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Disaster Recovery For Haiti's Cell Phone Networks
spun writes "A disaster recovery team from Trilogy International Partners, LLC was among the first responders to arrive after the quake in Haiti. After seeing to the safety of their staff, they worked quickly to bring up emergency generators and restore service to the devastated country. Winners of a State Department medal for their previous work in Haiti, the company appears to be a model not only for proper disaster recovery response, but also for ethical corporate behavior. Their quick action has no doubt saved thousands of lives, but Haiti still needs our help." Keith Calder, who used to work on Slashdot ad stuff before we had big corporate owners, is now a film producer of last summer's Battle for Terra. They are giving away signed copies of the DVD to the first 100 people who make $25+ red cross donations. It would be cool to see generous Slashdot Sci-Fi fans make a difference. If you are curious or voyeuristic about the devastation, Google Maps has satellite photos.
Battle for Terra came out in 2007, hardly last summer. Speaking of Battle for Terra, did anyone else think Avatar was a rip-off of Battle for Terra? Humans try to destroy nature-loving aliens, only to fail, despite over-whelming firepower?
With an environmental message undoubtedly borrowed from FernGully.
Q.E.D.
Eh I lean a bit more towards the Fern Gully camp, I'm still waiting for it to show up through Netflix.
The humans in the movie barely lost when it comes down to it. Their combat effectiveness was cut drastically because of the amount of jamming, they were horribly outnumbered, IIRC there were 200 humans fighting and there were something like 2k Na'Vi. Even then they only lost because of a Deus Ex. I'm actually very interested to see how it plays out in future movies, because as far as I can tell the Na'Vi have zero chance in any real conflict.
This is just bogus racist nonsense.
The Clinton administration did not pressure any bank into making bad loans. Banks will more
than willing to make bad loans to a wide array of people that were generally neither black
nor buying in traditionally redlined neighborhoods.
Banks were driven by greed and a loan resale system that allows people writing loans to have
little or no stake in the solvency of the customer.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.