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From Gang Bangers to Web Developers?

Posted by Cliff on from the turning-ones-life-around dept.

evenprime asks: "The Economist is running an article about a program that takes gang members in Milwaukee, sends them through rehab, and teaches them web development so that they can have a decent paying job. I think this type of program - one that gives people the ability to help themselves - is a great idea, and it is something that many of us could help with. Do slashdot readers know of any similar programs in other places? If so, what type of qualifications do you think they would require before allowing someone to help teach web design?" Such programs are just too damned cool. Are there any others like it?

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  1. VANILLA ICE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    The original and FIRST gang banger


    VI


    Eminem's mom is a good lay.

  2. To Quote Outkast: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Don't pull your thang out, unless you plan to bang.


    Don't even bang, unless you plan to hit some-thang...

  3. Re:requirements for the staff positions... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Project: Lockdown [projectlockdown.com]...Redefining Cincinnati Hardcore

    Yeah, you sound like a milwaukee regular.
    BTW - you humor sucks as bad as your band (I live in cinci).

  4. Gangbangers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Aren't there already enough pr0n sites on the web? Do we need to train more gangbang participants to be webmasters?

  5. Re:requirements for the staff positions... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Georgia, could it be possible that you're black?

  6. Re:They should be pretty good at it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I don't get it...

  7. coo... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    java and da damn web da sheit!

  8. Re:It just goes to show! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Web development is easy... anybody with half a brain and a cock and do it. Hell, even my 90 year old grandma is doing web development.


    Are you meaning to inform us that your grandma has half a brain and a cock???... nice.

  9. Re:Reminds me of Thompson's W-2 program by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I didn't know you could get pregnant from only going to second base!!!

  10. Re:Poor Choice of Title by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mod all three of the above posts up, to make yahoo up there look like the stupid fsck that he is.

  11. Re:"Gang Bangers" by CYberPhreak · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    you mean the part where a gang bang is really some form of group sex or an orgy? I live in the US, and I had not previously heard this usage of gang banger to refer to street toughs.

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  12. Re:Gang bangers? by DunbarTheInept · · Score: 1, Offtopic



    GOTO 4

    ?LINE NOT FOUND

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