On 01-Feb-08, at 12:11 PM, Sriram J wrote: > Electricity Minister Arcot N. Veerasamy insists that the government > has > initiated 'adequate steps' to tide over the power crisis
you should believe what the govt says - steps have been taken. Anyway, that is besides the point. All problems will only be solved if people take their own destiny in their own hands and solve them - that is a given. What I do not agree with is the attitude that the poor and uneducated are dumb and unable to recharge their laptops - or use them - or learn to use them. As the durgapur lug has discovered, cell phones are everywhere, so people take to computers like ducks to water. And they manage to charge their cellphones too. They will charge their laptops also. Dont worry about it. The key thing is - it wont do them any harm. Further, not everyone in a village is poor and uneducated - surprisingly large numbers of them are not. joke: developer is a person who wants to build cottages in the jungle and degrade the environment, environmentalist is a person who already has a cottage in the jungle. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ Foss conference for the common man: http://registration.fossconf.in/web/ _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
