If one thing really annoys me, it's people bashing Americans as if they're all the same.
Yes, Americans, in general, are like the whole world thinks they are. I know. I live in America. But this amounts to blind discrimination--like happened in the US to blacks before the civil rights movement. Maybe some blacks were like the majority of Southern whites thought they were. Definitely some--more than a few--Americans are like the majority of Europeans think they are. The point is, though, some aren't. Some people in the US drive SUVs because they know that the rest of the population do, and if they ever get hit by one, they want to survive. No matter what the reason for there being a lack of public transportation, the fact is nobody can use it if it's not there. For Pete's sake, only 51% of the voters elected Bush, and the rest who voted for Kerry, even if they didn't really think much of him, knew he was the only real alternative. Not all Americans are fat, either. We don't choose our country of birth; therefore, do not prejudge based on it.
Fundamentally, the problem is that most users don't see computers as something to configure, they see it as a tool to use.
I have a school teacher who knows nothing about computers. She does email, since people have come to expect that of her, but I'm positive she doesn't know what a browser is. When people like her hear of Firefox as a browser, they think it is something that is too difficult to figure out. When they hear of it as something that magically protects you from malware, they think it's too good to be true. They simply think that malware and spam and so on are they price you pay for using the internet. And with her, she has decided that it--viruses, spam, identity theft, and even the belief that there is no useful information out there-- is just not worth it, and thus will remain uneducated about it.
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Just like owning a scale is evidence of marijuana use and/or sale.
Free software is like communism. I do not consider that a bad thing.
If one thing really annoys me, it's people bashing Americans as if they're all the same.
Yes, Americans, in general, are like the whole world thinks they are. I know. I live in America. But this amounts to blind discrimination--like happened in the US to blacks before the civil rights movement. Maybe some blacks were like the majority of Southern whites thought they were. Definitely some--more than a few--Americans are like the majority of Europeans think they are. The point is, though, some aren't. Some people in the US drive SUVs because they know that the rest of the population do, and if they ever get hit by one, they want to survive. No matter what the reason for there being a lack of public transportation, the fact is nobody can use it if it's not there. For Pete's sake, only 51% of the voters elected Bush, and the rest who voted for Kerry, even if they didn't really think much of him, knew he was the only real alternative. Not all Americans are fat, either. We don't choose our country of birth; therefore, do not prejudge based on it.
There is no such address.
Probably they get looked at funny. This has been mentioned long ago, only about Mac people at MS.
I have a school teacher who knows nothing about computers. She does email, since people have come to expect that of her, but I'm positive she doesn't know what a browser is. When people like her hear of Firefox as a browser, they think it is something that is too difficult to figure out. When they hear of it as something that magically protects you from malware, they think it's too good to be true. They simply think that malware and spam and so on are they price you pay for using the internet. And with her, she has decided that it--viruses, spam, identity theft, and even the belief that there is no useful information out there-- is just not worth it, and thus will remain uneducated about it.
Slashdot already ran a story about this document, IIRC.