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| UN to distribute 200,000 laptops to Gaza refugees |
| 2010-04-30 |
| GAZA CITY - The UN agency for Palestinian refugees on Thursday launched a campaign to distribute some 200,000 laptops to schoolchildren in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, a spokesman said. Good grief. Okay, who wants the tech support contract? The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) plans to distribute half a million devices to refugees across the Middle East by the end of 2012, spokesman Adnan Abu Hasna said. Ah, "refugees". Celebrating, what, their 62nd year of refugeedom? Don't kill the job, UNRWA... “The campaign is beginning today in refugee schools in (the southern Gaza town of) Rafah, with the distribution of 2,200 laptops as part of a plan to distribute 200,000 laptops to our students in the Gaza Strip,' he said. The plan calls for linking pupils and teachers via wireless internet “so that the students can continue their studies during crises,' Abu Hasna added. How many laptops are still working at the end of the month? And how many are taken by the men-folk to surf pr0n? The programme has received funding from US-based One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) and the Jordan Hashemite Charity Organisation, he said. Two more useless idiot organizations ... |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #10 DEAR FRIEND I AM WRRITING YOU FROM GAZA WITH THIS POTENTIALLY LUKRATIVE BUSINESS PROPOSITION ... |
| Posted by: DMFD 2010-04-30 20:46 |
| #9 I understand the Juice pre-installed Windows and Djinns |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-04-30 18:15 |
| #8 I hereby issue the following fartwa: Laptops are unislamic. |
| Posted by: bigjim-CA 2010-04-30 17:27 |
| #7 Considering that all the paleos teach their kids is violence and murder, 20 bucks says the kids who get these laptops will use them to hit other kids upside the head. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-04-30 16:10 |
| #6 Fifteen years later, they've added about five to ten thousand hackers, spammers, and cyber bandits to the world population. Won't that be fun? |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2010-04-30 15:45 |
| #5 Check eBay later today, most of them will be on sale. Didn't hamass blow up a internet cafe not too long ago in Gazi-land? |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2010-04-30 14:16 |
| #4 I don't know how---but I'm willing to bet that Gazans will manage to transform these laptops into bombs. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-04-30 11:45 |
| #3 Lok'tar ogar #2 |
| Posted by: Oscar 2010-04-30 10:13 |
| #2 Oh no, more Alliance players. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-04-30 09:36 |
| #1 Are these the kind where the webcam can be turned on remotely? Like that school.... Program isn't sponsored by Mossad is it? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2010-04-30 00:30 |