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To: Freedom4US
"Still, there is a huge demographic that doesn’t know anything about computers and probably will never care to learn."

A couple of weeks ago I was in rural Appalachia having lunch at a hole-n-the-wall. Sitting next to me were two old coots who were talking about their lawnmowing jobs.

I overheard one quiz the other about why one shrub at a big job wasn't growing. The other rustled himself up enough to say that he would "look it up online when he got home tonight to see if it was a low light or full sunlight shrub."

The moral of this little incident is: when rural Appalachian old-timers have adopted the Internet...***EVERYONE*** is on-line.

So don't go kidding yourself that there are people who aren't online. Maybe at a few nursing homes on invalid beds, but the rest of the U.S. is online now.

46 posted on 05/28/2008 12:43:38 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack

Nah, the plural of anecdote is not data. Trust me, there are millions who don’t *like* computers, and want nothing to do with them.


47 posted on 05/28/2008 12:57:54 PM PDT by Freedom4US
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