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To: Jakarta ex-pat
Hehe, 3 trillion quid indeed.

The kingdom has a website.

It all looks good, some very worthwile projects planned, a technical college to teach people useful skills, laws planned to stop early marriages etc.

Then I got to this bit - the section about Electronic Communication.

The kingdom is making strides in imparting modern telecommunication and digital information technology skills to our youth. The first of these efforts is at the Bunyoro-Kitara Community Tele Centre, where basic computing skills are taught. There is a shortage of work stations, as there is a total of five computers. Donations of computing equipment will be gratefully accepted.

Another constraint is poor connectivity. We lack a portal to the Internet. Currently, there is a total of six ordinary telephone lines that link the town of Hoima to the rest of the world. The centre has to compete for space on these congested lines. We are fundraising for satelitte connectivity. When realized, the user community will offset the cost by paying for connectivity time.


Six phone lines in their major town!!! What in the name of god are they going to do with three trillion pounds? There must be some mistake with the figures here :)
9 posted on 03/03/2004 9:41:51 AM PST by ScudEast
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To: ScudEast
Further investigation reveals that they have a population of 800,000. That's £3.75 million in damages each. That's pretty brass necked by anyones standards. They must have been fabulously wealthy and prosperous before the British came.
11 posted on 03/03/2004 9:57:53 AM PST by ScudEast
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