Poor Technology

Posted in Overall, Ideas, Ridiculous by Dom on January 12th, 2008

So those one laptop people emailed me back. I guess I shoudl be happy about that. The reply though, kept saying they wouldn’t just give me a laptop and that they may have some extras from their first production run but those will be given to

“a few of the poorest countries on earth: Haiti, Rwanda, Afghanistan, Cambodia and Mongolia.”

Hmm last I checked Malawi was like THE poorest country, whats up whats up!? So apparently it’s only 164, out of 177 in the Human Development Index Or this Wikipedia Version Lets see though Haiti: 146, Rwanda: 161, Afghanistan: data unavailable(I wonder why), Cambodia: 131, and Mongolia: 114. I think we got’m beat. Geez…some people!