Comments on: No OLPCs for Cuba or enemies of the US http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/06/28/no-olpcs-for-cuba-or-enemies-of-the-us/ Top Technology news Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:40:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Angeles Clendening http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/06/28/no-olpcs-for-cuba-or-enemies-of-the-us/comment-page-1/#comment-306618 Angeles Clendening Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:07:31 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/06/28/no-olpcs-for-cuba-or-enemies-of-the-us/#comment-306618 Is downloading movies illegal? I am getting conflicting information about it. I have been told that it isn’t illegal for uncopywrighted stuff, but everything is copywritten. So wouldn’t that make it all illegal? I don’t understand it.? Is downloading movies illegal? I am getting conflicting information about it. I have been told that it isn’t illegal for uncopywrighted stuff, but everything is copywritten. So wouldn’t that make it all illegal? I don’t understand it.?

]]> By: Kiki Lavier http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/06/28/no-olpcs-for-cuba-or-enemies-of-the-us/comment-page-1/#comment-16808 Kiki Lavier Fri, 29 Jun 2007 21:07:32 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/06/28/no-olpcs-for-cuba-or-enemies-of-the-us/#comment-16808 Cuba's educational system has delivered among the highest literacy rates in North or South America. Given that remarkable achievement, I would think that there are higher priorities to supply OLPCs to needier children in needier countries rather than Cuba--as much as I don't like Castro and his regime of thugs. What's going to be a heart breaker for the OLPC project (and others that are similar) is the par-for-the-course widespread graft and corruption that is present in many of these "needy" countries. How do you supply OLPC to children in Afghanistan, where the Taliban insurgents are destroying newly-built or rebuilt schools? Those are the same thugs who deny girls an education!! Cuba’s educational system has delivered among the highest literacy rates in North or South America.

Given that remarkable achievement, I would think that there are higher priorities to supply OLPCs to needier children in needier countries rather than Cuba–as much as I don’t like Castro and his regime of thugs.

What’s going to be a heart breaker for the OLPC project (and others that are similar) is the par-for-the-course widespread graft and corruption that is present in many of these “needy” countries.

How do you supply OLPC to children in Afghanistan, where the Taliban insurgents are destroying newly-built or rebuilt schools? Those are the same thugs who deny girls an education!!

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