Re: Banned from the PowerBASIC forum

On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:27:36 GMT,  wrote:

> Judson McClendon wrote:
>
>>Okay Stupid, what part of "how many people do you know who download
>>software from the internet and do not have a phone?" do you not 
>>understand?
>
>>any person who is "connected" enough to have Internet access and
>>a compiler to run a compiler on will also be "connected" enough to
>>have a phone line. I know lots of people who have Internet access
>>without a landline telephone, but all of them have cell phones or
>>VOIP. 
>
> And if Judson McClendon cannot imagine something, then it must not
> exist.  You are insisting that deaf people who use only email (TDD
> is rapidly being replaced by email) must either buy a phone that
> they cannot use or not be allowed to purchase software.  Nice! 

TTY uses phone lines. If a deaf person wishes to make a phone call, they 
connect to a TTY operator who then places the actual phone call. (Note: 
My info is several years old; the TTY system may have been updated since 
I was in high school.)

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