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In article <1992Jan21.152728.16754@midway.uchicago.edu> matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Matt Crawford) writes:
>Kee "my knee is jerking" Hinckley, who by the way seems to be including
>a small commercial advertisement with his every message:
I had serious mixed feelings when I put that there, but congrats, you're the
first person to mention it (outside of people asking for info) in two years.

>) You are dreaming.  Secretaries all over the world know how to use
>) typewriters and maybe Microsoft Word.  Secretaries all over the world
>) think Unix is someone who had a nasty accident. 
>
>Kee, you have no experience with *this* piece of the world.  Secretaries
>here use unix, emacs, and tex.

Listen, people can quote their own examples to me all they want - but
extrapolating from your experience in a technical or university
environment to the world at large is a big mistake.  If you take "all
over the world" to mean "there are some people in most parts of the world
(that use computers) who..." then sure.  I took the phrase to mean that
there was a predominance or large minority, which is how it's usually
intended.  Since Unix itself is not a large minority of existing 
computer systems I find it seriously doubtfull that secretaries who
use them are.  If you still don't buy this argument let me know and
I'll start calling temp agencies in Boston and get back to you with
some real numbers for this (very technical and hi-density-university
area).
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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.