you guys are all debating about whether it should be linux or windows. the real question is, do the poor really need a computer? do they have the mental capabilities to use one?
the government did that here in quebec with their "branchez les familles" thing, what we got out of it? poorer families (some families get a 60 hours internet plan for 5$ a month, and they cant even pay that! and the plan gave them 500$ to buy the computer), a lot of lamers doing mayhem in the irc channels and more newbies calling the tech support lines for problems they could have figured by themselves had they researched more than 5 minutes, but because they are dumb as shit, didnt do it (altough you get those even whitout government implication, but the ones that used the govt's help tend to be exceptionnally dumb) and of course, all this was paid using our taxes, which could have been used for useful things (ie health, transportation, etc..)
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you guys are all debating about whether it should be linux or windows. the real question is, do the poor really need a computer? do they have the mental capabilities to use one?
the government did that here in quebec with their "branchez les familles" thing, what we got out of it? poorer families (some families get a 60 hours internet plan for 5$ a month, and they cant even pay that! and the plan gave them 500$ to buy the computer), a lot of lamers doing mayhem in the irc channels and more newbies calling the tech support lines for problems they could have figured by themselves had they researched more than 5 minutes, but because they are dumb as shit, didnt do it (altough you get those even whitout government implication, but the ones that used the govt's help tend to be exceptionnally dumb) and of course, all this was paid using our taxes, which could have been used for useful things (ie health, transportation, etc..)
Feyr Tlincail
you're DoSing websites because they're violating the GPL? how old are you? 12, 13 at most? grow up please, DOS are NOT the way to go
ive had only problems with hp stuff. but then it was all low end periphericals (printers, scanners, burners...), not server machines