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How American Homeless Stay Wired

theodp writes "San Franciscan Charles Pitts has accounts on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. He runs a Yahoo forum, reads news online and keeps in touch with friends via email. Nothing unusual, right? Except Pitts has been homeless for two years and manages this digital lifestyle from his residence under a highway bridge. Thanks to cheap computers, free Internet access and sheer determination, the WSJ reports that being homeless isn't stopping some from staying wired. 'You don't need a TV. You don't need a radio. You don't even need a newspaper,' says Pitts. 'But you need the Internet.'"

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  1. gay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    will suck cock for wi-fi. i'll take it in the ass if you throw in a cup of coffee!

  2. Re:And yet by bigblacknigger · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yeah, because they're niggers. Niggers steal stuff. Except fried chicken, niggers are more than happy to support the fried chicken industry. Except these dirty coons.

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  3. Re:Facebook status: "LIVING UNDER A BRIDGE! HELP" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
  4. Re:And yet by Kerstyun · · Score: -1, Troll

    Trader Joe's is a popular place for gourmet dumpster diving.

    LOL @ U. Before I through takout contianer's away, i flick booger's in them. Or just a littel bit of poop.

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  5. Warning: known troll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
  6. Re:You Don't Know Anything About Homelessness .... by Cernst77 · · Score: -1, Troll

    It seemed to me that around that time the availability of jobs took a sharp nose dive. It was like the recession that was brewing during the dot-com burnout along with the Enron and Worldcom scandals came to a full boil after the attacks and well on through the year of 2002.

  7. Re:And yet by bandmassa · · Score: 0, Troll

    What's disgusting me is that you're talking about it like it's acceptable for there to be no housing safety net and no welfare safety net. "I'm homeless, but it's OK, I can find a shower and net access." It's not OK. A society which doesn't look after its homeless, it's sick or it's unemployed is NOT civilised. Homelessness, regardless of who is "to blame" is an inhumanity, the abandonment of some citizens by those better off. I NEVER want to live in the USA and I'm so glad I don't live there. It makes my so angry that wealth and technology are more important than social justice.

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  8. Re:Great New World by 4D6963 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Oh shit, a wild specimen of a pedantic syntaxologist!

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