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Venezuela Purchases a Million Intel Classmates
An anonymous reader submits news of the million-laptop order from Venezuela of Intel's version of the kid-friendly laptop. The computers are produced in Portugal. "The machines, rebranded 'Magellan,' will also come with Linux pre-installed as opposed to Windows XP. This order alone is 50% bigger than the entire OLPC project has managed to sell worldwide."
obviously they'll be used to simulate Venezuela's nuclear bomb... And they have oil to boot! What's holding you back ?
Ok, based on your past 10 posts, I see that:
- Australia, US (esp Alaska, Texas), Canada, and England (though you actually meant the UK) are bad.
- Poland, Hungary, Russia are ok.
Do I have that right?
Why don't you go back to ignoring genocide in your backyard, and twiddling your thumbs until a country from another continent decides to do something about it. Oh I'm sorry, it's called "ethnic cleansing" nowadays. Next time I'm sure Putin^H^H^H^H^HMedvedev will be willing to help "stabilize" the situation.
P.S. The "Australia was a prison colony" joke and its variants are lame, and has been so for 100 years. Maybe you should leave your basement and find out what the people from there are like.
My backyard is rather small (all of 1500 square meters) and I'm pretty sure I would have spotted a genocide taking place there. Even a single murder would probably stand out quite clearly.
I read somewher that murder is a crime, genocide is statistics. Anyone would think that statistics would pass by unnoticed on your backyard rather easily than a single murder.
Is it? This is not free competition in an open market with a free flow of information. This is specifically targetting and trying to undo deals for the acquisition of a competitor's products using backroom machinations, bribes, and threats. Anti-trust legislation exists for a reason: to avoid cartels and monopolies and allow an open market to function and thereby protect the consumer. Some rules that are enforced are required. Unfortunately, monopolist corporate power in the US is such that rules have hardly been enforced.
You are middle class. I rest my case
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?