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        <title><![CDATA[It will continue]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-336603-3680430]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Yes, indeed. We are going to pay for the 70's for a very long time. ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:01:37 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Division and the single cell]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Love it! ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2012 13:57:06 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[End Users Questions]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A few of the letters sound like the type of poetry that would warm the heart of Gertrude Stein. Others do seem to be language problems, and some of them sound like something their teacher made them write.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jayohem@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2012 13:47:23 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[20 off-the-wall emails from the technically clueless]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Such is the price of your fame and apparently global reputation for knowledge of all things beginning with bits &amp; bytes on up that you receive solicitations to be a &quot;computer friend&quot; of one correspondent and the object of affection of another.I realize that formalities are somewhat compromised in online verbal communication but it boggles the mind that many of these writers have no concept of basic sentence structure or that the syntax of their communication is so garbled or non-existent as to make themselves incomprehensible.It is frightening to glean from these emails that many of the authors hold relatively high level positions with broad responsibilities. I fear that the emergence of the internet has exponentially increased the numbers of examples that &quot;The Peter Principle&quot; is alive and well in the 21st century.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[dhlund@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2012 05:48:16 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Lying is illegal?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Last time I checked, lying was not an offense under civil or criminal law codes. (Of course, perjury and fraud are special exceptions to this statement.)]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2012 05:57:13 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Fixed mine...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I did find a grammar mistake in my post. I corrected it. You might want to fix up those multiple question marks in your post.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2012 05:47:29 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I don't know where to start either.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Premise: I don't think all these people are stupid.What I do think is that our public education system has failed many of these folks. Computer/social networking shorthand has further ruined whatever these people may have learned about sentence construction, spelling, grammar and clarity of thought. Not everyone needs a college education, but the three Rs are still essential, basic, building blocks for learning other subjects and for communication. President Bush wanted no child left behind. Unfortunately he and Congress and our state education leaders don't know we are leaving millions of children behind. These emails are proof of that opinion.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[radar_z]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:02:29 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Your point?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[You just said, &quot;they are far less so [i.e., unqualified]&quot;.  So they are far *more* qualified than you?  That being the case, I don't understand your feeble attempt at making a point.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Matt3141]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 21:21:16 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[EDLIN!!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Wow, I'd completely forgotten EDLIN.  Even in the DOS days, I didn't use it...!  (PC-Write was way better...)]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Frank_Boston]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 12:26:35 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I just love these kind of people.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This is the kind of person that tells everyone that they built there own awesome machine from scratch, but fails to mention that they have to take it to someone else when there is a simple problem. But kudos for trying i guess.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[ClintonEv]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:30:31 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[&quot;where to being&quot;?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I think you trusted your spellchecker on this....]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[penngwyn]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 09:42:54 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[And yet...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[As either funny / appalling as these emails may be, you should see the official letters I received from IT Management during my last year working for local government supporting the IBM Mainframe as a systems programmer.I read them, as did several others, and they made no logical sense at all -- none.It isn't clear what the problem really is, but it's a big one and it is also scary to think the millions of dollars they control each year between the two IT Managers who are married to each other in open violation of County Law against conflict of interest. It is your tax dollars at work and the fact that it includes Federal Grants for millions of dollars really does make it a problem for all tax payers in the United States.Fortunately, they RIFfed me and I'm retired, having a great time. I learned one thing the hard way: Do not work for narcissists, sociopaths, psychopaths and nut jobs who are immoral, unethical and illegal, asking you to do illegal things (like, &quot;You will lie to IBM!&quot;) -- it just isn't worth it. No one can solve people problems with technology, neither can anyone solve technological problems with politics.It just appears to me in my limited experience of over 41 years in IT, that the world is seriously deteriorating and professionals in the United States are passing the baton to Generation Whine. The result is a dysfunctional environment of unqualified people where it is impossible to be incompetent.Moreover, management is totally incompetent, cutting budgets, but demanding more product / service in the vain belief that some how the quality triangle can be cheated and it just has to be possible for the lowly workers to produce quality cheaper and faster. The overworked is simply the collateral damage.Hiring incompetents as demonstrated by at least some of these emails is an indication that there is a decided decline in the standards and measurements for ascertaining competence in the work place.This is not an harbinger of anything good.(But truthfully, I can see how many could find Bill so appealing  )]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[premiertechnologist]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:35:29 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Unable to following links on AOL]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Bill - That's not a TS rabbit hole, it's a TS Black Hole!  If you are successful at helping even slightly solve the problem you are destined to receive many more that give bizarre a run for the money]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ole88]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:30:19 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Mental Wiring]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[&quot;I've gradually concluded that some people are just more wired for correct spelling than others. A visual cortex thing, perhaps?&quot;The inherited talent for spelling is related to musical aptitudes.For further information, read &quot;Be Yourself&quot; by Margaret Broadley, written for the Johnson O'Connor Research Foundation (www.jocrf.org).]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[premiertechnologist]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 07:52:37 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Good grief people!!!  Where did you learn to write?!?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Nice article Bill! I've always said, &quot;If you want better answers, ask better questions!&quot;Now, let's talk about language: Good heavens people, learn how to write! I am not just referring to the authors of these awful help requests, but to nearly every one of the people who responded to this article.  Practically EVERY response here has spelling, grammar, punctuation, capitalization or other errors in it.I have worked for many years with people from over 35 different countries for who English is not their first language. I've seen things in broken English that are sometimes difficult to understand. But I must disagree with the respondents who suggest that we need to &quot;cut some slack&quot; to the requestors in this article because English is not their first language. It is very easy to tell when someone who speaks a different tongue is trying to communicate in English -- there are grammatical constructs in their native language that get imposed into the English statements.  That is not the case here -- these writers are (to be blunt) either illiterate, lazy, or a combination of the two. Without trying to sound too radical, it is a clear illustration of the decline of society's communication skills.As professionals, we need to set better examples. When we communicate, both in written and spoken forms, we need to use the language properly. We need to make sure we use proper grammar, correct spelling and appropriate punctuation and capitalization.  We are the most connected society that has ever existed, yet our communication skills seem to have dropped completely off the scale.  Let's clean it up, people. All of these grammatical tools and rules were created to help us convey our messages clearly and without misunderstanding. If you need an example, just remember that capitalization is the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse, or your uncle jack off a horse.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[ChiefEngr]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 07:51:18 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[first one]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[can you send ME the key for that bREALLY Expensive Adobe Photoshop ???? PLEASE ????]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[sightsandsounds]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 07:09:39 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[WOW!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Hi Bill, I enjoyed reading all the &quot;tech&quot; questions.  Some were really funny and some were an attempt at trying to decipher a code used for sending messages to the enemy! Thanks for sharing]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[sherriperry@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 06:28:07 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Just a thought...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I won't deny it.  The English language is one of the most difficult languages to learn, much less master.  How do you keep your wits about you when trying to decipher the &quot;gobbledygook&quot; you receive?  You probably have enough of this grammatical sludge to write a book--for those who could read it, of course.....]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[flanative27]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 06:11:26 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Piracy: In the eye of the beholder?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The requests for product keys do make you wonder. Did they come from areas of the world where piracy is the norm rather than the exception?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 05:38:25 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Not funny]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Not to want to take anymore of your time to read the comment after wasting several minutes reading the emails, so I will sum it up in one word.      Stupid!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[GriffinTech]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 05:05:25 -0700</pubDate>
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