[OPLINTECH] OPLINTECH Digest, Vol 66, Issue 8

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I'd like to suggest this alternative headline:

How to cut the cord, like this 75-year old Armenian woman did.

Richard Shively
Network Administrator
Greene County Public Library

On Apr 15, 2011, at 12:00 PM, oplintech-request at lists.oplin.org wrote:

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>   1. Re: Internet-killer at Large (OPLIN4cast repost) (Nathan Eady)
>   2. Re: Internet-killer at Large (OPLIN4cast repost)
>      (millerst at oplin.org)
>   3. Re: Internet-killer at Large (OPLIN4cast repost) (Shelley Bylica)
> millerst at oplin.org writes:
> 
>> Did you catch the blurb in the OPLIN4Cast?  .... just can't make this
>> stuff up...
>> 
>> -----
>> 4/11/11 edition of the UK Daily Telegraph...
>> Woman who cut internet to Georgia and Armenia 'had never heard of web'
>> 
>> A 75-year-old woman arrested for single-handedly cutting off the internet
>> in Georgia and Armenia has tearfully insisted she is innocent and had
>> never heard of the internet.
> 
> I find that claim very easy to believe, actually.  We're talking about a
> rural area in the Caucasus, very much a part of the third world.
> 
> You'll note that the report says the incident took "many thousands" of
> people offline.  I don't know how many thousands, but presumably less
> than a million or they'd have worded it differently.  Georgia and
> Armenia have a combined population of around eight million, so obviously
> most people in those countries don't have internet access.  The ones who
> do would presumably be concentrated in the large cities.
> 
> A couple of quick searches turn up no other reference on the internet to
> the village where she was arrested (except for reports of this
> cable-cutting event itself), so it's apparently quite a rural location.
> It is not, for instance, findable with Google Maps.
> 
> If she hasn't been to the big city for a few years it's entirely
> possible that she's never met anyone who had ever had internet access.
> 
>> ... I'm telling you, one day of Amnesty, that's all I want.  This tactic
>> is getting added to the List of Things I'll Do The Instant I Can Get Away
>> With It.
> 
> You want to cut off internet access to Armenia and a large part of
> Georgia?  To what purpose?
> 
> -- 
> Nathan Eady
> Galion Public Library
> 
>>> ... I'm telling you, one day of Amnesty, that's all I want.  This tactic
>>> is getting added to the List of Things I'll Do The Instant I Can Get
>>> Away With It.
>> 
>> You want to cut off internet access to Armenia and a large part of
>> Georgia?  To what purpose?
> 
> Nathan,
> :) Well, obviously not Armenia and Georgia, per se... they've already
> experienced it.  I'll now have to pick other smaller places with
> up-and-coming netizens... like Iowa or Calgary. :)
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> 
> The most recent OPLIN4cast is titled: How to bury a cable
> 
> ANSWER: Where Grandma isn't going to hit it with her garden spade. 
> 
> How about that for a dirty joke, lol!
> 
> 
> Shelley Bylica
> Public Services Librarian,
> Marvin Memorial Library
> 419-347-5576 ext1
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: oplintech-bounces at lists.oplin.org
> [mailto:oplintech-bounces at lists.oplin.org] On Behalf Of millerst at oplin.org
> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 3:01 PM
> Cc: oplintech at lists.oplin.org
> Subject: Re: [OPLINTECH] Internet-killer at Large (OPLIN4cast repost)
> 
>>> ... I'm telling you, one day of Amnesty, that's all I want.  This tactic
>>> is getting added to the List of Things I'll Do The Instant I Can Get
>>> Away With It.
>> 
>> You want to cut off internet access to Armenia and a large part of
>> Georgia?  To what purpose?
> 
> Nathan,
> :) Well, obviously not Armenia and Georgia, per se... they've already
> experienced it.  I'll now have to pick other smaller places with
> up-and-coming netizens... like Iowa or Calgary. :)
> 
> Steve
> 
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