I appreciate your sentiments, Brian. I get a little crabby and write a little too figuratively trying to maintain privacy. The company "Square" referred to apparently makes an accessory to pocket computers that processes credit cards and other personal info. The company was started by a founder of "Twitter." My daughter also worked at 3M making LCD displays. My point was there are yet many opportunities for digital innovators. In regards old people, the 80 year old crop farmer who taught me welding now teaches me how sophisticated computerized farm machinery has become. And in a food processing plant a computer breakdown is a big deal. And medicine is almost all computers. The energy industry, same. My basic point is that we rely on computing for most everything now. I am amazed by the resources available to innovators. And the need to develop serious skills in the US has never been greater. I'm sorry if I sound like yet another complainer. Brian Wood wrote: > Rick Engebretson : > >> And the "mainframe CPU" can now be some of many amazing pocket sized >> systems, many of which made Apple a leader again. And I know nothing >> about all those amazing micro supercomputers either, except my daughter >> was an engineer with Apple. She just started at Square, and I know >> nothing about credit cards either. > > I don't know much about credit cards either. It's been over > ten years since I had either a credit or debit card. So far > so good. Those companies have teams of lawyers that > aren't thinking about your best interests. If you don't have > lawyers to help you, the credit card companies will eventually > figure out how to squeeze you. > >> But I do know there will soon be a lot of old people in nursing homes >> wetting their pants if they don't have a babysitter. That babysitter can >> either be an unhappy young person or electronic. > >> From what I've seen of nursing homes I can't recommend them. > While there are some caring people that work at them, I think > they have lazy and not so caring people working there also. > I read an article in the Villager about a care group for caregivers > that meets in a Lutheran church. To me helping people stay > in their homes is a better approach than nursing homes. I've > heard of "Visiting Angels" and other groups that can help with > that. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list