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2015-06-01 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Rich kids use the Internet to get ahead, and poor kids use it 'mindlessly'

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Posted by Fred 2015-06-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11124 views ] Top

#1 People in the west who are poor have a poor attitude.

No amount of fining the (genuinely) productive will change that, in fact it will make it worse.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2015-06-01 05:29|| 2015-06-01 05:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Circumstance, lack, and indolence blamed on computers, the internets, Bill and Melinda. I recommend a Pol Pot solution. How am I doing so far ?

Posted by Besoeker 2015-06-01 05:41|| 2015-06-01 05:41|| Front Page Top

#3 "You must all know half a dozen people at least who are no use in this world, who are more trouble than they are worth. Just put them there and say Sir, or Madam, now will you be kind enough to justify your existence? If you can't justify your existence, if you're not pulling your weight, and since you won't, if you're not producing as much as you consume or perhaps a little more, then, clearly, we can not use the organizations of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us and it can't be of very much use to yourself."

-- George Bernard Shaw, communist

Posted by Hupomolet Thomosing6528 2015-06-01 06:14|| 2015-06-01 06:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Wait....how do the poor have such open access to the internet and computers and such again? Oh....cause they're only 'poor' compared to people here.

Yep, our poor have flat screen TV's, computers, air conditioning, cars and smart phones.

Posted by Silentbrick 2015-06-01 06:57|| 2015-06-01 06:57|| Front Page Top

#5 ...meanwhile the real world poor in Haiti, Honduras, Guatemala desperately want to be statistical American poor.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-06-01 07:38|| 2015-06-01 07:38|| Front Page Top

#6 Reducing the concept to it's basic principles, you get:
There are users, and there are losers.

Posted by ed in texas 2015-06-01 07:44|| 2015-06-01 07:44|| Front Page Top

#7 Giveme a chisel and a chunk of rock and I will end up with a pile of little rocks, just like most of us.

Posted by Glenmore 2015-06-01 07:45|| 2015-06-01 07:45|| Front Page Top

#8 Darn, just moments too late to get to see what inanities Knuckles had for us the morning.

Posted by Glenmore 2015-06-01 07:47|| 2015-06-01 07:47|| Front Page Top

#9 The poor are poor for a reason in this country and it ain't racism or the rich repressing them.

Posted by DarthVader 2015-06-01 10:18|| 2015-06-01 10:18|| Front Page Top

#10 A technology that reduces all the world’s information to ones and zeroes may exacerbate our division into haves and have-nots,

Candidate to most stupid declaration of the year.

Posted by JFM 2015-06-01 11:02|| 2015-06-01 11:02|| Front Page Top

#11 geez...don't Obama phones have a browser? Poor is a relative term. It's all about what drives you as a person...relative wealth is irrelevant for this discussion.

Posted by Warthog 2015-06-01 15:14|| 2015-06-01 15:14|| Front Page Top

#12 Candidate to most stupid declaration of the year.

Hey, JFM don't be too harsh---what'd you do if you had under average IQ + a burning desire to be considered an intellectual

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-06-01 15:21|| 2015-06-01 15:21|| Front Page Top

#13 #3 Hupomolet Thomosing6528, many of us may not be able to justify our existence but the 2nd Amendment insures it.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-06-01 18:27|| 2015-06-01 18:27|| Front Page Top

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