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Skeptics Question OLPC's Focus With $75 Tablet
With the recent announcement of OLPC's shift in focus, many are criticizing the nonprofit's attempt to design what could be seen as unrealistic hardware at an impossible price point. "The OLPC project has become an unrealistic hardware 'dream' and lost its focus on education, wrote blogger Wayan Vota on OLPC News, which has followed the OLPC since its inception. The project comes up with unrealistic hardware designs and price points that destroy its purpose even more, he wrote. 'Excuse me if I get mad at the XO-3 hype. I'm angry at the energy devoted to fantasy XO hardware instead of OLPC educational reality. I miss the original OLPC Mission, where children, not computers, controlled our dreams,' Vota wrote."
There are lots of places that are broken down that the US hasn't even touched.
I'm sorry, but Afghanistan was broken before the U.S. military arrived...before 9/11 happened.
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. James Madison
Yes, the conflicts and problems that were caused by Americans way before 9/11 too.. USA supplied middle-east and the surrounding areas for long to fight the cold war with Russians and trained the people to fight. It just backfired as they're the terrorists now.
Yeah, that unprovoked Soviet invasion was totally the US's fault. Our bad, dog.
by Mike Buddha -- Someday the mountain might get him, but the law never will.
And what does their thing have to do with US?
Acting like a world police again..
That's very insightful, because it was a real educational paradise before the US showed up. Unless you were a Christian. Or a Jew. Or a woman. Or believed in a slightly different form of Islam.
Unless you were a Christian. Or a Jew. Or a woman. Or believed in a slightly different form of Islam.
You really think US went there for any of those reasons?
So you're saying that the Soviet-Afghan war was the US's fault now, and not Soviet expansionist aggression (like in Poland, Georgia, Ukraine...)? And that these Afghanis wouldn't have fought against helicopters without that evil corruptive capitalist dream in their heads?
No, sorry. Not buying it, because I know otherwise. Sharia/extremist Islamic doctrine has been in Afgahnistan for a long time. They fought against the Soviets for the same reason we've still got opponents there, today: they opposed the Soviets on principle. Not only did the Soviets now bow to Mecca*, but they denounced the very existence of a god.
* Barring an infidel to fight, they'll just fight amongst themselves. That's what dogmatics do.
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