this was written at around 2 o'clock but my internetz had just died and the router is in my flatmates room and so i was unable to reset it <br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 06/02/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tim Spencer</b> <<a href="mailto:samurai.mit@gmail.com">samurai.mit@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
thank you robert,<br>what i was refering to with the new points is that gary defends the points made about the weakness of his idea but never developes arguments for his idea e.g. the reason why money should be spent on teachers not on projects like the OLPC is that X(insert argumnet here). and not the one that laptops cannot replace teachers cause that is just a statement not an argument.<br>
<br>The main thing is that the OLPC is working. What i mean by this is that there are dozens of ways out there how humaniterian organisations appoch us to give them money so that they can akt against 'bad' things is the world (refering to starvation/gonocide etc pick n chosse there are so many) and i dont know how many people in this mailinglist give money to any kind of thiese project but a lot of people were prepared to give money straigth up to the OLPC. Gary u will see that there is a project out there which is trying to establish these same principles u were talking about (employing teachers) because they too think its the solution to africas (or the continent of choice) problems (and if not u are welcome to create one) but that people are not prepared to give money - these laptops are a good idea not just for what they can establish (education) but also that it works as in that people donate them.(and quite a few of them)<br>
i think here it is time to thank the people who have donated again for they have done something (walked the walk not just talk the talk) <br>thank u <br><br>as to finishing this argument i dont know, my idea is that we all have our opinions and that through discussion we can find the truth (just some Theory of knowledge stuff i had to do once)<br>
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tim<br>
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