indian kids get free laptops

[petemurphy]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-1492551...

is this the nuclear country we still give aid to in a time of recession?




okiftheyrebribestogetbusinessthouggh

[Pinger23]

http://interestingnewsfromallover.blogspot.com/201...

Its OK now. India are giving aid to Europe!

[EDLT]

petemurphy said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-1492551...

is this the nuclear country we still give aid to in a time of recession?




okiftheyrebribestogetbusinessthouggh

That article reports the criticism the scheme is getting in India, so its more like "politician buys votes with public money" than "OMG WE ARE PAYING FOR THIS!".

According to those figures the laptops will cost $1,985,600,000 leaving $14,400,000 to buy and distribute 6.8 million laptops, or just over $2 per person. Imagine doing that in the UK, it would cost £4 billion for 1 million laptops and cost £15 billion to deliver them.

[fido]

She may have got the idea from a certain G. Brown.

[Negative Creep]

Good way to train them for future call centre work....

[EDLT]

They don't need to train to do that, in fact many are capable of getting a job despite knowing nothing at all.

[thinfourth2]

Rather they were going to indian kids then chav kids at least they increase the chance of the guy in the call centre understanding english

[otolith]

Cool, I'm going to start cold-calling Indian households and telling them that Microsoft Product Support has found a virus in their laptop.

[Perd Hapley]

otolith said:

Cool, I'm going to start cold-calling Indian households and telling them that Microsoft Product Support has found a virus in their laptop.

[ZOLLAR]

otolith said:

Cool, I'm going to start cold-calling Indian households and telling them that Microsoft Product Support has found a virus in their laptop.

[Porkbrain]

otolith said:

Cool, I'm going to start cold-calling Indian households and telling them that Microsoft Product Support has found a virus in their laptop.

Which impenetrable English regional accent are you going to use for this scam?

[otolith]

I was thinking Scottish - weegie should be impenetrable enough.