Posted on 09/29/2005 1:54:28 PM PDT by Graybeard58
Is that cost? Is a reasonable margin included? Warranty?
Sounds like my daughter and the truck I gave her a couple of years ago. She drove it for about a year and started having transmission problems. She called me to tell me about it and while not outright saying it, the implication was clear that it might be a problem for me to solve.
She wound up selling it for $1,000 "as is". But do you think the dad saw any of that $1,000? HAH!
I hate to break it to him but churches get robbed all the time all over the world.
As I remember, michelle jackson wanted to create a "Neverland" in Africa so that the kids there could ride on a ferris wheel.
Brilliance.
Long ago, I came to the conclusion that many Americans have NO idea what a horror a third world country actually is. You have to LIVE there for a year or so to get the full impact. Jetting in, staying in hotels and getting soundbites and pictures doesn't even begin to get the point across. If Negroponte actually had to live in one of these crapholes, drink the water and eat the food, for a year or two he wouldn't be worried about laptops for children. He would be sending AK-47's and ammo.......
It's a really old-fashioned way of posting to a thing called the Internet without using telepathy. Isn't that weird?
It's like that idiotic IBM commercial which portrays a little Asian girl and saying she can't go to school 'cause she lives on a farm in China.
Naturally, the jolly fat man at the desk goes on about "virtual classrooms" to help the little tyke...never minding the fact that the average farm in China has neither electricity, a computer, or access to the Internet.
Very weird.
P.S. -- Sick, dude. She's your sister!!
I'm oppressed. I want a FEMA debit card or something.
Ha!... 100 bucks for "World Kids" 450 bucks for American kids...
Your telepathy is a bit off.
I'll take 500! Then I can use them like toilet paper.
Whoops. My bad. Had it set on "Id."
Right then...carry on.
Will more "winding" cause blindness? My parents warned me about that.
Perhaps these children can get factory jobs producing them at 3 cents per hour.
I could go for a laptop with a hand crank, a high impact plastic case with kraton inserts, hermetic waterproof o-ring seals, an am/fm/shortwave/weatherband tuner, and a secret compartment large enough to stash a 1911 4 magazines and a good fixed blade knife.....
But seriously, I never have understood why the computer (and cell phone companies for that matter) don't try marketing "gorilla" cases with full line features. There are certain elements in society that are rough on their equipment and the currently produced flimsy plastic cases while economically more feasible are simply inadequate.
Thanks for the link. I saw similar stories about the tsunami aid. That's why there will be no real end to the poverty of the Third World or terrorism without genuine political change.
It provides them with knowledge. Knowledge is power.
Also they may become exposed to FR. ;)
Yes, but because they are Americans they are by dint of cultural inheritance members of the Oppressor Class, and therefore must assume secondary importance in the Global Village < leftie-liberal-academic-moonbat_mode off>
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