Qumahlin
Never Enough Time
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| reply to john262
Re: Throw out some fliers
said by john262  :To say that the elderly will be "the most befuddled by the DTV switch" is ageism at it's worst. The elderly are just as intelligent as anyone else. No, the elderly can be just as intelligent as everyone else, but when you add in the various ailments, memory problems, behavioral patters (as most people get older they become set in their ways), it's not ageism to state they are the ones most likely to be confused and surprised by this upcoming change.
Most elderly people I know have not yet upgraded, or felt the need to upgrade to digital cable. I promise you if I ask them right now what they plan to do when the DTV deadline comes around they would simply stare at me like I was speaking an alien language.
Do I know some tech saavy elderly people? Yes, hell my 79 year old grandfather replaced his processor, heatsink, and ram without any help from me a month or so ago; however that is simply not the norm.
To call this ageism would be like calling me a sexist if I said men typically make more then women.
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