Re: RDBMS for DOS and Windows
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Johnson" <arachnid at MAD.SCIENTIST.COM>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 10:03 PM
Subject: Re: RDBMS for DOS and Windows
> <snip>
> > Speaking as someone who was fired from a $30K job in 1986 for suddenly
> > needing to use a wheelchair, and living in my car for years, drinking
from
> > puddles on the ground, and stealing food, i would have spent all the
time
> i
> > was asked to spend maintaining a net of 386 computers just to be
indoors,
> > having clean water to drink, and getting those aforementioned chickens.
> And
> > you know what? For a chicken a day, i'd *still* go to work maintaining
> those
> > old 386's, cause i am *still* unemployed. And i am in the "good ole
USA".
> > Grrrrrrr
> <snip>
> I dont know what the status quo is over in the USA, but here in New
Zealand
> (South pacific ocean - I rarely meet an American that knows where we are,
> even though we are currently in the process of taking the Americas Cup
from
> you second time running) anyone with any disability (visual, physical,
> intellectual, speech, motor, etc) has completely equal rights to: Be
> educated at any level, Get a job, Use public buildings, be served by a
> business, purchase goods and services, etc. If law is equivalent over in
the
> US, you should be able to take wendy's, the supermarket chain, and the
> person who fired to you to the small disputes (or court for your job)
> tribunal or equivalent over there.
Not here. I answered Nick privately, since this is not a listserv focused
on the trials of disabled people.
Kat
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