[nfb-talk] [Blindtlk] HumanWare, Extreme Makeover Home Edition, here we go again

Thu Feb 21 06:12:43 CST 2008

I sure must be missing something here.  Why are you bashing HW anyway.  They just anounced that the show was going to be aired and I think they said they were going to be represented.  I saw the whole show and there was no mention of HW.  The only thing I can come up with is maybe the controls for the new wheel chair were actually a GPS.  I think his lack of being able to walk was emfasized a lot more than his blindness.  That is in our faver.  I found one extreamly stupid thing they did for him, that was to put that ability for music to go off, when he went into a spacific room.  Also, HW might have had something to do with creating the door that would open when the gentleman would say, open.  
I liked his aditude about looking at what he could do not what he could not do.  He seamed to always be on the positive side which is a pluss for him and the NFb.  Many blind with out jobs or the ability to read, are depressed and dependent on SSI. I think their main goal was to make the home accessable, because of his wheelchair needs.  They also over did it in the music area by buying him all that recording equipment.  What did that have to do with his handicap.  I still saw no sign of HW.  If they were not in the show, how did they know about the show?  They had to be in the background someware.

Terry Powers

-----Original Message-----
From: T. Joseph Carter [mailto:tjosephcarter at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 2:36 PM
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Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] [Blindtlk] HumanWare, Extreme Makeover Home Edition,here we go again

I don't think a boycott would be effective in the least.  I do think a more low-key approach generally involving talking to someone in a position to see to it that this doesn't happen again would probably get far better results far quicker.

Joseph

On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 07:43:01PM -0800, Mike Freeman wrote:
> One question which hasn't been dealt with here is whether we'd be effective if we protested to Humanware or attempted a boycott.
>  
> Do you *really* think that blind persons would stop buying VR Streams over philosophical concerns? Fanatics would but I fear me greatly that it would end up a huge bust and would cause us more problems than we would solve.
>  
> Mike

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