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Originally Posted by HorridRedDog
"Why are you bringing up "large, EVIL companies". No one is arguing about large evil companies."
Are you changing your mind then? "to then actively give an added advantage to sighted students....".
Seems EVIL to me.
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Nowhere in any of the the quoted remarks does anyone mention an evil company.
In particular, I never mentioned any evil company. I was merely pointing out that without the law to force companies into doing something, the companies will not do so if there is no profit for them to do so. That is not evil, that is simply the nature of business.
I suppose it's easier to make out that anyone who disagrees with you thinks companies are evil though as that absolves you of any need to argue the merits of the case.
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Originally Posted by HorridRedDog
I'm sorry, did I say someone was shut down? [B
"So what would have happened...."[/B]
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Oh sorry, you were asking "what would have happened if Apple had been shut down?"
In that case, your question is only relevant to the discussion if we were disussing what may happen if Amazon was to be shut down.
As we are not discussing that, your question is irrelevant.
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Originally Posted by HorridRedDog
Do you really see no hatred for big companies?
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Frankly no I don't.
However, even if there is "hatred for big companies" that does not mean anyone is arguing those companies are "evil". Personally I hate spiders. Can't stand the things and kill them whenever I see them in my house. That doesn't mean I think they are evil though.
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Originally Posted by HorridRedDog
Ok. You don't want the "sighted" students to have the use of the Kindle DX (even just in a study) if a blind, or legally blind, person can't use it.
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And again you miss the point entirely.
The law suit is not about blind people wanting to make sure sighted people can't use the Kindle. It is about ensuring that the blind people can as well.
Now, as Amazon and the Universities are not able, presently, to make the Kindle accessible to blind students, they have agreed to settle the matter by withdrawing the Kindles. That is the choice they have made instead of making the choice of simply adjusting the Kindle or making some other comparable technology available to blind students.
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Originally Posted by HorridRedDog
Ok. What about lined notebooks for writing class notes in? Take them away too?
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Arguments such as this are either completely facetious or so inane as to make them not worth responding to.
Cheers,
PKFFW