OLPC a Hit in Remote Peruvian Village

mrcgran writes "The Chicago Tribune is running a feel-good story about the effects of OLPC on a remote village in Peru. 'Doubts about whether poor, rural children really can benefit from quirky little computers evaporate as quickly as the morning dew in this hilltop Andean village, where 50 primary school children got machines from the One Laptop Per Child project six months ago. At breakfast, they're already powering up the combination library/videocam/audio recorder/music maker/drawing kits. At night, they're dozing off in front of them — if they've managed to keep older siblings from waylaying the coveted machines. Peru made the single biggest order to date — more than 272,000 machines — in its quest to turn around a primary education system that the World Economic Forum recently ranked last among 131 countries surveyed.'"

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Re:Well, coward, I agree with the OP

[WindBourne]

The wiretaps and bush's admin outing of a spy are very minor compared to what is known about Sibel Edmund's story. While there is little doubt that W. is illegal on many fronts WRT the wiretaps and the outing, if even a bit of Edmund's story is true, then a large number of congressman and current white house will go go jail. You say it stinks and smells like shit? You think that her story MIGHT have a few holes in it. Did it ever dawn in your pee brain to google for speaking up? Did it dawn on you to check other ex-FBI, ex-NSA, ex-CIA agents? Did if ever dawn on you that not NOT one person is refuting her? Read a little bit before you make a total ass of yourself.

As to the proof of peruvian journalist, well, google is a friend for the intelligent.

Re:Well, coward, I agree with the OP

[capnchicken]

And someone else missed the point as well, awesome.

How about you read the first part and the last part of my reply over again, since I can't be mildly interested on slashdot about someone else's point.

So you have a beef with the American press and you bring out a hot spot bullet point ... big deal.
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Show the Peruvian journalists that have died for their stories, put up the proof about how great their journalism is.

Yeah, google it, it was the first thing I did artard. But reading over page one of google doesn't instantly make one go "Wow! That is irrefutably correct!". And what source links do you give me? ACLU? Hardly an unbiased source, but proof, that journalism does work in America. Why? Because we're talking about it now douch-fag! And Reporters without borders? Yeah, they're REAL repressed here. Oh hey look at that nice shade of Orange Peru is in, while its slightly greener then the US, wow. Yep, real freedom of press there (yes, the shades of blue in other countries did not escape me, but that isn't the main argument now is it?).

Why don't you go over my argument again and look where I stated that I was only talking about mainstream press, not the countless independent papers still in circulation out there, without even counting blogs. Yeah, I'll wait here.