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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Just Carl, post: 755132, member: 4552&quot;]Truer words were never spoken. Being old I&#039;ve attempted to hire kids to cut grass, pull weeds, shovel snow, etc. All just either laugh or walk away. No kid in my area would be caught doing anything labor wise for any amount of money. If they want or need money, they just ask thier parents. All high schools have massive parking lots around me. One kid I know that lives about one block from the school parking lot drives to school each day. Our area has been installing play grounds of all kinds in the area and they are all basically just something to look at since they are not used by kids. Why should kids do that when they have all those computer games. </p><p><br /></p><p>As GDJMSP was saying there is so much junk on the internet that it is really not even safe sometimes for kids to read the wrong thing. Many stories are published without any facts and are just copied from somewhere else. </p><p>In schools more and more of them actually require kids to have either calculators or computers. Many schools have computer labs also. </p><p><br /></p><p>Not to drag out this but at a meeting in an Engineering company working on Nuclear Reactors there was a discussion going on about the spacing of transmission towers. It was agreed to space the first 10 at 100 foot intervals. One recent graduated Electrical Engineer pulled out a calculator and said &quot;I&#039;ll get the total distance for you in a second&quot;. And that really made me wonder about to much automation in our minds.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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