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• Thursday, August 14, 2008 12:46 AM

  Breathtaking

  I can't believe how many luddite apologists there are on this board. Using a computer isn't an important skill? Are you fucking kidding me?

  Anybody who has tried to produce any kind of multi-person, coordinated intellectual work product without computer technology is aware of the immense speed and efficiency advantages provided by computers. Being able to receive an email, examine the documents attached, quickly check a key point against internet references, make edits, and send back the revised copy is so much faster than doing the process without a computer. Sorting and accessing thousands upon thousands of important messages ("emails," we in the 21st century often call them) takes seconds on a computer and minutes with a filing cabinet. Explaining what you need done to an assistant who can use a computer is still much slower and cumbersome. The governments of other countries are adapting and using technology to their advantage. We can't afford to fall behind.

  After eight hellish years of Bush's bumbling, horrendous incompetence, how about we try an intellectual and technologically savvy President? Or would you rather have a bellicose, senile luddite riding first class in the telecom big-business gravy train, a man who is either too lazy or stupid to learn how to access the largest collection of human knowledge in existence.

  Do you people actually expect our technology policy to be competently shaped by some clown who can't even send a fucking email? Give me a break.

  —Mishima Read Mishima's other letters
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