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[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Stevens wrote:
> On Sunday 23 December 2007 18:11, Terry Eck wrote:
>   
> > From Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary:
> > idiot, 1: a person afflicted with idiocy; esp: a feebleminded person
> > having a mental age not exceeding three years and requiring complete
> > custodial care.
> >
> > I think you mean an ignorant person.
> >
> >     
>
> Nope. Idiot is the correct word to describe the vast majority of otherwise
> "educated" people who sit in front of a computer. Their actions
> fit the dictionary definition to a T. Just ask anyone who has worked
> desktop support.  I know degreed professionals that will call up and 
> tell me that they can't get on the internet when what they really mean
> is that they cannot access a web page somewhere. They don't
> understand what Internet Exploder or Firefox is but they know if
> they can get into Yahoo (which is their home page). They use web-based
> email instead of a local pop3 client only because they cannot
> understand the difference, even after it is explained for the umpteenth 
> time. After all that, they still cannot understand that their email is
> in some server in Northern California (with Yahoo mail, of course)
> Etc ad infinitum.
>
> The scary part is that these people vote.
>
> I say again: IDIOTS
>
>   
I have a friend like that.  She buys all sorts of things, such as MP3
players, DVD players, her computer etc. and gets little or no use from
them, because she won't make the effort to learn how to use them. 

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