Re:I'm constantly amazed by .... (Score 1)

Considering every other solution has *failed*, it's time to give this a try, and in countries like India, it's allowing them to create an industry that parts bloated, lazy Western economies of their money and gives it to a country to do with as it wishes. Giving away food has not made hunger go away. Giving money away has not made hunger go away. Giving medicine away has not made the world healthier (contrary to popular belief). A winner of a Nobel Prize for Economics a few years ago proposed the idea that most of the problems "Third World" populations face are caused by their own local government rather than the lack of donations from richer nations. Example: Ethiopia. I think most people still believe that a drought caused the famine in Ethiopia. The real reason was a bellicose Marxist government fighting rebels in their northern territories (Ethiopia's sea access). When the Soviets and Americans stopped paying for weapons, the Ethiopian government came around and confiscated everyone's food to sell to the Soviets for more guns and weapons (including cluster bombs). Ethiopians are pretty effective farmers and always had reserve supplies of grain for the cyclical droughts, but that grain was taken away by the gov't. The fighting and drafting of the young men of the population then further disrupted farming. The planned for drought hit and boom -- famine. What made it even worse was all that money the West raised ("We are the world!") went only to the Regan administration approved government of Ethiopia (they were still Marxist, but aligned to America at the time. The rebels were aligned with Cuba. Nuff said?). So the southern regions got fed, but the northern regions were completely cut off from aid. Only the Scandanavians bothered to send any food there, and the Canadian government finally sent food there after they got shamed into doing it. There's nothing wrong with the Third World that can't be cured by a removal of corrupt governments more interested in making megacorps happy. Back to the T1: the ability of the population to organize through a T1 connection will probably be the most effective means of curing their ills.