of warmth
and food for the cold nights they have been through in this warm heart
of Africa.

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Accept The Challenge God Will Guide.

To A Hopeless Soul

In the dark alone
Paralised
In mind and so
In body.
Oh Helpless Soul
Drunk with tears of sorrow
At the thought of pain endured
Day and Night
What brings this night?
I tried to do good today.
To hope for better sleep.
No. Pain in the night.
Pain and Sleepnesses.
Bad things troubling my sleep.
Helpless I live to the next day.
Bad things in the day.
What do I?
To not do wrong?
To sleep better in the night?
A step two I fall.
Fear for the night
Helpless Soul.
Awake.
Love receive.
Shield of faith.
Sword of the Spirit.
Breast Plate of Rightiousness.
Belt of Truth.
Helmet of Salvation.
Shoes of preaching the Gospel.
Do war.
Pursue.
Destroy.
Your enemy of old.
Give no mercy.
In Jesus Name.

--
Accept The Challenge God Will Guide.

On John 3:16

Necodemus Came to Jesus by night asking for a way to enter the Kingdom
of God. By his status in the society he could not confront Jesus in
the public. But he saw his shortfall despite being religious and he
wanted to be saved from evil to get to Heaven.

Jesus told him He must be born again of Water and the Holy Spirit.
Over the ages this verse has been said and said but not many have understood.

Take it like a public key cryptographic protocal. There is one private
key for which all may go through. One needs to negotiate with the
security provider in order to establish a connection.

In our case Jesus would be this provider and key.

Flesh gives birth to flesh(John 3:6). In my own ways I can do good but
without a relationship with Jesus making peace with Him or my works
are in vain. The works would paint me red like all God's children but
if the Paint is not the blood of Jesus I still perish. If one of the
eqyptians had done what the jews did they too would have been saved
from the Angel of Death.

The wind blows where it wishes you here the sound of it but you don't
know where it comes from(John 3:8). You see the children of God living
a good life. You see them save under very difficult circumstances.
What's with them? It the Jesus they are in a relationship with. That
saves them. The Holy Spirit that comforms them to the commands of God.
And because of their relationship with Jesus where they fail Jesus
becomes their fulfilment.

So it is Jesus the one to make peace with and get to Heaven. He is not
far but as far as your trust in Him and your confession, in really
speaking to Him, in realising your short falls and really asking Him
to save you. To change your flesh by the Spirit. Did not John the
Baptist say, Jesus will baptise by the Holy Spirit? It falls within
His power to do so.

--
Accept The Challenge God Will Guide.

Comment on Value-Adding

I want to point out a self betrayal on value-adding. Under-valuing the raw material, devalues the end product however much additional value is added.

In Malawi we have often under paid laborers and under-valued the raw material. Even on export the outcome of that product is a very little contribution to the GDP. No wonder the GDP of most African Countries is very low. For they are raw material producers and they are betraying themselves by under-valuing labor and raw materials.

I would advise before thinking about exporting an expensive valuable product think about the end of that product in the case it is not found to be valuable by the end buyer.

It comes to a point of producing what we ourselves really need.
In the case of Tomato Processor: Most Malawians use fresh tomato and not preserved one. If external market fails we have effectively reduced supply at country level and wasted it as it is not as valuable at country level. Because we would rather have the fresh product but what is available is a processed product, we have effectively devalued the product but increased its price.

The GDP per capita which seem to be calculated from the GDP itself is really faulty than starting with the distribution of the per capita income across the population. If this distribution is normal and not highly skewed towards the fewer rich population it is an indication that things are good. And then calculation the total GDP from the per capita.

While the GDP can indicate the overall income its reality on the ground might not be rosy. For example:
1. A region might have a high GDP but the product does not benefit its population rather exported and in the end the population suffers from lack of basic needs (Obviously not our goal).
2. A region might have high GDP but the economic machinery might not allow the majority of the population to benefit(rich getting richer, the poor remaining poor)
(By its commission, the government which drives the direction of the economy for the benefit of its citizen, should not want this).
3. A rise in GDP can also be an indication that the value of a product at raw material level has been increased. (So effectively Malawi's GDP will rise highly if the laborer and the raw material are not under-valued).

We might price ourselves highly, but nobody can buy us. This, in the end, is what reduces our value. Therefore I see it very important to put our valued labor to what we really want. While mining can increase our national income on exports, it destroys the land, which we live in and benefit from, in such a way that we might have to start importing basic needs as well. While the $500million/ billion from uranium we get seems to be a lot, it might not even be one hundredth of the real value and much more worse the pollution stays on our land the profit in another land. If every thing has to have trade offs for optimal benefit, this is the reason why Kamuzu might not have exploited mining and concentrated on agriculture. And effectively the reason why we still have a lot of minerals.

Muluzi's government drilled a lot of boleholes receded the water table and there was no rain. (Just an economic policy, huh?).

Bingu's government added just a tit bit of fertilizer to the rain. What a harvest.

Does Bingu's government destroy this same land by an economic policy? Tread carefully.

Malawi(Africa) is not poor and its riches are not dependent on what others value but on what we ourselves value. There have been tales, stories, or why the white men kill themselves and others over stones which they don't eat(africans wondering).

Where is our value? If we put our energy where our value is needed we will have the income we really deserve.

Share this where it might benefit before we destroy so much with inverted ideologies.

Sent from my BlackBerry smartphone

Test Drive Cyptography: Reloaded

24 Series
Pirated Version Season 9. Given an ultimatum to crack a message for
the wife's release.
What's the encryption protocal?
Blowfish 1024 bits
What's the word length?
32bits
Where is my wife?
We will bring her when its done. How long will it take?
Its done.
They say, He is a level 6 as the wife.
Wow! Do these things happen?
So people have to be trained to be level 6. So people stumble themselves up.
Some people get punished for stumbling to level 6.
Some people take the long winding road called cryptography to go round
and round and never understand. So that the best of them can't crack
the simplest. Because the expert says so nobody else tries. So the
secret stays secure.
I thought: how clever!
There is an animal that passes its nest/home to lead its prey away and
protect its eggs or young ones. Cryptography in real life then.
Why am I saying this?
Today or tomorrow the secret will be found out. When its found its
better be a good thing.

Is cryptography useless? In so many ways, it isn't. It saved the
animal's young ones by leading the prey away. What's bad is to punish
someone for stumbling on a hole that seems so obviously open.

When one is not accepted for a good thing they may resort to the bad
thing they have been trying to prevent. I guess that's what makes a
BlackHat from a WhiteHat. Because he may still remain with some good
in him. Against those who have done him no wrong he will do good. In
world of survival of the fittest, a GreyHat strives, a WhiteHat
endures in places of love, a BlackHat destroys.
WhiteHat has to do more work for so little. While the WhiteHat and the
GreyHat may be conservative in their ways, the BlackHeart stops at
nothing.

Can a secret prevail? Good triumphs over evil not by repaying back
evil but continuing to be good. Evil may be strong but Good attracts
masses that save him. Evil might paint evil on Good to get
sympathy/support from the masses but in prevailng to be good, Good
proves himself before the masses.

Walk an extra mile for a solder who forces you to walk a mile. Give
another cheak to one who slaps you. Give another coat for someone who
gets yours. He wanted to inflict pain. Do him good.

--
Accept The Challenge God Will Guide.

Of Balances in Economy

I thought about exchange of goods. Money is just a median of the
exchange. It seems to have become the most important thing than the
goods themselves. People would hold on to money than the goods. It
might be good at country level but not internationally. For we don't
eat money but the goods we can.

Going back at personal level: almost every bank and advert insurance
this insurance that with a few savings for help in a time you might
not have money. Health insurance, Life insurance, etc. so many other
public services that at one time were provided free. Oh yes they said
you don't give freebie to people they won't develop. I guess it
matters as well how you define development. Many people who have money
cannot afford to buy a cow which one can have free in the villages.

In a business arena where every body is really trying to maximise
profit goods become undervalued. The highier the product goes in the
exchange chain, the highier the price though the lesser the value
added and the graph of the price against value added would be found
to be exponential.

When we get so much forex as indication of financial growth it is the
same as selling all you maize and keeping the money. Suppose everyone
sells all the maize, where does it go? Surely its just not lying
around somewhere. If it is, when the farmer needs it again later, he
will have to pay a highier price. If it is not, it might have gone
somewhere it can't be taken back(like outside the country for
example). Then when the farmer needs the maize back, there will be too
few available for everyone and not to mention the price which is even
highier. So in the end, we have a country full of money but no food.
Money can be eaten by rats and be useless. At least if one had maize
if eaten by rats there is still plenty to eat and the worst case is
that it will be given to cattle which we can still eat and drink milk.

Is tobacco a solution? Grow so much tobacco, and no sale you just
wasted a lot of resource on imported inputs which we don't eat.
Suppose we grow what we need which if not sold we can still eat.
Maize, Groundnuts, Beans, Bananas, Oranges, Cattle, Chicken, pa dziko
padzikhala pa mwana alirengi. If one has some food and shelter they
can live another day with an empty pocket. But if even food and
shelter they have to buy as well, there comes a day when the pocket
runs dry when they sleep with an empty stomach.

A question I should ask, I don't if I will get the answer from any
reader but its worth asking: can fertiliser be made from tobacco? For
if the buyers don't buy the useless leaves, it can atleast be bought
at its value to give back to the growers and processed into fertiliser
to give back to the fertility of our land. Than selling at a give away
price. Then a farmer disappointed by the sale would also be encouraged
to grow food crops.

I believe the former government(Kamuzu's) limited the growth to a few
who really had the expertize and resources to produce better quality
and it must have been a quotaed growth based on the demand and Malawi
as whole benefitted. Other's who saw these tobacco farmers prospering
found this unfair. While it might not be achievable to return to this
restriction honest truth without restriction would help more while
means are also being found to what tobacco can be useful to Malawi
itself. Letting people see this reality (better what you can eat and
sale, than sale or throw away) and encouraging them to grow food
crops. Practice our good agricultural ways as we used to. Kodi kukhala
ndu nkhokwe pakhomo nchimidzi? Koma chakudya chimasungidwa bwino
munkhokwe than muchipinda (no actellic superguard, no mbewa
mukagwiritsa nthito mouse guard). Kodi tikufuna kuti azungu adzabwere
azatiphunzitse kumanga nkhokwe? A Malawi lekani enawo aziseka ino
konzani moyo wanu.
I know people are being encouraged to be in farm clubs I guess this is
towards cooperate farming of tobacco and other crops which cannot be
managed individually, can be grown in this way. But even these
individual farmers could be encouraged to grow food for their own.

Akuti musangowapatsa zaulere muziwagulitsa azilimbikira nthito. Kodi
zikakhalapo zaulere tisawapatse? Kodi tikachite kuchepetsa zimene
alinazo kuti azikakugula? Kodi tikachepetsa zimene alinazo zina
zipezeka kuti? Kodi kukhala ndi moyo, mesa nkukhala ndi chakudya
ndipogona, ndi kusangala ndi abale ako?

At the end of the day, when everything else is said and done, even the
best economy gives money for free to achieve the balance. I guess now
it becomes a choice of what to give for free: money to buy good
health, food, shelter and clothing or good health, shelter and
clothing so that people are strong and healthy and with peace of mind
to grow their own food or if available, why not all free?

--
Accept The Challenge God Will Guide.

Of Controversies: Right and Wrong.

Here we are in 21st Century. We have gone through and learned from
history. There are laws defining what is right and also what is wrong.
Clearly some wrongs have been done in certain circumstances and been
found to be good. There are evidences of these all over the world all
through out history. There have been a lot violencies of angry people
convinced that a wrong they are fighting for is good. There have also
been a lot of violencies of people fighting for themselves against a
wrong being done on them by some people who either do the wrong
thinking that it is good or do the wrong selfishly. What's to do?

I was going through my life I found that there was a time I knew a
right and a wrong. I found that I was able to speak much about the
right I knew than a wrong I knew. If I had a way out on the wrong, I
would be able to avoid it. But in my mind this wrong could be done for
there is no other way. It became a necessity. With time I saw there
were other better ways it could have been done. I began to regret. But
I understood the mind of a lawyer who would be found bending the law
to meet his end. The Art of War encourages to capitalise on the other
person's weaknesses. While it solves my problem, I have done wrong to
my collegue if the problem I solve for myself did harm to him and he
was the innocent one. My responsibility was to still not do the wrong
against him.

A person meaning to do right, would not do wrong unless he is
convinced that what he is doing is right. A person who has done wrong
might have done wrong knowing what he was doing was wrong but
convinced himself he had a necessary reason; he might have done the
wrong not knowing; or might have known he was doing wrong and he meant
to do it any way. Of these people would forgive the first two after
having understood their situation. A person defending himself is doing
so to save himself. It might be from punishment that is to follow for
the wrong he has done with him still thinking he is innocent, or with
him having understood that he was wrong and so ask forgiveness, or
because he knew he was wrong in the first place and has been caught to
as long as he can survive. In many cases the one asking forgiveness,
would get lighter punishment than the one who is admant in
selfrightoousness. The last would use any of the two ways in which the
former would react to gain sympathy to avoid punishment.

Here is world so learned in the psychology of man. Education awards
high marks for applying the learned ideas well. And in a way it has
taught us it is good to apply classroom ideas even though they might
have bad effects on other human beings. Marketing, Business
Administration, Maximising profit, Good business ideas.

First Merchant Bank has given loans to farmers to give back after the
tobacco sales. I can see many farmers crying foul in the end. A good
business idea, capitalizing on the farmers weakness. They advise well
as though you will have no problem but how painful when they tell you
in the face the things you did not know and even tell you: This is
business my friend as if it is good to do the "business" they have on
me.

Responsibility, do not do this. Don't capitalize on other people's
weaknesses and do them wrong.

Politicians world over have used these controversies here and there to
find their way up in politics. Many people have found themselves in
conflicts over and over again after have be infuriated by a political
agenda. The media is in the same situation. People react to what they
hear and they would believe somebody a bad person because a fellow
politician has said so. It is always too late when they come back to
their senses and understand the said bad person and really too late to
make amends.

The Democratic government as it has been put forward with its
mechanisms much of which really treats human beings at animal level(as
though human beings can't understand and make better decisions) has
brought much of the problems. While democracy might have been
understood in the way it is presented, the reality of the practice
might be very far from the way it is presented.

The birth of the United States talks about people coming together from
all over to a new land with a purpose to leave behind the problems
they have left at home. They found the law of God as the best to
follow in establishing a government and based the constitution of the
word of God the Bible. Is it possible to follow somebody's laws
without really following him?

This government encouraged fairness at all levels as the Bible defines
it. According to its characteristics this government seems to have
been closer in its ways to the greek government which was called
democracy. We then named this new found government democracy. So many
studied the greek government and forgot the foundations of this new
government. Some of the ways of the greek government had flaws which
could be the reason why it failed and was once again replaced by one
man led government.

This new government which was found to be fair was presented and
understood to be based on the greek foundations. So others
implementing similar governments to this new found government
implement it basing on a wrong foundation. Can these other governments
stand?

America still stands strong. Its principles are the same embedded in
the peoples hearts for they understand what they have but have not
explanation how they had it. Basing on the similarities of its ways to
the previous government, they think that's what they have. But because
its not, they do not have the problems other governments have.

The law of God teaches love at all cost. Love your neighbour as
yourself. If you loved your neibour you would not steal their wife or
car or anything theirs you would do no harm on them. If you love your
woman you wouldn't rape her. Or cheat on her. You wouldn't want to do
to them what would hurt you. The book of Romans has put in a better
way what I want to say from Romans 12 verse 9 to Romans 13 about a
man's relationship to neighbours, and government. Read more discover
yourself much more the treasures in the word that you would appriciate
and find helpful.

Do we leave out the creator of this perfect law? Science has required
proof of His existance. God has proved his existance in many ways for
those who have accepted him. Does he not seek and you will find? Does
he not say He has put us in the lands or situations we leave so that
we might seek him and find him? He challenges you to seek him and you
will find him. The Bible defines faith in Hebrews Chapter 11. Faith is
the substance of things hoped for. Faith is the evidence of things
unseen. If there was no substance of those things it would be mere
hope. But there is substance. If there was no evidence of thing not
seen there would be no faith.

Does Science want proof that not all of its ways are based on
evidence? For a student to believe a teacher of the things he has not
understood he believes they are true on the trust that the teacher
knows more than he himself. How many mathematical proofs even today
are based on how so and so proved them? For the first voyager to go
out to sea and around the world which has become the evidence that the
world is round and not flat it had to take a step of faith(courage
based on the evidence he has which many don't have). Its only when he
had gone round the world did many believe the truth that all the
people(now called great scientists) said about the word being round
and not flat. The church was among those who did not believe but they
were many more who didn't outside the church and included scientists.
The thing is if a there is a truth. It will be found out however one
tries to bend it and it does not depend on an individual opinion for
even if the church can not know all truths but as much God has
revealed.

This law though very perfect God admits bitterly nobody understands.
They have all sinned. All of them. Paul says in Romans I try to do
good but I end up doing wrong. So without God we fail to live by this
perfect law.
God has provided His Son and The Holy Spirit to teach us His ways.
Those that seek him they find Him.

--
Accept The Challenge God Will Guide.

Just A Thought

Before we implement the rest of ideologies the west holds. The west is changing so many of its ways. The Banking Sector, the Health Sector etc. After objectively looking at their own problems. Malawi like many new democracies are borrowing wholesale western ideologies. And most of these ideologies are really attractive to greed. But in the end they destroy the ordinary Malawians who are really the Nation.

A few days ago people demostrated against the Banks. It is important to remember that people did not have issues with Banks before the
change from Kamuzu's Government. Money was not a worry for Malawians. Malawians had a life and could afford luxury. Not a spoilt kind of
luxury but enough for happiness. The law defines a corporation as a person. In the end the corporation is treated with preference over
real human beings. And real people become slaves of corporation.

We might have interprated the great depression in the 30s US as a way of getting rich quick to the status the US is. But in my opinion,
while great prosperity followed the great depression, we don't have to simulate this depression on our land to get it rich for the seeds of what followed after the depression are still reaping their fruits on the land.

A simulated life created from human ideologies sooner or later will have so many loopwholes that require patching up. One might create an economy. But it might take everything in life to sustain it. Is life meant to sustain an economy or an economy to sustain life.

There was a time Malawi Government did not require donors. But we sold away our sources of income and let somebody else feed us. And we
wonder when they can deny us help for not a supporting a wrong in the name of homosexuality. We are still fighting prostitution, by the way.

There have been decisions made in the past on what to educate the students. That is create a work force to feel the need of the industry. Strimline the education system train workers. After creating
so many workers the market becomes flooded. For those who have been trained fewer trades, survival is hard. It is difficult as well for
the trained to come out and stand on their own. In the end we are filling up holes that have little outlet. No wonder we will end up with unemployment in vast amounts. I am glad Dr Bingu Wa Mutharika has provided facility for the youth to start businesses and required
training. I would love further first degrees be less specialised as possible. This creates a wider understanding for students and helps them overcome life problems better.

There is a health sector that is being destroyed by the western ideologies. It is good to have good health services. They do come with a price. And little by little we are changing a health sector from how it used to be caring for all people to caring for only the rich as is the situation in America which Obama is trying to sort out. Before we
can say, its expensive to care for all, we should ask how did we manage in the previous 30 years.

I think the drug shortage problem started with decentralisation of the drug distribution. The Central Medical Stores has been responsible for all the drug ordering and distribution. When they decentralised the
distribution system ie making the Central Medical Stores act as drug wholesale and each health center given a budgeted amount to purchase its
own drugs. Now here is where it I think it went wrong: with the late budgets approvals in parlament, the health centers had to go on their daily business and ordered without the money inorder to pay back when the budget is passed. So debts accumulated and began to be intepreted as mismanagement of funds(not ruling it out though). And so drugs stopped
flowing.
Here is what resulted:patients began to receive less care. And with the civil service after the government lost its source of income began to receive less and less compasation and became demotivated, even lesser care came to patients from clinicians. Insurance Corporation took advantage. Working with companies to insure its employees health.
While the health services are cheap for companies than individuals it is no problem for companies to insure its employees (by the way, the
better the position the better the care) the unemployed receive less and less care. Then it becomes a trend and a better option for health providers to work with companies than individuals. But who are suffering? The whole nation Malawi of which it is said that 58% are receiving less than K10,000 and around 1% it seems can afford the bills and its only because they are employed. And of these very few are trained enough to establish their own business without corrupt means given the conditions in banks and heavy taxation on the middle class. So Obama saw all these problems that there are major gaps in the population of the United States which are unreached. That's the path
we have been following. A stop and 180 degrees turn back would be helpful indeed.

To build the Malawi he built, Kamuzu wanted it to sustain itself without external support. He looked at all means so that his people
might have Food, Good Health, Shelter and Clothing. Four fundumental priorities of which money is secondary.

He built an economy so strong that at one time we exchange one USDollar to 1MwK. Except for fear of political persecution of which I believe Kamuzu himself is to so many ways might have been very innocent, Malawian People were happy.

While we require checks on absolute power, we don't have to change our culture, economy and way of life for they are nothing to do with democracy.

I think there are ways to solve the drug problem. Forget the decentralisation let the money problem be taken care of by the Central Medical Store's as it has always been. Private Clinics are the one's that buy. And Private clinics here shall mean those that charge for their drugs and treatment. The other health centers, concentrate for the accounting of their drug usage and distribution. This information is vital on predicting what the Central Medical Stores orders. With this setup, little by little patients will start opting for unpaid health centers so private clinics will see less and less the need to buy in bulk the medicine and so stop buying from the health centers corruptly. There might be facilities in place to allow health centers to sell to private clinics and provided its not starving its patients and every transction is accounted for both on the side of the private clinic and on the health center. For the private clinic to declare its source and the said source to confirm.

While this seems wasteful at a quick glance, at national level the expenditure on drugs is the same on a fixed/predictable/known population of Malawi. If it is rationalization, it is better for the Central Medical Store to control the distribution other than money control the distribution. Where do the Money to buy drugs come from? It is the same money that was supposed to be distributed that is now centralised. Better if th money changes a few hands and goes straight to buy the needed medicine than for it to circle around and come back the medicine.

Learning from the fuel shortage solution, while people had fear of its not going to be available tomorrow they would buy so much and keep at home. While the media spoke everyday about this shortage, the people's fear was kept fanned. With people buying more than they needed there was always less and less fuel to be distributed to more and more who came late to buy their share. It isn't really fuel shortage then; for the Government might be stretching its arms to sort this out already. So, let the media stay silent or atleast give assurance. Each person should buy at most a tank full which he will stay with a few days and others would be able to buy their share in this time and the government would have a predictable amount of fuel to import basing on a full tank of an average car for so many cars and so it should be easy to normalise the problem. It worked.

This same principal/concept should work in other areas where distribution is distabilised for fear of tomorrow's lack.

Operation Bwezani: Celtel - Zain - Airtel

Its not long ago we(the Celtel Subscribers) were rebranded into Zain.
We still haven't forgotten the mix up yet and Zain is bought and we
the Customers of Zain are to be rebranded again to AirTel?

While business commentetors have had only good words for this move,
this seems to be very clear and vivid: Buy a company, Squeeze as much
as they can get from it. Put it in trouble resell it Cheap. Pure
business the reseller makes profit(good for him), the buyer(good for
him) what about us(the customers?)

I, a customer, I like Celtel. I used to boast Celtel has the best
services. Zain came it had its own style. To maximise profit, they
change customer care into marketing team. I wonder how we can be this
blind(CAMA?). Technically legally they would justify themselves about
the move since they have an automated menu but its the story in local
folk tales where a hare taking care of the lions children eats all the
meat and smears some blood on the mouths of the little lions and the
mother lion thinks that everything ok till she sees some malnutrition.
Despite the automated menu available, the menu itself hasn't been
accessible for so long.

Here is a situation: companies can make business decisions. And can
indeed exploit its customers. What laws do we Malawians have to
self-guard the consumers? Mmh CAMA? And what laws concerning how
international companies like Zain Operate? We might be running out of
forex but the problem may not be too far(we have opened door to
foreign servises which are expensive). Yes(Minister of Finance) we are
an importing nation that is why we have more imports than exports. The
proper decision is not just to sit and watch, but turn ourselves into
self servicing for a start and then start exporting. We produce raw
materials in bulk and buy the processed products. If the west bought
and processed our products and sold them back to us, should we wonder
why we are not developing?

We the customers, though not highly regarded, also needs stability of
the services we buy. The services providers changing ownership just
like that is really inconsiderate for us consumers. We have preference
also. We should not be taken for grunted. I believe there are or
should be laws which say a company should operate for so long before
being resold. What would stop me from buying a company squeeze a lot
from it, resell it to my brother to rebrand it. My brother squeezes a
lot from it resell it to me to rebrand it(marketing brilliant! so many
promotions and bonuses to the marketer). But what about us consumers?
What of the laws for international companies? Isn't the west
capitalistic? Does it not fight for democracy? Does it not push for
liberalising the economies of us little nations? How many of its
"democratic" ways are to find business for themselves? Yes laws, while
laws are bendable eg. Even in football it is said two yellow cards
before a red one. The coach encourages cripple the stricker and then
we will substitute you. Everybody says good decision for the coach. I
would love to punch and cripple the aggressor even if I am give a red
card by the "law". Laws can be used on an ignorant to exploit them.

I like Mugabe's decision today and would love to boot these foreign
investors like Zain (or is Celtel? or AirTel?) out. It wears a name
like a suit. What do we call it? It has no name, really.

Consumer Association of Malawi(CAMA) you should be able to find a lot
of business for almost every company is in the business of exploiting
its consumers. Its time you got to work.

Aside:
I understand Arsenals problem: it does not give a coach pleasure to
put his own kids in a hostile environment where laws of football don't
even protect. What's with the cup if someone loses a life over it. If
it were war defending one self, I would say fight to the death. But
its play and some people try to put violence in it.

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Of Professionalism and Favours

I thought over my problems with my previous employers and I got it.

When you employ someone with the attitude you are doing him a favour(ie nobody wants him so let me take him to help him), you become blind to some of his good qualities and to his real needs. Everyday he tries harder to deliver his very best but it does not get appreciated for the empoyers expectation is that the guy can't do a good job anyway. The guy sees all this. In his patience hoping things would get better he stays. But the patience can't stay forever.(God is not going to be patient forever, should a man be?) When the guy speaks his mind the employer thinks of him as ungrateful for he expects the guy not to speak his mind after all that he has already done for the guy.

 

He is human, he has needs, he notices injustices. Sometimes he speaks the truth he has always kept to himself in respect of the employer, the employer interpretes this as arrogance(he has never spoken like this before he must have gone real bad). He doesn't get helped anyway. He leaves the place with anger and frustration. This is not good for his CV as well. But whats a man to do? He would burst if he kept all his pain inside. How would the employers know his needs if he kept it all inside?

 

I seem to have been employed by people who were either blind to my good qualities because their employing me was doing me a favour or they saw my good qualities but were bent on abusing or taking advantage of my voicelessness. I really have hurt.

 

I would love to be treated on merit and not favours as well.

From The Heart of A Missionary

In the University House at Livingstonia University, there is a cloth depicting a hundred years of achievements by Livingstonia Mission. These includes:

-The Gorodi Road (might have been derived from gold road - basing on the golden glass along the long winding road).

- The first Electric generator which used to provide electricity for the mission(Now defunct I am told - I am yet to visit the place).

- Own clean water supply (still working)
The place quite and beautiful. While going up the Gorodi Road you get rewarded with beautiful views at each bend that you forget its danger. It really requires an experienced drive to go up it.

 

What caught my eye with interest on this cloth of achievements was Livingstone's Motto. It says "Beyond Borders I Will Try". It has been printed on some livingstonia synod cloths though shortened to "I will try". The interest comes in the light of the rungle that has been there with Livingstonia Synod establishing prayer houses in Nkhoma Synod's Region. While they have been alot of criticism, I myself thought against it, not that its bad but sister synods should not quarrel over this issue, it is really a reflection of what the missionary Dr David Livingstone had at heart in crossing borders to preach the word of God.

 

Nkhoma synod might not have been wrong to cross borders nor may have Livingstonia Synod. Nkhoma after its flock who have difficulties understanding the language in the north. While most malawians understand Chichewa not all malawians understand Tumbuka.

 

Livingstonia synod also after its flock who always have had difficulties being accepted in Nkhoma synod's prayer houses.

Yes, yes borders and regions, is it not worth learning what other people are doing? I would love after being a Nkhoma Synod service near me to once in while have a feel of worship as at home where I have grown up. Maybe Nkhoma synod can also learn from other regions.

 

Jesus said, Leave them be. Those who not against us are for us.

Paul also talked about it saying: some preach the word out of malicious motives, but to the Glory of God people of God are still not hindered from coming into the Kingdom of God. For nobody can come to God if God has not called them nor can they be stopped when God decides.

Equitable Presidential Election

The introduction of the quota system and the choice of chairmanship to
AU of our president gives us two inspiring ideas about that could
remove the regionalism and bring unity to our land. Equitable
Presidential Elections.

We could emulate what's done at AU regional level and put limits like
quota. I believe if I remember my history correctly the greek from
whom we have borrowed the idea of democracy, used to do something
similar. Meet together and decide which city leads them. The Olympic
games I think are bollowed from something like this.

We could do our study and really tailor make a democratic system that
suits our land culture and heritage.

Like they do on weddings in competing to bless the bride and the
groom, it should be a shame of the district or region if they have
failed to lead the nation. Each leader can still maintain the two
consecutive terms if he fails one term, then he loses the tenure of
leadership to another region. If a region has lead impressively they
get a trophy as their leader being put on monuments of the good
leaders of Malawi. In this way, leadeship is no longer a war but a
game. The whole nation celebrates together as one like, in a wedding,
blessing their land and people.

At region level, they get turns after one leader. In this way, each
leader strives to do good for his region and not put his region to
shame. Instead of pleasing a few political figures around him.

A region loses tenure of leadership before the end of its proper time
two terms if its leader is found to be lacking. The time of tenure for
each region is two consecutive terms. That is also the time of tenure
of a person as leader for a life time.
These laws if set it should be hard for someone coming in as leader to
change but rather refine upon agreed national decision.

In this way we would all celebrate together as a nation chosing its
leader as in a wedding. And also put to check power hungry and bad
leadership. Which are problems democracy is trying to solve.

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Before and After Noah: Suppose

Children are more confident and joyful than adults. They have less
knowledge of good and evil. All they know, in their innocence, is
good.
In keeping busy one forgets the worries they have and may live long.

Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, they
died. Right from day one, they hid in fear their lives were full of
pain having known the existance of evil. To keep their minds off the
evil they knew, God had to keep them busy and cultivated the ground.
But the knowledge was too vast. Both of good and of evil.

The Bible talks about Nephilims which were giant beings; interbreeds
of heavenly and human beings. Greek history talks about these as well.
These interbreeds might include animals in a time with much knowledge
lawlessness out of pride was also prevelant that much of nature was
destroyed. Dinasours would exist. There is a verse in genesis among
the geneologies about the world being divided after somebodies birth.
In some versions this division sounds like tribal(at babel) in some it
sounds like division of the land partion of Gondwanaland. Shapes of
continents also confirming in the scientific community.

The destruction of nature must have angered God so much that to
preserve his creation, he destroyed the whole earth with flood. Two by
two, male and female, he preserved animals not yet destroyed by the
interbreeds. He preserved humanity through Noah. At this period, even
from the very beginning, clothes were available as was at the
beginning with Adam and Eve evident from Noah being drunk and being
found naked. Which means even before the flood, civilisation existed.

After the flood the few that survived retained the knowledge from the
previous civilisation. As the population grew, so many groups of
people spread out to different places this might explain why knowledge
and civilisation in History must have started around the Middle East.
But as they spread out much knowledge was being lost while in the
Middle east the concentration of knowledge prevailed. This explains
why some tribes were seen to be primitive.

I was watching a TV documentary on some sea shelled animals in the
Himalayas explaining that it was once under water. This could have
happened during this time. Which means Noah's Ark might have perched
in the Himalayas coinciding with the early settlements of humanity
around the Middle East.

I see through out this time God was at work ridding evil and cleansing
the destroyed nature. In separating the land into several continents
to isolate different beings of nature the farthest being America
beyond which Galapagos Island was found which has a concentration of
what seem to the survivors of some ancient dinosauric era. This
isolation in cleansing for it seems selective coincides with natural
selection as in science.

Even in recent history the world was still in isolation until the
journeys of discovery.

Even the knowledge of God through history has its origin around the
middle east and Paul explains to the Athenians they had sparse
knowledge of God. The God they thought unknown is the God of Israel
and He is the one that created Heavens and the Earth. It is this God
who openned doors for all humans to know him through the journeys of
discovery which always contained missionaries and traders with them.

In the spread of humanity in history, people have always worshipped.
Including american indians who worshipped the sun in a thought of a
God who lives in Heaven. Whom they once knew but not clearly for
knowledge of him was passed generation to generation some knowledge
being lost along the timeline.

While the knowledge of God was kept fresh in Israel, His knowledge was
disappearing among those who had spread out. In spreading Christianity
to other areas of civilisation, God also kept fresh in these
concentrations His knowledge to spreads further to other civilised
areas.

This article has touch on several scientific and historical
observation of the events that occured in history connecting with
those in the Bible.

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Here is a DANGEROUS Item: The Broken Atom

The current model of an Atom is of something ball like. The nucleus has a proton and an electron revolves around.

We were discussing science and religion the other day on facebook. That science is as good as the current knowledge the world has at a particular time in history. Unless more is revealed to it, the world
has no further knowledge. In the times of Galelio, Newton and the others, some knowledge was revealed among us about the reality of the natural sorroundings. Because God created everyone of us, it easy for him to reveal a certain knowledge set to anyone he choses. For instance, he did not reveal Jesus to the jews until an appointed time for the gentiles to know him first. There are stories of protestants, heretics, renegade christians and then there is science denying
religion all because the activities that occured within these ages.

It had been always known that the earth is flat. That was the scientific fact the world knew and there were proofs. When the Galelios knew more
theoretically even before it was proven with tangible evidence, the world regarded them as lunartics/heretics/renegade and prosecuted some
for denying the scientific evidence so prevalent even within the church.

(Funny thing is that the same desire for discovery of the concrete evidence that the earth is round, saw missionaries reaching all over
and it is in fact missionaries who discovered more than scientists. Their knowledge of the places also brought slave traders, of coarse.Lest we forget. More like: after Babel the devil had been limited in
his destruction. When the appointed time came, God wanted to spread His
knowledge world over and opened doors to it's unity. But evil found its way again. So it is with Globalisation. While good spreads so fast so does evil.)

It was very clear in our discussion on facebook how an atom could be something made out nothing. Take an atom as a representation of what is tangible in the eye. Looking at the masses of different matter, different quantities can be sub divided into smaller atomic quantities of which for same masses of the substance, there seem to be a fixed number of these atomic quantities. The average of the number was taken and this is called the Avogadro constant. This number is now used to
interpolate between the macro and the micro level of a substance. This is why mathematical calculations in chemistry tally with reality
because the interpolation is good.

Take atoms of oxygen put in a baloon. For the same quantity if heat up, the baloon expands. If cooled down the baloon contracts. But the number of atoms is fixed. What keeps the balloon ball-like is the movement of the atoms.

Why does radio active material have to be contained in special material without which they corrode everything they came in contact with? I could explain it in the model of a balloon. And this baloon at
atominc level. I believe(after having visualised but not had concrete proof) that there are hiearchies of substance even at atomic level
which are somethings made out of nothings: the protons/electrons/neutrons also more of like balloons of nothing or of somethings which has no substance in them. More
of like harnessing the wind or holding the wind in one's hand.

The protons/electrons/neutrons are, at atomic level, held in an envelop like(is it a field?) Which when broken, the contents spill out with some force. These in collission with other substances around, form dents. And the dents become holes which collapse within. This could explain the corrosion(why substances are eaten away), I think.

In this way, breaking the envelops of these sub-atomic elements becomes a dangerous thing in that different substances behave differently. For tin, it is known that in contact with the atmosphere
it reacts with some gases and forms a coat around itself and the corrosion is arrested. For tin like substances, it might be safer. With the collider recently built some substances might be broken without having been properly studied to contain their activity.

On the other hand the idea of a substance present at creation(Bing-Bang as they call it), somehow makes me think. Nobody likes to be in a
cage. Creation is in bondage because of the fall of adam. But here is the ultimate freedom all matter would have when the time comes.

To do a mass prison break of so many substances so jailed without destroying anything, one has to plan in detail and put containments in place otherwise risk destroy everything. To plan every detail it should really take a long time. Creation was done in six days. But this has taken thousands of years(or is its implementation?). There will be a trumpet, and our bodies shall transform. The old earth shall disappear and a new one shall come in it's place. That's the ultimate freedom for all creation. The
rapture. More like an inversion of matter which is currently in bondage.

At the moment creation growns, like in birth pangs, waiting for the sons of God to be revealed. The reveletion of the children of God brings salvation to creation with it.

There are many who have overcome the faithlessness of science and understood that the earth was created by God. If science had faith, it would have hope that the problems it sees have solutions for there is someone who was there even before the problem occured. As it is difficult to build a boat in the middle of the ocean but on land, it
is difficult for a human being to solve problems of the earth than He who is not of the earth. For He created the world, he knows the detail of each problem and the best solution to it. He reveals these things to His people.

Knowledge is good. Proverbs advises seek it. In seeking it, many have found him who is truth. They have learned about
the creator of the things they study. Many rejoice in discovery. Others are hopeless in the things they discover for they find no solution to them. For they see the evidence of a creator and they deny it. In denial of his existance they are deprived of a hope they would have to overcome the fear of the possible.

Take heart though. There is nothing impossible with God. So Jesus says about the rich young man. He must have seen the man having been helped to
salvation when he said this. If He changes Paul a persecutor of the church, who can He not change?

Those who call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

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The Blessing of The Older and The Younger

They were born twins. The father when the kids were born had nothing
to take care of them. He blessed them in pain and said, the young
shall bless the old and the old shall bless the young. They always
moved in twos. One top the other just nearby down low. In my mind was
like hanna and hlekwase for I saw them seated as such. He released
them and said if you my children suffer don't blame the father. Be
kind to each other, there are two guys I know who take care of each
this way. Dave and Chisomo. I don't understand why. The father was a
bird the kids were birds, what kind of birds live this way? I saw a
bird once they were supposed to fly over a house. One seemed to have
been trapped within the compound. The other was looking out a way to
get the other out. They had no jurisdiction to fly over but who owns
the airspace anyway?
The father had to repeat the blessing twice for he had mixed up the
words on the second time the words came out right: the blessing of the
older and the younger. For the yound to bless the old and the old to
bless the young. Such a blessing of Jacob on Joseph's Kids ephreim and
manasse. A criss-cross of a blessing he himself received from his
father and mother. The father who had blessed Jacob meaning to bless
Esau. Esau who had grown up not wanting to be a slave of the younger.
That he overworked himself so many times to avoid this. It came to an
extent of selling it for food for he had now become tired. I wonder.

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An Equitable Idea for Implementing the Equitable Qouta System

They could use a greed algorithm: Start from Chitipa select best ten in Chitipa the Karonga, etc by the time they reach Mwanza I bet a person with 6 points in Nsanje won't find a place at the university. If it starts from Nsanje the government is really in big trouble considering the history. A round-robin algorithm seems optimal: at each level select at least one student from each district. If a district does not have a six point student it waits for its highest. The reasoning is: its not possible to have a district with the highiest without 6 credits(36points). This is using the pegion hole principle on thirty districts. And this round-robin algorithm harts increment for those districts which have already satisfied this to allow for others which haven't until each has 10 students. The harting is in the event that the required number of selected students is nearing 36points and other districts still have less. It is safe to hart it 36 for using the pegion hole principle, it is very probable to find well over than 10 students with 36 points.



The students district description shall not mean the ancestral district but the district of the school from which the student is selected. For accountability's sake, a school name and points of the students be broadcast as always has been the case. If a students points have or school name has been misrepresented there should be proper mechanisms for queries and follow ups.



I wonder if this hasn't been the case. I wonder why they could not think this already if it hasn't been the case.

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On IE6

There has been a discussion on a mailing list I am part of about letting IE6 (internet explorer version 6) go.

Most computers especially Windows XP come with this version pre-installed. For non-technical people, this is no problem at all. But to developers it is. A web developer spends so much time to make sure his website looks the same in all web browsers. If there are 5 browsers, that is supposed to be 5 times the work he is supposed to do. Other browsers have move on to create standard compliant browsers. Even Microsoft wants to move on. This is why they have updates IE7 and IE8. Which are now standard complient. Even though the work of programmers is still a little tough looking at differences in rendering engines, it much better than the pain IE6 causes.

Updates are available but IE6 is still around what's wrong. When IE7 was coming on there was a requirement for a genuine OS to run it. This put out most of the users from upgrading. For countries like Malawi, IT professional would really find it difficult to get their own copy of OS(Is there one available? I am looking for one with unlimited installations that would be cheaper for me). The OEM versions required activation by phone which is a little expensive for me and most of IT professionals and technicians who do most of the maintainance in our companies. This really drove back IT people to opt for cracked versions of the operating system which could lock up with IE7 update. So what's the need for an update if it takes a way what you can at least use to get the job done? You only want to check mail, do some spreadsheets write documents and occassional presentations and print. For a user, the update is useless. But who gets hurt?

The developer has developed a very good website to impress his customers. He has tested on most browsers it works but has forgotten that most bosses are still using IE6. And they test it, it is broken all over. Sometimes it is not really his problem. Maybe he has used a reputable web development frameworks which make work easier but all developers are now tired of having to work for IE6 as well for it is a pain. Even reputable frameworks have decided to move on without IE6. It becomes a problem still for the user of the framework for he is now the one losing the moneys for a good work he has done with so much effort.

How do we resolve this? It is supposed to be a collective work at different levels from Microsoft itself to the Windows User to the Framework developers the developers and technicians. As long as OEM still have glitches installing, as long as there are no OS with unlimited licences, as long as they don't follow standards, problems of piracy, breakdowns like IE still remain. They got billions already its time they became a little peaceful with their customers. Generousity is also good. Not all technicians are aware of the recovery partition some wipe it clean with a pirated version. How do technicians operate when most available software are restricted to one or at most 3 installations? This includes anti-viruses.

With OS issue resolved the work of the system administrator is easier. He can now update to newer software versions without glitches. Then the Web developers is happy.

Microsoft can help developers by providing a mechanism to prompt the user to update. Macromedia had flash player, adobe has acrobat reader, microsoft has silverlight, it can also have IE6 update. Though dialup users would still be at a disadvantage. (And yes, there still exist something called dial-up and it becomes very convinient than broadband at times)

In most cases, the system administrator has problems convincing management to buy an OS, and other software. Looking at the expense and the available usable, it is seen as a luxury for the management. Because the management is always busy, it becomes difficult for the sys admin to convince them. So because the sys admin also has a job to keep he also goes for the available usable. He could buy a personal genuine but what's then need when he can use it for only one computer and its useless. He would rather crack himself one and save himself some bread and milk for his family at home. The boss doesn't care why should he? He would have trouble explaining to his wife what he has done with his salary if he bought a genuine antivirus for the company. What the heck!

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