Re: Banned from the PowerBASIC forum

Judson McClendon wrote:
>
>"Tom Lake" <tlake@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>>>any person who is "connected" enough to have Internet access and
>>>>a compiler to run a compiler on will also be "connected" enough to
>>>>have a phone line. I know lots of people who have Internet access
>>>>without a landline telephone, but all of them have cell phones or
VOIP.
>>
>> OK, maybe whoever posted this originally doesn't know of anyone
>> who doesn't have a phone, but I certainly do (several in fact).
>> ALL their communications are via Internet.  They don't own a cell phone
or
>> PDA.  If they're not at their desk or at home, you can't reach them.
>> That's the way they like it.
>
>They don't have VOIP?  No way to actually speak with anyone else, other
>than face to face? Yet they have a computer, Internet access and are
techie
>enough to have purchased a BASIC compiler (which is what I described)?
>I doubt there are large numbers of people like that.

No.  They don't have VOIP.  You appear to be unable to understand the
basic truth of like that some people have preferences that you don't 
have, just as you appear to be unable to understand that people who 
cannot hear do not, as a rule, spend money for telephones that they
cannot use.

Claiming that everyone has a phone again and again doesn't make it 
true.  People who don't like to use phones exist.  People who 
cannot use phones exist.  In fact, 3.5% of US adults don't have 
a phone, and 90% of the population in India has no phone.  Large 
areas of the world have no telephone or cellphone service available 
to individual homes but do have local Internet Cafes. Deal with it.