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US DOJ Says Kindle In Classroom Hurts Blind Students
angry tapir writes "Three US universities will stop promoting the use of Amazon.com's Kindle DX e-book reader in classrooms after complaints that the device doesn't give blind students equal access to information. Settlements with Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Pace University in New York City and Reed College in Portland, Oregon, were announced Wednesday by the US Department of Justice. The National Federation of the Blind and the American Council of the Blind had complained that use of the Kindle devices discriminates against students with vision problems."
It's a viscous cycle.
What does liquid resistance have to do with it?
Maybe they take a cue from the Internet and start with braille porn to help fund growth?
Attractive supermodels should be required by law to date just as many overweight computer geeks living in their mom's basement as rich, attractive, professional athletes. We're being discriminated against! Tiger Woods is getting more pussy than we do!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Wait. Sighted people can see. That puts blind people at an unfair disadvantage. So all the sighted people should poke their eyes out with knitting needles to make life fair, right?
As far as I can tell, the only way a Kindle can hurt a blind person in the classroom is if somebody throws one at his head.
You are welcome on my lawn.
And you clearly cannot spell. Perhaps we should drink until we are brain damaged :)
When I was at university, these were called professors. I kid you not. I had more than 1 professor who simply read to us from the textbook. They couldn't have taught a rock to just sit there, but they brought in the grant money, so they stayed.
'The tyrant will always find pretext for his tyranny.' - Aesop's Fables
(sorry)
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I tried browsing the copies of playboy at the newsagent that way, but they just threw me out...
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In Sweden, they just kill all the smartest kindergartners.
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