Now We Have the Internet, But Why Do We Need It?

ReLik writes "BBC News is reporting on a survey carried out on the statistics of internet users in the UK, 'While the battle for digital access is being won, we now face a struggle to convince everyone the net is worth using' said Professor Richard Rose, of the Oxford Internet Institute. It begs the question why goverments around the world are encouraging everyone to use the internet, but is there really enough of a reason for everybody to need to? Is the internet suitable for everybody? Will it ever be?"

Comments

Re:$$ in my pocket

[zapp]

Or maybe you could get a real job. HTML, Javascript, DHTML, and Flash are not "professional tallents".

I would have a little respect if you claimed to write web based applications, because they atleast require a little programming knowledge, though most are still shit php/perl scripts.

Re:The internet is a failure.

[Moofie]

Wow, you're really all over the place, aren't you? The psychological phenomenon you're undergoing right now is called projection, whereby you map your own shortcomings onto the people around you.

Allow me to take your points in order (which is my favourite way to deal with whiny little trolls. Dance for my amusement, puppet!)

If you have a way to implement a moderated internet, I hope you do so immediately. The rest of us will be sorry to see you go, but we'll find a way to soldier on. Arrivaderci, you whiny little asscrack.

I'm going to skip the security patching comment. I have no idea where that came from. Well, that's not true...it came out of your fevered little cesspit of a brain. Let's put it back in there, shall we? It's gauche to show that stuff to polite company.

I'm not sure what you think "people like me" is supposed to mean. I take it from your hamfisted use of parallel structure that you're trying to disparage me, which might work if I had anything like a concern about your opinion. So, proceeding from my projection hypothesis, it sounds like you need a hug there, big guy.

Your next statement shows me that, in addition to your projection issues, you have a superiority complex by which you think you speak for the, what, 750 million worldwide users of the Internet. Well, take me off your list, homeboy. You don't speak for me. (And, I've got a sneaking suspicion that you don't speak for the other 749,999,998 people that are neither you, nor me, but that's just a guess. Maybe you've got a mouse in your pocket.)

In point of fact, I purchased and built my dad's computer for him. And my mom's. And my sister's. And my grandfather's. So, your disparagement of my technical acumen is, well, amusing.

Go ask your mommy for a cookie. You'll feel better. Come back when you feel like having a civil discussion, you whiny little assgoblin.