Let's use your same logic, if complexity needs to be created, ask yourself, how complex would such 'creator' be?

How come such complex creature, could come into existance, without a creator itself?

Then again, how complex would be the creator's creator? And we could go on into an infinite loop of creators? Do you get it?

Leaving racist rant aside, scientific Nobel pizes are serious, non-scientific prizes (peace, literature or even economy) are not in the same level of credibility, by any means.

Please leave the religious stuff elsewhere, slashdot is not a fertile place for fairy tales.

In many countries of the world, wifi is not always available, specially in rural areas.

You don't purchase a tablet to be offline when you are in the countryside, isn't it?

I'm not claiming Android is superior to Windows, what I'm asking is, what's the big deal of not having 3G integrated?

What would be the big deal to enable 3G in an expensive tablet? What makes it so impossible for MS? that s what I'd like to know.

If your car ends up dead, you should use signals, like triangles, to warn drivers.

Stupid people texting at red lights also contribute to traffic jams, cause they waste the green light, most of the time.

And I've seen them with my own eyes, they keep texting after driving, or talking at the phone. So, stopping them from the start is not a bad idea.

There are several cheap android tablets that support 3G ((4G, LTE, you get the point), so, what would be the excuse for not supporting 3g without the need of awful USB dongles?

I mean, real mobility should mean the ability to stay connected even in rural areas where no wifi is near, isn't it? for such expensive tablets, isn't it absurd not to have 3G ?

Thanks in advance for any explanation.

The country has the funding for the project, the 'short-term revenue' is not free of hassle and/or potential problems for the long term vision they have.

For bolivians, it's by far the lesser of 2 evils, to wait until they have everything in place. even if it means sacrificing short-term urges, than to rush in selling raw materials, without added value, repeating some (if not all) the mistakes of the past. The long-term vision is winning, and it's a bad thing for corporations, a double good is achieved.

Selling raw lithium would also be repeating former mistakes (not only letting them take control of the business).

That's why they are trying really hard to have the whole business in Bolivia, with the least foreing involvement as possible.

And if there's foreign involvement, it will be under strict conditions, getting sure that the bolivians won't be screwed again, as happened in the past.

I really don't see what's wrong with such approach.

Because the money is already being invested, but using bolivian's money (even money from country's international reserve) and bolivian workers (scientists and support staff), without the need to give corporations the lionshare and/or the control.

I repeat, the 'money' to get, would not change the bolivian situation (as happened before, where even the oil & gas money were pennies, compared to the country needs, while corporations got the lionshare).

So, it was better to take the change of the C scenario (very slim chance, imo), than to keep repeating the mistakes of the past, regarding dealing with greedy transnational corporations.

FYI, this 'massive' source of Lithium of Wyoming, is tiny compared to the lithium existent at the Uyuni salt flats.

For poor countries with a lot of precedents of transnational greedy corporations getting the lionshare of their resources for pennies, wouldn't that C option (zero pennies) be an affordable risk to take, if there is a chance to break the vicius circle most poor countries are trapped in?

At least for oil, there has been a lot of talk about supposed technologies that would replace the oil need, nothing more than hot air.

And even if the remote C possibility arrives (I'd say it is more likely that they would find new technological uses for Lithium, than to lithium become useless), just not allowing the greedy corrupt corporations get away this time, would be worth the move, isn't it?

In reality, bolivian government is not allowing transnational companies get the lithium for pennies, as they do in other countries who were servile to transnational power, or as happened in Bolivia before.

They are investing heavily (Bolivia is still poor, but its economy is growing steadily, while other countries were affected by the world crisis) in their own R&D, and they consider that no matter how long it takes for them to get everything going on, it's better than the alternative that letting trasnational companies get the lionshare of the profits.

Think about it, 2 alternatives for Bolivia.

A) Zero pennies now, for getting big profits in the future by controlling its own Lithium production.

B) Small profits now, letting the corporations get the lionshare forever.

They chose A, wisely IMO. In fact, that example should be followed by more poor countries, isn't this a good way to stop corporations greed to keep them in poverty while they earn huge profits on the resources of the country?

Check the video of the plane, it's interesting.

Could this add to the on-purpose misinformation theory (as they had a fully capable presidential plane, without the need to refuel, and this have not been commented)?

That's exaxtly my point was about promoting the dvorak keyboard. If you tread the OP, the whole thread is about to change a STANDARD, if you are promoting to change a standard , keeping the ugly qwerty layout, why not promoting the change, to switch the standar to Dvorak? That was my original point, so when the new standard is set, you wouldn't be bothered by changing your laptop or tablet.