[Blindtlk] fw: writing in to ask you to vote against this

Mon Jan 2 21:07:27 UTC 2012

Nor I;  and what is more, those online petitions mean absolutely nothing.  They have no legal validity so far as I am aware.  Look what happened to the petition that quite a number of us signed against FS making the manufacturers of Braille displays pay FS for inclusion of their Braille displays in JAWS.   So far as I know, absolutely nothing what so ever came of that petition.  I never did hear that FS even acknowledged it's reality.  That, however, is another can of worms which I for one have no intention of getting my hands in too.

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On Jan 2, 2012, at 2:50 PM, Desiree Oudinot wrote:

> The email in question is written unpprofessionally and does not even
> come close to explaining the bill. More detail would be nice, but
> until then I don't believe it either. This sounds an awful lot like
> the hoax that was going around a few months back about Facebook making
> all its users pay. Did anything come of it? Nope. If this was a real
> concern, and the person who sent this email (who I happen to know as
> well, so we're not talking about a fake ID here, at least) truly
> wanted to convince us, he would have linked to a site about the bill,
> even an editorial if nothing official could be found, but we're
> looking at nothing but a petition here. A simple Google search would
> probably turn up some results, but until I hear something from a more
> reputable source, I'm not going to lose any sleep over this, that's
> for sure.
> 
> On 1/2/12, Michelle Medina <michellem86 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thank you for sending this Chris, I just got a similar petition to
>> sign the other day and I've signed here to!!
>> 
>> On 1/2/12, Mike Freeman <k7uij at panix.com> wrote:
>>> Chris:
>>> 
>>> With respect, your championing of such tripe on this list is naïve at best
>>> and harmful at worst. Nowhere in this post did I see a bill number so that
>>> the claims in the post could be checked with Truth or fiction or Snopes.
>>> Nowhere do we receive verification that the site we're supposed to go to
>>> isn't a rogue site that itself would spread malicious software to our
>>> computers. And, perhaps most importantly (although this is hard to check
>>> since we don't have a bill number here), it is unclear that NFB has policy
>>> on this issue and IMO it's therefore inappropriate to advocate one way or
>>> the other on this list.
>>> 
>>> My friend, most of what one reads on the Internet is pure twaddle,
>>> designed
>>> either to sucker you into being someone else's tool or to perpetuate a
>>> gag.
>>> 
>>> Nota bene: any post that says to send it to all one's addressbook or
>>> friends
>>> or whatever is almost a dead giveaway that one shouldn't bother.
>>> 
>>> Mike
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>>> Behalf Of Chris Nusbaum
>>> Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 10:32 AM
>>> To: Mom; Dad; lbnonapplejack at embarqmail.com; rjcox1325 at verizon.net; NFB
>>> NABS
>>> list; NFB Blind Talk list; NFBMD list; blind-conversative at emissives.com;
>>> Steve Patterson; Gary Legates
>>> Subject: [Blindtlk] fw: writing in to ask you to vote against this
>>> 
>>> This comes from a friend of mine.  Please help stop this bill
>>> from passing!
>>> 
>>> ---- Original Message ------
>>> From: Timothy Clark Music <black59cash at aim.com
>>> Subject: This is Timothy Clark Writing in to ask you to vote
>>> against this
>>> Date sent: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 00:23:24 -0500
>>> 
>>> Hello -
>>> I usually don't do chain emails but this is bad enough for me to
>>> do one.
>>> This week congress will pass a bill that will let them censer us
>>> and track what sights we go to and everything we do on the web if
>>> we don't write into congress and ask our local congress
>>> representative to vote against this.
>>> This bill is unconstitutional on so many different levels that I
>>> could list at least 5 reasons to vote against this but I'm sure
>>> you can think of more then a few yourself.
>>> Here is an online sight that will send a letter to congress.
>>> http://americancensorship.org/posts/30887/share
>>> I'm sure you could also write into your local congress
>>> reprezentitive with a pen and paper if you wish as well but it's
>>> impairitive you do this before the end of the week as your letter
>>> could mean more then you think.
>>> I ask of all of you to do your part.
>>> This is even going to affect those outside of the USA.
>>> If you go to facebook or youtube, those are all sights from the
>>> USA.  I've got no doubt that you will not be able to do
>>> everything like you could before if this bill gets past.
>>> So, please, do your part.
>>> Timothy.
>>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
>> confinement of your aloneness
>> to learn anything or anyone
>> that does not bring you alive
>> is too small for you.
>> ~ David Whyte ~ (House of Belonging)
>> 
>> Sadie Marie Medina!
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>> Welcome home baby!
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