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OLPC To Be Distributed To US Students

Posted by kdawson on from the seizing-the-initiative dept.

eldavojohn writes "The One Laptop Per Child Project plans to launch OLPC America in 2008 , to distribute the low-cost laptop computers originally intended for developing nations to needy students here in the United States. Nicholas Negroponte is quoted as saying, 'We are doing something patriotic, if you will, after all we are and there are poor children in America. The second thing we're doing is building a critical mass. The numbers are going to go up, people will make more software, it will steer a larger development community.'"

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  1. Negroponte by Gothmolly · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "Look at me, I'm an attention whore!"

    The OLPC is a flop. Its a $100 laptop that costs $250 to make, and the little urchins who DID receive it, immediately used it to surf porn.

    Please.

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  2. There can be no patriotism amongst world citizens. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I appreciate and understand the OLPC project.

    But Nicholas Niggerponte cannot simply pretend to be patriotic while at the same time championing the ideals of OLPC as they stand today.

    OLPC is for all nations, and as such nationalism has no place in its promotion.

  3. The unanswered, yet most important, question: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    N i g g e r s ?

  4. Fast drive to the bottom ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Thank you Mr. Bush! Thank you for the opportunity to be treated like a developing country. Viva the American Peso!

  5. Re:Stinky niggers! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    PROTIP: your father was a Jew and your mother was a closet lesbian.

  6. Re:Cue the OLPC griefers by timmarhy · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    it's $250 not $200, get that right for starters.

    and i never went into who pays for it (i don't give a flying fuck btw) , your just attempting to deflect my original 2 points that it's NOT a $100 laptop, and i might also add that ALL you detractors failed to tackle my point that the laptops aren't being used for education at all. it doesn't matter if it's a $1 laptop, it's still not cost effective educationif all they do with it is browse porn.

    what i'm trying to get at, is that a $250 laptop if a fucking waste of money. get real teachers in and paper + pencil and you might actually teach kids something.

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  7. Re:what the hell... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    yes. fuck niggers.

  8. The Third World starts inside the USA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    This is a great signal of the future FOSSies and Conservatives have in store for America. OLPC has been proclaiming that the XO would only be sold in Third World, under-developed nations... so this move simply demonstrates that WE HAVE ARRIVED!!!

    GWB & FOSS: Let's race to the bottom! Wheeeeeee!