Many 14-year old girls with overpowered hardware on Slashdot, I see.

This is like the WHO announcing that yet another poor guy in a third-world country got infected with TB.
Interesting stuff man, we already know it's a tragedy. Stop beating the dead horse now.

I considered using djbdns until I stumbled across his inflammatory and borderline-fanatic attitude against BIND. What the hell, man? It's just a DNS server. Get over it.

Maybe that's exactly the reason? The "safer" voltage is harder to feel, thereby not provoking the body's natural "hot stove" reaction.

I've been shocked by 240 countless times. As far as I know, I've lived to tell about it.

What, you thought iPods being 'lickable' was just a homosexual persons way of saying that it looks pretty?

There's no point for me to claim that I'm not off topic. Anybody can see that.

And no, I'm still not trolling - even though I've managed to piss you off thoroughly with minimal effort.

Nobody is modding me down because nobody wants to waste their mod points in a three day old article discussion.

Anyway, you're way too invested in this discussion. I think I'm just going to call it a day and declare your flawless victory over me. Have a nice weekend :)

P.S.

Self-contradictory fail.

No, being off topic merely makes me off topic.

And stop talking about anon. Do a whois on the domain in my sig and you'll have both my full name and home address. You can even call my cell phone.

If I were a troll, you would be successfully trolled.

Thinking of it, this is actually a smart move. Powering up your industrialized areas with Internet only makes those areas more productive, thereby generating more tax money which in turn can be used to help those villages.

Putting sewage, water and electricity into villages doesn't guarantee a ROI - it's just a sink-hole for money. Once you install those basic necessities they will only attract maintenance costs and shift focus away from survival and onto prospering. The people will focus more on getting their kids to school than just surviving.

All of this sounds like a good idea, yeah? But where will the money for all of this come from? The west? No. We already fucked up Africa pretty good, and we should stop interfering any more. They are more than capable of generating their own money, as witnessed by this undersea cable.

Any child who's played a strategy game knows this for a fact: Resources is the first thing you should make sure you have plenty of. Spending resources before you have them is dumb, and always results in failure.

The villagers can wait.

Same here. I dusted off my old gaming computer from 2006 to play games and try out this new-fangled "Windows" thing. All games work perfectly. Currently I have Spore, L4D, GTA: SA, the usual Steam/Valve suspects (hl1 and hl2 engines) and Bioshock.
This is the first Windows I'd rather pay for than pirate.

Wow man, relax. It was just a joke - i didn't even bother to read your post. The syntax was too weird to understand, and your thoughts are all over the place.
Also you worry too much about how you're modded.

I'd mod you "-1, Annoying as hell typing syntax".

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