Phoebe's paper
After a series of raging debates, the new Tobacco Hazard Prevention and Control Act has been implemented officially as of January 1, 2009. When the said policy was carried out , it caused dismay among the smoking population in Taiwan.
Surprisingly, this piece of legislation is not of recent origin as the Tobacco Hazard Prevention and Control Act was legislated as early as 1997 but efforts to implement the said provisions of the law has been in vain.
Albeit strong opposition, the government has expressed concerns about creating a smoke-free environment by creating safeguards and rules on the law.
Taiwan’s version of this law was inspired by Singaporean Government which pioneered on such environmental reforms as early as the 1970’s. However, it was not until the 1990’s when the law gained acceptance among the Singaporean populace.
Benchmarking from the Singaporean version of the law, the Taiwanese government as early as December 1, 1986 has been aiming to be a smoke-free environment like the former. The Singaporean anti-smoking law provides that it strictly forbids nationals smoking in public places such as buildings, transportation, etc. Those who violate the law would be subjected to hefty fines as high as SGD 2,000 (equivalent to around NTD 45,000). This is the measure that the Taiwanese Government aims to emulate in practice. In addition, harsher measures were also in place such as revocation of the admissibility qualifications in school.
Wondering what to do with code
Last semester, I spent my late afternoons with my professor learning incomprehensible codes that made up the websites we get ourselves acquainted with. Not only acquainted with but get addicted to, get our blood pressure pumping or allow us to drift to our dysfunctional existence. I never appreciated the hard work that came along with creating a web site that can pass as visually stimulating. Perhaps when God poured the "techie" brains upon the earth, a number of us were shut behind the door. That brain of course, consisted of a highly complex structure with a huge tolerance for advanced logical operations. A blessing not rather bestowed to the rest of us. Those codes, which I rather consider bizarre, does not fail to get me lost in the myriad of archaic computer language. I find this worse than Mandarin, ancient Greek and Latin combined.
I was lucky to be guided by my professor in a mark up language that most computer geeks find so simple. So simple, I'm not surprised if they give me stares that look like "uhhh why are you soooo stupid" while stomping my feet in the middle of computer lab reminiscent of a spoiled brat. A brainless spoiled brat that is. This language is called Hyper Text Markup Language, otherwise known as HTML for brevity.
I appeal to the kind hearts of those learned in the language of computers, can someone please enlighten me in the art of computer language, whether that's PHP, HTML, CSS, SQL and whatever.
I personally do not deserve the 97 I got from my professor. He does have a kind heart. Enlighten me. For those kind souls please email me switylegal@live.com.
Labels: Computers, CSS, Help is needed, HTML, Information Technology, IT, PHP, SQL
