[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
}- There's a fellow at the theatre where I work. {...}
}- He HATES computers.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is *HIS* problem, and his employer's problem, not your
problem, not my problem. Dumbing down his computer won't help
him or you or me. And I might add, it is his *RIGHT*. Where is
it written that everyone will suddenly wake up one morning with a
love of computers? And why should computers be any different
than anything else in this vein? I don't like politics and no
one has yet come and forced me at gun point to work in politics.
I don't like strawberry ice cream and the Good Humor man has yet
to come by on his neighborhood rounds and force any down my
throat. I *CHOOSE* not to work in politics. I *CHOOSE* not to
eat strawberry ice cream. The man you mention also has the right
to *CHOOSE* and if it means that much to him he is free to find
another job or line of work where he doesn't have to use a
computer. Here comes the hard part, where all the cry-babies
start whining: what he must realize and understand is that there
are consequences to his own choices and his employer also has the
right to *CHOOSE* - and may very well choose to find someone more
computer-friendly for his job. Yup, it's called being
responsible for one's own actions (choices), a concept I realize
that is becomming more and more unusual.
Windows advocates and defenders need to make up their minds.
First they say, "Stop picking on little Billy Gates. He simply
offered a product that people liked and *CHOSE* to buy." Then
they turn around and say, "People are forced to use Windows."
It makes no sense. It's one or the other. You can't have it
both ways. You will have to choose - ha!
As for the rest of us, I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that
there are many people on this list who are proving EVERY SINGLE
DAY that they can get along just fine without Windows, do all
their work, etc. No one is forcing them to use Windows.
And some of us, myself especially of late, do not suffer fools
gladly. Why should I, or anyone else, suffer because your man
in the theatre hates computers? Why should I have to be
subjected to dozens of meaningless virus warnings because of him,
and others like him? He has made his choice, let him accept the
consequences while I do the same for my own choices.
Boanne
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