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- From: jtv@xs4all.nl (Jeroen T. Vermeulen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 96 22:06:42
- Organization: Leiden University, Mathematics & Computer Science, The Netherlands
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- In article <3156ec8f.4045620@news.onramp.net> dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com (David Corn) writes:
- > On Sat, 23 Mar 96 16:48:41 GMT, Jonathan Belson
- > <jon@dookie.demon.co.uk> wrote:
- >
- > >Thanks to Intel's/Microsoft's brainwashing of the public, your average
- > >computer buyer just latches onto buzzwords like 'multimedia', 'pentium' and
- > >'windows' without a clue what they mean or signify.
- >
- > I think that has a lot to do with the availability of software and
- > hardware in the user's area, as well as the user's belief WRT the
- > quality of the above.
-
- I think it has a lot to do with people like Bill Gates telling them that
- technology is "magic", to be revered and served but not understood or mastered
- by lowly users.
-
- "My Windows 95 PC wouldn't connect to the network today. I tried the Keyboard
- Reset Chant and several settings incantations but in the end I had to call for
- a Microsoft shaman who quickly determined that there were evil daemons in my
- machine. He exorcised them using both a DOS box and the Mouse Device so I
- guess it was pretty serious.
- Everything works fine now, he left me a floppy with an effective talisman.
- Boy, I wish I could have the same power and knowledge as that shaman--but
- ordinary people like ourselves will never be able to fully grasp the deeper
- meaning of PC technology, much less control it for our own purposes.
- It truely is magic."
-
- People who use an Amiga have thought for themselves which is evil.
-
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- # Jeroen T. Vermeulen \"How are we doing kid?"/ Yes, we use Amigas. #
- #--- jtv@xs4all.nl ---\"Oh, same as always."/-- ... --#
- #jvermeul@wi.leidenuniv.nl \ "That bad, huh?" / Got a problem with that? #
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