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Well I'm guessing they would use that laptop to put it on eBay?

They could just block eBay in the hosts file... People who have never worked a day in thier lives aren't gonna work that out! :p
 
ah yes this scheme, let me recap:

dole/chav scum "i am a shiftless, jobless **** nut, who never bothered to get an education, or a job, and am now sponging off the dole. my baby mother says the little benefits earners want to get on the internet, but i need the money for tenants super, and more tattoos on my knuckles"

do gooding, guardian reading social worker "no problem have £500 on the govt to get a laptop"

dole/chav scum "score, hard working tax payer nil, chav scum **** nut infinity+1"
 
the principle of giving children a computer if their parents can't afford one is sound, given how much schools rely on computers for work now. but surely it'd make sense for them to be loaned from the school to ensure that they stayed with the child and afterwards maybe allow it to be bought for a small fee.

As ever though with government schemes, they didn't think things through :bang:

And £500 for a laptop, ridiculous, my laptop cost less than that, and it was fairly decent for the time, all a school kid will need is office programs, and internet browser, laptops can do that for less than £500!
 
ah yes this scheme, let me recap:

dole/chav scum "i am a shiftless, jobless **** nut, who never bothered to get an education, or a job, and am now sponging off the dole. my baby mother says the little benefits earners want to get on the internet, but i need the money for tenants super, and more tattoos on my knuckles"

do gooding, guardian reading social worker "no problem have £500 on the govt to get a laptop"

dole/chav scum "score, hard working tax payer nil, chav scum **** nut infinity+1"

what's wrong with the Guardian???
 
Doesn't have any pictures of birds with boobies out. (n)

More likely to have this :D
Booby.jpg


Yep a bird called a booby :ROFLMAO:

File:Booby.jpg
 
What they should do is spend the £300m on having better computer/internet provisions in libraries. That would please everyone, instead of just the scum of society.
 
What they should do is spend the £300m on having better computer/internet provisions in libraries. That would please everyone, instead of just the scum of society.

Completely agree, that way it benefits everyone, especially those children from hardworking families who can't afford laptops either and no doubt won't get one under this scheme. When will the government learn that giving people incentives not to work incentivises people not to work :bang:
 
What they should do is spend the £300m on having better computer/internet provisions in libraries. That would please everyone, instead of just the scum of society.

Yes but can you really see the type of people who these laptops go to (that is, the ones with no money and the kids are probably doing bad in school) going to a library to work on school projects? Maybe it's just a cultural difference but in schools over here no one would use the library unless we had a class there.

And while you can't condemn the scheme, because in theory it's providing a necessary learning tool to those who can't provide it for themselves, you do wish the government would think about huge money schemes first.

I agree with custard, the people who would sell the laptops weren't likely to benefit from them anyway.

What they needed to do was maybe even just glance towards an IT department for a solution to make the laptops hard to sell. It would have been far brighter to give them the laptop instead of the money so they could put limitations on it instead of letting people buy extravagant laptops. What's wrong with just giving them a netbook? I'm using one right now and it was the best $500 I have spent in a long time.
 
Guardian Paper might be prasing the government but I couldn't tell, only BBC news is all I pay attention to.

Still it seems odd, when I was at school we had plenty of computers to be used but the things were all imacs and they were rubbish. It's a shame still that the future neds at school can now wonder around with more pron on their desktop that portfollios but people like me have to cope with the stigma of having to find a working computer that people like them will have broken because they're bored.

Doesn't have any pictures of birds with boobies out. (n)

Those kinds of papers are not even worth using as toilet paper.
 
Yes but can you really see the type of people who these laptops go to (that is, the ones with no money and the kids are probably doing bad in school) going to a library to work on school projects? Maybe it's just a cultural difference but in schools over here no one would use the library unless we had a class there.

Yeah, I can see what you are saying, but I wouldn't mind betting that a majority of these people will not use the facility for school projects and if they haven't flogged the computer, they will spend all day chatting to people on it instead.

And while you can't condemn the scheme, because in theory it's providing a necessary learning tool to those who can't provide it for themselves, you do wish the government would think about huge money schemes first.

I don't disagree with providing something like a computer to disadvantaged people. But why does it have to be in their home? If it is in an accessible place to start with, it benefits more people and arguably more opportunities will be available for training and help from staff at such places. You could also block certian things like porn and chat sites more easily as well as provide antivirus protection (something I am betting most people who haven't got a computer know nothing about).

I agree with custard, the people who would sell the laptops weren't likely to benefit from them anyway.

No matter how hard a government tries, they won't be able to build a policy robust enough to stop this from happening. At least if they are in an accessible place, you can restrict their useage to what they were meant for in the first place.

What they needed to do was maybe even just glance towards an IT department for a solution to make the laptops hard to sell. It would have been far brighter to give them the laptop instead of the money so they could put limitations on it instead of letting people buy extravagant laptops. What's wrong with just giving them a netbook? I'm using one right now and it was the best $500 I have spent in a long time.

Although this is a stupid idea from the government anyway, I can see why they would be more inclined to give the money. With the means testing in place, the whole department for posting the money, the department in charge of the rubber stamp saying "yes", etc already going to be there, the scheme would cost more to run than it was handing out if this extra layer was then added.

My thoughts anyway.
 
I was trying to think of something similar happening here and I remembered what it was. KRudd (pron: crud :p) in all his family first wisdom offered the only bright idea he had since "I know, I'll run for prime minister!". The original plan was to make sure schools had one laptop per child, but that wasn't ever going to be feasible so instead the plan changed to offering rebates on educational spending - which included laptops.

It was one rebate per child, which rules out on selling for a profit - and it was only available upon proof of multiple things, like child being in education being the most obvious.

Of course it never went ahead, not sure why didn't really care since I already have a laptop - but surely it's a better idea than giving money away in a fairly undiscerning manner?
 
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