[OT] Zimbabwe

Christopher Browne cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Thu Sep 21 16:26:23 UTC 2006


On 9/21/06, Madison Kelly <linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> If only they had oil...

If they had oil, they'd have a new set of problems, and it might very
well be the case that the very same people suffering incredible
poverty and hardship would be suffering identically.

It seems likely to me that something is very much broken in between
the ISPs and the central company that is arranging the satellite
bandwidth.  It wouldn't surprise me at all if money was being skimmed
out of that, thereby starving their ability to actually buy bandwidth.
 A central communications monopoly is an excellent target for
efficient centralized skimming...
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