links for 2008-02-09
February 9th, 2008 2:03:16 am pst by 
Sterling Camden
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Thanks, Leon!
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Thanks for the link-love, Arjan!
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I’ll get right on your problem, as soon as I finish something else I haven’t thought of yet
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“Somehow, they’ve forgetten that what software developers do best is learn.”
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My wife said she likes Perls, but somehow this didn’t go over…
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Apparently Leon doesn’t buy the “information is freedom” hype
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How odd. I guess that “one handgun per child” thing was satire, but I think “one handgun per child” is a great idea.
. . . given a responsible parent, of course.
I certainly don’t take issue with responsible parents teaching the responsible handling of firearms to their children. What pleased me about Leon’s satire is how it points out that simply flooding the third world with IT will not necessarily solve all of their problems — in all likelihood it may only trade old problems for new ones.
Bah. I rather suspect that any nation sufficiently invested in its children’s future to buy into the OLPC project will provide the equivalent of “responsible parents”. It sorta goes with the territory.