What possessed Taco to post a link to a mindless piece of propaganda from CNN? Are you so bankrupt that you look to that network for information, knowing full well that it serves the interests of the US military-industrial complex, which is now underwritten by a US foreign policy which considers nuclear weapons usable?
Do you not follow that what we are witnessing is an invasion that grossly and contemptuously violates every tenet of international law, that international jurists have called illegal in every sense of the term, that has repudiated the very institutions whose mandate it is to solve international disputes? I suppose you do not, for we have posters barracking the UN for inaction, when in fact the UN weapons inspectors were interrupted in the midst of a very thorough job.
Worse, that post was followed by a series of peurile, underinformed, cynical and completely disconnected comments from Slashdot members who seem either to be acolytes of Rumsfeld or enslaved by the large American news networks. What part of 'objective' and 'unbiased' do you lot not understand?
I was horrified to read one poster saying "if we wanted to level the city and kill everybody, we have the capacity to do it much more efficently." What do these people think they're seeing on TV? Entertainment? A dress rehearsal for Black Hawk Down II?
You have some explaining to do, Taco.
Corporate America is frighteningly absurd. Several dozen people have died from a cold wave in your country, thousands are homeless and crowding the few shelters that exist, and a company that boasts of among the biggest market capitalisations is touting 'homes for the future'. What future for whom?
I'm disappointed with some Slashdotters' approach to this topic. As a few replies have pointed out, equating the idea of India only with poverty, a backward rural landscape and an absence of most of the infrastructure that you are used to betrays ignorance.
What is surprising to me is that the people on this board don't know better. There have in the past been a few threads about the outsourcing of coding and s/w projects to India, and these threads have contained some lively discussion about the state of India's IT industry. Surely you don't imagine that this is an industry that exists in a cultural and technological vacuum?
And don't be too hasty to judge the Simputer and its future. You should also know that it is not meant to be a replacement for the device that you call a PDA. It is not, for its objectives are quite different - they are looking at serving the needs of a large developing country whose population speak a number of languages and which can benefit from making contact under conditions which you would scarcely find yourself.
Do a little background reading - you can start right here on Slashdot - and you might surprise yourself.
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What possessed Taco to post a link to a mindless piece of propaganda from CNN? Are you so bankrupt that you look to that network for information, knowing full well that it serves the interests of the US military-industrial complex, which is now underwritten by a US foreign policy which considers nuclear weapons usable? Do you not follow that what we are witnessing is an invasion that grossly and contemptuously violates every tenet of international law, that international jurists have called illegal in every sense of the term, that has repudiated the very institutions whose mandate it is to solve international disputes? I suppose you do not, for we have posters barracking the UN for inaction, when in fact the UN weapons inspectors were interrupted in the midst of a very thorough job. Worse, that post was followed by a series of peurile, underinformed, cynical and completely disconnected comments from Slashdot members who seem either to be acolytes of Rumsfeld or enslaved by the large American news networks. What part of 'objective' and 'unbiased' do you lot not understand? I was horrified to read one poster saying "if we wanted to level the city and kill everybody, we have the capacity to do it much more efficently." What do these people think they're seeing on TV? Entertainment? A dress rehearsal for Black Hawk Down II? You have some explaining to do, Taco.
Corporate America is frighteningly absurd. Several dozen people have died from a cold wave in your country, thousands are homeless and crowding the few shelters that exist, and a company that boasts of among the biggest market capitalisations is touting 'homes for the future'. What future for whom?
"Naipail"? Do you mean Naipaul as in V.S. Naipaul instead?
I'm disappointed with some Slashdotters' approach to this topic. As a few replies have pointed out, equating the idea of India only with poverty, a backward rural landscape and an absence of most of the infrastructure that you are used to betrays ignorance.
What is surprising to me is that the people on this board don't know better. There have in the past been a few threads about the outsourcing of coding and s/w projects to India, and these threads have contained some lively discussion about the state of India's IT industry. Surely you don't imagine that this is an industry that exists in a cultural and technological vacuum?
And don't be too hasty to judge the Simputer and its future. You should also know that it is not meant to be a replacement for the device that you call a PDA. It is not, for its objectives are quite different - they are looking at serving the needs of a large developing country whose population speak a number of languages and which can benefit from making contact under conditions which you would scarcely find yourself.
Do a little background reading - you can start right here on Slashdot - and you might surprise yourself.