>>> You sound sweet. Too bad you're in the UK instead of California.
>>> I wish there was somebody like you around here.
>
> There's no place in Real Life where I could possibly meet anybody
> who is available and compatible, except by a freak chance which
> doesn't happen even once in a lifetime. Maybe if I lived three
> hundred years, I'd eventually chance to run into somebody
> compatible and available and interested, but that isn't reality,
> that's fantasy. In my whole life so-far I haven't yet met even one
> nice single woman close to my age, nor any nice single woman of
> *any* age who would choose to spend time getting acquainted with
> me, and expecting this never-yet event to suddenly start happening
> in the near future is sheer fantasy. I'm not stupid enough to
> accept your fantasy as my plan for meeting somebody.
>
> Back to the original topic: I got a letter from Peter Richter of
> Kaiser Foudation Health Plan Inc. stating that unless and until I
> come up with the money to purchase a brand-new computer capable of
> running Windows Vista or Windows XP or Windows XP or Windows 2000
> or Macintosh OS
10.4.8, and install the corresponding versions of
> Internet Explorer (7.0 on V/XP or 6.0 on 2000) or Mozilla Firefox
> (2.0 on V/XP/Mac10 or 1.5 on 2000) or Safari (2.0 on Mac10), and
> get direct InterNet service on that brand-new computer to let that
> Web browser work directly off the InterNet, they *refuse* to allow
> me to use their Web site. I'm totally pissed at Kaiser at this
> point and wish I could find a civil-rights lawyer to prosecute them
> for discrimination against low-income disabled people who can't get
> high-paying jobs because of disability and prejudice and
> consequently can't afford the money to buy a brand-new computer and
> lease a larger apartment to install it in. If anybody knows how to
> get the attention of the ACLU or any other agency that provides
> free lawyers for civil-rights cases, please get us connected. My
> direct phone calls to ACLU's voice mail haven't gotten even a
> call-back. The ACLU Web site tells me the only way to contact the
> ACLU is to make a long distance phone call, which I can't afford,
> to:
> ACLU of Northern California
> Executive Director: Maya Harris
> 39 Drumm Street
> San Francisco, CA 94111-4805
> Phone: 415-621-2488
> Fax: 415-255-1478
> So even the ACLU is discriminating against low-income disabled
> people who don't live within the free dialing area from San
> Francisco and can't afford to make toll calls to SF.