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[David Nebenzahl]

On 6/13/2010 12:28 PM Adrian C spake thus:

On 13/06/2010 19:51, David Nebenzahl wrote:

Them: Don't want that. Can YOU buy ME a computer so I can look at the
www internet thing? I'll give you the money.

Me: No.

You sound like exactly the kind of know-it-all elitist that these folks
*don't* need.

Correct. If I could be left alone ...

If you have the skills to help them, why don't you?

"Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish
and he'll sit in a boat and drink beer all day"

Didn't make it down to the bottom of my post, did you?

It was exactly what was at the bottom of your post that I was commenting on.

Instead of kvetching about what clueless and uncurious fools these
people are, you could have helped them: solved their problem, and (I'm
assuming) gotten paid for it. They would have been happy, and you would
have made some easy money.

Unless you see your mission as some kind of misplaced computer literacy
campaign. Obviously, these folks don't care *how* their computer or this
internet thingy works; they just want it to work. Is that a crime?


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The fashion in killing has an insouciant, flirty style this spring,
with the flaunting of well-defined muscle, wrapped in flags.

- Comment from an article on Antiwar.com (http://antiwar.com)

 

[Adrian C]

On 13/06/2010 20:36, David Nebenzahl wrote:

Unless you see your mission as some kind of misplaced computer literacy
campaign. Obviously, these folks don't care *how* their computer or this
internet thingy works;

Agreed.

they just want it to work.

Nope, they want me to do their work for them. Personal assistant like.

Is that a crime?

It's a punishment on both sides.

Take ten years from now, a lot of people, young and old, will be lost
and confused as electronic communications become more fundamental to
"life, death and taxes". They will also be feeling rightly ripped off,
as everyone else has access to the cost benefits of shopping on line.

You call my worry about that a "misplaced computer literacy campaign"?

Perhaps in the future we will see folks employed as "technology personal
assistants" in the same vein that people employ personal accountants
today. I'm not talking about Best Buy 'Geek Squad' resolutions to
technical problems. Nope it will be someone skilled who can move a mouse
and fill in a web form, for those that won't :-(

I want another job, something more worthwhile than that...

--
Adrian C

 

[Meat Plow]

On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:27:46 -0700, Jeff Liebermann ǝʇoɹʍ:

On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:47:32 +0100, Adrian C <email@here.invalid> wrote:

No it's not really. Do you do IT work for an elderly-folks assisted
living home?

I do some. (Hint: I'm 62.5 years old). Few computers in assisted
living, but in the independent living section, my guess is about 30% of
the apartments have computers of some sorts.

Funny how kids count their years in fractions like "I'm 7 and a half."
Once you're 21 that stops but picks back up in your 60's

Well if I survive another 4 months that will put me at the half century
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