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Posted: 09/29/05 - 10:00

shinja mayoke
Joined: 04 Jan 2003
Posts: 880

http://laptop.media.mit.edu/

Posted: 09/29/05 - 10:10

motherface
Joined: 12 Mar 2003
Posts: 3444

What a stupid f*****g idea. How about food and medicine first?

Posted: 09/29/05 - 10:19

shinja mayoke
Joined: 04 Jan 2003
Posts: 880

motherface wrote:

What a stupid f*****g idea. How about food and medicine first?

For once, we agree. The entire principal is actually that these 3rd world country leaders will pay 100 bucks each for them. Well...thats great. Right now as you say, the 3rd world country leaders wont pay 5 bucks to buy them kids a sammich.

Its not a bad idea for school children in some countries, like say China or the US. Japanese kids probably have wristwatches more advanced, however.

Posted: 09/29/05 - 11:07

motherface
Joined: 12 Mar 2003
Posts: 3444

shinja mayoke wrote:

motherface wrote:

What a stupid f*****g idea. How about food and medicine first?

For once, we agree. The entire principal is actually that these 3rd world country leaders will pay 100 bucks each for them. Well...thats great. Right now as you say, the 3rd world country leaders wont pay 5 bucks to buy them kids a sammich.

Its not a bad idea for school children in some countries, like say China or the US. Japanese kids probably have wristwatches more advanced, however.

And f**k medicine for other countries when Americans can't even afford it.

Posted: 09/29/05 - 11:22

shinja mayoke
Joined: 04 Jan 2003
Posts: 880

motherface wrote:

shinja mayoke wrote:

motherface wrote:

What a stupid f*****g idea. How about food and medicine first?

For once, we agree. The entire principal is actually that these 3rd world country leaders will pay 100 bucks each for them. Well...thats great. Right now as you say, the 3rd world country leaders wont pay 5 bucks to buy them kids a sammich.

Its not a bad idea for school children in some countries, like say China or the US. Japanese kids probably have wristwatches more advanced, however.

And f**k medicine for other countries when Americans can't even afford it.

Your starting to scare me, thats two times in one day we agree Sad

Posted: 09/29/05 - 12:13

sinrakin
Joined: 11 Oct 2002
Posts: 6094

Give a man food and he eats for a day.

Give him a crank-powered computer, and he'll play computer games for 72 hours straight until he drops dead from exhaustion.

Posted: 09/29/05 - 13:57

Cethan
Joined: 18 Oct 2002
Posts: 491

*shrugs*

As long as they don't pay for shit out of my tax dollars, I don't give a f**k.

Posted: 09/29/05 - 14:07

khrath

motherface wrote:

shinja mayoke wrote:

motherface wrote:

What a stupid f*****g idea. How about food and medicine first?

For once, we agree. The entire principal is actually that these 3rd world country leaders will pay 100 bucks each for them. Well...thats great. Right now as you say, the 3rd world country leaders wont pay 5 bucks to buy them kids a sammich.

Its not a bad idea for school children in some countries, like say China or the US. Japanese kids probably have wristwatches more advanced, however.

And f**k medicine for other countries when Americans can't even afford it.

Americans afford it, but the govt won't allow them to buy it from companies who charge anything but the super inflated price that is only for american consumers.

Posted: 09/29/05 - 15:24

Nictathan
Joined: 11 Oct 2002
Posts: 5155

sinrakin wrote:

Give a man food and he eats for a day.

Give him a crank-powered computer, and he'll play computer games for 72 hours straight until he drops dead from exhaustion.

This is bad because....?

Posted: 09/29/05 - 15:29

Booker
Joined: 12 Oct 2002
Posts: 2138

Nictathan wrote:

sinrakin wrote:

Give a man food and he eats for a day.

Give him a crank-powered computer, and he'll play computer games for 72 hours straight until he drops dead from exhaustion.

This is bad because....?

gold farmers of the hinterlands!

http://goldfarmer.ytmnd.com/

Posted: 09/29/05 - 22:45

Paden
Joined: 23 Oct 2002
Posts: 8332

they will discover interweb porn by age 8!

Posted: 09/30/05 - 03:30

atarom

Booker wrote:

Nictathan wrote:

sinrakin wrote:

Give a man food and he eats for a day.

Give him a crank-powered computer, and he'll play computer games for 72 hours straight until he drops dead from exhaustion.

This is bad because....?

gold farmers of the hinterlands!

http://goldfarmer.ytmnd.com/

ahahahahah oh shit zing + DOUBLE ZING

Posted: 09/30/05 - 03:32

atarom

now that i've stopped laughing...

it's a neat idea.. but really.. not a priority.

but those MIT kids are pretty great and coming up with get rich quick schemes.

Posted: 09/30/05 - 04:03

Xion
Joined: 11 Oct 2002
Posts: 1588

motherface wrote:

What a stupid f*****g idea. How about food and medicine first?

Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day.

Teach a man to fish, he'll eat for a lifetime.

Posted: 09/30/05 - 08:07

motherface
Joined: 12 Mar 2003
Posts: 3444

Xion wrote:

motherface wrote:

What a stupid f*****g idea. How about food and medicine first?

Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day.

Teach a man to fish, he'll eat for a lifetime.

Give a man a fire, he's warm for a day.

Light a man on fire, he's warm for the rest of his life.

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Posted: 09/30/05 - 08:08

motherface
Joined: 12 Mar 2003
Posts: 3444

khrath wrote:

Americans afford it, but the govt won't allow them to buy it from companies who charge anything but the super inflated price that is only for american consumers.

So in other words, Americans can't afford it.

Posted: 09/30/05 - 13:36

Luturb
Joined: 11 Oct 2002
Posts: 3887

Xion wrote:

motherface wrote:

What a stupid f*****g idea. How about food and medicine first?

Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day.

Teach a man to fish, he'll eat for a lifetime.

^^ Yup. We've been sending food and medicine to Africa for decades and they are just as f****d up as ever. Africa needs education, not more free food.

Good interview with an African Economist on the subject:

"For God's Sake, Please Stop the Aid!"