Rimbaud III wrote:Exactly what kids in the Third World need to cheer them up; exposure to fisting, 'hilarious' video clips and instant messaging.

>>HAY, ADOFO, R U CUMMIN 2 DA CONTAMERNATED TUBE WEL 4 SUM WATAR?
>>NA. I HAV 2 DIG A GRAYV AND BERRY MY DED SISTA IN IT.
>>LAME! WOT DID SHE DIE OV?
>>FATHER BADU SED IT WOZ SIN.

The funniest thing I have read in days!

If I can find a way to concisely summarize the whole thread then I will be sending this to all of my friends.

Rimbaud III wrote:Exactly what kids in the Third World need to cheer them up; exposure to fisting, 'hilarious' video clips and instant messaging.

>>HAY, ADOFO, R U CUMMIN 2 DA CONTAMERNATED TUBE WEL 4 SUM WATAR?
>>NA. I HAV 2 DIG A GRAYV AND BERRY MY DED SISTA IN IT.
>>LAME! WOT DID SHE DIE OV?
>>FATHER BADU SED IT WOZ SIN.

This is possibly the saddest thing I have ever read on this site...

glueman wrote:

Rimbaud III wrote:Exactly what kids in the Third World need to cheer them up; exposure to fisting, 'hilarious' video clips and instant messaging.

>>HAY, ADOFO, R U CUMMIN 2 DA CONTAMERNATED TUBE WEL 4 SUM WATAR?
>>NA. I HAV 2 DIG A GRAYV AND BERRY MY DED SISTA IN IT.
>>LAME! WOT DID SHE DIE OV?
>>FATHER BADU SED IT WOZ SIN.

The funniest thing I have read in days!

If I can find a way to concisely summarize the whole thread then I will be sending this to all of my friends.

R3, sir; you have outdone yourself.

Thank you.

gio wrote:

Rimbaud III wrote:Exactly what kids in the Third World need to cheer them up; exposure to fisting, 'hilarious' video clips and instant messaging.

>>HAY, ADOFO, R U CUMMIN 2 DA CONTAMERNATED TUBE WEL 4 SUM WATAR?
>>NA. I HAV 2 DIG A GRAYV AND BERRY MY DED SISTA IN IT.
>>LAME! WOT DID SHE DIE OV?
>>FATHER BADU SED IT WOZ SIN.

This is possibly the saddest thing I have ever read on this site...

ditto.

Torn here. Voted NC, but then became physically, crushingly depressed while watching the video.

warmowski, watch this video instead. it may cheer you up.

Africa has bigger problems, but, on the other hand, connecting people to a source of information ("Dear Google, how does AIDS spread?") and communication with the rest of the world could acutally help out.

not crap, [WF 2] even though the actual cost of the thing is now like, $130 or $140

and, you know, that countries have to buy like, a million at a time.

Antero wrote:Africa has bigger problems, but, on the other hand, connecting people to a source of information ("Dear Google, how does AIDS spread?") and communication with the rest of the world could acutally help out.

What are they going to connect to? The wifi at Starbucks? With the laptop that costs what their parents make in a month? Do they surf ebay for hydrogen peroxide?

Did I say CRAP?

Crap, unfortunately. There are some cool implementations of various promising technologies in this project, but I don't think it's very relevant to the "masses of the world's poor" that it's pitched to. $100 is an immense sum in that context -- people go into hock to gangsters for their entire lives to get access to $50 pedal rickshaws.

Classic Wired Magazine dumbassery. "We're trying to apply technology to solve people's problems, by getting various private foundations and levels of government to wrap technology subsidies in the shining moral cloth of 'development.'" A nice distraction from what poor people in the global South actually need, which is usually some combination of literacy, land reform, and freedom from gender/reglious/ethnic/caste discrimination and violence.

DNA Concept wrote:A nice distraction from what poor people in the global South actually need, which is usually some combination of literacy, land reform, and freedom from gender/reglious/ethnic/caste discrimination and violence.

But with these computers, people in the global South can read your post, and other opinions like it.

It's an education initiative, when it comes down to it. It's idealistic, sure... but also, remember that the people behind this project are not literacy advocates, land reformists, and cultural educators. They're computer geeks. At least they're trying.