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Jim <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Mark Kent wrote:
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>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> Microsoft offers South Africa cheap internet connections
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>>>| The big idea is to provide affordable options for consumers who
>>>| purchase Internet connectivity and a personal computer running
>>>| Microsoft's Windows starter edition software.
>>> `----
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>>> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32967
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>> Ahh, Bill Gates is out there, taking cash from the world's poorest
>> people. What a nice man.
>>
>
> I think this is Bill's attempt to steer the kids away from those free Linux
> laptops.
> What a larf.
Indeed, I think you're right. Particularly when you consider that the
BayGen radio was first made for South Africa, I imagine that a wind-up
laptop would be very familiar territory for them.
I'd like to see far more devices will self-powering capability, anything
to get us off the direct oil dependence; at the very least, freeing the
oil for making plastics is probably a better use of it than make
electricity, which we can do so many other ways...
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| Mark Kent -- mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk |
One of the disadvantages of having children is that they eventually get old
enough to give you presents they make at school.
-- Robert Byrne
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