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First Photos of MIT $100 Laptop
An anonymous reader noted that MITs $100 laptop was unveiled at the Seven Countries Task Force Meeting. It runs a special version of the Fedora linux and it comes with native wireless lan support. You can see the
photo album, and you can pledge to buy one at triple price... in order to donate 2 of them to children.
I love how I got modded as Flamebait repeatedly for making a coherent argument and responding to provocation, whereas you, who initiated the whole matter get modded up as Insightful for calling me an ass.
And no, having a tough life is not an excuse for being an asshole.
The whole field of sociology disagrees with you on that one. If I am an ass, I am so because of my socio-economic background, and that is hardly my fault.
You are just pissed because people in third-world countris can have this laptop for 100 bucks, whereas you have to pay $300.
I'm pissed because I have read enough economic books to know about price discrimination and the problems that come with it e.g. how certain steps like preventing arbitrage have to be taken if you want to be a successful price discriminator.
Don't like the price? Then don't buy it and stop your whining.
Or I can not buy it and continue to express my opinion while being repeatedly modded down by slashbots.
Uttering logically derived and empirically supported truths to the disciples of the orthodox establishment.
... for the cost of the Iraq war.