> as the words of Víctor are always forceful...

I greet force when it comes from well intentioned
passion, and frustrated passion. I sympathize
with that. Some people want peace
without justice, I offer that without justice there is no peace.

I will never trade in my passion for diplomacy.
Sometimes diplomacy gets in the way of the truth,
and sometimes the truth offends. I do not worry
about the opinions of those that the truth
offends. So I expect it is with Victor. I would not change that. :-)

> I ask myself if despues to pay u$d 100 million
> an infrastructure and personnel enabled
> sufficient in Argentina will have left to
> continue with the work of update of
> equipment-soft and production of new equipment...

It is a good question. The idea is that in
building the infrastructure, Argentina or any one
of the countries on the planet would be able to
have an increased number of skilled people
working on the infrastructure - which means that
once the infrastructure is built, or hits a
critical mass, people who are trained will find
things to do - like produce software and produce new equipment.

>It would be good because:
> - In Argentina a high rate of unemployment
> (leisure) youthful exists that would see a good source of work in this area
> - it would not be depended on Negroponte, or
> that outside, to continue growing in equipment and development of soft.
>Perhaps this question already was anticipated in
>the project and not yet it spread correctly but
>I believe that always he is better to pay and q
>to uedar itself with all the line of production in property...

Garbled in translation, but not in spirit.
Ownership is not buying a thing, ownership is
being able to have a thing when you need it. That
means that Argentina - and any other country -
should become more self sufficient.

> I believe that Argentina has Human Resources
> sufficient to assume the continuity of the Project...

Truly. I had just about given up with Trinidad
and Tobago, but glimmers of hope caught me at the
last moment and I'm working towards those ends...
I think the $100 million dollar laptop is a
terrible mistake, and if followed through upon, I
will continue shaking my head. The people of
Argentina are not stupid, but I must openly
question the intelligence of any official who
would put political progress over his fellow
citizen's progress. But then, we continue putting such people in power.

What fools we are.

Taran Rampersad
Nearby Fri Mar 17 23:29:32 2006