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Unread 02-08-2002, 04:35 AM   #38
Brad
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not all 16 year olds can build computers. For two years I worked at the school computer lab, from 15.5 years old to 17.5 years to be exact.

At my school every student had a laptop. We had people say things like:

my hdd is broken (windows wanted to enter safe mode, upon further probing the person had just turned the computer off when it was starting up because she decided not to use it)

how do I play music on my laptop (he wanted to get mp3's off the 'net)

I've broken the internet (someone had given him a cross over ethernet cable not a normal one)

my computer won't start (forgot to charge the battery the night before)

stop sending me porn (just a random emailing list thing, she thought we were doing it)


etc

I could go on like this for pages, all from students aged 12 - 18. Quite simply, people are stupid, regardless of their age.
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