[dundee] OLPC Videos...niiiiiiiiiice!

[Arron M Finnon]

I have one word for you, well three actually dancing monkey boy



On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 20:04 +0000, Lee Hughes wrote:
> Round 1, in the red corner, me, in the blue corner.....
> 
> errrr
> 
> I'm calm...
> 
> I've just watched 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk
> 
> How much do you think this 'third world country is worth'
> 
> A clock, A notepad , windows paint..can you believe 'reversi'
> 
> no..it's just $99 dollars..
> 
> is'nt that the price of the olpc hardware.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Arron M Finnon <afinnon at googlemail.com> wrote:
>         Look guys i'm going to get in the middle. This has blown up
>         out of
>         proportion and i think i'm not going to be the only one here
>         hoping
>         people stand back for a moment. 
>         
>         In Lee defence he didn't call you a troll Gary, that i believe
>         was Kris
>         in his post. However you implied that Lee was paranoid in
>         yours, and
>         should take off his tin foil hat, in the end, by your
>         definition Gary,
>         you posted something that would be fair to say would cause
>         controversy
>         and get a reaction. i think this would have been the same on
>         any forum,
>         or mailing list. As you have pointed out you didn't like being
>         called a
>         troll, which i happen to agree is a fair and just point, but
>         you can't
>         really get on the defencive after you have already done a
>         similar thing.
>         
>         As for Lee, play nicely! Gary has his points and is just as
>         welcome as
>         you to make them. I personally do not agree with his, and fail
>         to see
>         where he's coming from, but this is what makes our community
>         great.
>         Diversity. I actually think that you two would get on. 
>         
>         However Gary you going to have to understand that there is
>         going to be a
>         level of M$ bashing, and it's not like people on this list
>         have not
>         worked with, or used M$ and are entitled to call their
>         products whatever
>         they like. I'm pretty sure that Ballmer and Gates won't really
>         mind.
>         
>         So i am not going to get involved in this flame anymore than
>         this, i
>         also encourage people to do the same, this is not what we
>         signed up for
>         and we are a friendly community. This doesn't help anyone.
>         
>         So if your still prepaired to discuss your points Gary (i'll
>         understand
>         if you don't). I would ask pound for pound what else could be
>         done with
>         the money in these countries bearing in mind it's going to be
>         a hell of
>         a lot less than a $100 dollars per head?
>         
>         Yours hoping that neither Lee or Gary is too peeved with me.
>         
>         Finux
>         
>         
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