[geeks] $100 One Laptop Per Child - grist for the mill

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 @ 07:53 +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson said:

> They have the teachers, they have the schools, but what they have to do
> is get a more modern, more liberal education system then the books that
> UNICEF paid for that teach arithmetic with "If I have 5 Jews and kill 3,
> how many Jews do I have left to kill"?
> 
> These laptops could do it.
> 
> You probably could place a few million in Eastern Europe, Canada and the
> U.S. Another few million if the rest of the Americas.

"If I have 45 rounds of 7.62mm for my AK, and I have to make three drive
bys this morning, how man rounds will I have left over for the cops if I
use 12 rounds on each hit."

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