Subj : Re: Browser for Older OS and Older Users To : All From : rlamont@shaw.ca Date : Thu Jan 31 2019 19:14:19 Path: eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!n ews.glorb.com!peer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.h ighwinds-media.com!post02.iad.highwinds-media.com!fx23.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Rene Lamontagne User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support,alt.windows7.general Subject: Re: Browser for Older OS and Older Users References: <20150506170614@news.eternal-september.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 33 Message-ID: <3FI2x.25269$rF4.24561@fx23.iad> NNTP-Posting-Host: 50.72.129.128 X-Complaints-To: internet.abuse@sjrb.ca X-Trace: 1431000767 50.72.129.128 (Thu, 07 May 2015 12:12:47 UTC) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 07 May 2015 12:12:47 UTC Date: Thu, 07 May 2015 07:12:47 -0500 X-Received-Bytes: 2233 X-Received-Body-CRC: 36795836 Xref: mx02.eternal-september.org microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support:31710 alt.windows7.general:123655 On 5/6/2015 10:59 PM, VanguardLH wrote: > Roger Blake wrote: > >> VanguardLH wrote: >> >>> Saturating the market means reaching ignorant consumers. >> >> I've given up suggesting that people should know what the hell they >> are doing, it's just met with squawking about elitism, etc. Idiocracy >> is our future. > > Texting and social sites are destroying content. No contemplation, no > review before send, nothing much important but just a bunch of short > inane scribbles, and the Pavlov response of having to immediately reply. > Ooh, got a text, have to reply now while ignoring everyone around them > with whom they're supposed to be socializing. They're becoming isolated > anti-socials despite the pretense that they're communicationg with > someone. They won't call the other party and actually talk with them > because their speech and cognitive abilities are horrible. > > Father Guido Sarducci's "5 Minute University" > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLAd4NzuqYM > > Sad is that he wasn't that far off. > You're so right VangurdLH, The cellphone and texting are the most Stupid antyisocial things ever invented. Regards, Rene --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.1 * Origin: Prison Board BBS Mesquite Tx //telnet.RDFIG.NET www. (1:124/5013) .