<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Chris Fowler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cfowler@outpostsentinel.com">cfowler@outpostsentinel.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Sun, 2011-07-24 at 22:38 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> My kids use Linux. My 12 year old is happy pounding command line. My<br>
> 21 year old was very adamant when she was getting a laptop for college<br>
> that it "not run that windows crap".<br>
><br>
> In the past 20 I've seen no good reason to park a child in front of a<br>
> windows machine so much so I almost consider it child abuse to run<br>
> windows around kids.<br>
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</div>This girl is 6 and wants to watch Netflix. I don't think I can run<br>
Netflix under Linux yet. When I can, the windows crap is gone.. <br></blockquote><div><br>Yeah. We solved that with the Wii.<br></div></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>-- <br>James P. Kinney III<br><br>As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to
consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as
they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the
outcome.<br>- <i><i><i><i>2011 Noam Chomsky<br><br><a href="http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/</a><br></i></i></i></i><br>