[Edu-sig] re: computational literacy calcsheet

[Arthur]

Jason writes -
>USA Inc. is spending $1 billion each week for their mad war.
>That's $1653 per second = street price of a superb new 3Ghz laptop
computer.

>In 1 year, at the present Shrub spending rates, we could buy new computers
>for 31,536,000 children/people. I imagine if one placed an federal order
for
>31 million laptops you'd get a good deal. So perhaps 50 million kids this
year seed? What else would be needed to make sense of such proposal?

I'm afaid I am finding it hard to fully distinguish this thinking from Red
Skeleton's ideas on avoidng the approaching overpopulation apocalypse.

"Did you know that there is a woman somewhere giving birth every 12
seconds?"

And the near obvious punchline:

"I think we need to find that women and stop her."

Art