The money didn't go towards buying them from the brothels, genius. People who donate to charity and care about others aren't always as stupid as you might think. It raised money for International Justice Mission, an organization that brings together lawyers, investigators (mostly ex-government), and other such resources to mobilize the justice systems in third world countries. Many of these countries don't take the initiative for stopping these activities, but will go along with IJM if they provide the funds. It takes an average of $1000 to get the ball rolling on raiding a brothel or other forced labor place and prosecuting the owners, so we raised enough for approximately three raids with our band night. Of course, one raid is often worth more than just one raid, because the girls rescued there will lead investigators back later and be able to point out more of the hiding places and such, along with helping as witnesses to make the legal case against a brothel and its owners.
You make a good point, but there's always going to be a more noble cause. If Apple is indeed making a defective product (and I'm not saying they are) then they owe the Nano's consumers some sort of compensation. Sure, it could be argued that the effort could go to much better causes (such as freeing sex slaves, a cause for which I helped raise $3,000 over the summer) but if that doesn't change the fact that consumers legally deserve compensation for being sold a defective product. Whether or not the product actually is defective is about to be determined in a proper court of law, so I'm not going to bother commenting on that.
Even if what you're saying is true, that Africa is in much more dire need of those human necessities, they most certainly don't need commercial software any more than free software, so M$ is still being ridiculous.
And as others have already implied, they aren't going to get the food, clean drinking water, and shelter without some sort of economic foundation, and they can't get an economic foundation without computers. Honestly, we can throw all the money we want at Africa for them to give out food and build houses, but that's only addressing the symptoms of the real issue. We're trying to fix the present, but the future is being ignored. The way to treat the actual issue, thus freeing Africa from all dependance on international assistance and giving them the chance at actually improving their standard of life on their own, is to expand their economies through free trade, education, and of course, technology. That's why free and freely available software is so important for Africa.
If we needed 'em, we'd build 'em. I'm not into pouring money into pet projects that gain us nothing but a world record that'll last for just a few years, especially at the cost of something like a military.
My engineering class uses WebCT, unfortunately. It's bad. Really bad. Slow, ugly, and not nearly as easy to use as it should be. Then again, it's better than just sticking with paper, like all my other classes do.
One thing I just realized I forgot to mention that's extremely important. Even though it's a great concept, a concept is nothing unless it's impletmented well. So this thing has great potential, but there's no guarantee that it'll work.
I think it's a great concept. Think about it - OSX has aqua, which is arguably one of its most attractive parts, particularly for the non-geek. Windows doesn't really have anything quite like this, and it could really use it - the only thing is that companies already have their UIs all made up for their Windows products and won't want to change them. Since Linux is a) relatively new to the mass market and b) open source, it would be much easier to adopt a standard GUI style at this point, and it's not something that Microsoft is likely to implement for themselves anytime soon.
well technically, they don't provide spyware. They provide adware. There's a difference, not that anyone really cares. They both suck just as bad too me.
yea, people aren't going to buy it based on how much it will cost them in electrical bills - the difference in cost between charging with a.7 efficiency charger and a.5 efficiency charger is next to nil for these small devices. The biggest issue that consumers will care about will be charge times - toothbrushes get two or three uses a day and are in their cradle the rest of the time, but cell phones and ipods are a completely different story.
There's a big difference though - the Redowl doesn't detect the bullet, it detects the rifle. The way it works has nothing to do with the trajectory of the bullet, which is good because instead of giving a line somewhere along which the sniper COULD be, it gives an acual position of where the sniper is.
I know this was more of a side note in your comment, but it's not a bad thing at all that China is getting American money. It means that their economy is almost completely dependant on us, so if they attack us they're practically attacking themselves.
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Being an astronaut is about to swiftly leave the number one spot on the "cool careers" list for most people.
The money didn't go towards buying them from the brothels, genius. People who donate to charity and care about others aren't always as stupid as you might think. It raised money for International Justice Mission, an organization that brings together lawyers, investigators (mostly ex-government), and other such resources to mobilize the justice systems in third world countries. Many of these countries don't take the initiative for stopping these activities, but will go along with IJM if they provide the funds. It takes an average of $1000 to get the ball rolling on raiding a brothel or other forced labor place and prosecuting the owners, so we raised enough for approximately three raids with our band night. Of course, one raid is often worth more than just one raid, because the girls rescued there will lead investigators back later and be able to point out more of the hiding places and such, along with helping as witnesses to make the legal case against a brothel and its owners.
You make a good point, but there's always going to be a more noble cause. If Apple is indeed making a defective product (and I'm not saying they are) then they owe the Nano's consumers some sort of compensation. Sure, it could be argued that the effort could go to much better causes (such as freeing sex slaves, a cause for which I helped raise $3,000 over the summer) but if that doesn't change the fact that consumers legally deserve compensation for being sold a defective product. Whether or not the product actually is defective is about to be determined in a proper court of law, so I'm not going to bother commenting on that.
Even if what you're saying is true, that Africa is in much more dire need of those human necessities, they most certainly don't need commercial software any more than free software, so M$ is still being ridiculous. And as others have already implied, they aren't going to get the food, clean drinking water, and shelter without some sort of economic foundation, and they can't get an economic foundation without computers. Honestly, we can throw all the money we want at Africa for them to give out food and build houses, but that's only addressing the symptoms of the real issue. We're trying to fix the present, but the future is being ignored. The way to treat the actual issue, thus freeing Africa from all dependance on international assistance and giving them the chance at actually improving their standard of life on their own, is to expand their economies through free trade, education, and of course, technology. That's why free and freely available software is so important for Africa.
If we needed 'em, we'd build 'em. I'm not into pouring money into pet projects that gain us nothing but a world record that'll last for just a few years, especially at the cost of something like a military.
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My engineering class uses WebCT, unfortunately. It's bad. Really bad. Slow, ugly, and not nearly as easy to use as it should be. Then again, it's better than just sticking with paper, like all my other classes do.
One thing I just realized I forgot to mention that's extremely important. Even though it's a great concept, a concept is nothing unless it's impletmented well. So this thing has great potential, but there's no guarantee that it'll work.
I think it's a great concept. Think about it - OSX has aqua, which is arguably one of its most attractive parts, particularly for the non-geek. Windows doesn't really have anything quite like this, and it could really use it - the only thing is that companies already have their UIs all made up for their Windows products and won't want to change them. Since Linux is a) relatively new to the mass market and b) open source, it would be much easier to adopt a standard GUI style at this point, and it's not something that Microsoft is likely to implement for themselves anytime soon.
well technically, they don't provide spyware. They provide adware. There's a difference, not that anyone really cares. They both suck just as bad too me.
yea, people aren't going to buy it based on how much it will cost them in electrical bills - the difference in cost between charging with a .7 efficiency charger and a .5 efficiency charger is next to nil for these small devices. The biggest issue that consumers will care about will be charge times - toothbrushes get two or three uses a day and are in their cradle the rest of the time, but cell phones and ipods are a completely different story.
There's a big difference though - the Redowl doesn't detect the bullet, it detects the rifle. The way it works has nothing to do with the trajectory of the bullet, which is good because instead of giving a line somewhere along which the sniper COULD be, it gives an acual position of where the sniper is.
I know this was more of a side note in your comment, but it's not a bad thing at all that China is getting American money. It means that their economy is almost completely dependant on us, so if they attack us they're practically attacking themselves.