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Post by skyfire on Mar 3, 2009 22:27:02 GMT -5
Got to browsing MSN and saw this article here: link. Apparently, the iPhone is such a hot commodity over in Afghanistan that even at $800 apiece people are still shelling out; some folks are supposedly going without food to pay the price. Not only are the youth in the nation adopting gadgets like the iPhone, so are older residents such as a reformed Taliban mullah who openly admits to surfing the web. Shukria Barakzai, a female politician, even expresses hope that as the youth of the nation begin to focus on new technologies they might just break out of the violence that has marked the nation's history.
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Post by Oriet on Mar 3, 2009 22:34:27 GMT -5
That's pretty cool.
It can be amazing what education and communication can do for a society.
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Post by Vene on Mar 3, 2009 22:37:15 GMT -5
Skyfire, more posts like this please.
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Post by Caitshidhe on Mar 3, 2009 22:54:46 GMT -5
Skyfire, more posts like this please. ^^^ This. Actually, it's really interesting. Oriet's right--amazing what communication and education can do for a population, isn't it?
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Post by antichrist on Mar 3, 2009 22:57:29 GMT -5
Maybe the taliban will become as stupid as our fundies and start posting all their plans on the net.
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Post by Caitshidhe on Mar 3, 2009 23:12:17 GMT -5
Maybe the taliban will become as stupid as our fundies and start posting all their plans on the net. Or at the very least, that the rest of the population becomes clever enough to completely disregard what they're saying. Same goes for the US, though--as if the last eight years hadn't taught us enough about disregarding what crazy religious people tell us.
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Post by m52nickerson on Mar 3, 2009 23:22:30 GMT -5
......or maybe some people over there will change there view on us. It is hard to hate when you think we are cool.
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Post by Pookie on Mar 3, 2009 23:23:22 GMT -5
Now someone just needs to inform them that Apple sucks.
Because it does.
*shamelessly flaunts prejudice*
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Post by MaybeNever on Mar 4, 2009 1:20:29 GMT -5
If suicide bombing were replaced with angry texting, that would be so rad.
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Post by Julian on Mar 4, 2009 5:29:06 GMT -5
From the article....
Still, the average annual income in Afghanistan is just $800, so shop owners must target the ultra-wealthy and foreigners. Most Afghans never have heard of an iPhone, and Roshan reaches only 56 percent of the population.
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Post by schizophonic on Mar 4, 2009 9:44:48 GMT -5
Now someone just needs to inform them that Apple sucks. Because it does. *shamelessly flaunts prejudice* Yeah, I'm all for technology, but do they have to go from "Stone Age" to "Douchebag" overnight?
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Post by skyfire on Mar 4, 2009 9:53:02 GMT -5
Now someone just needs to inform them that Apple sucks. Because it does. *shamelessly flaunts prejudice* Yeah, I'm all for technology, but do they have to go from "Stone Age" to "Douchebag" overnight? Could be worse. A few years ago I spotted a satire piece in which Microsoft offered to airdrop specially-redone versions of Windows 95 over Iraq. The modification? Instead of the Blue Screen of Death, users would see the Red, White, and Blue Screen of Death.
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Post by Death on Mar 4, 2009 10:38:19 GMT -5
The extremists will use this in the same way as they have used all modern technology, to facilitate driving the muslim world back into the dark ages. What a paradox.
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Post by ironbite on Mar 4, 2009 14:13:47 GMT -5
So need to check if your camel needs water?
Ironbite-there's an app for that.
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Post by szaleniec on Mar 4, 2009 18:56:25 GMT -5
If suicide bombing were replaced with angry texting, that would be so rad. "FK U INFDL PIGZ KABOOM!!!"?
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