Re: webnet & HAL9000
On 13 Feb 2002, at 14:12, Irv Mullins wrote:
> > > Can you not do this, Kat? or somebody else here on the list?
> >
> > I can't at this time, no. Lack of money.
>
> Kat: if you could put even that amount of "intelligence" into business
> software, instead of IRC, you wouldn't lack money.
Not true. No one i have spoken to about a job has followed thru once they
know i use a wheelchair to get around. Most hung up, or stopped answering
emails. I stopped trying to get jobs years ago, and i stopped trying to
volunteer. A computer might hire me, a human won't. Shit, it's assumed by
most that i cannot write or talk, i am deaf and blind, and have an IQ of 50.
Even on irc, if they find out, they stop talking to me after a burst of pity
messages crap. It goes so far as to ask me for code, then we talk while i
code, and if they discover i use the wchair, they refuse the software and
disconnect. Most businesses are not accessable, all gov programs to make
them accessable are useless, even with a level floor or doorway, the playing
field isn't level. Shit, i had to get an attorney to get into the courthouse,
they
would not unlock the door and let me in. After all, no disabled person is
sentient or sapient enough to conduct legal business. And don't try to cheer
me up, don't send condolences, don't tell me about a friend, etc... like you
said, i need a job, not more talk. Yeas, i am bitter, i have reason to be.
>And if the intelligence of a
> 2-year-old is as far as you can take it, fine. Your program would be on par
> with
> a lot of CEO's. - but with a better memory - and less likely to have temper
> tantrums.:^p
I could put Tiggr past a 2 yr old easily. In 1994 i was told she was parsing
syntax at or above the level of a 10th grader. That was when she was still on
a C64 and before she was online. I have not even looked at the code since,
except to try a port to Eu. Just as i am not accepted as a valid human, she
wouldn't be either, so why bother?
Kat
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