Hi again Kelly,

As there is no obligation to post to the board, my
initial response to you would be:  “Then don’t try to
follow my reasoning.”  However, some things you said
totally miss the point I’m making.  In this concluding
remark I would like to address them.

For instance…:

Oh, what the heck!  It isn’t my place to educate anyone
or explain the state of affairs or even the logical
correlation between things.  But that is the reason why
I’ve included and we study George Orwell, Steinbeck, The
snows of Kilimanjaro, Lord of the rings, Plato, Cannery
row, The old man and the sea, Beckett and even
Aristotle, and so on.

It has to do with developing depth and breadth of ones
critical thinking ability and expanding ones perceptive
mental horizons for understanding.

And granted, the workers loose their jobs.  But we are
talking here about the boon to the CEOs.  And please
don’t ask me what that has to do with “the changing ISP
market” or the “deregulated electricity forum in
California” affecting the disabled.  Actually Kelly:  A
whole lot, as they all are detrimental to certain
classes of disabled people.

These issues directly relate to the study of economics
and the Global Business of today.  And as "a rose by any
other name, is still a rose", via that inference, vague
innuendo, and loosely worded association, Mr. Goldstein
refers to the millions of disabled who use free ISP as I
said he did.

But thanks anyway for your postings.  I was wondering
what to do for entertainment this first day of the new
millennium.  It was a difficult choice between the
marathon airing of Xena the Princess Warrior on Oxygen,
or posting to this Board.

Thanks again for the opportunity, and many regards.

Rudy
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> I have absolutely no clue how you can toss George Orwell, the failures of a
> deregulated electricity market in California and section 508 web guidelines
> for the federal government into a discussion on the free ISP market
> changing to a more regulated structure.  Perhaps your reasoning makes sense
> to you but personally I'm lost and quite frankly have no interest in trying
> to follow your reasoning.
>
> This isn't some corporate plot to hold down people with disabilities.  It
> is a company who thought one business model would work realizing it doesn't
> and taking steps to deal with the new reality.  Take a look at the internet
> arena.  If you think all the companies that have gone out of business are
> not real, go ask all the workers who've lost jobs as a result how real the
> failures are.
>
> In the end there are still many free options for internet access.  There
> are few that will allow unlimited access for people who want to be online
> multiple hours a day and that has nothing to do with disability.
>
> Kelly