PC-less good stuff
With you on that direction -->
Methinks that for many.. it's not just the utter glass-fragility and OSS (OpenSieve Software) that frosts their pineal glands.. it's the unutterably nit-picky Boolean BS that IS 'computing'.
Telephone: you pick it up, hear dialtone and.. dial. Or, it rings.
For e-mail, and perhaps a lot of web-based info (if not the cutesy Flash.. but maybe that too??) -- you shouldn't have to know about - -
defrag, DOS-box, Registry, format/s, pip B:=A:*.*/V, run Stinger239, regedit, cha cha cha
Very Intelligent people rebel at the tyranny of 0 vs O yada; the sooner we head for rudimentary vox HAL 8999 - the better for legions. Maybe later on, they can explore a *nix desktop, all auto-detected hardware'd up from a Cee Dee; later and slowly... move into the arcane. This would make sense with one's shiny new 6400 x 4800 digital camera, ferinstance. You need a Reason to (be willing to) Suffer - and NOT: just to get fscking e-mail!
Trouble is .. Shrub ain't the only Grade-1 Stubborn-ass Mule; Billy still thinks his crap is Da Futchah and he/they lies with the inborn talents of Rove; always has.
And over all practical matters: those Huge $$ which 'Conservatives' would not like to $ee made redundant. Y'know? It's Machiavelli City in these parts.
Luck going against the Flood,
Ashton
