Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 00:00:34 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: jonathan michaels <jon@caamora.com.au> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DVDs [and MPEG decoder hardware] Message-ID: <19049.917337634@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 Jan 1999 17:46:36 %2B1100." <19990126174636.C21039@caamora.com.au>
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> before i drive yet another nail into my own coffin .. Hmmmm. That posting was frankly bizarre and for the most part incoherent, nor do I see why it needed to be cross-posted to both -questions and -chat, so I've gone to -chat only on the follow-up. I think you have a rather bizarre idea of how people in this country view the handicapped, to say the least, not to mention a set of values so plainly skewed as to think that any semi-coherent screed is going to "improve" your perceived situation in any way at all. Quite the opposite, I'd say, and aside from perhaps being deliberately self-destructive for reasons known best to yourself, I can divine no constructive purpose whatsoever in what I just read. As to what is developed or who develops it in FreeBSD, that's entirely up to motivated self-interest and always has been. That's called "part of life" and its global constraints like this that you and I just have to live with, no matter how many limbs we were born with or without. You also don't get people interested in something by screaming in their ear, at least not in any family I've ever spent significant time with, you get it by somehow appealing to their self interest. This means that if it's some driver you want written, you find someone who has both the desire and the ability to write it and you do whatever you can to facilitate their progress - if that someone is yourself then all the better. If you don't know such a person then, by golly, you go out and you find one - maybe there's someone in a research center attached to the local hospital in search of a grant project, for example, or another group of developers working on aids for the handicapped who can be found with a web search. Any truly motivated person WILL FIND A WAY and get on with it whereas someone who's just indulging in a little public self-pity will simply whine about it like you just did. I worked with the blind and various other physically handicapped folks during my programming time at the Smith-Kettlewell institute of visual research, where we worked on various sight and communications aids, and I saw people overcome all manner of adversity with a degree of cheerfulness that would put half of this lists' Mother Theresa clones to shame. They never felt that anyone "owed" them an easier time of it, or that volunteer labor which made their lives easier in some way was anything but the purest of blessings, and helping such folks out was ALWAYS a pleasure. It made me feel good to work with them, and so I did. There's that enlightened self-interest again, you see how that works? - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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