[Gllug] It is not Microsoft

[Chris Bell]

On Fri 09 Jan, Richard Huxton wrote:
> 
> Chris Bell wrote:
> >    I feel that we are probably approaching this from the wrong direction.
> > Now if we were homeless family of Martians, just arrived at Heathrow, we
> > could have demanded a house at well over 100,000 per month, paid for by the
> > council.
> 
> Blimey, rents are high in Ealing.

   There were recent press reports about a family of seven housed in a seven
bedroom house, with rents calculated as Central London, although some were
still in a pram. The actual cost was huge.

> 
> The job of the politicians is to respond to public complaint. If an
> abandoned car generates twenty letters of complaint and a piece in the
> local paper then that's important.
> 
> What you've not mentioned yet is the most important piece of
> information. Who (in Ealing) cares about this?
> 
> There's you, obviously. Who else? Is there a regular class that needs
> access to more machines? A charitable group getting people back into
> work who would find it useful?
> 

   That is one of the reasons for my website, but local people need to know
what is worthwhile and available, which implies education, which is why I
have been in contact with Ealing Council. I have personally given away
literally hundreds of CDs and DVDs, but get the impression that many are
only used when the existing system fails.

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