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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.'"
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.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.