On 4/17/2017 8:47 AM, Poco Deplorevole wrote:
On Sun, 16 Apr 2017 22:25:01 -0400, wrote:

On Sun, 16 Apr 2017 19:05:12 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 4/16/2017 6:53 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 16 Apr 2017 17:42:15 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 4/16/2017 4:45 PM, wrote:

That is even sillier in this context than the one up thread a bit.
If we were just interested in humanitarian causes, we would be bombing
Afghanistan with food, books and satellite connected PCs.
That would be a winning strategy in N Korea too.



The vast majority of the NK population wouldn't know what the PC's were,
let alone know how to use them.

I guess you have not seen the stories about the people who are
spreading cheap PCs among 3d world people. The kids pick it up and
start using it right away with minimal training.

http://one.laptop.org/


In North Korea? Most places there don't even have electricity to
charge the batteries. Check out the night time satellite images.
South Korea is lit up like a Christmas tree, right up to the border
where it suddenly goes pitch black everywhere.


That machine can be charged a couple different ways including a hand
crank, solar or a various combination of electrical sources.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLPC_XO

It is really a pretty cool machine.For $200 you can get 2, one for you
and one for a kid in Fumbuck.



If these PCs would enable North Koreans to see how the rest of the world lives, then I am sure the
penalty for owning one would be very severe.


And if they could connect to NK's Internet, this is what they'd see:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37426725