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Re: floppy eject buttons [was: What's a Real Computer?]

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From: Hotel California
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 05:32
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In article <danpop.807225941@rscernix>, Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:
> Don't be so sure.  In my experience, Joe Mac User is very proud of his
> computer illiteracy (isn't this the main selling point of the Mac's?)
> and tries very hard to preserve his status quo.  This is aggravated by the
> fact that one specific problem doesn't tend to repeat very often, so that
> the user who doesn't understand what's happening can use his memory to
> remember the meaningless (for him) sequence of actions that has to be
> performed in order to fix it.


There it is, folks, right there^.  It is summed up nicely in one short,
concise paragraph.  You got really good grades in English class didn't
you, Dan?  The typical stereotype of Mac users being dumb and not wanting
to learn anything.  Get bent.  Mac users are not like that.  While we're
on the subject of stereotypes...  damn all these niggers stealing all my
stuff, of course the Germans will take care of them, I need a good
acountant, know of any good Jews?  
Damn Mexicans, coming here and taking all the jobs.  Damn Japs, buying up
all our property.  Damn whites, so oppressive you know.  There, I think
we've exhausted enough of those.

Just because it's easy to use doesn't mean you have to be ignorant to use
it.  Actually you'd be ignorant not to use it.  You spend less time
troubleshooting and more time being productive.  And you can learn all you
want about it.  Not have to read the whole manual (or man pages) in order
to be productive.

--
Hotel California, Not the stereotypical 16 y/o
hotelca@cris.com
P.S. everything in my first paragraph after the elipsis (...) are not my
opinions but those of narrow minded, bigoted individuals.  Sorry if it
offended anyone.
"Dan Pop, the Archie Bunker of the computer set."  Yes I know it'll
probably start a flame war, so?
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: floppy eject buttons [was: What's a Real Computer?]
Date: 1 Aug 1995 05:32:22 GMT
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