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Africa - Offline And Waiting for the Web
The nytfeed provides us with an article about the current state of internet connectivity on the African continent. Only 4 percent of Africa's population has regular access to the internet, with most of those people living in North African countries, or the country of South Africa. This might seem like a market ripe for development, but the article explains that there are numerous difficulties involved getting an infrastructure project off the ground. "Africa's only connection to the network of computers and fiber optic cables that are the Internet's backbone is a $600 million undersea cable running from Portugal down the west coast of Africa. Built in 2002, the cable was supposed to provide cheaper and faster Web access, but so far that has not happened. Prices remain high because the national telecommunications linked to the cable maintain a monopoly over access, squeezing out potential competitors. And plans for a fiber optic cable along the East African coast have stalled over similar access issues. Most countries in Eastern Africa, like Rwanda, depend on slower satellite technology for Internet service." The good news is that, of course, progress is being made. Just ... slowly.
Not before they starve to death and suck the rest of the planet dry with stupidity.
...then worry about network access. Until Islamic and tribal aggression are curtailed, there's no real point in worrying about such things.
There exists no way of exchanging information without making judgments. --Bene Gesserit Axiom
And if Africa disappeared tomorrow, would anyone care? Big game hunters and diamond thieves are all they serve these days. This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper. We were all fish once too. No need to give them internet access either. Speciation is already ending them. Let them be.
"Don't get me wrong, I love that video with that weird dancing Indian midget. Although, I could really go for some drinking water, AIDS medicine, and less raping."
-A Nigerian Prince
"Things are more moderner than before- bigger, and yet smaller- it's computers-- San Dimas High School football RULES!"
Hmm, Africans love blaming the whole world for all their troubles, but of all the world, mankind has been in Africa the longest. I guess the best people have left and probably for good reasons too. As Till Eulenspiegel said: "Nobody likes me, but it is my own fault".
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
Black women ARE kinda nasty, overall. And that attitude...please, stay away.