Re: OT: Bionic Woman again

On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:30:41 -0500, Justin <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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puked:

>lab~rat  >:-) wrote on [Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:11:12 -0400]:
>> On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:15:08 -0400, Sookie St. James <Don't
>> bother.....reply on usenet> puked:
>>
>>>On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 13:51:31 -0400, "lab~rat  >:-)" <chase@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>wrote:
>>>>>and very controversial among some people
>>>>>who would rather be deaf so they can have their special little
community
>>>>>rather than be able to function in a larger society
>>>>
>>>>Post proof that's the case.  IOW, it's total fabricated bullshit.  
>>>>
>>>>Unless there are people in wheelchairs that REALLY just want to be
>>>>hobbling around in a chair instead of walking, too...
>>>
>>>Go ask people in the deaf community.  I've never understood
>>>it but there are those who would choose to remain deaf than 
>>>have an operation like cokliar implants that would allow them
>>>to hear.  I think alot of it has to do with loosing their
>>>connection to friends who are deaf.
>>>
>>>But yeah there are deaf people who would choose to remain deaf.
>>>
>>>It's been a long running arguement in the deaf community.
>>
>> In the fucking idiot deaf community?  I have NEVER heard (LOL)
>> anything about this.  What community is it?
>
>Deaf Against Technology? - National Association of the Deaf
>"There is one piece of technology that has caused controversy within the
>deaf and hard of hearing community - cochlear implants.  There are many
>deaf and hard of hearing people who are against the use of implants in
>children; and there are many who support its use in children. There are
>people who are opposed to use of implants in anyone at any age; and
>there are people who don't care if a deaf or hard of hearing adult makes
>a personal decision to be implanted."
>http://www.nad.org/site/pp.asp?c=foINKQMBF&b=180439
>

Yeah, I just posted this:  WTF?

http://www.beyonddiscovery.org/content/view.page.asp?I=261


PS, you posted nad.org.  Hehehhhhh...

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lab~rat  >:-)
Stupid humans...