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Ok, this is a cheap shot at the One Laptop Per Child program and their partner Microsoft, which is a flawed yet well intentioned endeavor. I just couldn’t resist making this cartoon after reading this article on Current.com and the related comment by BenDorries.
While this cartoon is hilarious, hunger is no laughing matter. For more information on what you can do to help combat global hunger you can visit ActionAgainstHunger.org (an A+ rated organization on CharityWatch.org).
That is completely inappropriate and insensitive! I am appalled that you can make light of such a tragic issue. I find this site less fulfilling.
Here’s another funny olpc cartoon:
http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1034.html
How is this offensive in anyway? It is not making fun of hunger or hungry children, its making fun of people that would rather give this kids crappy gadgets rather than food. Get you head out of your ass chanda!
I’m sorry, but I question the maker’s intelligence. I also question anybody who tries to agree with it. Here, let me compare it with you guys. Why should developing countries spend money on schools when they should spend money on food? That is literally what you are saying.
First off, the laptop isn’t freakin’ aimed at just the people who don’t have the money to feed themselves. Maybe you should have thought that there’s a large gap between having no money and a little money. People who can’t afford a computer, well, perhaps now they can.
Second, to support my intro, not everybody just plays around on a computer. Many people, guess what, work on them. Hey, people even use computers for research… In fact, a lot of people use them for learning. Amazing huh? The thing you take so much for granted, can actually be useful to people. Books are fricken expensive. But now, instead of buying tons of books, just think of getting one internet connection in a school. And then students can download books and reading material off of it (online libraries… ect).
Like a bunch of imbeciles, people don’t take into consideration of the millions of different situations people are in. Bottom line, this isn’t targeted to people who can’t even buy food–or even the electricity for the laptop for that matter. This is for the poor, who trouble to get a higher state of living, or who can’t get luxurious technology. Furthermore, a big bloody reason for this is to have the POOR SCHOOLS who cannot otherwise afford computers, now they have a cheap alternative to make a computer lab.
Moral, think. Use that squishy small thing you call a brain sometimes before you act.
@NITE,
I love when self-righteous people like yourself get so worked up about things like this you are moved to make sel-indulgent condescending remarks like “use your brain”. Please take your own advice. Read the post, nowhere did I say this is a commentary on the value of the program. In fact I believe I stated that this is a “Cheap shot” at a “well intentioned program”. Hmmm, lets put on our thinking caps… what does that mean…
“Well intentioned program”… maybe this means I support the intentions of the program, just not the implementation?
“Cheap shot”… this probably means I’m totally serious and intended this to be a high minded social commentary aimed at inspiring change… no wait a minute, let me use that squishy thing I call a brain… what does “Cheap shot” mean, oh, yeah, a baseless, valueless negative comment. So maybe I recognized that this is not an actual depiction of the OLPC program and more just joke.
Believe it or not, I just find the dialogue which I did not even write (read the post) funny, so I made a visual representation of it.
You make a number of good points in your comment, however, you mistakenly assume they are contrary to the point of this post, and you turn them from good points, into a tired rant by tacking on baseless insults.
Moral, read the post, then think, then if you still don’t understand ask someone who’s not so wrapped up in their own opinion that they can understand plain English to explain it to you, then make your comments.
Yes this misses the point, Yes it is funny, Yes those comments are too long for my short attention span.
I agree with wonker and would like to add: Arguing on the internet is like running in the special olympics, even if you win you’re still retarded.
Hey, that special olympics joke is pretty funny and new to me!
Mildly funny.
But, “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”
The laptop program is going to provide a wealth of knowledge for those in poor countries, leading to better businesses practices, agricultural practices, etc and in turn improve their economies.
I disagree with DIGGITY, you clearly never won at the special olympics!
Checkout Kevin Carter and tell me what’s wrong with his picture. Then make a comment.
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good luck