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One in five Amercans clueless about email
FIGURES FROM Parks Associates claim that one in five people from the former British colony of Virginia have never seen an email, while 20 million households, or 18 percent, don’t have access to the world wide wibble.
Which means that two percent of the US population have internet access but have never received an email according to our resident mathematician.
Half of those who have never used e-mail are retired or had no formal education beyond a high school level.
What was stranger was that a third of household heads has never used a computer to pen a document.
Only seven per cent without Internet access want to sign up in the next year. Apparently the reason for the slow take-up is that many don't see a reason to use computers.
After all, why do you need an internet connection if you are up all night with your dogs hunting racoons or courting your cousins. µ
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Apparently there are some states where a percentage of people view a computer like most of us view serial killers.

I actually thought this was journalistic hype until someone told me this, and I saw that episode of Top Gear episode.

http://www.youtube.com/v/3lEx-XADpb8&hl=en
Seeing that anywhere outside of Northern Virginia is filled with hill billy back woods retards, picking the entire state (I mean Common Wealth) of Virginia will definitely skew those numbers. I would know, I'm one of the few lucky ones living up North. If they picked California, New York, etc. It would have been a different story.
And yet, those rednecks hunting in the woods and mating with their cousins still have better teeth than 75% of England's residents...
Hello Nick!

This a cousin many times removed across the pond from you there.

I thought it may be a good time to point out that King Charles II (of Britland), made South Carolina a Royal Colony in the year of a lord, 1719. In doing so, he apportioned lands which formerly belonged to the former British colony of Virginia, and also, lands referred to today as North Carolina and Georgia. That much territory was too much for one Royal Colony to secede with, so the remainders was sub-let somewhere along the way, after carrying the one*. Et cetera, Et cetera..(*see "new maths")... Et crow... 

BTW, I wish you would not be so repeatedly hard on the folks in West Virginia. They really believed that Hillary Clinton is the best man to be president; and nobody is certain how the polls from Leicestershire would read. Senator Clinton was shown on video drinking Canada's Crown Royal, and speaking from in front of barrels of Maker's Mark. She's reflecting a poor taste in Scotch. We can only hope that future generations will see fit to provide everyone in some relation to the Scottish Empire, a wee cuppa the gods running ova!.. And, a toaster.

Cheers!

PS: when are you chaps bringing back the good music?
Now that's some responsible journalism, did your resident mathmatician also tell you that cherry picking virginia and claiming it reflects the U.S. population as a whole was mathmaticly unsound as well? And who refers to virginia as "Former british colony of.." anymore
I've been using computers since 1972, when a 300 baud accoustic coupler was a state-of-the-art connection. Nowadays, I use broadband cable at home, and my employer has an extensive WLAN and VPNC, which do much to increase my productivity.

But I still remember that life was not totally horrid before I had internet access. There's no reason to sneer at those folks who can find no compelling reason to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars for internet access. 
Remember who they elected for President, twice!
If the Inquirer ever wants to increase readership they should consider a... slightly different strategy.
For stealing Jeremy Clarksons work and posting it as your own.
I have so many dentist appointments I can't get to store to buy a computer and the get aol
Virginia.

Just curious.

I was wondering if the teeth issue was something to do with corn syrup vs sugar cane, or whether we brits are just the least <strike>superficial</strike> caring in the appearance of our teeth.

You guys need to chill out and not take everything so personally.
From a citizen of one former British colony to another, when the Inq talks of "the former British colony of Virginia" they are not referring to a SINGLE state, but the ENTIRE United States.
You would have realised this had you read a few more articles or even bothered to open the link provided.

Learn some of your own damned history! Why does an Australian (who really doesn't give a @*$%) know more about your history than you do? 
Crack open a book. Or if you are physically unable to read text that isn't fluorescing and providing ambient light, then at least look up Colony of Virginia on Whackypedia.

Downunder Bob.
"After all, why do you need an internet connection if you are up all night with your dogs hunting racoons or courting your cousins."

Might you care to elaborate on what exactly it is that tickles your fancy ?

Instead of an attention-grabbing title and a cut-and-paste, could you eventually make use of your digits and provide a comment ? Something uniquely yours, that characterizes your thoughts on the matter ? Something, maybe, that could inspire hours of thought and endless debates round a pint ?
Nah. Cut and paste and pretend you actually have a brain. Clever.
The idea that north virginia is where all the netheads live is a bit silly. I have several casual acquaintances, on the ol' interwebs, from virginia. All of them are from the rural south. Apparently they see the net as a way to bypass the perceived left-wing slant in the media.

And probably as a way to share hunting tips, who knows?
I have an SAR membership, relation to a certain notorious Western outlaw and an English first name to prove it.

I also remember bbses, the mode-x demoscene, x86 asm, gopher, ncsa mosaic, have a degree in cs/ee from a top 50 school, worked as a ugrad researcher at top grad security lab and worked for a biomed informatics research department in IT.

Austin and San Antonio TX are cool, recycle the rest.

Point is: does naked dsl download porn faster?
You look really smart but down others when you can't even spell American correctly.
Way to put down people and you can even spell American in your title.
When the author refers to the former British colony of Virginia he's referring to the entire United States which is what the British colony of Virginia ultimately became. Get off the internet and go read a history book for god's sake.
HAHA, I love how the comments prove the sarcastic jabs so effectively.

As for the subject matter; I think that there will always be a percentage of people not into computers in any country, and I think that's a good thing personally, and sometimes I think about joining them.
1 in 5 "Amercans" may be clueless about email, but that's still better than the 4 of 5 Inq writers who are clueless about spell checker.