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

[Buddy Brannan]

Actually, the musical floor wasn't for him. It was for his brother (in  
his brother's room), because the brother wanted to learn guitar, I  
think. Or something. I'd get annoyed with it PDQ.
On Feb 21, 2008, at 7:12 AM, Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E] wrote:

> 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
> To: NFB Talk Mailing List
> 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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