https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/cameron-university/student-life/diversity/chart-ethnic-diversity.htmlhttps://cameronaggies.com/sports/baseball/rosterthe430miler wrote: an all black college in lawton Oklahoma. It was called Cameron. It was 49 percent Nigerian from africa, and 49 percent black American. Either way it was 99 percent black.
You can find other news stories in the area of the hoodlums killing a Australian baseball player down the road in Duncan because he was white.
OP, I really feel for you.
How dare an "old lady" show her face in public when it's full of wrinkles and crowned by a cap of hair "white as snow." The nerve of a woman of 89 or 90 thinking she has the right to brazenly and openly use a computer at a public library where a younger man of superior quality and delicate sensibilities such as yourself might catch a glimpse of her and find the sight distressingly "shocking and strange."
You are so right to have denigrated this woman by likening her to a dog and condemning her for having an odor you found distasteful, repugnant even. Clearly she should stay home hiding in shame, or be sent to sea on an ice floe.
I hope you sue for the offense and "harm" this awful old bag has caused you. Computing while elderly in public places is truly a scourge of our time.
98. At an assisted living place that my daughter managed. The guy is on it about four hours a day terrorizing fb and Twitter. I'm 83 and have given up on Twitter, too much uniformity and too little creativity. FB I quit because of the political trolls and shallow discourse.
On here because, when the posters are sharp, they are very sharp, and, except for the stunningly stupid small crew of haters, the posts are informed and we'll written.
Jason Mason wrote:
Most ppl over 65 have never and will never use a computer.
They are afraid of them. It was part of their penetration growing up.
Whether or not that was meant to be sarcastic, the sad fact is many "yoof" today seem to believe it. Because they confuse being born during the era of PCs, laptops, smartphones, tablets and the internet with being a member of the generations who invented 'em.
For the record: Steve Wozniak is 69. Steve Jobs would be 65 today. This year, Bill Gates and Tim Berners-Lee, long credited with inventing the world wide web, will both turn 65.
Most of us "younger oldsters" in our 60s who aren't tech whizzes but were fortunate enough to have attended uni in our youth have been using computers since our teens or 20s.
After all, it was nearly 50 years ago in the 1970s that massive mainframe computers began to give way to both smaller networked and freestanding desktop machines in the workplace, where they quickly proliferated. Kits for building one's own self-contained portable computer for personal use were a very big thing amongst hobbyists and technophiles in the 70s. Affordable factory-made desktop "personal computers" or PCs - along with smaller, more portable machines like the Osborne I and Kaypro that paved the way for sleek, lightweight laptops a bit later on - became commonplace at work and in homes in the USA the early to mid 1980s.
My Mom age 87. Doesn't use it daily but at least every other day. She was a secretary back in the day so she can type fast as hell. What turned her on to computers was not having to use white-out.
OP has no clue. I know people in their mid 70s doing research on quantum computing. Some of them are wrinkled ladies...
chemprof wrote:
OP has no clue. I know people in their mid 70s doing research on quantum computing. Some of them are wrinkled ladies...
Better yet, K. Ruedenberg is a 99 year old quantum chemist who still wins competitive federal grants against young profs in their 30s and 40s.
My grandma will be 90 on Nov. 3 and she uses a computer, and an Android. She also is able to walk 16-minute miles.
the430miler wrote:
Jamin'sHSClassmate wrote:
We've been over the fact that we all know you're lying about being an "adjunct professor." You never even finished at any of the three colleges you went to. So just stop pretending.
I went to 7 different universities, 2 of which were HBC'S. (historically black colleges). The one that I did NOT receive a degree or certificate from was an all black college in lawton Oklahoma. It was called Cameron. It was 49 percent Nigerian from africa, and 49 percent black American. Either way it was 99 percent black. I dont even know if the university even still exists or not. The whole school was really really pushing this African safari them and was totally decorated like an African safari. I went there for 4 semesters before going to LIU in Brooklyn and my grad school in spain.
The problem at Cameron in lawton was racial and social. The comanche Indians do have a headquarters in lawton, but none if them go to that school. The school is all black. I tried making friends with a Nigerian boy in the cafeteria and asked him are there lions in his home country. He went crazy and said yes they are in zoos and jumped on the table, ripped off his shirt, started banging his chest, and then started hitting me. The police were called over that huge riot.
3 weeks later, my roommate who was asian and also pretty much the only other non black in the school, was stabbed to death in the bathroom showers on the 10th floor of the dorms where we lived. We lived in the 10th floor of a nasty old dorm building on campus with no hot water and broken elevators.
He was stabbed for being racially different. No doubt.
After the shower stabbing, I left Cameron university. I went there just shy of 4 semester. Can't believe I survived that long. You can find other news stories in the area of the hoodlums killing a Australian baseball player down the road in Duncan because he was white.
Was anything you wrote true? I guess the part about lions being in zoos is accurate. So I guess just the rest of it was lies? And borderline racist.
Yes. That was a very censored version.
Cameron was my 4th university. Went to 3 others after that. Bringing the grand total to 7. I never had any trouble at my university overseas in Spain or at LIU in Brooklyn which is where my masters is from. Most of the problems were at the 4 Oklahoma colleges.
I am very blessed to be here coaching, and now professing, in SanAntonio. I will never go back to school as a student. I've served my time.
Well said!
Some of us oldies were the ones that were there when the Commodore, Osborne, Kaypro s etc were coming on the scene. I loved the Kaypro 11 with Perfect Writer. I used an early p.c. that I put together from purchased parts, with the old 8" floppies, for work. Maybe created the first computerized I.E.P form for my Special Ed. Class (so far as I knew) using Formtool and a set of "batch files" that reduced frequently used phrases into one or two keystrokes.
Since then physical size has been greatly reduced and storage and capacity hugely increased. But with more moving parts and functions (as in cars) the gates to problems and security risks have opened, and there are more things that can, and do, go wrong.
Kids always think their elders are slow and backward.
Little do they know ?
RunRagged wrote:
Jason Mason wrote:
Most ppl over 65 have never and will never use a computer.
They are afraid of them. It was part of their penetration growing up.
This year, Bill Gates and Tim Berners-Lee, long credited with inventing the world wide web, will both turn 65.
Anyone who credits Bill Gates with creating the WWW needs to learn how to use Google and read up on the subject.
Damn the comment editor for this site sucks. Sorry for the butchered quoting above.
The last time that I saw my aunt using her computer (investments etc), she was 98; I did not see her in a home setting after that. She lived to be 100 and a few weeks - survived the Holocaust on a fluke (she was Jewish) related to her being a Nation Champion swimmer in Yugoslavia.
It goes without saying that Tim Berners-Lee is the one credited with "inventing" the www, not Bill Gates along with Berners-Lee. Obvs.
Even people with only the most cursory knowledge of the history of modern computing know that Gates's claim to fame is that he's a founder of Microsoft. And that Berners-Lee has always taken a much different approach to Gates in myriad ways.
Even in jest, no one in their right mind would ever credit the grasping Gates with inventing the web. If he had invented it, the web no doubt would be very different, starting with the fact that it wouldn't be free and access wouldn't be open. Rather, it would be full of virtual toll booths and gatekeepers charging tariffs at every turn.
Also, if Gates had invented the web, that annoying paperclip guy from Windows 98 would probably be popping up on every webpage to make us all want to smash all our screens with a hammer just to get rid of his pesky presence.