[Winnipegger]

Zipperfish: Usual internet rudeness. When I grew up, people from Transcona looked down on the North End as much as you guys do. My father even locked car doors and rolled up windows when driving through. But my parents bought a new house in a new development in Birds Hill when I was in grade 8. I escaped. But when I visit now, the separation between west Transcona and east is completely gone.

I volunteer at an organization that provides computers to low income individuals. When government departments and crown corporations upgrade their computers, rather than throwing old ones in the garbage, they're refurbished and given to charitable organizations. Well, lowest end ones are given, the relatively more capable ones are sold at a modest price. The organization I volunteer for is one that gets them. We require low income individuals attend one week training course for computer fundamentals. The idea is to give them the skills they need to get a job, so the course teaches office skills. The course is free, but they have to complete it to get a computer. The computer is then a 2 year loan. If they break it, then can bring it back for free repair. I do the repairs. We only provide free repairs for computers we issue, if you buy one then you have to take care of it yourself. But I'm allowed to give out my business card. About half the customers for my home business come from that referral, so my work isn't all altruism. But I get to see what low income individuals are really like. My family has always been frugal, but I've been surprised. Most do take care of their stuff; unlike many spoiled rich brats I've met.

But you're just being an internet troll. I notice your profile icon; let me put this in words you'll understand: "I AM GROOT!"

[herbie]

How speshul.
The gov't pretending their recycling their old crap while at the same time demotivating people from coming up with $250
How many were Windows 7? I know, none. The useless gov't hasn't even got to Windows 7 yet...
Did you change them all to Ubuntu? If not even if you volunteered your time you wasted more than they're worth.

[Baddragon]

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

I've been around the world and seen that only stupid people are breeding.

Thats not true, I met a smart man in Vancouver.

[Winnipegger]

herbie herbie:

How speshul.
The gov't pretending their recycling their old crap while at the same time demotivating people from coming up with $250
How many were Windows 7? I know, none. The useless gov't hasn't even got to Windows 7 yet...
Did you change them all to Ubuntu? If not even if you volunteered your time you wasted more than they're worth.

We issued Windows 2000 when Windows XP was current. We issued Windows XP when Windows Vista was current. When Windows 7 came out, we continued to issue Windows XP. Um, Vista, need I say more? When Windows 8 came out, we issued Windows 7. We've issued Windows 7 for a couple years now. We do have Linux Mint as an option, and a couple volunteers liked to push it, but most people take Windows 7. If a client brings back his/her computer too many times with virus infections, the supervisor forces them to switch to Linux. We also had a few Mac computers, but they were a couple OS generations behind as well. The few Mac's we get now have Power-PC processors, so the only generation of OS-X they can run is too far back. Over the last 4 years we got a total of 2 current iMac computers from universities, but they had blown power supplies and missing hard drive. We were able to repair them, but since we got so few, they were used for the lab.

By the way, most people on welfare can't afford $250. A single individual gets less than that for two weeks.

[herbie]

Don't take it personal, I needed a Snickers fix...
The gov't offices around here are just now upgrading to 7. I used to refurb machines and give/sell cheap to people around here. Problem is - they can't afford a computer but they can afford $50 a month for Internet?
Same issue when some goodie-goodies here insisted the town need a free hotspot for 'low income' people. Pointed out that the fact they owned a laptop precluded the poverty excuse.
Used to transmit the fastest wireless in town from my shop's hotspot. With a feel free to make a donation sign in the window. Had treeplanters come in and tell me they all used it overnight and stuff a $20 in the can. Not one local person over ten years put in so much as a nickel. Drove by at night, there they were in their fucking Audi watching Netflix in their car so they didn't get overages at home. Cheap bastards, all.
Gifting an XP computer teaches them WRONG.
Gifting Win7 only teaches them to be consumers.
Selling them a Linux box for #35 they have to learn how to use a comuter and instlls the fact there's some value to a computer system. Half the people who got free systems from the Band Office were in my shop trying to use them as trade-ins.

[Jabberwalker]

Baddragon Baddragon:

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

I've been around the world and seen that only stupid people are breeding.

Thats not true, I met a smart man in Vancouver.

Only one?

[ShepherdsDog]

Wouldn't have been North Van

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

Line from a song actually. One hit wonder from the 90s. Harvey something.

Harvey Danger. The song is Flagpole Sitta