Why>?

Why are there humans that still have no ability to find the internet? Why? Okay. I understand hard economic times, so you may not have internet at your house. But do you know that there are such things as an INTERNET CAFE? It is a magical place that servers coffee and biscuits and they have computers, just sitting there for you to use.
Also, there is a library, they indeed have computers with internet connections. Perhaps a friend has it on their phone or netbook. I would think with minimal effort you would stumble upon a slightly out of date computer running Windows 97 and dial up. Still works, it gets you to the very same internet that the rest of us enjoy.

Why then> Why? Can people not take care of their urgent business matters? Renew subscriptions, receive emails, generally keep up to date on the things important to them?

Is it because they really love the human contact of calling on the phone? Is it because they love the tactile bliss that is handling a pen and holding a piece of paper in their hands... OR IS IT the fact that people are far to lazy to haul their buns across the street to the library and take care of their own shit?

I have a similar story. Not related to the intarweb (again, a vast network of wires and tubes whereby one computater can speak to another...) This has to do with a different level of lazyness where i find myself asking... WHY?

I live on the third floor of my apartment building. In the land of Las Vegas, we like our apartment entrances on the outside so we each have our own door to the world. However, there is a hall connecting the front of the building to the back of the building (also outside.) Now, I live on the front side of the building, my parking space is on the back side of the building for an unknowable reason. I, therefore have to walk through this hall every day at least twice.

My wall neighbor, whose apartment door is at the top of the steps I frequent, has a habit. She likes to leave her garbage outside of her front door. I presume that this is so that she can grab it on the way down the steps and toss it in the dumpster before she drives off. Well... that rarely happens. What usually happens is the garbage that has been lovingly placed in front of a major walkway blows away, often off of the balcony and even more often... down the hall.

What do I do? Rather than let it pile up in there, or worse, blow down to my front door, pick it up. Walk it down to the dumpster... *sigh*

My WHY>? in this story is how could you let your trash fly away, clutter a hallway, and or fall on people? How could you be so lazy as to not walk your happy ass down to the dumpster? Two flights of steps? Come on, you could use the cardio.

Wonder if i should take a big crap on her doormat...? It that excessive retaliation?... I did have to pick up her tampon once...

I have beef.

I work for a publishing company that does a lot of internet interactions. We send out emails to our members and we have several websites. All of which are secure and trustworthy. If you buy something from us you will get it, your credit card number is encrypted and no one can ever see it.

So here is my beef. I honestly have gotten 100s of emails from people who begin to sign up for something (which clearly costs money to be a member of) and freak out when they are asked to enter credit card information... How were you expecting to pay lady?!? Then I get these self righteous emails proclaiming that they never give out their credit card information to anyone on the internet... Well! Good for you!

Here is the flip side of that: we have a pay by check option. But they get an email and a phone call telling them that their service will not start until we receive their check... How can we operate a business this way? (By not giving you something for nothing perhaps?)

I am really sick of people who intentionally paralyze themselves with their fear of technology. Do you bank online? Do you pay bills online? Guess what?! And you know who else has all of your information on the internet? Your credit card company... yeah. Sorry people, they are far too big to house information in files in some elaborate maze of cabinets in an underground vault. (could you imagine THAT job? ... Gotta get the file... there it is... approved...)

So what I am really saying is... IF you choose to cut yourself off from 90% of the world (In other words, shopping, bill pay, research, services found on the internet for purchase) that is entirely your problem and please don't complain to me when you decide that your credit card number is too important to be encrypted and charged through a system of wires and tubes.
*twitch*