Re: RDBMS for DOS and Windows
Nick Johnson wrote:
>...here in New Zealand .... 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 ...
New Zealand is the home of my children, also of my grandchildren, and
it has been my home for the last 32 years. I love it. But it is *not*
a Utopia Mr Johnson tried to paint. Sure, you have completely equal
rights to be educated at any level. If you can afford annual
university fees of anything between 10 and 100 thousand dollars. Or
you can take a risk and borrow the money and be potentially
financially crippled for the rest of your life. You can probably get a
job, but only if you are lucky and live in the right area. And
definitely not if you are over 40 - then just forget it. And sure, you
can purchase any goods and services - you just need the money...
Get real, Mr Johnson. Go and visit our beautiful East Coast,
Northland, south Auckland, and a lot of other pretty places and you
will see poverty and human deprivation we normally associate only with
Third World countries. And if you cannot stomach that, just look at
our heath statistics, our youth suicide rate, size and composition of
our prison population, etc, etc, etc...
Sorry, guys. I know this is completely off topic, but I felt I had to
put the record straight. jiri
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