Re: FAQ MIT's wind-up computer marvel/scam ?

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From: SJC
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 04:14

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"SolarFlare" <sfl.are@hot.mail.invalid> wrote in message news:XIOdne5dwc8vEineRVn-iw@golden.net...
> What ever happenned to "second world countries"?

   I think they call them "developing", like China and India.
Those are the folks that want lots of cars and oil as they develop.
> 
> "Viator" <x660y@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1135819811.082739.309360@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>>
>> I can imagine that some day in the future,
>> I will be travelling in some 3rd world country
>> and a kid will run up to me and ask if want
>> to buy a wind-up computer that runs Linux.
>> "Hundred dolla!" he will exclaim. Twenty-five,
>> I will reply. He will frown, but say "deal".
>> And then his family will eat well for a month.
>>
> 
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