On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 06:24:38 -0700, Sebastian Sastre  
<ssastre at seaswork.com> wrote:

> You'll excuse me but I'm on the position of thinking that is prioritary  
> to develop brains more than stomachs. And OLPC hepls feed brains.

You can't develop your brain on an empty stomach. (Not the starvation  
degree of empty.)

But the line of thought--repeated =every=single=time= the OLPC is  
mentioned on Slashdot--shows how poorly we think of grand schemes to  
improve the world. Every time the starvation issue is raised on Slashdot,  
there's a rebuttal of how there are many parts of the world where  
starvation isn't widespread and yet the educational infrastructure is  
poor. This rebuttal often comes from someone in that part of the world.

But it's not like this was a hastily implemented monolithic plan to  
blanket the world indiscriminately with laptops. I sommehow doubt that the  
information we pick up fromm a few articles allows us to intelligently  
comment.