[OPLINTECH] OPLINTECH Digest, Vol 66, Issue 8

Fri Apr 15 13:13:57 EDT 2011

SUMMER READING PROGRAM ACTIVITY FOR ADULTS!!!!

"Cutting Your Internet Addiction"  Bring your own metal detector and a
shovel.

> 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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