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Laptop for every child | ||||
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02:42:12 Feb 7th 10 - Duke Jictelious The Younger: I've seen organizations to feed children, give them clean water, give them surgery to remove cleft lips, prolong their life against disease, give them a chance to go to school... | ||||
04:25:00 Feb 7th 10 - Mr. Dwarfnub: You gotta be kidding me! the money can be much better used for other things like food and providing a roof over peoples heads. Where I live, laptops are still a thing that only the richer people have. | ||||
04:33:53 Feb 7th 10 - Lady Katie Holmes: Well, tbf, they are not the normal laptops you are thinking of; they are < $100 laptops especially designed for the environment (ie. no easy place to recharge, they have a crank recharger, etc). It's actually a pretty cool project; It helps bring education to some of the more remote locations in the world... | ||||
07:30:53 Feb 7th 10 - Emperor Gaius Septimus Cidellus: Dang! *begins looking for another place to replace his broken laptop* ;-) | ||||
11:07:59 Feb 7th 10 - VU Admin: Too bad they probably would need to pay one weeks income for one day of internet :P | ||||
15:04:16 Feb 7th 10 - Ms. Morgana: It is common misperception that poverty is is about skeleton children with no food and/or clothing as we often see here on TV comercials. As an advocate against poverty in my city I came to realise that poverty is about *quality of life* | ||||
17:47:33 Feb 7th 10 - Dark Prince Stirlin: they can watch porn! | ||||
18:49:12 Feb 7th 10 - Lord Redragon Corpse: Giving childrens access to a computer its a good way to improve his/her education, now people that dont use computers are compared to the peopla that cant read in the past. Computers open new oportunities to find a better work. | ||||
22:03:22 Feb 7th 10 - Mr. Dwarfnub: Dark Prince Stirlin | ||||
00:01:37 Feb 8th 10 - Sir Cadmus The Reborn: The laptop that is going to be donated is not the type of laptop like we have, with internet and such. It has preset programs which help to teach. Look at the website and actually read about the OX that they are talking about. | ||||
00:47:39 Feb 8th 10 - Lady Katie Holmes: Actually...the laptops are designed with wireless internet; the idea is they spread internet to one location in a village/region such as the local school, and then have everyone use that one portal. | ||||
01:12:33 Feb 8th 10 - Mr. William Snowman: so people are dying because they can't get enough food and water and then there is an organization like this that buys laptops so kids can learn? please tell me, since when is a laptop so important? this is just utter BS. i agree a laptop is usefull for studies but this is just over the top. | ||||
02:21:37 Feb 8th 10 - Ms. Morgana: There is no reason we can't help both, those who need food and those who require better opportunities in life Snowman :-) | ||||
09:10:10 Feb 8th 10 - Mr. William Snowman: yes, but a laptop? thats just over the top for me... and the country's they send the laptops too? those are the same where they send malaria nets that thieves keep stealing. with the laptops the same thing will happend. i just think its a waste. | ||||
09:17:25 Feb 8th 10 - Mr. Barny: Access to laptop = Access to internet | ||||
19:27:31 Feb 8th 10 - Sir Santa: Quite simply, if you want to fix poverty, you've got to make the people able to fix it themselves. They can only do that with proper education, giving them better chances in life, more income and therefor a better life. These laptops will certainly help achieve that. | ||||
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