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Re: RDBMS for DOS and Windows

• Posted by Nick Johnson <arachnid at MAD.SCIENTIST.COM> Feb 26, 2000
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Ok, I apologise if I seemed to be painting NZ as a utopia - I meant no such
thing - I simply meant to illustrate the fact that we have an act to protect
anyone with any form of disability from discrimination. And for uni - $3K
per year plus study/materials fees if you are a NZ citizen (for most
courses). I sincerely apologise for painting NZ as utopia, and I intended
that Message to be off the list as it was off topic anyway.

Nick
----- Original Message -----
From: jiri babor <jbabor at PARADISE.NET.NZ>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2000 1:04 AM
Subject: 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
>
>