The increased staffing required to develop and maintain it will drive your little town's population up to 20,000 in short order. Best of all, most of those new jobs will be for highly paid SharePoint consultants, so the town should get a lot more property tax revenues!
Who distributes a 60 page PDF when the whole rest of the operation is a web site? If they all needed internet access to use the app, why didn't the web application just give each volunteer their customized list?
As always, the group of technomorons at the top tell you it's all digital, then give out a PDF of a scan of a fax.
They like to preach in Africa because nobody listens to them in their home countries (well, maybe in the USA).
I have missionaries in my family. After 20 years in Africa, they report that nobody listens to the there, either.
The vast majority of copies of Photoshop are pirated. This has not prevented "photoshopping" from becoming a verb, and in fact it has likely helped immensely. Try again.
What this also means is that if I want to develop an image editor for home users and sell it for a reasonable fee, then I will have problems doing that because everyone gets Photoshop for free.
Exactly! And if I wanted to develop an office suite, I wouldn't be able to sell it because OpenOffice is available for free. And what's more, nobody is paying to watch videos of me scratching my ass! I assume unfair competition by legions of people posting cat videos on Youtube.
Matthew 6:14-15
What do you think you are doing? You don't bring evidence to a argument here!
Try for an ad-hominem. Those are totally acceptable.
So, if you don't give the poor the tools to succeed, but leave them illiterate and starving on the streets, they will see how right you are, and pull themselves up by their own bootstraps? Brilliant! I hear that's exactly how the French Revolution went!
We maintain a semblance of equality (equality of opportunity, not necessarily of wealth) because to fail to do so invites social unrest.
Have a broken arm? Go to the emergency room and sit there for 4 to 6 hours for someone to attend to you...
You have a broken arm. Do you really have something better to be doing?
The last few times I went into Emerg at my local Canadian hospital, I received excellent care. People with life threatening or deteriorating conditions were seen immediately. Those who were either stable, or who should have just gone to a walk-in clinic had to wait longer.
My personal view is that we should expend more effort into advanced nuclear technologies. LFTR http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reactor looks particularly promising. This can be augmented with wind/solar/hydro etc where it makes sense to build them. If we need 100% proof that GW will destroy us before acting, we have to wait to be destroyed first. This is a stupid position, hence models and predictions, as imperfect as they are.
And we shouldn't disallow cats because some people are allergic either...
Yes we should! Stupid walking balls of allergens....
If just 5% of the American public wanted to overthrow the government, an drawn out, bloody civil war would be possible. You do not need overwhelming support, you need enough angry people with guns.
FTFY
Any circuit design must contain at least one part which is obsolete, two parts which are unobtainable, and three parts which are still under development.
