Yet another reason to get angry with Bill...

[Pete Ryland]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 05:43:51PM +0200, Michael Shigorin wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 09:48:03AM -0500, Jonathan Jesse wrote:
> > I don't understand the whole point of providing 3rd World
> > countries a $100 laptop when there are greator problems, food,
> > water, electricity, sanitation, disease, etc that should be
> > taken care of before people start
> 
> wasting time 
> 
> > surfing the internet.  
> 
> instead of fixing the situation.
> 
> Agreed.

No.  Education is *key*.  In whatever form this comes, this will always be
true.  Without education, and the knowledge and belief that there is a
better future, there will always be poverty.

Pete