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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.
What good are DVDs in a ravaged country without food, water, electricity, houses, and DVD players/TV sets to view them? To decorate their new makeshift shanty towns with those funny little shiny silver discs?
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What good are DVDs in a ravaged country without food, water, electricity, houses, and DVD players/TV sets to view them? To decorate their new makeshift shanty towns with those funny little shiny silver discs?
I'm pleased to have to explain this to you: it was a joke. Donating DVDs of a mediocre movie as an incentive to give money to a charity organization, where, presumably, those DVDs cost someone money to make that would've better been spent on the charity itself. The joke was one that suggested such, except still in the form of DVDs, rather than the money used to create them.
And it was all for the sake of getting a rise out of people anyway.